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Course Introduction
World Art Survey is an introductory exploration of the visual arts across global cultures and historical periods. This course examines artistic traditions, major works, and the cultural contexts in which art has been produced, from ancient civilizations to the contemporary world. Emphasizing cross-cultural interactions and key movements, students will analyze painting, sculpture, architecture, and new media, developing a broad appreciation for the diversity and impact of art in shaping human experience and expression.
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Gardner s Art Through the Ages A Concise Global History 3rd Edition by Fred S. Kleiner
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Chapter 1: Prehistory and the First Civilizations
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Q1) The Ziggurat at Ur is ____.
A) a Sumerian burial ground
B) a fortified city-state
C) the palace for Naram-Sin
D) a Sumerian temple base
Answer: D
Q2) What does this structure say about Ramses II?
Answer: Temple of Ramses II,Abu Simbel (Figure 1-31).Ramses II proclaims his greatness and his achievements as a military pharaoh (he restored Egypt's empire)with the overwhelming size of his monument.This structure defines his role and status as pharaoh and brother to the gods.
Q3) Evaluate the difference between the art and architecture of the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods.
Answer: The Paleolithic period corresponds roughly to the age of food gathering.The Neolithic period saw the foundation of agriculture and domesticated stock.No longer did the people have to wander the landscape in search of food.Agriculture and domesticated stock provided the principal food sources.
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Chapter 2: Ancient Greece
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Q1) Which term best describes Minoan palaces?
A) fortified
B) cyclopean
C) Doric
D) labyrinthine
Answer: D
Q2) How did Greek artists revive the art of storytelling?
Answer: Narrative was restored to art by the Geometric era vase painters who depicted stories on their pots.
Q3) What did Roman patrons demand from Greek artists?
A) Portraits of deceased rulers
B) Pediment sculpture and friezes
C) Vases painted in black- and red-figure
D) Copies of Classical and Hellenistic sculpture
Answer: D
Q4) What features of the architecture of the palace at Knossos are thought to have given rise to the Greek myth of the labyrinth?
Answer: The complexity of the palace plan and the scores of rooms
Q5) What does Minoan art and architecture reveal about life on Knossos?
Answer: It reveals a peaceful existence,rituals,and reliance on the sea.
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Chapter 3: The Roman Empire
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Q1) The year 211 BCE was a turning point for both Rome and Roman art because ____.
A) Rome conquered Greece
B) Marcellus brought the artistic patrimony of Syracuse to Rome
C) Last Attalid king willed Pergamon to Rome
D) Veii fell to the Romans
Answer: B
Q2) What is a groin vault?
Answer: A groin vault results from the intersection of two barrel vaults.
Q3) How does this image illustrate imperial virtues?
Answer: Triumph of Titus,Arch of Titus,Rome (Figure 3-34).The image shows Titus in triumph returning to Rome after his military victories in the Jewish campaigns.The figures accompanying him trAnswerform this event further by emphasizing the imperial virtues of honor and valor.Victory crowns Titus with a victory wreath.The youth is the personification of Honor and Valor leads the horses.
Q4) How do Etruscan sarcophagi reflect the attitude of Etruscan society?
Answer: The figures repeat the liveliness of the living through facial expression and gestures.They are unique in the ancient world.Their interiors conveyed joyful emotion.The EtruscAnswer continued the celebration,even in death.
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Chapter 4: Early Christianity and Byzantium
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Q1) Describe the features of this mosaic that makes it an example of the Early Christian style.
Q2) Compare and contrast Old Saint Peter's,Rome,and the Hagia Sophia,Constantinople.How is each building unique and innovative? How is each building significant and relevant to its period and place? What outside influences,if any,shaped each building? Be sure to include innovative construction elements in you essay.
Q3) One of the scenes depicted on the Junius Bassus Sarcophagus is the ____.
A) Crucifixion
B) Parable of the Loaves and Fishes
C) Apocalypse
D) Entry into Jerusalem
Q4) Why are catacombs significant for the history of Early Christian art?
Q5) St.Peter's relics were located in the ____ of Old St.Peter's.
A) atrium
B) apse
C) nave
D) transept
Q6) Which icon is earlier? What similarities do both icons share and what changes have taken place between the first and second?
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Chapter 5: The Islamic World
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Q1) Where would a minbar most likely be found?
A) as part of a column
B) supporting a dome
C) guarding the harem
D) inside a mosque
Q2) The Court of the Lions is located in which of the following cities?
A) Damascus
B) Cairo
C) Baghdad
D) Granada
Q3) Which of the following is built over the spot from which Muhammad is believed to have ascended to heaven?
A) Great Mosque, Isfahan
B) Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem
C) Great Mosque, Córdoba
D) Great Mosque, Kairouan
Q4) Discuss the effects the religious beliefs and practices of Islam had on the art of the Mediterranean and the Middle East.Use examples to support your essay.
Q5) Describe the ornamental program of a great mosque.
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Chapter 6: Early Medieval and Romanesque Europe
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Q1) ____ Column was a possible model for the Bayeux Tapestry because it is in narrative format.
A) Marcus Aurelius's
B) Justinian's
C) Trajan's
D) Constantine's
Q2) The Romanesque period has been credited with the revival of stone carving.Briefly assess the reason or reasons for such a revival.
Q3) Explain how the bronze doors of the abbey church at Hildesheim revive a monumental sculptural tradition.Compare their style and purpose to at least two other examples of monumental sculpture seen so far in this course.
Q4) Which of the following manuscripts shows the greatest influence of the Roman illusionistic style?
A) Utrecht Psalter
B) Coronation Gospels
C) Book of Kells
D) Lindisfarne Gospels
Q5) Compare and contrast these two images.How are they alike and how are they different?
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Chapter 7: Gothic and Late Medieval Europe
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Q1) Images of the Visitation illustrate ____.
A) Mary's meeting with Elizabeth
B) Christ's visit to Jerusalem
C) Joseph and Mary's journey to Bethlehem
D) Moses' trip out of Egypt
Q2) What role did politics and economics play in the creation of Gothic churches and in the spread of the Gothic style throughout Europe? Use examples to support your essay.
Q3) What is generally believed to have been the purpose of the sculptural programs of the portals of the great Gothic cathedrals? How did these programs differ from the sculptural programs of Romanesque portals? Use examples to support your essay.
Q4) How does the work of Simone Martini exemplify the International Style?
Q5) How does the artist reveal political intent in this image?
Q6) Perpendicular style was popular in ____.
A) England
B) Germany
C) France
D) Italy
Q7) How is this building an architecture of voids?
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Chapter 8: The Early Renaissance in Europe
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Q1) Describe one-point linear perspective.
Q2) The Florentine Pollaiuolo is known for ____.
A) figures that appear ecorché
B) the representation of figures in action
C) his work for the Medici
D) all of these choices
Q3) Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights is a/an ____.
A) triptych
B) diptych
C) breviary
D) illumination
Q4) What appears on the ground floor of the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi?
A) cornice
B) rustication
C) triumphal arch
D) dressed masonry
Q5) Evaluate Donatello's contribution to the sculpture of the fifteenth century.Use examples to support your essay.
Q6) Compare and contrast the stylistic and thematic characteristics of Jan van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece and Masaccio's Holy Trinity.
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Chapter 9: High Renaissance and Mannerism in Europe
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Q1) Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece is characterized by ____.
A) High Renaissance clarity and disegno
B) Lutheran iconography
C) a flat gold background
D) an exacting rendering of pain
Q2) Mannerist art is characterized by ____.
A) artifice
B) ambiguous spaces
C) unusual treatments of common themes
D) all of these choices
Q3) How is Giulio Romano's Palazzo del Te considered a parody of Classical style?
Q4) Which subject is not represented in the Stanza della Segnatura fresco paintings by Raphael?
A) rhetoric
B) law
C) theology
D) philosophy
Q5) How does this work exemplify Venetian painting?
Q6) How does the Isenheim Altarpiece represent suffering and salvation?
Q7) What features identify this work as High Renaissance?
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Chapter 10: Baroque Europe
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Q1) Unlike Michelangelo's version,Bernini's David represents the moment ____ his confrontation of Goliath.
A) before
B) during
C) after
D) all of these choices
Q2) Both of these paintings represent peasants.How do you account for the differences you see in the depictions?
Q3) Describe Claude's painting style and content.
Q4) Compare Bernini's David with the sculptures of the same theme by Donatello and Michelangelo.
Q5) How does Rigaud's Louis XIV communicate the king's power?
Q6) Jacob van Ruisdael specialized in ____.
A) landscapes
B) genre scenes
C) still lifes
D) portraits
Q7) Explain the content of Velázquez's Las Meninas.
Q8) What is the Baldacchino at St.Peter's?
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Chapter 11: Rococo to Neoclassicism in Europe and America
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Q1) Which artist made portraits in the grant manner?
A) Vigée-Lebrun
B) Hogarth
C) David
D) Reynolds
Q2) Soufflot's Pantheon demonstrates the revival of ____ cultures.
A) French
B) Roman
C) Imperial
D) traditional
Q3) The Enlightenment idea of the "natural man" may be seen in paintings by ____.
A) Greuze
B) Watteau
C) Fragonard
D) Clodion
Q4) Who was Johann Winckelmann,and what was his significance to the history of art?
Q5) Compare Watteau's Pilgrimage to Cythera and David's Oath of the Horatii.How does each work relate to the sociopolitical climate of the period?
Q6) How does this work reflect the interest in "the natural"?
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Q1) What moral question was the artist raising in this image?
Q2) The statement,"The plan borrowed much from ancient Roman and Christian basilicas...provided ample interior space to contain displays," refers to which of the following buildings?
A) Opéra, Paris
B) Monticello, Richmond
C) Crystal Palace, London
D) Houses of Parliament, London
Q3) Compare and contrast the works of Eakins and Manet.How does each artist relate to his respective environment? How does each artist reflect the art of the 19th century? Use examples to support your essay.
Q4) Compare Neoclassicism's emphasis on the heroic and Romanticism's interest in the sublime.Use examples to support your essay.
Q5) What artist revealed his kindred spirit with the Romantic artists by saying that "painting is but another word for feeling "?
Q6) What is the meaning of this of print?
Q7) How did artists respond to photography?
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Q8) What cultural style does this building reference?
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Chapter 13: Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Symbolism,1870 to 1900
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Q1) Klimt's The Kiss conveys the flamboyance and decadence of the period by its ____.
A) formalism
B) opulent sensuousness
C) tonality
D) perspectival space
Q2) Cézanne's Basket of Apples departs from traditional painting techniques by exploring the still-life arrangement ____.
A) to illustrate the passage of time
B) to symbolize wealth and abundance
C) from a Socialist perspective
D) from different viewpoints
Q3) What factor gave birth to the American skyscraper?
Q4) Why is Rousseau unlike the other artists discussed in this chapter?
Q5) Vincent van Gogh attempted to communicate the/a ____ in his Starry Night.
A) fearsome nighttime darkness
B) birth of a galaxy
C) vastness of the universe
D) comet streaking through the sky
Q6) Who did this work and what would it come to influence?
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Chapter 14: Modernism in Europe and America,1900 to 1945
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Q1) A nonobjective work refers to work that ____.
A) has been abstracted from a natural object
B) has no reference to external appearances in the physical world
C) is not considered objectionable by anyone
D) has no material form but is merely conceived in the mind
Q2) Franz Marc claimed that Fate of the Animals was like a premonition of ____.
A) World War II
B) the Great Depression
C) the Russian Revolution
D) World War I
Q3) How did each artist articulate a different purpose for art?
Q4) Which of the following is an example of Synthetic Cubism?
A) The Dance
B) Nude Descending a Staircase
C) Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
D) Still Life with Chair-Caning
Q5) Discuss the impact the Armory show (1913)had on the American art scene.Use examples to support your essay.
Q6) Explain the principles of Surrealist art.Use examples to support your essay.
Q7) How does this photograph participate in avant garde art?
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Chapter 15: Modernism and Postmodernism in Europe and America, 1945 to
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Q1) The New York artist whose paintings employed color as a doorway to another reality of emotional expression was ____.
A) Jackson Pollock
B) Francis Bacon
C) Mark Rothko
D) Willem De Kooning
Q2) British art critic Lawrence Alloway coined the term ____ to refer to artists who combined mass consumer culture with familiar imagery from everyday life.
A) Pop Art
B) Minimalist Art
C) Abstract Expressionism
D) Performance Art
Q3) Attribute the images on the screen to a culture and give an approximate date.Give the reasons for your attributions,using complete sentences and referring to specific works discussed in class.
Q4) How does this work address the role of women in society and as artists?
Q5) Contrast the style of Le Corbusier's Notre Dame du Haut to Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson's Seagram Building.
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Chapter 16: Contemporary Art Worldwide
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Q1) The photographs of Andreas Gursky draw inspiration from:
A) everyday life
B) Chinese landscape painting
C) classical mythology
D) fantasy illustration
Q2) Shirin Neshat often poses in her photographs wearing a ____,which for her is a symbol of the repression of Muslim Women
A) veil
B) broad hat
C) black cloak
D) brooch
Q3) Robert Mapplethorpe is known primarily as a/an:
A) watercolorist
B) architect
C) sculptor
D) photographer
Q4) Why does Barbara Kruger intersperse text throughout her works of art?
Q5) Discuss the controversy surrounding the exhibition Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment.What did people find offensive about this exhibition and what was the final resolution?
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Chapter 17: South and Southeast Asia
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Q1) What is a stupa,and how does it reflect Buddhist belief?
Q2) Which of the following is a Buddhist monastery?
A) Khajuraho
B) Deogarh
C) Mamallapuram
D) Sanchi
Q3) Discuss the representation of the human figure in Hindu architecture.How does it reflect Hindu teachings? How does figural representation change from region to region? Use examples to support your essay.
Q4) Which of the following rulers marked his reign with the first official sponsorship of Buddhism?
A) Kanishka
B) Chandragupta
C) Ashoka
D) Shuunga
Q5) What do these images express?
Q6) How does this image reflect Indian motifs for religious architecture?
Q7) What are the Ajanta caves,and why are they important?
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Q8) How does this image represent the divine nature of the god?
Q9) How does this work represent the political acumen of the sitter?
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Chapter 18: China and Korea
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Q1) How does this image reflect the religious and philosophical traditions of the Tang Dynasty?
Q2) How does this figure mirror the subject matter of Buddhism?
Q3) One of the most important tasks of the Chinese artist was to ____.
A) serve as an instrument through which nature could reveal itself
B) impose a mathematical structure on the chaos of nature
C) demonstrate man's domination of nature
D) demonstrate his own individuality
Q4) Which of the following dynasties designed the core of the imperial palace in the Forbidden City?
A) Qing
B) Ming
C) Yuan
D) Song
Q5) How do Chinese gardens reflect the spirit of Chinese landscape painting?
Q6) What is the artist attempting to illustrate?
Q7) How does the layout of the Forbidden City relate to the emperor?
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Chapter 19: Japan
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Q1) What is wabi?
Q2) In the Edo period,the Tokugawa rulers banned ____ and almost all foreigners from entering Japan.
A) Judaism
B) Christianity
C) Hinduism
D) Shinto
Q3) Attribute the images on the screen to a culture and give an approximate date.Give the reasons for your attributions,using complete sentences and referring to specific works discussed in class.
Q4) Assess the patronage system in the Early Heian and Kamakura periods.How did these systems shape Japanese art and architecture? Use examples to support your essay.
Q5) In the Tale of Genji,the metaphor,which came to mean fading life and love and the season of autumn,is which of the following?
A) chrysanthemums
B) peonies
C) cherry blossoms
D) bush-clover
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Chapter 20: Native America
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Q1) Describe the role of agricultural deities in Southwest culture.How did these deities impact artistic production and society in general? Use examples to support your essay.
Q2) Which of the following describes the Southwest kiva?
A) a clay mound attached to the northeast corner of the Pueblo
B) a large circular semi-subterranean structure
C) a small wooden structure located above ground
D) a large tall stone structure located above ground
Q3) What symbols are represented on this figure?
Q4) The Serpent Mound can be found in which of the following sites?
A) Ohio
B) La Venta
C) Macchu Picchu
D) San Ildefonso
Q5) Evaluate the use of art to indicate social status in Mayan society.Use examples to support your essay.
Q6) What culture created this image? Why is this scene important?
Q7) Explain the ideas of sacrifice that lay behind this image.
Q8) How did the Olmec and Teotihuacán cultures shape the development of the Classic Maya culture?
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Chapter 21: Africa
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Q1) Bamum art is known for its ____.
A) wood carving
B) ivory figures
C) nail figures
D) textiles and beads
Q2) Why are the Ile-Ife sculptures considered to be examples of idealized naturalism?
Q3) You have been asked to assemble an exhibition of African art addressing ancestry.Which five examples will you include? Explain your selections.
Q4) Discuss gender roles in African societies and how they affect the artistic production.Use examples to support your essay.
Q5) Describe how the figure is represented and why this is significant.
Q6) Why does the Kota reliquary have a shiny surface?
A) to reflect the spirits
B) to shine in the sun during processions
C) to repel evil
D) to attract animals
Q7) It has been said that art and life are integrated in African cultures.Explain what this means.Use examples to support your essay.
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