Art for Non-Majors Test Bank
Course Introduction
Art for Non-Majors introduces students to the fundamental principles, techniques, and concepts of visual art in a supportive, hands-on environment designed for those with little or no prior experience. Emphasizing creativity and personal expression, this course explores a range of two- and three-dimensional media, including drawing, painting, sculpture, and digital arts. Students will learn basic art vocabulary, critical observation skills, and processes for developing and interpreting artistic ideas. Through a combination of studio projects, group discussions, and critiques, participants gain a deeper understanding of the creative process and the role of art in society, while building confidence in their ability to create and appreciate visual art.
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Gateways to Art Understanding the Visual Arts 2nd Edition by Debra J. DeWitte
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Chapter 1: Line, Shape, and the Principle of Contrast
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Q1) The scribbled appearance of Jean Dubuffet's Suite avec 7 Personnages characterizes it as a drawing that exhibits ________.
A) irregular line
B) regular line
C) measured line
D) ruled line
E) controlled line
Answer: A
Q2) Miriam Schapiro's collage Baby Blocks combines two different kinds of shape.________ is the term used to describe a shape that suggests the natural world,while the term geometric suggests mathematical regularity.
A) conceptual
B) regular
C) artificial
D) organic
E) implied
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Form, Volume, Mass, and Texture
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Q1) This type of relief,which takes its name from the French word for low,does not imply great depth.
A) area relief
B) bas-relief
C) a plane
D) actual relief
E) a frieze
Answer: B
Q2) In the Roettgen Pietà from fourteenth-century Germany,the artist ________ the organic forms of the bodies of Mary and Jesus in order to express pain and suffering.
A) abstracted
B) contrasted
C) distorted
D) simplified
E) colored
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Implied Depth: Value and Space
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Q1) The Belgian Surrealist artist ________ created The Treachery of Images,a work that calls our attention to the illusionary characteristics of painting.
A) René Magritte
B) Thomas Hart Benton
C) Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
D) Edith Hayllar
E) Andrea Mantegna
Answer: A
Q2) Artists can create a sense of ________ by using light and dark values.
A) tension
B) humor
C) fear
D) depth
E) height
Answer: D
Q3) If you are looking straight ahead,an object that is behind you is in your cone of vision.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Color
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Q1) If you were to look at a t-shirt that absorbed the colors violet,blue,green,yellow,and orange,what color would the t-shirt appear to be?
A) orange
B) white
C) red
D) green
E) blue
Q2) A color that is lighter than its basic hue is known as a tint.A color that is darker than its basic hue is called a ________.
A) tint
B) shade
C) neutral
D) monochrome
E) shadow
Q3) Ancient Greek philosophers speculated that color was not a state of matter but a state of mind.What do you think is meant by this statement?
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Chapter 5: Time and Motion
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Q1) This type of art can only exist in one place and time in history.
A) ceramics
B) performance art
C) Futurism
D) narrative painting
E) collage
Q2) In her work Astroculture (Shelf Life)bioartist Suzanne Anker experiments with growing plants in artificial light for use in ________.
A) outer space
B) painting
C) art museums
D) farming
E) underwater cities
Q3) Discuss how performance art differs from other types of performances,such as music,athletics,or theater.Why is performance art different? When confronted by a performance work,how can you tell the difference between it and other disciplines?
Q4) The elements of time and motion are not applicable to the art of photography.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Unity Variety and Balance
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Q1) What element describes the imposition of order and harmony on a design?
A) unity
B) variety
C) balance
D) rhythm
E) proportion
Q2) The Taj Mahal was commissioned by the grieving ________ as a memorial to his third and beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal.
A) Kubla Khan
B) Gunga Din
C) Alexander the Great
D) Gengis Khan
E) Shah Jahan
Q3) The design of the Taj Mahal and gardens uses both ________ and ________ symmetry.
A) radial and bilateral
B) organic and geometric
C) positive and negative
D) round and square
E) left and right
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Chapter 7: Scale and Proportion
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Q1) This proportional system uses a ratio of 1:1.618.
A) Standard Cubit
B) Fibonacci Sequence
C) Root 5 Rectangle
D) Rule of Thirds
E) Golden Section
Q2) This type of scale is common in the relief sculpture of ancient Egypt,where it was used to indicate social importance.
A) monumental
B) human
C) miniature
D) lifesize
E) hierarchical
Q3) In two-dimensional art,this is the area in which an artist creates their work.
A) square
B) cast
C) mold
D) round
E) format
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Chapter 8: Emphasis and Focal Point
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Q1) This artist created the print "Riverside Bamboo Market,Kyobashi," which uses placement for emphasis and to create focal points.
A) Francisco de Zurbarán
B) Mark Tobey
C) Ando Hiroshige
D) Jules Olitski
E) Artemisia Gentileschi
Q2) Artemisia Gentileschi used directional line brilliantly in her painting Judith Decapitating Holofernes to draw our attention to this point
A) Judith's face
B) blood spurting from Holofernes's neck
C) the bed
D) the maidservant
E) a hand
Q3) Identify three things that the artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder could have done differently in his painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus if he had wanted to make the figure of Icarus the focal point of the work.
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Chapter 9: Pattern and Rhythm
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Q1) Artichoke Halved is a photograph that uses this point of view to capture unique characteristics of a natural object.
A) focus
B) field of vision
C) focal length
D) rule of thirds
E) close-up
Q2) In the painting The Third of May,1808,this Spanish artist used alternating rhythm to contrast "good" and "bad."
A) Suzanne Valadon
B) Chuck Close
C) Francisco Goya
D) Rosa Bonheur
E) Edward Weston
Q3) In the painting The Blue Room,the artist uses three patterns that ________.
A) are focal points
B) are similar
C) are abstract
D) merge
E) contrast
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Chapter 10: Content and Analysis
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Q1) biographical analysis
A)analyses the use of formal elements in a work.
B)considers the role of women in an artwork
C)interprets objects and figures in the artwork as symbols
D)considers the artist's personal experiences
E)considers the religious, political, and social environment in which the artwork was made and viewed
Q2) Do research on an artwork,perhaps one that you have seen in person.Conduct three different methodological analyses.Write one or two paragraphs exploring each method,and then write a paragraph in which you combine these methods to present a single interpretation of the artwork.
Q3) formal analysis
A)analyses the use of formal elements in a work.
B)considers the role of women in an artwork
C)interprets objects and figures in the artwork as symbols
D)considers the artist's personal experiences
E)considers the religious, political, and social environment in which the artwork was made and viewed
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Chapter 11: Drawing
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Q1) When Raphael was preparing to paint his fresco The School of Athens he did a large drawing called ________ to help place the design on the wall.
A) a cartoon
B) a layout
C) a sketch
D) an intonaco
E) an arrezzo
Q2) This drawing medium utilizes a piece of silver wire set in a holder.
A) sanguine
B) pencil
C) bister
D) silverpoint
E) gum arabic
Q3) Which two types of charcoal are used most commonly as drawing materials?
A) vine
B) compressed
C) bone
D) lamp
E) chunk
F) dry
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Chapter 12: Painting
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Q1) One of the advantages of acrylic paint is that it can be cleaned up using this liquid.
A) turpentine
B) oil
C) water
D) kerosene
E) Dr. Pepper
Q2) This twentieth-century American painter chose tempera to describe his neighbor's "extraordinary conquest of life" in the work Christina's World.
A) Roger Shimomura
B) John Matos
C) Joan Brown
D) Hung Liu
E) Andrew Wyeth
Q3) Hung Liu,Interregnum
A)oil
B)watercolor and gouache
C)acrylic
D)tempera
E)fresco
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Chapter 13: Printmaking
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Q1) Images were first reproduced by printmaking in this ancient culture.
A) Mesopotamia
B) Greece
C) Rome
D) India
E) Japan
Q2) This type of print can be made using any print process,but with the intention of creating a unique image rather than an edition.
A) monoprint
B) intaglio
C) linocut
D) relief
E) etching
Q3) The wash-like appearance of Goya's print Giant was created using this process.
A) aquatint
B) woodblock
C) engraving
D) silkscreen
E) lithography
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Chapter 14: Sculpture
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Q1) An artist cannot turn a trash can into a readymade artwork.
A)True
B)False
Q2) This process involves taking over a pre-existing image or object and altering its appearance in a way that changes its original meaning or purpose.
A) appropriation
B) pre-selection
C) felting
D) repoussé
E) exchanging
Q3) What method of sculpture is the artist using when they assemble component parts in order to create an artwork?
A) construction
B) casting
C) carving
D) bending
E) repoussé
Q4) What distinguishes a sculpture as a piece of fine art,compared to a memorial or other three-dimensional object? Why?
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Chapter 15: Architecture
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Q1) Why did Zaha Hadid decide to use glass as the primary building material for the ground level of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati,Ohio?
A) to give the building a weightless quality
B) because glass is stronger than concrete
C) to match all the other buildings in Cincinnati
D) to disconnect the building from the city
E) to copy the ancient Greeks
Q2) This cast-iron building was designed by Sir Joseph Paxton for the Great Exhibition of 1851,and was more than a third of a mile long.
A) Crystal Palace
B) Hagia Sophia
C) Eiffel Tower
D) Wainwright Building
E) Empire State Building
Q3) Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright were architects with strong visions who both designed houses that were meant to be lived in.Which of the two houses,Villa Savoye or Fallingwater,would you prefer to live in? Why?
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Chapter 16: The Tradition of Craft
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Q1) At what point can we consider a useful object a work of art? What separates a useful ceramic object,such as a toilet or sink,from a piece of high art? Can a toilet or sink,even if they are created in some unique and original way,ever be considered a work of art?
Q2) This Italian goldsmith created an elaborate salt cellar for King Francis I of France.
A) Georges Fouquet
B) Benvenuto Cellini
C) Nicolas Poussin
D) Pol Limbourg
E) Donatello
Q3) The use of metal was extremely important in this period of human history.
A) the Bronze Age
B) the Neolithic
C) the Mesolithic
D) the Paleolithic
E) the Stone Age
Q4) Textile art cannot express biographical or historical meaning.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Visual Communication Design
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Q1) This medium has made it possible for designers to make their page design "come alive" by allowing interactivity through hyperlinks.
A) cell phones
B) television
C) radio
D) World Wide Web
E) fax machines
Q2) Wang Xizhi was one of the great calligraphers of the Jin Dynasty from this ancient culture.
A) China
B) Japan
C) India
D) Persia
E) Siam
Q3) The primary colors used to create color in an electronic display are ________.
A) red, green, blue
B) cyan, magenta, yellow
C) red, yellow, blue
D) orange, yellow, purple
E) ultraviolet, infrared, spectral yellow
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Chapter 18: Photography
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Q1) Which of the following photographers is best known for making portraits?
A) Nadar
B) Anna Atkins
C) Abelardo Morell
D) Hannah Höch
E) Ansel Adams
Q2) Shining a light through a film negative reverses the tones so that multiple positive prints can be made.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Ansel Adams
A)photographed her family members in both fictional and factual settings
B)makes brightly colored tableaux using elaborate scenery sculptures
C)known for very detailed landscape photographs of the American West
D)worked for the FSA making documentary pictures of the Great Depression era
E)used photographs to expose the unsafe and inhumane working conditions in factories, which eventually led to the establishment of Child Labor Laws in the US
F)used soft-focus in her portraits and figure studies to suggest poetic and spiritual meanings
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Chapter 19: Film, Video, and Digital Art
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Q1) How are the locations in The Wizard of Oz distinguished?
A) Kansas is shown in color and the Land of Oz is in black and white
B) Kansas is shown in black and white and the Land of Oz is in color
C) Kansas and the Land of Oz are both in black and white
D) Kansas and the Land of Oz are both in color
E) none of the other answers
Q2) Orson Welles
A)photographer who first captured sequences of still images of a horse and then made them appear to move
B)director of an experimental film based on dreams, recurring objects, and repeated image sequences
C)filmmaker renowned for an innovative and influential film that commented on a newspaper tycoon and the American Dream
D)known for silent films with trick effects and humor, including one about astronomers launched from a cannon onto the moon
E)animator who incorporates elements from Japanese mythology into his films
F)Oscar-winning director who used cutting-edge visual effects, combining live action with computer-generated imagery
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Chapter 20: Alternative Media and Processes
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Q1) Mel Chin's Fundred Dollar Bill Project is designed to:
A) make the artist rich
B) make the viewer rich
C) raise awareness about and campaign for the treatment of lead-toxic soil
D) clean up the corruption in the political system by eliminating the need for taxes
E) none of the other answers
Q2) Jackson Pollock is known for:
A) delivering an important speech to Congress on behalf of the art world
B) hanging upside-down from the Brooklyn Bridge for two days
C) splashing, pouring, and dripping paint onto a canvas as he walked around it on the floor
D) his miniature paintings
E) all of the other answers
Q3) As an artist,Marina Abramovic is known for her ________.
A) extroverted personality
B) extensive note-taking ability
C) extreme performance pieces
D) extremely long hair
E) traditional approach
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Chapter 21: The Prehistoric and Ancient Mediterranean
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Q1) Bulls were often shown in the art of the Babylonians and Minoans.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Dionysus was the ancient Greek god of ________.
A) wine
B) theatre
C) agriculture
D) ecstasy
E) all of the other answers
Q3) The Parthenon in Athens looks exactly the same today as it did when the Greeks originally built it.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Egyptian fresco from Nebamun's tomb utilizes:
A) composite view
B) hierarchical scale
C) hieroglyphs
D) all of the previous answers
E) none of the previous answers
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Chapter 22: Art of the Middle Ages
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Q1) The small pieces of glass that make up mosaics are called ________.
A) tesserae
B) icons
C) flakes
D) magi
E) repoussé
Q2) The manuscript painting of The Ascent of the Prophet Muhammad on his Steed from a copy of Nizami's Khamsa (3.2.13)demonstrates how human figures are sometimes shown in Islamic art.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What style is the Church of Sainte-Foy at Conques,France?
A) early Christian
B) Byzantine
C) Romanesque
D) Gothic
E) none of the other answers
Q4) "Cross and Carpet" pages were used only in Islamic manuscripts.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 23: Art of India, China, Japan, and Southeast Asia
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Q1) In the nineteenth century,there was so little trade between Asia and the West that Japanese art had no real influence on what artists in Europe were doing.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Textile artist Sonoko Sasaki values ________ in her work.
A) a sense of the seasons
B) modern materials
C) the influence of new technology
D) influences from other cultures
E) none of the other answers
Q3) Select one artwork from India,one from China,and one from Japan.Explain how each artwork reflects the values of the culture in which it was made.Discuss the differences between the artworks from these three cultures.
Q4) tomb of Lady Dai
A)Japan
B)India
C) China
D) Cambodia
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Chapter 24: Art of the Americas
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Q1) The colossal sculpture of the Aztec mother goddess Coatlicue (3.4.16)is made of
A) gold
B) silver
C) feathers
D) stone
E) all of the other answers
Q2) The writing system developed by the Maya is known as ________.
A) pictographs
B) alphabetics
C) cuneiform
D) hieroglyphs
E) none of the other answers
Q3) The ________ in Wo-haw's self-portrait show the effect of the presence of European settlers on the Plains Indians of North America.
A) buffalo and shooting star
B) domesticated bull and cultivated fields
C) peace pipe and upright stance
D) traditional materials used
E) none of the other answers
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Chapter 25: Art of Africa and the Pacific Islands
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Q1) ahu'ula
A)the practice of tattooing or permanently marking the skin
B)feather cloaks used for physical and divine protection during war
C)monolithic stone sculptures found throughout Polynesia, especially huge figures made from volcanic rock
D)one of the spirits who taught humans to hunt and paint during an early era of the "Dreaming"
E)a massive structure consisting of a single block of stone
Q2) The cult houses of the Abelam of Papua New Guinea are designed to:
A) self-destruct at sunset
B) impress initiates with the power and complexity of their culture's deities and traditions
C) be so confusing that they would weed out unprepared initiates
D) look like they are under water
E) mimic the spring located at the place where humans were believed to originate
Q3) African masks,such as the Kanaga mask made by the Dogon of Mali (3.5.6),are most "alive" in museum cases.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 26: Art of Renaissance and Baroque Europe: 1400 to 1750
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Q1) Peter Paul Rubens worked with many assistants in his studio.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Bernini depicts his David at exactly the same moment in the story as the versions by his predecessors Donatello and Michelangelo.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Giorgio Vasari wrote which of the following texts?
A) On Painting
B) Experiments with Colors
C) The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
D) Shadows and Light
E) He was an artist who never wrote any books
Q4) The Arnolfini Portrait is part of which period in art?
A) the Italian Renaissance
B) the Northern Renaissance
C) the Mannerist
D) the Baroque
E) the Gothic
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Chapter 27: Art of Europe and America, 1700 to 1865:
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Q1) Gustave Courbet's Stonebreakers alarmed upper-class viewers because it reminded them of recent uprisings by the poor.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Thomas LeClear's Interior with Portraits depicts a deceased brother and sister.
A)True
B)False
Q3) It is a famous painting today,but Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii was never exhibited while the artist lived.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In the French Academy,individual portraits and landscapes were considered as more valuable than any other subject matter.
A)True
B)False
Q5) John Everett Millais's Ophelia was painted in one day and was inspired by a dream the artist had after reading Hamlet.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) Potsdamer Platz is part of the ________ movement as seen ________.
A) Cubist . . . in the painting's geometric treatment of forms
B) Expressionist . . . in the painting's intentionally raw and aggressive intensity
C) Dada . . . in the painting's use of found objects
D) Conceptual . . . in the artist's burning of the painting at its first exhibition
E) Pop art . . . in the painting's use of commercial imagery
Q2) The Eiffel Tower was adored by all Parisians when it was first built because it was seen as a continuation of the artistic traditions of France.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Juan Gris's Bottle of Banyuls includes an actual ________ as part of the composition.
A) lemon
B) bottle label
C) table top
D) bottle cap
E) menu
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Expressionism in the 1940s to the Present Day
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Q1) The technique used to make Andy Warhol's Thirty Are Better than One is ________.
A) silkscreen
B) assemblage
C) collage
D) photomontage
E) readymade
Q2) Donald Judd ordered the boxes for his Untitled artwork,made in 1967,from a factory.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The medium of Dan Flavin's 1996 Untitled installation is ________.
A) stainless steel and Plexiglass
B) fluorescent light tubes
C) polished brass and stone
D) aluminum foil over wood
E) video projection
Q4) The work of Minimalist artists is generally made out of natural materials with an organic quality.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 30: Art and Community
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Q1) Which cultural practices are highlighted in Wenda Gu's United Nations-China Monument?
A) Buddhist tea ceremony
B) Chinese brush painting
C) Arabic, Hindi, Chinese, and Latin alphabets
D) all of the other answers
E) none of the other answers
Q2) Holy relics located in churches ________.
A) taught people about the stories of the Koran
B) inspired people to make pilgrimages to see them
C) fooled people into believing in ghosts
D) are proof that gladiator fights happened
E) holy relics were never kept in churches
Q3) Why was Diego Rivera's mural for the RCA Building in Rockefeller Center controversial?
A) because the artist was inspired by Mexican murals
B) because the artist offered to add a picture of Abraham Lincoln
C) because the artist got paid without ever finishing the mural
D) because the artist included elements inspired by his communist beliefs
E) all of the other answers
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Chapter 31: Spirituality and Art
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Q1) When was the Eastern Orthodox Church icon the Virgin of Vladimir made?
A) during Greek and Roman times
B) during the Middle Ages
C) during the Renaissance
D) in the twentieth-century
E) the Eastern Orthodox Church never made icons
Q2) In ancient Egypt,what is a book of the dead?
A) a genealogy recounting a person's ancestors and their relationships
B) a guide to the steps of proper embalming and mummification
C) a collection of spells and incantations designed to help with navigating the afterlife
D) a short novel about the process of dying
E) the memoir of a man who died while working on the pyramids
Q3) A shaman is a person who ________.
A) acts as an intermediary between the invisible spirit world and the physical realm of humans
B) ties up captives with a rope while a ruler performs important rituals
C) creates cave drawings upside-down
D) is authorized to dig in sacred sites for the purposes of research
E) none of the other answers
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Chapter 32: Art and the Cycle of Life
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Q1) Zen dry gardens are designed to be a microcosm of the larger earthly landscape.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The sarcophagus lid from the tomb of Lord Pacal shows him ________.
A) marking the intersection of the earthly realm and the underworld
B) being overtaken by the world tree
C) ignoring the lineage of his ancestors
D) trying to trick the gods while playing a mythical ballgame
E) Lord Pacal was only depicted on the inside of the sarcophagus, not the outside
Q3) Who is the artist of Fox in the Snow?
A) Gustave Courbet
B) Thomas Eakins
C) Caspar David Friedrich
D) Andrea Mantegna
E) Johannes Vermeer
Q4) Abbey Among Oak Trees emphasizes realism and reason over emotion and imagination.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 33: Art and Science
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Q1) "It is a picture that even strong men find it difficult to look at long . . ."
A)Willard Wigan, Statue of Liberty
B)Marcia Smilack, Cello Music
C)Salvador Dalí, Persistence of Memory
D)Thomas Eakins, Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross
E)Yayoi Kusama, Dots Obsession
Q2) ". . . people had made me feel small so I wanted to show them how significant small could be."
A)Willard Wigan, Statue of Liberty
B)Marcia Smilack, Cello Music
C)Salvador Dalí, Persistence of Memory
D)Thomas Eakins, Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross
E)Yayoi Kusama, Dots Obsession
Q3) Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump features this technique,which means a dramatic use of light and dark:
A) tenebrism
B) tracery
C) repoussé
D) shadow puppetry
E) none of the other answers
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Q1) What did Venus do for Pygmalion?
A) gave him the love of Helen of Troy
B) spent one night with him
C) brought his sculpture of a beautiful woman to life
D) granted him immortality
E) none of the other answers
Q2) anamorphosis
A)a technique used to show the projection of an object into space
B)nude infant angel boys
C)a technique used to distort an image so that it is clear from only one viewpoint
D)a visual swelling at the midpoint of columns
E)a round opening in the center of a dome
F)reminders of mortality
Q3) Illusion cannot be created using the medium of fresco.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Trompe l'oeil means "fools the eye".
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 35: Art of Political Leaders and Rulers
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Q1) What event is portrayed in the elaborately carved lintel showing the Maya ruler Shield Jaguar and his wife Lady Xoc (4.6.6)?
A) a bloodletting ritual
B) a sexual act
C) a sacrifice of a child
D) a play
E) an animal hunt
Q2) The colossal statue of Constantine the Great departs completely from statues of earlier Roman emperors.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What does the Justinian mosaic in the Church of San Vitale in Ravenna demonstrate?
A) the power of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian
B) the power of Maximianus, the Bishop of Ravenna
C) God's support for Justinian
D) all of the previous answers
E) none of the previous answers
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Q1) An oba is the name for a jaguar in Benin culture.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In Ganzeer's Tank vs.Bike,a team of understudies created the tank and Ganzeer painted his signature panda himself.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Why were some against Maya Lin's design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?
A) it was black
B) it descended into the ground
C) they wanted a more traditional monument with figures
D) all of the other answers
E) none of the other answers
Q4) The 9/11 Memorial has been achieved without any controversy over its final design.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The Bayeux Tapestry was embroidered by women.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 37: Art of Social Conscience
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Q1) Write an essay on Théodore Gericault's Raft of the Medusa (4.8.1)in which you discuss why it was made and the research done by the artist in preparation to undertake this work.Discuss the composition of the artwork in detail.What aspects of the artwork do you consider Romantic and which aspects are Neoclassical?
Q2) Nolde's Crucifixion
A)was covered up for its shocking reality
B)was attacked for its ideal beauty
C)was mocked by the Nazis
D)raised awareness of the severity of the Great Depression
Q3) What is true about Emil Nolde?
A) he was a member of the Nazi party
B) he painted in watercolor
C) his painting Crucifixion was considered by the Nazis to be "degenerate"
D) all of the other answers
E) none of the other answers
Q4) Velázquez's Rokeby Venus
A)was covered up for its shocking reality
B)was attacked for its ideal beauty
C)was mocked by the Nazis
D)raised awareness of the severity of the Great Depression
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Q1) What is the subject matter of Myron's Discus Thrower?
A) a prehistoric stonemason
B) an Egyptian pharaoh
C) a Greek athlete
D) a Roman circus performer
E) a contemporary DJ
Q2) Anthropométries de l'époque bleue introduced which of the following for the very first time?
A) living brushes
B) International Klein Blue
C) monochromatic paintings
D) a musical accompaniment to the presentation of art
E) a nude audience and clothed performers
Q3) Who is the artist of Branded?
A) Willem Dekooning
B) Yves Klein
C) Janine Antoni
D) Jenny Saville
E) ORLAN
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Chapter Identity, Race, and Gender in Art
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Q1) The decapitation of Holofernes,which is the subject of an oil painting by Artemisia Gentileschi,happened because:
A) Holofernes was cruel and violent to Judith's people
B) Judith was jealous because he was her adulterous husband
C) Judith was vengeful because he had killed her son
D) Holofernes was a magician and Judith was his assistant for this trick
E) none of the other answers
Q2) Why did the artist of The Two Fridas paint two of herself?
A) because she could not decide what she wanted to wear
B) because she liked to show the mirror she painted from
C) because she was seeing double during her recuperation from surgery
D) because she wanted to depict distinct aspects of her identity
E) one of the women in the picture is her twin sister
Q3) What is the medium of Self-Portrait with Saskia in the Scene of the Prodigal Son in the Tavern?
A) gelatin silver print
B) etching
C) ink and colors on paper
D) oil on canvas
E) marble
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Chapter 40: Gateway Features for Gateways to Art
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Q1) Analyse the ways in which illusion is created in Raphael's School of Athens.What are the artist's methods for creating depth in the painting? How does the painting contribute to the wider scheme of Pope Julius II's library?
Q2) The design of the Taj Mahal and gardens uses both ________ and ________ symmetry.
A) radial and bilateral B) organic and geometric
C) positive and negative
D) round and square
E) left and right
Q3) Why were the Greek god Apollo and the goddess Athena included in The School of Athens?
A) because Renaissance artists admired Greek mythology, philosophy, and art B) because there were no longer deities during the Renaissance C) because the artist was Greek
D) because the huge flowers the artist wanted to carve fell apart E) none of the answers
Q4) In the Islamic faith,gardens are symbolic of Paradise on Earth.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) Compare and contrast the portraits of Isabella d'Este (0.0.12)and Adele Bloch-Bauer (0.0.13).Describe the similarities and differences you see in the portrayal of the women.How did Titian and Klimt communicate the wealth and social standing of their subjects? How true to life do you think these portraits are?
Q2) Choose a museum that is close to your home town or in your state.Research its history: in what year was it founded,and by whom? Did a private collector donate artworks to the museum? Did it always function as a museum,or did it have other uses too,for example as an art school? Write a short essay on your findings.
Q3) David Hockney emphasized the figure of Peter Schlesinger in his artwork Portrait of an Artist (Pool with two figures),using:
A) scale: Peter appears to be taller than the hills in the background
B) color: Peter's red jacket stands out
C) implied line: the edges of the pool seem to point toward Peter
D) all of the other answers
E) none of the other answers
Q4) The rarity of an artwork,and its value,are often closely related.
A)True
B)False
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