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Art Section 1 Flashcards

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What art form was the MOST important in establishing the identity of the emerging U.S.?

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Portraiture

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What is the primary purpose of art history?

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To understand a work of art in its original context

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Aesthetics is BEST defined as

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Study of the nature and expression of beauty

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What is NOT typically included in the category of fine art?

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Pottery

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What art forms are most often considered craft art?

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Posters and tattoos

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6
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The meaning of artwork is NOT

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Fixed

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Art analysis that focuses specifically on the visual elements of an artwork?

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Formal

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8
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An art critic using formal analysis would be MOST interested in the

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Work of art itself

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9
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The broadest definition of contextual analysis is

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Outside information important to a work of art

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10
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An art element that is LEAST different in a reproduction of an artwork

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Composition

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What field of study is BEST suited for cultures that rely on oral rather than written history

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Anthropology

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12
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What ancient Roman philosopher analyzed historical artworks in “Natural History”?

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Pliny the Elder

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13
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Giorgio Vasari’s “The Lives of the Artists” outlined the

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developing roles of artists in society

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14
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Johann Joachim Winckelmann was notable for shifting art history to focus on?

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Stylistic development

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15
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Why do modern art historians focus more on ancient Egyptian art rather than ancient West African art?

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Egypt’s climate allows ancient art to be preserved for longer than in West Africa

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16
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The Chauvet Cave paintings are found in modern-day?

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France

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17
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What animals appear in the cave paintings at Lascaux and Altamira?

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lions, bison, horses, mammoths

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What function did the statue “The Venus of Willendorf” likely serve?

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fertility figure

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What development first caused Europeans in the Middle Stone Age to move away from cave dwellings?

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An increase in temperatures prompted a transition to rock shelters

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20
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Stonehenge is a classic example of artistic production from the?

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New Stone Age

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21
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The sarsen at Stonehenge is a type of?

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Sandstone

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22
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Why did ancient Mesopotamia witness more invasions than ancient Egypt?

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Mesopotamia lacked Egypt’s natural protections

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23
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Ancient Sumerian ziggurats were both temples and

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Economic hubs

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Hammurabi is known most today for his surviving

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Law code (Code of Hammurabi)

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25
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What group ruled Mesopotamia first?

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the Akkadians

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26
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The Ishtar Gate is known for its depictions of?

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animal figures

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27
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What city was home to the Persian Empire’s most famous royal palace?

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Persepolis

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28
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The Egyptian artistic practice of showing influential people as larger in works is known as?

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Hierarchical scale

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29
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What Egyptian pharaoh’s tomb is most significant today?

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Tutankhamun’s

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30
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What civilization existed first?

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Cycladic

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31
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The Minoan civilization flourished on the island of?

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Crete

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32
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What art form was NOT prevalent in the Cycladic civilization?

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Iron pendants

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33
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The Minoans’ greatest architectural projects were the construction of several

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Palaces

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34
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How did Archaic Greek art differ MOST from that of ancient Egyptians?

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Archaic Greek art prioritized accurate depiction of human features

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35
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“Contrapposto” is BEST described as a technique in which a

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Figure leans on one leg to create a greater sense of realism

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36
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The Parthenon’s restoration is the most famous architectural achievement of the

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Middle Classical Period

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37
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What region had the most influence on Greek culture during the Hellenistic Period?

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Asia Minor

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38
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Modern art historians’ primary sources for Etruscan art are?

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decorated tombs

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39
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The ancient Romans pioneered the use of?

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Concrete

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40
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Why did Roman sculpture depart from naturalistic depictions of human figures?

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Roman sculptors created idealized depictions that were in line with broader societal values

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41
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What art media is most closely associated with the Byzantine period?

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Mosaics

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42
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The dominant literary language in medieval western Europe was?

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Latin

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43
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Hiberno-Saxon refers to an artistic and cultural overlap of the English, Irish, and the

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Vikings

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44
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What church is an important example of Romanesque architecture?

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Saint-Sernin Basilica

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45
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What artist is most associated with the transition between the Gothic and Renaissance periods?

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Giotto di Bondone

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46
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Who designed the “Gates of Paradise”?

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Lorenzo Ghiberti

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47
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What artist first popularized linear perspective?

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Masaccio

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48
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Donatello is best known for his?

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David

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49
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Michelangelo di Buonarotti sculpted what statues?

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“Moses”, “The Bound Slave”, “The Dying Slave”, “David”

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50
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Leonardo da Vinci pioneered

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sfumato

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51
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What artist is best known for introducing nude statues to the Renaissance?

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Donatello

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52
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Why was Michelangelo di Buonarotti initially hesitant to accept the commission to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?

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The pope had canceled the previous commission

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53
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What artist is best known for the use of chiaroscuro?

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Tintoretto

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54
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How did “The Tempest” most revolutionize Renaissance art?

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by highlighting the landscape

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55
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Titian Vecelli was best known for his?

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portraits

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56
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What artist is most known for depictions of the Madonna?

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Raphael Sanzio

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57
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How did the Reformation most affect Renaissance art?

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It encouraged artists to focus on secular themes

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58
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What artist is best known for his association with the Counter-Reformation?

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Dominikos Theotokopoulos (aka El Greco)

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59
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The Renaissance in Northern and Southern Europe differed

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Artworks in the north were smaller, classical art influenced southern artists, northern art was more detailed, northern artists used more oil paints

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60
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Matthias Grunewald is best know for art depicting?

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Religious scenes

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61
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The term “caravaggesque” refers to the use of?

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Chiaroscuro

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62
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Who engraved “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”?

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Albrecht Durer

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63
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Hans Holbein the Younger was a court painter in?

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England

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64
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True statement in comparing Baroque and the Renaissance

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Baroque art was more dynamic than Renaissance art

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65
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Who painted the “Isenheim Altarpiece”?

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Matthias Grunewald

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66
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Why did several patrons reject Caravaggio’s works?

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The paintings depicted religious figures and other individuals in threadbare garments

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67
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Artemisia Gentileschi is best known for?

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Her religious art

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68
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Who created “Ecstasy of Saint Teresa”?

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Gianlorenzo Bernini

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69
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What Baroque artist came from Northern Europe?

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Peter Paul Rubens

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70
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What monarch approved the creation of the “Salon”?

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King Louis XIV

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71
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Diego Velazquez painted for

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King Philip IV

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72
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Diego Velazquez most influenced?

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Impressionism

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73
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The Baroque style mainly focused on portraying?

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emotions

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74
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Who developed the fete galante genre of painting?

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Jean-Antoine Watteau

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75
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Who most influenced the works of Honore Fragonard?

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Francois Boucher

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76
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What historical event most coincided with the development of Neoclassicism?

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French Revolution of 1789

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77
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What branch of philosophy most influenced Neoclassicism?

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Enlightenment

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78
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How did Jacques Louis David’s paintings for Napoleon Bonaparte differ from his earlier works?

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He previously championed republican virtues, but his paintings for Napoleon Bonaparte were akin to propaganda

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79
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Jean Dominque Ingres’s rival worked in the style of

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Romanticism (his rival was Eugene Delacroix)

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80
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The Baroque style and the Romantic style shared an emphasis on?

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emotion

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81
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Realism can be considered a reaction to?

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Neoclassicism and Romanticism

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82
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What Realist artwork caused outrage at the Salon?

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“The Stonebreakers” by Gustave Courbet’s

83
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Impressionism arose out of disillusionment with?

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Academic painting

84
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Who is considered the first Impressionist?

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Edouard Manet

85
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Why was “Luncheon on the Grass” scandalous?

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It featured a nude woman surrounded by clothed men

86
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Who painted the artwork that is the namesake of the Impressionist movement?

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Claude Monet painted “Impression, Sunrise” in 1872

87
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Impressionist artists applied new scientific knowledge related to?

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Shadows

88
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How did Paul Cezanne modify Impressionist painting practices?

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He stuctured his compositions in terms of form

89
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What element most unifies Post-Impressionism?

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Color

90
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Who painted “Night Cafe”?

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Vincent van Gogh

91
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Before his art career, Paul Gauguin was a

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stockbroker

92
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How did the invention of the camera affect the art world?

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Artists eventually moved away from realism

93
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The Pre-Raphaelites primarily responded to the?

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Industrial Revolution

94
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What art movement is Henri Matisse most associated with?

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Fauvism

95
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What artist contributed to the De Stijl movement?

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Piet Mondrian

96
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What is the De Stijl movement?

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Abstract art with geometric elements, primary colors, and values

97
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How did the Armory Show affect American art?

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It acquinted Americans with modern art movements

98
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What art work belongs in the Dadaist movement?

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Duchamp’s “Fountain” (ridiculing societal norms)

99
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What artist is most associated with Surrealism?

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Rene Magritte

100
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What type of works is Marcel Duchamp best known for?

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ready-mades

101
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What artist served on the faculty of the Bauhaus?

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Josef Albers

102
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Cubism was most associated with theories of ?

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Psychology

103
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The Pre-Raphaelites most strongly influenced?

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Art Nouveau

104
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Where did the center for international art shift after World War II?

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New York

105
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Art that addressed WWI was often?

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Propagandistic

106
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Whose dictum did Abstract Expressionist artists follow?

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Kandinsky’s

107
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What artist was known for creating “combines”/

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Robert Rouschenberg

108
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What statement best explains why 1950s New York art critics were powerful?

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Critics chose which view of art itself to promote

109
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What artist painted using stencils?

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Robert Indiana

110
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What art movement depicted subject matter in sharp focus?

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Photorealism

111
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Hard-edge painting developed with the invention of?

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airbrushes

112
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What change is most associated with the artworld of the 1970s?

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Creation of large-scale and temporary artworks

113
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What type of art was Christo known for?

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Earthworks

114
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To execute large projects in collaboration with her partner, Jeanne-Claude was responsible for?

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logistics

115
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Performance Art, by nature, is?

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transitory

116
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How do the Guerrilla Girls conceal their identity?

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Wearing masks in public

117
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What building contains a specific retaliation against Bauhaus architecture?

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At&T building

118
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Postmoderist art is best described as

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Varied in form and style

119
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What dynasty is considered China’s golden age?

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Tang Dynasty

120
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What emperor had sculptures of his entire army buried with him?

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Emperor of Qin

121
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What ancient civilization influenced images of Buddha in India?

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Greece

122
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What country has the greatest linguistic diversity?

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India

123
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What religion influenced the art of ancient China, India, and Japan?

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Buddhism

124
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What civilization most influenced the Yoruba cultural group?

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Nok

125
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In what country would you most likely find a Benin artifact?

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United States

126
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What art form most often preserved Polynesian body arts before the invention of photography?

A

Engravings

127
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One of the Asmat tribe’s cultural symbols is a ______ decorated red, black, and white?

A

Shields

128
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Located in Jerusalem, one of the oldest and most famous examples of Islamic architecture is the?

A

Dome of the Rock

129
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A false fact about Islamic art and architecture?

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Most Islamic art is figurative

130
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What structure is a North American pyramid?

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Pyramid of the Sun, located in Mexico

131
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Most artifacts from the Americas are from at the most the last

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2,000 years

132
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Curving lines create feelings of

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activity

133
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Why did Medieval churches usually have high arched ceilings?

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To direct the eye upward

134
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The use of shading, foreshortening, and perspective call all create the illusion of?

A

Form

135
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Sculptures that project strongly from a surface are said to be in

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High relief

136
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Use of aerial perspective affect the color of objects that are far away by?

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Making them appear more neutral in color

137
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What era’s paintings frequently feature black and white checkerboard floors?

A

Renaissance

138
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Who developed the concepts that underly the color wheel?

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Isaac Newton

139
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What term is synonymous with the lightness or darkness of a color?

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Value

140
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Optical color considers

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effects of special lighting on a color

141
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In painting, the term rhythm is most associated with?

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pattern

142
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Smallest unit of pattern is

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motif

143
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Most formal styles of architecture employ

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exact symmetry

144
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When were the standards for the relative sizes of parts of the human face & body developed?

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Classical period

145
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By standard rules of proportion, how tall is the ideal human figure?

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Seven and one-half heads

146
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An artist desiring a thin, light line will use?

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a hard pencil

147
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Ink can be diluted to create a

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Wash (lighter in value due to translucent quality)

148
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What media is more durable than pastels but has similar blending properties?

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Colored pencil

149
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Etching and engraving are similar in that both processes

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Cause the printed area to rise above the paper’s surface

150
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What process is an example of relief printmaking?

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Stamping

151
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What materials can be used in lithography?

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wax, stone, zince, aluminum

152
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Why might lithography be more popular than other methods of engravinge?

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It requires no professional training

153
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What materials allows paint to adhere to a surface?

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Binder

154
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To create a fresco, powdered pigment is mixed with?

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Plaster

155
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What substance does tempera traditionally use as a binder?

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Egg

156
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Oil paint applied in thick layers or lumps results in?

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Impasto

157
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What type of paint was developed most recently?

A

Acrylic

158
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How did photography influence the art world?

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Pushed painters to explore completely new styles

159
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Chiseling away of a stone sculpture is an example of?

A

Carving

160
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What art procedure is an example of modeling?

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clay added to the surface of an object

161
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In cast form, the original form is?

A

Encased in plaster

162
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What type of art is most commonly considered to be a form of sculpture?

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environmental

163
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Joseph Cornell was notable for?

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Filling open boxes with symbolic objects

164
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In what form is clay most shaped and then stacked to create different vessels?

A

Coil

165
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Slip refers to?

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Liquid clay

166
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What function is the most important use of the kiln in pottery?

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removing moisture out of the clay

167
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Glassblowing allowed for?

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creation of glass vessels

168
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Architecture is best defined as?

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art of designing and constructing buildings

169
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The Greek-Parthenon is an example of?

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Post-and-lintel construction

170
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Antoni Gaudi’s architectural style can best be described as?

A

Organic

171
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Church’s role in the art world during the Medieval period can best be described as?

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Significant patron of the classical arts

172
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An institution or person who commissions an artist to make an artwork is the artist’s

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patron

173
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Formal analysis of an artwork focuses on that work’s

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visual qualities

174
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Which present day country is home to the Pyramid of the Sun?

A

Mexico

175
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Which of the following ancient Romans wrote a key work of art history?

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Pliny the Elder

176
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A major branch of art history interprets art through philosophy written and later inspired by

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Karl Marx

177
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Which of the formal qualities of art is the most fundamental?

A

Line

178
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An open area within a form creates a

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Negative space

179
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Which type of perspective BEST accounts for the presence of fog or smoke in a scene?

A

Aerial perspective

180
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Violet-blue and yellow-green are examples

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tertiary colors

181
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An artist mixing pink paint on a palette will combine

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A primary color (red) and a neutral (white)

182
Q

Which of the following terms describes the illusion of texture created on a two-dimensional surface?

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Visual texture

183
Q

The individual elements that make up a pattern are called

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Motifs

184
Q

A place at which the eye lingers when viewing a composition is a

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Focal point

185
Q

Shading by making a pattern of dots in a drawing creates

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Stippling

186
Q

Due to the nature of the medium, auction houses will often use the term “multiples” to describe

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Prints

187
Q

Which of the following mathematical terms can also be used to describe a printing plate?

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Matrix

188
Q

Twentieth-century American artist Joseph Cornell worked most often in

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Mixed media

189
Q

Liquid clay used to join slabs of clay while creating a ceramic artwork is called

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Slip

190
Q

A primary goal of the Crystal Palace was to

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showcase British engineering

191
Q

The two main colors of the Chauvet Cave paintings are

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red and black

192
Q

Which Roman goddess lends her name to the Woman of Willendorf

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Venus

193
Q

Which present-day country in the British Isles is home to Stonehenge

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England

194
Q

Which of the following ancient civilizations is MOST closely associated with Ziggurats

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Sumer

195
Q

Whose legal code is the oldest that has remained intact to the present day?

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Hammurabi’s

196
Q

A 1922 excavation uncovered the long-hidden tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh

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Tutankhamun

197
Q

Doric and Ionic are types of

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columns

198
Q

The earliest Roman art reflected the influence of the

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Etruscans

199
Q

Which of the following media is MOST closely associated with Byzantine art?

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mosaic

200
Q

Which of the following places is the MOST likely location for a keystone?

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The top of an arch

201
Q

Giotto di Bondone lived in the Italian city-state of

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Florence

202
Q

Which of the following artworks is ALSO by the painter of the Mona Lisa

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The Last Supper

203
Q

Which of the following Popes commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?

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Julius II

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