Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: Trompe l’Oeil is a form of illusionistic painting that represents an object existing in three dimensions at the surface of the painting.
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True
False
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.
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True
False
Answer: True
Question: Which of the following does NOT describe a major feature of Romantic-era architecture?
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Materials like iron, steel, and glass were hidden from view within Romantic designs.
It reflected an age of industry and use of new materials.
Used elements of fantasy.
It was an era of borrowing styles from other periods and whimsy.
Answer: Materials like iron, steel, and glass were hidden from view within Romantic designs.
Question: In Etruscan art, husbands and wives are depicted in both painted terracotta sarcophagi and on tomb wall paintings attending symposia together.
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True
False
Answer: True
Question: Which of the following terms refers to the Renaissance-era revival/resuscitation of values, sensibilities, and knowledge of the ancient Greeks and Romans, involving forms such as poetry, rhetoric, history, moral philosophy, and grammar?
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Piazza
Humanism
Rococo
Reformation
Usury
Answer: Humanism
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.
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True
False
Answer: True
Question: Which of the following is NOT true of Pablo Picasso’s 1907 painting, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon?
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Picasso’s focus is on form kept within the frame
It emphasizes Classical proportion and lifelike bodies
The area around objects in the painting became an extension of the objects themselves
It utilizes Cubist space, which violates all concepts of two- or three-dimensional perspective
Answer: It emphasizes Classical proportion and lifelike bodies
Question: Abstract works of art, such as Georgia O’Keeffe’s 1924 painting, Dark Abstraction, reduce images from the natural world into shapes suggested by actual objects and make use of color, line, shadow, mass, and other formal elements to create an image that refers only to itself.
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True
False
Answer: True
Question: Which of the following is NOT true about High Renaissance-era paintings, such as Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper or Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Ceiling?
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They are meticulously arranged, with geometric, closed compositions.
They sought a universal ideal through impressive art.
Compositions were open and disconnected.
Figures become types again (like Classical tradition), rather than individuals—idealized forms.
Answer: Compositions were open and disconnected.
Question: Trompe l’Oeil is a form of illusionistic painting that represents an object existing in three dimensions at the surface of the painting.
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True
False
Answer: True
Question: Architecture is concerned with function/use as well as the aesthetics of space, texture, line, and proportion.
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True
False
Answer: True