Visual and Performing Arts
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Course Introduction
Visual and Performing Arts is an interdisciplinary course that explores the diverse world of artistic expression through mediums such as painting, sculpture, theater, dance, and music. Students examine the historical, cultural, and social contexts influencing artistic movements and artistic production, while also developing fundamental skills in artistic analysis, criticism, and creative process. The course encourages appreciation for various art forms, enhances creative thinking, and provides opportunities for hands-on practice and collaboration, fostering a deeper understanding of the role of the arts in society.
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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) Linear,atmosphere,and shifting are examples of?
A) elements of design
B) perspective
C) principles of design
D) verisimilitude
Answer: B
Q2) Which artist is considered the driving force behind recognition of photography as a fine art?
A) Ansel Adams
B) Man Ray
C) Dorothea Lange
D) Alfred Stieglitz
Answer: D
Q3) Albrecht Durer's Lamentation,1497-1500 is an example of what kind of printmaking technique?
A) lithography
B) woodcut
C) silkscreen
D) intaglio
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Sculpture
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Q1) The maori sculptures located on Easter Island effect our senses due to A) open composition
B) light and environment
C) mass and size
D) texture and pattern
Answer: C
Q2) The life-like sculptures of Duane Hansen depend on which of the following elements of art?
A) color
B) mass
C) form
D) texture
Answer: A
Q3) The open spaces in sculpture are called
A) negative
B) positive
C) linear
D) literal
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Architecture
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Q1) What architect creates functional works of sculpture?
A) Frank Gehry
B) Zaha Hadid
C) Le Corbusier
D) Frederick Law Olmsted
Answer: A
Q2) Vertical ridges cut into the sides of columns is called
A) fluting
B) jambs
C) keystone
D) piers
Answer: A
Q3) The Canterbury Cathedral Choir,England is an example of
A) rib vaulting
B) groin vaulting
C) tunnel vaulting
D) arcade vaulting
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Music and Opera
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Q1) This form of music was typified by the Lutheran Church of the Baroque period,often including chorales and organ accompaniment,exemplified by Johann Sebastian Bach..
A) oratorio
B) mass
C) symphony
D) cantata
Q2) Describe tone color (timbre)in music.Identify three instruments and the tone colors they produce.
Q3) This musical element consists of beat,meter and tempo.
A) melody
B) harmony
C) rhythm
D) texture
Q4) The requiem mass is a special mass often comprising a musical program for A) a baptism
B) a wedding ceremony
C) the theater
Q5) Explain how Hildegard of Bingen's "O Viridissima Virga" illustrates freedom from strict metrical development.
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Chapter 5: Literature
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Q1) List the varieties of meter in poetic rhythm.Include a poem that exemplifies one of the types of meter.
Q2) What literature form is divided into three major types: narrative,dramatic and lyric?
A) poetry
B) prose
C) nonfiction
D) sonnet
Q3) In poetry,a form of sound structure that repeats an initial sound for effect.
A) alliteration
B) assonance
C) consonance
D) rhyme
Q4) What form of literature emanates from the author's imagination?
A) nonfiction
B) drama
C) comedy
D) fiction
Q5) Explain the difference between Petrachan (Italian)and Shakespearean (English)lyric poetry.Provide an example of each type.
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Chapter 6: Theatre
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Q1) Designed as critiques of consumerist culture,these Performance Art pieces grew out of the Pop Art movement of the 1960's.
A) happenings
B) sentimental comedy
C) comedy of manners
D) reversals
Q2) In Greek Classical theatre what is the term for the character defect that causes classical heroes to contribute to their own downfall.
A) tragic flaw
B) self-realization
C) denouement
D) discovery
Q3) The mental and physical separation of the audience from the acting area.
A) arena
B) island stage
C) aesthetic distance
D) organic theory
Q4) Describe the hypothetical dynamic and structural development of a three-act play.
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Chapter 7: Cinema
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Q1) A filmmaking technique that alters between two separate actions related by theme,mood,or plot to create suspense.
A) jump cut
B) juxtaposition
C) crosscutting
D) dolly shot
Q2) 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
Q3) In filmmaking a nonsynchronous spoken commentary often used to convey a character's thoughts.
A) voiceover
B) soundtrack
C) monologue
D) direct address
Q4) Explain the use of structural rhythm in filmmaking.Include a specific example.
Q5) Explain the filmmaking technique of crosscutting.
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Chapter 8: Dance
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Q1) Explain why the work of the light designer is critical in dance.
Q2) It is impossible to have dance without what element of music?
A) melody
B) rhythm
C) harmony
D) repetition
Q3) The choreography of Akram Khan bridges the techniques of Western Modern dance and what other culture?
A) Bali
B) Bangladesh
C) Kathak
D) Islam
Q4) The "acting out" of dramatic action without words.
A) pantomime
B) thematic
C) rhythmic
D) emotional
Q5) What role does the choreographer play in dance.
Q6) What role does color play in dance?
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Chapter 9: Ancient Approaches
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Q1) The term used to describe Sumerian writing.
A) hieroglyphic
B) cuneiform
C) pictographs
D) alphabetic
Q2) Discuss the importance of the Homer's epic poems,Iliad and Odyssey as they relate to Greek history.
Q3) Ancient Greek sculpture of the Archaic style that focus on physicality and athleticism of youth.
A) torso
B) kouros
C) attic
D) colossal
Q4) What is the oldest known story in the world dating from the seventh century B.C.E.?
A) Code of Hammurabi
B) Book of the Dead
C) Gilgamesh
D) Genesis
Q5) What is the doctrine of ethos?
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Chapter 10: Artistic Reflections in the Pre-Modern World
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Q1) Unlike Western buildings the stupa does not include this element.
A) interior
B) gateway
C) dome
D) carved figures
Q2) The highest form of all art in Islamic society.
A) calligraphy
B) architecture
C) mosaics
D) sacred scripture
Q3) In this characteristic style of Greek Classical sculpture,the body's weight rests on one leg thereby shifting the hip/shoulder axis and resulting in a subtle play of curves.
A) hieratic
B) canon
C) golden proportion
D) contrapposto
Q4) Explain why the sculpture Nike of Samothrace is considered Hellenistic style.
Q5) Compare Polyclitus,Doryphorus (Lance Bearer)to Praxiteles,Cnidian Aphrodite.What are the most significance differences?
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Chapter 11: Artistic Styles in the Emerging Modern World
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Q1) This style of art emphasizes color and grandeur with dramatic use of lights and darks that carries the viewer's eye off the canvas.
A) Mannerism
B) Renaissance
C) Baroque
D) Impressionism
Q2) What is linear perspective? Provide an example in your explanation.
Q3) The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci is an example of what technique?
A) sfumato
B) realism
C) fresco
D) formalism
Q4) The concept that supplanted the medieval view of life as a vale of tears,with no purpose other than preparing for salvation and the afterlife,with a more liberating ideal of people playing important roles in this world.
A) absolutism
B) Protestantism
C) humanism
D) Reformation
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Chapter 12: Artistry in an Age of Industry
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Q1) The artistic style of Ife probably gave birth to the artistry of this African city-state.
A) Benin
B) Mali
C) Nigeria
D) Nok
Q2) A musical theme that is tied to an idea,a person,or an object as typified by the works of Richard Wagner.
A) bel canto
B) Leitmotif
C) choral
D) symphonic poem
Q3) Explain Wagner's philosophy of Gesamtkunstwerk.Provide an example.
Q4) Why is Goya's painting,Execution of the Citizens of Madrid,May 3 categorized as a Romantic painting?
Q5) Norwegian master of Realist drama.
A) Henrik Ibsen
B) Anton Chekhov
C) George Bernard Shaw
D) Feodor Dostoyevski
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Chapter 13: The Arts in a Modern, Postmodern, and Pluralistic World
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Q1) What are the dominant principles and elements of art in Picasso's Les Demoiselles of d'Avignon,1907?
Q2) Pluralism brought new emphasis on:
A) ethnocentrism
B) progress and nationalism
C) art works from ethnic minorities
D) the social sciences
Q3) In Western culture,which one of the following describes the tendencies of Modernism?
A) rejection of innovation
B) rejection of experimentation
C) rejection of traditional conventions
D) rejection of the new
Q4) Judy Chicago's,The Dinner Party,provides a good example of
A) feminist art
B) ephemeral art
C) pop art
D) environmental art
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Q5) Explain the terms ethnocentrism and cultural relativism as they relate to pluralism in the arts.