Basic Art MCQ

1. Davids painting oath of the horatii (fig. 30-37) became an emblem of the french __________.

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Correct Answer: Revolution

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2. Unlike two-dimensional compositions, three-dimensional objects such as sculptures often have ____.

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Correct Answer: Actual balance

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3. The sumerians were a ________ society.

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Correct Answer: Polytheistic

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4. The decoration of etruscan tombs suggests a _________ attitude towards death and the afterlife.

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Correct Answer: Celebratory

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5. The discovery of graphite in the 1500's helped to largely replace _____________.

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Correct Answer: Silverpoint

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6. Jolene rickards corn blue room is an example of ________.

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Correct Answer: Installation art

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7. In the painting above, the artist suggests that when ________ sleeps, monstrous things will happen.

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Correct Answer: Reason

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8. In sonata form, all themes appear in the tonic key in the __________.

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Correct Answer: Recapitulation

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9. In relation to art, marxism is _____________________

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Correct Answer: The method that interprets artworks in the light of their economic and social contexts

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10. In matisses joy of life the artist is emphasizing ________.

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Correct Answer: A leisurely day in a landscape with music and dancing

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11. Rembrandt used __________ to create his oil-on-board painting of the head of st. matthew.

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Correct Answer: Impasto

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12. It is at __________ that the monetary value of works of art is most closely established.

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Correct Answer: Action

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13. Juan griss bottle of banyuls includes an actual ________ as part of the composition.

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Correct Answer: Bottle label

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14. The best choice for the ________ layer of clothing is fabric such as gortex.

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Correct Answer: Outside

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15. These three early romanesque church plans are notable for their ____________.

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Correct Answer: Ability to shelter people on overnight pilgrimagesinterior “garden rooms” that acted

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16. The goal of visual texture is to simulate the look and feel of actual _________and textures.

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Correct Answer: Surfaces

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17. If a pencils h# is decreased, then ______________

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Correct Answer: The level of clay used increases

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18. Actual texture is primarily experienced through the sense of ___________.

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Correct Answer: Hearing

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19. The stained glass in chartres cathedral reflects the gothic focus on ________.

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Correct Answer: Light and geometry

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20. Adi nes' untitled (fig. 22.16) recreates_____________.

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Correct Answer: The last supper

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21. Filippo brunelleschi has been widely regarded as the first renaissance ________.

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Correct Answer: Architect

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22. Characteristics of urban jazz styles are ________________?

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Correct Answer: All the above

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23. The pyramids of egypt are an example of art as a ____ activity.

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Correct Answer: Social

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24. The northwest coastal people believed that the thunderbird represented a ____.

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Correct Answer: Chief.

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25. The most impressive aspect of ancient egyptian symbols is __________________

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Correct Answer: The consistency of the symbols.

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26. The 19th century declamatory style of acting ___.

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Correct Answer: Xaggerated movement, gestures

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27. In 700 bce, this symbol in represented ___________ in cuneiform.

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Correct Answer: Bull

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28. Brancusis well-known sculpture of a bird was intended to ____________

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Correct Answer: Emphasize the graceful qualities of a bird.

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29. Ballads use a _____-line stanza.

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Correct Answer: Four

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30. Ancient indus sculptures were _____________________

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Correct Answer: Contained inscriptions along the top edge that we cannot understand today

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31. ____ made a graffiti painting depicting a worker removing prehistoric cave paintings.

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Correct Answer: Banksy

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32. Congress can alter the supreme courts __________ but not its __________.

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Correct Answer: Appellate jurisdiction, original jurisdiction

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33. For his print four horsemen of the apocalypse, albrecht drer hired expert craftsmen to ________.

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Correct Answer: Create the block and cut the lines into it

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34. The artwork above is by _______(1)________ and is an example of _______(2)________.

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Correct Answer: (1) Henri Matisse; (2) autobiographical art

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35. The artists purpose for this piece of glass art was __________________

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Correct Answer: To show the process and skill, along with the meaning of the artwork.

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36. The artist orlan is known for her ________.

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Correct Answer: Unconventional performances.

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37. The artist of christ in the house of levi had to change the paintings name because ________.

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Correct Answer: Church officials objected to Christ being shown with clowns, dwarves, and dogs at this key moment in the gospels

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38. The architect le corbusiers international style favors a strongly ________ organization of forms.

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Correct Answer: Geometric

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39. The _____ developed the sixteen career clusters that group careers by similarities.

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Correct Answer: U.S. Department of Education

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40. Stylistically this painting would be categorized as ____ art.

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Correct Answer: EXPRESSIONIST

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41. Hatching and cross-hatching use two-dimensional lines to communicate ________ depth.

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Correct Answer: Three-dimensional

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42. Cassidy curtiss graffiti archaeology is organized by ________ to effectively display its subject.

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Correct Answer: Location and time

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43. Artwork in the modern period can be ________.

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Correct Answer: All of the previous answers

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44. Artists use foreshortening and overlapping to create ___________ in a work of art.

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Correct Answer: Depth

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45. Art nouveau artists and architects drew inspiration from _____________.

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Correct Answer: Nature

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46. Art can forge racial identity and preserve the history and values of a(n) _______group.

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Correct Answer: Ethnic

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47. Applying tiny dots of color to a canvas to create optical effects is referred to as ________.

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Correct Answer: Pointillism

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48. All of rembrandts paintings, drawings, and prints seem to focus on __________.

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Correct Answer: Introspection and psychological situations

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49. The last supper by tintoretto ________.

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Correct Answer: All of the other answers

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50. The maori meeting house represented the ____ of a great ancestor.

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Correct Answer: Body

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51. Surrealists emphasized _____________ instead of ____________.

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Correct Answer: Irrationalism; rationalism

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52. Silkscreen printing is _________________

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Correct Answer: A technique in which an image is transferred by forcing ink through fine mesh or silk

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53. Shading is created using ________________

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Correct Answer: Varying proportions of the same color

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54. The main difference in the various painting media is the ________________ used in each medium.

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Correct Answer: Binder

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55. Rineke dijkstras series mothers focuses on ________.

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Correct Answer: Depicting mothers with their newborn children

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56. Pablo picasso's study for guernica can best be described as _________ drawings.

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Correct Answer: Cartoon

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57. A bas relief is another term used for a _________________.

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Correct Answer: Low relief

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58. In art, shapes that suggest forms found in nature are called ________ shapes.

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Correct Answer: Organic

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59. In art, a __________ can be defined as a moving dot.

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Correct Answer: Line

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60. In a work of art, the arrangement of visual elements is known as the ____________.

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Correct Answer: Design

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61. The design of the taj mahal and gardens uses both ________ and ________ symmetry.

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Correct Answer: Radial and bilateral

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62. A relief sculpture is __________________

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Correct Answer: A type of sculpture that contains objects embedded in a ground surface.

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