Survey of Western Art Practice Questions
Course Introduction
Survey of Western Art provides an overview of major developments, movements, and masterpieces in Western art from antiquity to the present day. The course examines key works in painting, sculpture, architecture, and other media, alongside the historical, cultural, and social contexts in which they were produced. Students will gain an understanding of the evolution of artistic styles and themes, learn about influential artists and their contributions, and develop skills in visual analysis and critical thinking as they explore the enduring impact of Western art on global 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) The rigid geometric layout visible at the Forbidden City in Beijing symbolized the relationships between heaven and earth,as well as between the ancestors and ____________.
Answer: the emperor
Q2) Early in the 19 century,the concept was born of the artist as a member of the ____________,who progressively leads society.
Answer: avant-garde
Q3) Mondrian's Composition No.8,1939-42,with Red,Blue,and Yellow reinforces the flatness of the picture plane.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) According to Xu Bing's interpretation of Chan Buddhist thought,the work of art is useless in itself.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q5) The patron for Bernini's Apollo and Daphne was ____________.
Answer: Cardinal Borghese
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Chapter 2: Prehistoric Art
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Q1) The building up of the walls of a clay vessel by successively adding long ropes of clay and then smoothing the joints is called ____________.
Answer: coiling
Q2) In a tradition characteristic of much of African art,the features of the Nok head are emphatically naturalistic and:
A) strictly realistic.
B) powerfully abstracted.
C) incredibly illusionistic.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Answer: B
Q3) As at Stonehenge,when placed in a row,menhirs become a cromlech.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) By 3000 BCE,in parts of Asia and China,a revolving stand for forming clay vessels was in use; this device is called a(n) ____________.
Answer: potter's wheel
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Chapter 3: Ancient Art
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Q1) In Greek Doric architecture,the walled inner sanctuary,or ____________,contained the cult statue.
Answer: naos
Q2) The stylistic evolution of Greek figurative sculpture is from rigidly posed to ____________.
Answer: relatively relaxed
Q3) In most ancient civilizations,artists were counted among the ranks of:
A) priests.
B) scholars.
C) laborers.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Answer: C
Q4) An underground burial chamber marked by a mud-brick structure above is called a mastaba.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Later Ancient Art
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Q1) The dynamics of an arch or vault create outward diagonal thrusts that must be counteracted by springing.
A)True
B)False
Q2) How is each of the attendant figures found in Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi's tomb at Lintong,Xi'an in China identifiable?
Q3) The tablero,as seen on the Temple of the Feathered Serpent,appears only on religious temples.
A)True
B)False
Q4) At the Pantheon,the thickness of the concrete of the dome is only one foot at the oculus.
A)True
B)False
Q5) ____________ is a wooden support structure upon which arches and vaults are constructed.
Q6) Related to the philosophical outlook of Aristotle,Hellenistic art places an emphasis on ____________ and ____________ naturalism.
Q7) Describe the probable meanings of the feathered serpents at Teotihuacán.
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Chapter 5: Art From 200 to 1000
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Q1) Pendentives are curving triangular segments that transition from square plan supporting piers to the circular base of a dome.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The exterior of Old St.Peter's was elaborately and exquisitely adorned with precious materials,including gold,jewels,and mosaics.
A)True B)False
Q3) 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?
Q4) In the Hindu relief at Mahamallapuram,both form and iconography express ____________.
Q5) The interior space of the Mosque at Córdoba functioned as a place for liturgical worship.
A)True B)False
Q6) Hundreds of earthenware figures called ____________ once encircled the huge mound tombs of the Japanese yamato rulers.
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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) As examples of narrative painting,Giotto's Arena Chapel frescoes illustrate the lives of Moses and John the Baptist.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Why did nineteenth-century historians coin the term "Romanesque" to describe the style of a church such as Ste.-Foy at Conques?
Q4) What are the color differences between tempera painting and true fresco?
Q5) In his painting Madonna Enthroned with Angels and Saints,Giotto renders his figures: A) with mass.
B) as existing in space.
C) with modeled drapery.
D) subject to gravity.
E) all of these.
Q6) In the tympanum sculpture at La Madeleine at Vézelay what is used to indicate the significance of Christ?
Q7) In the apse fresco from San Clemente in Tahull,Spain,the drapery flutters and folds in a(n) ____________.
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Chapter 7: Fifteenth-Century Art
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Q1) Giorgio Vasari argued that the transition to the High Renaissance occurred with the art of ____________.
Q2) What factors contributed to the sad state of Leonardo's Last Supper before restoration?
Q3) Discuss the idea of the Renaissance. What does it mean literally, historically, culturally, and artistically?
Q4) In the February calendar page by the Limbourg Brothers,subtle details characterize the comprehensive ____________ developing in Flemish painting at the beginning of the fifteenth century.
Q5) In the Chief's Stool from the Taino culture,the figure carved on the front represents a Taino deity.
A)True
B)False
Q6) As seen in the Mandala of Jnanadakini from Tibet,a mandala is the Buddhist symbol for the structure of the ____________.
Q7) 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?
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Chapter 8: Sixteenth-Century Art
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Q1) The Raft from the Muisca culture of northern South America functioned as a votive offering.
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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?
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) What explains the appearance of the "onion" domes placed on Russian orthodox churches,such as St.Basil's?
Q5) In Titian's Venus of Urbino,the identification of the nude female figure as Venus is supported by symbolism of the ____________ and the ____________.
Q6) 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) 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
Q2) During the seventeenth century in China,the Ming Dynasty fell and was succeeded by the ____________ Dynasty,which ruled until 1912.
Q3) In his Arrival and Reception of Marie de´ Medici at Marseilles,how did Rubens satisfy the aspirations of his royal client?
Q4) In Velázquez's Water Carrier,the influence of Caravaggio is evident in the half-length,lifesize figures,as well as in the dark background and ____________.
Q5) Baroque painting is characterized by:
A) strong lighting.
B) asymmetrical compositions.
C) powerful effects of movement.
D) dramatic subject matter.
E) all of these.
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 French word that refers to a European artistic style of the 17 and 18 centuries characterized by fanciful imagery of an imaginary China is called:
A) orientalism.
B) Japonisme.
C) Chinoiserie.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q2) During the eighteenth century in Korea,heavy green celadon ceramics gradually replaced delicate white porcelain ware.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In William Hogarth's Marriage à la Mode,Scene II,what suggests that the wife's lover is the music teacher?
Q4) Robert Adam's style of remodeling of the fireplace niche at Osterly Park House is referred to as Neoclassicism,because the ornamentation is based on ____________.
Q5) Why would Thomas Jefferson's Virginia State Capitol have surprised many Richmond residents?
Q6) 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) The highest goal of Academic painters was to create history paintings of significant moral import.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What did the declining percentage of commissioned works in the nineteenth century encourage?
Q3) The creation of an ukiyo-e woodblock print,such as Hokusai's The Great Wave,was the result of the work of:
A) a carver.
B) printing specialists.
C) an artist-designer.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q4) Goya's The Execution of Madrileños on the Third of May,1808 emphasizes a confrontation between what two groups?
Q5) In Japanese woodblock technique,the design is carved into the wood,leaving the lines and solid areas raised above the cut surface of the wood.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Art From 1900 to 1949
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Q1) 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.
Q2) 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.
Q3) The cantilever projects a horizontal architectural member out into space and supports it with a vertical member at its terminating point.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Even standing still,Pininfarina's Cistalia "202" GT car gives what impression?
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Chapter 13: Art From 1950 to 1999
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Q1) Pollack's method of painting is derived from:
A) Picasso's synthesis.
B) Surrealist automatism.
C) Cézanne.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q2) In the style called Abstract Expressionism,the approach emphasizing a free,gestural expression of paint on the canvas was termed:
A) Action Painting.
B) Performance Art.
C) Spontaneism.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q3) 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
Q4) How do works in the style called Color Field Painting operate?
Q5) On what legend was Robert Smithson's design for Spiral Jetty based?
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Chapter 14: Art in the New Millennium
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Q1) Vito Acconci's The Island in the Mur affords new viewpoints on the city,and thus gives the opportunity,as art often does,for new:
A) perspectives on the familiar.
B) criticisms of capitalism.
C) modes of introspection.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.
Q2) Cai Guo-qiang's work makes use of:
A) geography.
B) medicine.
C) history.
D) Chinese philosophy.
E) all of these.
Q3) In Bill Viola's Five Angels for the Millennium,the observer's viewpoint remains fixed at the water's surface.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What sort of unexpected materials have been used for art in the last few years?
Q5) How will James Turrell's Roden Crater project be like Stonehenge?
Q6) What facts,in part,have inspired Joyce Kozloff's Targets?
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