Survey of Art Exam Review
Course Introduction
Survey of Art offers an expansive overview of the visual arts from prehistoric times to the present, examining key movements, artists, and cultural contexts. Through the study of painting, sculpture, architecture, and other media, students will gain insight into how art reflects and shapes societies across diverse periods and regions. Emphasizing visual analysis, critical thinking, and historical understanding, this course provides a broad foundation for appreciating artistic achievements and understanding their significance within human civilization.
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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) Palladio's Villa Rotonda relates to its environment by:
A) subtly integrating with it.
B) dominating the site.
C) becoming virtually invisible.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Answer: B
Q2) 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
Q3) 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
Q4) The relative darkness or lightness of a color is called the ____________.
Answer: value
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Chapter 2: Prehistoric Art
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Q1) In cave art,some animal images are shown pierced with spears:
A) as a demonstration to young hunters.
B) for a ritual purpose.
C) to capture the animals' life spirits.
D) to help ensure a successful hunt.
E) all of these.
Answer: E
Q2) It is almost certain that the "Great Serpent Mound" had,for its builders,a purpose that was:
A) scientific.
B) religious.
C) decorative.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Answer: B
Q3) The term Neolithic means "New Stone Age."
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Ancient Art
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Q1) Artistic invention was prized in ancient Egyptian tomb decoration.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) In Greek Doric architecture,the walled inner sanctuary,or ____________,contained the cult statue.
Answer: naos
Q3) Egyptian tomb wall paintings tell us a great deal about ancient Egyptian life and customs because the tomb decorations:
A) had to preserve pleasant everyday life for the ka.
B) were forbidden to involve abstraction.
C) were produced by unskilled laborers.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Answer: A
Q4) 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
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Chapter 4: Later Ancient Art
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Q1) The wedge-shaped blocks that make up the parts of an arch are called voussoirs.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Pantheon was commissioned by:
A) Julius Caesar.
B) Constantine.
C) Emperor Hadrian.
D) Tacitus.
E) none of these.
Q3) Describe the probable meanings of the feathered serpents at Teotihuacán.
Q4) The intersection at right angles of two tunnel vaults is a called:
A) an angular vault.
B) a pendentive.
C) a groin vault.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q5) The dynamics of an arch or vault create outward diagonal thrusts that must be counteracted by springing.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Art From 200 to 1000
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Q1) What influential Carolingian architectural innovation in church design is evident in the Plan of St.Gall Monastery?
Q2) 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 ____________.
Q3) At the Buddhist Horyuji complex near Nara,Japan,after entering through the chumon,why would a pilgrim make a lateral turn?
Q4) What does the word catacomb mean,and from where is it derived?
Q5) The purpose of the Buddhist temple Borobudur has been interpreted as a(n):
A) symbolic mountain.
B) stupa.
C) mandala for meditation.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q6) The Buddhist temple called Borobudur was:
A) sited in central Java.
B) designed legendarily by a divine architect.
C) originally considered sacred by Hindus.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
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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) Glowing,gemlike,stained glass windows support the idea that the Gothic cathedral serves as a metaphor for the Heavenly Jerusalem.
A)True
B)False
Q3) 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.
Q4) What are the color differences between tempera painting and true fresco?
Q5) The main subject of Ife art is the human head,rendered how?
Q6) In what fashion is blue usually applied in a fresco painting?
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Chapter 7: Fifteenth-Century Art
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Q1) What about Robert Campin's Annunciation triptych suggests that the patron's wife was added at the time of their marriage?
Q2) What about Jan van Eyck's Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami suggests that an oath is being taken?
A) hanging pillows
B) position of the couple's hands
C) view outside the window
D) all of these
E) none of these
Q3) In his Trinity,Masaccio has advanced Giotto's artistic innovations by combining them with superfluous abstract detail.
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) What factors contributed to the sad state of Leonardo's Last Supper before restoration?
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Chapter 8: Sixteenth-Century Art
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Q1) Discuss the iconographic scheme for Michelangelo's painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
Q2) In Titian's Venus of Urbino,the identification of the nude female figure as Venus is supported by symbolism of the ____________ and the ____________.
Q3) In Soami's Dry garden of the Daisenin of Daitokuji,the waterless boulders,stones,and gravel suggest a course of water:
A) racing along a mountain riverbed.
B) falling over a waterfall.
C) flowing into a broad river.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q4) The Mannerist qualities in Michelangelo's The Last Judgment are believed to result from:
A) the leaden psychological climate of Rome.
B) the Reformation.
C) the brutal sack of Rome in 1527.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q5) Why is Titian's technique known as having a painterly quality?
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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 countries that remained Catholic in the seventeenth century,the Counter-Reformation led to the production of contemplative Baroque secular images.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Bernini's Baldacchino at St.Peter's solved the problem of providing:
A) shade for the Pope.
B) a focal point for the interior.
C) an entrance to the dome.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q4) In A Man Rowing a Boat on the Bullewyk,Rembrandt applied wash,which is thick ink mixed with liquid soap.
A)True
B)False
Q5) 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 view that human knowledge is pragmatically gained from experience and sensation is called:
A) empiricism.
B) Victorianism.
C) classicism.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q2) Benjamin West's Death of General Wolfe was stimulated by a serious study of ____________ and study of the works of Renaissance and Baroque artists.
Q3) What about Egid Quirin Asam's Assumption of the Virgin encourages us to gasp?
Q4) In William Hogarth's Marriage à la Mode,Scene II,what suggests that the wife's lover is the music teacher?
Q5) Kim Hongdo's painting Roof Tiling shows the interest in the actual appearances of powerful Korean rulers in eighteenth-century Korea.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Describe the motivations,purposes,and allegorical meanings behind The Ocean's Coach commissioned by the Portuguese King John V.What was the iconography intended to do?
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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) What did the declining percentage of commissioned works in the nineteenth century encourage?
Q3) What was the advantage of William Henry Fox Talbot's invention of the photographic negative?
Q4) The goal of Monet in Impression-Sunrise was to:
A) paint a beautiful picture.
B) record reality as he saw it.
C) display significant moral import.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q5) 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 ____________.
Q6) The highest goal of Academic painters was to create history paintings of significant moral import.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Art From 1900 to 1949
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Q1) 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.
Q2) Early in the twentieth century,as a Fauve painter Matisse began to make paintings in which color was used how?
Q3) In his Schröder House of 1923-24,how does Gerrit Rietveld establish a series of complex relationships?
Q4) Picasso's Guernica has endured as an emblem for all those who hate the ____________ experienced by humanity during political conflicts.
Q5) Even standing still,Pininfarina's Cistalia "202" GT car gives what impression?
Q6) In Hopper's Nighthawks the harsh interior light is used to:
A) reveal the personalities of the sitters.
B) encourage deep psychoanalysis.
C) expose the lack of communication.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
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Chapter 13: Art From 1950 to 1999
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Q1) Komar and Melamid's America's Most Wanted was produced based on the aesthetic preferences of America's 100 most famous art critics.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial certainly fulfills the second competition criterion,which states that the monument should be "reflective and ____________ in nature."
Q3) In the late 1960s,the style that presented the work of art as an object of elemental form divorced from symbolic or personal content was:
A) Op Art.
B) Minimal Art.
C) Pop Art.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q4) In his photographic essay The Americans,Robert Frank employed his "snapshot aesthetic" in producing many commercial glamour photos.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Art in the New Millennium
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Q1) Cai Guo-qiang's work makes use of:
A) geography.
B) medicine.
C) history.
D) Chinese philosophy.
E) all of these.
Q2) James Turrell has said that he wants people to mentally regard light as a nonexistent,ephemeral,invisible entity.
A)True
B)False
Q3) To create the Tate Modern museum,into what did the Swiss architectural firm of Herzog and DeMeuron transform an abandoned London power plant?
Q4) 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.
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