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How does Diego Velzquez proclaim the dignity and importance of painting as one of
the liberal arts through his painting Las Meninas?
a. He included the religious figures within the scene.
b. He highlighted the Infanta.
c. He included a dog in the foreground.
d. He shows himself dressed as a courtier with the keys of the palace.
In Egypt, the rule by one family is known as
a. a kingdom.
b. an empire.
c. a dynasty.
d. a tribe.
Recount the event that inspired the painting Guernica. Discuss the style and imagery
that Picasso used to respond to that event.
The Eiffel Tower was constructed for
a. the anniversary of the French Revolution.
b. the French bicentennial.
c. the Universal Exposition.
d. the World's Fair.
Which is the real subject of the ivory box showing the attack on the Castle of Love?
a. military tactics
b. romantic love
c. physical prowess
d. athletic competition
Who controlled the Western Roman Empire after it fell in the fifth century?
a. the Muslims
b. the Spaniards
c. Germanic peoples
d. the Byzantines
Which culture quarried huge basalt blocks for large sculptures?
a. Aztec
b. Olmec
c. Maya
d. Inca
What do the cranes and pines in Kano Eitoku's Fusuma symbolize?
a. endurance
b. friendship
c. peace
d. long life
What is dramatically altered from reality in Titian's portrait of Isabella d"Este?
a. her nose
b. her left eye
c. her age
d. her left hand
Which was the art movement that used broad sweeping expanses of color to evoke
transcendent contemplative states?
a. Minimalism
b. Color Field Painting
c. Action Painting
d. Gesturalism
Which of the following is a term for a book that was "written by hand"?
a. scroll
b. codex
c. folio
d. manuscript
Which of the following describes the design aesthetic of Gerrit Rietveld?
a. biomorphic, curving shapes
b. random, subconscious and free association
c. use of historical styles
d. rectangular planes of color
The work of which artist prompted the French Royal Academy of Painting and
Sculpture to create the category of fte galante?
a. Watteau
b. Fragonard
c. Bernini
d. Poussin
Which best describes the attitude of John Henry Fuseli?
a. He portrayed humanity as rational and good.
b. He glorified the irrational side of human nature.
c. He showed that humanity is violent, greedy and foolish.
d. He portrayed that strong leadership is needed to control the people.
For which subject is Judith Leyster best known?
a. genre scenes
b. mythological scenes
c. religious subjects
d. portraiture
Which of the following is a subterranean circular room used as a ceremonial center in
southwest Native American cultures?
a. kiva
b. chacmool
c. tepee
d. pueblo
Who changed the Impressionist brushstroke to be more solid and rectangular according
to a grid of vertical and horizontal shapes?
a. Paul Gauguin
b. Vincent van Gogh
c. Edvard Munch
d. Paul Czanne
The reign of Akhenaten is also known as the
a. Amarna period.
b. Second Intermediate period.
c. Babylonian Captivity.
d. Ptolemaic period.
What was the result of successive generations continually building house upon house in
the Neolithic community of atalhyk?
a. large open chambers
b. great mounds of villages
c. little archeological evidence
d. small grave chambers
What is the term for the banning or destruction of religious images?
a. iconoclasm
b. Calvinism
c. secularism
d. humanism
What is Drer trying to show in his Four Apostles?
a. that Protestant imagery was possible
b. a canon of ideal human proportions
c. the new linear perspective
d. the new oil medium
To depict the human body according to an idea of physical perfection is called
a. idealization.
b. romanticism.
c. naturalism.
d. realism.
What does Jan Steen's The Drawing Lesson provide for modern viewers?
a. a record of familial interaction
b. a record of an artist's workplace
c. a record of sculptural technique
d. a record of a Dutch landscape
Who began his career as an artist for the press during the Civil War?
a. Winslow Homer
b. Thomas Eakins
c. Henry O. Tanner
d. Mary Cassatt
Multiple perspectives, i.e., showing an object from more than one point of view, is an
important pictorial device in which movement?
a. Fauvism
b. Cubism
c. expressionism
d. Suprematism
What does "camera obscura" mean?
a. lost machine
b. mysterious picture
c. dark chamber
d. missing image
Which of the following characteristics of Greek art became more pronounced during
Hellenistic times?
a. It became more idealized.
b. It became more all-encompassing.
c. It was more individual and emotional.
d. It was more calm and aloof.
Architecture that is complex, contradictory, and borrows from "high" and "low"
architecture and from the past is which of the following styles?
a. International Style
b. Postmodern
c. Beaux-Arts
d. Chicago style
Which of the following coincides with the end of the Classical period in Greek art?
a. the defeat of the Persian Xerxes
b. the defeat of the Greeks by the Romans
c. the administration of Pericles
d. the death of Alexander
What was Alice Neel known for?
a. symbolizing wealth and power
b. idealizing her sitters
c. capturing unvarnished individuality
d. adhering to conventional aesthetics
What was the attitude of Aboriginal artists toward modern American and European
mediums?
a. They rejected them.
b. They combined them with their traditional mediums.
c. They adopted them with Western subject matter.
d. They adopted them.
Which was the new system of thought that developed during the Song dynasty?
a. Daoism
b. Buddhism
c. Neo-Confucianism
d. Hinduism
