Contemporary Art Appreciation Pre-Test
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Course Introduction
Contemporary Art Appreciation explores the dynamic and diverse landscape of visual arts from the late 20th century to the present day. This course examines key movements, influential artists, and significant works, fostering an understanding of how current events, technological advances, and social changes shape artistic expression. Students will develop critical thinking and visual analysis skills through discussions, readings, and direct engagement with artworks, preparing them to thoughtfully interpret and evaluate contemporary art within various cultural contexts.
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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) How do both medium and technique make Gnaw unique?
Answer: Both the medium and technique used in creating Gnaw contribute to its uniqueness. The medium of sculpture allows for a three-dimensional representation of the subject, giving it a physical presence and allowing the viewer to interact with it from different angles. This adds a tactile element to the artwork, engaging the sense of touch in addition to sight.
The technique used in creating Gnaw, which involves carving and shaping the material, adds a level of craftsmanship and skill that is evident in the final piece. The intricate details and textures created through the technique give the sculpture a sense of depth and complexity, drawing the viewer in and inviting closer inspection.
Overall, the combination of the medium of sculpture and the specific technique used in creating Gnaw results in a unique and compelling artwork that stands out for its physical presence, craftsmanship, and attention to detail.
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Chapter 2: Line and Shape
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Q1) Helen Frankenthaler's abstract Before the Caves may be described as
A) flat
B) full
C) amorphous
D) allegoric
E) textured
Answer: C
Q2) What term is sometimes used in place of the word modeling?
A) Fresco
B) Chiaroscuro
C) Mezzotint
D) Mandala
E) Tempera
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Light and Color
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Q1) The colors opposite each other on the color wheel are ____________.
A) tints
B) analogous
C) warm
D) complementary
E) agitated
Answer: D
Q2) ______________that are achieved by mixing various amounts of black and white are called achromatic.
A) monochromatic
B) brown
C) white
D) black
E) grays
Answer: E
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Chapter 4: Texture and Pattern
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Q1) The goal of visual texture is to simulate the look and feel of actual _________and textures.
A) brushstrokes
B) gouging
C) surfaces
D) lines
E) applications
Q2) Actual texture is related to the ________used to create the work.
A) materials
B) colors
C) lights
D) ideas
E) concepts
Q3) The literal meaning of the __________phrase trompe l'oeil is "trick the eye."
A) Latin
B) Greek
C) English
D) French
E) German
Q4) What is pattern?
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Chapter 5: Space,Time,and Motion
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Q1) The photograph of the mountain fortress of Machu Picchu illustrates the role of what?
Q2) By creating optical sensations with the repetition of line and shape and the manipulation of high-contrast values and complementary colors,_________ truly is in the eye of the beholder.
A) perspective
B) shape
C) color
D) value
E) movement
Q3) How does Bernini's sculpture David make use of implied motion and implied time?
Q4) When an artist places one object in front of another to create the illusion of depth,it is called __________.
A) linear perspective
B) value contrast
C) overlapping
D) relative size
E) afterimage
Q5) Futurist artists,like Boccioni,were seduced by what?
Q6) Discuss the use of relative size in Martina López's Heirs Come to Pass,3.
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Chapter 6: Principles of Design
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Q1) If you superimpose a diagram of a __________ over a photograph of the East façade of the Parthenon,it is a perfect fit.
A) Golden Mean
B) Golden Rectangle
C) Golden Triangle
D) root five rectangle
E) square
Q2) 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?
Q3) How is repetition used in Andy Warhol's Ethel Scull Thirty-Six Times.
Q4) The classical Greek sculptor Polykleitos is credited with the derivation of a canon of___________.
A) asymmetrical balance
B) human canon
C) proportions
D) relaxation
E) scaling
Q5) Discuss two design principles fromChapter 6.Use examples.
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Chapter 7: Drawing
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Q1) Which of the following drawing materials cannot be smudged or rubbed for a hazy effect?
A) charcoal
B) metalpoint
C) pencil
D) chalk
E) pastel
Q2) 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
Q3) Explain the delicate process of metalpoint drawing and why it has largely been abandoned in favor of other dry media.
Q4) How and when was the meaning of the word cartoon expanded to include humorous and satirical drawings?
Q5) Explain the evolution of the pencil and how it is now made.
Q6) 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) What advantages does canvas have over wood as a painting surface?
Q2) Discuss the cultural tensions symbolized in Roger Shimomura's Untitled painting.
Q3) The binding agent that powdered pigment is mixed with to form paint is known as the __________.
A) medium
B) canvas
C) vehicle
D) turpentine
E) support
Q4) __________ was the exclusive painting medium of artists during the medieval era.
A) Oil
B) Tempera
C) Encaustic
D) Fresco
E) Gouache
Q5) Analyze graffiti and street art as an art form,and explain whether you believe it deserves to rise to the level of gallery art.
Q6) Describe three ancient uses for encaustic painting.
Q7) List seven commonly used paint vehicles.
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Chapter 9: Printmaking and Graphic Design
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Q1) The female image in Red Coat by Alex Katz is most reminiscent of a __________.
A) housewife
B) supermodel icon
C) nurse
D) drug addict
E) grandmother
Q2) A monotype differs from all other printmaking techniques because __________.
A) it does not go through a printing press
B) it is a nonlinear process
C) it does not have to use ink
D) the matrix is not a metal plate
E) it only yields a single, unique image
Q3) What is the subject matter of Käthe Kollwitz's lithograph The Mothers?
Q4) The twentieth-century American abstract artist Josef Albers created Solo V,an
inkless intaglio technique known as __________.
A) tenebrism
B) gauffrage
C) embossing
D) fenestration
E) montage
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Chapter 10: Imaging: Photography, Film, Video, and Digital Arts
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Q1) What is one of the major keys to success for a photojournalist?
Q2) List and describe the four ways in which black-and-white films differ and a fifth way in which color films differ.
Q3) Summarize three reasons for the lack of commercial and popular success of Matthew Brady's and Alexander Gardner's graphic Civil War scenes.Based on these reasons,formulate at least one other reason why there were few purchases of these works.
Q4) A(n)__________ magnifies faraway objects and collapses the spaces between ordinarily distant objects.
A) telephoto lens
B) f-stop
C) wide-angle lens
D) digital lens
E) aperture
Q5) Discuss some of the technological advances in computer graphics that have greatly expanded the horizons and achievements of artists.
Q6) Compare and contrast the musical films of the 1930s with the photographs of Dorothea Lange and other Depression-era photographers.
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Q7) 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) Of the following,which material is more commonly used in assemblages?
A) Stone
B) Clay
C) Metal
D) Plaster
E) Wood
Q2) Michelangelo's The Cross-Legged Captive is an example of __________ sculpture.
A) additive
B) bas-relief
C) subtractive
D) constructed
E) mixed media
Q3) In spirit and style,which of Picasso's two-dimensional works were very similar to his constructed sculpture?
Q4) Which of the following is not an additive sculptural process?
A) Modeling
B) Carving
C) Casting
D) Constructing
E) Welding
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Chapter 12: Craft Arts
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Q1) Describe the setting and visual effect of Dale Chihuly's Icicle Creek Chandelier.
Q2) According to the Roman historian Pliny the Elder,how was glassmaking discovered?
Q3) How does Kiff Slemmons's Transport bridge the gulf between fine art and the functional object?
Q4) Unlike a typical chandelier,Dale Chihuly's are a different species.They __________.
A) contain batteries
B) contain strobe lighting
C) are always placed outside
D) do not emit light of their own
E) emit only neon lighting
Q5) Textile art make what two types of objects?
Q6) In weaving,the lengthwise fibers are called the __________.
A) warp
B) weft
C) woof
D) base
E) background
Q7) Explain how the magnificent Roman Portland Vase was created.
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Chapter 13: Architecture and Urban Design
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Q1) Concerning the field of architecture,analyze what you believe is meant by the saying "Convention gets built; innovation gets published."
Q2) Which of the following statements about steel cable construction,first used to build the Brooklyn Bridge,is not true?
A) It has great tensile strength.
B) Its many parallel wires share the stress.
C) It is flexible, allowing the roadway underneath to sway.
D) It can only span very short distances.
E) It can be aesthetically pleasing.
Q3) What was the Crystal Palace; how was it built; what was it used for; and what was Joseph Paxton's inspiration?
Q4) The Native American dwellings at Mesa Verde,Colorado,used __________ as part of the back support for more than 100 rectangular __________.
A) forests; houses
B) cliff walls; apartments
C) earth flooring; kivas
D) stones; huts
E) adobe; temples
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Chapter 14: Art of the Ancient World
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Q1) In both the Akkadian Victory Stele of Naram Sin and the Egyptian Narmer Palette,the kings are depicted __________.
A) in combined frontal and profile view
B) larger than the surrounding figures
C) in combined frontal and profile view and larger than surrounding figures
D) with no gods
E) naturalistically
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) Identify the conventional attributes of an Egyptian pharaoh.
Q4) What societal changes occurred as the Stone Age progressed from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic periods?
Q5) Describe the ziggurat and discuss the function it served in ancient Mesopotamia.
Q6) What were the Fertile Crescent and the Fertile Ribbon?
Q7) Identify three aspects of Egyptian art and life that are unique to that culture.
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Chapter 15: Greece, Rome, and the Early Judeo-Christian World
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Q1) Empire period Roman sculpture,as represented in Augustus of Primaporta,was often an interesting juxtaposition of __________ heads with idealized bodies.
A) classical
B) abstracted
C) stylized
D) individualized
E) misshapen
Q2) Some of the earliest freestanding sculptures of the Archaic period were kouros figures,or blocky statues of nude young men,all with a conventionalized facial expression called the __________.
A) kouros smile
B) stylized smile
C) conventional smile
D) Archaic smile
E) Classical smile
Q3) What was the Ara Pacis,and when and why did Augustus have it constructed?
Q4) Illustrate how the areas and peoples that were conquered by Roman expansionism actually benefited from subsequent urban planning.
Q5) Explain the Greek use of color on sculpture.
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Chapter 16: The Age of Faith
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Q1) Perhaps the most famous surviving tapestry is the 230-foot long Romanesque period Bayeux Tapestry,which describes __________ in a continuous narrative.
A) feudal lords and ladies dancing
B) the invasion of Italian city-states by the Normans
C) Pope Urban reclaiming the Holy Lands from the Turks
D) the invasion of England by William the Conqueror
E) the Crusades of the Knights Templar
Q2) 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
Q3) Compare and contrast the various styles represented in the jamb figures of Reims Cathedral.
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) Compare and contrast Leonardo's The Last Supper with Tintoretto's The Last Supper.
Q2) Describe the classical design of Alberti's Palazzo Rucellai.
Q3) The Renaissance began in 1401 with a competition for the commission to sculpt bronze doors for the baptistery of Florence.The subject of the entry panels was
A) Rebecca at the Well
B) Moses and the Ten Commandments
C) Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
D) The Sacrifice of Isaac
E) Cain and Abel
Q4) Northern Renaissance artists tried to reconcile religion with scenes and objects from everyday life by using __________.
A) iconology
B) symbolism
C) artistic tricks
D) color
E) text
Q5) Identify the two most significant areas of Europe for the arts during the Renaissance.
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Chapter 18: The Baroque ERA
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Q1) Which of the following does not describe Jan Vermeer's Young Woman with a Water Jug?
A) It has a single source of light bathing the composition.
B) The colors are harsh and garish.
C) It is a genre subject.
D) It has a bit of mystery surrounding the captured moment.
E) The elements in the composition are perfectly placed.
Q2) In the Baroque period,England's most significant contribution to the arts was in the realm of __________.
A) architecture
B) painting
C) sculpture
D) tapestries
E) printmaking
Q3) 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
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Chapter 19: The Modern ERA
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Q1) James Abbott McNeill Whistler's Arrangement in Black and Gray: The Artist's Mother exhibits a combination of realism and abstraction that was strongly influenced by
A) Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and posters
B) Francisco Goya and Impressionism
C) Édouard Manet and Renaissance sketches
D) Gustave Courbet and Japanese prints
E) Paul Cézanne and photography
Q2) Discuss how the Impressionists came to be influenced by Japanese prints and,providing an example,show how this influence is depicted in Degas's painting.
Q3) Discuss the style and popularity of Academic art,especially as embodied in the work of Adolphe William Bouguereau.
Q4) Identify three various opinions as to when modern art began.
Q5) Discuss the Art Nouveau style and how and where it was used.
Q6) Contrast the stylistic differences between the Rubenistes and the Poussinistes,and provide an example from each camp.
Q7) Into what two stylistically divergent groups did the Post-Impressionists fall?
Q8) Who were the American Expatriates?
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Chapter 20: The Twentieth Century: The Early Years
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Q1) The term Cubism,coined by a hostile critic,is limiting because it is an inadequate description that ignores the movement's most significant contribution: a new treatment of pictorial space that __________.
A) juxtaposed unrelated objects into odd situations
B) was composed of linear patterning
C) used color to create a sense of depth
D) delineated shapes and depth with blocks of thickly applied paint
E) rendered objects from multiple and radically different views
Q2) Explain the difference between Illusionistic Surrealism and Automatist Surrealism,and provide an example of each.
Q3) For his Twittering Machine,Paul Klee was influenced in part by __________.
A) Japanese art
B) Alexander Archipenko
C) Wassily Kandinsky
D) ethnographic and children's art
E) caricatures
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) Identify five artistic influences that converged in New York City in the twentieth century to produce an artistic melting pot that inspired the Abstract Expressionist movement.
Q2) Explain the origin of the Deconstructivist movement and how its tenets have been translated into Deconstructivist architecture.
Q3) In the 1980s,a group of anonymous women artists banded together to fight injustice against women in the art market.They were known as __________.
A) the Painted Ladies
B) the Guerrilla Girls
C) the Feminist Groupies
D) Rebels with a Cause
E) a Small Symphony for Women
Q4) What now famous art college did Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns attend?
Q5) Audrey Flack's World War II (Vanitas)encourages the viewer to meditate on death as the inescapable end to human life or perhaps to consider that life is fleeting and transitory.How do the ordinary objects,such as the butterfly,candle,rose,teacup,fruit,pocket watch,and so on,serve to reinforce her message?
Q6) Explain how Mark Rothko's depression affected his color field canvases.
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Chapter 22: Art Now: A Global Perspective
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Q1) Briefly describe the political,economic,and cultural subjugation depicted in Miguel Luciano's Plantano Pride.
Q2) What does the contemporary art of artists of or from the Middle East often reflect?
Q3) Explain how Takashi Murakami works often aim to reconcile "high art" and "low culture." Also,make a case as to whether or not he should be considered a Pop artist.
Q4) Jean Desert's The Burqa Project represents the _________of Western countries.
A) trees
B) birds
C) hats
D) banners
E) flags
Q5) In Cuban artist Alexandre Arrechea's Elementos Arquitectronicos,his primary theme seems to relate to __________.
A) the reemergence of Cuba
B) a sense of quiet desperation
C) the identity of the laborer
D) the relationship between immigrants and outsiders
E) the capital city of Havana
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