Introduction to Art Exam Bank
Course Introduction
Introduction to Art is a foundational course that explores the diverse world of visual arts, introducing students to major artistic mediums, techniques, and movements from various cultures and historical periods. Students will learn to analyze works of art, understand key concepts such as composition, color theory, and symbolism, and develop their own creative skills through hands-on projects. The course aims to cultivate visual literacy, encourage appreciation of artistic expression, and foster critical thinking about the role of art in society.
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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) How does an artist create nonobjective art?
Answer: An artist creates nonobjective art by focusing on the use of color, shape, line, and form to create a composition that does not represent any recognizable objects or figures. This type of art is often created through a process of experimentation and exploration, allowing the artist to express their emotions, ideas, and concepts in a purely abstract form. Nonobjective art can be created using a variety of mediums, including painting, sculpture, and digital art, and often involves a high degree of creativity and imagination. The artist may also draw inspiration from their surroundings, personal experiences, or the world around them to inform their nonobjective creations. Overall, the process of creating nonobjective art involves a deep understanding of the elements and principles of art, as well as a willingness to push the boundaries of traditional representation.
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Chapter 2: Line and Shape
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Q1) Light against dark or dark against light create visual differences in ___________.
A) scale
B) shape
C) hue
D) wavelength
E) value
Answer: E
Q2) 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
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Chapter 3: Light and Color
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Q1) The brightness or ____________of a color is its saturation.
A) hue
B) value
C) dullness
D) intensity
E) color
Answer: C
Q2) ______________that are achieved by mixing various amounts of black and white are called achromatic.
A) monochromatic
B) brown
C) white
D) black
E) grays
Answer: E
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Chapter 4: Texture and Pattern
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Q1) What is pattern?
Q2) The word texture derives from the _______for weaving.
A) Latin
B) Greek
C) English
D) French
E) German
Q3) The goal of visual texture is to simulate the look and feel of actual _________and textures.
A) brushstrokes
B) gouging
C) surfaces
D) lines
E) applications
Q4) Discuss the use of texture in Vincent Van Gogh's Mulberry Tree.
Q5) What are El Anatsui's magnificent "woven" wall hangings composed of?
Q6) Name two types of texture.
Q7) Compare and contrast Céleste Boursier-Mougnnot's From Here to Ear with Jean Dubuffet's Blossoming Earth.
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Chapter 5: Space,Time,and Motion
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Q1) Explain the difference between actual space and implied space,and provide an artistic example of each.
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) Diagonal lines are often used to _______________.
A) imply movement and directionality
B) suggest stability
C) suggest assertiveness
D) imply heaviness and weight
E) suggest rigidity
Q4) What accounts for spatial complexity in Martina López's Heirs Come to Pass,3?
Q5) The photograph of the mountain fortress of Machu Picchu illustrates the role of what?
Q6) Name two types of visual space.
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Q7) How does Bernini's sculpture David make use of implied motion and implied time?
Chapter 6: Principles of Design
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Q1) __________ is evident in compositions in which the elements radiate from-or are organized around-a center point
A) Vertical balance
B) Radial balance
C) Horizontal balance
D) Imbalance
E) Asymmetrical balance
Q2) 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
Q3) Identify six design principles.
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?
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Chapter 7: Drawing
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Q1) Explain why Adrian Piper selected the medium of a pencil drawing for her Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features.
Q2) How and when was the meaning of the word cartoon expanded to include humorous and satirical drawings?
Q3) In metalpoint drawings,the drawing surface must be coated with a ground of
A) bone dust or chalk mixed with gum
B) gum mixed with pigment
C) bone dust or chalk mixed with gum, water, and pigment
D) charcoal mixed with gum and pigment
E) bone dust or chalk mixed with gum and pigment
Q4) A form of charcoal was used by Stone Age humans to create images on
A) wood
B) stone
C) papyrus
D) cave walls
E) animal skins
Q5) Explain the evolution of the pencil and how it is now made.
Q6) Why was Gary Kelley's pastel drawing,reminiscent of the jazz age,commissioned?
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Q7) Identify six types of dry media used for drawing.
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Chapter 8: Painting
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Q1) 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
Q2) Discuss the cultural tensions symbolized in Roger Shimomura's Untitled painting.
Q3) Compare and contrast the paintings of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart and Roy Lichtenstein.
Q4) What type of painting was Vasari referring to when he said it "is the most masterly and beautiful because it consists in doing in a single day that which,in other methods,may be retouched day after day,over the work already done"?
Q5) Describe three ancient uses for encaustic painting.
Q6) What are the limitations of working in fresco?
Q7) What are the advantages and limitations of working in tempera?
Q8) What are the advantages of painting with oils?
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Q9) What advantages does canvas have over wood as a painting surface?
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Chapter 9: Printmaking and Graphic Design
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Q1) __________ is a type of etching that can be used to produce the effects of crayon or pencil drawings.
A) Soft-ground etching
B) Lift ground
C) Sugar aquatint
D) Pseudo-mezzotint
E) Gauffrage
Q2) The female image in Red Coat by Alex Katz is most reminiscent of a __________.
A) housewife
B) supermodel icon
C) nurse
D) drug addict
E) grandmother
Q3) The working surface from which a print is made is called a __________.
A) metal plate
B) matrix
C) ground
D) palette
E) screen
Q4) Describe the process by which Alex Katz's Red Coat was created.
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Chapter 10: Imaging: Photography, Film, Video, and Digital Arts
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Q1) Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel's 1928 surrealistic film Un Chien Andalou was intended by the creators to __________.
A) generate a world of fantasy
B) allude to deep, hidden symbolic meanings
C) make the audience laugh
D) recreate the horror of the Spanish Civil War
E) evoke instinctive reactions of repulsion and attraction
Q2) Edward Steichen's __________,taken in 1906,is one of the foremost early examples of the photograph as a work of art.
A) Future Expectations
B) Impression: Sunrise
C) Blue Period
D) The Flatiron Building-Evening
E) Evening Nocturne
Q3) List four things that influence the nature of the artist-photographer's creative product.
Q4) Discuss how and why the art of photography is far more than a mechanical process.
Q5) What is a camera obscura,and how was it used by Renaissance artists?
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Sculpture, Installation, Site-Specific Art, and 3d Design
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Q1) Discuss how constructed sculpture is produced; then describe and identify examples of three different types.
Q2) Which of the following materials cannot be used for casting?
A) Wax
B) Concrete
C) Bronze
D) Wood
E) Iron
Q3) Compare and contrast George Segal's Gay Liberation with Kiki Smith's Untitled based on their realism and intent.
Q4) Michelangelo's The Cross-Legged Captive is an example of __________ sculpture.
A) additive
B) bas-relief
C) subtractive
D) constructed
E) mixed media
Q5) In spirit and style,which of Picasso's two-dimensional works were very similar to his constructed sculpture?
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Q6) Compare and contrast George Segal's Gay Liberation and Louise Bourgeois's Eyes.
Chapter 12: Craft Arts
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Q1) The botanical forms of __________ are considered some of the finest examples of Art Nouveau glass.
A) Cellini
B) Toulouse-Lautrec
C) Whistler
D) Mapping and Webb
E) Tiffany
Q2) Discuss how Robert Arneson's Jackson Pollock blurs the line between craft and fine art.How does the glaze relate to the subject?
Q3) The __________ process utilizes a series of dye baths and wax applications to create a design on fabric.
A) embroidery
B) batik
C) tie-dye
D) wood block printing
E) hand printing
Q4) Compare and contrast Melvyn Firmager's Untitled and David Ellsworth's Vessel in terms of the versatility of wood.
Q5) According to the Roman historian Pliny the Elder,how was glassmaking discovered?
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Chapter 13: Architecture and Urban Design
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Q1) Richard Morris Hunt's Griswold House,built in 1863,was designed in the short-lived __________ style.Its exterior treatment resembled an assemblage of matchsticks with many turrets,gables,and dormers.
A) Cape Cod
B) Salt Box
C) Romanesque
D) Bungalow
E) Stick
Q2) __________,primarily used for covering roofs of structures,acquire their strength from the fact that the sides of a triangle,once joined,cannot be forced out of shape.
A) Pendentives
B) Shingles
C) Balloon framings
D) Trusses
E) Clapboards
Q3) Why can rounded arches enclose only square bays,and what adjustment must be made to obtain a rectangular bay?
Q4) How are fabric roofs held up in sports arenas?
Q5) What is Le Corbusier's Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut an example of?
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Chapter 14: Art of the Ancient World
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Q1) In 1922,British archaeologist Howard Carter remarked,"[A] gasp of wonderment escaped our lips,so gorgeous was the sight that met our eye: a golden effigy of the young boy king ..." Carter was referring to __________.
A) Akhenaton's richly painted sarcophagus
B) a Mycenaean gold funerary mask
C) King Tut's gold throne
D) a gold statue of Khafre
E) King Tut's solid gold coffin
Q2) Contrast the art of the short-lived Amarna period with Egypt's long-standing tradition of convention.
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?
Q4) Describe the Narmer Palette,and discuss how it illustrates the Egyptian preoccupation with strict representational conventions.
Q5) Describe the ziggurat and discuss the function it served in ancient Mesopotamia.
Q6) What were the Fertile Crescent and the Fertile Ribbon?
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Chapter 15: Greece, Rome, and the Early Judeo-Christian World
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Q1) The ancient Greeks considered themselves to be the center of the universe or "the measure of all things," a concept known as __________.
A) naturalism
B) humanism
C) idealism
D) rationalism
E) Hellenism
Q2) In the late years of the Roman Empire,the realism and idealism that had characterized Roman figural sculpture was replaced by a __________.
A) classical serenity
B) delicacy and attention to detail
C) spiritual, otherworldly style
D) combined frontal and profile view
E) new sense of theatricality
Q3) Explain the Greek use of color on sculpture.
Q4) What has been the fate of the Parthenon since the Age of Pericles?
Q5) Describe the Roman system of government in the Republican period and summarize why it was doomed to fail.
Q6) What was the Ara Pacis,and when and why did Augustus have it constructed?
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Chapter 16: The Age of Faith
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Q1) The cathedral of Florence features all of the characteristics below except
A) geometric patterns of green-and-white marble
B) a minimum of fenestration
C) a huge octagonal dome
D) twin bell towers
E) a horizontal, earthbound quality
Q2) What period is Charlemagne linked with,and what did he do to become crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the pope?
Q3) The massive dome of Hagia Sophia appears to be light and graceful due to
A) its pendentive construction
B) light filtering through arched windows at its base
C) gold mosaics in its dome
D) an oculus in its dome
E) light filtering through its clerestory
Q4) Identify the various functions that the Hagia Sophia has served over the centuries.
Q5) How did the term Gothic originate,and why was it for many years considered a term of derision?
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Chapter 17: The Renaissance
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Q1) Compare and contrast Donatello's David with Verrocchio's David.
Q2) In his Creation of Adam scene from the Sistine Chapel ceiling,Michelangelo created the most __________ in the history of art as God reached out to spark life into Adam.
A) incredible sense of three-dimensionality
B) intense moment
C) dramatic negative space
D) anticlimatic moment
E) spiritual experience
Q3) Compare and contrast Leonardo's The Last Supper with Tintoretto's The Last Supper.
Q4) Explain the differences found in the Renaissance art of Florence and Rome,of Siena,and of Venice.
Q5) Some of the purest examples of Renaissance Classicism are to be found in the __________ of Leon Battista Alberti.
A) paintings
B) books
C) sculpture
D) engravings
E) architecture
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Chapter 18: The Baroque ERA
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Q1) Which of the following was not a Baroque addition to St.Peter's?
A) The Latin Cross plan
B) The façade
C) The Sistine Chapel
D) The Cathedra Petri
E) The piazza
Q2) In his Syndics of the Draper's Guild,Rembrandt captures the men just as __________.
A) someone outside the canvas enters the room
B) they are finishing their meeting
C) one of them is leaving the room
D) dinner is being served
E) their meeting is called to order
Q3) After Martin Luther's Reformation,Dutch artists painted scenes of daily life,whereas Flemish artists __________.
A) painted primarily portraits and religious scenes
B) painted still lifes and portraits
C) continued painting classical imagery as done in the Renaissance
D) depicted graphic scenes of civil war
E) continued painting religious and mythological scenes as in Baroque Italy
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Chapter 19: The Modern ERA
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Q1) The setting of Édouard Manet's reclining nude figure of Olympia is a(n)__________.
A) upscale apartment in Paris's eighth arrondissement
B) lush Tahitian landscape
C) blue bedroom
D) lavish bedchamber in a Venetian villa
E) bordello of the Parisian demimonde
Q2) Discuss the style and popularity of Academic art,especially as embodied in the work of Adolphe William Bouguereau.
Q3) It is obvious that Paul Gauguin's Vision After the Sermon is a Synthetic painting because __________.
A) of the flatly painted forms
B) the lighting is very dramatic
C) it combines unnaturalistic color with symbolism
D) it is so shockingly realistic
E) of the dreamlike state of the Breton women
Q4) Explain why Cézanne's compositional innovations can be said to have ushered in the modern twentieth-century fascination with abstraction.
Q5) Discuss the Art Nouveau style and how and where it was used.
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Chapter 20: The Twentieth Century: The Early Years
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Q1) Cubism was heavily influenced by Paul Cézanne in all but one of the following ways:
A) geometrization of nature
B) abandonment of scientific perspective
C) rendering of multiple views
D) intense interest in native African and Iberian sculpture
E) emphasis on the two-dimensional canvas surface
Q2) Along with their interest in psychoanalysis,the Surrealists also incorporated some of the attitudes and techniques of the __________ movements.
A) Fauvist and Die Brücke
B) Dadaists
C) Synthetic Cubist and Fauvist
D) Impressionist and Synthetist
E) Post-Impressionist and Der Blaue Reiter
Q3) What did the Dadaists declare about art?
Q4) Identify the three artistic movements of the early twentieth century that are termed Expressionistic.
Q5) Describe Pablo Picasso's Blue Period,using his The Old Guitarist as an example.
Q6) Explain how the Fauves got their name.
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Chapter 21: The Twentieth Century: Postwar to
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Q1) One major source of inspiration for Jean-Michel Basquiat's art works was
A) Buddhism
B) minimalism
C) Dadaism
D) graffiti
E) comic strips
Q2) British sculptor Henry Moore had a long and prolific career but is primarily renowned today for his __________.
A) abstract, biomorphic bronze reclining figures
B) blocky, massive stone figures
C) equestrian sculptures
D) figural assemblages
E) site-specific earthworks
Q3) Where and when did Pop art originate; who was one of its first creators; and what artist influenced him?
Q4) Romare Bearden believed that African American artists should create their own art form.Explain his signature style,found in Prevalence of Ritual: Mysteries,and how his life experiences informed his methods.
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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) Mexican artist Enrique Chagoya states,"My artwork is a conceptual fusion of opposite cultural realities that I have experienced in my lifetime.I integrate diverse elements: from pre-Columbian mythology,Western religious iconography,and American popular culture." Using his Illegal Alien's Guide to Critical Theory as an example,explain how the artist's work reflects his statement.
Q3) Appropriation artist Vik Muniz is known for using ________________?
A) kitsch
B) balls
C) junk
D) mufflers
E) old posters
Q4) Briefly describe the political,economic,and cultural subjugation depicted in Miguel Luciano's Plantano Pride.
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