Modern Art History
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Modern Art History explores the major movements, artists, and cultural shifts that defined the development of art from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. The course examines key artistic innovations such as Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art within their historical, social, and technological contexts. Students will analyze the ways artists responded to and shaped notions of modernity, identity, politics, and aesthetics, while considering the global impact of artistic exchanges and the role of museums, critics, and audiences. Through visual analysis, critical readings, and discussion, this course provides a comprehensive understanding of modern arts lasting influence on contemporary culture.
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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) Raphael's Philosophy is illusionistic; this means that the objects represented:
A) appear to exist within actual space.
B) seem to be weighty.
C) seem to be tangible.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Answer: D
Q2) The design of the Katsura Imperial Villa was inspired by the tenets of Zen Buddhism to create an integration of the building with ____________.
Answer: its environment
Q3) The particular manner of visual expression created by an individual artist is known as individual style.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) A cantilever is a vertical projection into space.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Prehistoric Art
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Q1) The skill of Paleolithic artists was often remarkable in:
A) fluid execution of the animal forms.
B) rendering of the landscape.
C) exact geometry of the decorative patterns.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Answer: A
Q2) The design of the modest clay pot found in the River Thames may be explained by:
A) aesthetic desire.
B) its function as a container.
C) being an aid in firing.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Answer: D
Q3) The axis at Stonehenge,established through the horseshoe by the heel stone,leads the eye to the point on the eastern horizon where the sun rises on the dawn of the
Answer: summer solstice
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Chapter 3: Ancient Art
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Q1) The calm,axial,idealized form of Apollo in Apollo and the Battle of the Lapiths and the Centaurs represents:
A) the punishment of Prometheus.
B) the mastery of reasoned order over brute force.
C) defeat of the Etruscan city-states.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Answer: B
Q2) The Etruscan style of tomb painting involved:
A) simple bright colors.
B) a prohibition on abstract pattern.
C) murkily painted figures.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Answer: A
Q3) Mycenaean kings were buried with their personal treasures and weapons in large round structures called ____________.
Answer: tholos tombs
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Chapter 4: Later Ancient Art
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Q1) How is each of the attendant figures found in Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi's tomb at Lintong,Xi'an in China identifiable?
Q2) The Pantheon was commissioned by:
A) Julius Caesar.
B) Constantine.
C) Emperor Hadrian.
D) Tacitus.
E) none of these.
Q3) The wedge-shaped blocks that make up the parts of an arch are called voussoirs.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In its later stage,the Dongson culture is identified as the first unified kingdom of Vietnam with:
A) a ruling royal dynasty.
B) a capital city.
C) a professional administrative class.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q5) The recessed panels that decorate the interior of a vault are termed
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Chapter 5: Art From 200 to 1000
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Q1) When the Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453,they converted all Christian churches,including Hagia Sophia,into burial shrines.
A)True B)False
Q2) The Hindu Kailasantha Temple at Ellora,India is actually an achievement in sculpture. A)True B)False
Q3) What was the central rite of the Medieval Christian church and what did it reenact and promise?
Q4) In the Hindu relief at Mahamallapuram,both form and iconography express ____________.
Q5) In the Christian tradition,what is the Transfiguration? What and who did it involve?
Q6) Why was care taken in the creation of a mosaic to adjust each tessera so that its surface was at a slight angle to that of the neighboring tesserae?
Q7) The Tang Dynasty is notable in the history of Chinese ceramics for what characteristics?
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Chapter 6: Art From 1000 to 1400
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Q1) In what fashion is blue usually applied in a fresco painting?
Q2) The embroidered narrative of the Bayeux Tapestry depicts events that led to the ____________ of England.
Q3) As examples of narrative painting,Giotto's Arena Chapel frescoes illustrate the lives of Moses and John the Baptist.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The sculpted trumeau figure of Beau Dieu at Amiens exhibits:
A) a human, solemn dignity.
B) a quiet, stately presence.
C) naturalistic drapery.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q5) Gothic architecture (p.206) is easily identifiable because of its use of:
A) stained-glass windows.
B) ribbed cross vaults.
C) flying buttresses.
D) pointed arches.
E) all of these.
Q6) The main subject of Ife art is the human head,rendered how?
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Chapter 7: Fifteenth-Century Art
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Q1) 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.
Q2) Originally,the Inka mountain retreat of Machu Picchu included:
A) ceremonial plazas.
B) housing for various classes.
C) sectors devoted to agriculture.
D) temples.
E) all of these.
Q3) 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?
Q4) Donatello's treatment of St.Mark is non-medieval because it emphasizes:
A) divine inspiration.
B) a pantocrater type.
C) human attributes.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
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Chapter 8: Sixteenth-Century Art
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Q1) 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?
Q2) Discuss the iconographic scheme for Michelangelo's painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
Q3) Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece was painted for the chapel of a monastic hospital that specialized in treating:
A) dangerous Christian mystics.
B) patients with skin diseases.
C) renegade Catholic converts.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
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.
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Chapter 9: Seventeenth-Century Art
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Q1) On the interior of the dome for San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane,Borromini creates a floating,levitating sensation by:
A) adding hidden windows at the base.
B) leaving an oculus open to the sky.
C) actually stretching the dome high upward.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q2) Why and how did seventeenth-century art theorists neglect and underestimate still-life painting? Who excelled at seventeenth-century still-life painting?
Q3) In his Arrival and Reception of Marie de´ Medici at Marseilles,how did Rubens satisfy the aspirations of his royal client?
Q4) During the seventeenth century in China,the Ming Dynasty fell and was succeeded by the ____________ Dynasty,which ruled until 1912.
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) The term "Rococo" was first used to designate what style?
Q2) The shape of Neumann's Kaisersaal is too complicated to be either an oval or an octagon,but it is surmounted by a high oval dome pierced by windows.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Jefferson's use of the combination of pedimented entrance and dome at Monticello can be traced back to the Pantheon in Rome.
A)True
B)False
Q4) David's Death of Socrates offered a guide for ____________ in the troubled social climate of France in the late 1780s.
Q5) Because Reynolds depicts the subject as an allegorical figure in his Allegorical Portrait of Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse and his composition recalls Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling figures,we find that Reynolds is aspiring to the ____________.
Q6) To truly understand the "grand style," any artist who desired professional fame was almost obligated to do what?
Q7) What about Egid Quirin Asam's Assumption of the Virgin encourages us to gasp?
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Chapter 11: Nineteenth-Century Art
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Q1) Goya's The Execution of Madrileños on the Third of May,1808 emphasizes a confrontation between what two groups?
Q2) At the Parisian Salon of 1863,there was such an outcry about the rejected works that a special exhibition of rejected works was set up,known as the ____________.
Q3) Constable's painting of The Hay Wain is unified by the flecks of ____________ and ____________ used to recreate the sparkling luminosity of the English countryside after the rain.
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) What was the advantage of William Henry Fox Talbot's invention of the photographic negative?
Q6) In Thomas Eakins's Portrait of Dr.Samuel Gross,the touches of red are used for what purposes?
Q7) In Arles in 1888-89,van Gogh adopted what Japanese belief about the color yellow?
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Chapter 12: Art From 1900 to 1949
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Q1) In Nude Descending a Staircase,Marcel Duchamp used a sequence of fragmented planes to describe the ____________ of a figure descending a staircase.
Q2) Frank Lloyd Wright's style at the time of the Robie House is known as the Prairie style.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Assemblage usually involves combining three-dimensional objects into a coherent composition.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Even standing still,Pininfarina's Cistalia "202" GT car gives what impression?
Q5) Hopi villages seem to grow directly out of the mesa top,the building materials and shapes suggesting continuity with the living rock; this is often called:
A) an organic mode of building.
B) a harmonic stratum.
C) a sandwich design.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
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Chapter 13: Art From 1950 to 1999
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Q1) Robert Rauschenberg referred to works of his,such as Monogram,as:
A) "collage-sculptures."
B) performance pieces.
C) "combines."
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q2) Nancy Graves's Canoptic Legerdemain makes use of laser-cut steel produced by a computer program,plus cast and molded resins; it is thus an exemplary use of ____________ in art.
Q3) At exhibitions of the sculptural works of Duane Hanson,viewers sometimes:
A) damage the works in frustration.
B) leave the gallery in anger.
C) speak to the works.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q4) How are Bilbao's shipbuilding and port activities reflected in Frank Gehry's 1997 Guggenheim Museum building in that city?
Q5) What is Audrey Flack's working method? How does the manner in which she produces her work affect the viewer?
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Chapter 14: Art in the New Millennium
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Q1) What facts,in part,have inspired Joyce Kozloff's Targets?
Q2) Ann Hamilton's corpus was installation art on a massive scale that proposed a contemplation on the modes of human communication.
A)True
B)False
Q3) James Turrell has said that he wants people to mentally regard light as a nonexistent,ephemeral,invisible entity.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How does Julie Mehretu's Empirical Construction,Istanbul work to illustrate how environment defines civilization,and how we engage urban living?
Q5) To create the Tate Modern museum,into what did the Swiss architectural firm of Herzog and DeMeuron transform an abandoned London power plant?
Q6) In Bill Viola's Five Angels for the Millennium,the observer's viewpoint remains fixed at the water's surface.
A)True
B)False
Q7) How will James Turrell's Roden Crater project be like Stonehenge?
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