• Question 1
5 out of 5 points
Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:
Answer
Selected Answer: b.
Spanish Civil War.
Correct Answer: b.
Spanish Civil War.
• Question 2
5 out of 5 points
"Postmodernism" (p. 515) has been defined in part as:
Answer
Selected Answer: d.
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
Correct Answer: d.
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
• Question 3
5 out of 5 points
The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse (p. 500) is:
Answer
Selected Answer: d.
Fauvism.
Correct Answer: d.
Fauvism.
• Question 4
5 out of 5 points
Which of these is an example of Dada art?
Answer
Selected Answer: b.
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
Correct Answer: b.
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
• Question 5
5 out of 5 points
In what aspect of the twentieth century were Umberto Boccioni and other Futurist artists (p. 502) most interested?
Answer
Selected Answer: c.
movement and speed
Correct Answer: c.
movement and speed
• Question 6
5 out of 5 points
Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of:
Answer
Selected Answer: c.
German Expressionism.
Correct Answer: c.
German Expressionism.
• Question 7
5 out of 5 points
Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality, Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies the _______ movement.
Answer
Selected Answer: c.
Dada
Correct Answer: c.
Dada
• Question 8
5 out of 5 points
Which of these paintings is considered an Abstract Expressionist painting?
Answer
Selected Answer: c.
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
Correct Answer: c.
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
• Question 9
5 out of 5 points
The two major art movements of the 1960s (pp. 512-513) were:
Answer
Selected Answer: d.
Minimalism and Pop Art.
Correct Answer: d.
Minimalism and Pop Art.
• Question 10
5 out of 5 points
Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes (p. 499). What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?
Answer
Selected Answer: a.
Paul Cézanne
Correct Answer: a.
Paul Cézanne
• Question 11
5 out of 5 points
Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?
Answer
Selected Answer: b.
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
Correct Answer: b.
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
• Question 12
5 out of 5 points
The artist André Breton issued a manifesto (p. 505) that described the point of "resolution between these two states, dream and reality." What was this movement?
Answer
Selected Answer: b.
Surrealism
Correct Answer: b.
Surrealism
• Question 13
5 out of 5 points
Henri Matisse was a leader of early 20th century artists who felt free to use color "arbitrarily" and were labeled, derogatorily, "Fauves", which translates __________.
Answer
Selected Answer: b.
"Wild Beasts"
Correct Answer: b.
"Wild Beasts"
• Question 14
5 out of 5 points
The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali illustrates how he looked to his subconscious (dreams, hypnosis, psychoanalysis) for his subject matter. What artistic movement is he associated with?
Answer
Selected Answer: c.
Surrealism
Correct Answer: c.
Surrealism
• Question 15
5 out of 5 points
The artist who painted Houses at L'Estaque worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism. The artist's name is:
Answer
Selected Answer: b.
Georges Braque.
Correct Answer: b.
Georges Braque.
• Question 16
5 out of 5 points
Chéri Samba's Problème d'eau. Où trouver I'eau? is an ironic comment on:
Answer
Selected Answer: b.
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars, while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
Correct Answer: b.
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars, while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
• Question 17
0 out of 5 points
Using her work to struggle with the question of identity, this photographer's images are self-portraits.
Answer
Selected Answer: b.
Barbara Kruger
Correct Answer: c.
Cindy Sherman
• Question 18
5 out of 5 points
The Cubists (pp. 499) freed painting from the necessity of representing the world in order to dwell on:
Answer
Selected Answer: c.
form.
Correct Answer: c.
form.
• Question 19
0 out of 5 points
Artists often find that the art they make has unintentional meaning. Georgia Papageorge's Africa Rifting: Lines of Fire: Namibia/Brazil is an example of this because:
Answer
Selected Answer: d.
all of the above
Correct Answer: c.
one of their principal days of filming was 9/11/2001 and the banners came to signify the rifts separating humanity on a global scale.
• Question 20
0 out of 5 points
Marianne Nicholson's cliffside pictograph (a "copper") represents a Northwest Native American tradition that had been suppressed through most of the 20th century, called:
Answer
Selected Answer: a.
vision quests.
Correct Answer: c.
the potlatch.
• Question 1
5 out of 5 points
Rococo painting can best be characterized as:
Answer
Selected Answer: c.
the Baroque, eroticized, and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
Correct Answer: c.
the Baroque, eroticized, and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
• Question 2
5 out of 5 points
Native American kachinas, like Buffalo Kachina (p. 494), are:
Answer
Selected Answer: d.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Correct Answer: d.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
• Question 3
5 out of 5 points
Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?
Answer
Selected Answer: d.
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
Correct Answer: d.
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
• Question 4
5 out of 5 points
Images such as View of Suzhou reveal the 18th century Chinese interest in__________.
Answer
Selected Answer: a.
aerial views of cities
Correct Answer: a.
aerial views of cities
• Question 5
5 out of 5 points
Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of "primitive" island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?
Answer
Selected Answer: b.
Paul Gauguin.
Correct Answer: b.
Paul Gauguin.
• Question 6
5 out of 5 points
What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?
Answer
Selected Answer: d.
Thomas Jefferson
Correct Answer: d.
Thomas Jefferson
• Question 7
5 out of 5 points
Angelica Kauffmann painted in the _______ style (p. 481), which was based on Greek and Roman models.
Answer
Selected Answer: b.
Neoclassical
Correct Answer: b.
Neoclassical
• Question 8
5 out of 5 points
This artist of The Large Bathers pushed toward an idea of painting that established for the work an independent existence:
Answer
Selected Answer: b.
Paul Cézanne.
Correct Answer: b.
Paul Cézanne.
• Question 9
0 out of 5 points
Which of these paintings is an example of Romanticism?
Answer
Selected Answer: d.
Church's The Heart of the Andes
Correct Answer: b.
Delacroix's Odalisque
• Question 10
5 out of 5 points
The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?
Answer
Selected Answer: c.
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
Correct Answer: c.
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
• Question 11
5 out of 5 points
Which of these paintings is considered a Rococo painting?
Answer
Selected Answer: c.
Fragonard's Bathers
Correct Answer: c.
Fragonard's Bathers
• Question 12
0 out of 5 points
The Realist movement (p. 489) was influenced by many ideas and worldviews including:
Answer
Selected Answer: a.
the new post-industrial leisure class.
Correct Answer: d.
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
• Question 13
5 out of 5 points
In works such as Olympia, realist painter Edouard Manet was denying traditional painting style and drawing attention to:
Answer
Selected Answer: a.
his modernity and break with the past.
Correct Answer: a.
his modernity and break with the past.
• Question 14
5 out of 5 points
What is the subject matter of most Impressionist painting?
Answer
Selected Answer: a.
Light itself, the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
Correct Answer: a.
Light itself, the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
• Question 15
5 out of 5 points
The Rococo style (pp. 479-480) has been characterized as:
Answer
Selected Answer: a.
the Baroque eroticized.
Correct Answer: a.
the Baroque eroticized.
• Question 16
5 out of 5 points
Théodore Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?
Answer
Selected Answer: c.
Romanticism
Correct Answer: c.
Romanticism
• Question 17
5 out of 5 points
In the early nineteenth century, a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?
Answer
Selected Answer: d.
the notion of the sublime
Correct Answer: d.
the notion of the sublime
• Question 18
5 out of 5 points
Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigée-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.
Answer
Selected Answer: c.
Baroque
Correct Answer: c.
Baroque
• Question 19
5 out of 5 points
Romanticist artists, like Frederic Edwin Church, viewed nature as:
Answer
Selected Answer: a.
a literal "sign" for the divine spirit.
Correct Answer: a.
a literal "sign" for the divine spirit.
• Question 20
5 out of 5 points
The Post-Impressionists (p. 496) were united by their interest in:
Answer
Selected Answer: b.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Correct Answer: b.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.