Answer Options:
True
\nFalse
Answer: True
Question: Which of the following was NOT an early photographic technique?
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Photogenic Drawing
\nCamera Obscura
\nDaguerreotype
\nChiaroscuro
Answer: Chiaroscuro
Question: Manet is celebrated as the first modern painter and influencer of Impressionism because he embraced the superficiality of Romantic themes.
Answer Options:
True
\nFalse
Answer: False
Question: Which of the following is NOT true of the Art Nouveau movement that started in the 1890s?
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It criticized notions of industrial progress.
\nIt was influenced by Japanese art’s undulating curves.
\nIt often employed “whiplash”—the lively, serpentine curve.
\nIt showed an interest in plant and animal life and organic growth.
Answer: It criticized notions of industrial progress.
Question: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series uses modernist style, including flattened, angular forms with strong diagonals and contrasts of light and shadow; yet, modernist features were secondary to the attempt to convey an intelligible narrative to the viewer about the experiences of African Americans during the Great Migration.
Answer Options:
True
\nFalse
Answer: True
Question: As we see in the 1919 film by Robert Wiene, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, expressionist film used décor and set design to communicate a subjective state/terror and sense of anxiety.
Answer Options:
True
\nFalse
Answer: True
Question: As we see in the 1919 film by Robert Wiene, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, expressionist film used décor and set design to communicate a subjective state/terror and sense of anxiety.
Answer Options:
True
\nFalse
Answer: True
Question: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series uses modernist style, including flattened, angular forms with strong diagonals and contrasts of light and shadow; yet, modernist features were secondary to the attempt to convey an intelligible narrative to the viewer about the experiences of African Americans during the Great Migration.
Answer Options:
True
\nFalse
Answer: True
Question: Post-Impressionist painters, like Cezanne and Van Gogh, championed for art’s sake, moved beyond Romantic and Impressionist emphasis on pure sensation, and focused on painting as a flat surface carefully composed of shapes, lines, and colors—calling for a return to form and structure in painting.
Answer Options:
True
\nFalse
Answer: True
Question: Which of the following is NOT true of the Art Nouveau movement that started in the 1890s?
Answer Options:
It criticized notions of industrial progress.
\nIt was influenced by Japanese art’s undulating curves.
\nIt often employed “whiplash”—the lively, serpentine curve.
\nIt showed an interest in plant and animal life and organic growth.
Answer: It criticized notions of industrial progress.
Question: Whereas ballet movements are rounded and symmetrical, with leaps and use of toe work, modern dance emphasizes angularity and asymmetry; while its dancers hug the floor and go barefoot.
Answer Options:
True
\nFalse
Answer: True
Question: Which term describes Jackson Pollock’s abstract expressionist method of dripping and spilling paint onto huge canvases on the floor?
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Self Painting
\nBrushwork Painting
\nAction Painting
\nAccidental Painting
Answer: Action Painting
Question: Which of the following is NOT true of Pablo Picasso’s 1907 painting, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon?
Answer Options:
Picasso’s focus is on form kept within the frame
\nIt emphasizes Classical proportion and lifelike bodies
\nThe area around objects in the painting became an extension of the objects themselves
\nIt utilizes Cubist space, which violates all concepts of two- or three-dimensional perspective
Answer: It emphasizes Classical proportion and lifelike bodies
Question: Giovanni Bologna’s 16th century Mercury bronze statue served as the basic “attitude” of dance within Romantic ballet.
Answer Options:
True
\nFalse
Answer: True
Question: Which ONE of the following is NOT a discipline grouped under the Humanities?
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Sociology
\nPhilosophy
\nVisual Arts
\nPerforming Arts
\nLiterature
\nArchitecture
Answer: Sociology