Practice Test 11/13/22

Question 1

The kind of scale used for objects that appear larger than they are in real life is called ________ scale.

Answer 1

Monumental

Question 2

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Brugge collaborated to create Mistos, a large-than-life sculpture of this everyday item.

Answer 2

A book of matches

Question 3

An artist might use a small scale for a portrait of a lover because it implies ___________.

Answer 3

Intimacy

Question 4

When an artist uses scale to indicate the relative importance of elements in a composition, he or she is employing this kind of scale.

Answer 4

Hierarchical scale

Question 5

In ancient Egypt, this part of the human body was used as a standard of measurement. Six of these equaled a cubit.

Answer 5

Palm

Question 6

In his work The School of Athens, this Renaissance artist created figures using the ideal human proportions developed by the ancient Greeks.

Answer 6

Raphael

Question 7

In The School of Athens, Raphael focused our attention on two Greek philosophers positioned in the center oof the work. They are _________ and ___________.

Answer 7

Plato and Aristotle

Question 8

This proportional system uses a ratio of 1:1.618.

Answer 8

Golden Section

Question 9

Rectangles based on the Golden Section can be nested inside each other to create an elegant _________.

Answer 9

Spiral

Question 10

When an artist wants to highlight the entire surface of his or her work, without regard of any particular area, this is called ___________.

Answer 10

Broad emphasis

Question 11

Agnes Martin created Starlight so that there was no dominant area in the composition. This decision was partly influenced by her interest in Eastern philosophy, especially ___________.

Answer 11

Taoism

Question 12

In The Life of John Brown #9 by Jacob Lawrence, broad emphasis occurs because the twelve figures ____________.

Answer 12

are evenly balanced

Question 13

The Russian artist Marc Chagall depicted the mythical character Icarus with bright colors on a white background in order to ___________.

Answer 13

Draw attention to Icarus’s fall

Question 14

In the painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, by Pieter Bruegel, the artist intended to divert our attention so that we barely notice Icarus plunging to his doom; a fine example of _____________.

Answer 14

Subordination

Question 15

If an artist painted a garden with one red flower in a field of yellow flowers, this would be an example of using color to create contrast. For the viewer, the single red flower would be ____________.

Answer 15

A focal point in the artwork

Question 16

Artemisia Gentileschi used directional line brilliantly in her painting Judith Decapitating Holofernes to draw our attention to this point

Answer 16

Blood spurting from Holofernes’s neck

Question 17

The atmosphere of Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks, created by the lack of people on the street, the absence of street lights, and the somber mood of the customers in the diner, is one of _____________.

Answer 17

Loneliness

Question 18

Which of the following are acceptable resources for studying art?

Answer 18

A museum website

Question 19

Which of the following is not a primary source for studying a work of art?

Answer 19

A blog about a painting

Question 20

Thomas Struth photographs __________.

Answer 20

All of the other answers