Art Appreciation Exam
Which of the following cultures strove to create the ideal individual in both art and culture?
Greek
Stone tools and cave paintings are characteristic of
Paleolithic art
Which of the following periods is characterized by a renewed interest in the arts and ideas of classical Greece?
Renaissance
Which of the following types of art depicts recognizable objects from the natural world?
Representational art
When art serves the ritualistic needs or express the spiritually of an establish faith, it fulfills
a religious purpose
The visual expression of an idea or experience through the use of a medium is known as
a work of art
Overlapping objects on a two dimensional plane is one way to
achieve depth on a flat surface
The study of how and why artworks are considered beautiful is called
aesthetics
In the Neolithic period, the production of clay storage pots was the direct result of the
agricultural revolution
Which of the following is a characteristic of organic shapes?
an irregular outline
Making favorable and unfavorable judgements about works of art called
art criticism
Which principle of design is achieved by symmetry or asymmetry
balance
Which concept varies considerably across cultures?
beauty
The alternation or removal of art from public view is known as
censorship
Which of the following styles emphasizes rational simplicity, order, and idealized human forms?
classical
What color grouping produces the strongest contrasts when used side by side?
complementary
The juxtaposition of strongly dissimilar elements is referred to as
contrast
Which of the following artistic styles concentrated on formal structure?
cubism
In the United States, the Armory Show of 1913 was crucial for the development of
early modern art
In his painting such as Starry Night, Vincent Van Gogh used color to convey
emotion
Romantic artists emphasized
emotion
Art that emphasizes inner feelings and emotions rather than the objective depictions of subject matter is called
expressionism
Evaluating art based on the artist expression of personal meanings and worldview exemplifies the use of
expressive theories
Which type of art focuses on human subjects?
figurative
The principal area of emphasis in an artwork is called a
focal point
Which artist create work based primarily on cultural traditions and practices?
folk artists
In an artwork, the total effect of the combined visual qualities is known as the
form
Which theories focus attention on the composition of an artwork and how earlier artworks may have influenced it?
formal
In order to organize figures according to degrees of importance, ancient Egyptian artists used
hierarchic scale
Which of the following refers to the symbolic meaning of visual signs and imagery in the work of art?
iconography
In artwork, beauty found in something close to perfection defines
idealism
The style of painting that portrays the light and mood of a particular moment and the transitory of light and color is called
impressionalism
The purity or saturation of a color is its
intensity
In art, value refers to the
lightness and darkness of surfaces
Which of the following techniques enabled Italian artists to place subjects in a rational and order three-dimensional space?
linear perspective
Art is a good method of communicating information, ideas, and opinions because it
makes visual statements that a wide range of people can understand
In the art world, a __________ is a particular material, along with its accompanying technique
medium
Artwork made with a combination of different materials, such as a photomontage, is. refereed to as
mixed media
When a work of art shows no reference to the natural world images, it is
nonrepresentational
When a work of art shows no reference to the natural world of images, it is called
nonrepresentational
Pablo Picasso created Guernica in order to
protest the brutality of war
Photography influenced the stylistic development of
realism
_______ is a type of painting in which an artist arranges items on a tabletop for subject matter.
still life
In representational art, objects are called
subjects
the artistic movement that emphasized the importance of the unconscious mind, dreams, and hallucinations is called
surrealism
In art, the tactile qualities of surfaces and the visual representation of those qualities are known as
texture
Some scholars believe that the Woman of Willendorf depicts
the Great Mother goddess
The roman innovation that most greatly influenced western architecture was
the rounded arch
The term used to describe the "fool-the-eye" realism of William Harnett's painting A Smoke Backstage is
trompe l'oeil
The appearance of similarity in a work of art is called
unity
When does art fulfill an expressive function?
when it convoys information about an artist's personality
