Foundations of Art Practice Exam
Course Introduction
Foundations of Art introduces students to the basic principles, elements, and techniques essential to the creation and understanding of visual art. Through hands-on projects, critiques, and discussions, students explore a variety of media and artistic processes, including drawing, painting, sculpture, and digital tools. Emphasis is placed on developing observational skills, creative problem-solving, and an understanding of historical and contemporary art contexts. This course lays the groundwork for advanced art studies by fostering critical thinking, visual literacy, and personal artistic expression.
Recommended Textbook Jansons Basic History of Western Art 9th Edition by Penelope
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Chapter 1: Prehistoric Art
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Q1) It's likely that the imagery in Prehistoric cave paintings represents:
A) a ritual or religious purpose
B) art for art's sake
C) narrative, or storytelling functions
D) a settled Paleolithic lifestyle
Answer: A
Q2) In the Neolithic period, concerns about ceremonial burial and ritual inspired monumental architecture.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) What are menhirs?
A) upright rough-hewn stones
B) tombs, originally underground, with several large upright stones supporting a single massive capstone
C) prehistoric monuments found only in the British Isles
D) markers of the summer solstice.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Ancient Near Eastern Art
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Q1) An indirect axial approach was typical of which type of structure?
A) Egyptian pyramids
B) Sumerian ziggurats
C) Persian palaces
D) Persian temples
Answer: B
Q2) The Law Code of Hammurabi:
A) Survives as one of the earliest written bodies of law
B) Was concerned with crime law only, and not domestic law
C) Did not describe penalties for breaking laws
D) Could not be enforced
Answer: A
Q3) Alexander the Great was allied with the Persians.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Egyptian Art
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Q1) Whose was the first artist's name to have been recorded in history?
A) Imhotep
B) Menkaure
C) Akhenaten
D) Djoser
Answer: A
Q2) Akhenaten:
A) worshipped in the supreme deity, Osiris.
B) was half brother to Cleopatra.
C) was monotheistic.
D) united Upper and Lower Egypt.
Answer: C
Q3) The great pyramids at Giza were constructed during the Fourth Dynasty.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) All eras of Egyptian religion were monotheistic.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Aegean Art
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Q1) The Toreador Fresco probably depicts what kind of event?
A) Bullfight
B) Ritual game
C) Religious ceremony
D) Mythological battle
Q2) Where was the culture located that was named for King Minos?
A) On the Greek mainland
B) On the Cycladic Islands
C) On the island of Crete
D) In Mesopotamia
Q3) The Mediterranean Sea effectively served to separate and isolate ancient cultures.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe the subject matter and style of fresco paintings found on Minoan Crete.
Q5) The so-called "Treasury of Atreus" was originally a Mycenaean royal residence.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Compare and contrast the treatment of the human form in the Cycladic figurines and the so-called Snake Goddesses?
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Chapter 5: Greek Art
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Q1) Homer was a Greek statesman.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The lost wax process enabled Greek sculptors to create spatially freer forms than was possible in stone.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Sculpture that is often very emotional, individualized and realistic is typical of which style?
A) Archaic Greek
B) Classical Greek
C) Hellenistic
D) Mycenaean
Q4) In 490 BCE, the Persians defeated the Greeks at the Battle of Marathon.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are the characteristics of Archaic Greek sculpture? Compare and contrast Archaic Greek sculpture and Egyptian sculpture.
Q6) What influences caused Greek art to evolve more rapidly than Egyptian art?
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Chapter 6: Etruscan Art
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Q1) Compare and contrast Roman and Etruscan architecture.
Q2) Life-sized reclining terra cotta figures atop sarcophagi are typical of which culture?
A) Greek
B) Egyptian
C) Etruscan
D) Mycenaean
Q3) Where was Etruscan civilization located?
A) Modern-day Tuscany
B) Cycladic Greece
C) The Iberian peninsula
D) The Peloponnese
Q4) When were the Etruscans at the peak of their power?
A) 8th-7th centuries BCE
B) 7th-6th centuries BCE
C) 6th-5th centuries BCE
D) 5th-4th centuries BCE
Q5) Compare and contrast Etruscan wall painting with Minoan, Egyptian, and Greek painting.
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Chapter 7: Roman Art
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Q1) What is the term for the round extension at the end of the Roman basilica hall?
A) Apse
B) Atrium
C) Cella
D) Narthex
Q2) The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius caused considerable damage to the architecture in the Roman forum.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The temporary wooden scaffold over which Roman arches were constructed is called
A) Centering
B) Post and lintel
C) Voussoir
D) Groin
Q4) What are the two most significant contributions to architecture made by the Romans? Why are these significant?
Q5) How do you a see lasting impact of ancient Rome in contemporary culture?
Q6) How did the Greeks and Etruscans influence Roman architecture?
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Q7) How did the scope of the Roman architectural needs differ from that of the Greeks?
Chapter 8: Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art
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Q1) What is an entrance foyer in an Early Christian church called?
A) groin vault
B) basilica
C) clerestory
D) narthex
Q2) Compare basilica-plan with central-plan churches. Cite examples of each.
Q3) What is the origin of the word "Bible"?
A) the Greek word for "books"
B) the Latin word or "drink"
C) the Italian word for "word"
D) the Hebrew work for "God"
Q4) Why did the role of sculpture diminish during the Early Christian period? Why did sculpture become physically smaller?
Q5) Explain the iconoclastic controversy. Why were abstract symbols widely used?
Q6) Other than Constantinople, where can Byzantine art be seen?
A) Rome
B) Ravenna
C) Athens
D) Paris
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Chapter 9: Islamic Art
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Q1) Prayer, fasting, pilgrimage, and charity are four subsidiary pillars of the so-called Five Pillars of Islam. The primary pillar is:
A) Filial piety
B) Observance of Islamic holy days
C) Affirmation of Faith
D) Celebration of Mohammad's birthday
Q2) Which mosque style has a unified and clearly delineated interior space, rather than a fragmented or ambiguous space?
A) Ottoman
B) Spanish
C) Persian
D) Arab
Q3) Describe the combined Islamic and Persian characteristics evident in the Mina'i dish.
Q4) Describe the relationships between the principles and the Islamic religion and Islamic art and architecture.
Q5) How did Muslim, Byzantine and Spanish influences each have an impact on the design of the Great Mosque at Cordoba?
Q6) How does holy script become an art form in Islamic art and architecture?
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Chapter 10: Early Medieval Art
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Q1) Irish monasteries were important centers of learning and the arts.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What are the characteristics of animal style, where was it produced, and who produced it?
Q3) The Gero Crucifix is an example of which style?
A) Carolingian
B) Hiberno-Saxon
C) Celtic-Germanic
D) Ottonian
Q4) Where was the Sutton Hoo purse cover found?
A) At a temple crypt
B) At a ship burial
C) At a monastery treasury
D) At a palace ruin
Q5) The best-preserved surviving example of a Carolingian westwork is the Abbey Church at Corvey.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Describe the influences and design of the Palace Chapel of Charlemagne.
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Chapter 11: Romanesque Art
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Q1) Where can trumeau sculpture be found?
A) the clerestory
B) the crossing
C) the choir
D) the portals
Q2) The four main pilgrimage routes through France ended up at which Spanish church?
A) Santiago de Compostela
B) Notre Dame
C) Amiens Cathedral
D) Chartres Cathedral
Q3) Gislebertus:
A) won the Battle of Hastings
B) did intricate enamels and engravings
C) was a painter
D) was a metal worker
Q4) Where can a blind arcade commonly be found?
A) triforium
B) altar
C) tympanum
D) vaults
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Chapter 12: Gothic Art
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Q1) In the Middle Ages, what word meaning "master" was a title conferred by a trade organization, or guild, on a member who had achieved the highest level of skill in the guild's profession or craft?
A) Magister
B) Opus modernum
C) Belle Verrière
D) Rayonnant
Q2) Gothic architecture spreads from France to England and Germany, among other areas.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A private prayer book is called
A) Book of Hours
B) Contemplation Image
C) Memento mori
D) Matins and Vespers
Q4) What features are characteristic of Gothic architecture? How did aspects of medieval structural engineering contribute to the form and visual qualities of Gothic cathedrals?
Q5) Why are so many Gothic churches dedicated to the Virgin Mary?
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Chapter 13: Art in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Italy
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Q1) What are the tables, or low stones, that are the focal point of Christian religious worship?
A) Altars
B) Baptisteries
C) Naves
D) Transepts
Q2) Enrico Scrovegni was the patron of:
A) The Palazzo della Signoria
B) The Good and Bad Government frescoes
C) Andrea Pisano's bronze doors
D) The Arena Chapel
Q3) In the fresco technique pigments are mixed with water and applied to the surface of wet plaster.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Franciscans and Dominicans were:
A) Famous political organizations
B) Insignificant to artistic developments
C) Mendicant orders
D) Found only in princely states
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Chapter 14: Artistic Innovations in Fifteenth-Century
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Q1) Who was one of the most powerful men of the fifteenth century?
A) Philip the Good of Burgundy
B) Jean Fouquet of France
C) Claus Sluter of Dijon
D) Ambrogio Lorenzetti of Siena
Q2) Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Delights:
A) is optimistic and playful
B) honors mankind's essential dignity and worth
C) is a celebration of nature
D) shows mankind doomed by its carnal appetites
Q3) A diptych is a work of art with two panels; a triptych has three panels.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Jan van Eyck signed The Arnolfini Portrait with the words, "Jan van Eyck was here, 1434."
A)True
B)False
Q5) There is no evidence of the use of oil paints before Jan van Eyck.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) Who was an important patron of the Florentine Renaissance?
A) Julius II
B) Abbot Suger
C) Botticelli
D) Cosimo de' Medici
Q2) Patronage for art in fifteenth century Florence consisted of:
A) the Catholic church.
B) wealthy patrons.
C) guilds.
D) all of the above.
Q3) The dome of Santa Maria del Fiore was:
A) based on the round Roman arch
B) a Gothic ribbed octagonal dome
C) topped with an open oculus
D) covering the central-plan church
Q4) Which of the following is true of one-point perspective?
A) Orthogonals converge toward the vanishing point.
B) Orthogonals run from right to left on the picture plane.
C) Orthogonals are at right angles to the floor of the painted space.
D) Orthogonals meet at two different points on the picture plane.
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Chapter 16: The High Renaissance in Italy, 1495-1520
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Q1) Who designed the dome of St. Peter's?
A) Bramante
B) Alberti
C) Brunelleschi
D) Michelangelo
Q2) Sfumato is seen in the work of:
A) Leonardo da Vinci
B) Botticelli
C) Michelangelo
D) Masaccio
Q3) Compare Titian's Man with the Glove with Leonardo's Mona Lisa. Include in your discussion observations on chiaroscuro/sfumato, pose, composition, color and background.
Q4) Titian painted his famous image of a reclining figure of Venus for which patron?
A) Duke Cosimo de' Medici
B) Pope Paul III
C) Lorenzo de' Medici
D) Duke Guidobaldo II della Rovere of Urbino
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Chapter 17: The Late Renaissance and Mannerism in
Sixteenth-Century Italy
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Q1) Discuss della Porta's handling of the facade of Il Gesù. What was classically inspired and what was innovative about his design? What problems was he addressing?
Q2) Who wrote The Four Books of Architecture?
A) Bramante
B) Palladio
C) Brunelleschi
D) Titian
Q3) The Venetian artist Tintoretto reportedly wanted "to paint like Titian and to design like Michelangelo."
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Academy of Design was established in Florence in 1563 to promote the arts in Tuscany by improving the training of artists.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What events are believed to have contributed to the end to the High Renaissance?
Q6) How and why did art in Venice develop so differently than art in Florence or Rome?
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Chapter 18: Renaissance and Reformation Throughout
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Q1) Francis I asserted his overriding interest in French art and artists at his chateau of Fontainebleau.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Lucas Cranach's An Allegory of Law and Grace shows the salvation of a
A) Lutheran
B) Catholic
C) Woman
D) Muslim
Q3) The Reformation changed the art of Central Europe by encouraging the destruction of religious art and reducing commissions for religious subjects.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How did politics and religion have an impact on Hans Holbein the Younger's career? Compose your answer in relation to Holbein's The Ambassadors.
Q5) Charles V ruled a vast area of modern Europe as the Holy Roman Emperor. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 19: The Baroque in Italy and Spain
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Q1) Examine Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes. How is this painting a work in the tradition of Caravaggio in terms of style, subject matter, and expression?
Q2) Bernini's architecture and sculpture in the Cornaro Chapel were inspired by the writings of
A) St. Teresa of Ávila
B) St. Ignatius of Loyola
C) Giorgio Vasari
D) Andrea Palladio
Q3) Artemisia Gentileschi was a female painter who worked in the tradition of which artist?
A) Carvaggio
B) Carracci
C) Velázquez
D) Murillo
Q4) Discuss the colonnade by Gianlorenzo Bernini at St. Peter's. How is this work representative of the objectives of the Catholic Counter Reformation?
Q5) How does Caravaggio handle light and what function(s) does light play in his The Calling of St. Matthew?
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Chapter 20: The Baroque in the Netherlands
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Q1) Which of the following is true about Rembrandt's Bathsheba with King David's Letter?
A) It demonstrates the psychological depth of the artist's work
B) It faithfully recreates the subject from 2 Samuel 11:2-27
C) The patron was a wealthy Dutch businessman
D) Rembrandt idealizes the appearance of Bathsheba
Q2) The sources of artistic patronage in Flanders and Holland were essentially the same.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Rembrandt was a versatile artist who worked both in painting and:
A) Printmaking
B) Sculpture
C) Architecture
D) Textiles
Q4) Rubens was distinguished among seventeenth century Flemish artists by his habit of completing all of his paintings by himself.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 21: The Baroque in France and England
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Q1) The Grand Manner was a concept introduced into French painting by Poussin.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A reaction against Bernini's style of architecture is seen in the work of French artist Claude Perrault.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is the name of the cathedral in London that was rebuilt after the Great London Fire of 1666?
A) St. Peter's
B) St. Paul's
C) Salisbury Cathedral
D) Durham Cathedral
Q4) After the Great London Fire of 1666, who redesigned St Paul's Cathedral? Discuss the influences on the design of this building.
Q5) What was the function of the Royal Academy and how did it exert an impact on French artists?
Q6) What was Poussin's working process and how did that process affect the look, expression and meaning of his finished works?
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Chapter 22: The Rococo
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Q1) Describe the nature of William Hogarth's art and how it formed a type of visual satire in eighteenth-century England.
Q2) What information about eighteenth-century Venice is communicated by Canaletto's The Bucintoro at the Molo? How much of this information is likely to be actual and how much contrived, and for what purposes?
Q3) Who was associated with fêtes galantes?
A) Tiepolo
B) Chardin
C) Fragonard
D) Watteau
Q4) In France, the Rococo is linked with the reign of which monarch?
A) Colbert
B) Louis XIV
C) Louis XV
D) Louis-Philippe
Q5) Describe the subject, style, and mood of Watteau's A Pilgrimage to Cythera. How might this painting reflect the nature and concerns of aristocratic society in France in the eighteenth century?
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Chapter 23: Art in the Age of the Enlightenment, 1750-1789
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Q1) Who was an American painter who established a thriving practice in London?
A) Benjamin West
B) Thomas Cole
C) Thomas Eakins
D) Joshua Reynolds
Q2) The Chiswick House by Lord Burlington demonstrates a movement away from Palladio's influence in English Neoclassical architecture.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Discuss David's Oath of the Horatii as a political work of art.
Q4) Neoclassicism was a reaction against:
A) The control of the French Academy
B) The Enlightenment
C) Napoleon
D) Rococo
Q5) Which artist was an important genre painter in eighteenth-century France?
A) Greuze
B) David
C) Ingres
D) Watteau
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Chapter 24: Art in the Age of the Romanticism, 1789-1848
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Q1) Which aspects of Ingres' work are Neoclassic and which are Romantic?
Q2) Who painted in the Neoclassical, linear style but often used exotic, Romantic subject matter?
A) Ingres
B) Goya
C) David
D) Greuze
Q3) Who made a painting of an exotic harem woman?
A) Goya
B) Géricault
C) Ingres
D) Cole
Q4) Whose paintings point to the atrocities of war and man's inhumanity to man?
A) Ingres
B) Goya
C) David
D) Greuze
Q5) Compare Goya's attitude toward war to that of David's. How did each feel about Napoleon and employ his art either to support or criticize the Napoleonic regime?
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Chapter 25: The Age of Positivism
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Q1) Impressionist paintings that were produced outdoors, and not in the studio are called :
A) plein air paintings
B) fresh air pictures
C) al fresco paintings
D) au naturel paintings
Q2) Some might suggest that Impressionist artists were simply interested in capturing a pretty scene. Dispute this view by discussing the various motivations of the Impressionist artists.
Q3) The Crystal Palace and the Eiffel Tower were both constructed independent of major international exhibitions in England and France.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What were the motivations of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and how are those motivations manifested in their artwork?
Q5) Mary Cassatt, an artist from England, exhibited with Monet and the other Impressionists.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 26: Progress and Its Discontents:
Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau, 1880-1905
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Q1) Which of the following artists used color to express emotions?
A) Seurat
B) David
C) van Gogh
D) Cézanne
Q2) Which American Symbolist painter was influenced by the ethereal, otherworldly pictures of Parisian artists such as Moreau?
A) Henry O. Tanner
B) Thomas Eakins
C) Benjamin West
D) James Whistler
Q3) What was typical subject matter for van Gogh?
A) the wilderness
B) scenes of Tahiti
C) cathedrals or water lilies
D) landscapes and flowers
Q4) Describe the different approaches Post-Impressionist painters took both to build upon aspects of Impression and go take painting in new directions.
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Chapter 27: Toward Abstraction: the Modernist Revolution,
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Q1) Pablo Picasso worked only in as a painter of two-dimensional works of art.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which style was practiced by artists who embraced the dynamism, speed and noise of modern life?
A) Cubism
B) Fauvism
C) Futurism
D) Suprematism
Q3) Describe and discuss the differences between analytic and synthetic cubism.
Q4) Who produced nonobjective geometric paintings?
A) Matisse
B) Malevich
C) Kokoschka
D) De Chirico
Q5) Describe the impact of the Armory Show and of Stieglitz's "291" Gallery on the development of Modernism in the United States.
Q6) Umberto Boccioni, an artist, also authored the Manifesto of Futurism.
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Chapter 28: Art Between the Wars
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Q1) Who owned and ran "291"?
A) Man Ray
B) Adams
C) Weston
D) Stieglitz
Q2) The unconscious was the primary subject matter and concern for:
A) Cubism
B) The Fauves
C) Surrealism
D) Abstract Expressionism
Q3) Who officially declared Surrealism as a style in Paris in 1924?
A) André Breton
B) Filippo Marinetti
C) Salvador Dali
D) Meret Oppenheim
Q4) Dada was a movement that was substantially produced by the experience of:
A) Freud's theories
B) World War I
C) The Italian Futurists
D) The Great Depression
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Chapter 29: Postwar to Postmodern, 1945-1980
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Q1) Who, with a background in commercial art, made art of pop culture, often silk-screening multiples of the same image in one work?
A) de Kooning
B) Pollock
C) Rothko
D) Warhol
Q2) What are the environmental, ontological, and political issues associated with Robert Smith's earthwork masterpiece, Spiral Jetty?
Q3) Allan Kaprow performed all of his happenings in isolation.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe the similarities and differences between the two variants of Abstract Expressionism: Action Painting and Color-Field Painting.
Q5) Romare Bearden, an African-American artist, made collages about his identity and became an active member of the Haarlem Renaissance.
A)True
B)False
Q6) In what ways does Pop Art engage with and comment on American culture?
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Chapter 30: The Postmodern Era: Art Since 1980
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Q1) The term Postmodernism was first coined by French philosophers Jacques Derrida and
A) Jean Baudrillard
B) André Breton
C) Charles Baudelaire
D) Denis Diderot
Q2) Which photographer seems to be making a still from a grade B movie?
A) Kiefer
B) Graves
C) Gehry
D) Sherman
Q3) Postmodern art has continued the dominance of New York in the art world.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which is NOT characteristic of Postmodernism?
A) It often adopts elements from historical styles
B) It often combines several historical styles
C) It often parodies styles whimsically
D) It shares a decorative kinship with High Modern
Q5) Describe the social and artistic forces behind Basquiat's painting.
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