Introduction to the Arts
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Course Introduction
Introduction to the Arts offers students a broad overview of the visual, performing, and literary arts, exploring their historical development, cultural significance, and the creative processes behind artistic expression. Through lectures, discussions, and hands-on experiences, students will engage with diverse forms of art including painting, sculpture, music, theater, dance, and literature while examining how these disciplines influence society and reflect human experience. This course aims to develop critical appreciation, aesthetic awareness, and the analytical skills necessary to engage thoughtfully with artistic works in various cultural contexts.
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Reality Through the Arts 8th Edition by
Dennis J. Sporre
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Chapter 1: Two-Dimensional Art
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Q1) What term describes the application of thick paint with a palette knife?
A) impasto
B) mass
C) palette
D) intensity
Answer: A
Q2) To copy nature accurately,artists of the sixteenth century used what photographic technique:
A) daguerreotype
B) camera obscura
C) photogenesis
D) calotype
Answer: B
Q3) Which artist is considered the driving force behind recognition of photography as a fine art?
A) Ansel Adams
B) Man Ray
C) Dorothea Lange
D) Alfred Stieglitz
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Sculpture
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Q1) Giovanni Bologna's Mercury,c.1567 is an example of what kind of sculpture method?
A) construction
B) subtractive
C) built
D) substitution
Answer: D
Q2) The ancient sculpture technique of lost-wax casting is an example of A) substitution
B) manipulation
C) construction
D) subtraction
Answer: A
Q3) Robert Smithson's sculpture Spiral Jetty,1969-70 is an example of what kind of sculpture?
A) environmental
B) found
C) mixed media
D) full round
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Architecture
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Q1) Vertical ridges cut into the sides of columns is called A) fluting
B) jambs
C) keystone
D) piers
Answer: A
Q2) The United State Capitol Building in Washington,D.C.is based on
A) Chartres Cathedral, Paris
B) St. Peter's Basilica, Rome
C) The Pantheon, Rome
D) St. Paul's Cathedral, London
Answer: B
Q3) The outward thrust of an arch can be stabilized by a A) column
B) vault
C) buttress
D) capital
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Music and Opera
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Q1) George Frederick Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus" from Messiah is what form of music?
A) art song
B) mass
C) oratorio
D) cantata
Q2) What form of music is a sacred choral composition consisting of five sections?
A) cantata
B) mass
C) oratorio
D) art song
Q3) Music is often described as the purest of the artforms because
A) it is free from physical restrictions of space
B) it places significant responsibility on the listener
C) it plays a natural and ever-present role in our lives
D) it constantly changes
Q4) Compare the different treatment of dynamics in "Han Ya Xi Shui" with that of Claude Debussy's "Clair de Lune." How are they different?
Q5) Explain the elements of rhythm.
Q6) Describe the four basic types of opera.Give an example of each.
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Chapter 5: Literature
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Q1) In literature,what term is used to describe the overriding idea of a work that also shapes the other elements?
A) theme
B) character
C) plot
D) symbol
Q2) First person singular,third person singular and third person omniscient describe what technical device used in fiction?
A) character
B) theme
C) point of view
D) plot
Q3) Traditionally,literature falls into which of the following two categories?
A) poetry and prose
B) fiction and nonfiction
C) historical and sentimental
D) utilitarian and creative
Q4) Explain the use of allegory in Christina Rosetti's poem,Uphill (1858).
Q5) Compare dramatic poetry to narrative poetry.Include an example of each.
Q6) Discuss the theme and imagery of Phillis Wheatley's poem On Virtue.
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Chapter 6: Theatre
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Q1) Describe the three types of theatre arrangements.
Q2) Designed as critiques of consumerist culture,these Performance Art pieces grew out of the Pop Art movement of the 1960's.
A) happenings
B) sentimental comedy
C) comedy of manners
D) reversals
Q3) The written document which contains the dialogue used by the actors.
A) plot
B) script
C) exposition
D) discovery
Q4) The ultimate crisis in a play.
A) climax
B) denouement
C) resolution
D) plot
Q5) What are the three functions of costume design?
Q6) In what ways does a director control the dynamics of a play?
Q7) Explain the importance of lighting design in theatrical performance.
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Chapter 7: Cinema
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Q1) How does the filmmaker address tension build up and release in the film Jaws?
Q2) Film that tells no story but exists solely as movement or form and rarely exceeds twelve minutes in length.
A) documentary
B) narrative
C) persistence of vision
D) avant-garde
Q3) What art form is described as aesthetic communication through the design of time and three-dimensional space compressed into a two-dimensional image?
A) theatre
B) painting
C) cinema
D) literature
Q4) A transitional device in filmmaking created by closing or opening the aperture of the camera lens.
A) zoom
B) iris in/iris out
C) lap dissolve
D) differential focus
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Chapter 8: Dance
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Q1) Classical or formal dance.
A) ballet
B) folk
C) jazz
D) modern
Q2) From where does jazz dance trace its origins?
A) Cuba
B) Guyana
C) Africa
D) Sao Paolo
Q3) One of the most significant elements of the dance costume.
A) tights
B) footgear
C) tutu
D) hats
Q4) Compare ballet to ritual dance.What are the basic differences? Are there any similarities?
Q5) What role does color play in dance?
Q6) Discuss why Martha Graham's Appalachian Spring has become the most admired of her works.
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Chapter 9: Ancient Approaches
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Q1) Why is Sumerian writing different from other early cultures?
Q2) Ancient Greek philosophy that music had ethical powers and could affect character.
A) doctrine of ethos
B) golden mean
C) Stoicism
D) Sophistry
Q3) What is the doctrine of ethos?
Q4) This text forms the hymnal of ancient Israel.
A) Psalter
B) Holy Bible
C) Torah
D) Masoretic
Q5) What provided the focus of much of Egyptian art?
A) power of the pharaohs
B) everlasting life in the hereafter
C) seasons and cycles of nature
D) vivacity and humor of daily life
Q6) Discuss the importance of the Homer's epic poems,Iliad and Odyssey as they relate to Greek history.
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Chapter 10: Artistic Reflections in the Pre-Modern World
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Q1) Gothic poet whose poems of courtly love and female heroism championed women.
A) Geoffrey Chaucer
B) Hildegard of Bingen
C) Bernat de Ventadorn
D) Christine de Pisan
Q2) The greatest temple built by the Greeks and the prototype for all Classical buildings.
A) Parthenon
B) Acropolis
C) Pantheon
D) Olympian
Q3) From the eleventh to the end of the thirteenth century a class of lyric-poet-musicians chiefly in southern France,northern Italy,and northern Spain.
A) monks
B) troubadours
C) knights
D) romantics
Q4) Explain why the sculpture Nike of Samothrace is considered Hellenistic style.
Q5) How do the sculptures of Imperial Roman Classicism differ from Greek Classicism?
Q6) What is a stupa and how does it compare to Western architecture?
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Chapter 11: Artistic Styles in the Emerging Modern World
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Q1) The development of this media gave Flemish painters new opportunities to vary surface texture,blend colors,and create brilliance.
A) egg tempera
B) oil paint
C) acrylic
D) gouache
Q2) Incan architecture exhibited strong engineering techniques and fine masonry exemplified by this city.
A) Agra
B) Tenochtitlan
C) Machu Picchu
D) Cuzco
Q3) The long tradition of Dutch flower painting reached its apex in the career of this artist.
A) Albrecht Durer
B) Rembrandt
C) Rachel Ruysch
D) Sophonisba Anguissola
Q4) What is linear perspective? Provide an example in your explanation.
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Chapter 12: Artistry in an Age of Industry
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Q1) Popular Romantic composer with his 1812 Overture.
A) Franz Liszt
B) Johannes Brahms
C) Peter Tchaikovsky
D) Richard Wagner
Q2) One of the dominant characteristics of Inuit art.
A) realism
B) fishing
C) romance
D) humor
Q3) Norwegian master of Realist drama.
A) Henrik Ibsen
B) Anton Chekhov
C) George Bernard Shaw
D) Feodor Dostoyevski
Q4) Discuss both an Impressionist work of music and painting.How are they similar?
Q5) How did the Industrial Revolution impact the development of the arts and the role of the artist?
Q6) What is bel canto? Include an example.
Q7) Explain Wagner's philosophy of Gesamtkunstwerk.Provide an example.
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Chapter 13: The Arts in a Modern, Postmodern, and Pluralistic World
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Q1) The art movement that aimed at eliciting in the viewer the same feelings the artist felt in creating the work is called:
A) Futurism
B) Impressionism
C) Expressionism
D) Fauvism
Q2) Which artist influenced the visual arts of the twentieth century more than any other individual?
A) Henri Matisse
B) Marcel Duchamp
C) Pablo Picasso
D) Jackson Pollock
Q3) Frank Gehry's approach to architecture centers on artistry because his structures:
A) are ornamental
B) are based on traditional functionalism
C) adhere to strict principles of design
D) stand like immense organic sculptures
Q4) Explain the terms ethnocentrism and cultural relativism as they relate to pluralism in the arts.
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