Q&A Hero

Q: It is thought that the sloping sides of the pyramids in Egypt were intended to mimic: a) the sands of the Sahara. b) the rays of the sun. c) the orb of Isis. d) the eyes of Akhenhaten.

Q: The Taj Mahal is a perfect example of ____________in art/architecture. a) actual texture b) assymetrical balance c) symmetry d) radial balance

Q: The Pont du Gard, in Nmes, France, is an excellent example of a(n) _______ method of construction. a) load-bearing b) skeleton-and-skin c) balloon frame d) arch

Q: Where is the focal point in the Baroque painting, Joseph the Carpenter by Georges de La Tour? a) In the childs (Jesus) face b) Josephs left foot c) Josephs right hand d) the upper-left part of the composition

Q: Notre Dame Cathedral, in Paris, is an example of _______ architecture. a) Gothic b) Romanesque c) basilica d) post-and-lintel

Q: Which of these pieces best illustrates the use of variety over unity? a) Laylah Alis Untitled b) Louise Lawlers Pollock and Tureen c) James Lavadours The Seven Valleys and the Five Valleys d) August Rodins The Three Shades

Q: When and where was porcelain developed? a) in 15th century Italy b) in 20th century America c) during the Tang Dynasty in China d) in 12th century Japan

Q: Thick paint applied to a canvas, like on Robert Rymans Long, creates actual texture known as _______. a) glazing b) impasto c) pattern d) frottage

Q: We can trace the earliest distinction between the crafts and fine arts to: a) the classical period in Greece and the seemingly playful rivalries between competing makers of amphoras. b) Joseph Wedgwood, who in 1759 began manufacturing both cheap earthenware table settings and elegant hand-made luxury items. c) Japanese anagama-fired tea bowls made in the early 17th century. d) Egyptian pottery produced over 4000 years ago.

Q: The Kente cloths of the Asante and Ewe societies of Ghana provide a perfect example of which art element? a) time and motion b) visual texture c) pattern d) atmospheric perspective

Q: Stained glass was first developed: a) in the 15th century by Leonardo DaVinci. b) in the 20th century by Piet Mondrian. c) in the 12th century, commissioned by Abbot Suger for Saint-Denis. d) in the 19th century by Edgar Degas.

Q: Which is the most obvious difference between Bernini and Michelangelos David? a) Michelangelos is a much better piece of art b) Berninis David is caught in the midst of action, coiled and ready to launch his stone c) they are carved from different materials d) Michelangelos has much more action

Q: In what way can a large-scale work be considered a temporal art form? a) it takes time to make it b) the spectator moves through time and space to view it c) it endures time d) it is not temporal

Q: Another word for a wood-firing kiln, which was a traditional Japanese invention and first used in the U.S. in 1976, is __________. a) ukiyo-e b) anagama c) alla prima d) oingo boingo

Q: Alexander Calders mobiles, like Untitled (p. 123), move when air currents move through them, making them _____________. a) patterned b) abstract c) kinetic d) optical illusions

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: Early manuscripts such as the Lindisfarne Gospels (p. 128) were said to be ______ because they were elaborately illustrated and decorated. a) reflective of the power of the church b) exhibiting beautiful human figurative drawing skills c) an early example of aerial perspective d) illuminated

Q: Objects formed out of clay and then hardened by firing (p. 322) are referred to as: a) Wedgwood. b) export porcelain. c) amphoras. d) ceramics.

Q: A friend of Claude Monet described his great paintings of Water Lilies, Morning: Willows in the Muse de lOrangerie (pp. 132-133) as demonstrating _______ motion. a) Brownian b) kinetic c) mechanized d) religious

Q: Native Americans used a traditional method for producing pots (p. 323) that did not involve the potters wheel. What was it? a) slab construction b) subtractive modeling c) coil building d) cire-perdue

Q: Hans Namuths photos (p. 134-135) teach us that Jackson Pollock longed to be involved in: a) the poetry of Robert Frost. b) impressionist masterpieces. c) the process of painting. d) the mechanized world.

Q: All fiber arts evolved from one traditional process (p. 332) called: a) weaving. b) tapestry. c) embroidery. d) None of the above.

Q: Because of its application to crafts, folk art, and womens work, _______ is associated with the beautifying of utilitarian objects. a) femmage b) frottage c) decorative pattern d) temporal art

Q: Originally, when an artist worked in the crafts (p. 321), it meant that they: a) worked in bronze. b) created production pieces in a factory. c) worked in clay exclusively. d) produced functional objects.

Q: Some works of art are created precisely to give us the illusion or sensation of movement. This style of art is called: a) Dada. b) Op Art. c) animal style. d) decorative art.

Q: Artists often find that the art they make has unintentional meaning. Georgia Papageorges Africa Rifting: Lines of Fire: Namibia/Brazil is an example of this because: a) a war started in Brazil on one of their filming days. b) the color of the banners was different than what she expected. c) one of their principal days of filming was 9/11/2001 and the banners came to signify the rifts separating humanity on a global scale. d) all of the above e) none of the above

Q: Most ceramic objects are created (p. 322) by one of three methods: a) additive, subtractive, and assemblage. b) slab construction, coiling, and throwing. c) firing, casting, and fusing. d) None of the above.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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