Fine Arts Survey Exam Bank
Course Introduction
The Fine Arts Survey course provides students with a broad introduction to the visual and performing arts, fostering an understanding and appreciation of artistic expression across various cultures and historical periods. Through the exploration of art, music, theater, and dance, students examine major artistic movements, influential works, and the contributions of notable artists. The course emphasizes critical analysis, creative thinking, and cultural context, equipping students with the tools to interpret and engage with the arts in meaningful ways both inside and outside the classroom.
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Art A Brief History 6th Edition by Marilyn Stokstad
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Chapter 1: Prehistoric Art in Europe
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Q1) How might the name of an object,such as the Woman from Willendorf,alter the way we understand it?
Answer: Essay responses should include these points:
The sculpture was originally labeled Venus of Willendorf.
The name suggests it is religious in nature, which it may not be.
Venus did not exist at the time the sculpture was created.
The name suggests beauty and reverence, but it may not have originally been thought of as beautiful.
Q2) One fundamental change that marked the beginning of the Neolithic period was A)year-round settlements.
B)use of bow and arrow.
C)weaving.
D)use of stone tools.
Answer: A
Q3) The top rock on a dolmen is called the A)bridge. B)henge. C)capstone.
D)cairn.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Art of the Ancient Near East
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Q1) What is the name for an early form of writing using wedge-shaped marks?
A)hieroglyphic
B)cuneiform
C)pictograph
D)hieratic
Answer: B
Q2) Which adjective would best describe Sumerian votive figures?
A)cylindrical
B)spherical
C)rectangular
D)triangular
Answer: A
Q3) Describe the function and appearance of Sumerian votive figures.
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The images are dedicated to the gods.
They are seen in cylindrical form, as stocky men are bare-chested and wear sheepskin kilts.
The bold, glaring, inlaid eyes may be related to statements that advise worshipers to approach their deities with an attentive gaze.
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Chapter 3: Art of Ancient Egypt
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Q1) The Egyptian convention of depicting shoulders and torso in a frontal manner and hips,legs,and feet in profile was used
A)when depicting slaves.
B)when depicting priests.
C)when depicting royalty.
D)when depicting commoners.
Answer: C
Q2) How did the Egyptians' beliefs about the afterlife influence their art and architecture?
Answer: Essay responses should include these points:
Egyptians built massive and monumental structures to house the bodies of the dead.
Mummies were created to house the ka, or spirit, which lived on after the death of the body and forever engaged in activities it had enjoyed during its earthly existence.
Elaborate paintings and reliefs often decorated the interiors of tombs of royalty and wealthy individuals.
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Chapter 4: Early Asian Art
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Q1) Explain the symbolism of the Eternal Shiva from the Cave-Temple at Elephanta.
Q2) The art of beautiful writing is known as A)painting.
B)drawing.
C)inscription.
D)calligraphy.
Q3) Describe the architectural elements and symbolism of the Great Stupa at Sanchi.
Q4) How is the colossal Seated Buddha from Sanxi,China,different from its earlier Indian counterparts?
Q5) From where does the world's oldest surviving fired pottery come?
A)Japan
B)Korea
C)China
D)India
Q6) What are the religiously sanctioned hereditary social classes in India called?
A)samsara
B)mudras
C)castes
D)vedas
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Q7) Discuss how the purpose and design of Horiyu-Ji reveals the influence of China.
Chapter 5: Art of Ancient Greece and the Aegean World
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Q1) What subtle adjustments or refinements were made in the Parthenon that gave it a more organic appearance? Speculate about the possible reasons for these refinements.
Q2) How does the altar from Pergamon highlight the characteristics of Hellenistic art?
Q3) Which of the following is a style of ancient Greek pottery in which the objects are black and the background is red?
A)red-figure
B)geometric
C)black-figure
D)niello
Q4) Which event marked the beginning of the Classical period in Greece?
A)the end of the Persian Wars
B)the death of Alexander the Great
C)the Greek conquest of Egypt
D)the Roman conquest of Greece
Q5) Discuss the element of color and its relationship to Greek sculpture.Why is the consideration of color important?
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Chapter 6: Etruscan and Roman Art
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Q1) In 313 CE,Constantine
A)moved the capital to Byzantium.
B)destroyed Jerusalem.
C)legalized Christianity and all religion.
D)was assassinated.
Q2) In 509 BCE,the Romans
A)became an empire with an emperor.
B)conquered Greece and adopted Greek customs.
C)overthrew the Etruscans and set up a republic.
D)began a reign by Etruscan dictators.
Q3) What purpose does the apse serve in a basilica?
A)rounded extensions at each end used for judges or statuary
B)the central aisle for civic procedures
C)the front entrance
D)an upper level of windows,providing natural light
Q4) What is the act of a human being elevated to divine status?
A)augury
B)crenellation
C)apotheosis
D)dharma
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Chapter 7: Jewish, early Christian, and Byzantine Art
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Q1) Where was the synagogue at Dura-Europos located?
A)private home
B)catacomb
C)palace
D)marketplace
Q2) A high-ranking angel closely associated with God is A)a madrasa.
B)a transept.
C)an icon.
D)a cherub.
Q3) St.Peter's in Rome was given its location because it was believed to be where Peter was
A)killed.
B)buried.
C)ordained as pope.
D)born.
Q4) Compare and contrast the early Christian church Old St.Peter's Basilica and the early Byzantine church Hagia Sophia.
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Chapter 8: Islamic Art
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Q1) Which is an Islamic architectural decoration that appears as niche-like cells in the transition area of wall to dome,with many other decorative uses as well?
A)iwan
B)madrasa
C)mihrab
D)muqarnas
Q2) The Alhambra palace complex was the seat of the A)Persians.
B)Nasrids.
C)Ottomans.
D)Mongols.
Q3) Which design element was used to create a narrative on the Baptistery of St.Louis?
A)registers
B)faience
C)symmetry
D)perspective
Q4) Who are Muhammad,Abu Bakr,and Ali,and what was their role in the Islamic faith?
Q5) Relate the Islamic idea of paradise to the Alhambra's Court of the Lions.
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Chapter 9: Later Asian Art
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Q1) Which subject was of special interest to Neo-Confucian artists?
A)portraits
B)still lifes
C)histories
D)landscapes
Q2) Describe the Japanese aesthetic sensibility that has created such admiration for simple objects such as a teabowl.What characteristics should a proper teabowl have?
Q3) The samurai ruled Japan during which of the following periods?
A)Heian
B)Kamakura
C)Momoyama
D)Edo
Q4) Discuss the iconography of Shiva Nataraja.
Q5) In Neo-Confucian thought,li is the force in the universe representing
A)object or matter.
B)principle or idea.
C)middle path.
D)great Ultimate.
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Chapter 10: Early Medieval and Romanesque Art
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Q1) Discuss the style and iconographic meaning of the page with Christ Washing the Feet of His Disciples.
Q2) Which is the central supporting post in a Romanesque church portal?
A)archivolt
B)trumeau
C)jamb
D)tympanum
Q3) In the eleventh century,pilgrims traveled to what they considered to be the three holiest places in Christendom: Christ's tomb in Jerusalem,St.Peter's tomb in Rome,and the shrine of St.James in
A)Alexandria,Egypt.
B)Bethlehem,Palestine.
C)Santiago de Compostela,Spain.
D)Patmos,Greece.
Q4) Which is a wood-frame church that has four huge timbers that form the structural core of the building?
A)stave church
B)basilica
C)hall church
D)cottage church
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Chapter 11: Gothic Art
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Q1) To whom did Giorgio Vasari give the credit for "[having] revived the modern and excellent art of painting,introducing good drawing from live natural models,something that had not been done for more than two hundred years"?
A)Giotto di Bondone
B)Cimabue
C)Duccio di Buoninsegna
D)Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Q2) Which of the following is the name for a new type of church that developed in the thirteenth century in Germanic lands?
A)a central-plan church
B)a basilican church
C)a hall church
D)a pilgrimage church
Q3) Which is the real subject of the ivory box showing the attack on the Castle of Love?
A)military tactics
B)romantic love
C)physical prowess
D)athletic competition
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Chapter 12: Early Renaissance Art
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Q1) What is the term for art that has been created using a gouge to make high-relief areas for the image?
A)intaglio
B)lithograph
C)engraving
D)woodcut
Q2) Describe how Martin Schongauer created an emotionally charged engraving.Give examples of technique and compare this technique with that of a woodcut.
Q3) Which is the first free-standing bronze equestrian statue since antiquity?
A)Riemenschneider's Entry of Christ into Jerusalem
B)Gislebertus's Flight into Egypt
C)Donatello's Gattamelata
D)Verocchio's Bartolomeo Colleoni
Q4) Explain the composition of Lorenzo Ghiberti's Jacob and Esau panel from the "Gates of Paradise." Describe the narrative as it is told through relief.
Q5) Discuss the iconographic meaning of The Unicorn Is Found and its meaning in contemporary fifteenth-century society.
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Chapter 13: Art of the High Renaissance and Reformation
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Q1) Which artist depicted Jesus with a broad-brimmed hat and a shovel?
A)Veronese
B)Tintoretto
C)Grünewald
D)Fontana
Q2) Which of the following influenced sixteenth-century thinking so that paintings of female nudes became socially acceptable?
A)the decline of Christianity
B)the interest in Classical mythology
C)the dress styles of the day
D)a relaxing of moral standards
Q3) How does Michelangelo organize and give structure to the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
A)with an illusionistic architectural structure,filled with narrative scenes
B)with one unifying scene
C)with a pyramidal composition
D)with a circular composition
Q4) Describe the setting of Giorgione's The Tempest,and explain why it was an important painting from the Venetian Renaissance.
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Chapter 14: Seventeenth-Century Art in Europe
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Q1) Whose life story did Rubens paint?
A)Phillip IV,King of Spain
B)Pope Innocent X
C)Marie de' Medici,Queen of France
D)Charles I,King of England
Q2) What renewed the patronage of foreign artists in England after the Puritan takeover led by Oliver Cromwell?
A)the restoration of the Hapsburgs
B)the death of Charles I
C)the restoration of the Stuarts under Charles II
D)the exile of Marie de' Medici
Q3) Which of the following processes typically makes the fewest prints?
A)etching
B)drypoint
C)engraving
D)mezzotint
Q4) How does Hyacinthe Rigaud represent the figure of the king? How is this typically Baroque?
Q5) Discuss the composition and arrangement of space in Diego Velázquez's Las Meninas.What is the role of the viewer?
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Chapter 15: Art of the Americas
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Q1) Discuss the mound-building traditions of the Adena,Hopewell,and other early eastern cultures of North America.Describe the purpose,significance,and formal characteristics.
Q2) What trade item made Teotihuacan wealthy?
A)quetzal feathers
B)obsidian
C)ceramic vessels
D)jaguar pelts
Q3) Which technique did the Moche use to mass-produce some ceramic forms?
A)lost-wax casting
B)geoglyphs
C)molds
D)assembly line
Q4) Which culture quarried huge basalt blocks for large sculptures?
A)Aztec
B)Olmec
C)Maya
D)Inca
Q5) How was the Chilkat Blanket used? Discuss the formal qualities and style.
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Chapter 16: African Art
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Q1) The Nok sculpture,Head,is made of A)sand.
B)basalt.
C)terracotta.
D)iron.
Q2) In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,when rival warfare caused the decline of the city of Old Jenné,which of the following traditions came to an end?
A)weaving
B)stone architecture
C)bronze casting
D)ceramic sculpture
Q3) Discuss the iconography and technique of the Olowe of Ise palace door.How did it express power?
Q4) What are the parallel lines on the Ife portrait heads?
A)tattoos
B)ceremonial paint
C)a beaded veil
D)scarification patterns
Q5) Explain the myth of "primitive" art and how it applies to African art.
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Chapter 17: European and American Art, 1715-1840
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Q1) Which describes the English Romantic landscape painting style that was thought to be "sublime"?
A)tranquil
B)reverent
C)beautiful
D)dramatic
Q2) Interestingly,who hung a copy of Fuseli's The Nightmare in his office?
A)Napoleon Bonaparte
B)Sigmund Freud
C)Thomas Jefferson
D)Winston Churchill
Q3) What made the Raft of the "Medusa" so controversial? Consider both style and subject matter.
Q4) What was the function of the Salon in a French residence?
A)It was a room for conversation and entertainment.
B)It was an entry room for returning hunters.
C)It was a private room for conducting business.
D)It was a studio for working artists.
Q5) Describe the composition and style of Jean-Honoré Fragonard's The Swing.
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Chapter 18: European and American Art, 1840-1910
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Q1) In Toulouse-Lautrec's Jane Avril,which of the following is a particularly strong influence?
A)pointillism
B)synthetism
C)japonisme
D)passage technique
Q2) From where did the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood borrow their ideas about symbolism?
A)Early Renaissance art
B)Mannerist art
C)Baroque art
D)Rococo art
Q3) Which of the following differentiates Georges Seurat from Impressionism?
A)the subjects he chooses
B)the bright colors
C)the formal geometry of the composition
D)the lack of glazing and blending
Q4) Compare and contrast the architectural style of the Opéra and the Wainwright Building.
Q5) What was japonisme and how did it influence Western art? Give an example.
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1900-1945
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Q1) Multiple perspectivei.e. ,showing an object from more than one point of view,is an important pictorial device in which movement?s,
A)Fauvism
B)Cubism
C)expressionism
D)Suprematism
Q2) Which kind of art must communicate exclusively through formal means,such as line,shape,color,and texture?
A)realist
B)nonrepresentational
C)abstract
D)intuitive
Q3) Describe the characteristics of the Les Fauves movement,using Le Bonheur de Vivre (The Joy of Life)by Henri Matisse as an example.
Q4) Who modeled for Grant Wood's famous painting of an Iowa farmer and his daughter?
A)an Iowa farmer and his daughter
B)Wood's dentist and sister
C)Academy models while Wood was studying in Paris
D)a New York City man and his daughter
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Chapter 20: Art Since 1945
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Q1) Which of the following describes Roy Lichtenstein's work?
A)It satirizes American materialism.
B)It uses imagery found in cartoons and advertisements.
C)It celebrates middle-class social,and material values.
D)It uses precisely structured patterns of lines and colors.
Q2) Which artist is best known for the photographs of herself in various assumed roles?
A)Judy Chicago
B)Betye Saar
C)Faith Ringgold
D)Cindy Sherman
Q3) Discuss the controversies over public funding of the arts.Use Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary as an example.
Q4) What does the writing suggest in Wenda Gu's United Nations-Babel of the Millennium?
A)the importance of all life on earth
B)electronic communication
C)uniting of cultures
D)limitations of human knowledge
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Chapter 21: Introduction
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Q1) What is art history? What are some of the natural and human threats to artworks that concern contemporary art historians? Give an example.
Q2) How many times does Zhu Da sign his work Quince (Mugua)?
A)1
B)2
C)3
D)4
Q3) What do coins generally symbolize in a still life?
A)involvement in trade
B)wealth of the owner
C)wealth of the artist
D)involvement in politics
Q4) What does the erection of Le Corbusier's Notre-Dame-du-Haut symbolize?
A)the end of a war and hope for the future
B)the power of nature
C)the prevailing religion
D)the kingdom of heaven
Q5) Describe how the role of the artist has changed from ancient times to the present.
Q6) Describe the iconography of Still Life with Fruit and Flowers by Clara Peeters.
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