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ART100 FINAL

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The chances that a work of art from ancient times will be found or preserved are greatly increased if:
A. It was made of durable materials
B. The local climate is conducive to preserva%on
C. The culture from which it came was stable and organized
D. It was located where access from the outside world was limited
Which artifact had to be closed and then duplicated because in the 15 years aHer it was discovered a million visitors caused more deterioration to it than in the 15,000 years prior.
The Lascaux Caves
This image is of Ishtar Gate which now resides in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin,
in which city was the
Ishtar Gate originally built?
Babylon
The largest structure of a Sumerian city was the ______, which is a temple or shrine raised on a monumental, stepped base.
Ziggurat
Which empire established the first system of writing using wedge shaped marks pressed into damp clay for keeping records.
Sumerian
In Egyptian art, the convention of representing social importance by size---for example, where the pharaoh is shown much larger than his subjects---is known as:
Hierarchical scale
The sculpture Akhenaten and His Family is an example of the ____ technique.
Sunkenrelief
The term _____ means counter-pose.
It is used in the visual arts to describe a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot.
Contrapposto
Romans could watch gladiators fight to the death, along with other sporting events, at the:
Colosseum
Although bronze was the favored material for freestanding sculpture in Greece, most bronze statuses have not survived because:
They were melted down to make weapons and other objects.
Emperor _____ is famous for having moved the capital of the Roman Empire to Byzantium and for being the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity.
Constantine the Great
Because Christianity emphasized congregational worship, a fundamental change in the _____ was needed.
A. Architectural design of places of
worship
B. Iconography of the church
C. Placement of the altar
D. Hierarchy of the gods
The Bayeux Tapestry from the High Middle Ages is not a tapestry at all but is actually an example of _____.
embroidery
The period between the collapse of the Roman Empire (Classical Antiquity) and the Renaissance (modern era) is called the:
Middle Ages
The Rose window from the Chartres Cathedral in France is an example of ____ architecture.
Gothic
The art and architecture of the high Middle Ages is generally divided into two periods, the ____ and the ____.
Romanesque; Gothic
Duccio and Giotto were two artists whose innovations in painting greatly influenced the style of Renaissance artists.
What did the do?
Creating figures and settings with an increased naturalism
The word Renaissance means:
"Rebirth"
Michelangelo, Raphael, and Brunelleschi were all commissioned to make art for:
The Medici Family
The term used to designate a philosophy in which art was focused on bringing together Greek philosophy and Christian Doctrine is:
Neo-Platonism
Who is the author of
"Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects"
which is considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing?
Georgio Vasari
Which artist and architect did an experiment in which he painted the Florentine Baptistry which led to the invention of the drawing system called linear perspective.
Filipo Brunelleschi
Leonardo da Vinci was a skilled:
A. Engineer
B. Painter
C. Inventor
D. Architect
E. All of these answers are correct
The theme of the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes comes from:
The Book of Genesis
Match the following artwork with the Renaissance artist that created it.
(Rabbit)
Albrecht Duhrer
Match the following artwork with the Renaissance artist that created it.
(Mona Lisa)
Leonardo da Vinci
St. Teresa in Ecstasy is an excellent example of:
Baroque Sculpture
Match the following artworks with the ar%st that created it.
(Chopping head off, white dress)
Caravaggio
Match the following artworks with the artist that created it.
(chopping off head, blue dress)
Gentileschi
The term ___ refers to the exaggerated chiaroscuro developed by Caravaggio that was used to achieve a theatrical, dramatic lighting effect within a painting.
Tenebrism
The following characteristics are all typical of Italian Baroque art EXCEPT:
Simplicity
Which of the following was the court painter to King Philip IV?
Diego Velazquez
The Palace of Versailles was home to:
Louis XIV of France
In comparison to Baroque art, the style of Rococo:
...
The first national art museum opened in 1792. This museum, still in operation today, is:
The Louvre in Paris
Eugene Delacroix was a leading practitioner of:
Romanticism
Match the artwork to the movement that it is most closely associated with.
(Paul Revere)
Neoclassicism
Match the artwork to the movement that it is most closely associated with.
(Weird things with hats)
Romanticism
In their paintings, the Impressionists often focused on:
Scenes of leisure involving the middle
class
This image and the artist who painted it, were pivotal in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. Who was the artist?
Eduard Manet
Match the artwork to the movement that it is most closely associated with.
(boats on water)
Impressionism
What is the French term that refers to the idea of work that is experimental, innovative or that pushes boundaries?
Avant-garde
Henri Matisse was a leader of _____, a term coined to describe their "wild" tendencies in early 20th century painting.
Fauvism
Match the artwork to the movement that it is most closely associated with.
(sunflowers)
Post-Impressionism
Match the artwork to the movement that it is most closely associated with.
(man with red beard)
Post-Impressionism
Wassily Kandinsky, the artist that is credited with the first non-objective painting, was a member of which German Expressionist group?
Der Blaue Reiter
The New objectivity was an off-shoot of which German movement?
Expressionism
Constantin Brancusi is famous for working in which medium?
Sculpture
Match the following artworks to the movement it is most closely associated with.
(screaming man)
Expressionism
Paul Cezanne's emphasis on structure in pain%ng was a direct influence in the development of:
Cubism
This movement developed by Picasso and Braque, which depicted the subject in geometric forms and from multiple perspectives is called?
Cubism
This movement which originated in Italy sought to depict the motion and energy of the new 20th century.
Futurism
Match the following artworks to the movement it is most closely associated with.
(cube woman with guitar)
Cubism
Match the following artworks to the movement it is most closely associated with.
(weird sculpture)
Futurism
Piet Mondrian was associated with the _____ movement, which emphasized horizontal and vertical lines and primary colors.
De Stijl
Which student of the Bauhaus school of design in Germany designed a famous armchair?
Breuer
Marcel Duchamp created a new art form in which the artist makes nothing, but merely labels an object as art. He called this art form:
ready-mades
Using an artmaking process called ______, Hannah Hoch, a member of the Berlin Dada group, created this image which references the hypocrisy of German society and their treatment of women.
Photo-Montage
Salvador Dali's wife is credited with much of his success because of her business acumen, what is her name?
Gala
Match the following artwork to the artist who created it:
(green apple)
Magritte
Match the following artwork to the artist who created it:
(lobster on phone)
Dali
Match the following artwork to the artist who created it:
(weird Mona Lisa)
Duchamp
The New York School was synonymous with which American Art Movement of the 1950's and 60's.
Abstract Expressionism
The term action painting refers to the fact that this new type of painting:
Traced the actions of the painter
This art critic was one of the most
influential writers associated with American Modern Art at the middle of the 20th century and is best remembered for his promotion of painter Jackson Pollock
Clement Greenberg
What is the name of the painting style that draws the viewer in and invites contemplation, and was practiced by Mark Rothko?
Color Field
Match the following artwork to the artist who created it:
(orange blob)
Frankenthaler
Minimalism emphasized a continuation of the exploration of non representation and the idea that a painting or sculpture should be:
Reduced to its essential parts
The term ____ refers to a historical period as well as a cultural theoretical movement in which artists began to use artistic styles independently of their original political agenda.
Postmodernism
One of the ideas behind Postmodernism is pluralism, which proposes that art:
Can take many directions at the same time, all of them equally valid
Andy Warhol was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as _______.
Pop-Art
Roy Lichtenstein oTen based his imagery on:
Comic books
The artist whose work falls into the categories of "Pop" art, Neo-Dada and assemblage and who made art from "found" materials and images and named his new art form "combine paintings" is:
Robert Rauschenberg
Match the artwork to the artist who created it.
(creepy man with bones)
...
Edward and Nancy Kienholtz gained notoriety for creating 3-dimensional tableaus by putting together found objects, this process is called ____.
Assemblage
Joseph Kosuth's One and Three Chairs, the viewer is represented with:
Three ways of documenting an idea
Early Conceptual artists reacted to the capitalism and consumerism of the art market by:
Attempting to eliminate the art object
Match the artwork to the artist who created it.
(soup cans)
Andy Warhol
The term ____ refers to the practice of adopting, borrowing, recycling, or sampling aspects (or the entire form) of man-made visual culture in the creation of a new work.
Appropriation
Artist Ann Hamilton is most closely associated with which art genre?
Installation
Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty is an example of:
Land art
Which video artist has been credited with being the founder of video art as well as predicting the "YouTube Generation" and coining the term "electronic superhighway"?
Nam June Paik
A number of new art genres grew out of the Conceptual Art movement. Which of the following art movements did NOT evolve out of Conceptual Art?
Pop Art
_____ is a style of painting and sculpture that emerged in the late 1970's and
dominated the art market until the mid-1980's, it is characterized by portraying recognizable objects in an emotionally evocative way.
Neo-Expressionism
This artist paints landscapes of flesh on large canvases, which are oTen as disturbing as they are compelling.
Jenny Saville
Match the artwork to the artist who created it.
(legs in wall)
Robert Gober
Match the artwork to the artist who created it.
(creepy baby with spine)
Kiki Smith
The feminist activist group that formed in
the 1980's and who were known for their billboard and live protests were called The _____________.
Guerrilla Girls
Match the artwork to the artist who created it.
(foot stepping on people)
Do Ho Suh
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