Art

Question 1

The underpainting for a fresco

Answer 1

Sinopia

Question 2

Who is considered the founding father of the Renaissance?

Answer 2

Donatello

Question 3

Whose work was the source of the Impressionism movement name?

Answer 3

Claude Monet

Question 4

Who is considered one of the most important thinkers associated with postcolonial theory?

Answer 4

Edward Said

Question 5

The brightness or purity of a color

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Intensity

Question 6

In what present-day country did the Persian Empire flourish?

Answer 6

Iran

Question 7

Prints from what country influenced French nineteenth-century artists?

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Japan

Question 8

During which time period is Stonehenge believed to have been built?

Answer 8

New Stone Age

Question 9

When complimentary colors are blended by the eye it is known as

Answer 9

Optical Mixing

Question 10

In a photograph of a three dimensional form we perceive the edges of the form as which kind of lines?

Answer 10

Outlines

Question 11

In African artwork, what is the primary purpose of exaggerated head body proportions?

Answer 11

Symbolic

Question 12

What were the sculptures of the Yoruba civilization made of?

Answer 12

Terracotta and bronze

Question 13

The Cubists were influenced by

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African Art

Question 14

Which culture is credited with the invention of paper?

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Chinese

Question 15

What is the oldest legal code in its entirety?

Answer 15

Code of Hammurabi

Question 16

Who is wildly considered the founder of modern sculptures?

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Donatello

Question 17

Who is often referred to as the first Impressionist?

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Edouard Manet

Question 18

A type of printmaking that uses acid to create an image

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Etching

Question 19

The arrangement of the windows of a building

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Fenestration

Question 20

In the past what objects did art historians limit their focus on?

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Fine art

Question 21

A solution sprayed on drawings to prevent smudging is known as a

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Fixative

Question 22

The Islamic Dome of the Rock is located where?

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Jerusalem

Question 23

What type of artwork uses small tiles, pieces of stone, or glass where they are set into a ground material to create large murals?

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Mosaic

Question 24

Who is considered the father of Greek painting?

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Polygnotus

Question 25

What was the central aspect of Sumerian life in Mesopotamia?

Answer 25

Religion

Question 26

What was the Oath of the Horatii meant to illustrate?

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Republican virtues

Question 27

What two elements in an artwork occupy positive space?

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Shape and Forms

Question 28

Joan Mitchell was born in

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Chicago

Question 29

The slabs in the Field of Stelae are made from

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Concrete

Question 30

Code X: The City of Culture of Galicia was published by

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Eisenman

Question 31

To what country did Mitchell relocate permanently in 1955?

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France

Question 32

Which American artist sculpted two peace bridges in the Peace Memorial Park?

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Isamu Noguchi

Question 33

Whose work "synthesizes a multitude of contrasting concepts and forms: light and dark, warm and cool, space and density, growth and decay, gravity and lightness"?

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Joan Mitchell

Question 34

Who helped found the "Reflex" group?

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Karel Appel

Question 35

The name given to a category of artworks in which the artists use several art mediums

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Mixed media

Question 36

Giacometti's father was a/an

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Painter

Question 37

Which artist was interested in the idea of "recapitulation"?

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Still

Question 38

Chagall was born in the Russian city of

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Vitebsk

Question 39

an academic discipline dedicated to the reconstruction of the social, cultural, and economic contexts in which an artwork was created

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Art history

Question 40

the philosophical inquiry into the nature and expression of beauty

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Aesthetics

Question 41

the explanation of current art events tot he general public via the press

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Art criticism

Question 42

focuses on the visual qualities of the work of art itself

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Formal analysis

Question 43

focuses on the cultural, social, religious, and economic context in which the work was produced.

Answer 43

Contextual analysis

Question 44

southeastern France; cave paintings discovered in 1994 and dating from c. 30,000 BCE (Old Stone Age or Upper Paleolithic Period), mostly animal depictions

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Chauvet Cave

Question 45

Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England; megalithic stone circles dating from c. 2100 BCE (New Stone Age or Neolithic Period)

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Stonehenge

Question 46

stepped pyramids built by Sumerians in Mesopotamia starting c. 4000 BCE; function as temples as well as administrative and economic centers

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Ziggurats

Question 47

Egyptian style; head in profile with eye in frontal view, torso in full frontal view, and lower body, legs, and feet in profile

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Fractional representation

Question 48

counter positioning = standing figure is posed with its weight shifted onto one leg, for a more relaxed, naturalistic appearance

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Contrapposto

Question 49

work in which small ceramic tiles, pieces of stone, or glass are set into a ground material to create large murals

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Mosaic

Question 50

a series of arch-shaped structures used as a ceiling or a support to a roof; common in Romanesque architecture

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Barrel vault

Question 51

framework of thin stone ribs or arches built under the intersection of the vaulted sections of the ceiling; common in Gothic architecture

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Ribbed vault

Question 52

additional bracing materials and arches placed on the exterior of a building (especially in cathedrals); common in Gothic architecture

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Flying buttress

Question 53

1377-1446, Italian artist who completed the dome of the Florence cathedral, developed linear perspective (single vanishing point)

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Filippo Brunelleschi

Question 54

1389?-1466, Italian Renaissance artist, founder of modern sculpture

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Donatello

Question 55

1444?-1510, Italian Renaissance artist, established ideal for female beauty with "The Birth of Venus" (c. 1482)

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Botticelli

Question 56

1452-1519, Italian High Renaissance artist, inventor, architect, engineer, scientist, musician; "The Last Supper" (c. 1495-98), "Mona Lisa" (c. 1503-05)

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Leonardo da Vinci

Question 57

the use of mellowed colors and a blurred outline, allows forms to blend subtly into one another with obvious transitions; da Vinci's key innovation

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Sfumato

Question 58

1475-1564, Italian High Renaissance artist; "David" (1504), ceiling at Sistine Chapel (1508-1512)

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Michelangelo (di Buonarotti)