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Q:
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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Mummy Portrait of a Man was created using _______, a combination of pigment and hot wax.
a) tempera
b) fresco
c) encaustic
d) gouache
Q:
Muslim architecture, like the Mosque at Crdoba, uses ____________to create a strong visual impression.
a) light through stained-glass
b) soaring interior spaces lit by high clerestory windows
c) repetition and rhythm
d) proportions based on the golden section
Q:
Historically, why do many people receive new and innovative work with reservation?
a) They are ill informed.
b) They have little context in which to view the work.
c) The work rarely sells to patrons.
d) They prefer representational art.
Q:
With the technique of fresco secco, as illustrated in the Ajanta Buddhist caves, the artist:
a) applies the paint into fresh plaster making the painting very durable.
b) applies the paint on top of a dried ground, making it easier for the artist to get a high degree of detail.
c) applies the paint onto a canvas support.
d) paints onto a ceramic vessel before it is fired.
Q:
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.
Q:
How is Maya Ying Lins Vietnam Memorial (p. 46) similar to works by Edouard Manet and Marcel Duchamp?
a) similar subject matter
b) avoidance of color
c) similar types of form
d) All were initially misunderstood by the public.
Q:
The Bodhisattva painting (p. 224), painted with the technique of fresco secco, which is often very fragile, is remarkable because:
a) it is so well-preserved since it was painted in such a dry environment.
b) it is hard to achieve this kind of detail with fresco secco.
c) it was painted in Europe and Buddhism was not popular in Europe at this time.
d) depicts the Bodhisattva with such an unusual hand gesture.
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Multiple Choice Questions
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Maya Ying Lins Memorial in Washington, D.C.:
a) was controversial at first because of its non-traditional style.
b) commemorates those who died during World War II.
c) honors soldiers who died during the war in the Persian Gulf.
d) is located in Beijing.
Q:
Built by Justinian in the first half of the sixth century, what church was probably conceived as a political and religious statement?
a) St. Apollinaire.
b) Santa Costanza.
c) San Vitale.
d) Hagia Sophia.
Q:
At the center of a scandal of the famous Armory Show of 1913 was Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp. The show was held in:
a) Paris.
b) Philadelphia.
c) New York.
d) London.
Q:
The medium for Theodora and her Attendants is:
a) fresco.
b) encaustic.
c) tempera.
d) mosaic.
Q:
Considered a masterpiece of Renaissance art, Michelangelos David came under attack upon first viewing due to its:
a) political symbolism.
b) religious symbolism.
c) irregular proportions.
d) subject matter.
Q:
Designed to capture the rhythms of the cosmos, Kandariya Mahadeva remains a:
a) major Hindu temple.
b) shrine to Buddha.
c) shrine to Shiva.
d) All of the above.
Q:
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
Q:
What is the church whose name means Holy Wisdom?
a) Hagia Sophia
b) Compostela
c) PisaCordoba
d) Pisano Vedas
Q:
What material did Sakarin Krue-On use in making Since 1958 (fig. 56, p. 51)?
a) oil paint
b) wood
c) bronze
d) human hair
Q:
The Hinged clasp from the Sutton Hoo burial ship illustrates a distinguishing characteristic of the art of migrating peoples of the Middle Ages, most notably the:
a) focus on religious subject matter.
b) animal style.
c) use of metal.
d) craft tradition.
Q:
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
Q:
In printmaking, what is an edition?
a) it is the substance that holds the medium together
b) the amount of pigment that is used in a print
c) the number of impressions authorized by the artists made from a single master image
d) all of the above
Q:
Minamoto no Yoritomo produced during the Kamakura period shows a Japanese ______.
a) kami
b) samurai
c) Shiva
d) All of the above
Q:
What is the chief advantage of printmaking over other media?
a) it is a quick, accessible process
b) it lends itself to expressive mark-making
c) the artist can make multiple copies of a single image
d) it dries quickly
Q:
Guillermo Gmez-Peas The Temple of Confessions (p. 53) could be defined as ______ art.
a) apolitical
b) academic and traditional
c) abstract
d) performance and installation
Q:
What was the earliest printmaking technique used in the West?
a) woodcut
b) silkscreen
c) lithography
d) monotype
Q:
The Emperor Justinian, from 532-37 C.E., used 10,000 workers and spent 132,000,000 lbs. of gold (almost bankrupting the Byzantine Empire) to build this structure that was later converted to a mosque in Constantinople.
a) Florence Cathedral
b) Pantheon
c) Taj Majal
d) Hagia Sophia
Q:
In 1863, Edouard Manets Djeuner sur lherbe was rejected by the public due to:
a) its depiction of a picnic.
b) the representation of a woman bathing in the background.
c) its modernity.
d) its size.
Q:
According to the National Endowment for the Arts what activist role should artists take?
a) They should educate the public about the value of art.
b) They should create art with a political agenda.
c) They should always break with past traditions.
d) They should incite people to vote for art in public spaces.
Q:
The Great Stupa at Sanchi, India is a typical Buddhist structure. What purpose do they serve? a) they serve as Buddhist temples b) they house some of the ashes of the cremated Buddha and serve as devotional sites c) they are residences for Buddhist monks d) they are tombs for Indian royalty
Q:
The habitual or expected ways (of seeing, for instance) of a given culture are called _______.
Q:
What printmaking technique was used in The Nuremberg Chronicle?
a) silkscreen
b) intaglio
c) woodcut
d) monotype
Q:
What is the chief form of art in Islamic cultures?
Q:
When was the The Nuremberg Chronicle printed and what is its subject matter?
a) in the 1st century CE and it is a history of the world to that point
b) in the 15th century and it is a history of the world to that point
c) in the 18th century and it is a travelogue
d) in the 5th century CE and it is an imaginative story of the beginning of civilization
Q:
What aspect of ancient Australian ideology did Erna Motna include in his painting, Bushfire and Corroboree Dreaming?
Q:
Which of these was normal subject matter and ukiyo-e or nishiki-e prints?
a) the animal world
b) women engaged in everyday activities
c) Samurai warriors
d) bustling city life
Q:
Describe the content of Erna Motnas Bushfire and Corroboree Dreaming.
Q:
What is the main advantage of linocut over woodcut printmaking?
a) it allows the artist to make more realistic images
b) it dries quicker
c) it is less toxic
d) it is easier to cut into linoleum instead of wood
Q:
Silkscreen printing, previously used in commercial packaging, was first used as an art medium___________________.
a) in the 15th century in Italy
b) in the mid-20th century in Japan
c) in the mid-20th century in the United States
d) in the late 19th century in France
Q:
Discuss the disadvantages of judging artworks according to our own cultural standards.
Q:
The capitol of the Roman Empire moved in the 4th century, splitting the empire in two. What was the name of the new capital (before it was renamed) and who moved it?
a) Byzantium; Constantine
b) Rome; Hadrian
c) Paris; Louis XIV
d) Byzantium; Justinian
Q:
Lithography was almost dead as an art medium in the 1960s, until this person almost single-handedly saved it.
a) Robert Rauschenberg
b) Jasper Johns
c) June Wayne
d) Elaine de Kooning
Q:
What is the content of Malevichs painting, Black Rectangle, Blue Triangle?
Q:
Using Ren Magrittes Treason of Images, discuss how representational paintings can be more abstract than abstract paintings.
Q:
When and where was printmaking first developed?
a) in the 5th century BCE in Athens
b) in the 15th century in Europe
c) in the 9th century in China
d) in the 18th century in the U.S.
Q:
The earliest known civilization in India, contemporary with the great civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt, is often called the __________civilization.
a) Aryan
b) Shang
c) Harappan
d) Sumerian
Q:
In Jan van Eycks Arnolfini wedding portrait, the dog symbolizes _______.
Q:
The Diamond Sutra is remarkable because________.
a) it represents the Buddha in human form for the first time
b) it is the frontispiece for the earliest known printed book
c) there are still several hundred that still exist
d) it was printed in Europe at a time when Christianity was the dominant religion
Q:
Which of these statements best describes Sesshu Toyos Haboku Landscape for Soen?
a) the seemingly abstract marks, when taken as a whole, describe a landscape
b) it is a fairly typical Zen Buddhist painting that represents Sesshus feelings in addition to being representational
c) it is a haboku (broken ink) painting that appears highly intuitive
d) all of the above
e) none of the above
Q:
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.
Q:
Known for his role in the Pop art movement, Andy Warhol created many artworks using which commercial process (p. 216)?
a) encaustic
b) silkscreen
c) monotype
d) lithography
Q:
When was Rome founded and by whom?
a) in 313 C.E. by Constantine
b) in 753 B.C.E. by Romulus and Remus
c) in 338 B.C.E. by Alexander the Great
d) in 20 B.C.E. by Augustus
Q:
The stele inscribed with the Law Code of Hammurabi (p. 412) was created by which Mesopotamian culture?
a) Hittite
b) Assyria
c) Babylon
d) Sumer
Q:
Define subject matter.
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When works of art like Kasimir Malevichs Suprematist painting, Black Rectangle, Blue Triangle, show no reference to the concrete world, it is usually called:
a) communistic
c) abstract
c) non-objective
d) stylized
e) simplistic
Q:
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.
Q:
A _________ is an example of relief printmaking (p. 195).
a) woodcut
b) mezzotint
c) silkscreen
d) burin
Q:
What was the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaton famous for?
a) having the Pyramids at Giza built
b) continuing the traditional Egyptian style in sculpture
c) changing the traditional Egyptian religion and art for the only time during a 3000 year time period
d) a & b
Q:
The Palette of King Narmer is historically important:
a) because it depicts an Assyrian king hunting.
b) because it is the first written record in Ancient Mesopotamia.
c) it mixes depictions of gods with historical figures.
d) it probably represents the first unification of Upper and Lower Egypt and the shift from the prehistoric to historic in Egypt.
Q:
What is the content of Jean-Michel Basiquiats painting Charles the First?
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What is the CONTENT of Albert Bierstadts Rocky Mountains?
a) It is a sublime representation of the mountain range that can be seen to encompass the spirit and character of the American West
b) It is an imaginative interpretation of the landscape of the American East
c) It combines a representational depiction of a mountain meadow with a lake, waterfall, and Native American encampment with a barely disguised rendering of the Matterhorn in the distance
d) a & b
e) a & c
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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.
Q:
________ is the process that assures that the colors of a linocut or other relief print will align perfectly.
a) Editioning
b) Intaglio
c) Proofing
d) Registration
Q:
Architecture and art of the RomanRepublic was heavily influenced by the building styles of_______________.
a) Etruscan temples
b) Egyptian pyramids
c) Greek temples
d) a & c
Q:
How was sculpture from the reign of Akhenaton in Egypt different from previous and subsequent sculpture?
a) it was more abstract, bordering on non-objective
b) it was more naturalistic and informal, sometimes depicting the royal family in intimate situations
c) it was much more colorful
d) it was modeled clay instead of carved stone
Q:
What term is used when someone imposes his or her own meanings and prejudices onto the art of another culture?
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The representation of _______ has consistently aroused controversy throughout the history of the Western world. a) the human figure b) the Christian god c) political leaders d) Roman ideals
Q:
Because in lithography the printing surface is completely flat (p. 211), it is referred to as a ________ printmaking process.
a) planographic
b) intaglio
c) negative
d) positive
Q:
Classical Greek sculpture can best be described as:
a) writhing: chaotic figurative art that reflected an uneasy time.
b) calm: relaxed poses that sought to depict ideal form.
c) rigid: frontal art that was used as a receptacle for the ka.
d) iconic: representing the history of Christianity
Q:
What is the relationship between form and content?
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Monotype is unique among printmaking processes because it produces (p. 218):
a) an image from a negative plate.
b) an image from a positive plate.
c) only one print from the plate.
d) an edition of prints from a single plate.
Q:
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.
Q:
What subject matter is the artist Lorna Simpson most noted for?
Q:
The word Neolithic (p. 409) means:
a) Old Stone Age.
b) New Stone Age.
c) Middle Stone Age.
d) Nomadic.
Q:
Jan van Eycks The Marriage Of Giovanni Arnolfini depicts many objects that, many used to think, have symbolic meaning. The study of these symbols is called:
a) aesthetics
b) content
c) form
d) iconography
e) none of the above
Q:
Peter Halleys Exploding Cell is an example of ____________printmaking, which was pioneered by Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol.
a) woodcut
b) intaglio
c) lithography
d) silkscreen
Q:
Egyptian culture was dedicated to providing a home for the _______, which required that Egyptian artisans decorate tombs with paintings to be enjoyed after death (p. 413).
a) ka
b) papyri
c) stele
d) emperor
Q:
What is the subject matter of Shirin Neshats Rebellious Silence?
a) the prominent place of women within every aspect of Iranian culture
b) it is difficult to say from a Western perspective, because of lack of understanding of language and culture, but it is probably feminist in nature
c) it reflects the artists comfort with the roles of women in Iranian society
d) it depicts a Muslim woman in a black chador, a rifle dividing, and Farsi text inscribed over her face
e) all of the above
Q:
June Waynes Knockout can be interpreted _____________.
a) primarily as a formalist exercise
b) as a feminist artwork whose content references male violence and genetics
c) as a play on popular images and processes
d) as a play upon ideas of good and evil
Q:
Neolithic culture developed quickly in the worlds fertile valleys (p. 413). By 4000 bce, urban societies had developed in:
a) Egypt and Mesopotamia.
b) China and India.
c) China and Japan.
d) Egypt and China.
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What does Erna Motnas Bushfire and Corroboree Dreaming depict?
a) a highly representational landscape
b) nothing, it is completely non-objective
c) a highly abstract landscape
d) a representational figure
e) a highly abstract figure