Art and design MCQ
The architectural feature of the islamic artists that came from the romans was _____.
Answer
Correct Answer:
The horseshoe arch
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is the ability to alter a material's shape under tensile stress called?
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is the name of the technique that creates sharp lines with fuzzy, velvety edges?
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
Which of the following is not a method of drawing?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Sculpting
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is a draftsman?
Answer
Correct Answer:
A person who draws plans or designs, often of structures to be built
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is a double exposure?
Answer
Correct Answer:
A technique in which film is exposed twice to capture and merge two different images in a single frame
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What does the term "documentary photography" mean?
Answer
Correct Answer:
A genre of photography that aims to objectively chronicle a subject or event.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is the purpose of a documentary film?
Answer
Correct Answer:
To capture some aspect of reality
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is a direct positive?
Answer
Correct Answer:
A positive image made directly by exposure to light and by development without the use of a negative.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
Which of the following is not a Direct Cinema pioneer?
Answer
Correct Answer:
D. A. Pennebaker
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is a diptych?
Answer
Correct Answer:
A work of art consisting of two sections or panels, usually hinged together.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
Which of the following artists was NOT a part of Die Brücke?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
Who were the leading members of Die Brücke?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Pechstein, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is a designer?
Answer
Correct Answer:
A person who conceives and gives form to objects used in everyday life.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is a design brief?
Answer
Correct Answer:
A written record describing the elements and scope of a design project.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What does the name "Der Blaue Reiter" mean in English?
Answer
Correct Answer:
The Blue Rider
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is the term used to describe the design and aesthetics of functional objects with an emphasis on unique and hand-crafted forms?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Decorative Arts
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
Which of the following artists was not associated with the De Stijl movement?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Piet Mondrian
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
Who founded the Dutch journal De Stijl?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Theo van Doesburg
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What was a daguerreotype?
Answer
Correct Answer:
A photographic technique invented by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre in 1839.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is the name of the international art movement that was born in Zurich and New York?
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What did Dada artists seek to expose?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Accepted and often repressive conventions of order and logic
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What was the Dada movement in response to?
Answer
Correct Answer:
The disasters of World War I and an emerging modern media and machine culture.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is the job of a curator?
Answer
Correct Answer:
To research and manage a collection and organize exhibitions.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What does culture refer to?
Answer
Correct Answer:
The customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What does the term "Cultural icon" refer to?
Answer
Correct Answer:
A person, symbol, object, or place that is widely recognized or culturally significant to a large group of people.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is Cubism?
Answer
Correct Answer:
A term of derision used by a critic in 1908
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What does Cubism describe?
Answer
Correct Answer:
The work of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and those influenced by them.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is cropping in photography?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Editing, typically by removing the outer edges of the image.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What does the term "costume" refer to in a play or movie?
Answer
Correct Answer:
What a figure is wearing.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is the other name for Cor-Ten steel?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Weathering steel
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is a convention?
Answer
Correct Answer:
General agreement on or acceptance of certain practices or attitudes
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is the definition of contrast in photography?
Answer
Correct Answer:
The range of light to dark areas in the composition
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What does the word "contour" mean?
Answer
Correct Answer:
The outline of something.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is the meaning of "Content" in art?
Answer
Correct Answer:
The subject matter or significance of a work of art
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What was the main goal of the Russian avant-garde Constructivist artists?
Answer
Correct Answer:
To strip their works of subjective emotional character
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is the name of the artistic movement that developed in Russia after the October Revolution of 1917?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Constructivism
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What does construct mean?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Something formed or constructed from parts.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is the name of the artist who gave the new genre of conceptual art its name?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Sol LeWitt
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What does the word "Concentric" mean?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Two or more things having a common center.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What does the term "composition" refer to in art?
Answer
Correct Answer:
The arrangement of the individual elements within a work of art so as to form a unified whole
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is the result when complementary colors are mixed together?
Answer
Correct Answer:
A shade of gray or brown
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What does commission mean?
Answer
Correct Answer:
To request, or the request for, the production of a work of art.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is the technique of affixing cast-off items to a traditional support, like a canvas?
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is Column?
Answer
Correct Answer:
A decorative or structural feature, most often composed of stone, typically having a cylindrical or polygonal shaft.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
Which of the following is NOT a characteristics of Color Field paintings?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Strong contrasts of tone
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What does the French word "coller" mean?
Answer
Correct Answer:
"to glue"
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What does Classicism refer to?
Answer
Correct Answer:
The principles embodied in the styles, theories, or philosophies of the art of ancient Greece and Rome.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is the definition of "Cladding"?
Answer
Correct Answer:
A metal covering that sheathes a metal structure.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is the primary focus of a cityscape?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Urban scenery
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What does a city planner do?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Help guide and shape the future development of a community
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
Who sets up both camera and lighting for each shot in a film?
Answer
Correct Answer:
The cinematographer
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What does a cinematographer do?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Sets up camera and lighting for each shot in a film
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What was the Cinématographe used for?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Showing films
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
Which brothers invented the Cinématographe?
Answer
Correct Answer:
French photographers, photographic equipment manufacturers, and brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What are chromogenic color prints?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Photographs made from a positive color transparency or a negative
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
How many primary colors are required for chromogenic color prints?
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is a choreographer?
Answer
Correct Answer:
A person who creates choreography
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is the French word for China?
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is Chine referring to in the context of the printing process?
Answer
Correct Answer:
The thin paper used in the printing process
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is chine collé?
Answer
Correct Answer:
A technique that results in a two-layered paper support
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is the definition of ceramics?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Objects, such as pots and vases, made of clay hardened by heat.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What does the act of censorship involve?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Examining books, films, or other material to remove or suppress what is considered morally, politically, or otherwise objectionable.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What was celluloid used to make?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Photographic film for both still and motion picture cameras
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is celluloid made of?
Answer
Correct Answer:
A combination of camphor and nitrocellulose
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What were cartes-de-visite?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Small handheld photographic cards
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is the purpose of a caricature?
Answer
Correct Answer:
To satirize the subject
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is a canon?
Answer
Correct Answer:
A group of artistic, literary, or musical works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is calligraphy?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Decorative handwriting or lettering.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
When did the Byzantine Empire collapse?
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
Which of the following is not an example of the built environment?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Fresh water
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is the built environment?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Human-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What does brushwork refer to?
Answer
Correct Answer:
The manner in which a painter applies paint with a brush
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is the definition of Brocade?
Answer
Correct Answer:
A heavy fabric interwoven with a rich, raised design.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
Who developed the Black Maria?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Thomas Alva Edison
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What was the world's first film studio called?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Black Maria
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What does the term "biomorphic" refer to?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Abstract forms or images that evoke associations with living forms
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is binder?
Answer
Correct Answer:
A component of paint that creates uniform consistency or cohesion.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What are Ben-Day dots?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Colored dots used to create shading and secondary colors in the mechanical reproduction of images.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What does Belle Époque French for?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Beautiful Era
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
The Beat Generation was a group of American writers and artists popular in which decade?
Answer
Correct Answer:
1950s and early 1960s
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
When was the Bauhaus school of art and design founded?
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is the definition of Batik?
Answer
Correct Answer:
A wax-resist dyeing technique that is often used to make highly patterned cloth.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
Baroque is a term meaning _____.
Answer
Correct Answer:
Extravagant, complex
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is the main purpose of a ball bearing?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Reducing friction
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is the definition of background?
Answer
Correct Answer:
The area of an artwork that appears farthest away from the viewer
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is a B movie?
Answer
Correct Answer:
A low-budget movie, especially one made for use as a companion to the main attraction in a double feature.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What does the term "avant-garde" mean in English?
Answer
Correct Answer:
A group that is innovative, experimental, and inventive in its technique or ideology
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is the meaning of automatism?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Strategies of writing or creating art that aimed to access the unconscious mind.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
Which group of artists used automatist techniques?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Surrealists
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What does Atelier Populaire mean in English?
Answer
Correct Answer:
"popular workshop"
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is Assemblage?
Answer
Correct Answer:
A three-dimensional work of art made from combinations of materials including found objects or non-traditional art materials.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What was the main focus of the Arts and Crafts movement?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Simple, functional forms
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What does the word "artifice" mean?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Deception or trickery.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is the profession of designing and constructing buildings, bridges, and other large structures called?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Architecture
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is the definition of "appropriation?"
Answer
Correct Answer:
The intentional borrowing, copying, and alteration of preexisting images, objects, and ideas.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What does angular mean?
Answer
Correct Answer:
An object, outline, or shape having sharp corners, or angles.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
Aluminum is which of the following?
Answer
Correct Answer:
A soft, durable, lightweight, ductile, and malleable metal
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is the appearance of aluminum?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Silvery to dull gray
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
Aesthetic is an adjective meaning...?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Characterized by a concern with beauty or good taste
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is the predecessor of documentaries?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Actualities
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
Who coined the term "action painting"?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Harold Rosenberg
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
Which of the following is not an evidence of the physical action that took place upon the canvas in action painting?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Easel painting
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What does "academic" mean?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Relating to the conservative style of art promoted by an official academy
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is abstraction?
Answer
Correct Answer:
Non-representational works of art that do not depict scenes or objects in the world or have discernable subject matter.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
What is the term used to describe art that is not representational or based on external reality or nature?
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
Which artists were associated with the Abstract Expressionism movement?
Answer
Correct Answer:
They championed bold, gestural abstraction in all mediums, particularly large painted canvases.
Note: This Question is unanswered, help us to find answer for this one
