Chapter 3: Being a Critic of the Arts

Question 1

Interpretive criticism centers upon

Answer 1

b. content

Question 2

Descriptive criticism focuses upon

Answer 2

a. form

Question 3

Evaluative criticism centers on

Answer 3

c. the relative merits of a work

Question 4

A work of art is most likely to be judged a masterpiece by an evaluative critic if

Answer 4

a. it resists monotony

Question 5

A detail relationship of an artistic form is

Answer 5

b. the connection of a part to another part or parts

Question 6

A region of a work of art is

Answer 6

a. a larger distinct part or group of parts

Question 7

A structural relationship in a work of art is

Answer 7

b. the connection of a part to the overall structure

Question 8

Which of the following was considered shock art?

Answer 8

a. Hirst, This Little Piggy Went to Market, This Little Piggy Stayed Home

Question 9

Jackson Pollock’s Autumn Rhythm has

Answer 9

b. no clear-cut regions

Question 10

The statement that Picasso’s Guernica is a better painting than Blume’s Eternal City is

Answer 10

d. evaluative

Question 11

The statement that there are more detailed relationships in Autumn Rhythm than in Composition with Yellow, Blue, and Red is

Answer 11

c. descriptive

Question 12

The statement that the bull in Guernica symbolizes Franco’s utter insensitivity to suffering is

Answer 12

a. interpretive

Question 13

The statement that the subject matter of Guernica is about the bombing of defenseless citizens by the fascists in 1937 is

Answer 13

b. historical

Question 14

Noticing the rhyme, steady meter, and quatrain stanza structure of Yeats’s “The Lake of Innisfree” is

Answer 14

c. descriptive criticism

Question 15

N. J. Berrill points out in Man’s Emerging Mind that

Answer 15

b. we are more likely to see what we believe