Quiz

Question 1

Art is the combination of ______ elements that is why it is non-figurative art.

Answer 1

Perceptual/ Perspective

Question 2

TRUE/FALSE
Mondrian, Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue, painted in 1924, exists as an
important example of Formalism art.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Formalism took the pressure off of artists to come up with an explanation to their works
based on any set standards.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Formalism was not confined to evaluating art; it was also used liberally in both music
and literature

Answer 4

True

Question 5

Art theory that conveys emotion and meaning rather than reality.

Answer 5

Expressionism

Question 6

What famous painting did Edvard Munch paint?

Answer 6

The Scream

Question 7

According to her “Art is the creation of symbolic forms expressive of human feeling.”

Answer 7

Susanne Langer

Question 8

He experienced miseries and pain in life, which he expressed through his art.

Answer 8

Vincent Van Gogh

Question 9

Van Gogh used blue in his painting due to overmedication of digitalis pupurea to cure
epilepsy

Answer 9

False – Yellow

Question 10

Hedone is a Greek word which means what in English

Answer 10

pleasure

Question 11

Who is the father of Hedonism?

Answer 11

Aristippus or Epicurus

Question 12

It is something that is beautiful when it is pleasurable or gives pleasurable experience.

Answer 12

Satisfying/ Aesthetic/ Hedonism

Question 13

According to Kant, taste can both be subjective and universal.

Answer 13

True

Question 14

Subjective taste does not focus on the properties of the object itself but rather on the
pleasure one experiences as he responds to it.

Answer 14

True

Question 15

Kant thought that beauty does not rest on the properties of the objects or things but
rather in the manner in which people respond to these objects or things.

Answer 15

True

Question 16

For Epicurus, the most pleasant life is one where we abstain from unnecessary
desires and achieve an inner tranquility (ataraxia) by being content with simple things,
and by choosing the pleasure of philosophical conversation with friends over the pursuit
of physical pleasures like food, drink, and sex.

Answer 16

True

Question 17

. It is described as one of the many such female figures which has bulbous roundness
of form that recalls an egg shaped sacred pebbles

Answer 17

Voluptuous/ Venus of Willendorf

Question 18

It is the art of designing buildings and infrastructures. It is believed to be more
functional, or utilitarian than pictures and sculptures.

Answer 18

Architecture

Question 19

He is known for being the “Father of Skyscrapers” and he was an influential architect
of Chicago School and a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright.

Answer 19

Louis Sullivan

Question 20

It is a style launched by Frank Lloyd Wright that sought to integrate architecture with
natural landscape.

Answer 20

Prairie Style

Question 21

The main principle in architecture is form that follows and aligns with the function.

Answer 21

True

Question 22

In architecture, the inner content of purpose or function governs the outer perspective
of the work or outcome.

Answer 22

True

Question 23

The manner of presentation of woman’s body in today’s multimedia focuses on its
function rather than in its form.

Answer 23

False

Question 24

In action theory, the action here is the ____.

Answer 24

Painting/ Art

Question 25

Painting” is not a noun but a ______

Answer 25

Verb/ Action Word

Question 26

He is best known as “Action” or “Gesture” painter _________.

Answer 26

Jackson Pollock

Question 27

What technique did pollock used to produce his most celebrated pictures

Answer 27

Dripping Technique

Question 28

A thing becomes art because it is acknowledge to be the Artworld.

Answer 28

: True

Question 29

Art is and institution in the Society

Answer 29

: True

Question 30

. It is the artworld which determines whether something is a work of art.

Answer 30

: True

Question 31

The most famous and successful artist of the 20th century.

Answer 31

Pablo Picasso

Question 32

Voted by art critics and historians as the most influential artwork of the 2oth century

Answer 32

The Fountain

Question 33

Made by Leonardo da Vinci and considered as the most historical, most popular, most
influential and most expensive Renaissance painting in the world?

Answer 33

Mona Lisa

Question 34

The complete full name of Pablo Picasso.

Answer 34

Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Crispin Cipriano de la Santissima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso