Humanities: Art and Culture Test Bank
Course Introduction
This course offers an exploration of the diverse ways in which art and culture have shaped and reflected human experience across history. Students will examine major artistic movements, cultural artifacts, and the role of creative expression in different societies. Through the study of visual arts, literature, music, and performance, the course encourages critical analysis of how culture informs identity, values, and social change. Emphasis is placed on developing an appreciation for artistic diversity and understanding the transformative power of the humanities in a global context.
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Understanding Art 11th Edition by Lois Fichner-Rathus
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Chapter 1: Understanding Art
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Q1) _________________ in a composition describes an attention-grabbing aspect that directs the viewer's eye to a particular area,giving it visual or conceptual dominance.
A) Focal point
B) Emphasis
C) Variety
D) Chaos
E) Unity Answer: B
Q2) __________ generally refers to distinctive characteristics of art and architecture that are common to a culture,era,or to a group of artists working at the same time or toward a common artistic goal.
A) Content
B) Form
C) Style
D) Creativity
E) Context Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Line and Shape
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Q1) Edward Weston's Dunes,Oceano highlights the aesthetic possibilities of
A) contour lines
B) outlines
C) colors
D) illusions
E) flat lines
Answer: A
Q2) The ____________ shape of an artistic composition is considered the ground.
A) biomorphic
B) positive
C) irregular
D) negative
E) complementary
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Light and Color
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Q1) What inspired Picasso to create his groundbreaking painting known as Les Demoiselles d'Avignon?
A) Heavy machinery
B) African and Iberian art
C) Japanese art
D) Prehistoric cave paintings
E) Nature
Answer: B
Q2) The colors opposite each other on the color wheel are ____________.
A) tints
B) analogous
C) warm
D) complementary
E) agitated
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Texture and Pattern
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Q1) The word texture derives from the _______for weaving.
A) Latin
B) Greek
C) English
D) French
E) German
Q2) What are El Anatsui's magnificent "woven" wall hangings composed of?
Q3) Texture can be used in concert with pattern,which is a design based on the repetition or grouping of elements such as_______________.
A) iconography
B) emphasis and mark
C) line, shape, color, or texture
D) cross hatching, and line
E) painting
Q4) The literal meaning of the __________phrase trompe l'oeil is "trick the eye."
A) Latin
B) Greek
C) English
D) French
E) German
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Chapter 5: Space,Time,and Motion
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Q1) Discuss the use of relative size in Martina López's Heirs Come to Pass,3.
Q2) ________________refers to formal systems developed by artists to portray three-dimensional objects in two-dimensional space.
A) Actual perspective
B) Outline perspective
C) Linear perspective
D) Curved perspective
E) Heavy perspective
Q3) The photograph of the mountain fortress of Machu Picchu illustrates the role of what?
Q4) Futurist artists,like Boccioni,were seduced by what?
Q5) Atmospheric perspective is also known as _____________.
A) actual perspective
B) outline perspective
C) aerial perspective
D) curved perspective
E) heavy perspective
Q6) What accounts for spatial complexity in Martina López's Heirs Come to Pass,3?
Q7) Explain the difference between actual space and implied space,and provide an artistic example of each.
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Chapter 6: Principles of Design
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Q1) In Kay Sage's I Saw Three Cities,most of the visual weight in the composition occurs in the lower half but is balanced in the upper reaches of the sky by __________.
A) a flowing column of drapery
B) a colossal statue
C) two bright orange spheres
D) a tower in the distance
E) several tall trees
Q2) Identify six design principles.
Q3) Symmetry can be found in which of the following?
A) The United States Capitol building
B) Niki de Saint-Phalle's Black Venus
C) Marisol's Baby Girl
D) Leonardo da Vinci's Proportion of the Human Figure
E) Claes Oldenburg's Clothespin
Q4) The ancient Greek Polykleitos is credited with developing a set of rules about body parts and their relative dimensions that became the standard for creating the ideal figure.What is this set of rules called?
Q5) Which is more typically found in both art and nature: pure symmetry or approximate symmetry? Why?
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Chapter 7: Drawing
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Q1) __________________ chose the medium of drawing to render the dramatic Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features.
A) Marc Brandenburg
B) Adrian Piper
C) George Condo
D) Elizabeth Peyton
E) Claudio Bravo
Q2) Identify six types of dry media used for drawing.
Q3) Why was Gary Kelley's pastel drawing,reminiscent of the jazz age,commissioned?
Q4) The effects of __________ when each is drawn against a paper surface are very similar.
A) silverpoint and charcoal
B) pencil, silverpoint, and pastel
C) charcoal, chalk, and pastel
D) pencil, charcoal, and pastel
E) silverpoint, pencil, and chalk
Q5) List two techniques by which artists can achieve dramatically different effects with fluid media.
Q6) Explain the evolution of the pencil and how it is now made.
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Chapter 8: Painting
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Q1) Describe three ancient uses for encaustic painting.
Q2) In Giotto's fourteenth-century painting Lamentation,seams can clearly be seen that break the blue sky into numerous sections.This occurred because of the ___________.
A) desire of the artist
B) limitations of oil painting
C) limitations of tempera
D) limitations of fresco
E) limitations of watercolor
Q3) __________ was the exclusive painting medium of artists during the medieval era.
A) Oil
B) Tempera
C) Encaustic
D) Fresco
E) Gouache
Q4) List seven commonly used paint vehicles.
Q5) Describe the process of buon fresco.
Q6) Compare and contrast the paintings of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart and Roy Lichtenstein.
Q7) What are the advantages of painting with oils?
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Chapter 9: Printmaking and Graphic Design
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Q1) In the __________ process,the artist creates clean-cut lines on a plate of copper,zinc,or steel by forcing a sharp burin across the surface with the heel of the hand.
A) etching
B) mezzotint
C) drypoint
D) engraving
E) aquatint
Q2) Explain how the addition of drypoint can change and enhance the appearance of an engraving.
Q3) Etching is a very versatile medium.In Henri Matisse's Loulou Distracted,he used __________ to represent the essential features of a woman.
A) hazy shading
B) numerous thin and thick lines
C) a combination of drypoint and etching
D) tight, rhythmic, flowing lines
E) only a few uniformly etched lines
Q4) Describe the process of producing lithographic prints.
Q5) Explain which of the printmaking processes is most appealing to you and why?
Q6) List two reasons why printmaking is an important artistic medium.
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Chapter 10: Imaging: Photography, Film, Video, and Digital Arts
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Q1) What is one of the major keys to success for a photojournalist?
Q2) List four things that influence the nature of the artist-photographer's creative product.
Q3) Which classic early color film depicted real life in black and white and imaginary life in expressionistic color?
A) Gone with the Wind
B) Citizen Kane
C) The Wizard of Oz
D) North by Northwest
E) Birth of a Nation
Q4) Margaret Bourke-White wrote,"Using the camera was almost a relief; it interposed a slight barrier between myself and the white horror in front of me ..." Here,Bourke-White is describing __________.
A) V2 bomb destruction in World War II London
B) hungry sharecroppers during the Depression
C) Buchenwald during the Holocaust
D) the aftermath of Chernobyl
E) the bombing of Hiroshima
Q5) What is a camera obscura,and how was it used by Renaissance artists?
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Chapter 11: Sculpture, Installation, Site-Specific Art, and 3d Design
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Q1) In recent years,artists have produced __________ sculptures by welding,riveting,and soldering.
A) cast
B) direct-metal
C) burnished
D) forged
E) light
Q2) Explain why Sylvie Fleury could easily be described as a Pop artist.
Q3) In the lost wax process,molten metal is poured into a fire-resistant mold known as a(n)__________.
A) kiln
B) cast
C) shell
D) inner core
E) investiture
Q4) Why did the ancient Greeks likely value marble more for its durability than anything else?
Q5) In spirit and style,which of Picasso's two-dimensional works were very similar to his constructed sculpture?
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Chapter 12: Craft Arts
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Q1) When Thomas Hoving,former Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,first saw a fine scene-painted ancient Greek terra cotta vase,he said,"The first thought that came to mind was [that] I was gazing not at a vase,but at a painting." This is indicative of
A) his great respect for Greek treasures
B) an art world prejudice that places less importance on functional objects
C) the incredible rarity of a signed Greek vase
D) the inferior form of the vase itself
E) the fact that the incredible painting overshadowed the form of the vase
Q2) Textile art make what two types of objects?
Q3) Contrast the attitude of the ancient Greek philosophers regarding the distinction between fine art and functional objects with that of a nineteenth-century French philosopher.Explain why you do or do not agree with either point of view.
Q4) How does Kiff Slemmons's Transport bridge the gulf between fine art and the functional object?
Q5) Compare and contrast Claudi Casanovas's Block #43 and Harumi Nakashima's Porcelain Form.
Q6) Compare and contrast Melvyn Firmager's Untitled and David Ellsworth's Vessel in terms of the versatility of wood.
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Chapter 13: Architecture and Urban Design
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Q1) Originally a derisive term,__________ uses mass produced,light,easily handled cuts of wood and metal nails for the assembly of millions of homes and small buildings on site.
A) post and beam
B) plywood construction
C) balloon framing
D) prefabricated construction
E) cast-iron construction
Q2) Which of the following statements about steel cable construction,first used to build the Brooklyn Bridge,is not true?
A) It has great tensile strength.
B) Its many parallel wires share the stress.
C) It is flexible, allowing the roadway underneath to sway.
D) It can only span very short distances.
E) It can be aesthetically pleasing.
Q3) What was the Crystal Palace; how was it built; what was it used for; and what was Joseph Paxton's inspiration?
Q4) Why can rounded arches enclose only square bays,and what adjustment must be made to obtain a rectangular bay?
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Chapter 14: Art of the Ancient World
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Q1) During Akhenaton's reign,the longstanding stylized formality of Egyptian art briefly gave way to __________,as seen in the very famous Bust of Queen Nefertiti.
A) curving lines and full-bodied forms
B) rigidity
C) abstraction
D) conventionalism
E) excess
Q2) The term labyrinthine well describes the huge,sprawling Palace at Knossos,and the term comes from the myth of the __________.
A) centaur
B) leviathan
C) Cyclops
D) Minotaur
E) typhoon
Q3) Artist Emil Nolde said,"Art is exalted above religion and race.Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religion of the Assyrians,the Egyptians,or the Greeks ...Only their art,whenever it was beautiful,stands proud and exalted,rising above all time." Using artistic examples to support your argument,what is your interpretation of this quote?
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Chapter 15: Greece, Rome, and the Early Judeo-Christian World
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Q1) Summarize the four philosophies of the Greeks that formulated their attitude toward life.
Q2) Illustrate how the areas and peoples that were conquered by Roman expansionism actually benefited from subsequent urban planning.
Q3) What has been the fate of the Parthenon since the Age of Pericles?
Q4) Discuss the technique of creating a black-figure vase,including the three-stage firing process.How were red-figure vases produced?
Q5) Describe the Roman system of government in the Republican period and summarize why it was doomed to fail.
Q6) Compare and contrast the Greek Archaic Kouros Figure and Polykleitos's Doryphoros or Spearbearer.
Q7) In an effort to produce an integrated look to the Parthenon,all of the following construction variations are found except that the __________.
A) columns tilt inward
B) top step of the platform is perfectly straight
C) columns are not evenly spaced
D) corner columns are wider in diameter
E) shafts of the columns swell in diameter
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Chapter 16: The Age of Faith
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Q1) The San Vitale apse mosaic Justinian and Attendants is characterized by all of the following except __________.
A) thickly lidded eyes staring outward
B) costumes that appear to hang on invisible frames
C) heavily draped figures that have no substance
D) unnatural gestures
E) that Justinian is by far the largest figure
Q2) The first centuries after the death of Jesus,before Emperor Constantine proclaimed religious tolerance for Christians,were known as the __________.
A) Dark Ages
B) Period of Persecution
C) Period of Recognition
D) Period of Non-Recognition
E) Early Christian period
Q3) How did the term Gothic originate,and why was it for many years considered a term of derision?
Q4) Using Chartres Cathedral as an example,explain the dramatic vistas found in a High Gothic church.
Q5) What did the Edict of Milan declare?
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Chapter 17: The Renaissance
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Q1) What two things likely influenced Venetian painters of the High and Late Renaissance periods?
Q2) Northern Renaissance artists tried to reconcile religion with scenes and objects from everyday life by using __________.
A) iconology
B) symbolism
C) artistic tricks
D) color
E) text
Q3) Compare and contrast Cimabue's Madonna Enthroned with Giotto's Madonna Enthroned.
Q4) During the Renaissance period,there was a revival of all of the following except __________.
A) Classical themes in art and literature
B) realism and naturalism
C) spirituality and otherworldliness
D) the Greek philosophy of humanism
E) delight in beauty for its own sake
Q5) Explain how Titian uses color as a compositional device in his Venus of Urbino.
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Q6) Describe the classical design of Alberti's Palazzo Rucellai.
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Chapter 18: The Baroque ERA
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Q1) Baciccio's Triumph of the Sacred Name of Jesus in Il Gesu in Rome achieves a trompe l'oeil effect by combining painted figures with __________.
A) marble sculptures and an oculus
B) white stucco modeled figures and a bronze ceiling
C) marble sculptured figures and a coffered stone ceiling
D) white stucco modeled sculptures and a gilded stucco ceiling
E) painted stucco sculptures and a wooden ceiling
Q2) Describe how Peter Paul Rubens conveys space,time,and theatricality in The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus.
Q3) In the Palace at Versailles,all of the following elements echo Renaissance techniques except that the __________.
A) structure is divided horizontally into three stories
B) palace interior is lavishly decorated with dramatic vistas
C) structure is divided vertically into three major sections
D) windows are placed rhythmically and divided by pilasters
E) balustrade crowns the palace, emphasizing the horizontal
Q4) What are the five major characteristics of Baroque art?
Q5) Describe how Bernini's David illustrates the Baroque characteristics of motion,space,and time.
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Chapter 19: The Modern ERA
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Q1) "I saw the flaming clouds like blood and a sword-the bluish-black fjord and town-my friends walked on-I stood there-trembling with anxiety-and I felt as though Nature were convulsed by a great unending scream." This quote is describing __________.
A) Käthe Kollwitz's The Scream
B) Edvard Munch's The Outbreak
C) Käthe Kollwitz's The Outbreak
D) Edvard Munch's The Scream
E) Vincent van Gogh's Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear
Q2) Discuss the style and popularity of Academic art,especially as embodied in the work of Adolphe William Bouguereau.
Q3) As depicted in Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe,Édouard Manet utilized all but one of the following "modern" painting techniques:
A) He began with a white surface and worked to build up dark tones.
B) He applied his pigments flatly and broadly.
C) His seated nude woman stares at the viewer, making him a voyeur.
D) He modeled his figures using chiaroscuro.
E) He captured the impression of a fleeting moment.
Q4) Into what two stylistically divergent groups did the Post-Impressionists fall?
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Chapter 20: The Twentieth Century: The Early Years
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Q1) Discuss Joan Miró's approach to painting,his influences,and his technique.
Q2) In Umberto Boccioni's Dynamism of a Soccer Player,we see the __________ obsession with illustrating images in perpetual motion.
A) Cubist
B) Fauvist
C) Expressionist
D) Futurist
E) Dadaist
Q3) Describe Pablo Picasso's Blue Period,using his The Old Guitarist as an example.
Q4) The Futurists' belief that their subjects were less important than the portrayal of a "dynamic sensation" is very evident in Giacomo Balla's constantly "moving" painting known as __________.
A) The Portuguese
B) Twittering Machine
C) Bird in Space
D) Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale
E) Street Light
Q5) Describe Naum Gabo's Column and the Constructivist aesthetic and theory behind it.
Q6) Explain how the Fauves got their name.
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Q1) Explain why,in Barbara Kruger's Untitled (We Don't Need Another Hero),her medium is all about the message.
Q2) Francis Bacon's Figure with Meat is a raw and distorted reworking of __________.
A) El Greco's The Burial of Count Orgaz
B) Caravaggio's The Conversion of St. Paul
C) Rembrandt's Self Portrait
D) Velázquez's Pope Innocent X
E) van Gogh's Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear
Q3) Explain the origin of the Deconstructivist movement and how its tenets have been translated into Deconstructivist architecture.
Q4) Modern architecture encompassed many architectural visions,including those of all but which one of the following architects?
A) Frank Lloyd Wright
B) Le Corbusier
C) Frank Stella
D) Mies van der Rohe
E) Gordon Bunshaft
Q5) Briefly explain why Michael Graves's Humana Building is considered a Postmodernist design.
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Chapter 22: Art Now: A Global Perspective
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Q1) Samuel Fosso began his career as a photographer and comes from ___________.
A) Kenya
B) France
C) Germany
D) India
E) Central African Republic
Q2) Briefly describe the political,economic,and cultural subjugation depicted in Miguel Luciano's Plantano Pride.
Q3) Hew Locke's Sikandar is embellished with charms,medals,___________,votive offerings,jewels,Persian trinkets and Greek masks,encouraging viewers to ponder the interaction of cultures,and especially the meanings and endurance of conquest and colonialism.
A) garbage
B) bones
C) nuts and bolts
D) cigarettes
E) sabers
Q4) What does the contemporary art of artists of or from the Middle East often reflect?
Q5) How does hybridity integrate high art and low art? Use examples.
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