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Visual Arts
Question
Thick paint applied to a canvas, like on Robert Rymans Long, creates actual texture known as _______.
a) glazing
b) impasto
c) pattern
d) frottage
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What is the chief advantage of acrylic paint over oil paint?
a) it dries slower so artists can work more realistically
b) it is a quick, immediate process
c) it is more expressive
d) it is non-toxic
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Hung Lius paintings, such as Three Fujins (p. 69), rely on contrasts between two very important elements:
a) yin and yang.
b) her love of Maos Cultural Revolution and her need to paint.
c) carefully drawn structural lines and uncontrolled drip lines
d) All of the above.
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What is the binder in encaustic painting?
a) lime water
b) oil
c) egg yolk
d) wax
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a) various artists unique expressive lines
b) implied lines
c) classical line
d) lines of sight
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The Starry Night, by Vincent van Gogh, indicates the power of the artists _______ line.
a) expressive
b) analytical
c) classical
d) contour
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Gothic architecture was different from its Romanesque predecessors in that it prioritized______.
a) the height of its interiors
b) barrel vaults
c) the experience of light, seen through stained-glass in the interior of the cathedrals
d) overall size
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One of the superior aspects of oil paint (pp. 231-232) is that the artist can:
a) continue to work on the same painting for weeks without it drying.
b) work with big, bold, energetic brushstrokes.
c) blend hues and tones seamlessly.
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What was the preferred two-dimensional medium for didactic, Christian art during the Middle Ages, particularly in the Byzantine Empire?
a) oil paint
b) acrylic
c) mosaic
d) fresco
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Etienne-Jules Marey and Edward Muybridge were pioneers in the burgeoning art of ____________, which was first explored by the Lumiere Bros in 1895.
a) assemblage
b) motion pictures
c) Abstract Expressionism
d) public art
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What was the inspiration for Marcel Duchamps controversial Nude Descending a Staircase?
a) a visit to a shingle factory
b) Navajo blankets
c) the chronophotographs of Etienne-Jules Marey
d) a 17th century painting by Raphael
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Which sculptor eventually saw his controversial work destroyed?
a) Richard Serra
b) Carl Andre
c) Andy Warhol
d) Edouard Manet
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The manuscript page of St. Matthew from the Gospel Book of Charlemagne (p. 441) is an excellent example of:
a) Carolingian art.
b) Gothic art.
c) Islamic art.
d) Hindu art.
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Which artwork was referred to as an explosion in a shingle factory?
a) Edouard Manets Djeuner sur lherbe
b) Marcel Duchamps Nude Descending a Staircase
c) Pablo Picassos Women of Avignon
d) Vincent van Goghs Starry Night
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The Djingareyber Mosque and the Mosque at Crdoba (figs. 595 and 596), while very different in style and building materials, are both typical of ____________architecture.
a) Christian
b) Islamic
c) Buddhist
d) Taoist
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The tile mosaic, mihrab, is typical for Islamic art. Why?
a) it prioritizes naturalistic human figures and narrative
b) it is almost exclusively abstract designs and text from the Koran
c) it is made of mosaic tiles
d) b & c
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The artists relation to the public often depends upon:
a) the amount charged for their work.
b) whether or not they make representational work.
c) the artists background and lifestyle.
d) what the artist is trying to say.
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In Le Djeuner sur lherbe (Luncheon on the Grass) (pp. 43-44), Manet intentionally rejects traditional painting techniques for what purpose?
a) to surpass the art of Raphael and the Renaissance
b) to call attention to his modernity and break with the past
c) to show how photography affected peoples vision
d) to retain a link with other artists at the Armory Show
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Chris Ofilis The Holy Virgin Mary displays two aspects of the artists lifehis African heritage and what else?
a) his abstract art training
b) his love of medieval and Renaissance art
c) his study of American popular culture
d) his Catholic upbringing
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a) fresco.
b) encaustic.
c) tempera.
d) mosaic.
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What is the chief form of art in Islamic cultures?
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What term is used when someone imposes his or her own meanings and prejudices onto the art of another culture?
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Which process best describes intaglio printing (p. 204)?
a) The area that prints is below the surface of the plate.
b) It involves drawing on limestone with a greasy medium.
c) The image to be printed is raised above the surface of the plate.
d) The image is painted on a plate and run through a press.
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If an artist pushes the point of a burin across a metal plate, forcing the metal up in slivers in front of the burin, the process (p. 205) is called:
a) etching.
b) drypoint.
c) engraving.
d) mezzotint.
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In any type of printmaking, after an initial set of prints is made and the block or plate is destroyed, the set of prints is referred to as (p. 194):
a) an edition.
b) a ream.
c) a folio.
d) a run.
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What major events and developments marked the shift from Paleolithic to Neolithic civilization?
a) The fall of Greece to Rome in 146 B.C.E. and the development of naturalistic sculpture done in marble.
b) The founding of the Egyptian Dynasty 5,000 years ago and the use of load-bearing architecture.
c) The shift from hunter-gatherers to sedentary agrarians, the end of the last ice age, and the development of organized communities roughly 10,000-7,000 years ago.
d) The development of modern humans 250,000 years ago and the eruption of the Yellowstone Caldera at about the same time.
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Richard Serras The Matter of Time is:
a) a traditional monumental sculpture.
b) a series of steel sculptures that asks us to consider how we move through the space of the piece and the time we take doing it.
c) a good example of installation art.
d) b & c.
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Created entirely from _______, Case of Bottles by the California Funk artist Robert Arneson illustrates the modeling sculptural process.
a) wax
b) clay
c) plastic
d) cloth
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What is unique about the 1960-70s performances of Trisha Browns dance company?
a) they danced in the nude
b) they danced underwater
c) they danced on walls while suspended from the ceiling
d) they incorporated the latest cutting-edge technology
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The idea of film as art flourished after World War 2 with the likes of auteurs such as ___________.
a) Charlie Chaplin and the Three Stooges
b) Federico Fellini and Ingmar Bergman
c) Steven Spielberg and George Lucas
d) Burt Reynolds and Loni Anderson