• Question 1
2 out of 2 points
Titian's Assumption and Consecration of the Virgin demonstrates the power of:
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Selected Answer:
lines of sight.
• Question 2
0 out of 2 points
Paul Strand's Abstraction, Porch Shadows reflects a 20th century effort to challenge the viewer's perspective with ____________.
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Selected Answer:
patterns of light and dark
correct: odd or distorted perspective
• Question 3
2 out of 2 points
In Giacometti's Man Pointing, our eye is directed down his right arm and past his pointed finger to some imagined point of interest beyond. This is an example of which formal element?
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Selected Answer:
implied line
• Question 4
2 out of 2 points
How is Sol LeWitt's line (p. 64) best described in his work, Wall Drawing No. 681 C?
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Selected Answer:
analytic
• Question 5
2 out of 2 points
Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Socrates is set up in a system of right angles on a grid structure. How does this affect the content of the piece?
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Selected Answer:
it reiterates the rationality of Socrates' actions
• Question 6
2 out of 2 points
What is generally the preferred medium of Andy Goldsworthy?
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Selected Answer:
natural materials found on-site
• Question 7
2 out of 2 points
In the Rubin vase illustration (p. 76), the black shape can be seen alternately as a foreground object resembling a vase, or as a background space between two white profiled faces. What is this relationship called?
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Selected Answer:
figure-ground reversal
• Question 8
2 out of 2 points
DaVinci's The Last Supper is a perfect example of ____________.
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Selected Answer:
one-point perspective
• Question 9
2 out of 2 points
Where is the vanishing point in The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci?
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Selected Answer:
at Jesus' head
• Question 10
2 out of 2 points
A picture drawn in perspective that employs a single point of vision is called:
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Selected Answer:
monocular vision.
• Question 11
2 out of 2 points
Which of these visual elements is most obvious in Andy Goldsworthy's Hazel Leaves?
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Selected Answer:
line
• Question 12
2 out of 2 points
Jane Hammond's Fallen is made of many pieces, sewn together as a whole. What is it made of?
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Selected Answer:
a digitally scanned and printed image of a leaf with the name of soldiers killed in the Iraq War inscribed on each
• Question 13
2 out of 2 points
Where is the negative space in the Rubin vase?
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Selected Answer:
in both, depending on how you look at it
• Question 14
2 out of 2 points
There is a contradiction in the appearance of Martin Puryear's Self. What is it?
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Selected Answer:
it is much lighter than it appears, because it is hollow
• Question 15
2 out of 2 points
What cultural conventions (p. 74) did Robert Mapplethorpe challenge in his photographic portrait of female bodybuilder, Lisa Lyon?
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Selected Answer:
the traditional representation of the female nude
• Question 16
2 out of 2 points
Paul Cézanne's Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair (fig. 114; p. 89) illustrates that the artist was more interested in:
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Selected Answer:
All of the Above.
• Question 17
2 out of 2 points
In the 15th century in Italy there was a profound redefinition of space with the codification and usage of linear perspective. Some see the same thing happening today with______________.
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Selected Answer:
the increased usage and manipulation of cyberspace and virtual realities
• Question 18
2 out of 2 points
According to Sayre, our notion of space has changed abruptly and even become "fluid" since the beginning of the twentieth century due to:
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Selected Answer:
Einstein's theories.
• Question 19
2 out of 2 points
In Steve DiBenedetto's Deliverance, the artist is able to use ___________to create a sense of space.
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Selected Answer:
overlapping images
• Question 20
2 out of 2 points
The Starry Night, by Vincent van Gogh, indicates the power of the artist's _______ line.
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Selected Answer:
expressive
• Question 21
2 out of 2 points
Pat Steir's series The Drawing Lesson Part 1, Line # 1 is about what type of line?
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Selected Answer:
various artists' unique expressive lines
• Question 22
2 out of 2 points
Cezanne's The Basket of Apples is full of what appear to be "mistakes" but are actually________.
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Selected Answer:
all of the above
• Question 23
2 out of 2 points
In axonometric projection (p. 84), all lines indicating height, width, and depth remain:
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Selected Answer:
parallel.
• Question 24
2 out of 2 points
Hung Liu studied and taught to paint with a strict classical line that is associated with the style of:
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Selected Answer:
Russian Social Realism.
• Question 25
2 out of 2 points
Why is the stereoscope (p. 85) such an effective means of describing "real" space?
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Selected Answer:
It mimics binocular vision.
• Question 26
2 out of 2 points
The organization of visual elements in an artwork is called:
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Selected Answer:
a composition.
• Question 27
2 out of 2 points
How would you describe Sol LeWitt's use of line in Wall Drawing No. 681 C?
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Selected Answer:
all of the above
• Question 28
2 out of 2 points
Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper is based on what specific type of perspective?
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Selected Answer:
one-point linear perspective
• Question 29
2 out of 2 points
The surface of a painting or drawing is called:
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Selected Answer:
the picture plane.
• Question 30
2 out of 2 points
What is yellow's complementary color?
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Selected Answer:
violet
• Question 31
2 out of 2 points
What is the metaphorical significance of the carved sculpture, Feast Making Spoon, from the Ivory Coast (fig. 94)?
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Selected Answer:
it represents the power of the imagination to transform an everyday object into a symbolically charged container of social good.
• Question 32
2 out of 2 points
When a style of line becomes associated as an artist's work, we say it is:
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Selected Answer:
autographic.
• Question 33
2 out of 2 points
Gustave Caillebotte's Place de l'Europe on a Rainy Day (fig. 104; p. 83) is based on what specific type of perspective?
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Selected Answer:
multiple-point perspective (both one- and two-point perspective are used)
• Question 34
2 out of 2 points
In Harmony in Red (The Red Room), Henri Matisse deliberately intended to violate the laws of perspective. Why?
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Selected Answer:
His interests were in things other than pure verisimilitude.
• Question 35
2 out of 2 points
Where is the vanishing point in Duccio's Perspective Analysis of Annunciation of the Death of the Virgin, from the Maestá Altarpiece?
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Selected Answer:
at several points in the composition since Medieval artists used multiple viewpoints
• Question 36
2 out of 2 points
Line can be used to delineate edges of form in space, imply movement, and ____________.
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Selected Answer:
a & b
• Question 37
2 out of 2 points
Hatching and cross-hatching are ways of turning line into______________, or three-dimensional, modeled space.
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Selected Answer:
value
• Question 38
2 out of 2 points
As in Suney, Olafur Eliasson is known for mainly using what "materials" in his work?
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Selected Answer:
light
• Question 39
2 out of 2 points
Which of these pieces illustrates the use of "expressive" line?
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Selected Answer:
Van Gogh's The Starry Night
• Question 40
2 out of 2 points
Although created for different purposes, Barbara Hepworth's Two Figures and the African feast-making spoon (pp. 77) share a similar trait. What is it?
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Selected Answer:
They are both positive forms that contain negative space.
• Question 41
2 out of 2 points
When and where was linear perspective first codified (studied, organized, and written down)?
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Selected Answer:
during the Renaissance in Italy
• Question 42
2 out of 2 points
In The Dead Christ (p. 86), Andrea Mantegna utilizes the technique of ______ in order to adjust the distortion created by the point of view.
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Selected Answer:
foreshortening
• Question 43
2 out of 2 points
What media does Terry Winters use in his work, like Color and Information?
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Selected Answer:
all of the above
• Question 44
2 out of 2 points
Hung Liu's paintings, such as Three Fujins (p. 69), rely on contrasts between two very important elements:
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Selected Answer:
carefully drawn structural lines and uncontrolled drip lines
• Question 45
2 out of 2 points
What is the outcome, or the content of Mary Flanagan's (collection)?
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Selected Answer:
it draws upon information found on participants hard-drives to create a kind of collective unconscious of the Internet
• Question 46
2 out of 2 points
Line can define space by _____________.
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Selected Answer:
all of the above
• Question 47
2 out of 2 points
In House (p.57), how does Jaune Quick-to-See Smith evoke the simplicity of traditional Native American lifestyles that have disappeared?
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Selected Answer:
simple black outlines and ironic messages
• Question 48
2 out of 2 points
As is common in Japanese art, the Kumano mandala creates the illusion of space by utilizing:
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Selected Answer:
oblique projection.
• Question 49
2 out of 2 points
What is the most obvious visual element in Matisse's Harmony in Red (The Red Room)?
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Selected Answer:
its lack of spatial depth
• Question 50
2 out of 2 points
When an artist's mark-making style, particularly his/her use of line, is recognizable, like Van Gogh's in The Starry Night, we say it is _____________.
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Selected Answer:
autographic