Art Appreciation Final Exam

Artemisia Gentileschi was influenced by the style of which other artist?

Caravargio

Some of the oldest human-made objects found in the Americas are

Clovis points

The Ishtar Gate was built under whose rule?

Nebuchadnezzar II

Terra-cotta heads with prominent holes in the pupils, nostrils, mouth, and ears were made by the ______ culture of ________

Nok, Nigeria

The Parthenon that still stand today in Athens was built after the city invaded in 480/479 BCE by the:

Persians

The protective goddesses of Upper and Lower Egypt are represented on the headdress of the mask of King Tutankhamun by:

Vulture and Cobra

El Greco was

a Greek artist who worked in Italy and Spain during the Renaissance

Fragonard's The Swing depicts

a flirtation between two young lovers

marcel duchamp's fountain is an example of

a readymade

Why were the Greek god Apollo and the goddess Athena included in The School of Athens?

Because Renaissance artists admired Greek mythology

The Great Stupa

Buddha's remains

The Church of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy, is from this period

Byzantine

The cliff dwellings built by the Anasazi in Mesa Verde were constructed using which materials available in the area?

adobe, timber, and stone

The medium of Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space is ________.

bronze

The Egyptian fresco from Nebamun's tomb utilizes

composite view, hierarchical scale, and hieroglyphs

Which of the following concerns would be most important for contemporary Native Americans basket weavers?

connecting with traditions used for generations

Xenobia Bailey established herself as an artist by making

crocheted hats

The moai of Easter island represnet

deified ancestors who were chiefs

Jackson Pollock made paintings by

dripping paint onto a canvas on the floor

Which of the following is not true about the Kandariya Mahadeva?

exterior is very simple with few sculptures

All Islamic manuscripts include a page with a portrait of Allah.

false

Angelica Kauffmann Cornelia Pointer to her Children as her Treasure is an excellent example of the style known as realism

false

Because they were made of durable materials such as stone, almost every building ever made on the continent of Africa survives

false

Buddha is always represented as a seated figure with a raised hand and one finger pointing up toward the sky

false

In Islamic faith, gardens are symbolic of Paradise on Earth

false

Only one artist in the Renaissance and Baroque periods ever painted the subject of The Last Supper.

false

The Sumerian elite did not believe in lavish burials; they preferred riches to be enjoyed only by the living.

false

The Taj Mahal was built by the Mughal Emperor Jahangir to celebrate the birth of his son Shah Jahan.

false

There have been many more male Cycladic sculptures found than female.

false

William Blake avoided imagery that addressed colonialism and the slave trade

false

What does the dog in The Arnolfini Portrait symbolize?

fidelity

The medium of Matthew Barney's Cremaster 5 is

film

Marcel Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel is an example of

found object sculpture

Over time, Nok sculptures of human figures have:

had parts broken off many of them

Vincent Van Gogh used thick swirls of paint in his work Starry Ngiht. This techique is called

impasto

The cult houses of the Abelam of Papua New Guinea are designed to

impress initiates with power and complexity of their culture

What does the text in the lintels of Shield Jaguar and Lady Xoc tell us?

information about historic events related to the ritual

Jolene Rickard's Corn Blue Room is an example of ________.

installation art

What makes Frida Kahlo's work a part of the surrealism movement?

it's not part of the Surrealism movement

An Archaic Greek sculpture portraying a nude male is called ________.

kouros

In Matisses's Joy of Life the artist is emphasizing

leisurely day in a landscape with music and dancing

Which of the following terms is used to describe the mid to late 16th century style of art that elongated human figures and elevated grace as an ideal?

mannerism

objects made by Pacific Island cultures often have both

practical usefulness and sacred significance

The process used to create the beaten-silver face of the 12th century reliquary of the Head of Saint Alexander is called

repousse

The painting The Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel includes a

self portrait of Michealangelo skin

Leonardo da Vinci invented a painting technique that consisted of applying a hazy or misty glaze over the painting. This technique is called

sfumato

Aaron Douglas's Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery Through Reconstruction reflects the impact of ______________ on American art in the early twentieth century.

sillhouettes

The arts of Great Zimbabwe in Southern Africa that remain are made of

stone

The small pieces of glass that make up mosaics are called

tesserae

Artists in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were inspired by works from ________.

the Middle Ages

Conceptual art emphasizes ________.

the ideas behind the artwork over its realization

What is not true about the soliders in Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi's tomb?

they are exactly identical

How does Gabriel Dawe's work challenge social constructs?

thread refers to textile and fashion

_____ were portable dwellings made by Plains Indians

tipis

William Hogarth's Marriage a-la-Mode series tells the story of

trials of an arranged marriage where the couple behave immorally

20th century artists continued the representational explorations started by the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists

true

Akkadian rulers were believed to be divine

true

Art Nouveau is a style that emphasized decorative patterns and organic forms.

true

Christ as the Good Shephard was a common theme in early Christian art.

true

Edgar Degas was fascinated by observing ballet dancers, both in practice and during performances

true

Henry Ossawa Tanner's Banjo Lesson challenges negative stereotypes of African-Americans

true

Iconoclasm is the destruction of images.

true

Kente cloth is now worn by non-royal members of the Asante and Akan groups as well as people living entirely outside of Ghana.

true

Symbolist painters are inspired by emotions and dreamlike images.

true

The Angkor Wat temple complex features bas-relief sculpture

true

The term Ukiyo-e means "pictures of the floating world."

true

To make their artworks appear realistic, Renaissance artists sometimes distorted the way certain objects and elements looked.

true

James Hampton is considered a

visionary artist

Expressionism focuses on

what is felt rather than what is seen

The medium of the Eagle Transformation Mask is:

wood feathers and rope

A colophon is a kind of:

writing

Picasso was influenced by art objects from ________ in his creation of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.

Africa

The structure of Romanesque churches recalls architectural elements from

Ancient Rome

Piet Mondrian was a founder of which movement?

De Stijl

Machu Picchu was built for

Inca Ruler Pachacuti

The Dome of the Rock is located in

Jerusalem

The subject of Eugene Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People is

July Revolution of 1830 in France

The synongogue in Dura Europos was built in this period

Late Antiquity

What style of the Church of Sainte-Foy at Conques, France?

Romanesque

It was possible to decipher hieroglyphs because of

Rosetta stone

Mount Fuji the Japanese mountain that features in Hokusai's famous paint "The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa," is sacred to followers of

Shinto

Were symbolically important to textile manufactures and served as an inspiration for an Inca creation myth.

Spiders

Kazimir Malevich was part of which movement?

Suprematism

The Pyramid of the Sun is found at

Teotihuacan

What inspired Joseph Mallord William Turner to paint Slave Ship?

Thomas Clark's book

The artistic traditions of Africa and the Pacific Islands share:

all of the other answer

Ana mendieta use _______ as an artistic medium in her work "untitled"

all of the other answers

Artworks in the 20th and 21st century can

all of the other answers

Hawaiian feather cloaks could be

all of the other answers

Neoclassical paintings, such as those by Jacques-Louis David and Angelica Kauffmann

all of the other answers

Rembrandt's painting The Night Watch makes skillful use of

all of the other answers

Thomas Cole's View from Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm- The Oxbow

all of the other answers

What aspects of Edouard Manet's Le Dejeuner sure I'Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) discomforted many viewers when it was first exhibited?

all of the other answers

What does the horn-shaped object in the Venus of Laussel signify?

all of the other answers

Which of the following are qualities of most Impressionist artists and their paintings?

all of the other answers

Which of the following influenced Jean-Michel Basquiat, as seen in his painting The Nile?

all of the other answers

Which of the following influenced the art made from 1700 to 1865?

all of the other answers

Why were mirrors used as a form of protest to the Dakota Access Pipeline?

all of the other answers

William Blake

all of the other answers

Paul Cezanne used _______ in his work Mont Sainte-Victoire

atmospheric perspective