Fine Arts Survey
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Course Introduction
The Fine Arts Survey course offers students an overview of the major visual and performing arts, including painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theater, and dance. Through a combination of lectures, discussions, and hands-on activities, students explore the historical development, cultural significance, and creative techniques of different art forms. Emphasis is placed on developing an appreciation for artistic expression and understanding the vocabulary and concepts relevant to analyzing works of art. This course lays the foundation for further study in the arts while fostering aesthetic awareness and critical thinking skills.
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Creative Impulse An Introduction to the Arts 8th Edition by Dennis J. Sporre
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Chapter 1: Introduction Understanding the Arts
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Q1) __________ consists of paintings,drawings,prints,and photographs.
A) Media
B) Symbol
C) Two-dimensional art
D) Three-dimensional art
E) Form
Answer: C
Q2) A __________ is a form,image,or subject standing for something else.
A) crisis
B) myth
C) perspective
D) symbol
E) story
Answer: D
Q3) "Closet dramas" refer to dramas written for __________ rather than performance.
Answer: reading
Q4) Musical __________ are shorter melodic or rhythmic ideas.
Answer: motifs
Q5) __________ is an example of a performing art.
Answer: Theatre
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Chapter 2: The Ancient World
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Q1) Paleolithic hunters were as fully human as we are.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) It has been suggested that the layout of the Giza pyramid complex was meant to mirror __________ belt.
Answer: Orion's
Q3) __________ art refers to the art made for the rituals of death.
A) Memorial
B) Burial
C) Funerary
D) Tomb
E) Grave
Answer: C
Q4) Sumerian artists depicted actual individuals,usually __________.
Answer: kings
Q5) Egyptian musicians played the lyre.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: The Aegean and Archaic Greece
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Q1) Minoan civilization was centered on __________.
A) militarism
B) politics
C) trade
D) hunting
E) agriculture
Answer: C
Q2) A band of relief elements below the cornice of a Greek temple is called the
A) entablature
B) stylobate
C) frieze
D) capital
E) architrave
Answer: C
Q3) Much of Greek culture can be seen as __________: original ideas on which later ideas are based.
Answer: prototypes
Q4) The heroes of Homer's poems are __________,not individual,real people.
Answer: types
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Chapter 4: Greek Classicism and Hellenism
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Q1) Compare and contrast a Classical Greek sculpture and a Hellenistic Greek sculpture.Use visual evidence to hypothesize changes in Greek society,political life,and culture.
Q2) Plato's Theory of __________ held that material reality was only a copy of a perfect,universal reality that can only be grasped by reason.
A) Gods
B) Reason
C) Forms
D) Senses
E) Art
Q3) An artwork's color scheme is referred to as its __________.
A) harmony
B) tone
C) design
D) composition
E) palette
Q4) After the sack of Athens by the Persians,the Acropolis was rebuilt by __________.
Q5) "Man is the measure of all things," according to __________.
Q6) What is unique about the frieze on the Temple of Athena Nice?
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Chapter 5: The Roman Period
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Q1) The __________ is the principle enclosed room of a Roman temple.
A) nave
B) cella
C) apse
D) agora
E) sarcophagus
Q2) Roman religion stressed community __________,not individual religious experience.
A) ritual
B) wealth
C) equality
D) peace
E) none of these
Q3) The two most important officers who ruled the Roman Republic's state were called
A) patres
B) plebs
C) Caesars
D) consuls
E) priests
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Chapter 6: Judaism and Early Christianity
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Q1) In __________ music,singing alternates between two choruses.
Q2) Judaism has no official hierarchy or clergy.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Through wandering in the __________ for forty years,the Israelites became a disciplined and strong nation.
A) Egyptian empire
B) Midian land
C) wilderness
D) Red Sea
E) Dura-Europos
Q4) Jesus' close associations with women were typical for a Jewish teacher of his day.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Judaism does not do missionary work.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The Roman __________ arch became a symbol of Christ's triumph over death.
Q7) The first Christian theologian was the Apostle __________.
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Chapter 7: Byzantium and Islam
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Q1) Depictions of humans and animals are actually common in the courts of the caliphs.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The two sacred cities of Islam are Mecca and __________.
Q3) The __________ was the first major example of Islamic architecture.
A) Pammakaristos
B) Dome of the Rock
C) Temple of Muhammad
D) Great Mosque
E) none of the above
Q4) __________ is the adherence to the accepted,traditional,and established religious faith.
A) Christianity
B) Hieratic
C) Monasticism
D) Humanism
E) Orthodoxy
Q5) What were the two highest forms of study in Byzantine intellectual life?
Q6) Which Byzantine medium was more important for wall art than painting?
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Chapter 8: The Early Middle Ages
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Q1) The daily schedule of the monastery is called the __________.
A) Book of Hours
B) horarium
C) itinerary
D) litany
E) Golden Mean
Q2) Pope __________ converted England to Christianity in 597.
A) Gregory II
B) Pius I
C) Gregory I
D) Benedict III
E) Charles I
Q3) The sects of Sufis who achieve ecstatic states through whirling dances include dervishes and __________.
A) fakirs
B) caliphates
C) Sunni
D) Shiite
E) horarium
Q4) Painting became a largely __________ art after the fall of Rome.
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Chapter 9: The High Middle Ages
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Q1) A revival of __________ was the primary cause of a rebirth of cities in the eleventh,twelfth,and thirteenth centuries.
A) churches
B) public art
C) trade
D) feudalism
E) manors
Q2) __________ is another term for the windows in the Gothic cathedrals.
Q3) Ars Nova was facilitated by a new system of musical __________ that allowed nearly any rhythmic pattern to be written down.
Q4) The medieval Church recognized seven deadly __________.
A) saints
B) kings
C) sins
D) days
E) books
Q5) The area around Paris,called the __________,was the birthplace of Gothic architecture.
Q6) The literary form called the __________ stems from the codes of chivalry.
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Chapter 10: The Early Renaissance
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Q1) What were the social,political,and economic factors that created a sense of "individualism" in the Early Renaissance? Give at least two examples of how this individualism was expressed in the arts.
Q2) Part of the development of Renaissance architecture involved the measurement of __________ ruins and the conversion of the measurements into ideal proportions.
Q3) Italy gained nearly a half-century of peace when the Peace of __________ was established.
A) Padua
B) Savoy
C) Lodi
D) Urbino
E) Ferrara
Q4) The 1486 exploration of Bartolomeu __________ connected the coast of Africa with the Mediterranean.
Q5) What Renaissance system of thought influences Donatello's depiction of St.George as a "hero of everyday proportions"?
Q6) __________ has been called the "Father of Humanism."
Q7) With 50,000 citizens __________ was the largest city in Europe during the 1400s.
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Chapter 11: The High Renaissance and Mannerism
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Q1) The poetic form of the __________ became particularly important during the High Renaissance,as evidenced in the work of Michelangelo.
A) canto
B) epic
C) lyric
D) sonnet
E) couplet
Q2) __________ is a movement in art characterized by an affected appearance of subjects.
A) Baroque
B) High Renaissance
C) Northern Renaissance
D) Neoclassicism
E) Mannerism
Q3) Pick an example of High Renaissance art.How does it differ from early Renaissance art? How is it similar?
Q4) Consider the works of literature discussed in this chapter.Are there any common themes or ideas across the works discussed?
Q5) __________ was the source of plans for new theatre buildings in Italy.
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Chapter 12: Renaissance and Reformation in Northern Europe
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Q1) Humanists believed that humans are fundamentally sinful,but could be reformed.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Comedies are the exemplary Elizabethan theatre genre.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Aerial perspective is another term for __________ perspective.
A) vanishing
B) rational
C) atmospheric
D) classical
E) Renaissance
Q4) The ballett was a type of Renaissance __________ music.
A) program
B) folk
C) secular
D) church
E) court
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Q5) Clément Janequin is associated with the newly developed __________ chanson.
Q6) The interludes of dancing in "dinner ballets" are called __________.
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Chapter 13: The Baroque Age
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Q1) English __________ poetry turned from love to an inward questioning.
A) monastic
B) Elizabethan
C) epic
D) metaphysical
E) sonnet
Q2) __________ comedy focused on the adventures of "people of quality" and poked fun at the morality of the bourgeoisie.
Q3) The work of __________ is baroque in style.
A) Alberti
B) Michelangelo
C) Palladio
D) Fragonard
E) Bernini
Q4) Who was the first Englishwoman to earn a living by writing?
Q5) Rather than using atmospheric perspective,in Landscape with the Burial of Phocion,Poussin depicts objects farthest away as clearly as those in the __________.
Q6) The work of __________ proposed three new laws of planetary motion.
Q7) What institution helped cement the rules of baroque-era dance?
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Chapter 14: The Enlightenment
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Q1) The work of __________ is an example of Pre-Romantic style.
A) Locke
B) Burke
C) Goethe
D) Kant
E) Fragonard
Q2) What was the name for the unrestricted economy favored by the "physiocrats"?
Q3) The first recorded American theatre was built in __________.
A) Boston
B) New York
C) Washington
D) Richmond
E) Williamsburg
Q4) Pamphlets and essays were particularly important ways to express democratic ideas.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Kant defined the __________ as anything that gives us "disinterested pleasure."
Q6) Faith in reason and __________ informed much eighteenth century thought.
Q7) The music of François Couperin is classified as __________.
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Chapter 15: The Romantic Age
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Q1) In general,Romanticism emphasizes __________.
A) academic training
B) classical models
C) aristocratic self-cultivation
D) individual emotion
E) truth to life
Q2) Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot is often described as a "Romantic __________."
Q3) __________ refers to "light entertainments" inserted into a ballet.
A) Comique
B) Anachronism
C) Giselle
D) Divertissements
E) Fouettés
Q4) What is the name of Percy Bysshe Shelley's famous poem about a "Destroyer and Preserver"?
Q5) Brahms replaced Latin liturgy with texts from the __________ in his A German Requiem.
Q6) The cycle of love poems called "Black Venus" was written by Edgar Allan Poe.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Realism, Impressionism, and Beyond
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Q1) Mr.Zero is a character in Elmer Rice's play entitled __________.
A) The Bank
B) Man and the Masses
C) The Ghost Sonata
D) The Adding Machine
E) The Hairy Ape
Q2) Remembrance of Things Past is the magnum opus of __________.
A) Gustave Flaubert
B) James Joyce
C) Marcel Proust
D) Edith Wharton
E) Gertrude Stein
Q3) Skyscrapers could not be built until __________ could be designed.
A) parking garages
B) mass transportation
C) security systems
D) elevators
E) fire alarms
Q4) Irregular rhythm and __________ define Claude Debussy's work.
Q5) From where did Anton Chekhov obtain his subject matter and themes?
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Chapter 17: Modernism
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Q1) The architect best known for his Falling Water (Kaufmann House)is __________.
A) Walter Gropius
B) Cass Gilbert
C) Adolph Meyer
D) Frank Lloyd Wright
E) Louis Sullivan
Q2) Migrant Mother,Nipomo,California is the work of the American photographer
Q3) __________ is an important example of social commentary in film.
A) Citizen Kane
B) Battleship Potemkin
C) Stagecoach
D) Little Caesar
E) City Lights
Q4) The early work of William Butler __________ was influenced by Irish myth.
Q5) Crime and gangster films became popular in Hollywood during the __________.
Q6) The eclectic __________ school of modern dance was inspired by American Indian dance,among other influences.
Q7) Fritz Lang's most important film,called __________,depicts life in the twenty-first century.
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Chapter 18: From Modernism to Postmodernism and Beyond
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Q1) Postmodern architecture focuses on meaning and symbolism,and embraces
A) function
B) history
C) unity
D) traditionalism
E) universalism
Q2) What was Helen Frankenthaler's signature painting process called?
Q3) Modernism ended in 1945 with the closing of World War II.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is the name of Keith O'Derek's independent documentary on West Coast rap music?
Q5) Postmodernist writers tend to view language as __________.
A) a means of revealing absolute truth
B) a tool for dealing with philosophical origins
C) a way of ending class exploitation
D) a persuasive power that is open to contest
E) a straightforward way to tell a story
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