History of European Art Review Questions
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This course provides a comprehensive overview of European art from antiquity to the 21st century, exploring major artistic movements, styles, and key figures that have shaped Europes cultural landscape. Students will examine the evolution of visual arts, including painting, sculpture, and architecture, in relation to the historical, religious, and social contexts in which they were produced. The course analyzes works from the Classical period, through Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Enlightenment, Romantic, Modern, and Contemporary eras, highlighting how European art reflects broader shifts in society, politics, and philosophy.
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Jansons Basic History of Western Art 9th Edition by Penelope J.E. Davies
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Chapter 1: Prehistoric Art
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Q1) The images in the Chauvet caves:
A) show animals of the hunt
B) are painted in natural pigments
C) show the movement of animals
D) all of the above
Answer: D
Q2) What is a megalith?
A) a hall of state in an ancient palace
B) a prehistoric monument found only in the British Isles
C) a marker of the summer solstice
D) a large stone
Answer: D
Q3) Pottery making is known from the Paleolithic period.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Neolithic people are known to have built substantial structures.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Ancient Near Eastern Art
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Q1) What is the main room of a Sumerian temple called?
A) atrium
B) hypostyle hall
C) audience hall
D) cella
Answer: D
Q2) The stele depicting the Law Code of Hammurabi comes from which culture?
A) Sumerian
B) Assyrian
C) Babylonian
D) Egyptian
Answer: C
Q3) Alexander the Great was allied with the Persians.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Naram-Sin was among the first Mesopotamian kings to deify himself.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Egyptian Art
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Q1) The Palette of Narmer:
A) expresses visually the concept of the king as unifier.
B) commemorates the separation of Upper and Lower Egypt.
C) was used by Narmer's queen to grind paint for her eye paint.
D) is sculpted in high relief.
Answer: A
Q2) Why is Tutankhamun so well known?
A) His is the only tomb found largely unplundered.
B) He was famous for his powerful and lengthy reign.
C) He was famous for the architecture he commissioned.
D) He was famous because of his conquests in battle.
Answer: A
Q3) Tutankhamun carried on the religious devotions of his predecessor Akhenaten.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) The Nile, Tigris, and Euphrates Rivers define and divide the Egyptian landscape.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Aegean Art
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Q1) 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
Q2) What refers to where and how objects were found and their subsequent histories?
A) provenance
B) principality
C) procreation
D) provincialism
Q3) Aegean civilization has been known from epic poems by:
A) Odysseus
B) Sir Arthur Evans
C) King Minos
D) Homer
Q4) Beehive tombs are typical of the architecture of:
A) Egypt
B) Persia
C) Crete
D) Mycenae
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Chapter 5: Greek Art
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Q1) What influences caused Greek art to evolve more rapidly than Egyptian art?
Q2) Which was a testament to Alexandria's cosmopolitan nature and the vitality of shipping and commerce throughout the Hellenistic Empire?
A) Pharos
B) Kore
C) Naos
D) Tholos
Q3) What is the name of the central room of a Greek temple where the statue of the deity was placed?
A) Megaron
B) Apadana
C) Pronaos
D) Cella
Q4) The lost wax process enabled Greek sculptors to create spatially freer forms than was possible in stone.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are the characteristic differences between the three primary classical orders? Be sure to include friezes and capitals in your discussion.
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Chapter 6: Etruscan Art
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Q1) Which culture eventually conquers and absorbs Etruscan civilization?
A) Roman
B) Greek
C) Mycenaean
D) Islamic
Q2) The Etruscans were sailors and merchants who traveled throughout the Mediterranean.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Where is the wall painting that shows hunting and fishing located?
A) In a temple
B) In a palace
C) In a tomb
D) In a fortress
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 Roman and Etruscan architecture.
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Chapter 7: Roman Art
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Q1) Which emperor wrote the Meditations, a work imbued with ideas and ideals of Stoic philosophy?
A) Marcus Aurelius
B) Julius Caesar
C) Octavian Augustus
D) Constantine
Q2) In what ways was the Theater of Pompey similar to its Greek forebears?
A) It had sloping banks of seats in a semicircle
B) It was nestled into a preexisting hillside
C) It was made of concrete
D) It was a true half circle
Q3) Compare the representation of the individual in Egyptian, Greek, and Roman art. What and who is (and is not) valued in each culture?
Q4) The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius caused considerable damage to the architecture in the Roman forum.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss different forms of illusion found in Roman murals.
Q6) How do you a see lasting impact of ancient Rome in contemporary culture?
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Chapter 8: Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art
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Q1) What type of church was most commonly constructed in the Byzantine Empire?
A) The Basilica-plan
B) One with a dome and a vertical focus
C) One with a long rectangular nave and side aisles
D) One based on the plan of Old St. Peter's
Q2) Most typically, how were the exterior of Early Christian churches designed?
A) Covered with mosaic decoration
B) Covered with three-dimensional sculpture
C) Had frescoes
D) They were left plain
Q3) Other than Constantinople, where can Byzantine art be seen?
A) Rome
B) Ravenna
C) Athens
D) Paris
Q4) Who conquered the Byzantine Empire in the 15th century?
A) Octavius
B) Theodoric
C) The Turks
D) Constantine
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Chapter 9: Islamic Art
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Q1) The adjective referring to the architectural use of many columns is:
A) hypostyle
B) pilaster
C) entasis
D) columnar
Q2) Islamic art first appears as a series of appropriations from which cultures?
A) Early Medieval Europe and early Viking
B) Etruscan and Egyptian
C) Macedonian and Greek
D) Graeco-Roman, Byzantine Christian, and Sasanian
Q3) 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
Q4) The term infidel is another word for believers in early Christian and Muslim traditions.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Early Medieval Art
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Q1) Compare the St. Matthew, from the Gospel Book of Charlemagne with St. Mark, from the Gospel Book of Archbishop Ebbo of Reims. How and why are they different?
Q2) The Chi Rho Iota page from the Book of Kells shows:
A) the relationship between manuscript illumination and precious metalwork
B) the influence of Islam on Celtic manuscript illumination
C) the clarity and simplicity of design in Hiberno-Saxon art
D) an attention by the artist to spatial illusionism
Q3) Unlike their Carolingian predecessors, the Ottonians did not aspire to restore the building and institutional programs of Christian Rome.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What was produced in a Carolingian scriptorium?
A) illuminated manuscripts
B) small-scale works of sculpture
C) decorative arts
D) architecture
Q5) Compare the figure on the cover of the Lindau Gospels with that of the Gero Crucifix. How and why are they different?
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Chapter 11: Romanesque Art
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Q1) Hildegard of Bingen was:
A) a Benedictine Abbess
B) a correspondent with leaders throughout Europe
C) an author of books on theology, medicine, and science
D) all of the above
Q2) Islamic visual motifs greatly influenced which country's approach to Romanesque art?
A) Spain
B) France
C) Germany
D) Italy
Q3) How did the Romanesque church evolve from the Early Christian basilica? What features were added or changed?
Q4) Santiago de Compostela was a major pilgrimage site.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Monasticism began in the west and spread to the east.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What is a pilgrimage church? How and why did they develop?
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Chapter 12: Gothic Art
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Q1) Compare and contrast the presentation of the Virgin Mary and Christ in the Virgin of Paris and the Roettgen Pieta. What different perspectives on these figures and on the Christian story are presented in these works?
Q2) A private prayer book is called
A) Book of Hours
B) Contemplation Image
C) Memento mori
D) Matins and Vespers
Q3) The impetus for the construction of Sainte-Chapelle was the acquisition of holy relics such as the Crown of Thorns and other items associated with Christ's passion.
A)True
B)False
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) High Gothic buildings are typified by horizontality and dark interiors.
A)True
B)False
Q6) 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 kind of church is Santa Croce in Florence?
A) Dominican
B) civic
C) Augustian
D) Franciscan
Q2) Municipal patrons, like the city of Siena, commissioned works of art to proclaim and further their accomplishments.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Franciscans and Dominicans were religious orders located mostly in the countryside in remote monasteries.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Petrarch, Dante, and Boccaccio were:
A) political figures
B) exclusively religious authors
C) members of mendicant orders
D) writers
Q5) What is significant about Giotto's style of painting in terms of style and narrative emphases?
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Chapter 14: Artistic Innovations in Fifteenth-Century
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Q1) 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
Q2) There is no evidence of the use of oil paints before Jan van Eyck.
A)True
B)False
Q3) How were the Virgin Mary, Joseph and the Angel Gabriel depicted in the Mérode Triptych?
A) in the Holy Lands in Biblical times
B) in ancient Rome
C) in ancient Greece
D) in a fifteenth-century Flemish household
Q4) The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck shows all of the following EXCEPT:
A) much symbolism
B) much detail
C) oil glazes
D) landscape featured prominently
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Q5) What are the artistic and social implications of printmaking?
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Chapter 15: The Early Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Italy
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Q1) Who wrote Treatise on Architecture?
A) Brunelleschi
B) Sangallo
C) Palladio
D) Alberti
Q2) What were the social conditions that encouraged the development of the Renaissance in fifteenth century Florence?
Q3) Who was an important patron of the Florentine Renaissance?
A) Julius II
B) Abbot Suger
C) Botticelli
D) Cosimo de' Medici
Q4) How does Ghiberti create the illusion of spatial depth in his panels? Where are the panels located? What material was used to make the doors?
Q5) 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) The nine main scenes of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling represent scenes from which Biblical book?
A) Genesis
B) Revelations
C) Exodus
D) Deuteronomy
Q2) Who wrote The Lives of the most Excellent Italian Architects, Painters, and Sculptors, known as The Lives?
A) Giorgio Vasari
B) Girolamo Savonarola
C) Lodovico Sforza
D) Tiziano Vecello
Q3) Who was one of the foremost patrons of art during the High Renaissance?
A) Cosimo de' Medici
B) Lorenzo the Magnificent
C) Julius II
D) Martin Luther
Q4) Discuss the Sistine Chapel ceiling in terms of technique, subject matter, and composition. How does it differ in mood from the scene of Last Judgment behind the altar?
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Chapter 17: The Late Renaissance and Mannerism in
Sixteenth-Century Italy
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Q1) Veronese, under pressure from the Inquisition, changed the title of one of his paintings to The Feast in the House of Levi from what?
A) The Last Supper
B) Sacra Conversazione
C) The Dinner Party
D) The Marriage Banquet
Q2) The forces of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V sacked which city in 1527?
A) Rome
B) Florence
C) Venice
D) Bologna
Q3) Sofonisba Anguissola, a female painter, most likely learned to paint from her artist father.
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
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Chapter 18: Renaissance and Reformation Throughout
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Q1) Discuss the combination of Italian figural forms and northern symbolism in Dürer's Adam and Eve. Given what we know of Dürer's biography, how do we account for this combination of southern and northern characteristics in this work?
Q2) Who was the portrait painter for King Henry VIII of England?
A) Cranach
B) Holbein the Younger
C) Dürer
D) Bruegel the Elder
Q3) Some of the still-life paintings of Pieter Aertsen carry moralizing messages.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What impact did the development of graphic arts have on the arts and the ownership and viewing of works of art in the North?
Q5) What word refers to the destruction of images?
A) iconoclasm
B) iconography
C) iconicism
D) iconophilia
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Chapter 19: The Baroque in Italy and Spain
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Q1) In comparing Bernini's David to Donatello's David, Bernini's is significantly:
A) more colorful
B) more serene
C) showing more influence of the Classical Greek contrapposto stance
D) more dynamic, full of implied movement
Q2) Zurbarán and Murillo were very active as painters of religious subjects in seventeenth-century Spain.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Juan de Pareja, whom Velázquez painted, was
A) An assistant and servant
B) A Spanish aristocrat
C) A wealthy patron of the artist
D) The Duke of Urbino
Q4) Which city is a major center for Baroque patronage during the Catholic Counter-Reformation?
A) Paris
B) Florence
C) Rome
D) Ravenna
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Chapter 20: The Baroque in the Netherlands
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Q1) Which would be concerned with a theme of Vanitas?
A) genre
B) landscape
C) portraiture
D) still life
Q2) Marie de' Medici was an important patron of which artist?
A) Rubens
B) Vermeer
C) Hals
D) Leyster
Q3) Van Dyck was court painter to:
A) Charles I of England
B) Charles I of Spain
C) Charles II of Spain
D) Charles V of Germany
Q4) Compare and contrast Judith Leyster's Self-Portrait and Frans Hals's Malle Babbe. What characteristics suggest that these are contemporary works by artists with similar interests? How do the subjects of these works differ?
Q5) Describe Rubens' patrons, his range of subject matter, and his manner of working.
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Chapter 21: The Baroque in France and England
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Q1) Much of the French Academy's doctrine was derived from which French painter during the reign of Louis XIV?
A) Fragonard
B) Poussin
C) La Tour
D) Vouet
Q2) Bernini was invited to France to propose a design for what building?
A) St. Paul's
B) Versailles
C) Louvre
D) St. Peter's
Q3) The Grand Manner was a concept introduced into French painting by Poussin.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A reaction against Bernini's style of architecture is seen in the work of French artist Claude Perrault.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What was the function of the Royal Academy and how did it exert an impact on French artists?
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Chapter 22: The Rococo
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Q1) The Swing by Fragonard suggests:
A) an alliance between aristocracy and clergy in secrets and erotic fantasy
B) mythological escapism
C) a morality play espousing middle-class virtues
D) history painting
Q2) What artist was a social critic and made morality paintings that teach middle-class virtues?
A) Poussin
B) Hogarth
C) Watteau
D) Boucher
Q3) Discuss the principal characteristics of Rococo art and architecture and reference a work of painting, sculpture, and architecture where those characteristics are in evidence.
Q4) What social functions did Pineau's Varengeville Room and Neumann's Kaisersaal serve and how were those functions furthered in expression by the architectural and ornamental styles that these designers/architects chose?
Q5) Compare and contrast Fragonard's The Swing and Chardin's Saying Grace. How do subject matter and style differ in these two works?
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Chapter 23: Art in the Age of the Enlightenment, 1750-1789
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Q1) Which French sculptor best exemplifies Enlightenment empiricism?
A) Houdon
B) Rodin
C) Greuze
D) Clodion
Q2) The climax of the Grand Tour of the eighteenth century was often a trip and extended visit to which city?
A) Rome
B) Paris
C) London
D) Berlin
Q3) Claude-Nicolas Ledoux designed 50 or more tax gates or customs houses for Rome using an inventive neoclassical vocabulary of architectural forms.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is traditionally classical and what is distinctly new, and Neoclassical, about Claude-Nicolas Ledoux's Barrière de l'Etoile that once stood in Paris?
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Chapter 24: Art in the Age of the Romanticism, 1789-1848
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Q1) In which painter's work are the sick and dying human cargo thrown into the sea during a typhoon?
A) Gros
B) Turner
C) Corot
D) Millet
Q2) The Houses of Parliament by Sir Charles Barry and Gothic
A)W.N. Pugin is an example of which revival in architecture?
B) Classical
C) Eclectic
D) Oriental
Q3) Eugène Delacroix's Scenes from the Massacre at Chios expresses support for Greek independence as well as the Romantic passion for democracy and individual freedom.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Compare the Romantic and Neoclassic styles. How are they similar and how do they differ in terms of both subject matter and style?
Q5) How did Napoleon use Neoclassicism to promote his imperial aims?
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Chapter 25: The Age of Positivism
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Q1) 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.
Q2) Mary Cassatt, an artist from England, exhibited with Monet and the other Impressionists.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The name of the economic and social doctrine that advocates state ownership and control of the basic means of production together with the egalitarian distribution of wealth is:
A) Socialism
B) Capitalism
C) Competition
D) Laissez-faire
Q4) Which photojournalist documented the Civil War with grim realism?
A) Nadar
B) Walpole
C) Millet
D) O'Sullivan
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Chapter 26: Progress and Its Discontents:
Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau, 1880-1905
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Q1) Describe the different approaches Post-Impressionist painters took both to build upon aspects of Impression and go take painting in new directions.
Q2) Who developed Pointillism?
A) Monet
B) Manet
C) Degas
D) Seurat
Q3) What is distinctive about Gaudí's work?
A) Walls of glass derived from the Crystal Palace
B) An internal steel skeleton
C) Vaulted arches on a colossal scale
D) Avoidance of all flat surfaces, straight lines, or symmetry of any kind
Q4) The neurologist who formulated theories of the unconscious, publishing his Interpretation of Dreams in 1900 was
A) Sigmund Freud
B) Karl Jung
C) André Breton
D) Jean Piaget
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Chapter 27: Toward Abstraction: the Modernist Revolution,
1905-1914
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Q1) Who was a forerunner to Surrealism, often painting foreboding images as though from a nightmare?
A) Malevich
B) De Chirico
C) Chagall
D) Duchamp
Q2) What does the term Fauve mean?
A) artificial
B) flower
C) wild beast
D) brilliant color
Q3) Discuss how Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon both reflects and shatters artistic tradition. Be sure to include references to specific works of art in your answer.
Q4) Pablo Picasso worked only in as a painter of two-dimensional works of art.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the influence of the Post-Impressionist painters on early twentieth century painting. Cite at least two examples of Post-Impressionist art and two examples of early twentieth century art in your answer.
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Chapter 28: Art Between the Wars
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Q1) How did Pablo Picasso approach the subject of war in his Guernica? Compare Picasso's approach to war in this work with other representations of war in the history of art.
Q2) Who was the founder of Constructivism?
A) Arp
B) Tatlin
C) Mondrian
D) Beckmann
Q3) How did the New Deal have an impact on documentary photography?
Q4) Marcel Duchamp's Fountain is a work in which style?
A) Dada
B) Surrealism
C) Nabi
D) New Deal
Q5) Who owned and ran "291"?
A) Man Ray
B) Adams
C) Weston
D) Stieglitz
Q6) What does the art of Lange have in common with that of Goya and Courbet?
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Chapter 29: Postwar to Postmodern, 1945-1980
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Q1) Describe the similarities and differences between the two variants of Abstract Expressionism: Action Painting and Color-Field Painting.
Q2) What was innovative about Rauschenberg's assemblages? How do they relate to the painting of the same period?
Q3) Joseph Beuys's propagated a myth that nomadic Tartars saved him from freezing to death by covering him in animal fat and layers of felt, materials that became a foundation for much of his work.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which Abstract Expressionist painting worked in the color field manner?
A) Mark Rothko
B) Jackson Pollock
C) Robert Rauschenberg
D) Allan Kaprow
Q5) Which color-field painter is known for his huge hazy rectangles?
A) Judd
B) Warhol
C) Smithson
D) Rothko
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Q1) Frank Gehry designed what kind of building for Bilbao, Spain?
A) Museum
B) corporate headquarters
C) public services building
D) war memorial
Q2) Maya Lin was a student in the architecture program at Yale University before receiving the commission for the:
A) Vietnam Veterans Memorial
B) Pompidou Centre
C) Guggenheim museum
D) Public Services Building
Q3) Anselm Kiefer evokes aspects of the history Germany in his paintings.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Who often incorporates body fluids or deteriorating bodies?
A) Cai
B) Murray
C) Smith
D) Puryear
Q5) What are the influences in Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao?
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