Creative Arts
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Course Introduction
Creative Arts is an interdisciplinary course that explores various forms of artistic expression, including visual arts, music, drama, and dance. The course encourages students to develop their creativity and critical thinking through hands-on projects, collaborative activities, and the study of influential artists and cultural movements. By engaging in both individual and group work, students learn to communicate ideas, interpret artistic works, and gain an appreciation for the creative process. This course aims to foster a lifelong interest in the arts and to enhance students' ability to express themselves confidently and imaginatively.
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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) 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
Q2) A flat work of art has two dimensions: ________ and width.
A) height
B) depth
C) breadth
D) size
E) mass
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Form, Volume, Mass, and Texture
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Q1) The highly polished surface of Anish Kapoor's sculpture Cloud Gate means that the viewer and the city of ________ become a part of the work,in its reflection.
A) New York
B) Los Angeles
C) Chicago
D) London
E) Paris
Answer: C
Q2) Our experience of objects in the natural world often leads us to assume that a large object will be heavy,but in fact this is not necessarily the case.This element of art is called ________.
A) space
B) volume
C) texture
D) form
E) mass
Answer: E
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Chapter 3: Implied Depth: Value and Space
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Q1) Artists can create a sense of ________ by using light and dark values.
A) tension
B) humor
C) fear
D) depth
E) height
Answer: D
Q2) An artist can use color to indicate depth.When a color is very pure and intense then it seems to be ________.
A) darker
B) further
C) closer
D) lighter
E) flatter
Answer: C
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) When complementary colors are used next to each other in a composition,they produce a visual anomaly called simultaneous contrast.This visual effect makes the colors appear to ________ along the boundary where the two colors meet.
A) vibrate
B) neutralize
C) disappear
D) darken
E) lighten
Q2) When a color is associated with hot or cold we refer to this as color ________.
A) personality
B) value
C) tint
D) temperature
E) harmony
Q3) Because additive color mixtures are made using light,they rely heavily on pigment.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Time and Motion
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Q1) Motion is not the only indicator of the passage of time in art.________ use the changing properties of organic material to create a sense of time passing in their art.
A) Impressionists
B) Fauvists
C) Bioartists
D) Surrealists
E) Pointillists
Q2) In his film Run Lola Run,Tom Tykwer extends the ________ of the storyline beyond the everyday passage of time by "rebooting" Lola's journey multiple times.
A) scope
B) color
C) angle
D) background
E) tempo
Q3) The sculptural work Sublimate (Cloud Cover)by Ron Lambert measures time based on the process of evaporation and condensation.Can you name three other natural processes that give us a sense of time?
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Chapter 6: Unity Variety and Balance
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Q1) ________ balance is achieved when all elements in a work of art are equidistant from a central point and repeat in a symmetrical way from side to side and top to bottom.
A) unified
B) symmetrical
C) asymmetrical
D) radial
E) varied
Q2) The German word that refers to something in which the whole seems greater than the sum of its parts is ________.
A) alter
B) klein
C) bruder
D) gestalt
E) gegen
Q3) Why might the Buddhist monks who make sand mandalas employ radial balance and symmetry in their work? Do you think that using these principles creates a gestalt unity between the visual look of a mandala and the ideas that it expresses?
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Chapter 7: Scale and Proportion
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Q1) The ancient Greeks designed the Parthenon according to the idealized rules of proportion for the human body,creating ________ design.
A) an Egyptian-style
B) a disjointed
C) a harmonious
D) a Fibonacci
E) a small-scale
Q2) In his work The School of Athens,this Renaissance artist created figures using the ideal human proportions developed by the ancient Greeks.
A) Raphael
B) Claes Oldenburg
C) Dorothea Tanning
D) Michelangelo
E) Leonardo da Vinci
Q3) An artist would probably use distorted scale if he or she wanted to create a lifelike scene that the viewer could relate to.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Emphasis and Focal Point
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Q1) If an artist painted a garden with one red flower in a field of yellow flowers,this would be an example of using color to create contrast.For the viewer,the single red flower would be ________.
A) a focal point in the artwork
B) easily ignored
C) the least important part of the artwork
D) completely unrealistic
E) none of the other answers
Q2) In the painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus,by Pieter Bruegel,the artist intended to divert our attention so that we barely notice Icarus plunging to his doom; a fine example of ________.
A) subordination
B) emphasis
C) focal point
D) tone
E) composition
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) On the island of Belau in the western Pacific,a traditional men's long house is called a
A) bai
B) poi
C) facade
D) tiki
E) mo-mo
Q2) The area covered by a pattern is called the ________.
A) motif
B) field
C) size
D) foreground
E) background
Q3) A design repeated as a unit in a pattern is called a ________.
A) motif
B) focal point
C) color
D) value
E) huqqa
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Chapter 10: Content and Analysis
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Q1) Which of these terms relates to Hans Holbein the Younger's painting The Ambassadors?
A) memento mori
B) iconography
C) anamorphosis
D) memento mori and anamorphosis
E) all of the other answers
Q2) The presence of Velázquez's self-portrait in Las Meninas indicates that the painter
________.
A) was vain
B) was handsome
C) wanted artists to be of high status
D) really painted the work
E) disliked the King
Q3) Edvard Munch's The Scream depicts a suicide witnessed by the artist.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Formal analysis can be done on paintings,but not on sculptures.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Drawing
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Q1) Which two types of charcoal are used most commonly as drawing materials?
A) vine
B) compressed
C) bone
D) lamp
E) chunk
F) dry
Q2) In which country was paper invented by Cai Lun,who made it out of macerated plant fibers suspended in water?
A) India
B) China
C) Korea
D) Japan
E) Turkey
Q3) If an artist wanted to draw a dynamic scene of a storm at night,charcoal would be a good medium to use.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Painting
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Q1) ________ can create many different effects,depending on how it is applied.Chinese-born artist Hung Liu utilized these qualities to separate reality and the ideal in her work Interregnum.
A) oil paint
B) tempera
C) fresco
D) encaustic
E) all of the other answers
Q2) Californian artist Joan Brown used this painting technique,created by applying thick layers of paint to a surface.
A) sgraffito
B) glazing
C) impasto
D) scumbling
E) broken stroke
Q3) If an artist wanted to create an artwork that he or she could easily alter,and in which he or she could quickly fix any mistakes,buon fresco would be a good method to use.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Printmaking
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Q1) Andy Warhol,Four Marilyns
A)mezzotint
B)silkscreen
C)woodcut
D)engraving
E)aquatint
Q2) This intaglio process employs acid to mar the surface of a metal plate.
A) engraving
B) etching
C) drypoint
D) linocut
E) mezzotint
Q3) This printmaking tool is a sharp instrument used to mark the surface of a plate.
A) register
B) palette knife
C) levigator
D) screen
E) burin
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Chapter 14: Sculpture
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Q1) Riace Warrior A
A)construction
B)casting
C)earthworks
D)carving
E)kinetic
Q2) This African-American artist created the work The Liberation of Aunt Jemima (2.4.18)from an assemblage of found objects.
A) Betye Saar
B) Kara Walker
C) Edmonia Lewis
D) Faith Ringgold
E) Elizabeth Catlett
Q3) What is one of the main reasons that the creation of the Olmec colossal heads is so impressive?
A) they are lifelike individual portraits
B) they were created without metal tools
C) they can be seen from space
D) they were done by children
E) all of the other answers
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Chapter 15: Architecture
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Q1) In the nineteenth century,this material became both less costly and more widely available for construction.
A) glass
B) iron
C) concrete
D) steel
E) all of the other answers
Q2) Wooden architecture can never last longer than a thousand years.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The unique foundation structure of the Taj Mahal may be compromised because of lower water levels in the Yamuna River in recent years.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Cast iron was only invented in the eighteenth century
A)True
B)False
Q5) What style of building would you propose for the government center of your city,town,or region? 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) The process of glassblowing was perfected in this ancient culture.
A) India
B) Greece
C) China
D) Mesoamerica
E) Rome
Q3) The glassy finished surface applied to a ceramic object is called ________.
A) glaze
B) frit
C) grog
D) kaolin
E) slurry
Q4) The only reason artists glaze their pottery is practical: to add a layer of protection.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Visual Communication Design
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Q1) When you think about famous logos,which three are the first to spring to mind? Do these three logos all share similar characteristics? Are they an image,a text,or a mixture of both? What is it about these particular logos that make them stand out to you?
Q2) These simple,symbolic graphics are often used for products that people of many different cultures use,so that there is no need for language translation:
A) icons
B) citations
C) hieroglyphics
D) trademarks
E) patents
Q3) In 1525,this German master printmaker wrote a manual establishing the first set of rules for the construction of letterforms.
A) Nolde
B) Dürer
C) Rembrandt
D) Beckmann
E) Gutenberg
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Chapter 18: Photography
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Q1) Dorothea Lange
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
Q2) What does the word "photograph" mean?
A) writing with light
B) signing a picture
C) imitating a drawing
D) reversing a tone
E) seeing through a lens
Q3) The visual effect created by a camera obscura can occur in any room,whether it is light or dark.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 19: Film, Video, and Digital Art
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Q1) Using puppets,dolls,or models to create scenes in a movie is called ________.
A) cel animation
B) imaginary thinking
C) stop-motion animation
D) collage
E) expressionism
Q2) The way that images appear to be moving in films and videos is actually an optical illusion.
A)True
B)False
Q3) David Fincher's House of Cards is known especially for being ________.
A) a 24-hour film screened in real time
B) a mini-series with a full season's episodes released simultaneously
C) an interactive narrative that evolves with viewer input during filming
D) a documentary on the history of Las Vegas casinos
E) none of the other answers
Q4) Digital filmmaking has taken over as the dominant technology in the film industry.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 20: Alternative Media and Processes
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Q1) Over time it becomes clear how an artist's experiments and discoveries impact later artworks.Choose either Jackson Pollock,John Cage,or Marcel Duchamp and discuss their influence on the development of performance and conceptual art.Include specific artworks in your answer.
Q2) What unconventional material does Jean Tinguely use in Homage to New York?
A) firewood
B) mechanized junk
C) railroad ties
D) neon tubing
E) toothpaste
Q3) Composer John Cage hoped that his innovative performances would:
A) cause a fire in the tenement building in which he lived
B) make all people hate art
C) inspire people to pay attention to the life (and art) happening all around them
D) separate music and art
E) none of the other answers
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Chapter 21: The Prehistoric and Ancient Mediterranean
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Q1) The cyclical flooding of the Nile can be compared to the Egyptian belief in rebirth after death.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Lions were important to both Assyrians and Babylonians.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Egyptians cremated the bodies of dead pharaohs.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Bull-Leapers fresco
A)Egyptian
B)Sumerian
C)Babylonian
D)Assyrian
E)Minoan
Q5) As ancient Greek sculpture developed,artists introduced more drama and movement into their figures.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 22: Art of the Middle Ages
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Q1) The frontispiece of the Liber Scivias (3.2.12)shows Hildegard of Bingen ________.
A) burning as she asks forgiveness for her sins
B) receiving a vision from heaven
C) surprised as a river of blood breaks through the ceiling
D) speaking with God face-to-face
E) researching astronomy
Q2) The Dura Europos synagogue contains ________.
A) a shrine for the Torah
B) more than one hundred stories in oil paint
C) a large statue of God
D) ancient Roman baths
E) relief carving of Classical myths
Q3) The earliest examples of Christian art have been discovered in ________.
A) catacombs
B) Dome of the Rock
C) Chartres Cathedral
D) Hagia Sophia
E) Dura Europos
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Chapter 23: Art of India, China, Japan, and Southeast Asia
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Q1) Japanese tearooms are designed ________.
A) for contemplation
B) with elegant and ornate furniture
C) for efficient and speedy service
D) to be in competition with one another
E) none of the other answers
Q2) Describe in detail the role that Mount Fuji plays in Hokusai's "The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa." Consider formal elements,such as the size,shape,and placement of the mountain,as well as meaning and symbolism.
Q3) Taian teahouse
A)Japan
B)India
C) China
D) Cambodia
Q4) A colophon is a kind of:
A) instrument
B) writing
C) colored pigment
D) stone
E) none of the other answers
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Chapter 24: Art of the Americas
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Q1) Teotihuacan had at its heart a large religious complex.Compare the architecture and arrangement of the temples at Teotihuacan with that of the pyramids in Giza,Egypt.What are the similarities and what are the differences between these two complexes on different continents? Think about the number of buildings on each site,their functions,the materials and construction methods,and their religious significance.
Q2) Some of the oldest human-made objects found in the Americas are ________.
A) shark's teeth necklaces
B) Clovis points
C) cactus cocktails
D) monoliths from Stonehenge
E) none of the other answers
Q3) Embroidery can only be used to create basic outlines on textiles.It would not be used,for example,to make intricate details or animal figures.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Chavín art commonly features animals with spiritual connections.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 25: Art of Africa and the Pacific Islands
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Q1) Terra-cotta heads with prominent holes in the pupils,nostrils,mouth,and ears were made by the ________ culture of ________.
A) Nok . . . Nigeria
B) Yoruba . . . Nigeria
C) Fon . . . Benin
D) Akan . . . Ghana
E) Maori . . . New Zealand
Q2) Abstract designs and patterns can convey information that is as important,recognizable,and specific as both representational and narrative imagery.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Cowrie shells in artworks by both African and Pacific Island peoples often represent:
A) shelter
B) rain
C) fertility
D) food
E) none of the other answers
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Q1) Michelangelo is the artist of Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Filippo Brunelleschi has been widely regarded as the first Renaissance ________.
A) painter
B) sculptor
C) printmaker
D) architect
E) musician
Q3) Which of the following artworks is a very graphic depiction of Christ's crucifixion?
A) Isenheim Altarpiece
B) Netherlandish Proverbs
C) Tribute Money
D) St. Bartholomew's Skin
E) all of the other answers
Q4) 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
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Chapter 27: Art of Europe and America, 1700 to 1865:
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Q1) William Hogarth had many of his paintings made into prints.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Where is the Hall of Mirrors?
A) the Louvre
B) Versailles
C) Monticello
D) the Musée d'Orsay
E) Vierzehnheiligen
Q3) What inspired Joseph Mallord William Turner to paint Slave Ship (3.7.18)?
A) a dream
B) a book
C) a movie
D) a poem
E) none of the other answers
Q4) Gustave Courbet's Stonebreakers alarmed upper-class viewers because it reminded them of recent uprisings by the poor.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 28: The Modern Aesthetic: Manet in 1863 to the American
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Q1) The art of the American Scene was divided into several branches,one of which was realistic and the other abstract.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Auguste Rodin was told by a government official that he should put clothes on his overly sexualized figures in The Kiss.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Henri Rousseau carefully studied the details of the anatomy of a lion in a local zoo in order to portray the animal as accurately as he could in his painting The Sleeping Gypsy.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The artist who in 1936 created an assemblage entitled Object is ________.
A) Max Ernst
B) Marcel Duchamp
C) Jackson Pollock
D) Joan Miró
E) Joseph Cornell
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Chapter 29: Late Modern and Contemporary Art: from
Abstract Expressionism in the 1940s to the Present Day
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Q1) Andy Warhol used commercial processes to create many of his works because
A) his professor in art school told him to
B) he wasn't an artist at all
C) he wanted his work to have a depersonalized and mass-produced quality
D) he wanted to be able to hide his work in a grocery store for safe keeping E) all of the other answers
Q2) Many of the Postmodern artworks in this Chapter deal with issues of identity.Choose one example from this Chapter,perhaps an artwork by Xenobia Bailey,Jolene Rickard,or Shirin Neshat.Begin by briefly describing the appearance and content of your chosen work.Next,give a definition of Postmodernism and list some of its characteristics.Discuss the connection between the personal experience of the artist as seen in the artwork and the movement of Postmodernism.In what ways does the movement allow for explorations of this kind?
Q3) What is the medium of Tara Donovan's Untitled (2003)?
A) plastic drinking straws
B) styrofoam cups
C) thumb tacks
D) pillow cases
E) none of the other answers
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Chapter 30: Art and Community
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Q1) Where is Monks Mound located?
A) present-day Iraq
B) Lintong, China
C) near present-day St. Louis
D) beneath what is now Mexico City
E) on the Giza Plateau in Egypt
Q2) The ziggurat at Ur was dedicated to:
A) Muhammad
B) Shamash
C) Anu
D) Nanna
E) Jesus Christ
Q3) The Guggenheim Museum in New York City was designed by:
A) Frank Lloyd Wright
B) Frank Gehry
C) Christo and Jeanne-Claude
D) Louis Sullivan
E) all of the other answers
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Chapter 31: Spirituality and Art
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Q1) What is the woman doing in the painting Woman Holding a Balance?
A) waiting for her soul to be judged
B) holding scales as if she is weighing her jewelry
C) having her luggage examined at the airport
D) showing that a person's material possessions are the true indication of her worth
E) all of the other answers
Q2) Muqarnas are ________.
A) towers to call the faithful to prayer
B) niches in the wall that indicate the direction of Mecca
C) blue tilework with calligraphic script
D) stalactite vaults
E) none of the other answers
Q3) What was the purpose of the Senufo mother-and-child figure?
A) to ward off crows from the field
B) to be a torch to light the village's paths at night
C) to be a guiding spirit for the guardians of religious and historical traditions
D) to be a vessel for burning incense
E) all of the other answers
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Chapter 32: Art and the Cycle of Life
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Q1) Rituals that connect with ancestors and nature spirits are as important as the tasks of daily life for African peoples like the Yombe.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Pablo Picasso's Girl before a Mirror can best be described as ________.
A) a realistic still life painting
B) a colorful sculptural landscape
C) a piece of functional pottery
D) an abstract portrait
E) video art
Q3) Abbey Among Oak Trees emphasizes realism and reason over emotion and imagination.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Pieter Claesz made which of the following types of artworks?
A) realistic still life paintings
B) colorful sculptural landscapes
C) functional pottery
D) abstract portraits
E) video art
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Chapter 33: Art and Science
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Q1) Salvador Dalí's painting Persistence of Memory shows warped clocks,ants,and a distorted face,all of which are symbols of his mother,who died the month before this was painted.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Research the Body Worlds exhibition.Select three figures that were in the exhibition,and discuss whether or not you consider these figures to be art.What has the "artist" done to the bodies to change them from their natural state? Do you think there are ethical issues with using a deceased human body as an artistic medium?
Q3) ". . . nothing more than the soft,extravagant,solitary,paranoiac-critical Camembert cheese of space and time."
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
Q4) Astrolabes were used by Muslims to determine the direction of Mecca.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 34: Art and Illusion
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Q1) Which part of René Magritte's The Human Condition is painted?
A) the entire scene
B) the scene outside of the window
C) the canvas that is on the easel
D) the entire artwork is a photograph
E) everything is painted except the canvas on the easel, which is a photograph
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) Trompe l'oeil means "fools the eye".
A)True
B)False
Q4) Illusion cannot be created using the medium of fresco.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 35: Art of Political Leaders and Rulers
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Q1) The giant portrait that hangs over Tiananmen depicts one of the founders of ancient China.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Compare the portrait of George Washington by Houdon (4.6.2)and Napoleon Crossing the Alps (4.6.3).Write a formal analysis describing the similarities and differences in the way that the elements and principles of art are used to represent the power of these two leaders.
Q3) Analyse Jean-Antoine Houdon's George Washington (4.6.2).Which aspects of this sculpture borrow from earlier traditions and which are uniquely American? Consider the colossal statue of Constantine the Great (4.6.10)as the inspiration for the initial idea for a sculpture of Washington,which he rejected.Why do you think Houdon's sculpture was more pleasing to the president?
Q4) Jean-Antoine Houdon's sculpture of George Washington was made from:
A) white marble
B) green basalt
C) brown bronze
D) black granite
E) wood
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Chapter 36: Art, War, and Revolution
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A) Wafaa Bilal
B) Anselm Kiefer
C) Otto Dix
D) Nick Ut
E) unknown tapestry weavers
Q2) Pablo Picasso would not let Guernica be seen by the public until Adolf Hitler was out of power.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Nick Ut never found out what happened to the Vietnamese girl he photographed running away after a napalm attack in which she had been burned.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Timothy O'Sullivan was a photographer whose images were the result of random snapshots.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 37: Art of Social Conscience
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Q1) The artist of the sculpture Falling Woman is:
A) Diego Velázquez
B) an unknown ancient sculptor
C) Terry George
D) Eric Fischl
E) Jacques-Louis David
Q2) Mary Richardson,the attacker of the Rokeby Venus in 1914,compared the physical beauty of the woman in the painting to the beautiful character of:
A) Rosa Parks
B) Marie Antoinette
C) the director of the National Gallery in London
D) Emmeline Pankhurst
E) Florence Nightingale
Q3) In Women are Heroes,artist JR displays portraits of women on:
A) New York City billboards
B) homes and buildings
C) movie screens
D) museum walls
E) none of the other answers
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Chapter 38: The Body in Art
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Q1) Who is the artist of Branded?
A) Willem Dekooning
B) Yves Klein
C) Janine Antoni
D) Jenny Saville
E) ORLAN
Q2) What does the body of the figure represented in Alberto Giacometti's Man Pointing look like?
A) exactly like the person being represented
B) an abstraction based on the artist's creative choices
C) a non-objective representation that does not look anything like a body
D) a fictional projection of what an alien might look like
E) none of the other answers
Q3) What did the artist of Loving Care do to create the work?
A) she took pictures of thousands of nude people
B) she impersonated a famous work of art
C) she instructed a room full of models to stand still and not speak
D) she dipped her head in a bucket of dye and mopped the floor with her hair
E) she directed other people to paint with their bodies
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Chapter Identity, Race, and Gender in Art
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Q1) Which of the following movements influenced the filmmaker Spike Lee?
A) the Abstract Artists' Alliance
B) the Civil Rights movement
C) the Feminist movement
D) the LGBT movement
E) the Tea Party
Q2) To what does the title of Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get into the Met.Museum? refer?
A) the practices of an exclusive swingers' club
B) a special offer for free tickets to a home baseball game
C) bootleg copies of a French movie shown on the subways
D) the unfair treatment of women by art institutions
E) none of the other answers
Q3) What kind of artworks do the Guerrilla Girls make?
A) Classically inspired sculptures
B) feminist posters and pamphlets
C) instrumental musical performances
D) dynamic multimedia installations
E) documentary photographs and films
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Chapter 40: Gateway Features for Gateways to Art
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Q1) Pablo Picasso made Girl before a Mirror ______.
A) when he was in grade school, before he became an artist
B) at the beginning of his career, when he was studying art
C) at the height of his career, when he was inspired by his mistress
D) later in his career, when he was learning to use photography
E) near the end of his career, when he was revisiting old themes
Q2) Francisco Goya's The Second of May,1808 depicts:
A) the coronation of Napoleon
B) the execution of Spanish rebels
C) Spanish civilians attacking French soldiers
D) a horse race
E) none of the other answers
Q3) In Goya's The Third of May,1808,the artist used a variety of actual and implied lines to attract attention to specific points within the composition.Lines that draw the viewer's attention in this way are known as ________ lines.
A) directional
B) regular
C) contour
D) irregular
E) organic
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Chapter 41: Introduction
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A) wealth
B) power
C) luxury
D) high status
E) all of the other answers
Q2) José de Rivera's sculpture Infinity can be described as non-objective because its subject matter is ________.
A) recognizable
B) difficult
C) three-dimensional
D) unrecognizable
E) abstract
Q3) Allan Houser's work Reverie is:
A) abstract and non-objective
B) abstract and two-dimensional
C) abstract and representational
D) abstract and not representational
E) none of the other answers
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