Survey of Western Art II Study Guide Questions
Course Introduction
Survey of Western Art II offers a comprehensive overview of major works, movements, and figures in Western art from the Renaissance to the present day. The course examines the historical, cultural, and social contexts that shaped artistic developments in Europe and the Americas, focusing on key periods such as the Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Modernism, and Contemporary Art. Through lectures, discussions, and analysis of significant artworks and architecture, students develop skills in visual literacy and critical interpretation, while exploring themes of style, patronage, innovation, and the evolving role of the artist in society.
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Art History 5th Edition Volume 2 by Marilyn Stokstad
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Chapter 1: Fourtheenth-Century Art in Europe
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Q1) Duccio included _______________ in his scene of the Betrayal of Jesus on the back of the Maesta.
A) several subsequent episodes
B) only a few figures
C) an expansive architectural backdrop
D) his portrait
Answer: A
Q2) __________ was a master mason for Exeter Cathedral .
A) Richard de Montefort
B) Thomas of Whitney
C) Thomas Acquinas
D) Nicholas of Verdun
Answer: B
Q3) The Book of Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux by __________ contains special prayers to be recited during the day and into the evening.
A) Jean Pucelle
B) Jan van Eyck
C) the Rohan Master
D) Gislebertus
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Fifteenth-century Art in Northern Europe
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Q1) The Unicorn is Found at the Fountain is evidence of the intricate details,subtle modeling,and tonal variations that are possible in ____________.
A) manuscript illumination
B) engraving
C) woven textiles
D) oil painting
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following was NOT a reason that the Flemish style of art became popular outside Flanders?
A) Flemish artists worked in foreign courts.
B) Artists from abroad traveled to Flanders to study.
C) The influence of the Flemish court was powerful.
D) Flemish paintings were exported abroad.
Answer: D
Q3) Define the Flamboyant style.Cite specific examples.
Answer: Not Answer
Q4) Explain the technique of painting with an oil medium.Include examples of artists and their work as part of your discussion.
Answer: Not Answer
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Chapter 3: Renaissance art in fifteenth-century Italy
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Q1) In the early part of the fifteenth century,the Italian painter __________ provided new direction for Florentine painting.
A) Giotto
B) Masaccio
C) Duccio
D) Pollaiuolo
Answer: B
Q2) __________ created sculpture out of terra cotta for Florence's Foundling Hospital (Ospedale degli Innocenti).
A) Brunelleschi
B) Ghiberti
C) Andrea della Robbia
D) Alberti
Answer: C
Q3) Explain Brunelleschi's design for the Florence Cathedral .Be specific in your explanation.
Answer: Not Answer
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Chapter 4: Sixteenth-century art in Italy
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Q1) Federigo II Gonzaga enticed Guilio Romano to build a palace in __________.
A) Florence
B) Mantua
C) Rome
D) Siena
Q2) How was St.Peter's Basilica modified during the sixteenth century?
Q3) Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Mannerism?
A) irrational spatial environments
B) esoteric subject matter
C) subtle coloration and lighting effects
D) elongated proportions
Q4) Several changes,including ___________ in the final product suggest that tapestry weavers did NOT slavishly follow Raphael's cartoons.
A) eliminating several figures
B) leaving the background a solid color
C) staging the scene in front of a cityscape
D) making Christ's garment more elaborate
Q5) How was Titian regarded as an artist?
Q6) What qualities or features typify Venetian Renaissance painting?
Q7) How did Julius II support and complicate Michelangelo's artistic life?
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Chapter 5: sixteenth-century art in northern Europe and the Iberian peninsula
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Q1) The German artist ___________ is known for different visualizations of women such as Death and the Matron
A) Tilman Riemenschneider
B) Hans Baldung Grien
C) Lucas Cranach
D) Mathias Grünewald
Q2) Albrecht Altdorfer emerged as one of the great German painters of _________,a genre that grew in popularity in the sixteenth century.
A) landscapes
B) still-lifes
C) religious narratives
D) moralizing parables
Q3) Dürer's The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is a(n)__________.
A) woodcut
B) drawing
C) engraving
D) etching
Q4) What kind of art and architecture did Philip II support in Spain?
Q5) What was the role of miniatures in sixteenth-century English art?
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Chapter 6: Seventeenth-Century art in Europe
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Q1) Most of Caravaggio's commissions after 1600 were __________.
A) landscapes
B) portraits
C) religious
D) genre scenes
Q2) Which of the following was NOT a part of Le Nôtre's design for the gardens at Versailles?
A) fountains
B) parterres
C) winding stone paths
D) sculpture
Q3) ____________ was a printmaking technique that created a line with a rich black appearance.
A) Burr
B) Drypoint
C) Register
D) Relief
Q4) How are Baroque naturalism and Baroque classicism similar and different?
Q5) Why did English Baroque architects replace the prevailing Gothic style?
Q6) How is Borromini's architecture eccentric or unusual?
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Chapter 7: art of south and southeast Asia after 1200
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Q1) Characteristic of a bodhisattva are his __________ garments.
A) princely
B) monk's
C) merchant's
D) laborer's
Q2) Scholars generally agree that the __________ dynasty made the most lasting and inspired contribution to the art of India.
A) Dagon
B) Shwe
C) Sukho
D) Mughal
Q3) __________ is an example of Rajput painting.
A) Jahangir in Darbar
B) Krishna and the Gopis
C) Akbar and his Court
D) Krishna and Akbar
Q4) Who is Krishna? Give examples of his representation in Indian art.
Q5) Characterize the expression of Buddhist ideals in the bronze statues of the Buddha,produced under royal patronage in Thailand after 1200.
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Chapter 8: Chinese and Korean art after 1279
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Q1) In the principle of the __________,a projecting element of one piece fits so snugly and smoothly into a cavity of another piece that no glue or nails are needed.
A) post and lintel
B) groin vaulting
C) wood block
D) mortise-and-tenon joint
Q2) In Autumn Colors on the Qiao and Hua Mountains __________ intentionally painted in the manner of the earlier Tang dynasty.
A) Dai Jin
B) Yin Hong
C) Ni Zan
D) Zhao Mengfu
Q3) How did conditions in Korea from the late nineteenth century into the twentieth century affect its artistic development?
Q4) What was the historical context for China in the first half of the twentieth century? How did it affect the arts?
Q5) Explain the Silhak movement.What is the meaning of the word "silhak"?
Q6) What is distinctive about Korean painted porcelain?
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Chapter 9: Japanese art after 1333
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Q1) Several forms of visual art flourished during the Muromachi period,but __________ reigned supreme.
A) sculpture
B) engraving
C) oil painting
D) ink painting
Q2) Ukiyo-e artists designed many prints of actors from the form of popular theater,known as __________.
A) shoin
B) oni
C) kabuki
D) otani
Q3) What influence was introduced into Japanese ink painting during the Muromachi period?
A) Zen Buddhism's emphasis on historical figures
B) Pure Land Buddhism
C) traditions of Chinese landscape painting
D) humor
Q4) What is the meaning of the Japanese phrase ukiyo-e? Associate this phrase with a specific artist and work.
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Chapter 10: Art of the Americas after 1300
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Q1) __________ explorers first arrived in the Americas in 1519.
A) Japanese
B) African
C) European
D) Chinese
Q2) Dorothy Dunn helped Native Americans of the Southwest paint in a stereotypical __________ style.
A) European
B) Indian
C) Asian
D) African
Q3) How are Hamatsa masks of the Northwestern Kwakwaka'wakw culture traditionally used?
A) They hang on a dividing screen in the tribe's great house.
B) They sit on a "spirit altar" during ritual ceremonies.
C) They are worn in ritual dances.
D) They act as guardians outside the entrance of buildings.
Q4) What are some qualities of Plains Indian art?
Q5) What is the Four Corners region?
Q6) What were the building traditions of the Incas?
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Chapter 11: art of pacific cultures
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Q1) What is the malangan?
Q2) The Feather Cloak,or Kearny Cloak had a foundation made from __________.
A) coconut fibers
B) strung pearls
C) pineapple leaves
D) corn husks
Q3) What common artistic interest appears in most of Pacific cultures?
A) monumental structures used for religious purposes
B) tattooing and performative arts related to ritual
C) narrative imagery depicting cultural history
D) an emphasis on the sea and marine life
Q4) How might the use of tufa in the production of moai reflect their function as memorials to ancestral chiefs?
A) It is more permanent than other materials.
B) Its color is symbolic of royalty.
C) It is believed to have spiritual powers.
D) It can be carved with great detail.
Q5) How did missionaries play a role in the production of fiber arts?
Q6) What is a mattang or wapepe?
Q7) What is bark painting?
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Chapter 12: art of Africa in the modern era
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Q1) Why might a Baule man have an image made of the spirit-spouse?
A) because he misses his deceased wife
B) as a wedding gift for his future wife
C) because he has not married
D) as a sign of his initiation into adulthood
Q2) Why do some contemporary African artists continue to use indigenous traditions?
Q3) Which statement does NOT apply to the masks associated with bwami,a voluntary association that is the basis for the Lega people's political system.
A) They cover the initiate's face until the end of the ceremony.
B) They symbolize continuity between ancestors and the living community.
C) They are often colored with white clay and fitted with a long beard made of plant fibers.
D) A heart-shape face and raised features are carved into an oval-shaped head.
Q4) In many African cultures,a diviner is someone who ______________.
A) makes sacred art including masks, sculptures, and ceramic wares
B) speaks for the tribal elders
C) maintains cultural secrets regarding ritual ceremonies
D) mediates between this world and the supernatural
Q5) How did the Nkanu peoples confront colonial domination through art?
Q6) How are nkisi nkonde an example of an object transformed by use?
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13: Eighteenth- and early-nineteenth century art
Europe and NORTH America
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Q1) In England,__________ played a significant role in the production of silver during the Georgian period.
A) aristocrats
B) slaves
C) women
D) Josiah Wedgewood
Q2) This neoclassical sculptor,__________,specialized in grand public monuments and erotic mythological subjects.
A) Canova
B) Goya
C) Ingres
D) David
Q3) With his success as a moralizing painter,the artist __________ was able to give up portraiture,which he considered a deplorable form of vanity.
A) Hogarth
B) Fragonard
C) Boucher
D) Gainsborough
Q4) How did Neoclassical artists rebel against Rococo art?
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Chapter 14: mid-to late nineteenth-century art in Europe and the united states
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Q1) The reading room at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris demonstrates the tendency of late nineteenth century architects to ______________.
A) fuse a historicizing approach to form with new technologies
B) reject the use of mass-produced and industrial materials in design
C) explore new architectural forms that could reflect the modern world
D) adhere to the dictum that "form ever follows function"
Q2) What is repoussoir and how did Cézanne use it?
Q3) Important to the works of Seurat _________ observed that adjacent objects cast reflections on their neighbors and create the effect of their complementary color.
A) Michel-Eugène Chevreul
B) Edmund Burke
C) Charles Baudelaire
D) Cornelius Vanderbilt
Q4) Most of the Impressionists painted en plein air,meaning they painted outside the
A) market
B) studio
C) revolution
D) church
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Q1) Which modern art movement professed a radical political agenda based on their love of machines,speed,and war?
A) Constructivism
B) Futurism
C) Dada
D) Suprematism
Q2) How did Federal patronage for American art function during the Depression?
Q3) Hartley,Dove,and O'Keeffe were all supported by __________ and shown in his gallery.
A) Henry Moore
B) Jacob Lawrence
C) Alfred Stieglitz
D) Salvador Dali
Q4) How did the de Stijl artists make art that would purify the human mind with pure colors and simple forms?
Q5) What are the names of the most important government-sponsored public works organizations?
Q6) How did Marcel Duchamp's Fountain change the course of art?
Q7) What are the different kinds of Cubist painting?
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Chapter 16: The international scene since 1950
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Q1) High Tech architecture is frequently characterized by ___________________.
A) the elimination of almost all applied decoration
B) the visible display of service systems such as heating and power
C) distorted designs that challenge traditional assumptions about stability
D) the simultaneous mixing of styles from different architectural periods
Q2) A major aim of first-generation feminist artists was _______________.
A) increasing recognition for women's artistic accomplishments and practices
B) deconstructing the art historical canon by exposing patriarchal biases in society
C) challenging traditional gender divisions through postmodern strategies
D) all of the above
Q3) Jean-Michel Basquiat's Neo-Expressionist paintings of the early 1980s developed out of his work as a___________________.
A) musician
B) professional athlete
C) graffiti artist
D) poet
Q4) How has audience interaction changed in Postmodern art?
Q5) Why did the Minimal artists eliminate personal feeling and social references from their work?
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