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1
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In weaving fibers are held in place on a

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loom

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In his image Monkey Puzzle, Keith Haring creates a bold and dynamic effect by using

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complementary colors

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The appearance of oneness in a work of art is

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unity

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Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggens sculptures such as Shuttlecocks affect us immediately through their

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scale

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5
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To be a ceramist one must

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work with clay

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Which building is designed to honor the goddess of wisdom and prudent warefare

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the Parthenon

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Michelangelo created a Study of a Reclining Male Nude

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in preparation for a larger work

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Artists associated with which movement most stressed that viewers should see their paintings as objects not pictures?

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Minimalism

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Encaustic is an ancient painting medium in which the pigment is suspended in

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beeswax

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10
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Marcel Duchmamp was responsible for bringing motion to

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cubism

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The potters wheel was invented in

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Mesopotamia

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In an artwork, the total effect of the combined visual qualities is known as the

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form

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13
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Michelangelos David has a naturalistic pose, set in contrapposto, demonstrating influence of

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Greek Sculpture

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Sclpture that is meant to be seen from all sides is called in-the-round OR

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freestanding

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15
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Romantic artists emphasized

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emotion

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16
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All of the following are true of pastel EXCEPT

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It differs greatly from chalk

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17
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Opaque water color is also called

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gouache

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18
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Dale Chihuly is noted for his intricate and colorful works in

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glass

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An identifying mark or trademark is referred to as

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a logo

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20
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Which of the following is used to describe an elevated awareness of beauty in the viewer

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aesthetics

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The term used to describe the “fool-in-the-eye” realism of William Harnetts painting A Smoke Backstage is

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trompe l’oeil

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22
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The word photography literally means

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“light-wrighting”

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23
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Figure-ground reversal can best be seen in

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M.C Eschers Sky and Water I

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24
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The chinese regard painting to derive from the art of

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calligraphy

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The Mesopotamians built their temples such as that of Ur-Nammu, on a type of structure called

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a ziggurate

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26
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Which artist is known for making story quilts

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Faith Ringgold

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27
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Petroglyphs are made by

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scratching an image onto a stone surface

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28
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Eadweard Muybridge is known for

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photographing people and animals in motion

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29
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A print in which an artist is physically involved with the production is known as

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an original print

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30
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Gothic builders were able to open large areas for windows because they used pointed arches and

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flying buttresses

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31
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Jackson Pollock’s Autumn Rhythm is an example of

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Abstract Expressionism

32
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In Jan Van Eycks The Arnolfini Portrait the woman wearing the green dress to symbolize

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fertility

33
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In art, the term value, refers to the

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lightness and darkness of surfaces

34
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The first Christian Churches were patterned after basilicas that were used by Romans as

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government buildings

35
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Which artist wanted viewers to see the natural rhythms present in a flower

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Georgia O’Keeffe

36
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Figurative art is a type of

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representational art

37
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A subcategory of constructed sculpture—seen in the works of Deborah Butterfield—that involves the use of familiar objects in new ways is

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assemblage

38
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Architects are generally most concerned with qualities of

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space

39
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The process of printing came to Europe from

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China

40
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All of the following are characteristic of International Style architecture EXCEPT

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decorative ornamentation

41
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Jacob Lawrence was a product of a community art center in

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Harlem

42
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One feature that set Gothic architecture apart from Romanesque was the extensive use of

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stained glass

43
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Some believe that the sculpture Woman of Willendorf was associated with

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the Great Mother Goddess

44
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When a work of art shows no reference to the natural world of images, it is called

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nonrepresentational

45
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Background shapes are referred to as

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negative shapes

46
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The ancient Sumerians developed the world’s first wheel, plow, and

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writing systems

47
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The technique of papier collé is most closely associated with

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Synthetic Cubism

48
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What is also called a substitution process?

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casting

49
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Edgar Degas’s paintings reveal his interest in the candid attitudes found in street photography and the asymmetry of

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Japanese prints

50
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In painting media, the pigment most notably provides

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color

51
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A type of paint utilizing egg yolk as a binder is

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tempera

52
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A mixed-media artwork is made

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with different materials

53
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Which of the following media used today is most similar to drawing media used by prehistoric people?

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charcoal

54
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Which nineteenth-century artist attempted to bring craft and fine art together by creating a design company?

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William Morris

55
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Which structure features a ring of posts and lintels?

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Stonehenge

56
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Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre was unable to include people in his photographs, because in his time

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exposure rates were very long

57
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Early Christian art was created in private homes and underground burial chambers called

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catacombs

58
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Which artist used straight lines, primary colors, and rectangles as universal elements?

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Piet Mondrian

59
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The name “Impressionism” derives from a critics’s derogatory remark about a painting by

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Claude Monet

60
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The symbolic meaning of visual signs and imagery in a work of art is known as

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iconography

61
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Portrait Head of an Old Man is an example of

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Roman Sculpture

62
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Size relationships between parts of a whole are known as

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proportion

63
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A full-sized drawing made as a guide for a work in another medium is a

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cartoon

64
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Which of the following is the result of the process of arranging, selecting, and ordering?

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design

65
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A typical example of a low-relief sculpture is

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a coin

66
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In the evolution of Buddhist architecture, early burial mounds led most directly to the Indian

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stupa

67
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A very thin, transparent film of color painted over an already-painted surface is called

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a glaze

68
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The Terra Cotta Warriors were found in the tomb of

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Qin Shihuangdi

69
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Julia Margaret Cameron pioneered the

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use of close ups in portrait photography

70
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Any kind of movement or structure of dominant and subordinate elements in sequence in a work of art refers to

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rhythm

71
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When the two sides of a composition correspond to one another in size, shape, and placement of form, the work has

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symmetrical balance

72
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The purity or saturation of a color is its

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intensity

73
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Two-dimensional artists create the illusion of volume with light by using

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chiaroscuro

74
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Fauvist artists extended the visual vocabulary of Post-Impressionism by making their primary subject matter

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color

75
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The term used to discuss how a building stands up is

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structure

76
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One of the earliest types of photograph was the

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daguerreotype

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