art 1301 exams 5-8

Which of the following works of architecture is a masterpiece of the Roman phase of Neoclassical American architecture, also known as the Federal Style?

Thomas Jefferson's Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia

"Site-specific" works are inseparable from the sites for which they were designed.

True

According to the text, while it is still possible to create art that offends people, it is difficult to make a new style such as Cubism, Expressionism, Constructivism or Minimalism. Most artists today are not striving for this.

True

Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" is the first large mythological painting since Classical antiquity.

True

During the Analytical phase of Cubism (1910-1911), artists tried to show objects from a variety of angles as the mind, rather than the eye, perceives them.

True

For performance artist Ana Mendieta's "Tree of Life", she coated herself with mud and grasses and stood against ancient tree trunks to show the essential equivalence between femaleness and natural processes.

True

Gustave Courbert began the practice of setting up his own shows and exhibits rather than relying on academic or state patronage.

True

In the post-World War II years, the Western world embraced the The International Style as the leading edge of architecture. It's clean masses and sleek exteriors embodied efficiency, cosmopolitanism and the future.

True

Indian-born British sculptor Anish Kapoor's To Reflect an Intimate Part of the Red has shapes that allude to Mayan pyramids, Indian Stupas and onion-shaped domes.

True

Installations and Environments generally make the assumption that the viewer is a part of the piece.

True

Marcel Duchamp's altered portrait of the "Mona Lisa" called "L.H.O.O.Q" is a classic example of a Dadaist piece which attempts to shake people out of their unthinking acceptance of dominant values.

True

Mesopotamia means "the land between the rivers."

True

Naturalistic observation combined with mathematical calculation describes classical Greek figures.

True

Shrines in Early Japan were built out of wood, using no nails, merely fitted joints and pegs.

True

The Gupta style accompanied the spread of Buddhism when it was exported to China and Southeast Asia.

True

The first step in the history of art was an awareness of the relationship of form to function, and of form as enjoyable in itself.

True

The most learned and influential architect of the 16th century was Andrea Palladio.

True

The most memorable piece of Mughal art is the Taj Mahal in Agra.

True

Artist Barbara Kruger trained as a magazine designer before she created an untitled work with the following issue-oriented slogan:

"I Shop Therefore I Am."

An early leader in the Conceptual Art movement was Yoko Ono whose works were generally instructions to viewers without actual illustration. One such work was __________.

"Take 15 minutes to pronounce the word south."

Which famous work was created by the French Artist Auguste Rodin?

"The Thinker"

Surrealism attempted to combine dreams with reality, while recognizing the two were:

Contradictory

Many characteristics of the Baroque style were spawned and promoted by the ______ in response to the Protestant Reformation and the growing impact of science.

Counter-Reformation

Which of the following is NOT true about Artist Tiffany Chung's work:

Creates spaces for experiences in hopes that they will improve the community.

Up until the modern period, Chinese civilization was characterized by the interaction of three traditions: Confucianism, __________ and Buddhism

Daoism

During the Romanesque Period of the Middle Ages, what did monasteries NOT provide?

Food for the Destitute

Eugene Delecroix was famous for his painterly qualities, which means he used paint:

In a loose and open way

Hindu culture and belief arose over a period of about 1000 years when the Indus Valley Civilization declined and the first Buddhist art appeared. During this time, __________ migrants from the northwest mingled with the indigenous peoples.

Indo-Aryan

Contrapposto is ________.

A counterpoised position of a standing figure.

Many Renaissance artists benefited from the patronage of the __________ family.

Medici

According to Islamic tradition, what was God's first creation?

A Reed Pen

California feminist artist Judy Chicago organized and directed a cooperative venture known as "The Dinner Party." This piece can best be described as:

A large triangular table containing place settings for 39 women who made important contributions to world history.

Jackson Pollock is considered the leading innovator of a style of painting known as __________.

Action Painting

Which New York City gallery owner, famous in his own right as a photographer, was first in America to exhibit such famous artists as Cezanne, Matisse, Brancusi, Picasso and Braque?

Alfred Stieglitz

After World War II, artists began to rethink the relationship between life and art and explore artforms beyond the representational and the narrative. One result was Abstract Expressionism, which was essentially:

All of the Above.

Neoclassicism refers to:

An emulation of classical Greek and Roman art.

The first Christian churches were patterned after Roman basilicas used by the Romans as:

Assembly Halls

In the beginning, Christianity was considered a strange cult and the Romans sought to suppress it. Accordingly, Christians were forced to worship and hide their religious art in:

Catacombs

World War I set the stage for the Russian Revolution, the rise of the Nazis and the Fascists, and artistic:

Censorship and Repression

Using the woodcut printing technique originally developed in ________, Japanese artists developed an art form which proved popular over the next two hundred years.

China

Classical Greek figures appear more relaxed than the rigid, formal Egyptian and early Greek sculptural poses because __________.

Classical Greek sculptors were interested in anatomy and portraying the body as alive and capable of movement.

Mark Rothko was a pioneer of a painting style characterized by images so huge that they engulf the viewer. This style is known as __________.

Color Field

Japanese prints called ukiyo-e (meaning "floating world") depicted the:

Everyday World

"Paleolithic" means New Stone Age.

False

A significant import to the west, Bronze casting was an art practiced by most men in Benin.

False

Akbar the Mughal Ruler of the Indian subcontinent believed that figural representations in art lead artists to a deeper respect for nature.

False

Donald Judd was a leading artist and the major spokesman for the Surrealist movement.

False

Famous for saying "Form ever follows function", Michael Graves and his ideas were the inspiration for the International Style architects who built practical buildings that clearly showed structural supports and banished all ornament.

False

In performance art, artists create a number of art pieces in the center of a work space while the audience is free to mill around and watch. Afterward, those same pieces are available for purchase at a silent auction, usually to benefit a charitable organization.

False

Josh Kline's This is Not an Artwork brings together fake vegetables, a wig model, an action figure and a surveillance camera as a meditation on what is real and what is representation.

False

Minimalist sculpture is emotional and sensual.

False

Originally developed in India, Confucianism was borrowed by China.

False

Post-Impressionist art places an enormous emphasis on sketchy immediacy and objective observation.

False

Successful Chinese poetry had little to do with the execution of the calligraphy and everything to do with the phrasing imagery.

False

The Egyptian rule did NOT last long because their emphasis was on the afterlife.

False

The Greeks developed the structural use of concrete.

False

The Greeks mainly used the arch in their architecture.

False

The Muslim prophet Mohammad encouraged artists to paint pictures of him for the historical record.

False

The Pantheon's oculus was included to both lighten and strengthen the dome.

False

The movement known as Constructivism began as a protest of World War I.

False

Though considered the preeminent painter of his time, Michelangelo's sculpture never achieve the same acclaim.

False

English artist Richard Hamilton published a tongue-in-cheek list of Pop Art characteristics for the art community. Which of the following was NOT listed as what Pop Art should be?

Fast

Henri Matisse was the leader of the movement called:

Fauvism

Hindu temples have two parts. A porch and a Womb Chamber called the __________.

Garba Griha

Cooperative events in which viewers become active participants in partly planned, partly spontaneous performances that combine scripted scenarios with considerable improvisation are called:

Happenings

Although he did not invent Pop Art, Andy Warhol was its most visible and controversial artist. Which of the following can NOT be attributed to him?

He used blown-up comic book images with their characteristic printing dots to create social commentary.

What period of Greek art is considered dynamic and yet does not deal with idealized subject matters?

Hellenistic Period

Which of the following Frenchmen is the Post-Impressionist known for his paintings of the night-life at the Moulin Rouge?

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

The sizing of figures as determined by social rank is called:

Hierarchic Scale

Most of the art of Oceania is intended to __________.

Honor or Placate Ancestors

Which of the following was NOT characteristic of International Style architecture?

Houses blended with their natural surroundings

The painted folding screen is most often associated with __________.

Japan

Edgar Degas' paintings revealed his interest in the candid attitude found in unposed, street-scene photography and _________.

Japanese Prints

During the Chinese Yuan dynasty the most creative artists refused to paint or teach for Mongol controlled governments and lived outside official sponsorship. This devotion to art and poetry is called __________.

Literati Painting

Which one of the following artists scandalized French critics with the work "Luncheon on the Grass (Le Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe)" both with the artistic style employed as well as the subject matter?

Manet

Between the Paleolithic and Neolithic Periods, artistic style went from ______ to ______.

Naturalistic to Abstract

The word "neolithic" means:

New Stone

In the years after World War II, much innovation centered in the United States, giving rise to the term:

New York School

Cubism was pioneered by which two artists?

Pablo Picasso and George Braque

Between 1954-1972, some Japanese artists formed a radical group called Gutai (Embodiment) which rejected art's very basis. Artists of this movement did NOT:

Paint by allowing paint-dipped bugs to crawl over paper.

Which people reached a peak of achievement in decorating architecture with tiles?

Persians

The Post Impressionists felt the Impressionists did NOT allow room for:

Personal Expression

Minimalist painters urged viewers to see paintings as objects rather than as:

Pictures

The term "ukiyo-e" is a Japanese print which meaning translates to __________.

Pictures of the Floating World

Georges Seurat's "A Sunday on a La Grande Jatte" is painted in a style known as:

Pointillism

A reaction against the sterile anonymity of the International Style led many architects to look once again at meaning, history, tradition and context. Their departure from architectural modernism was dubbed ________ in the late 1970s.

Postmodern

What kind of art is most representational of the Pueblo people?

Pottery

Pre-Columbian and Egyptian societies had an art form in common. What was it?

Pyramids

How many clay warriors were included in the army to protect the Chinese Emperor of 210 B.C.E.?

Six Thousand

Gustave Courbet's painting "The Stone Breakers" is a famous work of:

Realism

Because of the rapid changes and discoveries of the 20th century artists searching for new ways to express new realities felt they had to put aside dependence on the:

Renaissance

Totalitarian governments between the world wars required artists who wished to have a successful career to produce a socially and politically committed form of art called social realism which goal was:

Retreat from modern art and communicate official positions to the public.

Spanish artist Francisco Goya was a:

Romantic Painter

India's Ancient Indus Valley figurative art would best be characterized as:

Sensual Naturalism

Murals in the basilicas were created to:

Tell a pictoral story to an illiterate audience.

What two groups typified the German Expressionist movement of the early twentieth century?

The Bridge and the Blue Rider

Which of the following is NOT true about the Colosseum?

The Colosseum was originally known as the Medici Amphitheater.

Egyptian paintings were less natural looking than Greek paintings because __________.

The Egyptians felt the need to position the figure so it exposed and presented the most descriptive view of the body

The Japanese found __________ particularly effective for long narrative compositions that depicted the passage of time.

The Hand Scroll

The Pomo culture produces brightly-colored feather baskets which are considered the tribe's highest artistic achievement. Who traditionally makes these baskets?

Women