Answer Options:
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: 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?
Answer Options:
Mosaic
Watercolor
Fresco
Answer: Fresco
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.
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True
False
Answer: True
Question: Which of the following is NOT true of Bernini’s Baroque-era statue of David?
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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: 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: Baroque style paintings, such as Caravaggio’s The Calling of St. Matthew, utilize closed composition, idealized figures, and passive scenes that stress form over feeling.
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True
False
Answer: False
Question: Baroque style paintings, such as Caravaggio’s The Calling of St. Matthew, utilize closed composition, idealized figures, and passive scenes that stress form over feeling.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: False
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
False
Answer: True
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: 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?
Answer Options:
Tempera
Mixed Media
Watercolor
Fresco
Answer: Fresco