Art History Flashcards: Section 1 Exam Review for Academic Decathlon

When philosophers of different kinds ponder

questions about beauty in the world, they are

engaging in...

Aesthetics

3 multiple choice options

The ancient Roman author Pliny the Elder

included studies of art in his work as...

a historian

Johann Joachim Winckelmann focused on the

relationship between...

artistic styles and historical contexts

Chauvet Cave and its prehistoric paintings are

located in present-day...

France

The technical term for the crosspieces at

Stonehenge is...

lintels

Which civilization dominated the Near East from

900 to 600 BCE?

the Assyrians

Tutankhamun's Tomb is remarkable because it...

was discovered almost totally preserved

The influential contrapposto pose was a hallmark

of sculpture in...

ancient Greece

What is the simplest Greek column order?

Doric

The Venus de Milo is an artwork dedicated to

portraying ideal...

beauty

The content of MOST of the world's mosaic art is...

Christian

The Hagia Sophia is a marvel of architecture and

example of...

Byzantine art

The Coronation Gospels are medieval...

illuminated manuscripts

Giotto di Bondone is associated with the transition

from...

Gothic to Renaissance

Who created the first freestanding sculpture of a

nude human figure outside of the ancient period?

Donatello

Michelangelo's David is sculpted in...

marble

To whom does Raphael's The School of Athens pay

tribute?

ancient philosophers

Which of the following major artists has only ten

surviving works?

Matthias Grünewald

Who took an at-the-time radical step in painting

the Virgin Mary as impoverished, as opposed to in

the classical style?

Caravaggio

The most important Baroque artist Bernini's most

important work was...

The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa

Neoclassicism in art was connected to the politics

of...

democracy

Jean Dominique Ingres studied under...

Jacques Louis David

All of the following features characterize

Romantic paintings EXCEPT...

order

Gustave Courbet upended the art world by

painting...

laborers

Who painted Luncheon on the Grass?

Edouard Manet

Which element MOST characterizes Georges

Seurat's work?

dots

Henri Matisse was associated with a movement of

artists characterized as...

"wild beasts"

Expressionist painters sought to make visible on

the canvas the...

interior life of the mind

Who invented the genre of "ready-mades"?

Marcel Duchamp

The Bauhaus movement tried to make art out of

industrial manufacturing

Who invented "combines," artworks that used

found or throw-away materials?

Robert Rauschenberg

Minimalist painting was helped by the invention

of...

acrylic paint

The New York-based Guerilla Girls always...

dressed in traditionally male attire

China's Golden Age occurred during the...

Tang Dynasty

Which Hindu deity is often depicted dancing, with

multiple arms?

Shiva

Which country's artists were PRIMARILY

responsible for bringing Japanese art to western

audiences in the nineteenth century?

France

The Dan and the Bwa are known especially for the

art of their...

masks

All of the following civilizations were based in the

Americas EXCEPT the...

Qin

What kind of line creates a sense of tranquility?

horizontal

"Fully in the round" is another name for...

freestanding sculpture

When we give the name of a color, we are

describing its...

hue

The relativity of color was discovered in the...

nineteenth century

The organization of the elements of any work of

art is known as the work's...

composition

Both the Sistine Ceiling and Michelangelo's David

exhibit...

vast scale

Pastels first became a popular medium in the...

1700s

All of the following mediums are types of

printmaking EXCEPT...

encaustic

What material is used to create the illustration for

a lithograph?

wax

Thinned oil paint is referred to as...

sheen

Which of the following processes is subtractive?

carving

Who helped collage gain respect as a form of high

art?

Picasso and Braque