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Course Introduction
Introduction to Art provides students with a foundational understanding of artistic concepts, mediums, and historical contexts. The course explores various forms of visual art including painting, sculpture, drawing, and digital media while emphasizing key elements such as color, line, texture, and composition. Students will examine major artistic movements and influential artists, developing an appreciation for diverse cultural and historical perspectives. Through hands-on projects and critical analysis, the course aims to foster creativity, visual literacy, and an informed approach to interpreting and creating art.
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Art Past Art Present 6th Edition by David G. Wilkins
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Chapter 1: Experiencing Art
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Q1) Viewing a horizontal hand scroll is unlike viewing a wall painting because the horizontal hand scroll is:
A) not seen in its entirety at one time.
B) like a journey involving time.
C) meant to be viewed by one or few persons.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Answer: D
Q2) The level of richness or saturation of a color is termed value.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) When first experiencing an unfamiliar work of art,start by asking questions about:
A) expressive content, historical style, individual style.
B) patrons, function, and collocation.
C) historical significance and historical context.
D) composition, formal analysis, medium and technique.
E) all of these.
Answer: E
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Chapter 2: Prehistoric Art
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Q1) Mesolithic rock painting shows scenes of human conflict.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Prehistory is defined as the period before:
A) architecture.
B) domesticated animals.
C) writing.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Answer: C
Q3) Paleolithic artists created pigments by grinding minerals and mixing them with:
A) bone marrow.
B) vegetable oil.
C) animal fat.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Answer: D
Q4) Bacchus was the ancient Roman god of ____________ and ____________.
Answer: wine; fertility
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Chapter 3: Ancient Art
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Q1) Mycenaean kings were buried with their personal treasures and weapons in large round structures called ____________.
Answer: tholos tombs
Q2) The stylistic evolution of Greek figurative sculpture is from rigidly posed to ____________.
Answer: relatively relaxed
Q3) Artistic invention was prized in ancient Egyptian tomb decoration. A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) In Greek Doric architecture,the walled inner sanctuary,or ____________,contained the cult statue.
Answer: naos
Q5) The differences in expressions and decorative symbols on the Olmec colossal heads found at San Lorenzo in La Venta suggest that they may be portraits of ____________. Answer: dynastic rulers
Q6) The earliest large-scale Greek sculptures are indebted to ____________ prototypes.
Answer: Egyptian
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Chapter 4: Later Ancient Art
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Q1) The tablero,as seen on the Temple of the Feathered Serpent,appears only on religious temples.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Bacchic Mysteries from Pompeii is one of the first examples of a painted wall decoration integrated with the physical space and architecture of its setting; this is called a(n) ____________.
Q3) A hemispherical structure that can be understood as an arch rotated 180 degrees on its axis is a(n) ____________.
Q4) Describe the probable meanings of the feathered serpents at Teotihuacán.
Q5) Related to the philosophical outlook of Aristotle,Hellenistic art places an emphasis on ____________ and ____________ naturalism.
Q6) The wedge-shaped blocks that make up the parts of an arch are called voussoirs.
A)True B)False
Q7) At the Pantheon,the thickness of the concrete of the dome is only one foot at the oculus.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 5: Art From 200 to 1000
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Q1) One common element of Islamic mosques from all periods is the marking of a wall that indicates which direction Muslims should turn when they pray,called the
Q2) What was the central rite of the Medieval Christian church and what did it reenact and promise?
Q3) The program of statues and paintings in the kondo at Horyuji makes the temple a terrestrial representation of the Buddha's ____________.
Q4) On the Buddhist Temple of Borobudur in Java,the inner and outer walls at each level are covered with carved panels illustrating the path toward ____________.
Q5) What did Procopius say about the effect Hagia Sophia had on an observer,and what meaning does it suggest?
Q6) Throughout the period covered by this chapter,religious books were written by hand,usually on treated animal skins called vellum or parchment.
A)True
B)False
Q7) In the Hindu relief at Mahamallapuram,both form and iconography express
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Chapter 6: Art From 1000 to 1400
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Q1) In Romanesque sculpture,arches of decorative or narrative motifs that enframe the tympanum are called:
A) jambs.
B) trumeaux.
C) buttresses.
D) archivolts.
E) none of these.
Q2) The main subject of Ife art is the human head,rendered how?
Q3) In the apse fresco from San Clemente in Tahull,Spain,the drapery flutters and folds in a(n) ____________.
Q4) Discuss the spires of the ideal Gothic church.How do the spires serve the motivations and aspirations of the builders?
Q5) By the time of Marco Polo's Description of the World,the Chinese economy already used paper money.
A)True
B)False
Q6) In addition to being used in Christianity,reliquaries that preserve the remains of holy figures are also found in ____________ and ____________.
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Chapter 7: Fifteenth-Century Art
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Q1) On the interior of The Altarpiece of the Lamb,what aspects are considered to unify the painting and to be the work of Jan van Eyck?
Q2) In Brunelleschi's Church of Santo Spirito,instead of towering Gothic verticality,we perceive a measured ____________ and ____________.
Q3) In Flanders oil painting,most colors are modeled downward toward black.
A)True
B)False
Q4) On his Pietà,Michelangelo carved his signature on the ribbon that crosses Mary's chest.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In Leonardo's Last Supper,the calm figure of Christ exists:
A) at the focal point of the perspective.
B) to form a symbolic triangle.
C) on the axis of symmetry.
D) to give visual stability to the composition.
E) all of these.
Q6) What about Robert Campin's Annunciation triptych suggests that the patron's wife was added at the time of their marriage?
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Chapter 8: Sixteenth-Century Art
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Q1) In Titian's Venus of Urbino,the identification of the nude female figure as Venus is supported by symbolism of the ____________ and the ____________.
Q2) Giorgio Vasari considered the art of the Middle Ages to be very worthy and highly estimable.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What explains the appearance of the "onion" domes placed on Russian orthodox churches,such as St.Basil's?
Q4) In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Japan,the arts were inspired by the Zen Buddhist apprehension of the spiritual identity of all things and by aesthetic standards that stressed:
A) allusiveness.
B) restraint.
C) subtlety.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q5) Describe Bramante's plan for the new St.Peter's.What was his inspiration,and what is the symbolic meaning of his plan for the new church?
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Chapter 9: Seventeenth-Century Art
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Q1) Seventeenth-century art in Japan was dominated by a spirit of spontaneous action and revolutionary innovation.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In his sculpture of David,Bernini chooses to portray the instant of:
A) celebratory triumph.
B) deepest thought.
C) greatest action.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q3) In Velázquez's painting Las Meninas,why do we believe that the cross on Velázquez's chest was added later?
Q4) In his Arrival and Reception of Marie de´ Medici at Marseilles,how did Rubens satisfy the aspirations of his royal client?
Q5) In A Man Rowing a Boat on the Bullewyk,Rembrandt applied wash,which is thick ink mixed with liquid soap.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Why is realistic still-life painting considered to be a democratic art?
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Chapter 10: Eighteenth-Century Art
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Q1) What are the implicit meanings behind John Singleton Copley's Portrait of Paul Revere? How does the portrait work to convey these meanings? What do these meanings tell us about Copley as an artist?
Q2) What about Egid Quirin Asam's Assumption of the Virgin encourages us to gasp?
Q3) Why would Thomas Jefferson's Virginia State Capitol have surprised many Richmond residents?
Q4) Because of the web of gold woodwork,the stucco ornament,the rhythmic curving cornice,and the delicate arches,the effect of Boffrand's Salon de la Princesse is:
A) spiritual and meditative.
B) elegant and ebullient.
C) robust and heroic.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q5) David's Death of Socrates offered a guide for ____________ in the troubled social climate of France in the late 1780s.
Q6) With Watteau's Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera,a new category of painting was established for the French Royal Academy,listed as ____________.
Q7) The term "Rococo" was first used to designate what style?
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Chapter 11: Nineteenth-Century Art
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Q1) The Crystal Palace demonstrates what two innovative developments that transformed architecture in the second half of the nineteenth century? How did these developments work,and what did they demonstrate for the future of architecture?
Q2) Seurat systematized contemporary scientific advances in color theory to create what he termed ____________.
Q3) Goya's The Execution of Madrileños on the Third of May,1808 emphasizes a confrontation between what two groups?
Q4) Courbet's aim was to create a "living art"; his style became known as:
A) Gothic Revival.
B) Realism.
C) Romanticism.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q5) In the medium of lithography,the print form is a(n):
A) very smooth board of bamboo.
B) copper plate.
C) very smooth slab of limestone.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
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Chapter 12: Art From 1900 to 1949
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Q1) Picasso's Guernica has endured as an emblem for all those who hate the ____________ experienced by humanity during political conflicts.
Q2) The ritual dancers wearing painted wooden masks of the Bwa culture are participants in rites performed to ensure success in battle over tribal enemies.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Henry Moore's Recumbent Figure suggests:
A) the hills and gullies of a landscape.
B) a voluptuous figure.
C) a reclining female form.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q4) Inspired by the works of Mies van der Rohe,Philip Johnson's Glass House is a satisfying construction of:
A) elegant materials.
B) subtle proportional relationships.
C) pure geometric form.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
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Chapter 13: Art From 1950 to 1999
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Q1) On what legend was Robert Smithson's design for Spiral Jetty based?
Q2) In the style called Abstract Expressionism,the approach emphasizing a free,gestural expression of paint on the canvas was termed:
A) Action Painting.
B) Performance Art.
C) Spontaneism.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q3) During the 1950s,Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg incorporated found objects and representational imagery into their artistic activity,a practice sometimes referred to as ____________.
Q4) Pollack's method of painting is derived from:
A) Picasso's synthesis.
B) Surrealist automatism.
C) Cézanne.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q5) How are Bilbao's shipbuilding and port activities reflected in Frank Gehry's 1997 Guggenheim Museum building in that city?
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Chapter 14: Art in the New Millennium
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Q1) At the Prada Flagship Store in New York City designed by Rem Koolhaas,the "big wave" functions as a huge:
A) skateboard ramp.
B) metaphor for sliding consumption.
C) minimalist sculptural form.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q2) An example of "destination architecture," which brought revitalization to a fading industrial center,is Frank Gehry's ____________ in Bilbao.
Q3) Vito Acconci's The Island in the Mur affords new viewpoints on the city,and thus gives the opportunity,as art often does,for new:
A) perspectives on the familiar.
B) criticisms of capitalism.
C) modes of introspection.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q4) What is the metaphor used by Santiago Calatrava to describe his design for the World Trade Center Transportation Hub?
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