Survey of Art Exam Preparation Guide
Course Introduction
Survey of Art provides a comprehensive introduction to the visual arts across diverse historical periods and cultural contexts. Students explore major artistic movements, influential artists, and significant works spanning from prehistoric times to contemporary art. Emphasis is placed on understanding the social, political, and technological factors that have shaped artistic production and interpretation throughout history. Through lectures, readings, and visual analysis, the course develops students skills in critical observation, historical context, and appreciation for the contributions of art to global society.
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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) Paleolithic carving:
A) often represented the human form
B) was made using iron tools
C) was usually intensely lifelike
D) was usually without meaning
Answer: A
Q2) Chauvet is a cave that:
A) contains corbelling
B) shows post-and-lintel construction
C) has Paleolithic murals
D) is a menhir
Answer: C
Q3) There is no relationship between changing climate and different artistic and architectural forms in the Neolithic period.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Ancient Near Eastern Art
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Q1) Sumerian palaces were called ziggurats.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The Sumerians built primarily of wood and what other material?
A) diorite stone
B) marble
C) mud brick
D) granite
Answer: C
Q3) Tigris and Euphrates were:
A) Rivers that supplied water to Mesopotamia
B) Important Sumerian cities
C) Names of the first-known ancient architects
D) The rulers of Akkad and Assyria
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Egyptian Art
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Q1) The great pyramids at Giza were constructed during the Fourth Dynasty.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The period of Akhenaten ushered in a new artistic style and figural canon in Egyptian art.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) What is the gateway of an Egyptian temple that leads to a series of pillared halls or courts called?
A) lintel
B) pylon
C) atrium
D) facade
Answer: B
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) Aegean civilization has been known from epic poems by:
A) Odysseus
B) Sir Arthur Evans
C) King Minos
D) Homer
Q2) Female nudes with arms folded across the waist, and toes extended are typical of:
A) Mycenaean art
B) Cycladic art
C) Minoan art
D) Sumerian art
Q3) Describe the method of construction of a beehive tomb. What type of structures preceded its development?
Q4) Describe the architecture of Mycenae.
Q5) The Mediterranean Sea effectively served to separate and isolate ancient cultures.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Describe the subject matter and style of fresco paintings found on Minoan Crete.
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Chapter 5: Greek Art
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Q1) Where are triglyphs and metopes found?
A) In a ziggurat
B) As part of the Doric order
C) In a Corinthian frieze
D) In an Egyptian temple
Q2) The Greek Pediment:
A) often contains sculpture
B) is in the cella
C) was designed by Imhotep
D) is part of an acanthus
Q3) The Athenian Akropolis, the hilltop citadel, had been a fortified site since Mycenaean times, around 1250 BCE.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following describes the characteristics of Greek gods and goddesses?
A) Immortal and behaving in very human ways
B) Omniscient and selfless
C) Omnipotent and fair
D) Mortal and jealous
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Chapter 6: Etruscan Art
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Q1) The ancient Greek historian Herodotus believed that the Etruscan people were indigenous to the Italian peninsula.
A)True
B)False
Q2) To which culture is the Etruscan alphabet linked?
A) Egyptians
B) Sumerians
C) Minoans
D) Greeks
Q3) What material was used to make the Chimaira sculpture?
A) carved marble
B) carved granite
C) terracotta
D) cast bronze
Q4) Who was the Greek historian who wrote about the Etruscans?
A) Herodotus
B) Vitruvius
C) Perikles
D) Alexander
Q5) Compare and contrast Roman and Etruscan architecture.
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Chapter 7: Roman Art
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Q1) Which is true of the Pantheon?
A) It was a form of basilica.
B) It supported a dome with pendentives.
C) It had an apse on each end.
D) It had a dome atop a drum.
Q2) Discuss different forms of illusion found in Roman murals.
Q3) Which civilization first made widespread use of concrete as a building material?
A) Early Christian
B) Greek
C) Egyptian
D) Roman
Q4) Ancestral death masks led to the development of what?
A) Narrative reliefs
B) Portrait sculpture
C) Wall mosaics
D) The triumphal arch
Q5) How do you a see lasting impact of ancient Rome in contemporary culture?
Q6) What are the two most significant contributions to architecture made by the Romans? Why are these significant?
Q7) How did the Greeks and Etruscans influence Roman architecture?
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Chapter 8: Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art
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Q1) Which is true of the mosaics found in the Hammath Tiberias Synagogue?
A) The style of representation is reminiscent of Roman mosaic work?
B) They depict the power of the emperor over church and state
C) They were vulnerable to deterioration because they ornamented the walls
D) They are executed in a traditional Byzantine style
Q2) Religious objects for personal or public veneration, generally depicting Christ, the Enthroned Madonna, or saints are known as:
A) icons
B) portraits
C) cult statues
D) tesserae
Q3) What type of church was most commonly constructed in the Byzantine Empire?
A) The Basilica-plan
B) One with a dome and a vertical focus
C) One with a long rectangular nave and side aisles
D) One based on the plan of Old St. Peter's
Q4) Explain the iconoclastic controversy. Why were abstract symbols widely used?
Q5) What classical architecture influenced the Early Christian basilica and how did it evolve?
Q6) Compare basilica-plan with central-plan churches. Cite examples of each.
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Chapter 9: Islamic Art
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Q1) How did Muslim, Byzantine and Spanish influences each have an impact on the design of the Great Mosque at Cordoba?
Q2) The adjective referring to the architectural use of many columns is:
A) hypostyle
B) pilaster
C) entasis
D) columnar
Q3) Early mosque architecture emphasized:
A) the equality of all Muslims before God
B) the importance of the clergy
C) ceremony and processions
D) an axial spatial plan
Q4) What ornamental style is typified by energetic compositions of curved leaves and flowers linked by vines, and often embellished by animals?
A) Ottoman court style
B) Al Andalus style
C) Persian royal style
D) Arab style
Q5) How does holy script become an art form in Islamic art and architecture?
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Chapter 10: Early Medieval Art
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Q1) Where can westwork be found?
A) In the crypt
B) In the scriptorium
C) At the entrance of a church
D) Along the arcade
Q2) The Chi Rho Iota page from the Book of Kells shows:
A) the relationship between manuscript illumination and precious metalwork
B) the influence of Islam on Celtic manuscript illumination
C) the clarity and simplicity of design in Hiberno-Saxon art
D) an attention by the artist to spatial illusionism
Q3) Where was Charlemagne's capital?
A) Aachen
B) Paris
C) Rome
D) Westphalia
Q4) What was produced in a Carolingian scriptorium?
A) illuminated manuscripts
B) small-scale works of sculpture
C) decorative arts
D) architecture
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Chapter 11: Romanesque Art
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Q1) Typically, what covers a Romanesque nave?
A) wooden roof
B) concrete dome
C) barrel vault
D) pendentives
Q2) Where is sculpture commonly found in a Romanesque church?
A) tympanum
B) reliquary
C) jambs
D) all of the above
Q3) Where is the west facade in a Romanesque church?
A) apse end
B) the transept end
C) the front entrance
D) the altar end
Q4) Discuss the Bayeux Tapestry. What story is being told and from whose point of view? How does the telling of the story reflect the values of the age?
Q5) Monasticism began in the west and spread to the east.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Gothic Art
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Q1) Compare and contrast the presentation of the Virgin Mary and Christ in the Virgin of Paris and the Roettgen Pieta. What different perspectives on these figures and on the Christian story are presented in these works?
Q2) What features are characteristic of Gothic architecture? How did aspects of medieval structural engineering contribute to the form and visual qualities of Gothic cathedrals?
Q3) Because of its composition and delicacy, what material was often used for illuminated manuscripts?
A) Gold leaf
B) Copper
C) Graphite
D) Pastel
Q4) Which is NOT a characteristic of Gothic architecture?
A) churches in the city
B) large expanses of colored glass
C) pointed arches
D) low, dark naves
Q5) How does Gothic sculpture differ from Romanesque sculpture? How does the imagery differ?
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Chapter 13: Art in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Italy
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Q1) What are the tables, or low stones, that are the focal point of Christian religious worship?
A) Altars
B) Baptisteries
C) Naves
D) Transepts
Q2) The Franciscans and Dominicans were religious orders located mostly in the countryside in remote monasteries.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What similarities in style, expression, and narrative treatment do you see between Giotto's frescoes in the Arena Chapel and his Madonna Enthroned?
Q4) The Christian altar traditionally is a narrow stone "table" that contains bone fragments of a martyr within it.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How did Giangaleazzo Visconti use the visual arts as tools to celebrate his status?
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Chapter 14: Artistic Innovations in Fifteenth-Century
Northern Europe
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Q1) Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Delights is a:
A) single panel work
B) diptych
C) triptych
D) polyptych
Q2) 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.
Q3) The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck shows all of the following EXCEPT:
A) much symbolism
B) much detail
C) oil glazes
D) landscape featured prominently
Q4) Hugo van der Goes's Portinari Altarpiece demonstrates the international character of the businessmen of Florence because its patron was from:
A) Italy
B) Germany
C) France
D) Holland
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Chapter 15: The Early Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Italy
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Q1) For what building were the Gates of Paradise made?
A) the Florence Cathedral
B) the Brancacci Chapel
C) S. Lorenzo
D) The Florence Baptistery
Q2) Discuss innovations seen in the works of Masaccio.
Q3) Who wins the commission to sculpt the so-called Gates of Paradise?
A) Ghiberti
B) Brunelleschi
C) Donatello
D) Michelangelo
Q4) To create the illusion of pictorial depth of space, the principle of parallel lines converging toward a single vanishing point is called:
A) chiaroscuro
B) aerial perspective
C) linear perspective
D) atmospheric perspective
Q5) How does Ghiberti create the illusion of spatial depth in his panels? Where are the panels located? What material was used to make the doors?
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Chapter 16: The High Renaissance in Italy, 1495-1520
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Q1) Who designed the dome of St. Peter's?
A) Bramante
B) Alberti
C) Brunelleschi
D) Michelangelo
Q2) Who wrote The Lives of the most Excellent Italian Architects, Painters, and Sculptors, known as The Lives?
A) Giorgio Vasari
B) Girolamo Savonarola
C) Lodovico Sforza
D) Tiziano Vecello
Q3) Discuss Leonardo's Vitruvian Man, Bramante's Tempietto, and Michelangelo's Pietà as three works of the Italian High Renaissance. What underlying artistic characteristics and principles of the age do these three works have in common?
Q4) Most of the great achievements that made Rome the center of Italian art during the first quarter of the sixteenth century were influenced by what events and which important patron of the arts?
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Chapter 17: The Late Renaissance and Mannerism in
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Q1) Andrea Palladio is particularly well-known for a series of villas he designed for wealthy patrons in which geographical region?
A) Venice
B) Tuscany
C) Siena
D) Bologna
Q2) Discuss della Porta's handling of the facade of Il Gesù. What was classically inspired and what was innovative about his design? What problems was he addressing?
Q3) The Academy of Design was established in Florence in 1563 to promote the arts in Tuscany by improving the training of artists.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Who wrote The Four Books of Architecture?
A) Bramante
B) Palladio
C) Brunelleschi
D) Titian
Q5) What events are believed to have contributed to the end to the High Renaissance?
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Chapter 18: Renaissance and Reformation Throughout
Sixteenth-Century Europe
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Q1) Discuss the combination of Italian figural forms and northern symbolism in Dürer's Adam and Eve. Given what we know of Dürer's biography, how do we account for this combination of southern and northern characteristics in this work?
Q2) Henry VIII officially broke with the Church in Rome in 1534 and formed the Church of England.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Francis I asserted his overriding interest in French art and artists at his chateau of Fontainebleau.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is the subject of genre painting?
A) aristocrats
B) portraits
C) everyday activities of ordinary people
D) religious subject matter
Q5) Some of the still-life paintings of Pieter Aertsen carry moralizing messages.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 19: The Baroque in Italy and Spain
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Q1) Juan de Pareja, whom Velázquez painted, was
A) An assistant and servant
B) A Spanish aristocrat
C) A wealthy patron of the artist
D) The Duke of Urbino
Q2) Who was the illusionistic ceiling painter who painted The Loves of the Gods in quadri riportati?
A) Carracci
B) Cortona
C) Bernini
D) Guarini
Q3) Trompe l'oeil is a French expression for tenebrism, the effects of light and shadow in Caravaggio's paintings.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In comparing Bernini's David to Donatello's David, Bernini's is significantly:
A) more colorful
B) more serene
C) showing more influence of the Classical Greek contrapposto stance
D) more dynamic, full of implied movement
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Chapter 20: The Baroque in the Netherlands
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Q1) Discuss the Baroque elements and influences in Rembrandt's Hundred Guilder Print. How would you relate this work to paintings by Caravaggio?
Q2) Baroque artists from what country usually specialized in a particular type of painting such as landscape, portraiture, still life, or genre?
A) Italy
B) Holland
C) Spain
D) France
Q3) In the seventeenth century, Flanders was predominantly
A) Catholic
B) Lutheran
C) Anglican
D) Orthodox
Q4) Rachel Ruysch established a career as an important
A) Still life painter
B) Portraitist
C) Landscape artist
D) Genre painter
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Chapter 21: The Baroque in France and England
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Q1) How does Hyacinth Rigaud's Portrait of Louis XIV function on a number of levels as an image of absolute monarchy? What elements in the painting are there for substantially symbolic reasons?
Q2) Hyacinthe Rigaud and Anthony van Dyck both painted what kind of figure in the seventeenth century?
A) Absolute monarchs
B) Everyday people
C) Slaves and servants
D) The ill and disabled
Q3) What was Poussin's working process and how did that process affect the look, expression and meaning of his finished works?
Q4) Which Italian architect was initially consulted for the redesign of the Louvre?
A) Bernini
B) Borromini
C) Palladio
D) Della Porta
Q5) What and who were the influences on the design of the Louvre? The design was based on what style of architecture?
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Chapter 22: The Rococo
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Q1) Tiepolo was known especially for:
A) fêtes galantes
B) illusionistic ceiling decorations
C) still lifes
D) moral fables
Q2) With whom are the vedute associated?
A) Canaletto
B) Tiepolo
C) Fischer von Erlach
D) Boucher
Q3) The eighteenth-century academies of art referred to the arts that did not include painting, sculpture, architecture and drawing as:
A) Minor arts
B) Major arts
C) Secondary arts
D) Art for art's sake
Q4) The Rococo style was successfully used for the interior design of French hotels.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 23: Art in the Age of the Enlightenment, 1750-1789
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Q1) This sculptor is often described as the portraitist of the Enlightenment:
A) David
B) Greuze
C) Houdon
D) Soufflot
Q2) Which artist was an important genre painter in eighteenth-century France?
A) Greuze
B) David
C) Ingres
D) Watteau
Q3) The Age of the Enlightenment was exclusively a European phenomenon.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Neoclassical art often illustrated what were considered the virtuous actions and deeds of which ancient peoples?
A) Romans
B) Egyptians
C) Mesopotamians
D) Mycenaeans
Q5) Compare Rococo and Neoclassicism in terms of subject matter, style, and purpose.
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Chapter 24: Art in the Age of the Romanticism, 1789-1848
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Q1) Whose paintings point to the atrocities of war and man's inhumanity to man?
A) Ingres
B) Goya
C) David
D) Greuze
Q2) Which artist, who used lively, colorful, fluid brushwork, looked to literature for exotic subject matter to excite the imagination?
A) Walpole
B) Delacroix
C) Gardner
D) Constable
Q3) Goya's The Third of May, 1808 was made in response to whose occupation of Spain?
A) France
B) Germany
C) Italy
D) England
Q4) Compare the Romantic and Neoclassic styles. How are they similar and how do they differ in terms of both subject matter and style?
Q5) 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) Which group sought inspiration from the masters of the fifteenth century, hoping to reform the ills of modern society through their art?
A) Realists
B) Impressionists
C) Romantics
D) Pre-Raphaelites
Q2) The Crystal Palace and the Eiffel Tower were both constructed independent of major international exhibitions in England and France.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What term is used to describe a cultural infatuation with all things Japanese?
A) Japonisme
B) Chinoiserie
C) Orientalism
D) Colonialism
Q4) Why was Manet's Luncheon on the Grass so controversial and shockingly new when it was first painted and exhibited? Be sure to discuss both the subject matter and style of his painting in your answer.
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Chapter 26: Progress and Its Discontents:
Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau, 1880-1905
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Q1) Discuss the influence of Japanese prints on late nineteenth century Western art.
Q2) What was typical subject matter for Cézanne?
A) mountain landscapes
B) scenes inspired by Japanese prints
C) cathedrals or water lilies
D) scenes of the common man working
Q3) Describe the different approaches Post-Impressionist painters took both to build upon aspects of Impression and go take painting in new directions.
Q4) What group of Paris artists immersed themselves in religion to flee modernity?
A) The Nabis
B) The impressionists
C) The Pre-Raphaelites
D) The pointillists
Q5) Which American Symbolist painter was influenced by the ethereal, otherworldly pictures of Parisian artists such as Moreau?
A) Henry O. Tanner
B) Thomas Eakins
C) Benjamin West
D) James Whistler
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Chapter 27: Toward Abstraction: the Modernist Revolution,
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Q1) What is the title of the first Cubist painting?
A) Guernica
B) A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
C) The Red Studio
D) Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Q2) Who was a forerunner to Surrealism, often painting foreboding images as though from a nightmare?
A) Malevich
B) De Chirico
C) Chagall
D) Duchamp
Q3) What was the name of Alfred Stieglitz's New York gallery?
A) New York Collects
B) The Photography Gallery
C) Stieglitz Gallery
D) "291" Gallery
Q4) Umberto Boccioni, an artist, also authored the Manifesto of Futurism.
A)True
B)False
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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) Who owned and ran "291"?
A) Man Ray
B) Adams
C) Weston
D) Stieglitz
Q2) Who experimented with mobiles as a form of art?
A) Man Ray
B) Hepworth
C) Duchamp
D) Calder
Q3) How did Pablo Picasso approach the subject of war in his Guernica? Compare Picasso's approach to war in this work with other representations of war in the history of art.
Q4) What does the art of Lange have in common with that of Goya and Courbet?
Q5) What are the similarities and differences between the Dada and Surrealist movements? Select two works of art to formulate your answer.
Q6) Dada evolved into Surrealism.
A)True
B)False
Q7) How did the New Deal have an impact on documentary photography?
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Chapter 29: Postwar to Postmodern, 1945-1980
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Q1) Jasper Johns became famous as a painter of flags in which medium?
A) Encaustic
B) Fresco
C) Tempera
D) Acrylic
Q2) German pop art came out of which city?
A) Düsseldorf
B) Berlin
C) Hamburg
D) Munich
Q3) Joseph Beuys's propagated a myth that nomadic Tartars saved him from freezing to death by covering him in animal fat and layers of felt, materials that became a foundation for much of his work.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What material did Donald Judd use in his sculptures?
A) stone
B) bronze
C) steel
D) nature
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Q1) Who often incorporates body fluids or deteriorating bodies?
A) Cai
B) Murray
C) Smith
D) Puryear
Q2) Which photographer is interested in revealing a viewer's participation in determining meaning in her works?
A) Cindy Sherman
B) Margaret Cameron
C) Dorothea Lange
D) Margaret Bourke-White
Q3) 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.
Q4) Maya Lin was a student in the architecture program at Yale University before receiving the commission for the:
A) Vietnam Veterans Memorial
B) Pompidou Centre
C) Guggenheim museum
D) Public Services Building
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