Understanding the Arts
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Course Introduction
Understanding the Arts offers a broad exploration of visual art, music, theater, and literature, examining how these creative forms express human experience and shape cultural understanding. Through analysis of historical movements, major works, and diverse artistic traditions, students will develop skills in critical observation, interpretation, and appreciation of the arts. The course encourages connections between artistic expression and societal influences, fostering an informed engagement with the arts in everyday life.
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Reality Through the Arts 8th Edition by
Dennis J. Sporre
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Chapter 1: Two-Dimensional Art
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Q1) Which of the following is considered the foundation of two-dimensional art?
A) drawing
B) painting
C) sculpture
D) printmaking
Answer: A
Q2) What term denotes the measurable wavelength of a specific color?
A) tint
B) shade
C) hue
D) value
Answer: C
Q3) Dorothea Lange's Dust Bowl Farm in Texas,1936 is an example of what kind of photography?
A) straight
B) photogram
C) documentary
D) camera obscura
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Sculpture
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Q1) Line is revealed in sculpture by what other element?
A) texture
B) form
C) balance
D) unity
Answer: B
Q2) The open spaces in sculpture are called A) negative
B) positive
C) linear
D) literal
Answer: A
Q3) The colors red,yellow and orange stimulate sensations of A) warmth
B) coolness
C) value
D) neutrality
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Architecture
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Q1) Several arches placed side by side form
A) a tunnel vault
B) a groin vault
C) an arcade
D) a flying buttress
Answer: C
Q2) Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water and Eduardo Torroja's Zarzuela Race Track Grandstand have this architectural structure in common:
A) cantilever
B) bearing wall
C) skeletal frame
D) dome
Answer: A
Q3) Tensile strength is the ability of a material to withstand
A) compression
B) weight
C) crushing
D) bending
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Music and Opera
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Q1) Monophony,polyphony,and homophony describe what musical element?
A) harmony
B) rhythm
C) tone
D) texture
Q2) Explain the elements of rhythm.
Q3) George Frederick Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus" from Messiah is what form of music?
A) art song
B) mass
C) oratorio
D) cantata
Q4) Explain how Hildegard of Bingen's "O Viridissima Virga" illustrates freedom from strict metrical development.
Q5) Franz Schubert's "The Erlking" is an excellent example of this form of music.
A) concerto
B) symphony
C) art song
D) oratorio
Q6) Describe the four basic types of opera.Give an example of each.
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Chapter 5: Literature
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Q1) What form of literature emanates from the author's imagination?
A) nonfiction
B) drama
C) comedy
D) fiction
Q2) What form of literature is based on fact rather than imagination?
A) nonfiction
B) fiction
C) poetry
D) manners
Q3) Typically this form of nonfiction tells a story usually involving conflicts and emotions through action and dialogue.
A) biography
B) drama
C) character essay
D) familiar essay
Q4) Discuss Alice Walker's contribution to American literature? What novel best supports her contribution?
Q5) Explain the use of allegory in Christina Rosetti's poem,Uphill (1858).
Q6) Compare dramatic poetry to narrative poetry.Include an example of each.
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Chapter 6: Theatre
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Q1) Describe the hypothetical dynamic and structural development of a three-act play.
Q2) The theatrical production of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is an example of
A) tragicomedy
B) romantic comedy
C) melodrama
D) tragedy
Q3) The main channel of communication between the playwright and the audience.
A) actors
B) script
C) dialogue
D) soliloquy
Q4) Explain the importance of lighting design in theatrical performance.
Q5) According to Aristotle,this is one of the attributes of tragedy.
A) resolution
B) catharsis
C) empathy
D) stimulation
Q6) In what ways does a director control the dynamics of a play?
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Chapter 7: Cinema
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Q1) Film that tells no story but exists solely as movement or form and rarely exceeds twelve minutes in length.
A) documentary
B) narrative
C) persistence of vision
D) avant-garde
Q2) The quality of a film that enables it to be cut,spliced,and ordered according to the desires of the filmmaker.
A) plasticity
B) depth of perception
C) complexity
D) practicable
Q3) In filmmaking when the main object of interest stays clear while the remainder of the scene blurs of focus.
A) rack
B) track
C) zoom
D) crosscutting
Q4) Discuss "the gaze" as it relates to viewpoint in film.
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Chapter 8: Dance
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Q1) What is the basic principle of modern dance?
A) conventionalized and specified movement
B) natural and uninhibited movement
C) ceremonial functions
D) cultural communication
Q2) In dance,how is the principal means of the expression of mood communicated?
A) costume
B) color
C) symbols
D) sets
Q3) In ballet all movements evolve from this basic "open" position.
A) first
B) on point
C) ronds de jambe
D) demi-hauteur
Q4) It is impossible to have dance without what element of music?
A) melody
B) rhythm
C) harmony
D) repetition
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Chapter 9: Ancient Approaches
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Q1) The Woman of Willendorf,(30,000-25,000 B.C.E.),the best-known female sculpture of this age,is from what period?
A) Stone Age
B) Paleolithic
C) Old Testament
D) Hellenic
Q2) Compare the Assyrian ziggurat with the Egyptian pyramid.What is the basic difference?
Q3) Discuss the importance of the Homer's epic poems,Iliad and Odyssey as they relate to Greek history.
Q4) The most remarkable edifices of Egyptian culture around 2700 B.C.E.
A) pyramids of Giza
B) Great Sphinx
C) temple at Luxor
D) Theban rock tombs
Q5) What do the mask of Tutankhamen and the bust of Nefertiti have in common?
Q6) What is the doctrine of ethos?
Q7) Why is Sumerian writing different from other early cultures?
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Chapter 10: Artistic Reflections in the Pre-Modern World
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Q1) In this literary form the correspondent raises a series of questions and then answers them.
A) diatribe
B) satire
C) ode
D) poem.
Q2) An artistic style dating to the fifth-century B.C.E.Greece and exhibiting simplicity,clarity of structure,and appeal to the intellect.
A) Romanticism
B) Hellenism
C) Classicism
D) Humanism
Q3) The most significant characteristic of typical Roman architectural style.
A) dome
B) arch
C) post and lintel
D) columns
Q4) Explain contrapposto.
Q5) Explain why the sculpture Nike of Samothrace is considered Hellenistic style.
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Q6) What is a stupa and how does it compare to Western architecture?
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Chapter 11: Artistic Styles in the Emerging Modern World
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Q1) Satirical essay by Jonathan Swift which mocks pomposity.
A) Gulliver's Travels
B) A Modest Proposal
C) Death Be Not Proud
D) Robinson Crusoe
Q2) The universal literary guide of am artistically ordered society in which cultivated Italians regard social living as fine art providing a model of Renaissance society.
A) Orlando Furioso
B) Sonnet XVI
C) The Book of the Courtier
D) A Modest Proposal
Q3) Japanese theatre of the seventeenth century that focuses on a climactic moment.
A) Noh
B) Imari
C) Kabuki
D) Zen
Q4) Compare the architecture of the Pantheon with that of the Florence dome.
Q5) Explain how the rebirth of arts in the fifteenth century is linked with world exploration at the same time.
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Chapter 12: Artistry in an Age of Industry
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Q1) Eighteenth century philosophy that emphasized imagination,free expression,feeling,communion with nature,and the idea of the creative artist as visionary genius.
A) Romanticism
B) Realism
C) Neoclassicism
D) Impressionism
Q2) The belief that a spirit exists in every living thing.
A) animism
B) ancestor worship
C) abstraction
D) magic
Q3) Gustave Courbet,the central figure of this style,sought to make a record of the customs,ideas and appearances of contemporary French society.
A) Romanticism
B) Impressionism
C) Realism
D) Expressionism
Q4) Discuss both an Impressionist work of music and painting.How are they similar?
Q5) What is bel canto? Include an example.
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Chapter 13: The Arts in a Modern, Postmodern, and Pluralistic World
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Q1) Alvin Ailey and Bill T.Jones draw upon their African American heritage in what art form?
A) theatre
B) literature
C) dance
D) music
Q2) "New media" art focuses on society's involvement with:
A) globalization
B) political ideology
C) technology
D) psychological drama
Q3) What are the dominant principles and elements of art in Picasso's Les Demoiselles of d'Avignon,1907?
Q4) Compare the aesthetics of Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus School of Art to that of architect Frank Lloyd Wright.Include an example of each style.
Q5) Explain the terms ethnocentrism and cultural relativism as they relate to pluralism in the arts.
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Q6) How does "new" media art reflect contemporary culture? Include a work of art by Michael Lew in your explanation.