Art history

Many ancient Greek artists made artworks to honor ________. a. their gods and deities b. their knowledge of the space/time continuum c. the spirit world as experienced in their dreams d. the mascots of their favorite sports teams e. all of the other answers

Their gods and deities

Jean-Antoine Houdon's sculpture of George Washington was made from: a. white marble d. black granite b. green basalt e. wood c. brown bronze

White marble

What is the medium of the Senufo mother-and-child figure (4.2.4)? a. marble d. cracked glass b. wood e. wheat c. clay

Wood

People shown in Tijuana Projection share what common experience? a. working in the maquiladora industry b. being imprisoned c. escaping as refugees d. being granted US citizenship e. they share no common experience

Working in the maquiladora industry

Which two ancient Greek painters were masters of illusion? a. Raphael and Donatello d. Kallikrates and Iktinos b. Zeuxis and Parrhasius e. none of the other answers c. Praxiteles and Doryphoros

Zeuxis and Parrhasius

When were the walls of Lascaux painted? a. 30,000-25,000 BCE d. 100 BCE-100 CE b. 15,000-13,000 BCE e. none of the other answers c. 5,000-2,000 BCE

15,000-13,000 BCE

What is the subject matter of Myron's Discus Thrower? a. a prehistoric stonemason d. a Roman circus performer b. an Egyptian pharaoh e. a contemporary DJ c. a Greek athlete

A greek athlete

What is true about Emil Nolde? a. he was a member of the Nazi party b. he painted in watercolor c. his painting Crucifixion was considered by the Nazis to be "degenerate" d. all of the other answers e. none of the other answers

ALl of the other answers

Community art may: a. be made by numerous people b. be made for large numbers of viewers c. be situated in public places d. represent the common interests of a group e. all

All

Willem de Kooning intended his painting Woman I to ________. a. emphasize elements of female anatomy b. convey the inherent abilities of women to give and protect life c. reflect universal ideas of powerful women d. refer to images of women made throughout the history of art e. all of the other answers

All

Bis poles were made for what purpose? a. to honor someone who had just died b. to depict the ancestors and acknowledge their role in daily life c. to carry the deceased into the afterlife d. they serve a ritual function in male initiation and memorial feasts e. all of the other answers

All of the answers

Eastern Orthodox icons, such as the Virgin of Vladimir, display similar visual characteristics, including: a. stylized but believable poses b. linear outlines c. gold backgrounds d. haloes for the Madonna and Child e. all of the other answers

All of the answers

The Ecstasy of St. Teresa was meant to show Teresa ________. a. being pierced by an angel's arrow b. being infused with divine love c. as a devout Christian d. as a role model to be followed by other devout Christians e. all of the other answers

All of the answers

The term "vanitas" in art includes references to ________. a. the fleeting nature of life b. the passing of time c. memento mori d. transient sights, smells, and sounds e. all of the other answers

All of the answers

Which emperor created a colossal statue of himself to be placed in a basilica in the center of Rome? a. Augustus d. Louis XIV b. Constantine e. Hammurabi c. Justinian

Constantine

Rineke Dijkstra's series Mothers focuses on ________. a. depicting mothers with their newborn children b. presenting children's views of their mothers as seen in their personal drawings c. side-by-side comparisons of mothers from different socio-economic classes d. the ideal of motherhood as depicted in literature throughout time e. mothers who have promoted their children in their art careers

Depicting mothers with their newborn children

In The Armada Portrait, it is suggested that Queen Elizabeth is: a. elegant and feminine d. all of the other answers b. chaste e. none of the other answers c. powerful

Elegant and feminine, chaste, powerful

Art can only be made by a single individual

False

The Guggenheim Museum in New York City was designed by: a. Frank Lloyd Wright d. Louis Sullivan b. Frank Gehry e. all of the other answers c. Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Frank Lloyd Wright

Who is the artist of The Ecstasy of St. Teresa? a. an Olmec stonemason d. Mark Rothko b. Michelangelo e. Henri Matisse c. Gianlorenzo Bernini

Gianlorenzo Bernini

Who is the artist of the painting Woman Holding a Balance? a. Imhotep d. Johannes Vermeer b. Gislebertus e. the artist's name is not known c. Gianlorenzo Bernini

Gianlorenzo Bernini

How do Patrick Dougherty's sculptures relate to the cycle of life? a. he uses dead materials as memento mori b. he transforms branches and twigs into artworks that extend the lifespan of a once-living material into the realm of art c. he uses man-made materials that look like they were made in nature d. people buy his artworks when a child is born and the person carries it with him or her until death e. he records the life cycle of a tree and plays the video in art galleries

He transforms branches and twigs into artworks that extend the lifespan of a once-living material into the realm of art

What theme is not represented in the paintings that decorate the walls of the library of Pope Julius II in the Vatican? a. theology d. philosophy b. law and justice e. poetry c. humility

Humility

Holy relics located in churches: a. taught people about the stories of the Koran b. inspired people to make pilgrimages to see them c. fooled people into believing in ghosts d. are proof that gladiator fights happened e. holy relics were never kept in churches

Inspired people to make pilgrimages to see them

Kaigetsudô Dohan was an artist from which culture? a. African d. Mexican b. Japanese e. Indian c. Italian

Japanese

Who advised artists in his treatise On Painting that paintings should look like illusionary windows? a. Pliny the Elder d. Ludovico Gonzaga b. Leon Battista Alberti e. Ovid c. Giorgio Vasari

Leon Battista Alberti

Which Renaissance artist drew the Vitruvian Man (4.4.1)? a. Michelangelo d. Donatello b. Raphael e. Bernini c. Leonardo

Leonardo

The goddess Tlazolteotl was responsible for ________. a. war and rain d. childbirth and marshmallow treats b. life and death e. light and dark c. warriors and architecture

Life and death

The Woman from Willendorf is made from which medium? a. woven reeds d. marble b. limestone e. oil on canvas c. fired ceramic

Limestone

In The War, Otto Dix paints a soldier lying in a trench in the ________ section of his artwork. a. predella d. tympanum b. central panel e. none of the other answers c. archivolt

Predella

Who was the artist of Tilted Arc? a. Diego Rivera d. Donald Judd b. Christo and Jeanne-Claude e. none of the other answers c. Richard Serra

Richard Serra

Vitrivius was: a. a Roman architect d. a Roman poet b. a Greek sculptor e. none of the other answers c. a Renaissance painter

Roman architect

Who is the artist of The Birth of Venus? a. Leonardo da Vinci b. Sandro Botticelli c. Titian d. Édouard Manet e. no one knows for sure who the artist was

Sandro Botticelli

Navajo sand paintings are made ________. a. using the technique of dry fresco b. to heal an individual and restore balance to the community c. to impress visitors with the skill of the shaman d. totally in the dark e. to last forever

to heal an individual and restore balance to the community

Why was Tilted Arc controversial? a. because some people did not want to walk around it b. because some people thought it was ugly c. because some people thought it would encourage criminal activity d. because the artist made it for a specific place and moving it was the equivalent of destroying it e. all of the other answers

All of the answers

Why were the Roman catacombs of sacred importance? a. pagan, Christian, and Jewish Romans used them b. they were the burial places of many Romans' ancestors c. they served as temples for many religious observances d. the paintings there could be relevant for multiple religions e. all of the other answers

All of the answers

Why were some against Maya Lin's design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial? a. it was black b. it descended into the ground c. they wanted a more traditional monument with figures d. all of the other answers e. none of the other answers

All of the other

Anselm Kiefer's Breaking of the Vessels refers to: a. Kristallnacht d. all of the other answers b. the Kabbalah e. none of the other answers c. the Holocaust

All of the other answers

Which of these artworks reveals a culture's understanding of astronomy? a. The Maya flint depicting a crocodile canoe with passengers b. The Aztec Sun Stone c. Muhammad Mahdi al-Yazdi's astrolabe d. all of the previous answers e. none of the previous answers

All of the previous

Spirituality encompasses ________. a. our sense of being connected to others b. our awareness of both mind and body c. our wish to understand life's meaning and the world around us d. all of the previous answers e. none of the previous answers

All of the previous answers

The Maya flint depicting a crocodile canoe with passengers (4.4.4): a. is a representation of the Maya story of creation b. shows five figures riding a crocodile c. refers to the arrangement of the stars in the Milky Way d. all of the previous answers e. none of the previous answers

All of the previous answers

What does the Justinian mosaic in the Church of San Vitale in Ravenna demonstrate? a. the power of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian b. the power of Maximianus, the Bishop of Ravenna c. God's support for Justinian d. all of the previous answers e. none of the previous answers

All previous

Which of the following words can not be linked to the work of Yayoi Kusama? a. mirrors b. infinity c. dots d. cosmos e. all of these words relate to her work

All words relate to her work

Who is the artist of The Morgue (Gun Murder)? a. Andrea del Sarto d. Carl Andre b. Andres Serrano e. Andrea Frasier c. Andrea Mantegna

Andres Serrano

Bis pole sculptures were made by which culture? a. Yoruba d. Olmec b. Asmat e. none of the other answers c. Aztec

Asmat

The sculpture of the goddess Tlazolteotl giving birth to the maize god (4.3.1) was made by which culture? a. Yoruba d. Olmec b. Asmat e. none of the other answers c. Aztec

Aztec

Why was Diego Rivera's mural for the RCA Building in Rockefeller Center controversial? a. because the artist was inspired by Mexican murals b. because the artist offered to add a picture of Abraham Lincoln c. because the artist got paid without ever finishing the mural d. because the artist included elements inspired by his communist beliefs e. all of the other answers

Because the artist included elements inspired by his communist beliefs

Why might the paintings at Lascaux be considered sacred? a. because the site was visited repeatedly and painted again and again b. because they show the rituals of a secret society c. because a particular, identifiable religion was practiced in the caves d. because the bulls painted there were the ancestors of the people who lived in the caves e. all of the other answers

Because the site was visited repeatedly and painted again and again

Why did Jasper Johns paint his Flag (4.4.15) in green, orange, and black? a. because they are the complements of the US flag's actual colors b. he felt these colors were more patriotic than red, white, and blue c. they coordinated with the client's home d. it was part of a series in which different colors were tested on the flag for their ability to trigger an emotional response e. none of the other answers

Because they are the complements of the US flag's actual colors

How do practitioners cultivate mental calm in the Japanese zen garden? a. by raking the gravel regularly b. by counting the stones c. by planting as many flowers as possible d. by fixing the leaks in the roof e. by playing calming music through hidden speakers

By raking the gravel regularly

The form of the goddess's figure in The Birth of Venus was based on ________. a. Classical Greek sculptures b. prehistoric goddess figurines c. Romanesque tapestries d. photographs made during Venus's lifetime e. all of the other answers

Classical greek sculptures

Where is Monks Mound located? a. present-day Iraq b. Lintong, China c. near present-day St. Louis d. beneath what is now Mexico City e. on the Giza Plateau in Egypt

Near present-day St. Louis

What is believed to be the purpose of the Woman from Willendorf? a. it is a portable doorstop d. it is the first garden gnome b. it is a deadly weapon e. none of the other answers c. it is an ancient piggy bank

None

Where were the Roman catacombs located at the time they were built? a. behind the city of Lascaux b. in the main marketplace in Rome c. outside the city of Rome d. underneath the town of La Venta e. inside the city walls of Vence

Outside the city of Rome

Parmigianino's Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror is a: a. photograph pasted onto a piece of convex wood b. photograph of the reflection of the artist in a convex mirror c. painting of a photograph of the artist d. painting of the artist looking in a mirror e. none of the other answers

Painting of the artist looking in a mirror

The materials used in Navajo sand paintings include: a. pollen, corn, and powdered stones b. sand, concrete, and leading c. charcoal, grass, and acrylic paint d. powdered pigments, horse-hair brushes, and vellum e. no one knows because the process is secret

Pollen, corn, and powdered stones

What happened to the woman featured in Migrant Mother after Dorothea Lange photographed her? a. the government fed her and her family for several months b. she was paid royalties for the famous photograph c. she was ashamed of the photograph d. she and the photographer became good friends e. none of the other answers

She was ashamed of the photograph

Which religion specifically emphasizes the ways that natural elements, such as the sun, mountains, water, and trees, are connected to well-being? a. Shinto d. Judaism b. Islam e. Buddhism c. Christianity

Shinto

A visitor to a Gothic cathedral would have found him or herself surrounded by: a. cement and barbed wire b. darkened passageways and smoke from torches c. soaring height and spiritual light d. traffic in the market square e. all of the other answers

Soaring Height and spiritual light

Krzysztof Wodiczko makes video installations that comment on ________ all over the world. a. energy crises d. social injustice b. animal cruelty e. festivals and celebrations c. disregard for art

Social injustice

Francisco Goya's The Second of May, 1808 depicts: a. the coronation of Napoleon b. the execution of Spanish rebels c. Spanish civilians attacking French soldiers d. a horse race e. none of the other answers

Spanish civilians attacking french soldiers

Which of these artworks was not made as propaganda to supplement the power of the ruler it represents? a. The Armada Portrait b. Mao Zedong's portrait at Tiananmen c. Napoleon Crossing the Alps d. Stela of Hammurabi e. all of these were propagandistic artworks

THey were all propagandistic art

Ancient Near Eastern ziggurats served as ________. a. places of burial d. movie theatres b. temples and civic centers e. all of the other answers c. palaces

Temples and civic centers

Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump features this technique, which means a dramatic use of light and dark: a. tenebrism d. shadow puppetry b. tracery e. none of the other answers c. repoussé

Tenebrism

The sculpture of a head, which probably represents a king of Ife (4.9.6), was made using which medium? a. bronze d. terra-cotta b. ivory e. none of the other answers c. limestone

Terra-cotta

Why is the flag in the bottom half of the canvas of Jasper Johns's Flag (4.4.15) a solid rectangle with a black dot in the middle? a. the artist was symbolizing the disappearance of American values b. the painting is unfinished c. the artist wanted the viewer to rest their eyes on this rectangle after looking at the one in the painting's top half d. this painting is a part of series, and the red and white portions of the flag are on other paintings e. none of the other answers

The artist wanted the viewer to rest their eyes on this rectangle after looking at the one in the painting's top half

French artist JR's Women are Heroes shows: a. the faces of poor women in Rio de Janeiro. b. portraits of firefighters, soldiers, and other heroic women in uniform c. mothers from around the world d. famous Brazilian movie stars who came from nothing e. all of the other answers

The faces of poor women in rio de janeiro

Which type of beauty does Kaigetsudo Dohan's painting Beautiful Woman represent? a. the physical beauty of a young geisha's apprenticeship b. the inner beauty and studied grace of a mature geisha c. the kind of beauty that will win the woman the beauty pageant in which she is participating d. supernatural beauty bestowed by the gods e. the beauty inherent in the woman's musical abilities, represented by the instrument she holds

The inner beauty and studied grace of a mature geisha

Thomas Eakins painted a surgery he witnessed in person. Who is shown in the painting, but was unlikely to be at the actual surgery? a. an anesthetist b. the patient's mother c. the famous surgeon Dr. Samuel Gross d. medical students e. all of these people were at the actual surgery

The patient's mother

Théodore Géricault's painting Raft of the Medusa depicts: a. the results of a shipwreck off the coast of West Africa b. the mythological monster Medusa destroying ships c. French people relaxing on the Riviera d. a boat race across the English Channel e. none of the other answers

The results of a shipwreck off the coast of west africa

The Aztec of central Mexico are responsible for making which of the following sculptures? a. the sarcophagus lid from the tomb of Lord Pacal b. the kachina doll c. the silver llama figurine d. the vessel with a mask of Tlaloc e. the book of the dead

The vessel with a mask of Tlaloc

What was the purpose of the Senufo mother-and-child figure? a. to ward off crows from the field b. to be a torch to light the village's paths at night c. to be a guiding spirit for the guardians of religious and historical traditions d. to be a vessel for burning incense e. all of the other answers

To be a guiding spirit for the guardians of religious and historical traditions

Mark Rothko wanted his paintings at the Rothko Chapel ________. a. to be seen one at a time, never in groups together b. to create an environment that transported the viewer beyond everyday reality c. to be seen either in bright light or in total darkness, never in between d. to exist entirely separately from the architecture in which it was housed e. to avoid creating a contemplative environment for the viewer

To create an environment that transported the viewer beyond everyday reality

Otto Dix's The War is a ________. a. triptych d. diptych b. tondo e. none of the other answers c. icon

Triptych

Artists have often been influenced by scientific discoveries.

True

Salvador Dalí was a member of the Surrealists, whose artworks were inspired by dreams or subconscious thoughts.

True

Synesthesia is when stimulation of one sense triggers an experience in another, for example visualizing color when one hears music.

True

The term iconic refers to something that has become famous and has widely recognizable characteristics.

True

Where is the Rothko Chapel located? a. Iran d. the United States b. Japan e. Egypt c. France

United States

Which of these artists created a war artwork that was an interactive performance? a. Wafaa Bilal d. Nick Ut b. Anselm Kiefer e. unknown tapestry weavers c. Otto Dix

Wafaa Bilal

Titian's Venus of Urbino shows ________. a. a full-bodied figure, understood to be a sign of fertility b. a Classical goddess, represented as both modest and inviting c. a French model in the guise of a prostitute with an assertive gaze d. a Japanese man pretending to be a female icon of Western culture e. none of the other answers

a classical goddess, represented as both modest and inviting

A shaman is a person who ________. a. acts as an intermediary between the invisible spirit world and the physical realm of humans b. ties up captives with a rope while a ruler performs important rituals c. creates cave drawings upside-down d. is authorized to dig in sacred sites for the purposes of research e. none of the other answers

acts as an intermediary between the invisible spirit world and the physical realm of humans

The sarcophagus lid from the tomb of Lord Pacal shows him ________. a. marking the intersection of the earthly realm and the underworld b. being overtaken by the world tree c. ignoring the lineage of his ancestors d. trying to trick the gods while playing a mythical ballgame e. Lord Pacal was only depicted on the inside of the sarcophagus, not the outside

marking the intersection of the earthly realm and underworld