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Q: (Slide: Max Ernsts Forest and Dove) (fig. 163) Max Ernsts Forest and Dove uses a process called _______ to create a variety of textural effects. a) frottage b) trompe loeil c) femmage d) impasto

Q: Which of the following is not an aspect of texture (pp. 124-127)? a) tactility b) surface quality c) content d) impasto

Q: The technique of sewing buttons on to linen, used by Marilyn Lanfear in Aunt Billie, is most closely related to which of these traditional techniques? a) oil painting b) mosaic c) fresco painting d) lithography

Q: The city of Chamba, India is famous for its embroidered muslin textiles (p. 333) called: a) mudras. b) anagama. c) wefts. d) rumals.

Q: What is the subject matter of Isidro Escamillas Virgin of Guadalupe? a) it depicts the Virgin Mary after the crucifixion of Jesus b) it depicts the Virgin Mary just before the birth of Jesus c) it depicts the Virgin Mary after the ascension of Jesus d) it narrates a story of a miraculous vision of the Virgin Mary at Tepayac, once a site of an Aztec temple

Q: What technique was used in creating Tutankhamun Hunting Ostriches from His Chariot? a) casting b) repousse and embossing c) carving d) modeling

Q: What was the inspiration for Grace Ndiritus Still Life: White Textiles? a) traditional Yoruban rituals b) an exhibition of work by Henri Matisse in 2005 in London c) erotic puppet shows d) the action paintings of Jackson Pollock

Q: Honami Koetsus Amagumo tea bowl (p. 322) was perfectly made to fit the hand and was made in the early seventeenth century at one of the Six Ancient Kilns, the traditional centers of _______ ceramics in Japan. a) wood-fired b) raku c) thrown d) anagama

Q: The Cubists (pp. 499) freed painting from the necessity of representing the world in order to dwell on: a) form. b) texture c) content. d) emotion.

Q: Which of the artists below created a work titled Piet? a) Leonardo da Vinci b) Joan Snyder c) Michelangelo d) Manuel Neri

Q: The Japanese Tea Ceremony is a ritual that encourages the adherent to leave the concerns of the daily world behind and enter a timeless world of ease, harmony, and mutual respect. Which of these ceramic pieces would be used in such a practice? a) Euthymides Revelers b) Honami Koetsus Amagumo c) Martinezs Jar d) Voulkos X-Neck

Q: Marianne Nicholsons cliffside pictograph (a copper) represents a Northwest Native American tradition that had been suppressed through most of the 20th century, called: a) the potlatch. b) the Ghost Dance. c) buffalo hunts. d) vision quests. e) sweat lodge ceremonies.

Q: The systematic and repetitive use of the same motif or design creates a pattern on the pages of the Lindisfarne Gospels, illustrates that pattern is an especially important _______ tool. a) decorative b) religious c) media d) None of the above.

Q: As a thrown ceramic vessel, Rose Cabats Onion Feelie, is unique because: a) of its color and shape. b) of its limited functionality. c) it is shaped like a garden vegetable or gourd. d) because it is symmetrical.

Q: Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes (p. 499). What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them? a) Henri Matisse b) Paul Gauguin c) Paul Czanne d) Jackson Pollock

Q: Henri Matisse was a leader of early 20th century artists who felt free to use color arbitrarily and were labeled, derogatorily, Fauves, which translates __________. a) false b) Wild Beasts c) fake d) crazy e) none of the above

Q: A work in which weft yarns of several different colors are manipulated to make a design is called: a) weaving b) embroidery c) collage d) afghan

Q: Because Gianlorenzo Berninis David tells a storyof David slaying Goliathit is said to have a _______ sequence. a) plastic b) narrative c) frozen d) linear

Q: Postmodernism (p. 515) has been defined in part as: a) the presence of diverse traditions in a single work. b) a reassessment of our urban environment. c) Neo-Gothic style for the 1990s. d) the new streamlining.

Q: Judy Chicagos The Dinner Party is a feminist art work that: a) utilizes so-called womens work and collaboration to pay homage to great women in human history. b) is based in traditional ceramic production. c) explored the artistic possibilities offered by traditional craft media and collaborative art processes. d) a & c

Q: Backs in Landscape is by an artist who helped transform the craft medium of fiber into a fine art. The artist is: a) Dale Chihuly. b) Clyde Connell. c) David Hammons. d) Magdalena Abakanowicz.

Q: The artist Andr Breton issued a manifesto (p. 505) that described the point of resolution between these two states, dream and reality. What was this movement? a) Dada b) Surrealism c) Modernish d) Suprematism

Q: The textile design by Anni Albers (fig. 434; p. 336) was inspired by which source? a) Franz Kafkas Metamorphosis b) Wolfgang von Goethes Metamorphosis of Plants c) the angularity of Bauhaus architecture d) a spontaneous arrangement of leaves she observed under a tree

Q: In what aspect of the twentieth century were Umberto Boccioni and other Futurist artists (p. 502) most interested? a) photographic innovations b) movement and speed c) absolute rule d) acrylic paints

Q: This artist created a functional salt cellar of gold and enamel depicting the gods Neptune and Tellus: a) Benvenuto Cellini. b) the Oxus artist. c) Susan Ewing. d) Antoni Gaudi.

Q: The two major art movements of the 1960s (pp. 512-513) were: a) Pop Art and Fauvism. b) Expressionism and Combine Painting. c) Minimalism and Pop Art. d) Futurism and Op Art.

Q: The Bent-Corner Chest is carved from cedar, a wood that is native to which region and favored by Native American artists there? a) the Northwest American coast b) the American Midwest c) the Northeast d) the Southwest

Q: What is yellows complementary color? a) blue b) red c) orange d) violet

Q: Which of these is an example of Dada art? a) Georges Braques Violin and Palette b) Henri Matisses The Green Stripe c) Marcel Duchamps The Fountain d) Salvador Dalis The Persistence of Memory e) Willem de Koonings Woman and Bicycle

Q: Which of these paintings is considered an Abstract Expressionist painting? a) Georges Braques Violin and Palette b) Henri Matisses The Green Stripe c) Marcel Duchamps The Fountain d) Salvador Dalis The Persistence of Memory e) Willem de Koonings Woman and Bicycle

Q: The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali illustrates how he looked to his subconscious (dreams, hypnosis, psychoanalysis) for his subject matter. What artistic movement is he associated with? a) Surrealism b) American Regionalism c) Pop Art d) Abstract Expressionism e) Impressionism

Q: The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of which movement? a) Dada b) Futurism c) Surrealism d) Abstract Expressionist

Q: Chri Sambas Problme deau. O trouver Ieau? is an ironic comment on: a) sending Buddhist monks into space. b) the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars, while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa. c) the Cuban missile crisis. d) all of the above e) none of the above

Q: The background mountains in DaVincis Madonna of the Rocks provide a perfect example of ___________. a) linear perspective b) stacked perspective c) hieratic perspective d) atmospheric perspective

Q: The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse (p. 500) is: a) Postmodernism. b) Dada. c) Cubism. d) Fauvism.

Q: By the late fourteenth century, the African kingdom of Benin had developed tremendous refinement (p. 298) in the art of: a) wood carving. b) iron casting. c) brass casting. d) stone carving.

Q: Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality, Marcel Duchamps Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies the _______ movement. a) Futurist b) Surrealist c) Dada d) Automatic

Q: In the history of art, the association of good with light and evil with dark was first fully-developed by ________. a) Leonardo DaVinci b) Michelangelo c) Artemesia Gentileschi d) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Q: Pablo Picassos Guernica represents an event in the: a) Spanish Civil War. b) American Civil War. c) Korean War. d) Vietnam War.

Q: In the 1660s, who discovered that color is a direct function of light by passing sunlight through a prism and observing the bands of spectrum of colors? a) Rembrandt van Rijn b) Isaac Newton c) Gianlorenzo Bernini d) Jacob van Ruisdael

Q: Using her work to struggle with the question of identity, this photographers images are self-portraits. a) Barbara Kruger b) Cindy Sherman c) Anne Truitt d) Frida Kahlo

Q: Would you consider Jane Hammonds Fallen to be an overall warm or cool composition? a) warm b) cool c) both d) neither

Q: Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting? a) Georges Braques Violin and Palette b) Henri Matisses The Green Stripe c) Marcel Duchamps The Fountain d) Salvador Dalis The Persistence of Memory e) Willem de Koonings Woman and Bicycle

Q: Jane Hammonds Fallen is made of many pieces, sewn together as a whole. What is it made of? a) fallen autumn leaves b) cut-out paintings of leaves c) a digitally scanned and printed image of a leaf with the name of soldiers killed in the Iraq War inscribed on each d) fabric made to look like leaves

Q: Cubism can best be described as: a) work based in irony and absurdity, in reaction to the horrors of World War I. b) art that is about the process of painting. c) work that is based on the subconscious, non-rational self. d) work that attempts to depict objects/images from multiple perspectives simultaneously. e) work that seeks to capture a mood/moment and to depict the play of light across objects.

Q: A colors brightness or dullness (p. 107) is called: a) relative key. b) tint or shade. c) intensity or saturation. d) hue.

Q: The material most often associated with the process of casting is: a) clay. b) steel. c) wood. d) bronze.

Q: One of the complex aspects of wood carving (p. 291) that a sculptor must pay attention to is: a) the expense of the wood. b) the wood's additive qualities. c) wood grain. d) All of the above.

Q: Wassily Kandinskys Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of: a) German Expressionism. b) French Surrealism. c) Fauvism. d) Italian Futurism.

Q: On the color wheel, blues and greens (p. 109) are usually thought of as: a) opposite each other. b) complementary colors. c) intermediate colors. d) cool colors.

Q: DaVinci is largely responsible for formulating the rules of the effects of light and air in the landscape, called________________. a) linear perspective b) stacked perspective c) hieratic perspective d) atmospheric perspective

Q: Allan Kaprow created assemblages of events performed or perceived in more than one time and place. (p. 313) He called these: a) temporal phenomena. b) multiplicitous situations. c) happenings. d) None of the above.

Q: Greek figurative sculpture was greatly influenced by Egyptian sculpture (p. 292). What did the Greeks add? a) greater skill b) the representation of garments c) naturalism d) authenticity

Q: On Newtons color wheel, colors that lie directly between a secondary and primary (p. 107) are called: a) intermediate colors. b) complementary colors. c) secondary colors. d) primary colors.

Q: Pliable clay is made to hold its form permanently (p. 296) through the process of: a) subjecting it to high pressure. b) casting it in bronze. c) firing it. d) soaking it.

Q: The range of colors that an artist has preferred to use in a work is referred to as the: a) composition. b) style. c) palette. d) spectrum.

Q: A sculptural space that you can actually enter (p. 290) is referred to as: a) an environment. b) a tableau. c) an earthwork. d) None of the above.

Q: Artists sometimes choose to paint objects using colors that are not true to their optical or local colors (p. 117). This is an example of the expressive use of: a) arbitrary color. b) artistic color. c) secondary color. d) oblique color.

Q: How does assemblage primarily differ from other sculptural processes? a) it is more dynamic b) it is an older process c) it utilizes found objects d) it utilizes the lost-wax technique

Q: Which of these elements helps to create space in art? a) perspective b) light c) color d) all of the above

Q: The sculptural material most commonly associated with modeling or additive processes is: a) metal. b) clay. c) wood. d) found objects.

Q: What is the chosen medium of the sculptor Dan Flavin? a) oil paint b) human ashes c) fluorescent lighting d) dirt

Q: How is performance art different from traditional sculpture? a) the artist often uses his/her own body in the execution of the piece b) there is typically no object to be bought or sold c) it utilizes aspects of theater, dance, and music d) All of the above.

Q: The artist who painted Houses at LEstaque worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism. The artists name is: a) Henri Matisse. b) Wassily Kandinsky. c) Georges Braque. d) Marcel Duchamp.

Q: What is the primary subject matter of sculptor Dan Flavin? a) light and color b) stories from the bible c) surrealistic landscapes d) nude figures

Q: What is the story behind Gericaults Taft of the Medusa? a) The Medusa sunk off the coast of Africa due to the captains incompetence and its poor survivors were adrift for days (most of them dying) while the captain and crew saved themselves. b) The captain of the ship threw slaves overboard to collect insurance on them. c) It is a metaphor for the growing French Revolution. d) It depicts a group of explorers finally sighting land.

Q: With atmospheric perspective, objects further from the viewer appear ____________. a) warmer and more detailed b) cooler and less distinct c) warmer and less distinct d) cooler and more detailed

Q: The Greek Kouros (p. 292) illustrates the idea of shifting or counter positioning weight around the axis of the spine in figurative sculpture. This pose is called: a) chiaroscuro. b) perspective. c) contrapposto. d) pose tolerance.

Q: What is the subject matter of most Impressionist painting? a) Portraits of wealthy patrons b) Rural landscapes c) Light itself, the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape d) Depictions of the working class in everyday situations

Q: Nikolai Buglajs Raceing Sideways is a commentary on the Western convention of_________. a) associating blackness with negative qualities b) associating whiteness with positive qualities c) associating blackness with positive qualities d) a & b

Q: Auguste Rodins The Burghers of Calais (p. 300) is a remarkable example of which type of sculpture? a) in-the-round b) bas-relief c) assemblage d) All of the above.

Q: Romanticist artists, like Frederic Edwin Church, viewed nature as: a) wild and forbidding. b) a literal sign for the divine spirit. c) a place for human industry. d) a sign for the savagery and wildness of the native people who lived there.

Q: By the 19th century, the type of perspective used in paintings such as J. M. W. Turners Rain, Steam, and SpeedThe Great Western Railway (p. 96) had come to dominate the thinking of landscape painters. What type is it? a) luminous perspective b) aerial or atmospheric perspective c) two-point linear perspective d) axonometric projection

Q: Part of the large-scale outdoor environments that occurred in the 1960s, works such as Nancy Holts Sun Tunnels (p. 312) are generally referred to as: a) assemblages. b) earthworks. c) constructions. d) new image art.

Q: The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes? a) Western culture helped other cultures realize the uniqueness and value of their own traditions. b) Western culture allowed for other cultures to comfortably evolve according to their own ideas and values. c) Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures. d) all of the above

Q: Michelangelos Head of a Satyr (p. 100) shows the use of: a) linear perspective. b) cross-hatching. c) axonometric projection. d) achromatism.

Q: Figure of a Woman by Paul Colin probably derives from his____________. a) association with Josephine Baker and La Revue Negre b) time spent traveling while in the Navy c) studies at LEcole des Beaux Arts in Paris d) travels in the southern United States

Q: In Sky Cathedral (p. 303) the artist Louise Nevelson has combined found materials to create a sculpture. What is this process called? a) eclectic borrowing b) relief sculpture c) assemblage d) trompe loeil

Q: Great Serpent Mound from the Hopewell culture of North America is an example of ____________, which has a long and far-reaching history. a) installation art b) earthworks c) ritual architecture d) contemporary art

Q: The author describes Chuck Closes painting Stanley (p. 119) as: a) layered pointillism. b) lusterless and murky. c) polychromism as its best. d) All of the above.