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What Abstract Expressionist technique, pioneered by Helen Frankenthaler, had a
significant influence on later artists?
A. action painting
B. photomontage
C. staining unprimed canvas
D. assemblage
The Beaver Effigy Platform Pipe (Fig. 13-21) is used by the smoker in such a way that
the smoker would be face to face with the beaver figure's ____________ eyes.
A. pearl
B. jade
C. bone
D. pipestone
Artists in Java, like those in India, worked in a consistent style regardless of the patrons'
___________.
A. religion
B. artistic preferences
C. social status
D. ability to pay
What long-established practice does Gerhard Richter reject?
A. the signing of art
B. working in a singular style
C. exhibiting art in public
D. providing titles to art
The three orders of Greek architecture are the __________, __________, and
__________ order.
A. Doric; Ionic; Corinthian
B. Doric; Ionic, Hellenistic
C. Archaic; Corinthian; Classical
D. Ionic; Hellenistic; Classical
Joan Mitchell who created energetic and lyrical __________ paintings was part of a
second generation of Abstract Expressionist painters.
A. abstract
B. figural
C. collage
D. socially informed
Freestanding statues of male figures, which were made in the Archaic period, are called
______________.
A. temple guardians
B. kouroi
C. Apollos
D. cult statues
In contrast to Donatello, Verrocchio portrayed his David as a ________________.
A. proud adolescent who meets the viewer's gaze
B. fully armored soldier
C. muscle bound Greek warrior
D. knight on horseback
What image does NOT appear on the mosaic floor found at the Beth Alpha Synagogue?
A. signs of the zodiac
B. a Torah shrine
C. a menorah
D. orant figures
According to Millard Meiss, artists working after the Black Death reverted to a
__________ in religious art.
A. softly modeled style
B. highly detailed naturalism
C. classically-posed figures
D. hieratic linearity
Famed for its thin walls and use of color, the ceramic work called __________was
named after the cave on Mount Ida where it was first discovered.
A. Kamares ware
B. marine style
C. palace style
D. filigree
The Trs Riches Heures depicts peasants ______________________.
A. realistically, through the inclusion of anecdotal details
B. as happily working or amusingly uncouth
C. as crude and uncivilized
D. as servants to the upper classes
High Tech architecture is frequently characterized by ___________________.
A. the elimination of almost all applied decoration
B. the visible display of service systems such as heating and power
C. distorted designs that challenge traditional assumptions about stability
D. the simultaneous mixing of styles from different architectural periods
The Fang people use what type of wooden sculpture as a point of mediation between
ancestors and the living?
A. temple guardian
B. twin figure
C. tomb guardian
D. reliquary guardian
Stepped structures known as ziggurats may have developed from the practice of
___________________.
A. using prisoners as a work force
B. repeated rebuilding at sacred sites
C. establishing settlements on high land for safety
D. burying the dead in pyramids
Unlike ceramic decoration in China, the painting on the best Korean porcelain from the
fifteenth century onward closely approximated that on paper and__________.
A. palm leaves
B. silk
C. canvas
D. granite
Which symbol is NOT used to represent the Buddha?
A. a lion
B. a chakra
C. a linga
D. a footprint
Augusta Savage was a sculptor in the __________ Renaissance.
A. Harlem
B. Suprematism
C. Ashcan
D. Cubist
According to art historians, Artemisia Gentileschi frequently painted heroic biblical
women to ___________.
A. claim her rightful place in a male-dominated art world
B. to provide women with a pious model for behavior
C. use her body as a model
D. steal commissions from other artists.
The Carracci family consciously rejected the artifice of ______________ instead fusing
their style with the Italian High Renaissance.
A. etching
B. Mannerism
C. tenebrism
D. the poussinistes
The Swiss artist John Henry Fuselispecialized in depicting dramatic subjects drawn
from literary sources including ___________.
A. the Bible
B. Erasmus
C. Chaucer
D. Shakespeare
What motivated Picasso to create his large-scale painting Guernica (Fig. 32-64) for
Spanish Pavilion at the 1938 Paris Exposition?
A. It was a celebration of Spain's technological innovations in the early twentieth
century.
B. It was a response to the German bombing of a small Basque town, sponsored by
Spanish Nationalists.
C. It memorialized the huge loss of life in World War I.
D. It was a modern version of traditional history painting recognizing Spanish
accomplishments.
Jean-Antoine Houdon made a well-regarded __________ of George Washington.
A. vase painting
B. sculpture
C. stamp
D. cross
How does Martin Schongauer's intensify the moment portrayed in his Demons
Tormenting St. Anthony (Fig. 19-28)?
A. placing the action in a panoramic landscape
B. condensing the action into a swirling vortex of figures
C. arranging the figures into a pyramidal shape
D. none of the above
The architecture of Venice was most influenced by ______________forms.
A. Classical
B. Gothic
C. Byzantine
D. Islamic
Muslims date their history as beginning with the _________ or emigration.
A. baraka
B. hajj
C. hijira
D. tugras
To keep business records, the Sumerians pressed a __________ into clay tablets to
produce cuneiform writing.
A. stylus
B. seal
C. picture stamp
D. chisel
William Morris's reaction against the mass-production of furniture and other functional
objects was rooted in his ____________.
A. desire for his own wealth
B. socialist concerns for industrial workers
C. idea that art was only for the elite
D. religious beliefs
The large central "X" on Bwa masks represents the __________ that every initiated
Bwa wears as a mark of devotion.
A. ash
B. bones
C. hat
D. scar
The __________ of Gerrit Rietveld's Schrder House created the radical asymmetry
sought after in the De Stijl movement.
A. exposed skeletal structure
B. large expanses of windows
C. richly encrusted surface
D. the white planes and horizontal and vertical accents in primary colors
A literati of the late Ming period, __________ developed significant and far-reaching
theories on the state of Chinese painting.
A. Zhao Mengfu
B. Ni Zan
C. Dong Qichang
D. Dai Jin
