Question 1

The work Dreaming in Color by Leni Schwendinger has been called __________ because a machine creates the art,with the artist one step removed.

Accepted Answer

A)   cyborg surrealism
B)   electronic art
C)   cyberart
D)   technological art D

Question 2

Jan van Eyck's painting The Marriage of Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami illustrates the possibilities of rendering color and detail using the new medium of __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   oil paint
B)   tempera on panel
C)   encaustic
D)   handpainted woodcuts A

Question 3

Characteristics of the work of Jackson Pollock include __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   expressive gesture
B)   all-over composition
C)   expression of the artist's inner life
D)   all of the above D

Question 4

In the early twentieth century,the two movements that characterized the split between depiction of emotion and a focus on form were __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   Expressionism and Cubism
B)   Expressionism and Futurism
C)   Fauvism and Futurism
D)   Surrealism and Futurism

Question 5

Archaeologists have found a lot of evidence of prehistoric societies and can give a detailed interpretation of the art.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

The main interest of the Impressionist painters was to __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   create narratives and stories in a single image
B)   focus on optical impressions of light
C)   depict as precisely as possible three-dimensional space and real objects
D)   convey their opinions and impressions of contemporary issues

Question 7

The three greatest artists of the High Renaissance in Italy were __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   Jan van Eyck, Giotto, and Raphael
B)   Tintoretto, Giotto, and Michelangelo
C)   Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Raphael
D)   none of the above

Question 8

In his painting The Oath of the Horatii ,Jacques-Louis David __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   was primarily interested in showing off his mastery of the elements of design
B)   depicted the military power of the French king
C)   used the style of Classical sculptures to illustrate a theme of patriotism
D)   provided a model to be used for engraved illustrations in a book

Question 9

At first,art movements lasted a long time because __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   there were only a few artists
B)   societies were isolated from each other so new ideas weren't passed around
C)   cultures competed with each other
D)   art was just beginning and artists had a lot to learn

Question 10

In the mid-nineteenth century,the painter Gustave Courbet sought to __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   restore the emotion and drama of the Baroque
B)   recapture the ancient forms of painting discovered in Roman ruins
C)   depict grand mythological and religious subjects
D)   present real people and scenes of contemporary life

Question 11

One of the main points important to an understanding of Baroque art is that __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   it was intended to elicit an emotional response in the viewer
B)   the Catholic Church prohibited churches from showing it
C)   the Protestant churches were the source of most of the commissions
D)   viewers rejected it and felt it was cold and unfeeling

Question 12

During the Gothic period,Abbot Suger's design for churches stressed __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   the emotional and psychological effects of interior spaces
B)   his belief that churches should be simple and unadorned
C)   the importance of the role of the priest
D)   small, quiet spaces for meditation

Question 13

Marcel Duchamp asserted that anything was art because it is simply the act of the artist's choice that establishes something as art.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

The Calling of Saint Matthew by Caravaggio illustrates a new concept for religious art which was __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   a palette that included only dark colors
B)   a focus on real people as the subjects
C)   the use of light as an element
D)   using scenes from the gospels

Question 15

An example of how the Romantic painters departed from Neoclassical austerity is __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa
B)   Velàzquez' Las Meninas
C)   Grünewald's The Isenheim Altarpiece
D)   none of the above

Question 16

Some of the oldest art ever discovered is(are)__________.

Accepted Answer

A)   on the walls of caves in France
B)   stone cities in Peru
C)   carved into trees in the African bush
D)   Egyptian tombs

Question 17

During the Golden Age of Athens,known as the Classical period,Greek art,such as the sculpture the Spear Bearer or the Acropolis and Parthenon of Athens,emphasized __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   military heroism
B)   dramatic, emotionally active images
C)   rationality and idealized beauty
D)   images of the dead and the afterlife

Question 18

Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein are representatives of __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   Futurism
B)   Pop Art
C)   Dada
D)   none of the above

Question 19

In the late Gothic Period of the fourteenth century Giotto's painting The Lamentation illustrates a new approach to representation by showing __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   that artists had stopped using fresco in favor of other media
B)   that churches were commissioning art
C)   that stories of the life of Jesus could be illustrated
D)   three-dimensional illusion through the modeling of forms

Question 20

The term "postmodernism" refers to __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   a variety of late-twentieth-century art styles and interests
B)   New Realism art
C)   the architecture of the International Modern style
D)   the reinforcement of Modernist ideals

Exam 15: Historical Styles in Western Art