Renaissance to Modern Art Question Bank
Course Introduction
This course explores the major developments in Western art from the Renaissance to the modern era, spanning the 14th to the early 20th centuries. Students will examine key artistic movements including the Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, and early Modernism through analysis of painting, sculpture, and architecture. Special emphasis will be placed on the historical, cultural, and social contexts that influenced artists and their works, as well as the evolution of artistic techniques and concepts that shaped visual culture across Europe and beyond.
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Jansons Basic History of Western Art 9th Edition by Penelope J.E. Davies
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Chapter 1: Prehistoric Art
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Q1) Many Paleolithic cave paintings are located:
A) in megarons
B) in the deepest areas of the caves
C) at entrances to caves
D) in henges
Answer: B
Q2) According to one feminist view, the distorted form of figures like the Woman of Willendorf reflects:
A) a woman's view of her own body as she looks down on it.
B) the Paleolithic interest in population control
C) a cultural prohibition against obesity
D) Paleolithic religious beliefs
Answer: A
Q3) Stonehenge:
A) is surrounded by effigy mounds
B) has trilithons
C) has megarons
D) has corbelling
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Ancient Near Eastern Art
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Q1) What material was used to make the Ishtar Gate?
A) adobe
B) glazed bricks
C) cut stone
D) metal panels
Answer: B
Q2) The Sumerians built primarily of wood and what other material?
A) diorite stone
B) marble
C) mud brick
D) granite
Answer: C
Q3) Which was among the Seven Wonders of the World?
A) Hanging Gardens of Babylon
B) Stonehenge
C) The Audience Hall at Persepolis
D) The caves at Lascaux
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Egyptian Art
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Q1) Why is Tutankhamun so well known?
A) His is the only tomb found largely unplundered.
B) He was famous for his powerful and lengthy reign.
C) He was famous for the architecture he commissioned.
D) He was famous because of his conquests in battle.
Answer: A
Q2) The Egyptian figural canon:
A) determined the ideal proportions of a human figure.
B) was the same for all members of Egyptian society.
C) dictated that all males should be represented as youthful.
D) forbade the depiction of women.
Answer: A
Q3) Tutankhamun carried on the religious devotions of his predecessor Akhenaten. A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) The Nile, Tigris, and Euphrates Rivers define and divide the Egyptian landscape.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Aegean Art
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Q1) Where was the culture located that was named for King Minos?
A) On the Greek mainland
B) On the Cycladic Islands
C) On the island of Crete
D) In Mesopotamia
Q2) The Minoan architecture that the legend of the Minotaur and the Labyrinth is believed to be based upon was a:
A) fortress
B) temple
C) palace
D) tomb
Q3) Compare and contrast the treatment of the human form in the Cycladic figurines and the so-called Snake Goddesses?
Q4) Describe the style of architecture in Minoan Crete including the palace at Knossos.
Q5) Describe the architecture of Mycenae.
Q6) Describe the subject matter and style of fresco paintings found on Minoan Crete.
Q7) Compare the architecture at Mycenae and Crete. What do the differing types of structures found reveal about these two cultures?
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Chapter 5: Greek Art
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Q1) The Greek Pediment:
A) often contains sculpture
B) is in the cella
C) was designed by Imhotep
D) is part of an acanthus
Q2) Lord Elgin of England returned marbles to Greece that had been removed from the Parthenon.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What style is black-figure ceramics?
A) Orientalizing
B) Archaic
C) Classical
D) Hellenistic
Q4) For which style is the contrapposto stance an important characteristic?
A) Archaic Greek
B) Classic Greek
C) Mycenaean
D) Egyptian
Q5) What influences caused Greek art to evolve more rapidly than Egyptian art?
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Chapter 6: Etruscan Art
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Q1) What type of structure did Etruscan tombs imitate?
A) Residential interiors
B) Royal palaces
C) Rock-cut caves
D) Lavish temples
Q2) When were the Etruscans at the peak of their power?
A) 8th-7th centuries BCE
B) 7th-6th centuries BCE
C) 6th-5th centuries BCE
D) 5th-4th centuries BCE
Q3) Most of the surviving Etruscan artifacts come from their homes.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Where was Etruscan civilization located?
A) Modern-day Tuscany
B) Cycladic Greece
C) The Iberian peninsula
D) The Peloponnese
Q5) Describe Etruscan tombs. What do the nature of the decorations and objects found within these tombs suggest about Etruscan contact with other cultures?
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Chapter 7: Roman Art
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Q1) How do you a see lasting impact of ancient Rome in contemporary culture?
Q2) The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius caused considerable damage to the architecture in the Roman forum.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which is true of the Colosseum?
A) It was covered with a huge barrel vault.
B) It was covered with a huge dome.
C) It used primarily post-and-lintel construction.
D) It had decorative engaged columns and pilasters on its facade.
Q4) Compare the representation of the individual in Egyptian, Greek, and Roman art. What and who is (and is not) valued in each culture?
Q5) What are the two most significant contributions to architecture made by the Romans? Why are these significant?
Q6) Which of the following does NOT result from the arch?
A) Apse
B) groin vault
C) barrel vault
D) lintel
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Chapter 8: Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art
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Q1) Constantine moved the capital of the Roman Empire to Byzantium in order to escape the militarily powerful Western Roman Empire.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which period is characterized by flat two-dimensional space often using patterns of glittering mosaics with gold backgrounds?
A) Greek
B) Byzantine
C) Egyptian
D) Roman
Q3) Why did the role of sculpture diminish during the Early Christian period? Why did sculpture become physically smaller?
Q4) The CHI RHO sign, a monogram of Christ, is composed of the first two letters of Christ's name in Greek.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What classical architecture influenced the Early Christian basilica and how did it evolve?
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Chapter 9: Islamic Art
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Q1) What is the style of arch found at the Great Mosque at Cordoba?
A) Roman
B) Greek
C) Horseshoe
D) Hiberno-Saxon
Q2) Under the Persian influence, a new architectural form, the iwan, blended:
A) secular and religious buildings
B) Islamic and Christian faiths
C) Eastern and Western building technologies
D) Northern and Southern empires
Q3) In Mesopotamia and Iran, the Arab Muslim conquerors encountered the cultural sphere of the:
A) Romans
B) Greeks
C) Ottonians
D) Sasanians
Q4) The artistic qualities of script are central to the decorative aspects of Islamic art and architecture.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Early Medieval Art
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Q1) Ottonian manuscripts and ivories:
A) blend Carolingian and Byzantine elements
B) incorporate Greco-Roman illusionism
C) show no interest in narrative
D) do not convey messages of imperial power
Q2) The Palace chapel at Aachen was directly inspired by the architecture and ornamentation of Old St. Peter's basilica in Rome.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Compare the St. Matthew, from the Gospel Book of Charlemagne with St. Mark, from the Gospel Book of Archbishop Ebbo of Reims. How and why are they different?
Q4) The collapse of Roman institutions was in part the result of the power asserted by which migrating peoples?
A) Germanic
B) Celtic
C) Roman
D) Persian
Q5) Describe the influences and design of the Palace Chapel of Charlemagne.
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Chapter 11: Romanesque Art
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Q1) Where can a blind arcade commonly be found?
A) triforium
B) altar
C) tympanum
D) vaults
Q2) The four main pilgrimage routes through France ended up at which Spanish church?
A) Santiago de Compostela
B) Notre Dame
C) Amiens Cathedral
D) Chartres Cathedral
Q3) Santiago de Compostela was a major pilgrimage site.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Pilgrims were accommodated by the inclusion of:
A) ambulatories and apsidal chapels
B) blind arcades
C) crypts and blind arcades
D) choirs and crossings
Q5) How did the Romanesque church evolve from the Early Christian basilica? What features were added or changed?
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Chapter 12: Gothic Art
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Q1) Because of its composition and delicacy, what material was often used for illuminated manuscripts?
A) Gold leaf
B) Copper
C) Graphite
D) Pastel
Q2) A private prayer book is called
A) Book of Hours
B) Contemplation Image
C) Memento mori
D) Matins and Vespers
Q3) Which is a common feature of Gothic architecture?
A) abbey churches in the countryside
B) tympanums with a subject of a stern Last Judgment
C) rose windows
D) horizontal emphasis
Q4) Gothic architecture spreads from France to England and Germany, among other areas.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Art in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Italy
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Q1) The Christian altar traditionally is a narrow stone "table" that contains bone fragments of a martyr within it.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In the fresco technique pigments are mixed with water and applied to the surface of wet plaster.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What kind of painting was generally used for painting on walls?
A) Fresco
B) Tempera
C) Oil
D) Watercolor
Q4) The Arena Chapel is known by that name because
A) because of its location near an ancient Roman arena
B) of the similarities of its architecture to ancient Roman arenas
C) because gladiatorial contests took place there
D) because Giovanni Arena paid for its completion
Q5) What impact did the plague or Black Death have on Italian society in the fourteenth century?
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Chapter 14: Artistic Innovations in Fifteenth-Century
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Q1) Who was the leading French Renaissance painter?
A) Jean Fouquet
B) Michael Pacher
C) Robert Campin
D) Master of Flémalle
Q2) Hugo van der Goes's Portinari Altarpiece makes use of
A) Atmospheric perspective
B) Fresco paint
C) Intaglio technique
D) Consistent scale
Q3) Describe both the appearance and likely meaning of Robert Campin's Mérode Triptych. Discuss both the obvious imagery and meaning as well as the use of disguised symbolism in your answer.
Q4) Which of the following is NOT a printmaking technique?
A) woodcut
B) etching
C) drypoint
D) diptych
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Q5) What are the artistic and social implications of printmaking?
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Chapter 15: The Early Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Italy
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Q1) Atmospheric or aerial perspective is a method of showing depth through the use of color.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Scientific perspective was probably invented by which sculptor and architect?
A) Brunelleschi
B) Ghiberti
C) Mantegna
D) Botticelli
Q3) The painter Bellini worked mainly in Florence.
A)True
B)False
Q4) For what building were the Gates of Paradise made?
A) the Florence Cathedral
B) the Brancacci Chapel
C) S. Lorenzo
D) The Florence Baptistery
Q5) There was no single political entity called Italy in the fifteenth century.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: The High Renaissance in Italy, 1495-1520
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Q1) Sfumato is seen in the work of:
A) Leonardo da Vinci
B) Botticelli
C) Michelangelo
D) Masaccio
Q2) Who was an important Roman architect who wrote a treatise on architecture?
A) Vitruvius
B) Vasari
C) Alberti
D) Brancacci
Q3) Bramante's original plan for the renovated St. Peter's was a
A) Greek-cross plan
B) Latin-cross plan
C) Celtic-cross plan
D) Papal-cross plan
Q4) Discuss the Sistine Chapel ceiling in terms of technique, subject matter, and composition. How does it differ in mood from the scene of Last Judgment behind the altar?
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Chapter 17: The Late Renaissance and Mannerism in
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Q1) Who designed the church for the Jesuits with a broken architrave, a broken entablature and large scroll-shaped buttresses?
A) Bramante
B) Palladio
C) Brunelleschi
D) Della Porta
Q2) Which American referred to Palladio's The Four Books of Architecture as "the Bible"?
A) Thomas Jefferson
B) Benjamin Franklin
C) John Adams
D) Andrew Jackson
Q3) Who commissioned Giulio Romano to paint the Fall of the Giants from Mount Olympus in the Palazzo del Te, Mantua?
A) The Gonzaga
B) The Medici
C) Julius II
D) The Sforza
Q4) What events are believed to have contributed to the end to the High Renaissance?
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Chapter 18: Renaissance and Reformation Throughout
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Q1) Who affixed his Ninety-Five Theses to the church door at Wittenberg Castle?
A) Martin Luther
B) Lucas Cranach
C) Hans Holbein
D) Matthias Grünewald
Q2) Genre scenes are
A) scenes of everyday life
B) landscapes
C) famous portraits
D) self portraits
Q3) El Greco was trained in this city before working in Spain:
A) Bruges
B) Venice
C) Florence
D) Rome
Q4) What impact did the Reformation have on the arts in Germany? Include in your discussion some commentary on Martin Luther's art-related objections to the present state of the Church.
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Q5) Examining El Greco's The Burial of Count Orgaz, discuss the various Greek, Italian, and Spanish elements of this painting.
Chapter 19: The Baroque in Italy and Spain
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Q1) Who is known for using light very dramatically with extremes of light and dark?
A) Carracci
B) Caravaggio
C) Reni
D) Cortona
Q2) Compare Bernini's David to Michelangelo's David. How do you account for the similarities and differences between these two works?
Q3) Who constructed the architectural baldacchino over the high altar of St. Peter's?
A) Bernini
B) Borrmomini
C) Caravaggio
D) Carracci
Q4) The Spanish painter who made still lifes of quiet, sharp intensity and clarity was:
A) Zurbarán
B) El Greco
C) Murillo
D) Velázquez
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Chapter 20: The Baroque in the Netherlands
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Q1) What was the official religion for Flanders and Holland? How did religion have an impact on the arts of each region?
Q2) In the seventeenth century, Flanders was predominantly
A) Catholic
B) Lutheran
C) Anglican
D) Orthodox
Q3) Jan Steen and Jan Vermeer were active as painters of different types of genre painting.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Van Dyck was court painter to:
A) Charles I of England
B) Charles I of Spain
C) Charles II of Spain
D) Charles V of Germany
Q5) Compare his handling, purposes, and symbolism of light in Rembrandt's Bathsheba with King David's Letter and the master's One Hundred Guilder Print.
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Chapter 21: The Baroque in France and England
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Q1) Which Italian architect was initially consulted for the redesign of the Louvre?
A) Bernini
B) Borromini
C) Palladio
D) Della Porta
Q2) What is the name of the cathedral in London that was rebuilt after the Great London Fire of 1666?
A) St. Peter's
B) St. Paul's
C) Salisbury Cathedral
D) Durham Cathedral
Q3) What was the function of the Royal Academy and how did it exert an impact on French artists?
Q4) Which French painter specialized in candlelit night scenes and simplified all forms to near geometric abstraction?
A) Poussin
B) La Tour
C) Claude Lorraine
D) Vouet
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Chapter 22: The Rococo
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Q1) Who painted Madame de Pompadour numerous times?
A) Boucher
B) Hogarth
C) Neumann
D) Reynolds
Q2) Which French groups are referenced in Fragonard's The Swing?
A) The aristocracy and the clergy
B) The bourgeoisie and the lower class
C) The clergy and the monarchy
D) The monarchy and the middle class
Q3) Who made his mark with a new kind of genre painting that he described as "modern moral subjects similar to representations on the stage"?
A) Hogarth
B) Boucher
C) Fragonard
D) Chardin
Q4) In France, the Rococo style is linked with the reign of Louis XIV.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 23: Art in the Age of the Enlightenment, 1750-1789
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Q1) Neoclassical art often illustrated what were considered the virtuous actions and deeds of which ancient peoples?
A) Romans
B) Egyptians
C) Mesopotamians
D) Mycenaeans
Q2) This sculptor is often described as the portraitist of the Enlightenment:
A) David
B) Greuze
C) Houdon
D) Soufflot
Q3) Who was the most important history painter in England in the late 1700s and early 1800s?
A) Kauffmann
B) Copley
C) Adam
D) West
Q4) Compare Rococo and Neoclassicism in terms of subject matter, style, and purpose.
Q5) Discuss David's Oath of the Horatii as a political work of art.
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Chapter 24: Art in the Age of the Romanticism, 1789-1848
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Q1) British painters during the Romantic era devoted most of their energies to subjects of urban blight as opposed to nature.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which leader of the Hudson River School depicted the vastness of the American wilderness?
A) Cole
B) Bingham
C) Washington
D) Gardner
Q3) Which aspects of Ingres' work are Neoclassic and which are Romantic?
Q4) Françoise Rude's The Departure of the Volunteers of 1792 ("La Marseillaise") on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris captures the spirit of nationalism.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Compare Goya's attitude toward war to that of David's. How did each feel about Napoleon and employ his art either to support or criticize the Napoleonic regime?
Q6) How did Napoleon use Neoclassicism to promote his imperial aims?
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Chapter 25: The Age of Positivism
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Q1) Who painted the same scene over and over to study the fleeting effects of light and color?
A) Manet
B) Renoir
C) Degas
D) Monet
Q2) Select one major political, social, or cultural change of the mid nineteenth century and discuss its impact on or reflection in a work of art.
Q3) The name of the economic and social doctrine that advocates state ownership and control of the basic means of production together with the egalitarian distribution of wealth is:
A) Socialism
B) Capitalism
C) Competition
D) Laissez-faire
Q4) What were the motivations of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and how are those motivations manifested in their artwork?
Q5) Discuss the various ways in which artists employed the new medium of photography in the nineteenth century.
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Chapter 26: Progress
and Its Discontents:
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Q1) Gustave Moreau was an important Symbolist painter who illustrated Oscar Wilde's French play Salomé.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What was the area of study of Seurat's theories?
A) Line
B) Color
C) Perspective
D) Chiaroscuro
Q3) What was typical subject matter for van Gogh?
A) the wilderness
B) scenes of Tahiti
C) cathedrals or water lilies
D) landscapes and flowers
Q4) Describe the different approaches Post-Impressionist painters took both to build upon aspects of Impression and go take painting in new directions.
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Q5) Discuss the changes in building techniques and innovations that allowed for the construction of the skyscraper.
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Chapter 27: Toward Abstraction: the Modernist Revolution, 1905-1914
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Q1) At the Salon d'Automne of 1905, the works exhibited were so shocking that the artists Matisse and others were described as
A) wild beasts
B) insolent children
C) rude artists
D) greedy painters
Q2) Constantin Brancusi's Newborn of 1915 is a completely non-objective work of modernist sculpture.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Select two examples of expressionist art and compare and contrast the artists' intentions behind these works.
Q4) Which style was practiced by artists who embraced the dynamism, speed and noise of modern life?
A) Cubism
B) Fauvism
C) Futurism
D) Suprematism
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Q5) Describe and discuss the differences between analytic and synthetic cubism.
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Chapter 28: Art Between the Wars
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Q1) Which photographer used photography to document the plight of the poor during the Great Depression?
A) Dorothea Lange
B) Margaret Bourke-White
C) Man Ray
D) Edward Steichen
Q2) In Europe, many artists sought to undermine the nationalism and bourgeois values, particularly capitalism, that brought about World War I.
A)True
B)False
Q3) There was a clear separation between abstract art and radical politics in the revolutionary society that developed in Russia.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which American artist embraced representational art and regional imagery?
A) Grant Wood
B) Jacob Lawrence
C) Georgia O'Keeffe
D) Joseph Stella
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Chapter 29: Postwar to Postmodern, 1945-1980
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Q1) What makes Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson's Seagram Building an important work of modern architecture?
Q2) Romare Bearden, an African-American artist, made collages about his identity and became an active member of the Haarlem Renaissance.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Allan Kaprow performed all of his happenings in isolation.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How did Minimalist sculpture relate to architecture of the period?
Q5) Who is the artist known for creating huge images of simulated comics?
A) de Kooning
B) Pollock
C) Lichtenstein
D) Warhol
Q6) Discuss the relationship between Duchamp's Fountain and Joseph Kosuth's One and Three Chairs as examples of conceptual art.
Q7) How does Judy Chicago's Dinner Party function as a work of feminist art?
Q8) What impact did World War II have on American art?
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Q1) Whose work often incorporates explosives, especially fireworks?
A) Gehry
B) Cai
C) Puryear
D) Smith
Q2) Frank Gehry designed what kind of building for Bilbao, Spain?
A) Museum
B) corporate headquarters
C) public services building
D) war memorial
Q3) Who designs very sculptural architecture with organic, free-flowing forms?
A) Mies van der Rohe
B) Graves
C) Gehry
D) Sherman
Q4) Compare and contrast Rogers and Piano's Centre National d'Art et Culture Georges Pompidou and Gehry's Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao as examples of museum architecture.
Q5) Discuss the new media of the last 20 years. What media are being used? In what ways can these art forms address issues and ideas differently?
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