Foundations of Visual Arts Test Preparation
Course Introduction
Foundations of Visual Arts offers an introduction to the fundamental principles, techniques, and concepts that form the basis of artistic expression in visual media. Students will explore elements such as line, shape, color, texture, space, and composition through hands-on practice and critical analysis of historical and contemporary artworks. The course encourages creative problem-solving and visual literacy, fostering an understanding of how visual language communicates ideas, emotions, and cultural values. Designed for beginners, it provides a comprehensive grounding for further study in visual arts or personal artistic development.
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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) Vera Mukhina's <i>Machine Tractor Driver and Collective Farm Girl</i> is an example of __________.
A) a genre scene
B) sociopolitical content
C) abstraction
D) capitalism
Answer: B
Q3) The meaning found in art,including the subject-matter and the emotions,ideas,and symbols is called __________.
A) content
B) variety
C) spontaneity
D) predictability
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Visual Elements
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Q1) Alexander Calder's <i>Cow</i> uses __________ lines to create a sense of three-dimensionality and to emphasize the overall form of the image.
A) angled
B) variegated
C) contour
D) static
Answer: C
Q2) The sculptor Henry Moore was interested in the interplay between __________.
A) wood and marble
B) animals and landscape
C) positive form and negative space
D) viewers and critics
Answer: C
Q3) When two-dimensional images are made to look three-dimensional it is called
A) abstraction
B) surrealism
C) illusion
D) stylization
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Organizing Principles of Design
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Q1) The principle of repetition works because our brains prefer order to chaos.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) In the Balega mask ,contrast is achieved primarily through __________.
A) color
B) texture
C) size
D) content
Answer: B
Q3) Variety is expressed through transitions that are defined as rapid changes from one state to another.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Rhythm in art can be compared with rhythm in music.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Drawing
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Q1) In drawings made with brush and ink,as in Rembrandt's <i> Sleeping Girl </i>,the brushstrokes are __________.
A) clearly evident and, where the ink was spent, the paper shows through B) non-existent
C) messy because of the water required
D) thick and light reflective
Q2) In his drawing <i>Fish Skeletons</i> Hyman Bloom reverses the usual technique for pen and ink by __________.
A) showing only the contour lines
B) using a lot of hatching to create shading
C) using white ink on dark paper
D) creating spatial values
Q3) Conté crayon is __________.
A) greasy and gives a shine to the work
B) versatile and can be used for softness or sharp lines
C) produced in a range of pastel colors
D) difficult to sharpen
Q4) There are special crayons made of grease for use in lithographic printing.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Painting
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Q1) Mosaic is(are)__________ whose subtle effects can be viewed in <i>The Battle of Issus .</i>
A) only seen in secular works from antiquity to today
B) done by a single master who works alone
C) an ancient technique of embedding small tiles, called tesserae, into cement
D) both A and B
Q2) Encaustic must always be kept cool while it is being applied.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The medium used by Kurt Schwitters for <i>Merz 19</i> is called __________.
A) mosaic
B) collage
C) synthetic
D) <i>alla prima</i>
Q4) Collage was introduced as an art form in the early twentieth century. A)True B)False
Q5) Drawing and painting are two separate things,with no similarities between them. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Printmaking
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Q1) 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
Q2) The Japanese artist Hokusai was famous for creating __________.
A) woodblock prints of landscapes
B) portraits of Japanese emperors
C) watercolors of the countryside
D) symbolist-based dream imagery
Q3) Linocuts are widely used for commercial printing.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Line engravings were used for illustrations before photography took over.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Each printing technique can only be used alone and is never combined with other techniques.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Graphic Design
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Q1) The edition of <i>The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer </i>published by William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones is a good example of __________.
A) harmony of design
B) the quality of modern machine printing
C) mass-produced book illustration
D) all of the above
Q2) The advertisement for the Chicago Spire shown in <i>Wallpaper</i> Magazine relies on __________ to lure us into wanting to know more about the product.
A) the typeface of the logo
B) a sparse illustration
C) the specific words used to describe the clothing they sell
D) the celebrity shown in the ad
Q3) Typefaces are often chosen according to the __________ messages they convey.
A) economical
B) both A and C
C) psychological
D) all of the above
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Chapter 8: Photography and Filmmaking
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Q1) When a series of still images seem to merge and look like continuous movement it is because of the principle called __________.
A) eyelines
B) persistence of vision
C) flashback
D) digital photography
Q2) Digital imaging can build up lushly detailed works; simultaneously,it can delete details so that the focus falls upon a single object.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In the 1920s __________ formed the "straight photography" movement in which objects were recorded in sharp focus with attention given to their details.
A) Elizabeth Sunday
B) Alfred Stieglitz
C) Edward Weston
D) Olivia Parker
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Chapter 9: Digital Art
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Q1) The object in a virtual reality experience that transfers the movement of a participant's hand to a tracking system in the computer is a __________.
A) digital glove
B) sensory digitizer
C) tactile input device
D) access monitor
Q2) Computer scientists of the 1960s created "photomosaics" in an attempt to determine the minimal amount of information the human eye needs in order to recognize an image as a three-dimensional figure.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Once an image is installed on the computer,it can never be changed.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Richard Voss uses __________ to create astonishingly realistic landscapes.
A) calculus
B) fractal geometry
C) a graphing device
D) all of the above
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Chapter 10: Sculpture
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Q1) The Greeks developed the __________ process of casting,which is still used.
A) lost-wax
B) foundry
C) slip
D) granite
Q2) The <i>Head of a Woman</i> created by__________ uses a direct carving technique that preserves its stony texture and creates a deliberately "primitive" look.
A) Amedeo Modigliani
B) Michelangelo
C) Benvenuto Cellini
D) Thornton Dial
Q3) Michelangelo believed that one piece of marble was the same as another.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A small clay or plaster model for a larger sculpture is called a __________.
A) laminate
B) maquette
C) puppet
D) carrara
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Chapter 11: Craft Media
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Q1) Most clay vessels are __________ to ensure permanence and water resistance.
A) treated with a chemical slip
B) evenly proportioned and balanced
C) baked
D) pressure-treated
Q2) One of the most common ways of making glass vessels is __________.
A) coil-building
B) using a blowpipe
C) carving with specialized tools
D) all of the above
Q3) Susye Billy,a basket weaver of the native Pomo people in California,has said natural materials for her craft are difficult to obtain because __________.
A) not many stores carry them anymore
B) they have become too expensive to buy in bulk
C) land developers have changed the natural environment
D) none of the above
Q4) Iron and steel are the least malleable metals.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Product and Clothing Design
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Q1) The Japanese word for clothing,<i>fuku</i>,also means __________.
A) happiness
B) comfort
C) tranquility
D) confusion
Q2) The Bauhaus became famous for __________.
A) decorative flourishes in architecture and product design
B) a clean, open, and unornamented rationality in design
C) advocating comfort over design
D) using only mass-produced industrial materials in their products
Q3) The Bauhaus aesthetic developed into the highly influential __________ style of architecture.
A) International
B) Postmodern
C) Prairie
D) Baroque
Q4) The conservative dress of men in twentieth century Western society is typical of how Western men have dressed throughout history.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Architecture
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Q1) The <i>Suq al-Ainau</i> is an excellent example of how architects adapt their designs to respond to __________.
A) their own unsophisticated engineering skills
B) the environment in which the structure is placed
C) substandard materials
D) the lack of experience of the construction workers
Q2) Wrought iron began to be used for framing buildings in the __________ century.
A) twentieth
B) eighteenth
C) nineteenth
D) fifteenth
Q3) The <i>Nakagin Capsule Building</i> in Tokyo is an example of__________.
A) reinforced concrete technology
B) modular construction
C) balloon-frame construction
D) load-bearing construction
Q4) The walled gardens in the Alhambra were functional and provided fruits and vegetables for the royal family.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Designed Settings
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Q1) Urban planning is the name given to the effort to __________.
A) tear down decrepit buildings in bad neighborhoods
B) create balanced environments in urban areas
C) build recreational areas in the inner city
D) design road and highway plans so as not to interfere with housing
Q2) In some performing arts,the bodies of performers are deliberately turned into __________.
A) a model community
B) design elements like parts of a painting or sculpture
C) costumes that are complex to create
D) an audience who participates
Q3) Evidence of gardens has been found __________.
A) only since the Renaissance
B) beginning in the sixth century
C) in very few places
D) in the ruins of the earliest civilizations
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) The three greatest artists of the High Renaissance in Italy were __________.
A) Jan van Eyck, Giotto, and Raphael
B) Tintoretto, Giotto, and Michelangelo
C) Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Raphael
D) none of the above
Q3) An example of how the Romantic painters departed from Neoclassical austerity is __________.
A) Géricault's <i>The Raft of the Medusa</i>
B) Velàzquez'<i> Las Meninas</i>
C) Grünewald's <i>The Isenheim Altarpiece</i>
D) none of the above
Q4) Archaeologists have found a lot of evidence of prehistoric societies and can give a detailed interpretation of the art.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Understanding Art on All Levels
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Q1) The temples of Angkor Wat (figs.16.8-12)represent __________.
A) a pictorial history of Hindu rulers
B) a vast burial complex
C) the oldest known example of bas-relief
D) an immense model of the Hindu cosmic world
Q2) The tall roofs of some of Angkor's temple complexes are built __________.
A) with flying buttresses
B) with balloon-frame construction
C) in a pyramid fashion known as corbeling
D) using arches
Q3) The figures in Picasso's <i>Guernica</i> are believed to be __________.
A) based on portraits of family members
B) allegorical
C) taken from newspaper photos of the incident
D) none of the above
Q4) The massive <i>Sistine Ceiling</i> ceiling was Michelangelo's first major attempt at fresco.
A)True
B)False
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