Module 1 Quiz
Pop artist
Andy Warhol
What civilization was obsessed with its idea of beauty, and developed mathematical formulas for creating architecture so it would achieve ideal perfection?
Classical Greeks
Which of the following works of art was designed around the concept of a void.
Extension of the British Museum by Daniel Libeskind
French 19th c. artist, Pierre Auguste Renoir, was part of a very new style in Paris in the 1870s in Paris known as ______.
Impressionism
French Impressionist
Pierre Auguste Renoir
An art movement begun in the 1960s in which works of art were conceived and executed and influenced by advertising and commercialism, is known as ____.
Pop art
Jackson Pollock's painting, "Number 19" of 1948 has all of the following except for ___________.
Something recognizable
Realism
The Arnolfini Portrait
Realism as an art style, is seen in Raphael's "Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione" of 1514-15. You can see all of the following except_____.
The sitter does not look posed
Jackson Pollock
The subject is the process of painting
Which of the following paintings has a very complicated iconography?
Venus, Cupid Folly and Time by Bronzino
Medium
What a work of art is made from
Expressionism could be defined as a style that suggests an "inner world" or that conveys the psychological and emotional state of the artist and could have distortion and exaggeration of color, brushwork etc. Which of the following paintings could be "expressionistic"?
Woman with a Hat by Henri Matisse
The French painter, Henri Matisse, was best known for his _______________.
abstracted subjects and arbitrary color
Ictinus and Callicrates
architects of the Parthenon
The Flemish painter, Jan van Eyck, used all of the following in his masterpiece, " The Arnolfini Portrait" of 1434 except for one (1).
asymmetry
Which of the following mediums might NOT be a new medium, or a conventional medium?
bronze
Henri Matisse and Liubov Popova both utilize ____ to create order and harmony in their paintings, entitled "Woman with a Hat" and "Study for a Portrait."
color and shape repetition
visual elements
color, line, shape, texture
Examining a work of art in its historical, social, and political ____ enables you to better understand it.
context
variety
contrast and diversity
non objective art
no reference to natural world
The painting by Audrey Flack, "Marilyn," has all of the following in subject or style except for one (1).
non objective
The subject of Wassily Kandinsky's "Composition VI" of 1913, could be called_____.
non objective
The medium of a work of art could be any of the following except for one (1).
outlines
Until modern times, art works have been primarily devoted to ____ themes.
religious
The word art encompasses many meanings, including process. Which of the following is considered an artistic process?
sculpting
iconography
study of symbols
Andy Warhol, the Pop Artist of the 1960s, said "How can you say that one style is better than another. You ought to be able to be an Abstract Expressionist next week, or a Pop artist, or a realist, without feeling you've given up something."
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One of the main reasons that architects chose the ancient Greek temple, the Parthenon in Athens from the 5th c. B.C.E., as a model for the United States Supreme Court and the Capitol Building in in Washington, D.C. was because they were meant to communicate the legacy of democracy, the rule of law, and duty to country to American citizens.
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