Deck 15: Historical Styles in Western Art

Question 1

At first,art movements lasted a long time because __________.

A) there were only a few artists
B) societies were isolated from each other so new ideas weren't passed around
C) cultures competed with each other
D) art was just beginning and artists had a lot to learn

Answer 1

B

Question 2

The Renaissance got its name because during this period __________.

A) the Netherlands became independent of the Empire
B) Florence emerged as the dominant military power in Europe
C) there was a rebirth of the Catholic Church in Italy
D) the philosophies restored the spirit of Classical Greek and Roman culture

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Jan van Eyck's painting The Marriage of Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami illustrates the possibilities of rendering color and detail using the new medium of __________.

A) oil paint
B) tempera on panel
C) encaustic
D) handpainted woodcuts

Answer 3

A

Question 4

As seen in Still-Life with Apples ,Cézanne is considered a pioneering figure in modern art because he __________.

A) returned to painting the figure as it actually appeared, not impressionistically
B) brought back linear perspective
C) focused on the formal issues and two-dimensional aspects of painting
D) reinvigorated painting with emotion and drama

Question 5

During the Gothic period,Abbot Suger's design for churches stressed __________.

A) the emotional and psychological effects of interior spaces
B) his belief that churches should be simple and unadorned
C) the importance of the role of the priest
D) small, quiet spaces for meditation

Question 6

One of the first artists to create completely nonobjective paintings was __________.

A) Pablo Picasso
B) Umberto Boccioni
C) Edvard Munch
D) Wassily Kandinsky

Question 7

The Calling of Saint Matthew by Caravaggio illustrates a new concept for religious art which was __________.

A) a palette that included only dark colors
B) a focus on real people as the subjects
C) the use of light as an element
D) using scenes from the gospels

Question 8

In the early twentieth century,the two movements that characterized the split between depiction of emotion and a focus on form were __________.

A) Expressionism and Cubism
B) Expressionism and Futurism
C) Fauvism and Futurism
D) Surrealism and Futurism

Question 9

Much of Egyptian culture and art was focused on __________.

A) the daily lives of the pharaoh and his family
B) glorifying military conquests
C) serenity, permanence, and eternal life
D) tributes to the gods

Question 10

One of the main points important to an understanding of Baroque art is that __________.

A) it was intended to elicit an emotional response in the viewer
B) the Catholic Church prohibited churches from showing it
C) the Protestant churches were the source of most of the commissions
D) viewers rejected it and felt it was cold and unfeeling

Question 11

In the late Gothic Period of the fourteenth century Giotto's painting The Lamentation illustrates a new approach to representation by showing __________.

A) that artists had stopped using fresco in favor of other media
B) that churches were commissioning art
C) that stories of the life of Jesus could be illustrated
D) three-dimensional illusion through the modeling of forms

Question 12

Many Roman sculptures celebrated __________.

A) economic prosperity
B) heroes of gladiatorial combat
C) the gods and goddesses of the Pantheon
D) the secular power of the emperors

Question 13

In the mid-nineteenth century,the painter Gustave Courbet sought to __________.

A) restore the emotion and drama of the Baroque
B) recapture the ancient forms of painting discovered in Roman ruins
C) depict grand mythological and religious subjects
D) present real people and scenes of contemporary life

Question 14

The primary art form in the medieval Romanesque period was __________.

A) religious panel paintings
B) full round sculptures of saints
C) church architecture
D) textiles and tapestries

Question 15

In his painting The Oath of the Horatii ,Jacques-Louis David __________.

A) was primarily interested in showing off his mastery of the elements of design
B) depicted the military power of the French king
C) used the style of Classical sculptures to illustrate a theme of patriotism
D) provided a model to be used for engraved illustrations in a book

Question 16

The main interest of the Impressionist painters was to __________.

A) create narratives and stories in a single image
B) focus on optical impressions of light
C) depict as precisely as possible three-dimensional space and real objects
D) convey their opinions and impressions of contemporary issues

Question 17

The work Dreaming in Color by Leni Schwendinger has been called __________ because a machine creates the art,with the artist one step removed.

A) cyborg surrealism
B) electronic art
C) cyberart
D) technological art

Question 18

During the Golden Age of Athens,known as the Classical period,Greek art,such as the sculpture the Spear Bearer or the Acropolis and Parthenon of Athens,emphasized __________.

A) military heroism
B) dramatic, emotionally active images
C) rationality and idealized beauty
D) images of the dead and the afterlife

Question 19

Some of the oldest art ever discovered is(are)__________.

A) on the walls of caves in France
B) stone cities in Peru
C) carved into trees in the African bush
D) Egyptian tombs

Question 20

Characteristics of the work of Jackson Pollock include __________.

A) expressive gesture
B) all-over composition
C) expression of the artist's inner life
D) all of the above

Question 21

The term "postmodernism" refers to __________.

A) a variety of late-twentieth-century art styles and interests
B) New Realism art
C) the architecture of the International Modern style
D) the reinforcement of Modernist ideals

Question 22

Archaeologists have found a lot of evidence of prehistoric societies and can give a detailed interpretation of the art.

Question 23

Art buyers collect only art by major artists whose names and talents are recognized by the art galleries and dealers.

Question 24

For Conceptual artists,the important thing is __________.

A) adhering to the concepts and principles of artistic technique
B) the concept and the thinking rather than the art object
C) reinforcing the artistic concepts of the High Renaissance
D) representing concepts from contemporary social and political life

Question 25

Marcel Duchamp asserted that anything was art because it is simply the act of the artist's choice that establishes something as art.

Question 26

An example of how the Romantic painters departed from Neoclassical austerity is __________.

A) Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa
B) Velàzquez' Las Meninas
C) Grünewald's The Isenheim Altarpiece
D) none of the above

Question 27

The three greatest artists of the High Renaissance in Italy were __________.

A) Jan van Eyck, Giotto, and Raphael
B) Tintoretto, Giotto, and Michelangelo
C) Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Raphael
D) none of the above

Question 28

Western art has been influenced by art of non-Western societies.

Question 29

Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein are representatives of __________.

A) Futurism
B) Pop Art
C) Dada
D) none of the above

Question 30

The main subject of Surrealist art was folk tales illustrated in a hyper-real style.