QUIZ 4 • Question 1 In House (p.57), how does Jaune Quick-to-See Smith evoke the simplicity of traditional Native American lifestyles that have disappeared? Answer Selected Answer: c. simple black outlines and ironic messages Correct Answer: c. simple black outlines and ironic messages • Question 2 What cultural conventions (p. 74) did Robert Mapplethorpe challenge in his photographic portrait of female bodybuilder, Lisa Lyon? Answer Selected Answer: a. the traditional representation of the female nude Correct Answer: a. the traditional representation of the female nude • Question 3 Which of these pieces illustrates the use of "expressive" line? Answer Selected Answer: b. Van Gogh's The Starry Night Correct Answer: b. Van Gogh's The Starry Night • Question 4 Lines that create a sense of movement and direction are called: Answer Selected Answer: c. implied lines. Correct Answer: c. implied lines. • Question 5 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? Answer Selected Answer: a. it reiterates the rationality of Socrates' actions Correct Answer: a. it reiterates the rationality of Socrates' actions • Question 6 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? Answer Selected Answer: b. implied line Correct Answer: b. implied line • Question 7 The organization of visual elements in an artwork is called: Answer Selected Answer: c. a composition. Correct Answer: c. a composition. • Question 8 Hung Liu's paintings, such as Three Fujins (p. 69), rely on contrasts between two very important elements: Answer Selected Answer: c. carefully drawn structural lines and uncontrolled drip lines Correct Answer: c. carefully drawn structural lines and uncontrolled drip lines • Question 9 The Starry Night, by Vincent van Gogh, indicates the power of the artist's _______ line. Answer Selected Answer: d. expressive Correct Answer: d. expressive • Question 10 Titian's Assumption and Consecration of the Virgin demonstrates the power of: Answer Selected Answer: c. lines of sight. Correct Answer: c. lines of sight. • Question 11 Line can define space by _____________. Answer Selected Answer: d. all of the above Correct Answer: d. all of the above • Question 12 Hung Liu studied and taught to paint with a strict classical line that is associated with the style of: Answer Selected Answer: a. Russian Social Realism. Correct Answer: a. Russian Social Realism. • Question 13 Hatching and cross-hatching are ways of turning line into______________, or three-dimensional, modeled space. Answer Selected Answer: b. value Correct Answer: b. value • Question 14 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 _____________. Answer Selected Answer: c. autographic Correct Answer: c. autographic • Question 15 Which of these visual elements is most obvious in Andy Goldsworthy's Hazel Leaves? Answer Selected Answer: d. line Correct Answer: d. line • Question 16 Pat Steir's series The Drawing Lesson Part 1, Line # 1 is about what type of line? Answer Selected Answer: c. various artists' unique expressive lines Correct Answer: c. various artists' unique expressive lines • Question 17 What is generally the preferred medium of Andy Goldsworthy? Answer Selected Answer: a. natural materials found on-site Correct Answer: a. natural materials found on-site • Question 18 Line can be used to delineate edges of form in space, imply movement, and ____________. Answer Selected Answer: d. a & b Correct Answer: d. a & b • Question 19 Cezanne's The Basket of Apples is full of what appear to be "mistakes" but are actually________. Answer Selected Answer: d. all of the above Correct Answer: d. all of the above • Question 20 4.55 out of 4.55 points How would you describe Sol LeWitt's use of line in Wall Drawing No. 681 C? Answer Selected Answer: d. all of the above Correct Answer: d. all of the above • Question 21 4.55 out of 4.55 points How is Sol LeWitt's line (p. 64) best described in his work, Wall Drawing No. 681 C? Answer Selected Answer: a. analytic Correct Answer: a. analytic • Question 22 When a style of line becomes associated as an artist's work, we say it is: Answer Selected Answer: d. autographic. Correct Answer: d. autographic. QUIZ 5 • Question 1 5 out of 5 points Where is the negative space in the Rubin vase? Answer Selected Answer: c. in both, depending on how you look at it Correct Answer: c. in both, depending on how you look at it • Question 2 5 out of 5 points Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper is based on what specific type of perspective? Answer Selected Answer: c. one-point linear perspective Correct Answer: c. one-point linear perspective • Question 3 0 out of 5 points Paul Strand's Abstraction, Porch Shadows reflects a 20th century effort to challenge the viewers perspective with ____________. Answer Selected Answer: d. patterns of light and dark Correct Answer: a. odd or distorted perspective • Question 4 5 out of 5 points Gustave Caillebotte's Place de l'Europe on a Rainy Day (fig. 104; p. 83) is based on what specific type of perspective? Answer Selected Answer: d. multiple-point perspective (both one- and two-point perspective are used) Correct Answer: d. multiple-point perspective (both one- and two-point perspective are used) • Question 5 0 out of 5 points What is the most obvious visual element in Matisse's Harmony in Red (The Red Room)? Answer Selected Answer: a. the deep, atmospheric space Correct Answer: d. its lack of special depth • Question 6 5 out of 5 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? Answer Selected Answer: d. figure-ground reversal Correct Answer: d. figure-ground reversal • Question 7 5 out of 5 points Paul Cézanne's Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair (fig. 114; p. 89) illustrates that the artist was more interested in: Answer Selected Answer: d. All of the Above. Correct Answer: d. All of the Above. • Question 8 5 out of 5 points DaVinci's The Last Supper is a perfect example of ____________. Answer Selected Answer: b. one-point perspective Correct Answer: b. one-point perspective • Question 9 5 out of 5 points There is a contradiction in the appearance of Martin Puryear's Self. What is it? Answer Selected Answer: d. it is much lighter than it appears, because it is hollow Correct Answer: d. it is much lighter than it appears, because it is hollow • Question 10 5 out of 5 points When and where was linear perspective first codified (studied, organized, and written down)? Answer Selected Answer: d. during the Renaissance in Italy Correct Answer: d. during the Renaissance in Italy • Question 11 5 out of 5 points In Harmony in Red (The Red Room), Henri Matisse deliberately intended to violate the laws of perspective. Why? Answer Selected Answer: a. His interests were in things other than pure verisimilitude. Correct Answer: a. His interests were in things other than pure verisimilitude. • Question 12 5 out of 5 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? Answer Selected Answer: d. They are both positive forms that contain negative space. Correct Answer: d. They are both positive forms that contain negative space. • Question 13 5 out of 5 points What media does Terry Winters use in his work, like Color and Information? Answer Selected Answer: d. all of the above Correct Answer: d. all of the above • Question 14 5 out of 5 points The surface of a painting or drawing is called: Answer Selected Answer: d. the picture plane. Correct Answer: d. the picture plane. • Question 15 5 out of 5 points As is common in Japanese art, the Kumano mandala creates the illusion of space by utilizing: Answer Selected Answer: d. oblique projection. Correct Answer: d. oblique projection. • Question 16 5 out of 5 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______________. Answer Selected Answer: b. the increased usage and manipulation of cyberspace and virtual realities Correct Answer: b. the increased usage and manipulation of cyberspace and virtual realities • Question 17 5 out of 5 points In Steve DiBenedetto's Deliverance, the artist is able to use ___________to create a sense of space. Answer Selected Answer: d. overlapping images Correct Answer: d. overlapping images • Question 18 5 out of 5 points According to Sayre, our notion of space has changed abruptly and even become "fluid" since the beginning of the twentieth century due to: Answer Selected Answer: b. Einstein's theories. Correct Answer: b. Einstein's theories. • Question 19 5 out of 5 points What is the metaphorical significance of the carved sculpture, Feast Making Spoon, from the Ivory Coast (fig. 94)? Answer Selected Answer: d. it represents the power of the imagination to transform an everyday object into a symbolically charged container of social good. Correct Answer: d. it represents the power of the imagination to transform an everyday object into a symbolically charged container of social good. • Question 20 5 out of 5 points Why is the stereoscope (p. 85) such an effective means of describing "real" space? Answer Selected Answer: b. It mimics binocular vision. Correct Answer: b. It mimics binocular vision. QUIZ 6 • Question 1 5 out of 5 points The background mountains in DaVinci's Madonna of the Rocks provide a perfect example of ___________. Answer Selected Answer: a. atmospheric perspective Correct Answer: a. atmospheric perspective • Question 2 5 out of 5 points Nikolai Buglaj's "Race"ing Sideways is a commentary on the Western convention of_________. Answer Selected Answer: d. a & b Correct Answer: d. a & b • Question 3 0 out of 5 points A color's brightness or dullness (p. 107) is called: Answer Selected Answer: c. tint or shade. Correct Answer: a. intensity or saturation. • Question 4 5 out of 5 points What is yellow's complementary color? Answer Selected Answer: d. violet Correct Answer: d. violet • Question 5 5 out of 5 points Jane Hammond's Fallen is made of many pieces, sewn together as a whole. What is it made of? Answer Selected Answer: b. a digitally scanned and printed image of a leaf with the name of soldiers killed in the Iraq War inscribed on each Correct Answer: b. a digitally scanned and printed image of a leaf with the name of soldiers killed in the Iraq War inscribed on each • Question 6 5 out of 5 points Which of these elements helps to create space in art? Answer Selected Answer: d. all of the above Correct Answer: d. all of the above • Question 7 5 out of 5 points Figure of a Woman by Paul Colin probably derives from his____________. Answer Selected Answer: c. association with Josephine Baker and La Revue Negre Correct Answer: c. association with Josephine Baker and La Revue Negre • Question 8 5 out of 5 points With atmospheric perspective, objects further from the viewer appear ____________. Answer Selected Answer: a. cooler and less distinct Correct Answer: a. cooler and less distinct • Question 9 5 out of 5 points DaVinci is largely responsible for formulating the rules of the effects of light and air in the landscape, called________________. Answer Selected Answer: c. atmospheric perspective Correct Answer: c. atmospheric perspective • Question 10 5 out of 5 points What is the chosen medium of the sculptor Dan Flavin? Answer Selected Answer: b. fluorescent lighting Correct Answer: b. fluorescent lighting • Question 11 5 out of 5 points Artists sometimes choose to paint objects using colors that are not "true" to their optical or local colors (p. 117). This is an example of the expressive use of: Answer Selected Answer: a. arbitrary color. Correct Answer: a. arbitrary color. • Question 12 5 out of 5 points One of the chief tools employed by artists of the Renaissance to show the effects of light (p. 97) is: Answer Selected Answer: d. chiaroscuro. Correct Answer: d. chiaroscuro. • Question 13 5 out of 5 points The range of colors that an artist has preferred to use in a work is referred to as the: Answer Selected Answer: a. palette. Correct Answer: a. palette. • Question 14 5 out of 5 points On Newton's color wheel, colors that lie directly between a secondary and primary (p. 107) are called: Answer Selected Answer: d. intermediate colors. Correct Answer: d. intermediate colors. • Question 15 5 out of 5 points In the history of art, the association of good with light and evil with dark was first fully-developed by ________. Answer Selected Answer: a. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Correct Answer: a. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Question 16 5 out of 5 points In Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes, Artemisia Gentilieschi makes use of a high-contrast technique of painting called___________, Italian for "murky." Answer Selected Answer: a. tenebrism Correct Answer: a. tenebrism • Question 17 5 out of 5 points The author describes Chuck Close's painting Stanley (p. 119) as: Answer Selected Answer: a. "layered pointillism." Correct Answer: a. "layered pointillism." • Question 18 5 out of 5 points On the color wheel, blues and greens (p. 109) are usually thought of as: Answer Selected Answer: d. cool colors. Correct Answer: d. cool colors. • Question 19 5 out of 5 points Mary Cassatt has manipulated light and color in In the Loge to emphasize: Answer Selected Answer: a. the division between male and female spaces. Correct Answer: a. the division between male and female spaces. • Question 20 5 out of 5 points JMW Turner uses 2 types of perspective in Rain, Steam, and Speed-The Great Western Railway. What are they? Answer Selected Answer: c. atmospheric and one-point Correct Answer: c. atmospheric and one-point QUIZ 7 • Question 1 6.25 out of 6.25 points Which of the artists below created a work titled Pietà? Answer Selected Answer: b. Michelangelo Correct Answer: b. Michelangelo • Question 2 0 out of 6.25 points Because of its application to crafts, folk art, and women's work, _______ is associated with the beautifying of utilitarian objects. Answer Selected Answer: c. decorative pattern Correct Answer: b. femmage • Question 3 6.25 out of 6.25 points Some works of art are created precisely to give us the illusion or sensation of movement. This style of art is called: Answer Selected Answer: b. Op Art. Correct Answer: b. Op Art. • Question 4 6.25 out of 6.25 points The Kente cloths of the Asante and Ewe societies of Ghana provide a perfect example of which art element? Answer Selected Answer: b. pattern Correct Answer: b. pattern • Question 5 6.25 out of 6.25 points Max Ernst's Forest and Dove uses a process called _______ to create a variety of textural effects. Answer Selected Answer: d. frottage Correct Answer: d. frottage • Question 6 6.25 out of 6.25 points Because Gianlorenzo Bernini's David tells a story-of David slaying Goliath-it is said to have a _______ sequence. Answer Selected Answer: c. narrative Correct Answer: c. narrative • Question 7 6.25 out of 6.25 points A friend of Claude Monet described his great paintings of Water Lilies, Morning: Willows in the Musée de l'Orangerie (pp. 132-133) as demonstrating _______ motion. Answer Selected Answer: a. Brownian Correct Answer: a. Brownian • Question 8 6.25 out of 6.25 points The systematic and repetitive use of the same motif or design creates a pattern on the pages of the Lindisfarne Gospels, illustrates that pattern is an especially important _______ tool. Answer Selected Answer: a. decorative Correct Answer: a. decorative • Question 9 6.25 out of 6.25 points Which is the most obvious difference between Bernini and Michelangelo's David? Answer Selected Answer: d. Bernini's David is caught in the midst of action, coiled and ready to launch his stone Correct Answer: d. Bernini's David is caught in the midst of action, coiled and ready to launch his stone • Question 10 6.25 out of 6.25 points Hans Namuth's photos (p. 134-135) teach us that Jackson Pollock longed to be involved in: Answer Selected Answer: b. the process of painting. Correct Answer: b. the process of painting. • Question 11 6.25 out of 6.25 points Alexander Calder's "mobiles," like Untitled (p. 123), move when air currents move through them, making them _____________. Answer Selected Answer: d. kinetic Correct Answer: d. kinetic • Question 12 6.25 out of 6.25 points What is the subject matter of Isidro Escamilla's Virgin of Guadalupe? Answer Selected Answer: a. it narrates a story of a miraculous vision of the Virgin Mary at Tepayac, once a site of an Aztec temple Correct Answer: a. it narrates a story of a miraculous vision of the Virgin Mary at Tepayac, once a site of an Aztec temple • Question 13 6.25 out of 6.25 points Early manuscripts such as the Lindisfarne Gospels (p. 128) were said to be ______ because they were elaborately illustrated and decorated. Answer Selected Answer: b. illuminated Correct Answer: b. illuminated • Question 14 6.25 out of 6.25 points What was the inspiration for Grace Ndiritu's Still Life: White Textiles? Answer Selected Answer: c. an exhibition of work by Henri Matisse in 2005 in London Correct Answer: c. an exhibition of work by Henri Matisse in 2005 in London • Question 15 0 out of 6.25 points In what way can a large-scale work be considered a "temporal" art form? Answer Selected Answer: d. it endures time Correct Answer: a. the spectator moves through time and space to view it • Question 16 0 out of 6.25 points Which of the following is not an aspect of texture (pp. 124-127)? Answer Selected Answer: d. tactility Correct Answer: b. content QUIZ 8 • Question 1 0 out of 5 points Which of these pieces best illustrates the use of "variety" over "unity"? Answer Selected Answer: b. James Lavadour's The Seven Valleys and the Five Valleys Correct Answer: a. Louise Lawler's Pollock and Tureen • Question 2 5 out of 5 points Hokusai's The Great Wave makes a statement about scale, in part because: Answer Selected Answer: c. everyone in Japan knows the scale of Mount Fuji. Correct Answer: c. everyone in Japan knows the scale of Mount Fuji. • Question 3 5 out of 5 points Frank Gehry has been called a postmodern architect, primarily because ____________. Answer Selected Answer: c. he purposely creates a sense of discontinuity by employing variety over unity Correct Answer: c. he purposely creates a sense of discontinuity by employing variety over unity • Question 4 5 out of 5 points In her painting, Still Life with Lobster, (p. 150), Anna Vallayer-Coster establishes emphasis through: Answer Selected Answer: d. the manipulation of light and color. Correct Answer: d. the manipulation of light and color. • Question 5 5 out of 5 points When each side of a composition is exactly the same (p. 143), it shows: Answer Selected Answer: c. absolute symmetry. Correct Answer: c. absolute symmetry. • Question 6 5 out of 5 points Repetition often implies monotony (162-164), yet it also creates a sense of: Answer Selected Answer: d. rhythm. Correct Answer: d. rhythm. • Question 7 5 out of 5 points The Rose window from the Chartres Cathedral is an example of: Answer Selected Answer: c. radial balance. Correct Answer: c. radial balance. • Question 8 5 out of 5 points Where is the focal point in the Baroque painting, Joseph the Carpenter by Georges de La Tour? Answer Selected Answer: b. In the child's (Jesus) face Correct Answer: b. In the child's (Jesus) face • Question 9 0 out of 5 points The dimensions of an object, in relation to some constant (p. 156) such as the human figure, are known as its _______. Answer Selected Answer: d. proportions Correct Answer: b. scale • Question 10 5 out of 5 points Leonardo DaVinci's Vitruvian Man and Frank Gehry's residence illustrate the differences between______. Answer Selected Answer: d. unity and variety Correct Answer: d. unity and variety • Question 11 5 out of 5 points When an artist deliberately avoids emphasis (p. 173), we say that the work is: Answer Selected Answer: a. afocal. Correct Answer: a. afocal. • Question 12 5 out of 5 points Leonardo da Vinci's, Study of Human Proportion: The Vitruvian Man (p. 141), embodies both: Answer Selected Answer: d. All of the above. Correct Answer: d. All of the above. • Question 13 5 out of 5 points _______ is a term that describes an artist's attempt to draw our eyes to one area of a composition (150). Answer Selected Answer: d. Emphasis Correct Answer: d. Emphasis • Question 14 5 out of 5 points When dealing with balance in a composition, an artist or designer is actually dealing with: Answer Selected Answer: b. visual weight. Correct Answer: b. visual weight. • Question 15 5 out of 5 points Sayre stats that the focal point in Larry Poons' Orange Crush is: Answer Selected Answer: c. there is no focal point. Correct Answer: c. there is no focal point. • Question 16 5 out of 5 points Jan Vermeer's Woman Holding a Balance is a perfect example of ____________. Answer Selected Answer: b. an asymmetrically-balanced composition Correct Answer: b. an asymmetrically-balanced composition • Question 17 5 out of 5 points Proportion is defined as: Answer Selected Answer: d. the relationship between the parts to each other and the whole in a composition. Correct Answer: d. the relationship between the parts to each other and the whole in a composition. • Question 18 5 out of 5 points Chartres Cathedral's rose window best illustrates: Answer Selected Answer: c. radial balance. Correct Answer: c. radial balance. • Question 19 5 out of 5 points The Taj Mahal was built by Shah Jahan beginning in 1632___________. Answer Selected Answer: b. as a mausoleum for his favorite wife, who died giving birth to their 14th child Correct Answer: b. as a mausoleum for his favorite wife, who died giving birth to their 14th child • Question 20 5 out of 5 points The Taj Mahal is a perfect example of ____________in art/architecture. Answer Selected Answer: a. symmetry Correct Answer: a. symmetry