Visual Arts in Western Culture Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
This course explores the development and impact of visual arts within Western culture, tracing its evolution from classical antiquity through the contemporary period. Students will examine major artistic movements, key artists, and representative works, paying particular attention to how cultural, political, and technological forces have shaped artistic expression. Through analysis of painting, sculpture, architecture, and other visual media, the course encourages critical engagement with arts role in expressing societal values, identity, and historical change. Emphasis is placed on visual literacy and the ability to interpret and contextualize works of art within broader cultural and historical frameworks.
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Jansons Basic History of Western Art 9th Edition by Penelope J.E. Davies
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Chapter 1: Prehistoric Art
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Q1) The seasonal Paleolithic residences discovered at Mezhirich were made of:
A) mammoth bones
B) rough-hewn stones
C) woven plant fibers
D) mud brick
Answer: A
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) There is no relationship between changing climate and different artistic and architectural forms in the Neolithic period.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Ancient Near Eastern Art
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Q1) What material was used to make the Ishtar Gate?
A) adobe
B) glazed bricks
C) cut stone
D) metal panels
Answer: B
Q2) The representation and ranking of figures according to physical size is called hieratic scale.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Who defeats the Persians in 331 BCE?
A) Xerxes
B) Darius I
C) Alexander
D) Ramses II
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Egyptian Art
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Q1) Where is the painted relief of Ti Watching a Hippopotamus Hunt?
A) on a pylon gate
B) on a tomb wall
C) on a palette
D) on a sarcophagus
Answer: B
Q2) Imhotep:
A) designed the funerary complex of King Djoser.
B) was the sculptor of The Great Sphinx.
C) served as court artist to Akhenaten.
D) unified Upper and Lower Egypt.
Answer: A
Q3) The use of diorite in royal images:
A) expresses the king's control of distant lands.
B) makes the sculptures indestructible.
C) displays monotheistic religious values.
D) began in the New Kingdom.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Aegean Art
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Q1) Beehive tombs are typical of the architecture of:
A) Egypt
B) Persia
C) Crete
D) Mycenae
Q2) A fresco is:
A) a Mediterranean breeze
B) an ancient Minoan sculpture
C) a form of sculpture
D) a wall painting
Q3) Describe the method of construction of a beehive tomb. What type of structures preceded its development?
Q4) The Mediterranean Sea effectively served to separate and isolate ancient cultures.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the subject matter and style of fresco paintings found on Minoan Crete.
Q6) Compare and contrast the treatment of the human form in the Cycladic figurines and the so-called Snake Goddesses?
Q7) Describe the architecture of Mycenae.
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Chapter 5: Greek Art
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Q1) Which is one of the Greek orders?
A) Ionic
B) Severe
C) Egg and Dart
D) Hellenistic
Q2) Sculpture that is often very emotional, individualized and realistic is typical of which style?
A) Archaic Greek
B) Classical Greek
C) Hellenistic
D) Mycenaean
Q3) The statue of which deity was inside the Parthenon?
A) Zeus
B) Perikles
C) Xerxes
D) Athena
Q4) What are the characteristic differences between the three primary classical orders? Be sure to include friezes and capitals in your discussion.
Q5) What influences caused Greek art to evolve more rapidly than Egyptian art?
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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) Compare and contrast Etruscan wall painting with Minoan, Egyptian, and Greek painting.
Q3) To which culture is the Etruscan alphabet linked?
A) Egyptians
B) Sumerians
C) Minoans
D) Greeks
Q4) The fibula from the Regolini-Galassi tomb justifies the fame Etruscan artists enjoyed in what medium?
A) Goldsmithing
B) Casting bronze
C) Sculpting marble
D) Modeling terra-cotta
Q5) Describe relationships and influences on the art and architecture among the styles of the Etruscans, Greeks and Romans.
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Chapter 7: Roman Art
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Q1) The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius caused considerable damage to the architecture in the Roman forum.
A)True
B)False
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) What are the two most significant contributions to architecture made by the Romans? Why are these significant?
Q5) Roman architecture is found in Rome and in the areas of the Roman provinces.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art
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Q1) Why did the role of sculpture diminish during the Early Christian period? Why did sculpture become physically smaller?
Q2) The term pagan is another word for believers in early Christian traditions.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Anthemius and Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus were two professionals responsible for the theory and construction behind which structure?
A) Hagia Sophia
B) San Vitale
C) Old St. Peter's
D) Hammath Tiberius Synagogue
Q4) Most typically, how were the exterior of Early Christian churches designed?
A) Covered with mosaic decoration
B) Covered with three-dimensional sculpture
C) Had frescoes
D) They were left plain
Q5) What classical architecture influenced the Early Christian basilica and how did it evolve?
Q6) Compare basilica-plan with central-plan churches. Cite examples of each.
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Chapter 9: Islamic Art
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Q1) Iranian Islamic art, in contrast to other traditions
A) Is sometimes figural
B) Is not religious
C) Is polytheistic
D) Is only architectural
Q2) Mohammad is the Prophet of the Islamic religion.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In Mesopotamia and Iran, the Arab Muslim conquerors encountered the cultural sphere of the:
A) Romans
B) Greeks
C) Ottonians
D) Sasanians
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) How does holy script become an art form in Islamic art and architecture?
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Chapter 10: Early Medieval Art
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Q1) Where was the Sutton Hoo purse cover found?
A) At a temple crypt
B) At a ship burial
C) At a monastery treasury
D) At a palace ruin
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 produced in a Carolingian scriptorium?
A) illuminated manuscripts
B) small-scale works of sculpture
C) decorative arts
D) architecture
Q4) Where can westwork be found?
A) In the crypt
B) In the scriptorium
C) At the entrance of a church
D) Along the arcade
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Chapter 11: Romanesque Art
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Q1) Which is NOT characteristic of Romanesque architecture?
A) Extremely tall naves
B) plain facades
C) twin bell towers on the west facade
D) apsidal chapels and ambulatories
Q2) The use of which medium characterizes many Romanesque manuscripts?
A) tempera on vellum
B) oil on canvas
C) fresco on paper
D) oil on papyrus
Q3) The four main pilgrimage routes through France ended up at which Spanish church?
A) Santiago de Compostela
B) Notre Dame
C) Amiens Cathedral
D) Chartres Cathedral
Q4) Romanesque means in the Roman manner.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is a pilgrimage church? How and why did they develop?
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Chapter 12: Gothic Art
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Q1) 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
Q2) Who had the first Gothic church built?
A) Abbot Suger
B) Louis V
C) the pope
D) St. Denis
Q3) Which architectural element does the interior of Saint Denis NOT show?
A) Barrel vaulting
B) Compound piers
C) Stained glass windows
D) A double ambulatory
Q4) What was Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France, patron of?
A) The church of St. Denis
B) The Psalter of St. Louis
C) The Virgin of Paris
D) A Book of Hours illuminated by Jean Pucelle
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Chapter 13: Art in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Italy
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Q1) Thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italian art had its roots in both Byzantine forms and Italian artists' contacts with Roman and Early Christian precedents.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What kind of church is Santa Croce in Florence?
A) Dominican
B) civic
C) Augustian
D) Franciscan
Q3) Petrarch, Dante, and Boccaccio were:
A) political figures
B) exclusively religious authors
C) members of mendicant orders
D) writers
Q4) The theme of Ambroio Lorenzetti's frescoes in the Palazzo Pubblico, Siena is:
A) Christian Redemption
B) Good and Bad Government
C) The stories of the Virgin and Christ
D) Franciscan and Dominican mendicant activities
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Chapter 14: Artistic Innovations in Fifteenth-Century
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Q1) Which medium is primarily used to make multiple copies of an image?
A) printmaking
B) painting
C) sculpture
D) drawing
Q2) The Garden of Earthly Delights was at one point owned by which king?
A) Philip II of Spain
B) Louis XIV of France
C) Charles II of England
D) Queen Elizabeth of England
Q3) What are the artistic and social implications of printmaking?
Q4) Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Delights:
A) is optimistic and playful
B) honors mankind's essential dignity and worth
C) is a celebration of nature
D) shows mankind doomed by its carnal appetites
Q5) 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?
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Chapter 15: The Early Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Italy
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Q1) Why was the design of a dome for the Florence Cathedral a challenge? What was innovative about Brunelleschi's solution?
Q2) Why is the David by Donatello pivotal in its subject matter and in the presentation of the figure? What characteristics does it derive from the ancient sculpture? Why is David a symbol for Florence as well as for the Christian faithful?
Q3) Antonello da Messina, a painter from southern Italy, may have learned about oil painting in Flanders and passed that knowledge on to Venetian artists.
Q4) For what building were the Gates of Paradise made?
A) the Florence Cathedral
B) the Brancacci Chapel
C) S. Lorenzo
D) The Florence Baptistery
Q5) The painter Bellini worked mainly in Florence.
A)True
B)False
Q6) How are aspects of the Florentine Renaissance reflected in Donatello's St. Mark?
Q7) Discuss innovations seen in the works of Masaccio.
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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) What is one of Titan's innovations in Man with a Quilted Sleeve?
A) Texture is suggested by thick strokes of opaque white paint
B) The subject appears to exist in a convincing three-dimensional space
C) The sitter makes eye contact with the viewer
D) The painting is executed in oil
Q3) Who was an important Roman architect who wrote a treatise on architecture?
A) Vitruvius
B) Vasari
C) Alberti
D) Brancacci
Q4) Most of the great achievements that made Rome the center of Italian art during the first quarter of the sixteenth century were influenced by what events and which important patron of the arts?
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Chapter 17: The Late Renaissance and Mannerism in
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Q1) Who designed the church for the Jesuits with a broken architrave, a broken entablature and large scroll-shaped buttresses?
A) Bramante
B) Palladio
C) Brunelleschi
D) Della Porta
Q2) Sofonisba Anguissola, a female artist of the sixteenth century, came from what Italian town?
A) Florence
B) Venice
C) Rome
D) Cremona
Q3) The Inquisition was a completely new institution of the Church in the sixteenth century.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Sofonisba Anguissola, a female painter, most likely learned to paint from her artist father.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 18: Renaissance and Reformation Throughout
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Q1) Who was the portrait painter for King Henry VIII of England?
A) Cranach
B) Holbein the Younger
C) Dürer
D) Bruegel the Elder
Q2) Gossaert's Neptune and Amphitrite shows
A) The tastes of the patron, Philip of Burgundy
B) A misunderstanding of Italian perspective
C) No interest in the classical past
D) Remarkably accurate scale
Q3) What impact did the development of graphic arts have on the arts and the ownership and viewing of works of art in the North?
Q4) Discuss the genre quality of Pieter Bruegel the elder's The Return of the Hunters. In your answer, place your discussion of Brueghel's art in relation to other words of northern art from the medieval period through the Renaissance that show similar interest in genre characteristics.
Q5) 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) Discuss the colonnade by Gianlorenzo Bernini at St. Peter's. How is this work representative of the objectives of the Catholic Counter Reformation?
Q2) Artemisia Gentileschi was a female painter who worked in the tradition of which artist?
A) Carvaggio
B) Carracci
C) Velázquez
D) Murillo
Q3) Bernini's architecture and sculpture in the Cornaro Chapel were inspired by the writings of
A) St. Teresa of Ávila
B) St. Ignatius of Loyola
C) Giorgio Vasari
D) Andrea Palladio
Q4) 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
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Chapter 20: The Baroque in the Netherlands
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Q1) Quiet scenes of domestic tranquility in a Dutch home are typical of:
A) Jordaens
B) Vermeer
C) Ruisdael
D) Van Dyck
Q2) Which Flemish artist had an elite international clientele?
A) Hals
B) Heda
C) Ruisdael
D) Rubens
Q3) Rembrandt was a versatile artist who worked both in painting and:
A) Printmaking
B) Sculpture
C) Architecture
D) Textiles
Q4) Describe Rubens' patrons, his range of subject matter, and his manner of working.
Q5) Discuss the Baroque elements and influences in Rembrandt's Hundred Guilder Print. How would you relate this work to paintings by Caravaggio?
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Chapter 21: The Baroque in France and England
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Q1) Louis XIV embarked on what building project just 11 miles outside of Paris that was to become the largest palace in the western world?
A) St. Denis
B) Louvre
C) Versailles
D) Notre-Dame
Q2) What is the name of the cathedral in London that was rebuilt after the Great London Fire of 1666?
A) St. Peter's
B) St. Paul's
C) Salisbury Cathedral
D) Durham Cathedral
Q3) The Grand Manner was a concept introduced into French painting by Poussin.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Wren's plan for St. Paul's Cathedral was
A) A basilica plan, based on a Latin cross
B) Accepted by church authorities as Wren had originally conceived it
C) Conceived without a dome
D) Inspired by a previous design by Borromini
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Chapter 22: The Rococo
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Q1) Who painted Madame de Pompadour numerous times?
A) Boucher
B) Hogarth
C) Neumann
D) Reynolds
Q2) In France, the Rococo is linked with the reign of which monarch?
A) Colbert
B) Louis XIV
C) Louis XV
D) Louis-Philippe
Q3) Vedute refers to:
A) visionary scenes
B) paintings of canals
C) view paintings
D) still Life paintings
Q4) 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?
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) Whose paintings have a moralizing quality saying that war is noble and that no sacrifice is too great for the good of the state?
A) Vigée-Lebrun
B) Goya
C) David
D) Greuze
Q2) 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
Q3) George Stubbs specialized in paintings of:
A) Dogs
B) Horses
C) Heroic battle scenes
D) Mythological subject
Q4) Discuss David's Oath of the Horatii as a political work of art.
Q5) Compare Rococo and Neoclassicism in terms of subject matter, style, and purpose.
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Chapter 24: Art in the Age of the Romanticism, 1789-1848
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Q1) What incident did Géricault's The Raft of the "Medusa" illustrate? Discuss the work as an example of political commentary.
Q2) How did Napoleon use Neoclassicism to promote his imperial aims?
Q3) Whose paintings point to the atrocities of war and man's inhumanity to man?
A) Ingres
B) Goya
C) David
D) Greuze
Q4) Goya's The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
A) Reveals the artist's reactions to the period's crises
B) Was painted in dark, ominous colors
C) Earned Goya a sizable fortune
D) Is unrelated to the artist's other work at the time
Q5) The Barbizon painters were interested in combining which English painter's direct approach to nature with a student of Dutch seventeenth-century landscapists?
A) Constable
B) Turner
C) Reynolds
D) Gainsborough
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Chapter 25: The Age of Positivism
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Q1) Discuss the various ways in which artists employed the new medium of photography in the nineteenth century.
Q2) What was revolutionary about Courbet's subject matter?
A) Voluptuous nudes were considered offensive
B) Women and children were not an accepted category of the French Academy
C) Working-class life was proudly painted on an epic scale
D) The same subject was painted repeatedly
Q3) What was innovative about the construction techniques and materials of the Crystal Palace and the Eiffel Tower? How do these structures both continue and challenge traditions in architectural history?
Q4) 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
Q5) What were the motivations of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and how are those motivations manifested in their artwork?
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Chapter 26: Progress and Its Discontents:
Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau, 1880-1905
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Q1) What is distinctive about the Wainwright Building?
A) Walls of glass derived from the Crystal Palace
B) An internal steel skeleton
C) Vaulted arches on a colossal scale
D) Avoidance of all flat surfaces, straight lines, or symmetry of any kind
Q2) What was typical subject matter for van Gogh?
A) the wilderness
B) scenes of Tahiti
C) cathedrals or water lilies
D) landscapes and flowers
Q3) What group of Paris artists immersed themselves in religion to flee modernity?
A) The Nabis
B) The impressionists
C) The Pre-Raphaelites
D) The pointillists
Q4) Discuss how Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House represents a sensitive accommodation to the American prairie landscape.
Q5) Discuss Edward Steichen's Rodin with His Sculptures "Victor Hugo" and "The Thinker." What does Steichen seek to communicate about Rodin and his work in this photograph? Page 28
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Chapter 27: Toward Abstraction: the Modernist Revolution, 1905-1914
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Q1) At the Salon d'Automne of 1905, the works exhibited were so shocking that the artists Matisse and others were described as
A) wild beasts
B) insolent children
C) rude artists
D) greedy painters
Q2) Discuss how Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon both reflects and shatters artistic tradition. Be sure to include references to specific works of art in your answer.
Q3) Constantin Brancusi's Newborn of 1915 is a completely non-objective work of modernist sculpture.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Close collaborators in the development of Cubism were Pablo Picasso and:
A) Georges Braque
B) André Breton
C) Henri Matisse
D) Auguste Rodin
Q5) Describe and discuss the differences between analytic and synthetic cubism.
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Chapter 28: Art Between the Wars
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Q1) Which of the following was an important documentary photographer for the Farm Security Administration?
A) Bourke-White
B) Klee
C) Man Ray
D) Lange
Q2) Compare and contrast Mondrian's abstract paintings with Calder's sculptures.
Q3) How are questions of identity and difference explored in the art of Jacob Lawrence and Diego Rivera?
Q4) Who is known for light-hearted, playful photograms?
A) Bourke-White
B) Adams
C) Man Ray
D) Lange
Q5) Who was the first staff photographer hired by Fortune magazine and then by Life magazine?
A) Bourke-White
B) O'Keeffe
C) Man Ray
D) Kollwitz
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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) Romare Bearden, an African-American artist, made collages about his identity and became an active member of the Haarlem Renaissance.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Allan Kaprow performed all of his happenings in isolation.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What makes Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson's Seagram Building an important work of modern architecture?
Q5) Who is the artist known for creating huge images of simulated comics?
A) de Kooning
B) Pollock
C) Lichtenstein
D) Warhol
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Chapter 30: The Postmodern Era: Art Since 1980
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Q1) The term Postmodernism was first coined by French philosophers Jacques Derrida and
A) Jean Baudrillard
B) André Breton
C) Charles Baudelaire
D) Denis Diderot
Q2) Art historians have named the period since 1980:
A) Postmodern
B) Ultra Modern
C) Continued Mondern
D) Modern Revival
Q3) Personal experience is often validated and celebrated in Postmodern art.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How is war remembered in Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial? How is the subject of war treated differently in this work than in other works in the history of art?
Q5) Postmodern art has continued the dominance of New York in the art world. A)True
B)False
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