Art Final
1. 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
13. 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
18. Caravaggio's high contrast of lights and dark as well as the extreme _______ of Saint Paul create a vivid and dramatic portrayal of The Conversion of Saint Paul. a. foreshortening b. color c. close-up
a
2. 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
21. 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
23. The Great Mosque is complete with a _______ to mark the building's location and allow the faithful to be called to prayer by a chanter. a. minaret b. mosque c. turret d. barbican
a
28. The Horse Fair was painted by Rosa Bonheur, the artist who had to get police permission to wear trousers. It is an excellent example of a. Realism. b. Symbolism. c. Impressionism. d. Postimpressionism.
a
33. Picasso combined lessons from Cézanne with _______ sculpture to produce Les Demoiselles d' Avignon. a. African b. Roman c. Greek d. Medieval
a
15. Leonardo da Vinci's technique of blurred edges, as seen in his Mona Lisa, is a special type of _______ the artist invented called sfumato. a. glazing b. chiaroscuro c. tempera d. encaustic
b
30. Romantic artists emphasized _______ in their works. a. reason and logic b. emotion c. horizontal structure d. abstraction
b
5. The word "Neolithic" means a. Old Stone Age. b. New Stone Age. c. Middle Stone Age. d. nomadic
b
6. During the Neolithic period, art went from a. naturalistic to realistic. b. naturalistic to abstract. c. abstract to naturalistic. d. geometric to realistic.
b
7. Portrait Head of an Old Man is an example of sculpture from the _______ portrait tradition. a. Greek b. Roman c. Etruscan d. Egyptian
b
The vessel earthenware beaker is from the _______ period. a. Old Stone Age b. New Stone Age c. Paleolithic d. Middle Stone Age
b
10. _______ is an excellent example of Gothic architecture. a. The Greek Parthenon b. The Roman Pantheon c. Chartres Cathedral d. San Vitale
c
14. 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
17. In Jan van Eyck's The Arnolfini Portrait, the woman is wearing a green dress to symbolize a. marital fidelity. b. purity. c. fertility. d. the presence of Christ.
c
19. The new philosophical, literary, and artistic movement called _______ had a major impact on Renaissance art and culture. a. existentialism b. iconoclasm c. humanism d. Neoplatonism
c
31. 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
32. The artist who painted Blue Mountain and Composition IV, Wassily Kandinsky, felt that abstract and nonrepresentational art led to a new a. politics. b. socialism. c. spirituality. d. monarchy.
c
34. The cultural 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
4. The Mesopotamians built their temples, such as that of Ur-Nammu, on a type of structure called a(n) a. acropolis. b. cuneiform. c. ziggurat. d. mana
c
11. The first Christian churches were patterned after Roman basilicas used by the Romans as a. temples. b. baths. c. palaces. d. government buildings.
d
12. Early Christian art was created in private homes and underground burial chambers called a. entasis. b. metopes. c. coffers. d. catacombs.
d
16. Michelangelo's David has a naturalistic pose, called _______ and influenced by the Classical sculpture of the ancient Greeks. a. chiaroscuro b. hierarchical scale c. foreshortening d. contrapposto
d
20. The Rococo style, with its decorative and sensual qualities, was particularly suited to the extravagant and often frivolous life of the a. Protestant Reformation. b. Catholic Church. c. Dutch middle class. d. French court and aristocracy
d
22. 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 b. black c. terra cotta d. blue
d
24. 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
25. 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
26. African textiles, such as Kente cloth, 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
27. The Native American Hopis and Zunis identify invisible life force spirits as a. mana. b. false-faces. c. souls. d. kachinas.
d
29. Claude Monet's Impression: Sunrise began the movement known as a. Post-Impressionism. b. Fauvism. c. Divisionism. d. Impressionism
d
8. The Greek Parthenon was designed to honor_______, goddess of wisdom and warfare and protector of the city of Athens. a. Sarpedon b. Venus Athenia c. Polykleitos d. Athena Parthenos
d
9. 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
