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Course Introduction
Art for Non-Majors is designed to introduce students from all backgrounds to the fundamental principles, techniques, and concepts of visual art. Through hands-on projects, class discussions, and exposure to diverse artists and styles, students will explore various media such as drawing, painting, sculpture, and digital art. Emphasis is placed on creative expression, visual literacy, and the development of observational skills, allowing students to gain confidence in art-making without requiring previous experience. This course fosters an appreciation for the visual arts and encourages individual exploration and critical thinking in a supportive, non-competitive environment.
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Understanding Art 11th Edition by Lois Fichner-Rathus
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Chapter 1: Understanding Art
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Q1) Bronzino's complex allegory Venus,Cupid,Folly,and Time offers up such an iconographic puzzle that there is little doubt that he intended to leave the viewer with a sense of __________.
A) joy
B) fascination
C) ambiguity
D) chaos
E) sadness
Answer: C
Q2) The underlying symbolism in an artist's depiction of an elderly man stooped over amongst leafless,snow-covered trees in the depths of winter is most likely which of the following?
A) The man is still in the prime of life.
B) The man is waiting for help.
C) It is the holiday season.
D) The man enjoys the snow.
E) The man is approaching death.
Answer: E
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Chapter 2: Line and Shape
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Q1) When an artist uses transparency it is also called __________.
A) linear perspective
B) value contrast
C) overlapping
D) relative size
E) afterimage
Answer: C
Q2) In Emily Mary Osborne's Nameless and Friendless,__________ visually connect and lead the viewer's eye around the composition.
A) horizontal lines
B) vertical lines
C) speeding vehicles and pavement
D) gestures and glances
E) sweeping and diagonal lines
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Light and Color
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Q1) ___________ creates the illusion of roundness or three dimensionality through the use of light and shadow on a two-dimensional surface.
A) Linear perspective
B) Shape
C) Color
D) Value
E) Modeling
Answer: E
Q2) The brightness or ____________of a color is its saturation.
A) hue
B) value
C) dullness
D) intensity
E) color
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Texture and Pattern
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Q1) Visual texture is the illusion of an _________ texture.
A) actual
B) rough
C) smooth
D) visual
E) realistic
Q2) The word texture derives from the _______for weaving.
A) Latin
B) Greek
C) English
D) French
E) German
Q3) What are El Anatsui's magnificent "woven" wall hangings composed of?
Q4) Explain the difference between actual texture and visual texture,and provide an artistic example of each.
Q5) Compare and contrast Céleste Boursier-Mougnnot's From Here to Ear with Jean Dubuffet's Blossoming Earth.
Q6) What is pattern?
Q7) Discuss the use of texture in Vincent Van Gogh's Mulberry Tree.
Q8) Name two types of texture.
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Chapter 5: Space,Time,and Motion
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Q1) How does Bernini's sculpture David make use of implied motion and implied time?
Q2) ________________refers to formal systems developed by artists to portray three-dimensional objects in two-dimensional space.
A) Actual perspective
B) Outline perspective
C) Linear perspective
D) Curved perspective
E) Heavy perspective
Q3) Discuss the use of relative size in Martina López's Heirs Come to Pass,3.
Q4) _____________,in which parallel lines converge at one or more vantage points on the horizon to create the illusion of depth,was highly refined by __________ artists.
A) Implied line; Japanese
B) Atmospheric perspective; Byzantine
C) Texture gradient; Baroque
D) Relative size; Chinese
E) Linear perspective; Renaissance
Q5) Explain the difference between actual space and implied space,and provide an artistic example of each.
Q6) Futurist artists,like Boccioni,were seduced by what?
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Chapter 6: Principles of Design
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Q1) Unlike two-dimensional compositions,three-dimensional objects,such as sculptures,often have __________.
A) pictorial balance
B) rhythm
C) symmetry
D) actual balance
E) visual weight
Q2) Explain the concept of hierarchical scale,and provide two examples of how it has been depicted in art.
Q3) In art,__________ refers to the distribution of the actual or apparent weight of the compositional elements.
A) unity
B) mass
C) variety
D) style
E) balance
Q4) The ancient Greek Polykleitos is credited with developing a set of rules about body parts and their relative dimensions that became the standard for creating the ideal figure.What is this set of rules called?
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Chapter 7: Drawing
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Q1) Käthe Kollwitz's Self Portrait reveals one aspect of the character of
A) silverpoint
B) chalk
C) pencil
D) pen and wash
E) charcoal
Q2) Compare and contrast the use of pencil drawing in Adrian Piper's Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features and Nina Fowler's Christopher Allsopp.
Q3) In metalpoint drawings,the drawing surface must be coated with a ground of
A) bone dust or chalk mixed with gum
B) gum mixed with pigment
C) bone dust or chalk mixed with gum, water, and pigment
D) charcoal mixed with gum and pigment
E) bone dust or chalk mixed with gum and pigment
Q4) Explain why Adrian Piper selected the medium of a pencil drawing for her Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features.
Q5) Why was Gary Kelley's pastel drawing,reminiscent of the jazz age,commissioned?
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Chapter 8: Painting
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Q1) In both tempera and oil painting,the surface of the wood or canvas is covered with a ground of powdered chalk or plaster and animal glue known as __________.
A) gum Arabic
B) plaster
C) veneer
D) gesso
E) vellum
Q2) In Roger Shimomura's Untitled painting,he has blended traditional Japanese imagery with American cartoon characters and includes a self-portrait in which he is depicted as __________.
A) a Japanese Samurai
B) the Statue of Liberty
C) Dick Tracy
D) a contemporary Japanese
E) Donald Duck
Q3) Analyze graffiti and street art as an art form,and explain whether you believe it deserves to rise to the level of gallery art.
Q4) Describe the process of buon fresco.
Q5) What are the advantages of painting with oils?
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Chapter 9: Printmaking and Graphic Design
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Q1) In the __________ process,the artist creates clean-cut lines on a plate of copper,zinc,or steel by forcing a sharp burin across the surface with the heel of the hand.
A) etching
B) mezzotint
C) drypoint
D) engraving
E) aquatint
Q2) In works such as her Untitled mixed-media print of Chinese girls,Hung Liu's purpose is to __________.
A) celebrate the Chinese game of mahjong
B) depict Chinese high fashion
C) make known the degradation of previous generations of Chinese women
D) show the superiority of Chinese women
E) inspire Chinese girls
Q3) Describe the intaglio printmaking process and identify the most common types.
Q4) Compare and contrast the intaglio processes of engraving and etching.
Q5) List four types of matrices used in printmaking.
Q6) Explain which of the printmaking processes is most appealing to you and why?
Q7) How is it possible to produce gauffrage,or inkless intaglio prints?
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Chapter 10: Imaging: Photography, Film, Video, and Digital Arts
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Q1) Explain the process of producing a daguerreotype and the limitations and later refinements of this photographic medium.
Q2) Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of digital photography.
Q3) Which classic early color film depicted real life in black and white and imaginary life in expressionistic color?
A) Gone with the Wind
B) Citizen Kane
C) The Wizard of Oz
D) North by Northwest
E) Birth of a Nation
Q4) After the daguerreotype,the next major advance in the history of photography was the development of the __________ process,an example of which is Young Lady with an Umbrella.
A) wet-plate
B) contact print
C) autochrome
D) heliographic
E) gelatin-silver
Q5) What is a camera obscura,and how was it used by Renaissance artists?
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Chapter 11: Sculpture, Installation, Site-Specific Art, and 3d Design
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Q1) In spirit and style,which of Picasso's two-dimensional works were very similar to his constructed sculpture?
Q2) Why did the ancient Greeks likely value marble more for its durability than anything else?
Q3) Which of the following is not an additive sculptural process?
A) Modeling
B) Carving
C) Casting
D) Constructing
E) Welding
Q4) Referring to sculptures such as __________,art critic Robert Hughes said such works were "everything that statues had not been: not monolithic,but open,not cast or carved,but assembled from flat planes."
A) Bourgeois's Portrait of Robert
B) Degas's The Little Dancer
C) Nakian's Europa and the Bull with Cupid
D) Picasso's Mandolin and Clarinet
E) Rodin's The Walking Man
Q5) Explain why Sylvie Fleury could easily be described as a Pop artist.
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Chapter 12: Craft Arts
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Q1) In weaving,the lengthwise fibers are called the __________.
A) warp
B) weft
C) woof
D) base
E) background
Q2) Compare and contrast Claudi Casanovas's Block #43 and Harumi Nakashima's Porcelain Form.
Q3) Contrast the attitude of the ancient Greek philosophers regarding the distinction between fine art and functional objects with that of a nineteenth-century French philosopher.Explain why you do or do not agree with either point of view.
Q4) Cheryl Ann Thomas's contemporary work Relic130 is best categorized as __________.
A) a piece of pottery
B) fiberglass
C) coiling
D) a blown glass object
E) a wood work
Q5) According to the Roman historian Pliny the Elder,how was glassmaking discovered?
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Chapter 13: Architecture and Urban Design
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Q1) What is the definition of architecture?
Q2) Concerning the field of architecture,analyze what you believe is meant by the saying "Convention gets built; innovation gets published."
Q3) The Incan fortress of Machu Picchu is considered to be
construction,as it was built without any mortar.
A) masonry
B) veneer
C) compressive strength
D) dry masonry
E) tier
Q4) One of the best-preserved ancient Roman aqueduct systems is the __________ near Nimes,France.The __________ of the limestone blocks allowed for the weight of three tiers of arches.
A) Ponte Vecchio; centering
B) Pont du Gard; compressive strength
C) Pont du Nimes; voussoirs
D) Ponte Neuf; keystone
E) Pont du Seine; mortar
Q5) What is Le Corbusier's Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut an example of?
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Chapter 14: Art of the Ancient World
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Q1) During Akhenaton's reign,the longstanding stylized formality of Egyptian art briefly gave way to __________,as seen in the very famous Bust of Queen Nefertiti.
A) curving lines and full-bodied forms
B) rigidity
C) abstraction
D) conventionalism
E) excess
Q2) The Processional Frieze from the royal audience hall in Persepolis,shows_________.
A) naturalistic animal forms
B) deeply carved, fleshy, well-rounded human figures
C) stylized human forms perceived as abstract patterns
D) religious gods
E) gods depicted as animals
Q3) Compare and contrast the art and architecture of the Sumerians with that of the Assyrians.
Q4) Identify the conventional attributes of an Egyptian pharaoh.
Q5) Describe the ziggurat and discuss the function it served in ancient Mesopotamia.
Q6) Identify three aspects of Egyptian art and life that are unique to that culture.
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Q1) Although much Roman art is stylistically derived from Greece,portrait sculptures like Head of a Roman are notable for their incredible __________,made possible by
A) idealization; Greek sculpture busts
B) abstraction; plaster face casts
C) realism; wax death masks
D) stylization; ripples and crevices
E) ugliness; actual faces
Q2) What is Classical Art?
Q3) Myron's Discobolos or Discus Thrower is representative of the most significant development in Early Classical art: the introduction of __________.
A) implied movement in sculpture
B) a more natural human appearance
C) a lifelike facial expression
D) the Olympic athlete as subject matter
E) the nude male figure
Q4) Describe the essential features of the Doric,Ionic,and Corinthian orders and how and when they were used.
Q5) Explain the Greek use of color on sculpture.
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Chapter 16: The Age of Faith
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Q1) The interior of St.Étienne has a sense of lightness because the development of the __________ made it possible to pierce the walls above the tribune gallery with a series of windows called a __________.
A) compound pier; triforium
B) pendentive; minaret
C) ambulatory; lunette
D) buttress; rose window
E) rib vault; clerestory
Q2) Compare and contrast the various styles represented in the jamb figures of Reims Cathedral.
Q3) In the Gothic period,__________ assumed a new primary role of importance in art and architecture.
A) Jesus Christ
B) the Virgin Mary
C) the angel Gabriel
D) Joseph
E) cherubs
Q4) Identify the various functions that the Hagia Sophia has served over the centuries.
Q5) What did the Edict of Milan declare?
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Chapter 17: The Renaissance
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Q1) Piero della Francesca's Resurrection fresco was based on __________.
A) a humanist philosophy
B) Neoplatonism
C) mathematical and geometric order
D) the idealization of the human figure
E) ancient Greek models
Q2) As seen in Tintoretto's The Last Supper,his __________ anticipate(s)the Baroque style.
A) unusual use of color
B) loose brushwork and dramatic white spotlighting
C) calm, balanced compositions
D) use of line and linear perspective
E) use of mathematics and geometric forms
Q3) As evidenced in The Birth of Venus,Sandro Botticelli loved,above all else,to paint
A) Madonnas
B) portraits
C) seascapes
D) mythological themes
E) religious themes
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Chapter 18: The Baroque ERA
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Q1) In the Palace at Versailles,all of the following elements echo Renaissance techniques except that the __________.
A) structure is divided horizontally into three stories
B) palace interior is lavishly decorated with dramatic vistas
C) structure is divided vertically into three major sections
D) windows are placed rhythmically and divided by pilasters
E) balustrade crowns the palace, emphasizing the horizontal
Q2) Which of the following was not a Baroque addition to St.Peter's?
A) The Latin Cross plan
B) The façade
C) The Sistine Chapel
D) The Cathedra Petri
E) The piazza
Q3) Describe Rembrandt's painting techniques and how they contributed to the psychological nature of his art.
Q4) Discuss the various possible interpretations of the subject matter in Las Meninas.What is your opinion based on close observation of the painting?
Q5) Describe how Peter Paul Rubens conveys space,time,and theatricality in The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus.
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Chapter 19: The Modern ERA
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Q1) Explain why Cézanne's compositional innovations can be said to have ushered in the modern twentieth-century fascination with abstraction.
Q2) In the Grande Odalisque,the articulation of the heavy drapery contrasts with the crisp treatment of the linens and sensual lines of the harem mistress's body,revealing that,above all else,Ingres was a __________.
A) stark realist
B) supreme colorist
C) painter of the Parisian demimonde
D) magnificent draftsman
E) painter of genre subjects
Q3) In The Outbreak,Käthe Kollwitz tried to symbolize __________ through her forceful depiction of the sixteenth-century Peasants' War.
A) isolation
B) rage
C) inhumanity, injustice, and humankind's destruction of itself
D) disgust
E) the futility of war
Q4) Compare and contrast Titian's Venus of Urbino with Manet's Olympia.
Q5) Into what two stylistically divergent groups did the Post-Impressionists fall?
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Chapter 20: The Twentieth Century: The Early Years
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Q1) __________ shut down the Bauhaus in 1933,forcing many of its faculty,including Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe,to flee to the United States.
A) the Nazis
B) Czar Nicholas II
C) the German educational system
D) Franklin Roosevelt
E) the Fascists
Q2) Cubism was heavily influenced by Paul Cézanne in all but one of the following ways:
A) geometrization of nature
B) abandonment of scientific perspective
C) rendering of multiple views
D) intense interest in native African and Iberian sculpture
E) emphasis on the two-dimensional canvas surface
Q3) Identify the three artistic movements of the early twentieth century that are termed Expressionistic.
Q4) Explain why Charles Demuth belonged to a group of artists known as the "Cubo-Realists."
Q5) Discuss Joan Miró's approach to painting,his influences,and his technique.
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Chapter 21: The Twentieth Century: Postwar to Postmodern
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Q1) Briefly explain why Michael Graves's Humana Building is considered a Postmodernist design.
Q2) What now famous art college did Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns attend?
Q3) What is the subject of the poem "Your Golden Hair,Margarethe," upon which Anselm Keifer based his painting of the same title?
Q4) Explain why,in Barbara Kruger's Untitled (We Don't Need Another Hero),her medium is all about the message.
Q5) __________ is characterized by spontaneous execution,large gestural brushstrokes,abstract or abstracted imagery,and intense color fields,all produced on large,monumental canvases.
A) Impressionism
B) Post-Impressionism
C) Abstract Expressionism
D) Fauvism
E) Analytic Cubism
Q6) What was Womanhouse? Describe it and explain why it was important for women artists.
Q7) Describe the architectural movement known as Postmodernism,and provide two examples.
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Chapter 22: Art Now: A Global Perspective
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Q1) An everyday family scene that is suddenly disrupted when the ceiling begins to collapse describes which of the artworks below?
A) Fang Lijun's 30th Mary
B) Wang Gongxin's Our Sky is Falling In!
C) Mariko Mori's Wave UFO
D) Zhang Huan's Fresh Open Buddha Hand
E) Zhang Xiaogang's Big Family
Q2) Mexican artist Enrique Chagoya states,"My artwork is a conceptual fusion of opposite cultural realities that I have experienced in my lifetime.I integrate diverse elements: from pre-Columbian mythology,Western religious iconography,and American popular culture." Using his Illegal Alien's Guide to Critical Theory as an example,explain how the artist's work reflects his statement.
Q3) Japanese artist Mariko Mori can be described as all of the following except
A) a cyberchick
B) a cross between a geisha girl and a gidget
C) a daughter of Warhol and granddaughter of Duchamp
D) a former model and fashion design student
E) a painter and a sculptress
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