Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
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
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: Renaissance sculptures such as the David by Donatello and the David by Michelangelo focus on portraying lifelikeness, rather than idealizing the human form like the ancient Greeks.
Answer Options:
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.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: Which of the following is NOT one of the central principles in artistic composition?
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Manipulation
Balance
Repetition
Focal Areas
Unity
Answer: Manipulation
Question: Which of the following is the term that denotes the wall-painting technique in which pigments are suspended in water and applied to fresh wet plaster?
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Tempera
Mixed Media
Watercolor
Fresco
Answer: Fresco
Question: Impressionist painters produced relatively small paintings using clear, bright colors, casual and natural compositions, portrayed everyday scenes, like landscapes, streets, and cafés, and emphasized a sense of realism in “the incidental, the momentary, and the passing.”
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: In Etruscan art, husbands and wives are depicted in both painted terracotta sarcophagi and on tomb wall paintings attending symposia together.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: Which of the following is NOT true about the Early Renaissance painting by Masaccio, The Tribute Money?
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Clothing falls naturally.
Figures float in space.
Figures are three-dimensional and move in open, deep space.
Figures adopt the Classical contrapposto stance.
Uses linear perspective.
Answer: Figures float in space.
Question: This semester, you will complete two papers. The first paper will require you to experience an artistic performance or architectural space (such as a building or garden). The second paper will require you to visit a museum.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: Renaissance sculptures such as the David by Donatello and the David by Michelangelo focus on portraying lifelikeness, rather than idealizing the human form like the ancient Greeks.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
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
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: Which of the following is NOT true of Bernini’s Baroque-era statue of David?
Answer Options:
It captures the crisis moment in the Biblical story of David and Goliath.
It demands observation from onlookers rather than participation.
It draws the eye upward along a diagonal curve to his concentrated facial expression.
It uses space and form charged with energy.
Answer: It demands observation from onlookers rather than participation.
Question: Manet is celebrated as the first modern painter and influencer of Impressionism because he embraced the superficiality of Romantic themes.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: False
Question: Hampton Court Palace, outside London, and the Palace of Versailles, outside Paris, make similar use of the architectural qualities of line, repetition, and balance in their façades.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True