ArtH 100 PSU Chang tang final exam (clicker questions)

The "Genre painting" of 17th century Netherlands refers to _______________"

"snapshots" of everyday life

The annunciation scene in christain art often contain all of the following except for

A lambs

A dageurreotype is _________

An early type of photographic image that took a very long exposure time

Which of the following painting is a work of Romanticism?

Gericault's "The Charging Chasseur"

In Caravaggio's "The Calling of St. Matthew" tenebrism is used to

Highlight the contrast between the divine light and the mundance surroundings PLUS heighten the drama of the scene

Which one of the following is NOT a theme or topic favored by Surrealist artists?

Imaginative Portrayals of a sci-fi utopia

Which one of the following is NOT what feminist artists in the 1970s tried to do?

Include more portraits of women in paintings and sculptures, especially in nudity

Which one of the following description of pop art is correct?

It is primarily depicting easily recognizable icons and products from pop culture

Futurism is considered an ultra- "avant-garde" movement because

It rejects all the established art and aims for the radically new & it embraces many technological advances of modernity, such as speed and light

Compared with tempera, oil paint is

More reflective of light

Protestant Reforemation impacted European Art in the following ways:

The Catholic Church's role as the patron of art declined PLUS religious icons were destroyed in many churches

An Altarpiece usually

has multiple frames that portray different icons or stories PLUS can be opened or closed in different occasions, or observed from different angles

Rauchenberg's Canyon is called a combine because

it combines various readymade materials

The making of cloisonne involves the following steps:

making and welding the filigree PLUS filling the space with gemstone, glass, or enamel

In West Africa, the practice of scarification was primarily for the sake of

marking nobility and lineage of the family

Which of the following does not demonstrate the correct use of the linear perspective?

painting with an angel and a table in a room

Templo Mayor (The Great Temple of Tenochititlan) was built to __________________________

serve the serpent goddess

Some paintings in the 19th century are described as "Orientalism" because

they portray eastern cultures as exotic decadent, and primitive