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