Visual Arts Survey
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Course Introduction
Visual Arts Survey is an introductory course designed to familiarize students with a broad spectrum of artistic expressions, movements, and techniques from various cultures and historical periods. The course provides an overview of key works in painting, sculpture, architecture, and other visual mediums, examining their social, cultural, and historical contexts. Students learn to analyze and interpret visual art using foundational vocabulary and critical thinking skills, exploring the creative processes and purposes behind artistic production. Through lectures, discussions, and hands-on activities, participants gain a greater appreciation for the visual arts and their impact on society, laying the groundwork for further study in the field.
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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) Dolmens are:
A) upright rough-hewn stones
B) tombs, originally underground, with several large upright stones supporting a single massive capstone
C) prehistoric monuments found only in the British Isles
D) markers of the solstice
Answer: B
Q2) The Chauvet caves:
A) are a part of Carnac
B) have animal imagery
C) are located in Spain
D) have images that have to do with fertility
Answer: B
Q3) According to one feminist view, the distorted form of figures like the Woman of Willendorf reflects:
A) a woman's view of her own body as she looks down on it.
B) the Paleolithic interest in population control
C) a cultural prohibition against obesity
D) Paleolithic religious beliefs
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Ancient Near Eastern Art
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Q1) The Tell Asmar figures may have large eyes because:
A) Seeing was a major channel of communication with the gods
B) Their eyes were wide open in terror before the gods
C) They were cult figures of blinded gods
D) Gods were believed never to sleep
Answer: A
Q2) Naram-Sin was among the first Mesopotamian kings to deify himself.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Cuneiform characters:
A) were made by pressing a stylus into damp clay
B) remain untranslated to this day
C) were not used for writing fiction
D) were visible on the Rosetta Stone
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Egyptian Art
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Q1) A mastaba is a(n):
A) Egyptian deity.
B) form of Egyptian stone.
C) early tomb form.
D) step in the embalming process.
Answer: C
Q2) The Egyptian figural canon:
A) determined the ideal proportions of a human figure.
B) was the same for all members of Egyptian society.
C) dictated that all males should be represented as youthful.
D) forbade the depiction of women.
Answer: A
Q3) Tutankhamun carried on the religious devotions of his predecessor Akhenaten.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) All eras of Egyptian religion were monotheistic.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Aegean Art
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Q1) The Minoan architecture that the legend of the Minotaur and the Labyrinth is believed to be based upon was a:
A) fortress
B) temple
C) palace
D) tomb
Q2) The Mycenaeans themselves referred to their method of wall construction as "Cyclopean" masonry because the Cyclops was one of their legendary figures.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Where was the culture located that was named for King Minos?
A) On the Greek mainland
B) On the Cycladic Islands
C) On the island of Crete
D) In Mesopotamia
Q4) Heinrich Schliemann mused that he saw the face of Agamemnon in one gold mask that he had excavated from the Mycenaean period.
A)True
B)False
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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) The lost wax process enabled Greek sculptors to create spatially freer forms than was possible in stone.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which was a testament to Alexandria's cosmopolitan nature and the vitality of shipping and commerce throughout the Hellenistic Empire?
A) Pharos
B) Kore
C) Naos
D) Tholos
Q4) What are the characteristics of Archaic Greek sculpture? Compare and contrast Archaic Greek sculpture and Egyptian sculpture.
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Chapter 6: Etruscan Art
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Q1) The Etruscans were sailors and merchants who traveled throughout the Mediterranean.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Compare and contrast Etruscan wall painting with Minoan, Egyptian, and Greek painting.
Q3) Monumental sculpture from the Etruscan civilization was predominantly made of marble.
A)True
B)False
Q4) There is a major Etruscan necropolis at Cerveteri.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Which culture felt the most influence on its architecture from Etruscan architecture?
A) Mycenaean
B) Greek
C) Villanovan
D) Roman
Q6) Compare and contrast Roman and Etruscan architecture.
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Chapter 7: Roman Art
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Q1) What structures were used in Roman civilization for the transport of water over long distances?
A) aqueducts
B) basilicas
C) oculi
D) excedrae
Q2) Which is true of the Colosseum?
A) It was covered with a huge barrel vault.
B) It was covered with a huge dome.
C) It used primarily post-and-lintel construction.
D) It had decorative engaged columns and pilasters on its facade.
Q3) The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius caused considerable damage to the architecture in the Roman forum.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is NOT Roman?
A) widespread use of concrete
B) widespread use of vaults
C) The Parthenon
D) The Pantheon
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Chapter 8: Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art
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Q1) What is an entrance foyer in an Early Christian church called?
A) groin vault
B) basilica
C) clerestory
D) narthex
Q2) Other than Constantinople, where can Byzantine art be seen?
A) Rome
B) Ravenna
C) Athens
D) Paris
Q3) The CHI RHO sign, a monogram of Christ, is composed of the first two letters of Christ's name in Greek.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is NOT seen on the side of the Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus?
A) Bas relief sculpture
B) Old Testament scenes
C) New Testament scenes
D) Scenes from the life of Junius Bassus
Q5) Explain the iconoclastic controversy. Why were abstract symbols widely used?
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Chapter 9: Islamic Art
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Q1) The artistic qualities of script are central to the decorative aspects of Islamic art and architecture.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The term infidel is another word for believers in early Christian and Muslim traditions.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which pillar of Islam was most important in the development of Islamic architecture?
A) The religious duty of prayer
B) The hajj, or pilgrimage
C) Fasting during Ramadan
D) Tithing, or giving to charity
Q4) How does holy script become an art form in Islamic art and architecture?
Q5) Early mosque architecture emphasized:
A) the equality of all Muslims before God
B) the importance of the clergy
C) ceremony and processions
D) an axial spatial plan
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Chapter 10: Early Medieval Art
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Q1) The collapse of Roman institutions was in part the result of the power asserted by which migrating peoples?
A) Germanic
B) Celtic
C) Roman
D) Persian
Q2) 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
Q3) The Chi Rho Iota page from the Book of Kells shows:
A) the relationship between manuscript illumination and precious metalwork
B) the influence of Islam on Celtic manuscript illumination
C) the clarity and simplicity of design in Hiberno-Saxon art
D) an attention by the artist to spatial illusionism
Q4) 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
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Chapter 11: Romanesque Art
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Q1) Discuss the Bayeux Tapestry. What story is being told and from whose point of view?
How does the telling of the story reflect the values of the age?
Q2) The Spanish Islamic Mozarab style is characterized by:
A) horseshow arches, alternating colored voussoirs, and mosaics of colored stone
B) fantastic ornamentation, Old Testament imagery, and sculptural forms
C) crypts, blind arcades, and radiating chapels
D) flying buttresses, groin vaults, and stained glass
Q3) Santiago de Compostela was a major pilgrimage site.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What were the Crusades? What impact did they have on European art and architecture?
Q5) 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
Q6) What kinds of images are often found in a Romanesque tympanum? What was the intended effect on the viewer of Giselbertus' Last Judgment tympanum?
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Chapter 12: Gothic Art
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Q1) What did Gothic builders develop to stabilize their naves?
A) pendentives
B) lancets
C) portals
D) flying buttresses
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) Which is NOT a characteristic of Gothic architecture?
A) churches in the city
B) large expanses of colored glass
C) pointed arches
D) low, dark naves
Q4) The Roettgen Pieta belongs to what category of objects?
A) sorrowful images
B) Andachtsbild (contemplation image)
C) Romanesque
D) illuminated manuscripts
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Chapter 13: Art in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Italy
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Q1) What are two important painting techniques from the period?
A) Tempera and fresco
B) Oil and encaustic
C) Bronze and marble
D) Watercolor and acrylic
Q2) What influence did the mendicant religious orders exert on the development of art in thirteenth and fourteenth century in Italy?
Q3) Municipal patrons, like the city of Siena, commissioned works of art to proclaim and further their accomplishments.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How did Ambrogio Lorenzetti represent the subjects of Good and Bad Government in his frescoes for the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena?
Q5) 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
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Chapter 14: Artistic Innovations in Fifteenth-Century
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Q1) Compare and contrast tempera, fresco and oil painting. Include in your discussion the technique, the working time and the final appearance.
Q2) Which fifteenth century artist was well known for his engravings?
A) Jan van Eyck
B) Rogier van der Weyden
C) Robert Campin
D) Martin Schongauer
Q3) The detail and sharp focus of Late Gothic painting was an outgrowth of:
A) medieval tympanums
B) illuminated manuscripts
C) Protestantism
D) the printing press
Q4) What are the artistic and social implications of printmaking?
Q5) 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
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Chapter 15: The Early Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Italy
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Q1) Antonello da Messina, a painter from southern Italy, may have learned about oil painting in Flanders and passed that knowledge on to Venetian artists.
Q2) 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
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) 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?
Q5) How are aspects of the Florentine Renaissance reflected in Donatello's St. Mark?
Q6) Discuss innovations seen in the works of Masaccio.
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Q1) Titian painted his famous image of a reclining figure of Venus for which patron?
A) Duke Cosimo de' Medici
B) Pope Paul III
C) Lorenzo de' Medici
D) Duke Guidobaldo II della Rovere of Urbino
Q2) 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?
Q3) Bramante's original plan for the renovated St. Peter's was a
A) Greek-cross plan
B) Latin-cross plan
C) Celtic-cross plan
D) Papal-cross plan
Q4) Compare Titian's Man with the Glove with Leonardo's Mona Lisa. Include in your discussion observations on chiaroscuro/sfumato, pose, composition, color and background.
Q5) Where and for whom was Raphael's School of Athens painted? Discuss the subject matter of the painting in relation to Raphael's patron and the function of the room for which it was painted.
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Chapter 17: The Late Renaissance and Mannerism in
Sixteenth-Century Italy
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Q1) The forces of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V sacked which city in 1527?
A) Rome
B) Florence
C) Venice
D) Bologna
Q2) The Duke of Florence sponsored what institution to further the arts in his domain?
A) Academy of Design
B) Florence Ballet Company
C) National Museum of Italy
D) School of Graphic Design
Q3) The Academy of Design was established in Florence in 1563 to promote the arts in Tuscany by improving the training of artists.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Michelangelo's last commission for the Sistine Chapel was the painting of The Last Judgment for the altar wall.
A)True
B)False
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Q5) What events are believed to have contributed to the end to the High Renaissance?
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Chapter 18: Renaissance and Reformation Throughout
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Q1) El Greco was trained in this city before working in Spain:
A) Bruges
B) Venice
C) Florence
D) Rome
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) Henry VIII officially broke with the Church in Rome in 1534 and formed the Church of England.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What social group did Bruegel often paint?
A) Peasants
B) Religious leaders
C) Biblical characters
D) Aristocrats
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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) 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
Q3) Which city is a major center for Baroque patronage during the Catholic Counter-Reformation?
A) Paris
B) Florence
C) Rome
D) Ravenna
Q4) The Counter Reformation was a movement that began the in the seventeenth century and was inspired by the religious art of Caravaggio.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 20: The Baroque in the Netherlands
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Q1) All of the following are common specializations associated with the Dutch Baroque painters EXCEPT:
A) landscape
B) group portrait
C) still life
D) palace art and court life
Q2) Compare his handling, purposes, and symbolism of light in Rembrandt's Bathsheba with King David's Letter and the master's One Hundred Guilder Print.
Q3) Despite the seeming differences of the Northern and Southern Netherlands, there was much interaction between these two nations and their artists.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What was the official religion for Flanders and Holland? How did religion have an impact on the arts of each region?
Q5) For both Flanders and Holland, discuss how each area was ruled and what were the available and predominant sources of artistic patronage. How did political and social conditions have an impact on the arts in these two areas?
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Chapter 21: The Baroque in France and England
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Q1) 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
Q2) Who was responsible for much of the rebuilding of London after the Great London Fire of 1666?
A) Perrault
B) Hardouin-Mansart
C) Inigo Jones
D) Wren
Q3) 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
Q4) What was the function of the Royal Academy and how did it exert an impact on French artists?
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Chapter 22: The Rococo
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Q1) With whom are the vedute associated?
A) Canaletto
B) Tiepolo
C) Fischer von Erlach
D) Boucher
Q2) The Rococo style was successfully used for the interior design of French hotels.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What artist was a social critic and made morality paintings that teach middle-class virtues?
A) Poussin
B) Hogarth
C) Watteau
D) Boucher
Q4) Architects in Germany and Austria proved immune to the allure of Rococo design.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The Rococo style was popular throughout Europe.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) The Age of the Enlightenment was exclusively a European phenomenon.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Neoclassical art often illustrated what were considered the virtuous actions and deeds of which ancient peoples?
A) Romans
B) Egyptians
C) Mesopotamians
D) Mycenaeans
Q3) Who designed English Neoclassical interiors based on the antique without slavishly imitating it?
A) Houdon
B) Adam
C) Copley
D) Kauffmann
Q4) Who was known as a portrait painter of the British aristocracy?
A) Tiepolo
B) Hogarth
C) Neumann
D) Reynolds
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Chapter 24: Art in the Age of the Romanticism, 1789-1848
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Q1) Compare Goya's attitude toward war to that of David's. How did each feel about Napoleon and employ his art either to support or criticize the Napoleonic regime?
Q2) Compare the Romantic and Neoclassic styles. How are they similar and how do they differ in terms of both subject matter and style?
Q3) Who made a painting of an exotic harem woman?
A) Goya
B) Géricault
C) Ingres
D) Cole
Q4) Which aspects of Ingres' work are Neoclassic and which are Romantic?
Q5) Who was the architect of the University of Virginia?
A) Palladio
B) Thomas Cole
C) Benjamin West
D) Thomas Jefferson
Q6) What incident did Géricault's The Raft of the "Medusa" illustrate? Discuss the work as an example of political commentary.
Q7) 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) Define Positivism and discuss how it is manifested in three different works of art.
Q2) Who used materials of the Industrial Age after having built green houses earlier in his career?
A) Paxton
B) Jefferson
C) Labrouste
D) Eiffel
Q3) The Crystal Palace and the Eiffel Tower were both constructed independent of major international exhibitions in England and France.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Some might suggest that Impressionist artists were simply interested in capturing a pretty scene. Dispute this view by discussing the various motivations of the Impressionist artists.
Q5) Realism began to dissipate in Europe as an intellectual attitude and stylist trend after 1848 and was gradually superseded by Romanticism.
A)True
B)False
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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 Gaudí's work?
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) Who was the earliest builder of Midwestern American skyscrapers?
A) Paxton
B) Sullivan
C) Wright
D) Mackintosh
Q3) Which American Symbolist painter was influenced by the ethereal, otherworldly pictures of Parisian artists such as Moreau?
A) Henry O. Tanner
B) Thomas Eakins
C) Benjamin West
D) James Whistler
Q4) Art Nouveau was a style practiced by artists who were interested in continuing revival styles and eclecticism in art.
A)True
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Chapter 27: Toward Abstraction: the Modernist Revolution,
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Q1) Umberto Boccioni, an artist, also authored the Manifesto of Futurism.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Bruno Taut's Glass Pavilion reflects the architect's:
A) Belief in the mystical properties of crystal
B) Support of iron frame construction
C) Interest in nature
D) Participation in the Prairie Architecture movement
Q3) The 1913 Armory Show was instrumental in introducing modernist art to Parisian culture.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque experimented with collage on canvas during the period in which they were developing Cubism.
A)True
B)False
Q5) 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.
Q6) 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) Marcel Duchamp's Fountain is a work in which style?
A) Dada
B) Surrealism
C) Nabi
D) New Deal
Q2) Who officially declared Surrealism as a style in Paris in 1924?
A) André Breton
B) Filippo Marinetti
C) Salvador Dali
D) Meret Oppenheim
Q3) What does the art of Lange have in common with that of Goya and Courbet?
Q4) Who was the founder of Constructivism?
A) Arp
B) Tatlin
C) Mondrian
D) Beckmann
Q5) Works of art often prove shocking and disturbing when they are first exhibited. Discuss one work of art from the interwar years, together with two other previous works of art, which challenged the public's notion of art.
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Q6) How did the New Deal have an impact on documentary photography?
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Chapter 29: Postwar to Postmodern, 1945-1980
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Q1) What material did Donald Judd use in his sculptures?
A) stone
B) bronze
C) steel
D) nature
Q2) What was innovative about Rauschenberg's assemblages? How do they relate to the painting of the same period?
Q3) Sigmar Polke was influenced by the pop art of Warhol and:
A) Lichtenstein
B) Pollock
C) Rothko
D) Johns
Q4) Which color-field painter is known for his huge hazy rectangles?
A) Judd
B) Warhol
C) Smithson
D) Rothko
Q5) Allan Kaprow performed all of his happenings in isolation.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 30: The Postmodern Era: Art Since 1980
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Q1) What are the influences in Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao?
Q2) Postmodern artists generally avoid conceptual questions in their work.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which installation artist often evokes themes of his Russian heritage?
A) Kabakov
B) Polke
C) Kiefer
D) Gehry
Q4) What influences, aesthetic and structural, are visible in Michael Graves' Public Services Building in Portland?
Q5) Discuss the new media of the last 20 years. What media are being used? In what ways can these art forms address issues and ideas differently?
Q6) Compare the Postmodern architecture of Graves, both aesthetically and structurally, to the High Modern architecture of Mies van der Rohe.
Q7) 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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