Art History Mid Term 2
_______universal elements were straight lines, primary colors and rectangles. (a) Piet Mondrian's (b) Wassily Kandinsky's (c) Georgio De Chirico's (d) Diego Rivera's
a
A good example of Synthetic Cubism, Violin and Fruit by Picasso utilized papier colle, which became known as: (a) papier mache (b) collage (c) photo montage (d) mixed media
b
Although not a member of the Surrealists, _______ used their approach in her autobiographical works. (a) Joan Miro (b) Frida Kahlo (c) Vera Mukhina (d) Meret Oppenheim
b
Surrealism attempted to combine dreams with reality states, even though recognizing the two were: (a) unrealistic (b) contradictory (c) competitive (d) imaginary
b
The _______ are known for their skill at building with huge, carefully cut and fitted stones as seen in Machu Picchu. (a) Olmec (b) Inca (c) Zuni 62 (d) Moai
b
The _______of Mali are especially noted for their headdresses, which are made of antelope. (a) Adinkra (b) Bamana (c) Kente (d) Yoruba Answer:
b
The color schemes and flat patterns illustrated in Amrita Sher-Gil's The Swing were directly influenced by the Post-Impressionism of Paul Gauguin and: (a) the symbolism of Gustave Moreau (b) the ancient caves at Ajanta (c) the Court of the Lions at Alhambra (d) the Egyptian pyramids
b
The first World War led to the Russian Revolution, the rise of the Nazi Party, and Fascism, resulting in artistic: (a) economic prosperity (b) censorship and repression (c) escapism (d) isolation
b
The head from the _______ culture is one of the oldest surviving examples of sub-Saharan art. (a) Benin (b) Nok (c) Ife (d) Yoruba
b
The vessel Earthenware Beaker is from the _______ period. (a) Old Stone Age (b) New Stone Age (c) Paleolithic (d) Middle Stone Age
b
The Hopewell culture built large mounds, such as the Great Serpent Mound in what is now the state of: (a) Kansas (b) New Mexico (c) Arizona (d) Ohio
d
The Hopis and Zunis call the invisible life force spirits _______. (a) mana (b) false-faces (c) souls (d) kachinas
d
The Parthenon was designed to honor: (a) Athens (b) Parthenia (c) Homer (d) Athena
d
The Purse Cover from the Sutton Hoo ship burial illustrates one distinguishing characteristic of the art of migrating peoples of the Middle Ages that is based on: (a) humans (b) kings (c) manuscripts (d) animals
d
The ancient cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro were located in the: (a) Nile Valley (b) Mesopotamian Valley (c) Yellow River Valley (d) Indus Valley
d
The first Christian churches were patterned after Roman basilicas used by the Romans as: (a) temples (b) baths (c) palaces (d) government buildings
d
The style of Li Hua's Take Him In! is similar to Western examples of: (a) Post-Impressionism (b) Surrealism (c) Pop Art (d) Social Realism
d
The works of Joseph Beuys, Ana Mendieta, and Guillermo Gomez-Pena are examples of: (a) photorealism (b) earthworks (c) minimalist (d) performance art
d
This artist, creator of Sleeping Muse I, believed that his sculptures revealed the essence of his forms. (a) Wassily Kandinsky (b) Pablo Picasso (c) Marcel Duchamp (d) Constantine Brancusi
d
Totalitarian governments between the wars officially required a socially and politically "correct" form of art, social realism; its goal was: (a) retreat from the old; advance with the new (b) to make people more compassionate (c) protest and revolution (d) retreat from modern art; communicate official positions to the public
d
Two million years ago, the first stone tools enabled our ancestors to: (a) kill each other more efficiently 47 (b) make houses and create cities (c) impress the opposite sex (d) gain some control over their relationship to their surroundings
d
African textiles feature long narrow strips of cloth that are _______ and _______ together to make garments or blankets. (a) dyed; patterned (b) crocheted; knitted (c) pasted; stenciled (d) woven; sewn
d
Claude Monet's Impression: Sunrise began the movement known as: (a) Post-Impressionism (b) Fauvism (c) Divisionism (d) Impressionism
d
Cooperative events, in which viewers participate with principals in loosely scripted scenarios, are called: (a) dramas (b) playlets (c) theater of life (d) happenings
d
Decorated with stories about Vishnu, _______ is one of the most famous monuments of Cambodia. (a) The Great Stupa (b) Borobudur (c) Kandarya Mahadeva (d) Angkor Wat
d
Early Christian Art was created in private homes and underground burial chambers called: (a) entasis (b) metopes (c) coffers (d) catacombs
d
Eugene Delacroix was famous for his painterly qualities, meaning he used paint to: (a) smoothly and coolly fill in areas of color (b) outline his forms (c) tone down the emotional qualities of the works (d) define shapes by changes in color
d
Events that shook up the world at the beginning of the 20th century included Sigmund Freud's work on the subconscious mind and the invention of: (a) the washing machine (b) the camera (c) the telegraph (d) the airplane
d
Jackson Pollock's Autumn Rhythm is an excellent example of: (a) Conceptual Art (b) Minimal Art (c) Pop Art (d) Abstract Expressionism
d
Japanese ukiyo-e prints depicted: (a) the ruler and his court (b) historic landscapes (c) great battles (d) the everyday world
d
Marcel Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q. is an excellent example of: (a) Surrealism (b) Constructivism (c) De Stijl (d) Dada
d
Michelangelo's David has a pose influenced by the sculpture of the ancient: (a) Romans (b) Egyptians (c) Sumerians (d) Greeks
d
Mies van der Rohe designed the German Pavilion building and many others, including the Seagram Building in New York City. Influential to the profile of many American city skylines, the works of this artist epitomize: (a) Postmodernism (b) Prairie Style (c) Dada (d) The International Style
d
Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2 by Marcel Duchamp was based in part on a(n): (a) Futurist manifesto (b) idea about motion (c) discussion with Picasso (d) chronophotograph
d
One way in which Islamic art is unlike Western art is that it prohibits: (a) ceramics and pottery (b) abstract art (c) painting and drawing (d) figural art in a religious context
d
Porcelain plates made by the Chinese were decorated using _______ because it was the only color that could survive the high heat of the kilns. (a) aquamarine coloring (b) black coloring (c) terra cotta (d) blue coloring
d
Shah Jahan commissioned this structure as a tomb for his favorite wife. (a) the Hagia Sophia (b) the Great Mosque (c) the Suleymaniye Mosque (d) the Taj Mahal
d
Teotihuacán featured temples, such as the Pyramid of the Sun, with decorations of: (a) skulls and bones (b) corn gods (c) scaly lizards (d) feathered serpents
d
Caravaggio's dramatic portrayal of scenes at night, as seen in The Conversion of Saint Paul, was called: (a) tenebrism (b) foreshortening (c) rococo (d) sfumato
a
Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary was at the center of a heated censorship battle between the Brooklyn Museum and former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. The work was included in the exhibition titled: (a) Sensation (b) Shock of the New (c) Recent American Art (d) Art and Religion
a
In his letters to his brother Theo, Vincent van Gogh expressed his ideas about color as a force to show: (a) emotion (b) reverence for nature (c) intellect (d) religion
a
In the Futurist sculpture Unique Forms of Continuity in Space by Umberto Boccioni, the artist attempts to fuse the sculptural form with: (a) space (b) texture (c) shape (d) lin
a
It was Marcel Duchamp who was responsible for bringing motion to: (a) Cubism (b) Futurism (c) Fauvism (d) Expressionism
a
Known for their monumental carved heads, the _______ were the earliest known culture to develop in the Gulf Coast of Mexico. (a) Olmec (b) Hopi (c) Zuni (d) Toltec
a
Leonardo da Vinci's technique of blurred edges, called _______, can be seen in his Mona Lisa. (a) sfumato (b) chiaroscuro (c) tenebrism (d) camera obscura
a
Often mosques include one or more _______, which mark the building's location and are used by chanters who ascend and call the faithful to prayer. (a) minarets (b) mihrabs (c) qiblas (d) qalams
a
One feature that set Gothic architecture apart from Romanesque was the extensive use of: (a) stained glass (b) barrel vaulting (c) wooden doors (d) domes
a
Perhaps because of the pollution caused by the Industrial Revolution, British art in the late 18th- and early 19th-centuries seemed to focus on: (a) landscape (b) the growth of cities (c) the future (d) a celebration of factories
a
Picasso combined lessons from Cézanne with _______ sculpture to produce Les Demoiselles d' Avignon. (a) African (b) Roman (c) Greek (d) Medieval
a
Sexual ecstasy as a metaphor for divine love is found in the art of the: (a) Hindus (b) Aryans (c) Chinese (d) Buddhists
a
The Great Mosque is complete with a _______ to mark the building's location and to allow the faithful to be called to prayer by a chanter. (a) minaret (b) mosque (c) turret (d) barbican
a
The Japanese group Gutai functioned from 1954 to 1972. In their manifesto, they proclaimed: (a) the end of traditional art making (b) to maintain Japanese traditions (c) to celebrate the landscape (d) an end to radical art Answer:
a
The New Zealand natives known as _______ used a meeting house for extended family gatherings and rituals. (a) Maoris (b) Aborigines (c) Polynesians (d) Micronesians
a
The Style (De Stijl) was started in the Netherlands, inspired by Cubism, and had as its goal: (a) universal harmony (b) romantic emotion (c) dynamic motion (d) ultra-realism
a
The Terra Cotta Warriors were found in the tomb of Emperor _______, from whom China takes its name. (a) Qin (b) Chin Ho (c) Chang (d) Shang
a
The Wall Painting of Animals is located in south central France at: (a) Chauvet Cave (b) Bull Cave (c) Lascaux Cave (d) Nomadic cave
a
The ancient Sumerians developed the world's first wheel, plow and _______. (a) writing system (b) calendar (c) ceramic storage container (d) sculpture
a
The first large sculpture since Roman times can be found _______ in Romanesque churches. (a) over the central doorway (b) in the nave (c) around the windows (d) under the barrel vaulting
a
The image Woman of Willendorf is thought to be associated with: (a) the Great Mother Goddess (b) the development of stone tools (c) hunting rituals (d) the agricultural revolution
a
The indigenous religion of Japan is an ancient form of nature and ancestor worship called: (a) Shinto (b) Hindu (c) Buddhism (d) Prana
a
The large installation The Dinner Party, by artist Judy Chicago, illustrates the importance of _______ (in) art, which is considered to be a vital force in the 1970s. (a) feminism (b) happenings (c) installations (d) site-specific
a
Angelica Kauffmann's paintings, such as Cornelia, Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures, were in the _______ style, which was based on Greek and Roman models. (a) Romantic (b) Neoclassic (c) Realist (d) Rococo
b
As Minimalism and hard-edge developed, paintings came to be seen as objects themselves, rather than as: (a) colorful and linear arrangements (b) representations of other things (c) environments (d) two-dimensional sculptures
b
During the Neolithic period, art went from: (a) naturalistic to realistic (b) naturalistic to abstract (c) abstract to naturalistic (d) geometric to realistic
b
Edgar Degas' paintings revealed his interest in the candid attitudes found in street photography and the asymmetry of: (a) the human body (b) Japanese prints (c) African masks (d) life in general
b
Head of an Old Man is an example of sculpture from the _______ portrait tradition. (a) Greek (b) Roman (c) Etruscan (d) Egyptian
b
Henri Matisse was the leader of which artistic movement? (a) Cubism (b) Fauvism (c) Expressionism (d) Futurism
b
In his search for spiritual truth, Paul Gauguin moved to _______, where he spent the rest of his life. (a) Fiji (b) Tahiti (c) Australia (d) New Zealand
b
In his work called Monogram, Robert Rauschenberg put everyday objects together with collage and Expressionist paintings to form what is called: (a) an installation (b) combine painting (c) site-specific art (d) action painting
b
Niki de Saint Phalle's works, which she "killed" with nails, dirt, darts, etc., show the continuing influence of: (a) Surrealism (b) Dada (c) Post-Impressionism (d) Futurism
b
Power figures of the Congo often have _______ added to them because it is thought to have special symbolic meaning. (a) wood (b) iron (c) paints (d) gold
b
The word "Neolithic" means: (a) Old Stone Age (b) New Stone Age (c) Middle Stone Age (d) Nomadic
b
Wu Chen's Album Leaf from Manual of Ink Bamboo illustrates the idea from the Song dynasty that the true character of the artist is revealed by: (a) the balance between light and shadow (b) the quality of calligraphy (c) the choice of subject matter (d) the composition
b
The Mesopotamians built their temples, such as that of Ur-Nammu, on this type of structure, called: (a) acropolis (b) cuneiform (c) ziggurat (d) mana
c
The Post-Impressionists felt the Impressionists did not allow room for: (a) momentary impressions (b) emphasis on everyday life (c) personal expression (d) a single style
c
The artist that painted Composition IV, Wassily Kandinsky, felt that art led to a new: (a) politics (b) socialism (c) spirituality (d) monarchy
c
The flowering of the _______ brought the works of many African-American artists to the fore, such as Barbecue, by Archibald Motley, Jr. (a) International Style (b) Surrealist movement (c) Harlem Renaissance (d) Brooklyn Expressionism
c
The sizing of figures as determined by social rank is called: (a) hieroglyphic scale (b) caste scale (c) hierarchic scale (d) higher order scale
c
This book illustrates the most respected form of Muslim calligraphy. (a) Masjid (b) Mihrab (c) Koran (d) Court of the Lions
c
_______ is an excellent example of Gothic architecture. (a) The Parthenon (b) The Pantheon (c) Chartres Cathedral (d) San Vitale
c
According to experts' contemporary theory, Stonehenge was possibly created to: (a) enhance the English environment (b) focus attention on environmental arts (c) calculate solar and lunar movements (d) serve as a temple
c
Because of the 20th century's rapid changes and discoveries, artists searching for new ways to express new realities felt they had to put aside dependence on: (a) the Classical period (b) the Age of Enlightenment (c) the Renaissance (d) the Baroque
c
Early burial mounds led to the Indian: (a) pagoda (b) pyramid (c) stupa (d) temple
c
In Jan van Eyck's The Marriage of Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami, the woman is wearing green because: (a) she wasn't a virgin (b) it symbolized money (c) it symbolized fertility (d) it symbolized Christianity
c
Luncheon on the Grass, by _______, was considered scandalous because of its loose brushwork and depiction of ordinary subjects in juxtaposition. (a) Paul Gauguin (b) Vincent van Gogh (c) Edouard Manet (d) Claude Monet
c
One and Three Chairs by artist Joseph Kosuth is a good example of _______ art. (a) performance (b) photorealist (c) Conceptual (d) Minimalist
c
Rene Magritte's painting Portrait utilizes ordinary objects placed in absurd or unusual juxtapositions. The artist is part of the _______ movement. (a) Dada (b) American Painting (c) Surrealism (d) Constructivism
c
Sesshu painted in a style that was called haboku, meaning: (a) expressive (b) drying wind (c) flung ink (d) fast brushstrokes
c
Site works differ from earthworks in that site works are designed to interact with the environment, whereas earthworks: (a) do not; they just sit there (b) are made of sculptural material (c) merge with the landscape (d) permanently alter the land
c
The Constructivists declared that the main element in their works was not mass but: (a) volume (b) form (c) space (d) shape
c
The Futurists were inspired by Cubism and glorified: (a) Picasso (b) birds (c) speed (d) people
c
The Hindu sculpture Shiva Nataraja, Lord of the Dance depicts the god: (a) Gupta (b) Vishnu (c) Shiva (d) Mahadeva
c
The Holy Trinity fresco, by Masaccio, is considered to be the first painting based on the use of: (a) sfumato (b) tenebrism (c) linear perspective (d) isometric perspective
c
