Art and design MCQ

1. The architectural feature of the islamic artists that came from the romans was _____.

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Correct Answer: The horseshoe arch

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2. What is the ability to alter a material's shape under tensile stress called?

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Correct Answer: Ductile

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3. What is the name of the technique that creates sharp lines with fuzzy, velvety edges?

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Correct Answer: Drypoint

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4. Which of the following is not a method of drawing?

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Correct Answer: Sculpting

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5. What is a draftsman?

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Correct Answer: A person who draws plans or designs, often of structures to be built

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6. What is a double exposure?

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Correct Answer: A technique in which film is exposed twice to capture and merge two different images in a single frame

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7. What does the term "documentary photography" mean?

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Correct Answer: A genre of photography that aims to objectively chronicle a subject or event.

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8. What is the purpose of a documentary film?

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Correct Answer: To capture some aspect of reality

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9. What is a direct positive?

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Correct Answer: A positive image made directly by exposure to light and by development without the use of a negative.

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10. Which of the following is not a Direct Cinema pioneer?

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Correct Answer: D. A. Pennebaker

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11. What is a diptych?

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Correct Answer: A work of art consisting of two sections or panels, usually hinged together.

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12. Which of the following artists was NOT a part of Die Brücke?

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Correct Answer: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

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13. Who were the leading members of Die Brücke?

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Correct Answer: Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Pechstein, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

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14. What is a designer?

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Correct Answer: A person who conceives and gives form to objects used in everyday life.

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15. What is a design brief?

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Correct Answer: A written record describing the elements and scope of a design project.

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16. What does the name "Der Blaue Reiter" mean in English?

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Correct Answer: The Blue Rider

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17. What is the term used to describe the design and aesthetics of functional objects with an emphasis on unique and hand-crafted forms?

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Correct Answer: Decorative Arts

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18. Which of the following artists was not associated with the De Stijl movement?

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Correct Answer: Piet Mondrian

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19. Who founded the Dutch journal De Stijl?

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Correct Answer: Theo van Doesburg

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20. What was a daguerreotype?

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Correct Answer: A photographic technique invented by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre in 1839.

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21. What is the name of the international art movement that was born in Zurich and New York?

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Correct Answer: Dada

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22. What did Dada artists seek to expose?

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Correct Answer: Accepted and often repressive conventions of order and logic

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23. What was the Dada movement in response to?

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Correct Answer: The disasters of World War I and an emerging modern media and machine culture.

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24. What is the job of a curator?

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Correct Answer: To research and manage a collection and organize exhibitions.

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25. What does culture refer to?

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Correct Answer: The customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group.

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26. What does the term "Cultural icon" refer to?

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Correct Answer: A person, symbol, object, or place that is widely recognized or culturally significant to a large group of people.

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27. What is Cubism?

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Correct Answer: A term of derision used by a critic in 1908

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28. What does Cubism describe?

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Correct Answer: The work of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and those influenced by them.

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29. What is cropping in photography?

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Correct Answer: Editing, typically by removing the outer edges of the image.

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30. What does the term "costume" refer to in a play or movie?

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Correct Answer: What a figure is wearing.

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31. What is the other name for Cor-Ten steel?

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Correct Answer: Weathering steel

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32. What is a convention?

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Correct Answer: General agreement on or acceptance of certain practices or attitudes

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33. What is the definition of contrast in photography?

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Correct Answer: The range of light to dark areas in the composition

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34. What does the word "contour" mean?

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Correct Answer: The outline of something.

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35. What is the meaning of "Content" in art?

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Correct Answer: The subject matter or significance of a work of art

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36. What was the main goal of the Russian avant-garde Constructivist artists?

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Correct Answer: To strip their works of subjective emotional character

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37. What is the name of the artistic movement that developed in Russia after the October Revolution of 1917?

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Correct Answer: Constructivism

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38. What does construct mean?

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Correct Answer: Something formed or constructed from parts.

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39. What is the name of the artist who gave the new genre of conceptual art its name?

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Correct Answer: Sol LeWitt

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40. What does the word "Concentric" mean?

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Correct Answer: Two or more things having a common center.

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41. What does the term "composition" refer to in art?

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Correct Answer: The arrangement of the individual elements within a work of art so as to form a unified whole

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42. What is the result when complementary colors are mixed together?

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Correct Answer: A shade of gray or brown

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43. What does commission mean?

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Correct Answer: To request, or the request for, the production of a work of art.

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44. What is the technique of affixing cast-off items to a traditional support, like a canvas?

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Correct Answer: Combine

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45. What is Column?

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Correct Answer: A decorative or structural feature, most often composed of stone, typically having a cylindrical or polygonal shaft.

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46. Which of the following is NOT a characteristics of Color Field paintings?

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Correct Answer: Strong contrasts of tone

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47. What does the French word "coller" mean?

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Correct Answer: "to glue"

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48. What does Classicism refer to?

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Correct Answer: The principles embodied in the styles, theories, or philosophies of the art of ancient Greece and Rome.

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49. What is the definition of "Cladding"?

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Correct Answer: A metal covering that sheathes a metal structure.

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50. What is the primary focus of a cityscape?

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Correct Answer: Urban scenery

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51. What does a city planner do?

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Correct Answer: Help guide and shape the future development of a community

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52. Who sets up both camera and lighting for each shot in a film?

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Correct Answer: The cinematographer

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53. What does a cinematographer do?

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Correct Answer: Sets up camera and lighting for each shot in a film

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54. What was the Cinématographe used for?

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Correct Answer: Showing films

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55. Which brothers invented the Cinématographe?

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Correct Answer: French photographers, photographic equipment manufacturers, and brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière

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56. What are chromogenic color prints?

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Correct Answer: Photographs made from a positive color transparency or a negative

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57. How many primary colors are required for chromogenic color prints?

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Correct Answer: 3

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58. What is a choreographer?

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Correct Answer: A person who creates choreography

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59. What is the French word for China?

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Correct Answer: Chine

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60. What is Chine referring to in the context of the printing process?

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Correct Answer: The thin paper used in the printing process

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61. What is chine collé?

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Correct Answer: A technique that results in a two-layered paper support

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62. What is the definition of ceramics?

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Correct Answer: Objects, such as pots and vases, made of clay hardened by heat.

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63. What does the act of censorship involve?

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Correct Answer: Examining books, films, or other material to remove or suppress what is considered morally, politically, or otherwise objectionable.

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64. What was celluloid used to make?

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Correct Answer: Photographic film for both still and motion picture cameras

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65. What is celluloid made of?

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Correct Answer: A combination of camphor and nitrocellulose

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66. What were cartes-de-visite?

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Correct Answer: Small handheld photographic cards

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67. What is the purpose of a caricature?

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Correct Answer: To satirize the subject

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68. What is a canon?

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Correct Answer: A group of artistic, literary, or musical works that are generally accepted as representing a field.

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69. What is calligraphy?

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Correct Answer: Decorative handwriting or lettering.

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70. When did the Byzantine Empire collapse?

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Correct Answer: 1453

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71. Which of the following is not an example of the built environment?

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Correct Answer: Fresh water

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72. What is the built environment?

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Correct Answer: Human-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity.

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73. What does brushwork refer to?

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Correct Answer: The manner in which a painter applies paint with a brush

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74. What is the definition of Brocade?

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Correct Answer: A heavy fabric interwoven with a rich, raised design.

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75. Who developed the Black Maria?

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Correct Answer: Thomas Alva Edison

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76. What was the world's first film studio called?

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Correct Answer: Black Maria

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77. What does the term "biomorphic" refer to?

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Correct Answer: Abstract forms or images that evoke associations with living forms

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78. What is binder?

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Correct Answer: A component of paint that creates uniform consistency or cohesion.

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79. What are Ben-Day dots?

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Correct Answer: Colored dots used to create shading and secondary colors in the mechanical reproduction of images.

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80. What does Belle Époque French for?

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Correct Answer: Beautiful Era

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81. The Beat Generation was a group of American writers and artists popular in which decade?

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Correct Answer: 1950s and early 1960s

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82. When was the Bauhaus school of art and design founded?

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Correct Answer: 1919

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83. What is the definition of Batik?

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Correct Answer: A wax-resist dyeing technique that is often used to make highly patterned cloth.

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84. Baroque is a term meaning _____.

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Correct Answer: Extravagant, complex

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85. What is the main purpose of a ball bearing?

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Correct Answer: Reducing friction

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86. What is the definition of background?

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Correct Answer: The area of an artwork that appears farthest away from the viewer

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87. What is a B movie?

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Correct Answer: A low-budget movie, especially one made for use as a companion to the main attraction in a double feature.

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88. What does the term "avant-garde" mean in English?

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Correct Answer: A group that is innovative, experimental, and inventive in its technique or ideology

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89. What is the meaning of automatism?

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Correct Answer: Strategies of writing or creating art that aimed to access the unconscious mind.

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90. Which group of artists used automatist techniques?

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Correct Answer: Surrealists

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91. What does Atelier Populaire mean in English?

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Correct Answer: "popular workshop"

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92. What is Assemblage?

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Correct Answer: A three-dimensional work of art made from combinations of materials including found objects or non-traditional art materials.

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93. What was the main focus of the Arts and Crafts movement?

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Correct Answer: Simple, functional forms

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94. What does the word "artifice" mean?

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Correct Answer: Deception or trickery.

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95. What is the profession of designing and constructing buildings, bridges, and other large structures called?

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Correct Answer: Architecture

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96. What is the definition of "appropriation?"

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Correct Answer: The intentional borrowing, copying, and alteration of preexisting images, objects, and ideas.

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97. What does angular mean?

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Correct Answer: An object, outline, or shape having sharp corners, or angles.

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98. Aluminum is which of the following?

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Correct Answer: A soft, durable, lightweight, ductile, and malleable metal

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99. What is the appearance of aluminum?

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Correct Answer: Silvery to dull gray

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100. Aesthetic is an adjective meaning...?

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Correct Answer: Characterized by a concern with beauty or good taste

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101. What is the predecessor of documentaries?

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Correct Answer: Actualities

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102. Who coined the term "action painting"?

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Correct Answer: Harold Rosenberg

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103. Which of the following is not an evidence of the physical action that took place upon the canvas in action painting?

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Correct Answer: Easel painting

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104. What does "academic" mean?

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Correct Answer: Relating to the conservative style of art promoted by an official academy

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105. What is abstraction?

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Correct Answer: Non-representational works of art that do not depict scenes or objects in the world or have discernable subject matter.

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106. What is the term used to describe art that is not representational or based on external reality or nature?

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Correct Answer: Abstract

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107. Which artists were associated with the Abstract Expressionism movement?

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Correct Answer: They championed bold, gestural abstraction in all mediums, particularly large painted canvases.

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