Chapter 1: EXPERIENCING ART
1. A major part of the task for art history is to:
a. emphasize our memorization of facts and dates
b. increase our understanding between works of art and ourselves
c. help us to understand a work of art divorced from its historical environment
d. train us to be art critics
2. A historic style describes how the visual appearance of a work of art is tied to the period:
a. in relationship to its iconography
b. in relationship to the individual artist’s creativity
c. that preceded the period when the art was created
d. during which the work was created
3. Iconography refers to the study of subject matter in the:
a. use of formal analysis
b. work of art
c. life of the artist
d. examination of architectural ground plans
4. Part of the traditional definition of painting is that it is:
a. planar
b. three-dimensional
c. to be seen in the round
d. one-dimensional
5. A basic component in analyzing painting is the use of:
a. rectangles
b. composition
c. fresco
d. naturalism
6. Which one of the following is a medium?
a. form
b. picture plane
c. flatness
d. oil
7. David Smith’s Cubi XIX:
a. is representational
b. primarily has a horizontal axis
c. is in the round
d. uses illusionary space
8. The Minuteman by Daniel Chester French is:
a. in bronze
b. in granite
c. primarily abstract
d. to be viewed only from the front side
9. Both the Villa Rotunda and Fallingwater were:
a. designed as country homes
b. designed to demonstrate a knowledge of classical antiquity
c. related to their site in a similar manner
d. symmetrical in exterior design
10. Which one of the following is not used in the Villa Rotunda?
a. post-and-lintel
b. arch
c. cantilever
d. central domed-mass
11. The transformation of the traditional classification of the visual arts as mechanical arts
occurred during which of the following historical periods?
a. the Middle Ages
b. the Renaissance
c. the sixteenth century
d. the nineteenth century
12. In production of ritual African objects, the artist is believed to:
a. be an empty vessel who must be trained
b. be endowed with special creative abilities
c. have spiritual but not creative capacities
d. have creative but not spiritual capacities
ANSWERS TO MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
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