Fine Arts Survey
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Course Introduction
Fine Arts Survey introduces students to the rich and diverse world of visual and performing arts, encompassing major movements, styles, and influential works throughout history. The course explores painting, sculpture, architecture, music, dance, and theater, highlighting key artists and innovators across cultures and time periods. Students learn to analyze and appreciate artistic techniques, interpret meaning in artworks, and understand the historical and cultural contexts that shape creative expression. By the end of the course, students gain a broad foundational understanding of the fine arts and their impact on society, as well as critical skills for engaging with art in everyday life.
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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) The hero or main character of a dramatic or literary work is called a(n)__________.
Answer: protagonist
Q2) What does it mean for art to function as an "artifact"?
Answer: It represents the ideas and technology of its time and place.
Q3) How does "formal criticism" approach an artwork?
Answer: It focuses only on the internal form and design of the work.
Q4) The dominant idea of a story is called a(n)__________.
Answer: theme
Q5) __________ sculpture emphasizes construction with thin,tubular items such as wire.
A) Subtractive
B) Additive
C) Relief
D) Linear
E) Freestanding
Answer: D
Q6) Handel's Messiah is an example of a(n)__________.
Answer: oratorio
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Chapter 2: The Ancient World
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Q1) Sumerian sculpture came to depict kings in __________ acts,rather than as warlords.
Answer: devotional
Q2) The most important part of Egyptian architecture is __________ buildings.
A) worship
B) civic
C) mortuary
D) commercial
E) public
Answer: C
Q3) The Egyptian __________ contains magic formulas placed in tombs to serve and protect the dead in the afterlife.
A) Book of Spells
B) Book of Hours
C) Book of Papyrus
D) Book of the Dead
E) Book of Osiris
Answer: D
Q4) What was the attitude of the Egyptians toward the human body?
Answer: admiring
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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) The poet __________ is the source of such fables as that of the tortoise and the hare.
Answer: Aesop
Q3) __________ refers to a sculpture of a fully clothed female.
A) Kouroi
B) Koric
C) Kore
D) Contrapposto
E) Polis
Answer: C
Q4) The festivals of the god __________ gave birth to Greek drama.
Answer: Dionysus
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Chapter 4: Greek Classicism and Hellenism
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Q1) The Sophists preached faith to reason.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Herodotus believed the loss of the Persians was a result of their __________.
A) small numbers
B) poor leadership
C) scarce supplies
D) religion
E) hubris
Q3) The sculptures once on the east pediment of the Parthenon are now sometimes called the "__________."
Q4) __________ was the city from which Hellenistic culture flowed.
A) Athens
B) Sparta
C) Thebes
D) Tyre
E) Alexandria
Q5) By placing some figures higher than others,fifth century B.C.E Greek vase painters suggested __________.
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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) __________ created the first full-time police force and firefighters as part of his emphasis on order and peace.
A) Julius Caesar
B) Marcus Aurelius
C) Caligula
D) Nero
E) Augustus
Q2) Roman expansion was built on __________.
A) trade
B) intermarriage
C) conquest
D) opportunism
E) none of these
Q3) The Roman Senate's combination of old and new power is called a self-renewing
A) aristocracy
B) democracy
C) tyranny
D) oligarchy
E) dictatorship
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Chapter 6: Judaism and Early Christianity
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Q1) Fundamental to the moral law of the Torah are the principles of justice and __________.
Q2) The Western Empire greatly outlasted the Eastern Empire.
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) Yiddish is the language of Ashkenasi Jews.
A)True
B)False
Q5) For the most part,Christian churches took the form of the Roman __________.
Q6) The Temple of Solomon served as the house of the __________ (God),rather than a place of worship.
Q7) Some have seen the __________ of Mary from the Gospel of Luke as a revolutionary document.
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Chapter 7: Byzantium and Islam
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Q1) Byzantium was a sacked by the __________ in 1204.
A) Ottoman Empire
B) Visigoths
C) Petchenegs
D) Crusaders
E) Scots
Q2) Discuss the role of literature in Islamic culture.What are its connections to the pre-Islamic past and what does it tell us about the society of its time? (You may pick one or two examples to make your argument more clear.)
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) How was Byzantine art signed?
Q5) What were the two highest forms of study in Byzantine intellectual life?
Q6) Which ivory carving includes depictions of emissaries from the West and from India?
Q7) The bulk of Byzantine literature is in the category of __________.
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Chapter 8: The Early Middle Ages
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Q1) Hildegard of Bingen's Book of Divine Works expounds on her theology of microcosm and macrocosm.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The __________,as a symbol of the powers of darkness and evil,was a strong force in medieval thinking.
A) Roman emperor
B) pharaoh
C) devil
D) king
E) ocean
Q3) Romanesque churches were heavier and __________ than earlier churches.
A) smaller
B) lighter
C) more simple
D) more spacious
E) more quickly built
Q4) Analyze the common themes of the three epic poems discussed in this chapter.What do they tell us about life in the early Middle Ages? Why do you think they remain popular in the modern world?
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Chapter 9: The High Middle Ages
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Q1) __________ plays presented an account of the life,miracles,or martyrdom of a saint.
Q2) __________ is a sculpture or painting of the dead Christ supported by Mary.
A) Allegory
B) Stigmata
C) Lamentation
D) PietÃ
E) Resurrection
Q3) The Doge's Palace in Venice combines European and __________ influences.
Q4) Many important __________ gained their charters in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
A) monasteries
B) universities
C) towns
D) guilds
E) kingdoms
Q5) Hell,or __________,was the most popular part of medieval theatre.
Q6) The area around Paris,called the __________,was the birthplace of Gothic architecture.
Q7) What subjects inspired the musical compositions of Francesco Landini?
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Chapter 10: The Early Renaissance
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Q1) Ghiberti used perspective to bring a new sense of deep space to __________.
A) print-making
B) drawing
C) painting
D) relief sculpture
E) etching
Q2) Important patrons of the arts,the __________ family ruled Florence for a number of generations.
A) Alberti
B) Ferrara
C) Medici
D) Ficino
E) Lorenzo
Q3) Mantegna creates unsettling drama in his St.James Led to Execution by placing the __________ below the lower edge of the painting.
A) chiaroscuro
B) composition
C) horizon line
D) frame
E) viewer
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Chapter 11: The High Renaissance and Mannerism
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Q1) __________ is a movement in art characterized by an affected appearance of subjects.
A) Baroque
B) High Renaissance
C) Northern Renaissance
D) Neoclassicism
E) Mannerism
Q2) The basis of the composition of Leonardo's Virgin and Child with St Anne is a
Q3) .Sophonisba Anguissola was a(n)__________ for the Queen of Spain.
A) attendant
B) court painter
C) court musician
D) playwright
E) poet
Q4) Did High Renaissance artists treat figures more as individuals or types?
Q5) Machiavelli believed it was important that princes should be patrons of the arts.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Renaissance and Reformation in Northern Europe
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Q1) Unlike the other Protestant reformers,__________ saw music as an essential part of worship.
Q2) __________ des Prez is compared to Michelangelo and called the "father of musicians."
Q3) The French king __________ tried to bring the Italian Renaissance to France,and succeeded in brining Leonardo da Vinci.
A) Louis XIV
B) Jean I
C) Francis I
D) Charles V
E) Georges II
Q4) The __________ helped spread music and identify composers as individuals.
A) court
B) church
C) aristocracy
D) guild
E) printing press
Q5) Erasmus argued that a massive program of __________ would create a literate,Christian community.
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Chapter 13: The Baroque Age
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Q1) One of the principle developments of baroque theatre was French __________.
A) anticlassicism
B) court masque
C) comedy
D) neoclassicism
E) romanticism
Q2) A mode of inquiry that reaches conclusions by moving from the general to the specific is called __________.
A) induction
B) abduction
C) argument
D) deduction
E) logic
Q3) Baroque sculpture epitomizes self-containment.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Who were the patrons of landscape painting?
Q5) The English masque is remembered for its literary merit.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: The Enlightenment
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Q1) The ballets of Georges __________ exemplified "psychological realism."
Q2) The __________ style of music formed a bridge between baroque and classical music.
Q3) The most important movement form in the classical period of music is the __________.
A) rondo
B) single
C) minuet
D) sonata
E) nocturne.
Q4) Marie Anne Cupis de Camargo was the first ballerina to incorporate the technical skills typically associated with men.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In eighteen century literature,drama declined and the __________ began to rise.
Q6) What is the style of Frederick's Sans Souci Palace?
Q7) Enlightenment society emphasized charm,manners,and finesse.
A)True
B)False
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Q8) What was the name for the unrestricted economy favored by the "physiocrats"?
Chapter 15: The Romantic Age
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Q1) The plays of William __________ became popular again in the nineteenth century.
Q2) Rosa Bonheur is known for her paintings of __________.
A) stormy seas
B) animals
C) peasants
D) urban life
E) political events
Q3) Fragmentation is characteristic of Romanticism.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Das Kapital was written by __________.
A) Charles Darwin
B) Ludwig Feuerbach
C) Karl Marx
D) Friedrich Engels
E) Sir Charles Lyell
Q5) What did Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels argue all history reflected?
Q6) British and French philosophers in the nineteenth century developed the theories of materialism and __________.
Q7) Which well-known poem brought Edgar Allan Poe into the spotlight?
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Chapter 16: Realism, Impressionism, and Beyond
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Q1) The ideas of Sigmund Freud were controversial because of their emphasis on human
Q2) What was the name of the Venice chapel Henri Matisse decorated at the end of his life?
Q3) The "stream of consciousness" technique is employed by __________ writers.
A) realist
B) impressionist
C) naturalist
D) aestheticist
E) cubist
Q4) .The naturalist writer who was influenced by scientific determinism was
A) Edith Wharton
B) James Joyce
C) Gustave Flaubert
D) Virginia Woolf
E) Emile Zola
Q5) Art Nouveau grew out of the English __________ Movement.
Q6) From where did Anton Chekhov obtain his subject matter and themes?
Q7) "Slave morality" was criticized by __________.
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Chapter 17: Modernism
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Q1) Choose a modernist work of any medium.Analyze the influence of urban life upon its style and its themes.Which aspects of the modern,multicultural city are most strongly highlighted by the artist? Are their suggestions that city life and modernization may have been disturbing to him or her? Which aspects of the city does the artist celebrate?
Q2) The author of the poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" is __________.
Q3) Surrealist artists and writers completely rejected rationality and the conscious mind.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The idea that beauty can exist in form alone was a component of the __________.
A) surrealist manifestos
B) theory of non-representational painting
C) Dada anti-art
D) academic training
E) modernist musical theory
Q5) The Villa Savoye is an example of the "domino" system devised by __________.
Q6) Le Corbusier stated that a house is "a machine to be lived in."
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 18: From Modernism to Postmodernism and Beyond
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Q1) Architecture that stretches engineering to the limits of building materials is called __________ architecture.
A) expansive
B) postmodern
C) spansion
D) vernacular
E) limit
Q2) Vladimir Nabokov's novel __________ utilizes an antihero.
Q3) __________ is the idea that beliefs must be judged within their own social context
A) Quantum mechanics
B) Pluralism
C) Ethnocentrism
D) Cultural relativism
E) Primitivism
Q4) Modernism,Postmodernism,Pluralism,and Traditional are each separate,bounded categories of postwar music.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What was Helen Frankenthaler's signature painting process called?
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