Art History
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Course Introduction
Art History is an interdisciplinary course that explores the development, context, and significance of visual art throughout human civilization. Students will examine major artistic movements, styles, and individual works from ancient times to the contemporary era, considering not only the aesthetic qualities but also the cultural, political, and social influences that have shaped arts evolution. Through visual analysis, critical discussion, and research, learners will gain an understanding of the diverse ways in which art reflects and informs human experience across different societies and periods.
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Art Past Art Present 6th Edition by David G. Wilkins
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Chapter 1: Experiencing Art
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Q1) In northeast Nigeria Wodaabe women carve gourds into calabashes; most of these are treasured as:
A) ceremonial possessions.
B) utensils to hold porridge.
C) vessels to carry milk.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Answer: A
Q2) In Bernini's Apollo and Daphne,the ____________ is energized by the extension of the figures' limbs and the sculptural form.
Answer: surrounding space
Q3) The level of richness or saturation of a color is termed value.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Early in the 19 century,the concept was born of the artist as a member of the ____________,who progressively leads society.
Answer: avant-garde
Q5) The relative darkness or lightness of a color is called the ____________.
Answer: value
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Chapter 2: Prehistoric Art
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Q1) Mesolithic rock painting shows scenes of human conflict.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The arrangement of stones at Stonehenge reveals the importance,for Neolithic peoples,of:
A) animal sacrifice.
B) smelting.
C) celestial events.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Answer: C
Q3) In the image of Bulls from Lascaux cave,the application of line and color reveals:
A) understanding of the animals' anatomy.
B) careful observation.
C) understanding of the animals' movement.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Ancient Art
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Q1) As seen on the Fang ding,the most famous pattern used on early Chinese bronzes was the taotie,or ____________.
Answer: monster mask
Q2) In the Canon of Polykleitos,as promoted by Vitruvius,the width of the shoulders was ____________ of the total height.
Answer: one-quarter
Q3) The earliest large-scale Greek sculptures are indebted to
prototypes.
Answer: Egyptian
Q4) Egyptian temple architecture stresses:
A) monumentality.
B) durability.
C) stability.
D) weight.
E) all of these.
Answer: E
Q5) The plan of the palace at Knossos is rambling and labyrinthine. A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Later Ancient Art
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Q1) In its later stage,the Dongson culture is identified as the first unified kingdom of Vietnam with:
A) a ruling royal dynasty.
B) a capital city.
C) a professional administrative class.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q2) The discovery of the burial pits at Pazyryk was significant because the mounds contained examples of ancient art in materials that are seldom preserved.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Bacchic Mysteries from Pompeii is one of the first examples of a painted wall decoration integrated with the physical space and architecture of its setting; this is called a(n) ____________.
Q4) The Roman town plan reveals their interest in irregularity and variation.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the probable meanings of the feathered serpents at Teotihuacán.
Q6) At Teotihuacán,the builders used ____________ as a temple base.
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Chapter 5: Art From 200 to 1000
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Q1) In the San Vitale mosaic of Justinian,Archbishop Maximianus of Ravenna and Attendants,Justinian's placement communicates his position as head of ____________ and ____________.
Q2) The plan of the Carolingian monastery at St.Gall included:
A) a refectory.
B) a cloister.
C) novitiate housing.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q3) What influential Carolingian architectural innovation in church design is evident in the Plan of St.Gall Monastery?
Q4) In the Byzantine apse mosaic Transfiguration of Christ from the monastery of St.Catherine,Christ is shown surrounded by:
A) an almond-shaped halo.
B) a mandorla.
C) blue light.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q5) What does the word catacomb mean,and from where is it derived?
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Chapter 6: Art From 1000 to 1400
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Q1) The development of Gothic architecture seems to have been initiated by Abbot Suger at the Royal Abbey Church of ____________.
Q2) Why did nineteenth-century historians coin the term "Romanesque" to describe the style of a church such as Ste.-Foy at Conques?
Q3) By transferring the thrust and weight to an exterior support,what does the flying buttress permit in a Gothic cathedral?
Q4) The miniature Christian church functioning as a container for the bones of a holy person is called a(n):
A) triad.
B) iconograph.
C) reliquary.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q5) The embroidered narrative of the Bayeux Tapestry depicts events that led to the ____________ of England.
Q6) In Giotto's Lamentation in the Arena Chapel,what do the angels do?
Q7) What problem with Romanesque pilgrimage churches was solved with the use of an ambulatory?
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Chapter 7: Fifteenth-Century Art
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Q1) Discuss the idea of the Renaissance. What does it mean literally, historically, culturally, and artistically?
Q2) What about Jan van Eyck's Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami suggests that an oath is being taken?
A) hanging pillows
B) position of the couple's hands
C) view outside the window
D) all of these
E) none of these
Q3) Humanistic studies in Renaissance Italy involved what disciplines in its curriculum?
Q4) On the interior of The Altarpiece of the Lamb,what aspects are considered to unify the painting and to be the work of Jan van Eyck?
Q5) In Leonardo's Last Supper,the calm figure of Christ exists:
A) at the focal point of the perspective.
B) to form a symbolic triangle.
C) on the axis of symmetry.
D) to give visual stability to the composition.
E) all of these.
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Chapter 8: Sixteenth-Century Art
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Q1) In Michelangelo's Creation of Adam fresco,what aspect suggests the vital energy soon to be released?
A) Adam's powerfully muscled figure
B) the lightning bolt streaking across the sky
C) Adam's laurel crown
D) all of these
E) none of these
Q2) Brueghel's December Landscape emphasizes nature by the manner in which the season,as expressed by the landscape,controls the activities of the peasants.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Leonardo became famous for his ability to:
A) create a sense of mystery.
B) gently model through careful blending.
C) represent subtle shadows.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q4) In Brueghel's Peasant Wedding Feast,the composition is based on the strong right-to-left ____________ of the table.
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Chapter 9: Seventeenth-Century Art
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Q1) The Taj Mahal in India was built by Shah Jahan in the Mughal period from 1632 to 1648 as a(n) ____________ to his favorite wife.
Q2) In countries that remained Catholic in the seventeenth century,the Counter-Reformation led to the production of contemplative Baroque secular images. A)True B)False
Q3) In the seventeenth century,landscape became a truly popular theme in the ____________ for the first time in the history of Western art.
Q4) During the seventeenth century in China,the Ming Dynasty fell and was succeeded by the ____________ Dynasty,which ruled until 1912.
Q5) In his Arrival and Reception of Marie de´ Medici at Marseilles,how did Rubens satisfy the aspirations of his royal client?
Q6) Evidence in many Vermeer paintings suggests that he used a camera obscura. A)True B)False
Q7) Why is Teresa of Ávila depicted barefoot in Bernini's sculpture Ecstasy of Saint Teresa?
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Chapter 10: Eighteenth-Century Art
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Q1) With Watteau's Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera,a new category of painting was established for the French Royal Academy,listed as ____________.
Q2) Fueling the Neoclassical style was:
A) the influential art historian Wittgenstein.
B) changing political realities.
C) the rediscovery of Herculaneum and Pompeii.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q3) What about Egid Quirin Asam's Assumption of the Virgin encourages us to gasp?
Q4) Because of the web of gold woodwork,the stucco ornament,the rhythmic curving cornice,and the delicate arches,the effect of Boffrand's Salon de la Princesse is:
A) spiritual and meditative.
B) elegant and ebullient.
C) robust and heroic.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q5) Benjamin West's Death of General Wolfe was stimulated by a serious study of ____________ and study of the works of Renaissance and Baroque artists.
Q6) The term "Rococo" was first used to designate what style?
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Chapter 11: Nineteenth-Century Art
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Q1) Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa is a history painting,and its subject is a heroic event.
A)True B)False
Q2) In Japanese woodblock technique,the design is carved into the wood,leaving the lines and solid areas raised above the cut surface of the wood.
A)True B)False
Q3) The goal of Monet in Impression-Sunrise was to:
A) paint a beautiful picture.
B) record reality as he saw it.
C) display significant moral import.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q4) In Thomas Eakins's Portrait of Dr.Samuel Gross,the touches of red are used for what purposes?
Q5) The style of Hiroshige's woodblock prints focuses on the subtleties of a particular ____________ and ____________.
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Chapter 12: Art From 1900 to 1949
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Q1) In Hopper's Nighthawks the harsh interior light is used to:
A) reveal the personalities of the sitters.
B) encourage deep psychoanalysis.
C) expose the lack of communication.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q2) Despite its purity and reductive beauty,why did the International Style quickly reach a dead end?
Q3) The ritual dancers wearing painted wooden masks of the Bwa culture are participants in rites performed to ensure success in battle over tribal enemies.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How did Duchamp enter his mass-produced objects called "ready-mades" into the realm of art?
Q5) Alfred Stieglitz's 1907 photograph The Steerage balances the relationship between form and ____________,and thus should be understood as a work of art in itself.
Q6) Brancusi's Bird in Space draws us close not to the essence of a natural form,but to what instead?
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Chapter 13: Art From 1950 to 1999
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Q1) What is Audrey Flack's working method? How does the manner in which she produces her work affect the viewer?
Q2) Pollack's method of painting is derived from:
A) Picasso's synthesis.
B) Surrealist automatism.
C) Cézanne.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q3) Chen Zhen's Jue Chang invites viewers to actually beat the drums of the work.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Postmodernist art is defined by:
A) welcoming the artistic past into the present.
B) celebrating diversity.
C) acknowledgment of social, political, and historical issues.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q5) In order to understand it,Le Corbusier's Nôtre-Dame-du-Haut forces us to do what? How do the building's exterior,interior,and its site aesthetically work on a viewer?
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Chapter 14: Art in the New Millennium
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Q1) In Bill Viola's Five Angels for the Millennium,the observer's viewpoint remains fixed at the water's surface.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Individuality has been a hallmark of modern art,and the ____________ of 21st-century art is proof of its continued importance.
Q3) Mariko Mori's Wave UFO sets out to provide an experience that can express the inner self through ____________.
Q4) What sort of unexpected materials have been used for art in the last few years?
Q5) The photographs of Andreas Gursky:
A) are visually stunning.
B) are enormous in size.
C) often present a dialogue between architecture and human presence.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q6) James Turrell has said that he wants people to mentally regard light as a nonexistent,ephemeral,invisible entity.
A)True
B)False
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