Foundations of Art
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Course Introduction
Foundations of Art introduces students to the core principles and elements that underpin visual creativity, including line, shape, color, texture, and composition. Through a variety of hands-on projects and critical discussions, students explore different media and techniques, develop observational and interpretive skills, and gain an appreciation of arts role in history and contemporary culture. Emphasis is placed on building visual literacy, creative thinking, and a personal approach to artistic expression.
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Art Past Art Present 6th Edition by David G. Wilkins
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Chapter 1: Experiencing Art
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Q1) The design of the Katsura Imperial Villa was inspired by the tenets of Zen Buddhism to create an integration of the building with ____________.
Answer: its environment
Q2) Davis Smith's Cubi XIX is nonrepresentational because it does not ____________ actual figures or real objects.
Answer: imitate
Q3) The level of richness or saturation of a color is termed value.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) The most striking feature of Wright's Fallingwater is that the building's structure responds to:
A) European building style.
B) the Pittsburgh skyline.
C) ancient material limitations.
D) the site.
E) all of these.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Prehistoric Art
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Q1) As at Stonehenge,when placed in a row,menhirs become a cromlech.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) In the Middle Neolithic period in China,during the fourth millennium BCE,several cultures began to produce refined jade artifacts,which signaled trends toward:
A) public architecture.
B) craft specialization.
C) social inequality.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Answer: D
Q3) The skill of Paleolithic artists was often remarkable in:
A) fluid execution of the animal forms.
B) rendering of the landscape.
C) exact geometry of the decorative patterns.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Ancient Art
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Q1) Contrapposto originated as the result of the Greeks' interest in the ideal nude human body and in athletic achievement.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) As seen on the Fang ding,the most famous pattern used on early Chinese bronzes was the taotie,or ____________.
Answer: monster mask
Q3) The shallow renderings on the Votive Palette of King Narmer are suppressed into what is essentially a two-dimensional medium called ____________.
Answer: low relief
Q4) The stylistic evolution of Greek figurative sculpture is from rigidly posed to ____________.
Answer: relatively relaxed
Q5) The Votive Palette of King Narmer was apparently created to mark the ____________ of Egypt.
Answer: unification
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Chapter 4: Later Ancient Art
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Q1) The Bacchic Mysteries from Pompeii is one of the first examples of a painted wall decoration integrated with the physical space and architecture of its setting; this is called a(n) ____________.
Q2) The Roman town plan reveals their interest in irregularity and variation.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Flavian Amphitheater was built to reassure the Romans that:
A) the cruelty of Nero had ended.
B) Christians would be human sacrifices.
C) gladiators could defeat slaves.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q4) The intersection at right angles of two tunnel vaults is a called:
A) an angular vault.
B) a pendentive.
C) a groin vault.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q5) A hemispherical structure that can be understood as an arch rotated 180 degrees on its axis is a(n) ____________.
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Chapter 5: Art From 200 to 1000
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Q1) The Buddhist temple called Borobudur was:
A) sited in central Java.
B) designed legendarily by a divine architect.
C) originally considered sacred by Hindus.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q2) Pendentives are curving triangular segments that transition from square plan supporting piers to the circular base of a dome.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Li Cheng,artist of the Chinese landscape painting Buddhist Temple in the Hills after Rain,lived a poor,illiterate,worldly life.
A)True
B)False
Q4) At the Buddhist Horyuji complex near Nara,Japan,after entering through the chumon,why would a pilgrim make a lateral turn?
Q5) One common element of Islamic mosques from all periods is the marking of a wall that indicates which direction Muslims should turn when they pray,called the
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Chapter 6: Art From 1000 to 1400
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Q1) A continuation of Anglo-Saxon interlace motifs is visible in the Bayeux Tapestry image of King Harold Receiving a Messenger in the:
A) abstracted undulating tree.
B) fleece of the lion.
C) design on the saint's robes.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q2) Chartres Cathedral is the most memorable of French Gothic cathedrals because of the:
A) quality of its sculpture.
B) preservation of original stained glass.
C) quality of its architecture.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q3) Discuss the spires of the ideal Gothic church.How do the spires serve the motivations and aspirations of the builders?
Q4) What problem with Romanesque pilgrimage churches was solved with the use of an ambulatory?
Q5) In Giotto's Lamentation in the Arena Chapel,what do the angels do?
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Chapter 7: Fifteenth-Century Art
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Q1) In his portraits of the rulers of Urbino,Piero della Francesca suggests:
A) the vast extent of ducal power.
B) their elevation above the everyday.
C) their almost omnipotent presence.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q2) On his Pietà,Michelangelo carved his signature on the ribbon that crosses Mary's chest.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Giorgio Vasari argued that the transition to the High Renaissance occurred with the art of ____________.
Q4) In his Trinity,Masaccio has advanced Giotto's artistic innovations by combining them with superfluous abstract detail.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In Flanders oil painting,most colors are modeled downward toward black. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Sixteenth-Century Art
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Q1) Mannerist artists sought to create ____________ and ____________ constructions to demonstrate their intellectual and technical virtuosity and the sophistication of their patrons.
Q2) Brueghel's December Landscape emphasizes nature by the manner in which the season,as expressed by the landscape,controls the activities of the peasants.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Sophonisba Anguissola is credited with creating a new category of still-life painting.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Leonardo became famous for his ability to:
A) create a sense of mystery.
B) gently model through careful blending.
C) represent subtle shadows.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q5) Discuss the iconographic scheme for Michelangelo's painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
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Chapter 9: Seventeenth-Century Art
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Q1) In Rembrandt's etching of Christ Preaching,a child is visible in the foreground doing what?
A) considering Jesus's words
B) arguing with Christ
C) drawing in the dust
D) all of these
E) none of these
Q2) In essence,what is Artemisia Gentileschi saying in her 1630 painting titled Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting?
Q3) Why is Teresa of Ávila depicted barefoot in Bernini's sculpture Ecstasy of Saint Teresa?
Q4) In his Arrival and Reception of Marie de´ Medici at Marseilles,how did Rubens satisfy the aspirations of his royal client?
Q5) Caravaggio's Christ with the Doubting Thomas is arresting because:
A) the actions of the figures are convincing.
B) the strong light gives sharp physical presence.
C) the figures are naturalistic.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
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Chapter 10: Eighteenth-Century Art
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Q1) Because Reynolds depicts the subject as an allegorical figure in his Allegorical Portrait of Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse and his composition recalls Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling figures,we find that Reynolds is aspiring to the ____________.
Q2) Rosalba Carriera,as seen in her Portrait of Louis XV as a Young Man,was famous for her ability to render portraits in:
A) tempera.
B) fresco.
C) pastel.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q3) The term "Rococo" was first used to designate what style?
Q4) The eighteenth century in European cultural history is sometimes called the Age of Enlightenment.
A)True
B)False
Q5) To truly understand the "grand style," any artist who desired professional fame was almost obligated to do what?
Q6) What about Egid Quirin Asam's Assumption of the Virgin encourages us to gasp?
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Chapter 11: Nineteenth-Century Art
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Q1) In Thomas Eakins's Portrait of Dr.Samuel Gross,the touches of red are used for what purposes?
Q2) Rodin's The Burghers of Calais disappointed many people at first because it lacked overtly ____________ references.
Q3) In the medium of lithography,the print form is a(n):
A) very smooth board of bamboo.
B) copper plate.
C) very smooth slab of limestone.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q4) In Japanese woodblock technique,the design is carved into the wood,leaving the lines and solid areas raised above the cut surface of the wood.
A)True
B)False
Q5) At the Parisian Salon of 1863,there was such an outcry about the rejected works that a special exhibition of rejected works was set up,known as the ____________.
Q6) Goya's The Execution of Madrileños on the Third of May,1808 emphasizes a confrontation between what two groups?
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Chapter 12: Art From 1900 to 1949
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Q1) Diego Rivera's fresco murals present a stark and didactic contrast between the debauchery of the rich and the ____________ of the poor,honest peasants.
Q2) In his Schröder House of 1923-24,how does Gerrit Rietveld establish a series of complex relationships?
Q3) Henry Moore's Recumbent Figure suggests:
A) the hills and gullies of a landscape.
B) a voluptuous figure.
C) a reclining female form.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q4) Gropius' design for the new Bauhaus building at Dessau was guided by his philosophy on the unity of the arts.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How did Duchamp enter his mass-produced objects called "ready-mades" into the realm of art?
Q6) Brancusi's Bird in Space draws us close not to the essence of a natural form,but to what instead?
Q7) Even standing still,Pininfarina's Cistalia "202" GT car gives what impression?
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Chapter 13: Art From 1950 to 1999
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Q1) How are Bilbao's shipbuilding and port activities reflected in Frank Gehry's 1997 Guggenheim Museum building in that city?
Q2) Of what is the AIDS Memorial Quilt an expression?
Q3) In his photographic essay The Americans,Robert Frank employed his "snapshot aesthetic" in producing many commercial glamour photos.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Nancy Graves's Canoptic Legerdemain makes use of laser-cut steel produced by a computer program,plus cast and molded resins; it is thus an exemplary use of ____________ in art.
Q5) On what legend was Robert Smithson's design for Spiral Jetty based?
Q6) In the late 1960s,the style that presented the work of art as an object of elemental form divorced from symbolic or personal content was:
A) Op Art.
B) Minimal Art.
C) Pop Art.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
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Chapter 14: Art in the New Millennium
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Q1) The photographs of Andreas Gursky:
A) are visually stunning.
B) are enormous in size.
C) often present a dialogue between architecture and human presence.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q2) Ann Hamilton's corpus was installation art on a massive scale that proposed a contemplation on the modes of human communication.
A)True
B)False
Q3) How will James Turrell's Roden Crater project be like Stonehenge?
Q4) In Kara Walker's Insurrection! installation,projected light casts our shadows on the walls,and thus works to:
A) involve us.
B) render the work invisible.
C) scare children present.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q5) What facts,in part,have inspired Joyce Kozloff's Targets?
Q6) What sort of unexpected materials have been used for art in the last few years?
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