Hayden Robinson

12/3/23
Art Appreciation

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PART ONE: THE LANGUAGE OF VISUAL EXPERIENCE
Chapter 1: The Nature of Art and Creativity

Multiple-Choice Questions:

1. Sabatino “Simon” Rodia could be classified as an outsider artist because of his

Refusal to work in a representational manner

Preference for working on a large scale
Use of discarded materials
Lack of awareness of art history

2. According to the authors of this book Innovator’s DNA, all of the following
are traits that define creativity EXCEPT

observing
criticizing
networking
experimenting

3. A mixed media artwork is made

with different materials

by a team of several artist
using more than one style
by assimilating diverse influences

4. Define “photomontage”, and provide an example from the chapter that bet
exemplifies this type of art
Where you collect multiple photos to create one photo

5. Explain the difference between “folk art” and “outsider art”

“Folk Art” is associated with a specific culture and “Outsider Art” is more of
an Individual effort based on their unique perspective.
 Chapter 2: The Purposes and Functions of Art
1. Francisco Goya’s I Saw This was intended as a commentary on

war
race
gender
religion

2. Which artist is known for making a modified Citroen DS car?

Benjamin West
Beatrice Wood
Gabriel Orozco
Pierre Patel

3. Yong Soon Min’s Dwelling is an assemblage that attempts to express the

artist’s

feelings of divided self

reaction to the Gulf War
sentiment of joy about motherhood
longing for the beauty of the natural worl

Short Answer Questions:

1. Identify the six function that art fulfills.

Delight, persuasion, self-expression, worship, ritual, and commentary.

2. Identify an example from the chapter of an art work used for political
purposes.

Chapter 3: The Visual Elements

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Figure-ground reversal can be seen in

Shen Zhou’s Poet on a Mountaintop

Kiki Smith’s Ginzer
Lee Friedlander’s Bismark, North Dakota
M. C. Escher’s Sky and Water I

2. Alexander Calder’s mobiles are examples of “kinetic art” because they

move in space
are made of metal
have only a few colors
lack political content

3. Architects are general most concerned with qualities of

time
color
space
texture

Short Answer Questions:

1. Define “value”

How dark or light a color can be.

2. Identify an artist who uses actual light as the primary medium for art

James Turell

Chapter 4: The Principles of Design

1. Which of the following is the result of the process of arranging, selecting, and
ordering

unity and variety

 design
emphasis
direction

2. When the two sides of a composition correspond to one another in size, shape,
and placement of form, the work has

a focal point
symmetrical balance
asymmetrical balance
directional forces

3. The juxtaposition of strongly dissimilar elements is referred to as

contrast
asymmetry
emphasis
subordination

4. The appearance of oneness in a work of art is

rhythm
emphasis
balance
unity

5. Any kind of movement of structure of dominant and subordinate elements in

sequence in a work of art refers to

shape
color
rhythm
line

Chapter 5: Evaluating Art

Multiple-Choice Questions:

1. Which theories focus attention on the compositions of an artwork and how

earlier artworks may have influenced it

formal theories
contextual theories
political theories
 expressive theories

2. Value judgment about art necessarily involves

subjectivity
negative judgments
contextual evaluations
analysis of an artist’s biography

3. Making discriminating judgments about art is inherent to

censorship only
contextual theories of art only
formal theories of art only
all art criticism

4. Critics who examine the environmental influences on a work of art, such as

the economic system, cultural values, and political, use

expressive theories
formal theories
contextual theories
expressive theories and formal theories

5. Chris Olfili’s Holy Virgin Mary and Michelangelo’s Last Judgment

both resist interpretation according to formal theories

are both universally regarded as masterpieces
were both subject to censorship
are similarly unable to be interpreted using contextual theories

PART TWO: THE MEDIA OF ART

Chapter 6: Drawing

Multiple-Choice Questions:

1. All of the following are examples of dry media EXCEPT

crayon
pencil
gouache
charcoal
 2. Which of the following media used today is most similar to drawing media
used by prehistoric people?

pencil
charcoal
gouache
ink

3. Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis is an example of

cartoon
graphic novel
mural
wash

4. Projective drawing involves

Working exclusively from photographic imagery

Creating something that only exists in the artist’s mind
Working directly from observation
Combining approaches and media

5. Identify the three purposes of drawing:

Record, Study, and Finish Artwork

PART TWO: THE MEDIA OF ART

Chapter 7: Painting

Multiple-Choice Questions:

1. The Chinese regard painting to derive from the art of:

drawing
calligraphy
printmaking
Sculpture

2. A very thin, transparent film of color painted over an already-painted surface

is called:

A support
 An overpainting
A glaze
A wash

3. A type of paint utilizing egg yolk as a binder is:

tempera
watercolor
encaustic
fresco

4. In buon fresco, the pigments, combined with water, are applied to:

canvas
wet plaster
wood
paper

5. Encaustic is an ancient painting medium in which the pigments are suspended

in:

Olive Oil
Beeswax
Sand
Elephant Dung

PART TWO: THE MEDIA OF ART

Chapter 8: Printmaking

Multiple-Choice Questions:

1. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s Jane Avril Jardin de Paris is a poster created

using:

Offset lithography
stenciling
screenprinting
photogravure

2. A contemporary artist who uses relief techniques in an original way is:

Ester Hernández
Kim McCarthy
 Elizabeth Catlett
Betsabeé Romero

3. A print in which an artist physically involved with production is known as:

A proof
A multiple
An original print
A reproduction

4. In which of the following media does the artist draw an image with a greasy
baryon directly on a flat stone slab:

lithography
serigraphy
aquatint
ething

5. Nicola López’s Blighted expresses the artist memories of:

The Vietnam War

The Gulf War
The attacks of September 11, 2001
Her life as a gang member

PART TWO: THE MEDIA OF ART

Chapter 9: Photography

Multiple-Choice Questions:

1. One of the earliest types of photograph was the:

Gelatin silver print

daguerreotype
albumen print
lifochrome print

2. Although color photographic film was available to artists in the twentieth

century, many preferred black and white film because it was less expensive
and less susceptible to technical problems, and because color prints:

Tended to fade over time

Were less popular with the public
Were easier to copy
Were considered to commercial
 3. Which artist self-identifies as a “near-documentary” photographer:

Jeff Wall
Zoe Leonard
Binh Danh
Susan Derges

4. Julia Margaret Cameron pioneered the:

Practice of color photography

Implementation of the camera obscura in photography
Use of close-ups in portrait photography
Creation of “rayographs”, or cameraless photographs

5. Identify the creator of the first photographic image:

Joseph Nicephore Niepce

PART TWO: THE MEDIA OF ART

Chapter 10: Moving Images: Film and Digital Arts

Multiple-Choice Questions:

1. Eadweard Muybridge is known for a:

Portraying his ideas in storyboards

Pioneering the genre of film noir
Developing the technique of montage
Photographing people and animals in motion

2. The phenomenon in which the human brain retains a visual image for a
second longer than the human eye records it is known as:

Collective dreaming
Persistence of vision
Cinematography
Montage

3. Oskar Fischinger’s Circles is considered to be the first:

Motion picture
Digital film
Silent film
Experimental film
 4. This early filmmaker pioneered many special effects, such as dissolves
between scenes and time-lapse photography, as seen in his Voyage to the
Moon:

D. W. Griffith
Alfred Hitchcock
George Méiliès
Sergei Eisenstein

5. Film noir originated in:

Hollwood
New York
Paris
London

PART TWO: THE MEDIA OF ART

Chapter 11: Design Disciplines

Multiple-Choice Questions:

1. Hiphopabad, Botoxia, and Trumpistan are all places in an inventive map

by:

Maira Kalman and Rick Meyerowitz

Michael Bierut
Heidi Cody
Superflex

2. Heidi Cody’s American Alphabet is a set of light boxes that feature the
isolated first letters of American

Groceries
Sports teams
Automobiles
Apparel

3. An identifying mark or trademark is referred to a:

Logo
Letterform
Serif
Font

4. A relatively new discipline, motion graphics began with:

 European television commercials
Japanese cartoons
American video games
Title sequences for Hollywood movies

5. A 2009 building in Japan broke new ground by integrating into its façade
a:

Smartphone
Quick Response (QR) code
Live electronic assistant
Keyboard

PART TWO: THE MEDIA OF ART

Chapter 12: Sculpture

Multiple-Choice Questions:

1. Robert Longo’s Corporate Wars: Wall of Influence is an example of:

A low-relief sculpture
A high-relief sculpture
A mobile
An installation

2. Due to its monumental size, Viola Frey’s Stubborn Woman, Orange

Hands is supported using:

Wood splints
An armature
Metal feet
The gallery wall

3. Sculpture that is meant to be seen from all sides is called in-the-round or:

Relief
Additive
Freestanding
Subtractive

4. Which work is an example of an assemblage:

Martin Puryerar’s Homonid

Charles Ray’s Father Figure
Ken Price’s Vink
Pablo Picasso’s Bull’s Head
 5. What is also call a substitution process:

Casting
Bas-relief
Modeling
Carving

PART TWO: THE MEDIA OF ART

Chapter 13: Craft Media: Flirting with Function

Multiple-Choice Questions:

1. Which nineteenth-century artist attempted to bring craft and fine art

together by creating a design company:

Beatrice Wood
William Morris
Claude Cahun
Henry Gilpin

2. Dale Chihuly is noted for his intricate and colorful works in:

Clay
Plexiglass
Glass
Metal

3. Which artist is known for creating “story quilts”:

Miriam Scharpiro
Faith Ringgold
Polly Apfelbaum
Lara Baladi

4. In weaving, fibers are held in place on a:

Weft
Tapestry
Warp
Loom

5. In Muslim regions in the Middle East, which craft was practiced with
great sophistication?

Woodblock printing wallpaper

 Soundsuit sewing
Metal inlay
Stained glass

PART TWO: THE MEDIA OF ART

Chapter 14: Architecture

Multiple-Choice Questions:

1. Which structure features an arcade of round arches:

Notre-Dame de Chartres
Pont du Gard
The Crystal Palace
The Seagram Building

2. In the Crystal Palace, Joseph Paxton made use of:

Barrel vaults
A balloon frame
A Steel frame
Cast iron

3. Gothic builders were able to open large areas for windows, because they
used pointed arches and:

Flying buttresses
Pendentives
Domes
Curtain walls

4. LEED gives awards to architects for?

Environmental design
The integration of computer technology
Innovative use of centilevers
The revival of ancient building techniques

5. Which architect famously stated “less is more”?

Louis Sullivan
Mies van der Rohe
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Gehry
 PART THREE: ART AS CULTURAL HERITAGE
Chapter 15: From the Earliest Art to the Bronze Age

Multiple-Choice Questions:

1. Some believe that the sculpture Woman of Willendorf was associated

with:

The Great Mother Goddess

The development of stone tools
Hunting rituals
The agricultural revolution

2. Which structure features a ring of posts and lintels:

The Great Pyramids at Giza

The Funerary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut
Stonehenge
Ziggurat of Ur-Nammu

3. Petroglyphs are made by:

Scratching an image onto a stone surface

Painting on a cave wall
Modeling a form from tusk or bone
Modeling a form from clay

4. Which of these is from the Neolithic period?

The Hohle Fels figure

The earthenware beaker from Susa
The engraved ochre from Blombos Cave
The paintings at Chauvet Cave

5. The Mesopotamians built their temples, such as that of Ur-Nammu, on a

typle of structure called a:

Dolmen
Metope
Ziggurat
Henge
 Chapter 16: The Classical and Medieval West

Multiple-Choice Questions:

1. Portrait Head of an Old Man is an example of:

Greek Sculpture
Roman Sculpture
Etruscan Sculpture
Egyptian Sculpture

2. Which building was designed to honor the goddess of wisdom and prudent
warfare:

San Vitale
The Parthenon
The Colosseum
The Pantheon

3. Which of these structures is Gothic:

Old St. Peter’s Basilica

The Parthenon
Notre-Dame de Chartres
San Vitale

4. The first Christian churches were patterned after basilicas that were used by
Romans as?

Temples
Baths
Palaces
Governmental Buildings

5. Early Christian Art was created in private homes and underground burial
chambers called:

Basilicas
Metopes
Coffers
Catacombs
 Chapter 17: Renaissance and Baroque Europe

Multiple-Choice Questions:

1. Masaccio’s The Holy Trinity fresco is considered to be the first painting

based on the systematic use of:

Contrapposto
Chiaroscuro
Linear Perspective
Foreshortening

2. All of the following artist epitomize the High Renaissance EXCEPT:

Leonardo da Vinci
Donatello
Raphael
Michelangelo Buonarroti

3. Michelangelo’s David has a naturalistic pose, set in contrapposto,

demonstrating the influence of:

Gothic frescoes
Felmish painting
Byzantine mosaics
Greek sculpture

4. In Jan van Eyck’s The Arnolfini Portrait, the woman is wearing a green
dress to symbolize?

Maidenly fidelity
Purity
Fertility
The presence of Christ

5. Many Baroque characteristics developed as propaganda for the?

Renaissance
Counter-Reformation
Protestant Reformation
Enlightenment
 PART TWO: THE MEDIA OF ART
Chapter 21: Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century

Multiple-Choice Questions:

1. Viewers were shocked by Edouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe

(Luncheon on the Grass) because of the:

Heavy reliance on the color green

Vastness of the landscape
Juxtaposition of nude and clothed figures
Lack of a religious message

2. The name “Impressionism” derives from a critic’s derogatory remark about

a painting by:

Mary Cassatt
Edgar Degas
Pierre-Auguste Rodin
Claude Monet

3. In search for a spiritual truth, which Post-Impressionist artist moved to

Tahiti:

Georges Seurat
Paul Gauguin
Paul Cézanne
Vincent van Gogh

4. Eugène Delacroix differs from Neoclassical painters in usung?

Carefully organized compositions

Large-format canvases
Literary subjects
Painterly brushstrokes

5. Romantic artist emphasized:

Reason
Emotion
Structure
Abstraction
 Chapter 22: Early Twentieth Century

Multiple-Choice Questions:

1. Which artist believed himself to reveal the essence of his forms in his
work:

Wassily Kandinsky
Pablo Picasso
Marcel Duchamp
Constantine Brancusi

2. Marcl Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 demonstrates the

influence of:

Surrealism
Classical sculpture
Expressionism
Stroboscopic photography

3. Which artist most notably felt that abstract and nonrepresentational art led
to a new spirituality:

Georges Braque
Giacomo Balla
Wassily Kandinsky
Ernest Ludwig Kirchner

4. Fauvist artist extended the visual vocabulary of Post-Impressionism by

their primary subject matter?

Landscape
Portraits
Color
Line

5. Modern art arrived in America by way of exhibitions and promotions by:

Painter - Emile Nolde

Photographer – Alfred Stieglitz
Painter – Sonia Delaunay-Terk
Sculptor – Constantin Brancusi