History of Modern Art Exam Bank
Course Introduction
History of Modern Art explores the development of visual arts from the late nineteenth century to the present, focusing on major movements such as Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and beyond. The course examines the works of influential artists, the social and historical contexts that shaped artistic innovation, the evolution of styles and techniques, and the shifting role of the artist in society. Students gain an understanding of how political, technological, and cultural changes contributed to new forms of artistic expression, while developing skills in visual analysis and critical thinking about contemporary and historical artworks.
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Art History 5th Edition Volume 2 by Marilyn Stokstad
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Chapter 1: Fourtheenth-Century Art in Europe
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Q1) Wealthy Italian families added __________ to their homes,both for the purpose of defense and to symbolize their power.
A) cannons
B) mirrors
C) lighting
D) towers
Answer: D
Q2) The doors for the Florentine Baptistery are made of __________.
A) carved wood
B) gilded bronze
C) molded stucco
D) a brick core
Answer: B
Q3) Discuss the techniques of buon fresco and fresco secco,citing examples of each.
Answer: Not Answer
Q4) Discuss the change in patronage practices in fourteenth-century France.How did these changes impact the arts?
Answer: Not Answer
Q5) Discuss the different phases of construction for Exeter Cathedral.
Answer: Not Answer
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Chapter 2: Fifteenth-century Art in Northern Europe
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Q1) Étienne Chevalier and St.Stephen and __________ by Jean Fouquet were originally the two wings of a diptych.
A) Adam and Eve
B) Prophets
C) Virgin and Child
D) Saint Anthony
Answer: C
Q2) The _______________ represents the complicated collaboration among scholars,artists and investors in the history of printed books.
A) The Buxheim St. Christopher
B) Nuremberg Chronicle
C) The Temptations of St. Anthony
D) St. Wolfgang Altarpiece
Answer: B
Q3) The earliest printed books were __________ books.
A) intaglio
B) engraving
C) block
D) textile
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Renaissance art in fifteenth-century Italy
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Q1) In fifteenth-century Italy,__________ were the men whom a city-state could hire,for a sum of money,to organize and lead an army in its defense.
A) condottiere
B) giornata
C) sinopia
D) maestro
Answer: A
Q2) Ghiberti's doors for the east side of the Baptistery in Florence were so admired that they came to be known as the ______________.
A) Gates of Paradise
B) Golden Arches
C) Gateway to Heaven
D) Doors to the Kingdom
Answer: A
Q3) What were Cosimo de Medici the Elder's primary concerns for the commission of the Medici Palace in Florence?
Answer: Not Answer
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Chapter 4: Sixteenth-century art in Italy
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Q1) How did Michelangelo alter Bramante's plan for St.Peter's Basilica?
A) He shifted to a Latin Cross plan.
B) He simplified the plan to allow for a more open, unified interior.
C) He called for a taller slimmer dome.
D) All of the above.
Q2) What element of Giacomo della Porta's design of Il Gesù was widely influential?
A) the wide nave
B) the single apse and dome at the crossing
C) a two-story façade emphasizing with the nave elevation
D) all of the above
Q3) How is Venetian Renaissance art similar to and different from High Renaissance art in Florence and Rome?
Q4) Recent scholarship suggests that Titian's "Venus" of Urbino (21-28)was meant to represent_____________.
A) a classical goddess
B) a newly married woman
C) a Venetian courtisan
D) a specific individual
Q5) Why is Bronzino's Allegory with Venus and Cupid typical of Mannerism?
Q6) How was Titian regarded as an artist?
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Chapter 5: sixteenth-century art in northern Europe and the Iberian peninsula
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Q1) How were women involved in Netherlandish art of the sixteenth century?
Q2) In 1586,the __________ family commissioned El Greco to paint a large altarpiece honoring a great fourteenth-century ancestor.
A) Orgaz
B) Manuel
C) Luther
D) Augustine
Q3) Which of the following was responsible for the spread of an Italianate tradition of Mannerism in painting and interior decoration throughout France and Northern Europe?
A) Jean Clouet
B) Francis I
C) the School of Fontainebleau
D) the Cour Carrée at the Louvre
Q4) The important role of women patrons during the Renaissance is particularly evident at __________.
A) Augsburg
B) Chenonceau
C) Fontainebleau
D) Wittenberg
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Chapter 6: Seventeenth-Century art in Europe
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Q1) Clara Peeters was one of the first still life artists to combine ____________ in a single painting.
A) still life subjects and tapestries
B) flowers and food
C) figures and still life elements
D) insects and utensils
Q2) Caravaggio actively used __________,in which he painted forms emerging from a dark background into a strong light that often falls from a single source outside the painting
A) ash
B) tenebrism
C) grisaille
D) ignudi
Q3) What is one way that scientific discoveries impacted on art of the seventeenth century?
Q4) Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Baroque art?
A) an interest in Classicism
B) heightened dramatic effects
C) an appeal to the viewer's intellectual interests
D) different media used in a single work
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Chapter 7: art of south and southeast Asia after 1200
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of an Indian painting on paper?
A) Hour of Cowdust
B) Seated Buddha
C) Sukhothai Buddha (p. 787)
D) Vedic
Q2) The principal _________________centers were great monastic universities,concentrated in the northeast,and attracted monks from as far away as China,Korea,and Japan.
A) cultural
B) Buddhist
C) Hindu
D) Muslim
Q3) India's ruling dynasties of Islamic heritage introduced two fundamental structures into Indian architecture: the __________ and the __________.
A) mosque; tomb
B) temple; gate
C) reflecting pool; fountain
D) tomb; palace
Q4) Discuss the characteristics of Tantric Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara .
Q5) Discuss the Indian technique of painting on paper.
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Chapter 8: Chinese and Korean art after 1279
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Q1) What is the derivation of the word "porcelain"?
Q2) __________,a pre-eminent professional painter in the Ming period,produced the influential handscroll Spring Dawn in the Han Palace .
A) Guan Zhou
B) Zhao Mengfu
C) Qiu Ying
D) Dai Jin
Q3) Explain the significance of the dragon in Chinese tradition; cite a specific example of its representation in the arts.
Q4) Which art form was NOT considered an accomplishment suited to the literati?
A) calligraphy
B) poetry
C) music
D) painting
Q5) What is distinctive about Korean painted porcelain?
Q6) How did conditions in Korea from the late nineteenth century into the twentieth century affect its artistic development?
Q7) What is the Forbidden City ? Who built it? Consider its origins,its design,its symbolism.
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Chapter 9: Japanese art after 1333
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Q1) __________ is monochromatic painting in black ink and its diluted grays.
A) Gray painting
B) Chroma painting
C) Ink painting
D) Reflective painting
Q2) During the Edo period,intellectuals in Kyoto protested against the Tokugawa shoguns by ______________.
A) publishing woodblock prints
B) supporting an imperial coup
C) inciting student protests
D) drinking sencha
Q3) Describe the tools and materials used for ink painting.Are these only used for ink painting or are they used for other arts as well?
Q4) Shoin interiors were found in the homes of _________________.
A) samurai
B) aristocrats
C) well-to-do commoners
D) all of the above
Q5) Describe the utensils of the tea ceremony.
Q6) What is the Kano school? What artist was a product of this school?
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Chapter 10: Art of the Americas after 1300
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Q1) The term __________ derives from the word Atzlan,a mythical place northwest of the Valley of Mexico.
A) Arizona
B) Aztec
C) Atlanta
D) Attica
Q2) What are the common traits of the different Native American peoples in their art?
Q3) Decorative beadwork did not become commonplace until after __________ contact.
A) Chinese
B) Japanese
C) Russian
D) European
Q4) How did Native Americans use basketry?
Q5) After the Spanish invasion,Aztec craftspeople adapted their skills to create ___________of Christian subjects.
A) gold and silver sculptures
B) feather paintings
C) woven textiles
D) manuscripts
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Chapter 11: art of pacific cultures
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Q1) The moai found at Rapa Nui have no _________.
A) hair
B) eyes
C) hands
D) legs
Q2) How are the Pacific cultures similar and different?
Q3) What is the relationship of meeting houses such as Te-Hau-ki-Turanga to the Maori's ancestors?
A) The building is the site where tribal history and genealogy are preserved.
B) The building's framework depicts the tribal ancestors who symbolically uphold the structure.
C) The building's ridgepole and slanting bargeboards represent the tribe's founding ancestor.
D) All of the above.
Q4) Maori men in New Zealand prized __________ and considered it to have sacred powers.
A) emerald
B) sapphire
C) jadeite
D) coral
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Chapter 12: art of Africa in the modern era
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Q1) In many African cultures,a diviner is someone who ______________.
A) makes sacred art including masks, sculptures, and ceramic wares
B) speaks for the tribal elders
C) maintains cultural secrets regarding ritual ceremonies
D) mediates between this world and the supernatural
Q2) Yoruba sculptural figures are typically __________ in size and static in position.
A) tall
B) rotund
C) short
D) mismatched
Q3) Why do some contemporary African artists continue to use indigenous traditions?
Q4) Numerous tradition-based societies persist in __________.
A) Europe
B) Africa
C) Asia
D) Pacific Islands
Q5) How do the Chokwe use divination?
Q6) Why does African art idealize the spirits of community leaders and others?
Q7) Why does tradition-based art in Africa appear in such a wide variety of forms?
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13: Eighteenth- and early-nineteenth century art in
Europe and NORTH America
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Q1) In England,Neoclassicism was accompanied by a __________ revival.
A) Gothic
B) Chinese
C) Mexican
D) African
Q2) A common thread that connected Romantic artists was ____________.
A) the belief in the necessity of the Grand Tour
B) a simplified composition that clearly depicts individual forms
C) a focus on rational subjects
D) an emphasis on emotional expressiveness
Q3) How do scientific discoveries impact on art during the eighteenth century?
Q4) Monticello was based on Jefferson's study of __________ houses and fashionable Parisian houses.
A) Palladian
B) Chinese
C) Mexican
D) Canadian
Q5) In what ways is Rococo architecture related to Baroque architecture?
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Q6) Why did Diderot encourage artists to work for the common good?
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Chapter 14: mid-to late nineteenth-century art in Europe and the united states
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Q1) The Belgian artist James Ensor frequently used _______in his terrifying paintings,which combined aspects of Symbolism and Expressionism.
A) weapons
B) femme fatales
C) demons
D) masks
Q2) The development of structural steel and the ________ were essential to the development of the modern skyscraper.
A) electric elevator
B) pre-cut glass panes
C) ancient techniques of concrete
D) cable car
Q3) __________'s famous saying "Form ever follows function" had a significant impact on architectural design in the twentieth century.
A) Victor Horta
B) Charles Garnier
C) Louis Sullivan
D) Antonio Gaudi
Q4) Who was William Morris?
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1900-1950
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Q1) How did Walter Gropius's design for the Bauhaus building convey the dynamism of modern life?
A) The three large cubic areas had a balanced asymmetry.
B) It used modern materials and technology in a traditional architectural form.
C) It emphasized hand-crafted workmanship and aesthetic quality.
D) It integrated the building's form organically into the surrounding landscape.
Q2) The politically charged expressionism of Käthe Kollwitz can be most closely aligned with the artists of which modern movement?
A) The Bridge
B) Dada
C) Regionalism
D) none of the above
Q3) The __________ of Gerrit Rietveld's Schröder House created the radical asymmetry sought after in the De Stijl movement.
A) exposed skeletal structure
B) large expanses of windows
C) richly encrusted surface
D) the white planes and horizontal and vertical accents in primary colors
Q4) How did Russian Constructivists combine Modern styles with practical needs?
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Chapter 16: The international scene since 1950
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Q1) The text explains that Minimalist art is best understood when considered
A) in photographic reproductions
B) in a gallery or museum context
C) alongside the artists' written manifestoes
D) from a distance
Q2) Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party is a large sculptural installation,celebrating women's __________.
A) altars
B) history
C) libraries
D) cuisine
Q3) Barbara Kruger's signature style combines black and white photographic images with _______________.
A) traditional folk crafts
B) the red used in cheap advertising
C) calligraphy
D) provocative images of women
Q4) What is Postmodern art?
Q5) What are some of the issues New Media artists address in their art?
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