AcDec Test Art Easy (25/26)

Which ancient historian is known for analyzing art in his work Natural History?

Pliny the Elder

What is the primary construction method used in the outer ring of Stonehenge?

post and lintel

Which culture is known for creating naturalistic frescoes and unfortified palaces

Minoan

Which artist is credited with creating the first freestanding nude statue since the antiquity?

Donatello

What was Gianlorenzo Bernini’s MOST important masterpiece?

The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa

What is a characteristic of Rococo art?

light-hearted

Which art movement was focused on portraying the inner workings of the mind?

Surrealism

What mediums are commonly used in drawing?

pencil, pen and ink, charcoal, and pastels

What art form is associated with the creation of quilts?

fiber arts

What painting medium is characterized by the use of egg as a binder

tempera

The Martinezes were best-known for their

black-on-black ware

The figures in Couple, Harlem are posing in

the street

Guy Pene du Bois was born in the state of

New York

The twentieth-century movement of many African Americans from the rural south to cities in the north was known as the

Great Migration

Early photographers who used a soft focus to create dream narratives were known as

Pictorialists

Let My People Go was created in the

1930s

An America work of art crafted by an artist who lacks formal training is most often called

folk art

Ford hired Charles Sheeler as part of their public relations campaign against their rival

General Motors

In 1922, Howard Carter opened the tomb of

Tutankhamun

Alfred Stieglitz owned the New York gallery called

291

The Surrealists called writing or drawing without any preconceived plan

automatism

The Chrysler Building is in the style called

Art Deco

Imogen Cunningham was associated with photographers who exhibited under the name

f/64

Tina Modotti was born in

Italy

Maria and Julian Martinez lived in

New Mexico

After the Civil War, what restricted African Americans’ geographical mobility, voting rights, educational opportunities, and access to public spaces?

Jim Crow laws

Meta Warrick Fuller studied in Paris with

Rodin

James Van Der Zee first pursued a career as a

musician

The Art Deco style is known for nested V-shapes known as

chevrons

Women’s suffrage in America was guaranteed in the

Nineteenth Amendment

What U.S. president said, “The man who builds a factory builds a temple.”?

Calvin Coolidge

New York’s 1913 exhibition of international modern art was nicknamed the

Armory Show

What artist featured in the Art Resource Guide worked as a propagandist for a Soviet embassy?

Tina Modotti

The Lawrence Tree was created in the state of

New Mexico

Aaron Douglas’ color palette in Let My People Go features tones of mustard yellow and

violet-purple

In what year did the stock market crash?

1929

At what university did Aaron Douglas teach at from 1940 to 1966?

Fisk

The primary material of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Los Angeles house was

concrete

What does the figure in Ethiopia Awakening wear on her head?

a linen headdress

Where did Florine Stettheimer live after 1914

New York

Whose paintings were called the “epitome of the transatlantic chic”?

Murphy

What artist was hired to illustrate World War II wartime materials by the Department of Defense propaganda office?

Kuniyoshi

In what movie did Charlie Chaplin get sucked into the cogs of a machine

Modern Times

The appearance of the Woman on Sofa may have been based on a character in a short story by which author?

F. Scott Fitzgerald

What artist felt that photographers need “the hand of the skilled mechanic, the eye of an artist, and the brains of a scientist”?

Imogen Cunningham

What artist called his works improvisations

Kandinsky

What adjective BEST describes the appearance of the boy’s head in Boy Stealing Fruit?

bulbous

How many houses did Frank Lloyd Wright design in Southern California in the 1920s?

four

During the early 1920s, the legendary Cotton Club

did not allow any black audiences

What are 4 American artists mentioned by the Art Resource Guide took influence from Asian art composition and elements?

La Farge, Chase, Hassam, and Whistler