The Arts in Western Culture Practice Questions
Course Introduction
The Arts in Western Culture explores the rich tradition of artistic expression in Europe and the Americas from antiquity to the modern era. The course examines key works of visual art, music, literature, theater, and architecture, considering how they reflect and shape historical, social, cultural, and philosophical contexts. Students will gain an appreciation for major artistic movements, influential creators, and the interconnectedness of the arts within the Western world, developing skills in analysis, interpretation, and critical thinking as they engage with masterpieces that have defined Western cultural identity.
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Chapter 1: Prehistoric Art
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Q1) There is no relationship between changing climate and different artistic and architectural forms in the Neolithic period.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) 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
Q3) Neolithic people are known to have built substantial structures.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Both Paleolithic and Neolithic carvings are somewhat abstract in their representation of the human figure.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Ancient Near Eastern Art
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Q1) The stele depicting the Law Code of Hammurabi comes from which culture?
A) Sumerian
B) Assyrian
C) Babylonian
D) Egyptian
Answer: C
Q2) Who defeats the Persians in 331 BCE?
A) Xerxes
B) Darius I
C) Alexander
D) Ramses II
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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Q1) All eras of Egyptian religion were monotheistic.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Egyptian kings:
A) were believed to combine divine and mortal qualities.
B) ruled by the consent of their subjects.
C) were thought to live as peasants in the afterlife.
D) were unconcerned with events following their deaths.
Answer: A
Q3) The Palette of Narmer:
A) expresses visually the concept of the king as unifier.
B) commemorates the separation of Upper and Lower Egypt.
C) was used by Narmer's queen to grind paint for her eye paint.
D) is sculpted in high relief.
Answer: A
Q4) Tutankhamun carried on the religious devotions of his predecessor Akhenaten.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Aegean Art
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Q1) The Theran Flotilla Fresco:
A) reflects the importance of sea transportation in the ancient Aegean B) is a large-scale ceiling mural C) depicts the myth of Theseus and the minotaur D) was highly esteemed by the artists of the 19th century
Q2) The Octopus Vase:
A) shows the Minoan affinity for organic forms and sea life B) reflects the rigid Minoan canon of geometric proportions C) demonstrates the Minoan preoccupation with siege warfare D) reveals the Minoan religious beliefs related to fertility
Q3) The Mediterranean Sea effectively served to separate and isolate ancient cultures. A)True B)False
Q4) Compare the architecture at Mycenae and Crete. What do the differing types of structures found reveal about these two cultures?
Q5) Compare and contrast the treatment of the human form in the Cycladic figurines and the so-called Snake Goddesses?
Q6) Describe the architecture of Mycenae.
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Chapter 5: Greek Art
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Q1) What recent discovery in the pronaos of the Parthenon exacerbates problems of the structure's iconographic interpretation?
A) Frieze
B) Cult statue
C) Treasury
D) Kouros
Q2) Discuss the removal to England of the Parthenon marbles by Lord Elgin. Why did this occur and what implications might it continue to have at the intersection of politics and art?
Q3) Sculpture that is often very emotional, individualized and realistic is typical of which style?
A) Archaic Greek
B) Classical Greek
C) Hellenistic
D) Mycenaean
Q4) What are the characteristic differences between the three primary classical orders? Be sure to include friezes and capitals in your discussion.
Q5) Compare Classical Greek sculpture to Hellenistic sculpture. How do they differ?
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Chapter 6: Etruscan Art
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Q1) Who was the Greek historian who wrote about the Etruscans?
A) Herodotus
B) Vitruvius
C) Perikles
D) Alexander
Q2) How many major periods in Etruscan art are there?
A) a. four
B) b. three
C) c. five
D) d. six
Q3) To which culture is the Etruscan alphabet linked?
A) Egyptians
B) Sumerians
C) Minoans
D) Greeks
Q4) 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
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Chapter 7: Roman Art
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Q1) Which of the following civilizations produced realistic portrait sculpture?
A) Hellenistic
B) Roman
C) Byzantine
D) Archaic Greek
Q2) Which of the following sculptures was done on a colossal scale?
A) Augustus of Primaporta
B) Constantine the Great
C) Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius
D) Philippus the Arab
Q3) The square or rectangular market and meeting place in the heart of Roman cities and towns was called the:
A) forum
B) basilica
C) apse
D) agora
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) How do you a see lasting impact of ancient Rome in contemporary culture?
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Q6) Discuss different forms of illusion found in Roman murals.
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Chapter 8: Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art
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Q1) Which is the central rite of many Christian churches?
A) The Eucharist
B) Confession
C) The Offering
D) Martyrdom
Q2) Who conquered the Byzantine Empire in the 15th century?
A) Octavius
B) Theodoric
C) The Turks
D) Constantine
Q3) In the mosaic, Emperor Justinian and His Attendants, what is Justinian demonstrating?
A) He is the head of the church
B) He is the head of the Byzantine Empire
C) He is the head of the Western Empire
D) All of the above are true
Q4) What classical architecture influenced the Early Christian basilica and how did it evolve?
Q5) Explain the iconoclastic controversy. Why were abstract symbols widely used?
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Q6) Compare basilica-plan with central-plan churches. Cite examples of each.
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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) Describe the relationships between the principles and the Islamic religion and Islamic art and architecture.
Q3) Islamic art first appears as a series of appropriations from which cultures?
A) Early Medieval Europe and early Viking
B) Etruscan and Egyptian
C) Macedonian and Greek
D) Graeco-Roman, Byzantine Christian, and Sasanian
Q4) The call to prayer given five times daily by a muezzin is issued from the:
A) Minaret
B) Mihrab
C) Qibla
D) Minbar
Q5) The term infidel is another word for believers in early Christian and Muslim traditions.
A)True
B)False
Q6) How does holy script become an art form in Islamic art and architecture?
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Q1) 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
Q2) Early Medieval metalwork had intrinsic value because
A) It was often made of precious metal and stones
B) The artists themselves were usually not highly regarded
C) The gold was imported from distant empires
D) The objects were always monumental in scale
Q3) What was the chief medium of the Celtic-Germanic animal style?
A) Metalwork
B) Leatherwork
C) Pottery
D) Carved stone
Q4) What was produced in a Carolingian scriptorium?
A) illuminated manuscripts
B) small-scale works of sculpture
C) decorative arts
D) architecture
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) The function of the Crac des Chevaliers was as a(n):
A) Defensive fortress
B) Religious center
C) Mendicant monastery
D) Royal palace
Q2) What kinds of images are often found in a Romanesque tympanum? What was the intended effect on the viewer of Giselbertus' Last Judgment tympanum?
Q3) Which of the following tells the story of the Battle of Hastings?
A) the tympanum at Durham
B) the Bayeux Tapestry
C) the trumeau sculpture at Durham
D) a manuscript illumination by Verdun
Q4) Romanesque artists and architects looked exclusively to ancient Rome for inspiration.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Monasticism began in the west and spread to the east.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What is a pilgrimage church? How and why did they develop?
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Q1) Where did Gothic architecture originate?
A) Rome
B) Paris
C) London
D) Ravenna
Q2) The impetus for the construction of Sainte-Chapelle was the acquisition of holy relics such as the Crown of Thorns and other items associated with Christ's passion.
A)True
B)False
Q3) 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?
Q4) Who was responsible for the reconstruction of the choir at Saint-Denis?
A) Abbot Suger
B) Carolus Magnus
C) Junius Bassus
D) Jeanne d'Evreux
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) The study of which cultures profoundly changed the culture and art of Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries?
A) Greece and Rome
B) Egypt and Mesopotamia
C) Minoan and Mycenaean
D) Romanesque and Gothic
Q2) The Christian altar traditionally is a narrow stone "table" that contains bone fragments of a martyr within it.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What impact did the plague or Black Death have on Italian society in the fourteenth century?
Q4) What similarities in style, expression, and narrative treatment do you see between Giotto's frescoes in the Arena Chapel and his Madonna Enthroned?
Q5) Compare and contrast Giotto's Madonna Enthroned and Duccio's Madonna Enthroned? How might you account for evident similarities and differences in these two works?
Q6) 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
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Q1) Hugo van der Goes's Portinari Altarpiece makes use of
A) Atmospheric perspective
B) Fresco paint
C) Intaglio technique
D) Consistent scale
Q2) How were the Virgin Mary, Joseph and the Angel Gabriel depicted in the Mérode Triptych?
A) in the Holy Lands in Biblical times
B) in ancient Rome
C) in ancient Greece
D) in a fifteenth-century Flemish household
Q3) Explain the meaning of each of the three panels of Bosch's Garden of Delights. Include discussion of symbolism in your answer. What seems to be suggested in this work about humankind's potential?
Q4) 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
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Q5) What are the artistic and social implications of printmaking?
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Q1) Which Florentine painter fused Christian faith with pagan mythology in his works?
A) Titian
B) Masaccio
C) Botticelli
D) Raphael
Q2) How does the Renaissance style that first manifested itself in Florence reverberate in the works of Piero della Francesca, Leon Battista Alberti, Andrea Mantegna, and Giovanni Bellini?
Q3) What was the first freestanding life-size nude since classical antiquity?
A) Four Saints by Nanni di Banco
B) David by Donatello
C) Hercules and Antaios by Pollaiuolo
D) St. George by Donatello
Q4) The altarpiece in which Florentine Chapel echoes the Portinari Altarpiece and reflects the impact of Netherlandish innovations?
A) Sassetti Chapel
B) Sistine Chapel
C) Brancacci Chapel
D) Arena Chapel
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Chapter 16: The High Renaissance in Italy, 1495-1520
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Q1) Who was one of the foremost patrons of art during the High Renaissance?
A) Cosimo de' Medici
B) Lorenzo the Magnificent
C) Julius II
D) Martin Luther
Q2) Discuss Michelangelo's major works in sculpture and painting. What was his primary focus with regard to subject matter and what were his primary influences?
Q3) 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
Q4) What makes Leonardo's Last Supper such an important work of art that it has surpassed in fame all other representations of this same subject and has been reproduced countless times? Does the answer to this question have more to do with Leonardo himself, what he specifically painted in this work, or a combination of both?
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Chapter 17: The Late Renaissance and Mannerism in
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Q1) Which artist's work shows elongated figures, harsh colors, jarring proportions and irregular scale?
A) Bronzino
B) Veronese
C) Giulio Romano
D) All of the above
Q2) What events are believed to have contributed to the end to the High Renaissance?
Q3) Veronese, under pressure from the Inquisition, changed the title of one of his paintings to The Feast in the House of Levi from what?
A) The Last Supper
B) Sacra Conversazione
C) The Dinner Party
D) The Marriage Banquet
Q4) Sofonisba Anguissola, a female painter, most likely learned to paint from her artist father.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How and why did art in Venice develop so differently than art in Florence or Rome?
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Chapter 18: Renaissance and Reformation Throughout
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Q1) The Reformation changed the art of Central Europe by encouraging the destruction of religious art and reducing commissions for religious subjects.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Hans Holbein the Younger painted textures, surfaces, and details that continued the tradition of which Northern painter?
A) Jan van Eyck
B) Albrecht Dürer
C) El Greco
D) Masaccio
Q3) Holbein is well-known for his:
A) portraiture
B) landscape
C) frescoes
D) genre scenes
Q4) Examining El Greco's The Burial of Count Orgaz, discuss the various Greek, Italian, and Spanish elements of this painting.
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Chapter 19: The Baroque in Italy and Spain
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Q1) Which is true of the painting of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo?
A) It was influential for Spanish religious imagery for centuries
B) It was modest in scale and subject matter
C) It demonstrates Murillo's completely unique style
D) It shows the influence of the Protestant Reformation
Q2) Zurbarán and Murillo were very active as painters of religious subjects in seventeenth-century Spain.
A)True
B)False
Q3) 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
Q4) Trompe l'oeil is a French expression for tenebrism, the effects of light and shadow in Caravaggio's paintings.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe Velázquez's The Maids of Honor and comment on the likely purpose of the painting.
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Chapter 20: The Baroque in the Netherlands
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Q1) What does a comparison of Rembrandt's The Night Watch and Vermeer's Woman Holding a Balance tell us about Dutch society in the 17th century?
Q2) What was the official religion for Flanders and Holland? How did religion have an impact on the arts of each region?
Q3) 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
Q4) Rubens was distinguished among seventeenth century Flemish artists by his habit of completing all of his paintings by himself.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What type of painting is The Night Watch?
A) landscape
B) still life
C) group portrait
D) vanitas
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Chapter 21: The Baroque in France and England
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Q1) What was the function of the Royal Academy and how did it exert an impact on French artists?
Q2) After the Great London Fire of 1666, who redesigned St Paul's Cathedral? Discuss the influences on the design of this building.
Q3) Claude Lorrain is the first artist known to have
A) Painted oil studies outdoors
B) Entered the French Royal Academy
C) Painted idealized landscapes
D) Spent his entire career in a country not his own
Q4) Hyacinthe Rigaud painted a portrait of which royal individual:
A) Cosimo de' Medici
B) Maria de' Medici
C) Charles I
D) Louis XIV
Q5) Describe the most important aspects of Versailles. Include in your discussion influences, Louis XIV's taste, and descriptions of the interior, the façade, the gardens, and their scale.
Q6) What was Poussin's working process and how did that process affect the look, expression and meaning of his finished works?
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Chapter 22: The Rococo
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Q1) Who was associated with fêtes galantes?
A) Tiepolo
B) Chardin
C) Fragonard
D) Watteau
Q2) Describe the subject, style, and mood of Watteau's A Pilgrimage to Cythera. How might this painting reflect the nature and concerns of aristocratic society in France in the eighteenth century?
Q3) In France, the Rococo style is linked with the reign of Louis XIV.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The term Rococo was taken from the French word rocaille meaning:
A) rough
B) pebble
C) frivolous
D) pastel-colored
Q5) Describe the nature of William Hogarth's art and how it formed a type of visual satire in eighteenth-century England.
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Chapter 23: Art in the Age of the Enlightenment, 1750-1789
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Q1) Who was an American painter who established a thriving practice in London?
A) Benjamin West
B) Thomas Cole
C) Thomas Eakins
D) Joshua Reynolds
Q2) Interest in classical antiquity was influenced by what archaeological discoveries? How did this have an impact on the arts? How did writers and philosophers of the time influence French Neoclassicism?
Q3) The climax of the Grand Tour of the eighteenth century was often a trip and extended visit to which city?
A) Rome
B) Paris
C) London
D) Berlin
Q4) Neoclassicism was a reaction against:
A) The control of the French Academy
B) The Enlightenment
C) Napoleon
D) Rococo
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) Describe and discuss the different forms of romantic revivals in architecture represented by Barry and Pugin's Houses of Parliament and Jefferson's University of Virginia campus. In both cases what make this architecture at once romantic and realistic to the aims and aspirations of England and America?
Q2) Romanticism dealt with themes of:
A) Orientalism
B) Emotion
C) Nature
D) All of the above
Q3) The nineteenth-century Western fascination with the culture of the Muslim world of North Africa and the Near East is known as
A) Orientalism
B) Africanism
C) Racism
D) Colonialism
Q4) Which aspects of Ingres' work are Neoclassic and which are Romantic?
Q5) Compare the Romantic and Neoclassic styles. How are they similar and how do they differ in terms of both subject matter and style?
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) 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
Q2) A daguerreotype was a photographic process that exposed light on a silver iodide-coated copper or glass plate and allowed for one image, which remained on that plate.
A)True
B)False
Q3) 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
Q4) 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:
Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau, 1880-1905
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Q1) 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
Q2) The Tassel House in Brussels is an important example of what style of architecture and design?
A) art nouveau
B) arts and crafts
C) de stijl
D) prairie
Q3) Compare and contrast the form and expression of Gaudi's Casa Milá and Sullivan's Wainwright Building.
Q4) The Post-Impressionists worked in a variety of styles, subjects, and techniques.
A)True
B)False
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Q5) Discuss how Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House represents a sensitive accommodation to the American prairie landscape.
Q6) Discuss the work of Cézanne and his influence on the art of the twentieth century.
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Chapter 27: Toward Abstraction: the Modernist Revolution,
1905-1914
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Q1) The 1913 Armory Show was instrumental in introducing modernist art to Parisian culture.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What were many of the Russian artists were calling themselves by 1913?
A) Cubo-Futurists
B) Cubic Expressionists
C) neo Cubists
D) anti Cubists
Q3) Umberto Boccioni, an artist, also authored the Manifesto of Futurism.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe and discuss the differences between analytic and synthetic cubism.
Q5) Who produced nonobjective geometric paintings?
A) Matisse
B) Malevich
C) Kokoschka
D) De Chirico
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Q6) Select two examples of expressionist art and compare and contrast the artists' intentions behind these works.
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Chapter 28: Art Between the Wars
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Q1) How did the New Deal have an impact on documentary photography?
Q2) Diego Rivera revived the tradition of:
A) Analytic Cubism
B) Collage
C) Mural painting
D) Tempera painting
Q3) De Stijl artists sought to create, through abstraction, total environments so perfect that they embodied a universal harmony.
A)True
B)False
Q4) 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.
Q5) How are questions of identity and difference explored in the art of Jacob Lawrence and Diego Rivera?
Q6) In Europe, many artists sought to undermine the nationalism and bourgeois values, particularly capitalism, that brought about World War I.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 29: Postwar to Postmodern, 1945-1980
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Q1) German pop art came out of which city?
A) Düsseldorf
B) Berlin
C) Hamburg
D) Munich
Q2) What material is Smithson best known for using?
A) wood
B) stone
C) bronze
D) nature
Q3) Which color-field painter is known for his huge hazy rectangles?
A) Judd
B) Warhol
C) Smithson
D) Rothko
Q4) The two forms of Abstract Expressionism are Action Painting and:
A) Color-Field Painting
B) Static Painting
C) Nonobjective Painting
D) Synthetic Painting
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Chapter 30: The Postmodern Era: Art Since 1980
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Q1) The feminist group of artists who spotlight the marginalization of women artist is known as the:
A) Guerilla Girls
B) Chimp Chicks
C) She Said, She Said
D) Museum Miners
Q2) Which is NOT characteristic of Postmodernism?
A) It often adopts elements from historical styles
B) It often combines several historical styles
C) It often parodies styles whimsically
D) It shares a decorative kinship with High Modern
Q3) The term Postmodernism was first coined by French philosophers Jacques Derrida and
A) Jean Baudrillard
B) André Breton
C) Charles Baudelaire
D) Denis Diderot
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.
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