Full Art Appreciation Test

No society that we know of has lived without some form of art. The impulse to make and respond to art appears to be as deeply ingrained as the ability to

No society that we know of has lived without some form of art. The impulse to make and respond to art appears to be as deeply ingrained as the ability to

learn language.

Radiocarbon testing indicates that the earliest images made by humans date back to

the Paleolithic Period.

"All art is basically Paleolithic or Neolithic: either the urge to smear soot and grease on cave walls or pile stone on stone" was said by

Anthony Caro

The 10th-century copper sculpture illustrated in this chapter is the work of an artist performing the role of "giving tangible form to the unknown." The unknown, in this case, is the physical form of the deity

Shiva

Although Vincent van Gogh suffered emotionally throughout his life, he was able to give his emotions tangible form in works such as

The Starry Night

The sculptor Constantin Brancusi spent his life searching for forms that were

all of these: simple, pure, and timeless

According to the author, the most important meaning of an artwork is

what it means to the viewer.

Wheel of Fortune was created by

Audrey Flack

Theo van Gogh was Vincent van Gogh's

art dealer, brother, financial supporter, and emotional supporter (all correct)

Van Gogh's paintings are of high value because

All right: His work had a major influence on subsequent artists There are a limited number of his paintings He plays a large role in Western art history His paintings allow the viewer to feel with the artist himself

During the ________ the term "art" was used roughly in the same sense as "craft."

Middle Ages

The field of philosophy called aesthetics asks the question

All correct

Fisherman's Cottage on the Cliffs at Varengeville was painted by

Claude Monet

What term describes work done by nonprofessionals?

folk art, outsider art, intuitive art

To discover why the sculptor of the Amida Nyorai depicted the subject with elongated earlobes, specific hand gestures, and a bun atop his head requires the use of

iconography

The term style is used to categorize a work of art by its

visual characteristics

Our modern ideas about art carry with them ideas about

the artist and the audience

During the 18th century, beauty and art were discussed together because both

were felt to provide pleasure

________ is the name for a standard subject in Christian art, that of Mary, the mother of Jesus, holding her son after he was taken down from the cross.

Pietà

If a work of art is faithful to our visual experience, its style is

naturalistic

When discussing the size, shape, material, color, and composition of a work of art, we are discussing its

form

During the Renaissance in Western Europe, ________ came to be regarded as the more elevated of the arts.

painting, sculpture, and architecture

After much study of the Arnolfini Double Portrait, experts agree that

they still debate the work's iconography

Context is a factor of ties that bind a work of art to the

All these answers are correct

Ann Hamilton's Mantle is an example of

installation

Andy Warhol's images created from celebrities are portrayed through mass produced:

multiple silkscreen images

Which statement is NOT true regarding James Hamilton's Throne of the Third Heaven... body of work?

The artist intended the work to be viewed by everyone as a message of redemption.

Representational art with an approach to naturalism covers:

All of these answers are correct

According to the author,

a work of art may fall into more than one theme

Which of the following was designed as a place of worship or meditation?

all of these: Sainte-Chapelle, the Great Mosque at Córdoba, and the Buddhas in Bamiyan, Afghanistan

Cimabue's Madonna Enthroned and Rathnasambhava, the Transcendent Buddha of the South are similar in all these ways EXCEPT

they share the same iconography.

Whereas the Christian image by Cimabue depicts the central figure surrounded by angels, the Buddhist image in this chapter shows the central figure surrounded by

bodhisattvas

The pyramids at Giza in Egypt were built as

tombs

The subject matter of Edward Hopper's Gas

depict aspects of everyday life.

________ is the best-known work of the bizarrely inventive Hieronymus Bosch.

The Garden of Earthly Delights

The ________ often created equestrian statues of their emperors.

Romans

Pablo Picasso painted Guernica in 1937 for

the Spanish Pavilion of the Paris World's Fair.

Christian Boltanski draws upon the _______ to create his work _______.

Holocaust; Altar to the Chases High School

Nineteenth-century American painters employed the American landscape as a subject. One such artist was Thomas Cole who focused on an area of the Connecticut River to create

The Oxbow.

Which of the visual elements can best be described as "the path of a moving point"?

line

During the 20th century, which of the following became a recognized element of art?

motion

Lines are used in art to indicate

All above: boundaries between forms, direction and motion, shadows and highlights, spatial depth on flat surfaces.

In art, shapes that suggest forms found in nature are called ________ shapes.

organic

Raphael's The Madonna of the Meadows is composed using the implied shape of a

triangle

The 18th-century Indian painting of Maharana Amar Singh and others watching musicians and acrobats utilizes the two most basic visual cues for implying depth on a flat surface. They are

position and overlap

A black-and-white photograph of a scene eliminates the hues and intensities of the scene's colors, but captures the ________ of the colors.

values

In drawing, the outer boundaries of two-dimensional forms are defined by _, while the outer boundaries perceived among three-dimensional forms are defined by _.

outlines; contour lines

In painting and drawing, artists often use the technique of ________ to describe the way shadows and light define the mass of forms.

chiaroscuro

Charles White's Untitled illustrates the technique of

hatching

Which artist uses light itself as the main material and whose work increases our awareness of light as a presence in the world?

James Turrell

In the additive process of color mixing, red light, green light, and blue light combine to produce ________ light.

white

Mixing two primary colors produces a ________ color.

secondary

"Passive pink" refers to the color that

seemed to calm and relax violent children in studies of color's effects upon the mind and body.

A necessary feature of pattern is

repetition

The vanishing point in Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper is

all of these: at the exact center of the picture, just behind the head of the figure of Jesus, and on the horizon line.

One common issue facing those who work to conserve works of art is

All correct: the effect of light, the work of earlier restorers, changing levels of heat and humidity, pollution

In Albrecht Dürer's woodcut The Draftsman Drawing a Reclining Nude, the draftsman is using a device to help him achieve the effect of

foreshortening

The use of atmospheric perspective is a prominent aspect of which work?

The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak by Albert Bierstadt

Artists can portray _________ textures that are created to look like something other than a flat painted surface.

visual

In a two-dimensional work with asymmetrical balance, the appearance of balance is achieved by:

distributing visual weight accordingly

Rather than depend solely upon visual unity, an artist will sometimes create ________ unity by unifying the ideas in a work of art.

conceptual

In a two-dimensional work of art that is balanced symmetrically, the implied center of gravity is:

along the vertical axis down the center of the composition.

The Thirteen-Diety Jnanadakini Mandala uses ________ to suggest that there is a hidden order to the universe.

symmetry

Annette Messager's Mes Voeux and Joseph Cornell's The Hotel Eden both demonstrate the use of:

conceptual unity.

The ancient Egyptians developed a standard set of proportions used to create images of the "correct" or "perfect" human, as have many cultures both ancient and modern. This set of proportions was created using:

a squared grid.

Georgia O'Keeffe's painting Deer's Skull with Pedernal is a prime example of:

symmetrical balance.

Pablo Picasso's Girl Before a Mirror explores the traditional theme of:

vanitas.

Symmetrical balance, as used by Georgia O'Keeffe, expresses:

order and authority.

Another term for asymmetrical balance is:

informal balance.

In art, the design principle of balance functions to:

All correct: encourage our active participation in a work, help communicate a work's moods, lead our eyes around a work, help communicate a work's meanings,

Henry Ossawa Tanner's The Banjo Lesson creates emphasis through:

All correct: size and placement of the figures, directional lines of sight leading to a focal point, contrasting values of dark skin against a pale background, elimination of detail and bright colors in the background

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen created shock value through use of:

scale

Which work of art uses hierarchical scale?

a royal altar to the hand

The ancient Roman architect Vitruvius associated the perfected male form with the perfect geometry of:

the circle and square.

The use of scale to indicate relative importance is known as ________ scale.

hierarchical

The architect Le Corbusier designed the Modulor, a tool he used for calculating human proportions, based upon:

the golden section

Paul Klee's Landscape with Yellow Birds and Kaiho Yusho's Fish Nets Drying in the Sun share a strong use of:

rhythm

Artists will often add ________ to provide interest and enliven the unity of a work of art.

variety

Edouard Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère invites us to consider points of view in its subject and composition. Interpretations of this painting include ________ approaches.

All are correct: formalist, Marxist, feminist, psychoanalytic

Edgar Degas drew a grid over his study of a dancer in order to

make the drawing easier to copy.

The predecessor of the graphite pencil, especially popular during the Renaissance, is

metalpoint

Which of the following media is the most common of all drawing media?

graphite pencil

Sol LeWitt's Wall Drawing #122 is an example of

conceptual art.

The difference in the color and consistency of different types of crayons and pastels is due to

the use of different binders.

The style used by Georges Seurat in Café-concert is

pointillism.

What part of the pen conveys the ink to the drawing surface?

the nib

Leonardo da Vinci used drawings to explore ideas in

All correct: art, mathematics, science, engineering

________ is/are among the materials besides paper that have provided support for drawings.

All correct: Papyrus, Cave walls, Silk, Fired clay

Because this 20th-century artist dated most of his drawings over the course of his lifetime, we have nearly a complete visual record of his mind at work.

Picasso

In Shahzia Sikander's I from 51 Ways of Looking _________ was used as the medium.

graphite

A traditional metalpoint ground recipe calls for a mixture of

All are correct: bone ash, glue, white pigment, water

Vonne Jacquette's Three Mile Island, Night I uses the medium of

charcoal

The 20th-century master of the fresco technique who created the work MixtecCulture is

Diego Rivera.

What is pigment in paint?

a powdered color

Which of the following is an example of a nonaqueous medium?

oil paint

The painting technique used in the first century in Egypt, Greece, and Rome that involves the use of wax is

encaustic

In buon fresco, or true fresco, pigment is mixed with water and applied to

wet plaster

After building a canvas and before painting it, a painter generally applies a coat of

primer

In fresco painting, a drawing called a ________ is transferred to the prepared surface prior to applying the pigment.

cartoon

Watercolor's primary characteristic is its

transparency.