Foundations of Art Pre-Test Questions
Course Introduction
Foundations of Art introduces students to the essential principles and elements that underpin visual creativity and artistic expression. Through exploration of diverse mediums such as drawing, painting, and sculpture students gain hands-on experience in applying core concepts like line, shape, color, texture, balance, and composition. The course also examines historical and contemporary examples to foster critical analysis and appreciation for the role of art in society. Emphasizing both technical skills and creative problem-solving, Foundations of Art provides a comprehensive base for further study in the visual arts.
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The Art of Seeing 8th Edition by Paul J. Zelanski
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Chapter 1: Understanding Art
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Q1) For Koreans ,cloth-bound bundles known as <i>bottari</i> are used for__________.
A) giving old clothes to the poor
B) packing up possessions and leaving the home
C) doing household chores
D) caring for a baby
Answer: B
Q2) Ludwig Hohlwein's poster is an example of __________.
A) propaganda
B) portraiture
C) spiritual purpose
D) individualism
Answer: A
Q3) Georgia O'Keeffe wanted to paint an exact representation of what she saw in nature.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Visual Elements
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Q1) A mark or area that is significantly longer than it is wide may be perceived as __________.
A) a line
B) a picture plane
C) linear perspective
D) three-dimensional
Answer: A
Q2) The Futurists were most interested in capturing a single moment in time in a static image.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) When the figure and ground are about equal in area an artist can create a __________,in which either color can be interpreted as lying on top of the other.
A) figure-ground reversal
B) figures on grounds
C) groundling figures
D) figure-ground dispersal
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Organizing Principles of Design
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Q1) Rhythm in art is created by patterns that are set up through __________.
A) use of black and white
B) size and shape
C) repetition and variety
D) organic lines
Answer: C
Q2) Repetition can be used in decorative works to create an all-over __________.
A) interpretive value
B) spectrum
C) pattern
D) perspective
Answer: C
Q3) Because __________ there is visual tension created in Nancy Graves' work <i>Trace</i> .
A) it uses too many colors
B) it is intentionally unbalanced
C) there are curved lines and straight lines in the same work
D) the use of bronze and steel catches the light
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Drawing
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Q1) There are special crayons made of grease for use in lithographic printing.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Drawing pens are sometimes made of bird feathers called quills.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Paper,the most frequently used drawing surface,has been readily available since ancient Egypt.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Unlike the other dry media discussed in this chapter,silverpoint __________.
A) can be erased and started over
B) needs a fixative to keep the image on the paper
C) requires that the paper be prepared with pigment or glue
D) uses paint to create the image
Q5) Pen and ink is essentially a __________ medium.
A) color
B) tone
C) line
D) shade
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Chapter 5: Painting
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Q1) Correggio's painting <i>Danae</i> seems to glow because the artist used __________: layers of pigment suspended in a transparent medium.
A) glazes
B) entasis
C) luminosity
D) mixed media
Q2) In early tempera paintings that used gold leaf,the gold was applied __________.
A) over a surface of red gilder's clay, then burnished
B) directly to a sticky surface of animal glue
C) on top of gold paint
D) only on the frame, and never on the painting itself
Q3) Typical of __________ is the medium's liquid transparent airiness as seen in Joseph Mallord William Turner's <i>Looking Out to Sea: A Whale Aground .</i>
A) oil
B) tempera
C) watercolor
D) encaustic
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Chapter 6: Printmaking
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Q1) The work by Mary Cassatt,The Caress ,demonstrates that drypoint __________.
A) is used only for contours and broad outlines
B) creates simple clear, unblurred lines
C) has a soft and furry line quality
D) works only with direct, more geometric shapes
Q2) A term that refers to the process of etching is __________.
A) resist
B) stopping out
C) biting
D) all of the above
Q3) Printmaking is most often used to produce multiple original prints __________.
A) in unlimited editions
B) in limited editions
C) as practice for the artist
D) none of the above
Q4) Artists use hard woods for woodcut printing when they __________.
A) want the carving to stand up to hundreds of printings
B) want to create fine details
C) do not want the grain of the wood to show in the print
D) all of the above
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Chapter 7: Graphic Design
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Q1) Paul Rand,who designed the IBM logo,believed that corporate logos should __________.
A) spell out the whole name of the company
B) consist of simple, universal, and timeless shapes
C) include an image of the company president
D) stay fresh by using images that change with the public's taste
Q2) Although graphic design is for commercial purposes,some designs,like Toulouse-Lautrec's poster ,have been treated like __________.
A) packing material
B) fine art
C) wallpaper
D) drawing paper
Q3) Graphic designers are people who __________.
A) design two-dimensional images for commercial purposes
B) convey information to the public
C) use words and imagery together
D) all of the above
Q4) Postage stamps are an example of graphic design.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Photography and Filmmaking
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Q1) When a single scene in a film continues for several minutes with no break it is called
A) montage
B) a deep focus shot
C) an extended take
D) an illusion
Q2) The camera can capture only as much as the human eye can perceive.
A)True
B)False
Q3) For the past few decades videos by fine artists have been included in the collections of great museums.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A big improvement in photography,based on Fox Talbot's work,was __________.
A) keeping light out of the process
B) taking a long time for exposures
C) the development of a means of creating multiple copies of an image
D) the zoom lens
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Chapter 9: Digital Art
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Q1) A viewer's experience of Jeremy Blake's digital art installation would differ from a conventional museum experience because __________.
A) there are soft drinks available
B) there are long lines
C) of the constantly changing optical and aural stimulation
D) the artist is available for questions
Q2) Downloading digitized art onto a computer monitor is a different experience from seeing the original because __________.
A) one first sees the parts rather than the whole
B) one has no real idea of its actual size
C) color saturation may be brighter than he original
D) all of the above
Q3) The computer screen is divided into an invisible grid of points called __________.
A) bits
B) bytes
C) pixels
D) plotters
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Chapter 10: Sculpture
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Q1) The carved ivory mask from Benin was carved for the king and __________.
A) never used
B) worn at his waist
C) worn as a mask at a ritual ceremony
D) hung on a wall of the palace
Q2) In fifteenth-century Benin sculptors were supported by __________.
A) the military
B) public subscription
C) sales of their work
D) patronage of the king
Q3) The sculpture,<i>Pod Pocha</i> by Ursula von Rydingsvard employs both stacking of elements and carving away to suggest __________.
A) water rippling on the surface of an object
B) mountain peaks jutting out from a vast forest
C) the natural processes of geological layering and erosion
D) all of the above
Q4) Stone can be polished to be very smooth.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Craft Media
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Q1) Glass objects can be made through the lost-wax process.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A common clay body,or mixtures of different kinds of clay,is __________.
A) earthenware
B) glazeware
C) placeware
D) all of the above
Q3) Dale Chihuly is a major artist in the field of __________.
A) wood sculpture
B) metal casting
C) fiber arts
D) art glass
Q4) Crafts have been highly developed since __________.
A) the Renaissance
B) the Early American period
C) millennia ago
D) the eighth century B.C.E.
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Chapter 12: Product and Clothing Design
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Q1) The most highly elaborated part of the sari is the __________.
A) border
B) design that runs through the middle
C) endpiece
D) head covering
Q2) Fashion has never been used as a means of accentuating one's gender image.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Bauhaus aesthetic developed into the highly influential __________ style of architecture.
A) International
B) Postmodern
C) Prairie
D) Baroque
Q4) The Japanese word for clothing,<i>fuku</i>,also means __________.
A) happiness
B) comfort
C) tranquility
D) confusion
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Chapter 13: Architecture
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Q1) A construction technique using stacked stones or blocks is __________.
A) frame construction
B) bearing wall construction
C) post and lintel construction
D) ribbed vaulting construction
Q2) The flying buttress was used in the interior of Gothic cathedrals,such as <i>Chartres</i> to support the thick interior walls.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Of the names listed below,the one that is not a Greek order is __________.
A) Corinthian
B) Rhodian
C) Ionic
D) Doric
Q4) The form of building that uses columns and beams is __________ construction.
A) bearing wall
B) portico
C) post and lintel
D) masonry
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Chapter 14: Designed Settings
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Q1) During the Mughal period,a garden belonging to a Prime Minister was so envied by the emperor that the emperor __________.
A) had the Prime Minister killed
B) threw the Prime Minister out of his house, so he could move in C) shut off the water supply to deny the Prime Minister the garden's beauty
D) built his own garden to rival the Prime Minister's
Q2) Which architect and city planner is quoted as saying that,"A city is a complex series of events"?
A) Frank Lloyd Wright
B) Lawrence Halprin
C) Gian Lorenzo Bernini
D) Asaf Khan
Q3) <i>Sea Ranch</i> ,designed by Lawrence Halprin in California,is __________.
A) an attempt to control urban sprawl
B) a plan to provide living space in an environmentally sound situation
C) a means of preventing human access to environmentally sensitive places
D) a wildlife refuge
Q4) Cultivated gardens have been found only in Western societies.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Historical Styles in Western Art
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Q1) Characteristics of the work of Jackson Pollock include __________.
A) expressive gesture
B) all-over composition
C) expression of the artist's inner life
D) all of the above
Q2) Art buyers collect only art by major artists whose names and talents are recognized by the art galleries and dealers.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In the mid-nineteenth century,the painter Gustave Courbet sought to __________.
A) restore the emotion and drama of the Baroque
B) recapture the ancient forms of painting discovered in Roman ruins
C) depict grand mythological and religious subjects
D) present real people and scenes of contemporary life
Q4) Marcel Duchamp asserted that anything was art because it is simply the act of the artist's choice that establishes something as art.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Understanding Art on All Levels
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Q1) The subjects of the ceiling were determined by __________.
A) Michelangelo
B) Pope Julius
C) The College of Cardinals at the Vatican
D) none of the above
Q2) The method Picasso used to <i>create Guernica </i>was __________.
A) <i>alla prima</i>
B) indirect
C) based on maquettes
D) all of the above
Q3) The overall purpose,as conceived of by the Basque Public Authority,of Frank Gehry's <i>Guggenheim Bilbao</i> was to create a home for a museum that would draw international attention.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The massive <i>Sistine Ceiling</i> ceiling was Michelangelo's first major attempt at fresco.
A)True
B)False
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