Art appreciation test questions and answers

Sayre, World of Art 7th ed. 2013

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Quiz 1: CHS 1-8

Chapter 1: A World of Art

vocabulary: aesthetics

Explain how these artworks illustrate the roles of the artist through different ways of seeing and interpreting the world and individual experiences.

6. Ahearn and Torres. Pat.

9. Monet. Gare St. Lazare.

10. Kwei. Coffin in the Shape of a Cocoa Pod.

13. Picasso. Seated Bather.

20. van Eyck. God.

Political Art and the Physical and Psychological Process of Seeing

How do these artists use the American flag to convey their particular political views?

21. Johns, Three Flags

22.Ringgold, God Bless America

24. Warhol. Race Riot.

Explain the role of African masks.in Picasso development of the cubist style: 17. Picasso. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.

Chapter 2: Developing Visual Literacy

Explain how these artworks demonstrate the combined use of words and images to create meaning:

1. Magritte. The Treason of Images.

5. Neshat. Rebellious Silence.

vocabulary: representational, abstract, nonobjective, nonrepresentational, realistic, illusionistic, form, creativity, naturalistic, ethnocentric, content, iconography, subjective, subject matter, sublime

Match the vocabulary to the following artworks:

8. Bierstadt. Rocky Mountains

vocabulary: form, content, composition

15. Malevich. Black Square.

Explain which of the above terms this work illustrates and why:

Vocabulary: ethnocentric, conventions

Read Kenneth Clark's quote from his Civilisation. Explain how the following works of art illustrate reflect stylistic conventions and Clark's ethnocentric views:

17. Apollo Belvedere

18. African mask

vocabulary: iconography

Identify the iconography in the following works:

19. Stained Glass window from Chartres Cathedral

20. Amitabha Buddha

21. van Eyck. Arnolfini Wedding.

Chapter 3: Seeing the Value in Art

Explain the controversial content and public reception of each of these artworks:

4. Offili. Holy Virgin Mary

5. Manet, Luncheon on the Grass

7. Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase

10. Calder, La Grand Vitesse

12. Michelangelo, David

15. Gomez –Pena and Sifuentes. Temple of Confessions

Chapter 4: Line

vocabulary: outline, contour line, implied line, implied line, line of sight, expressive line, analytical line, classical line, gesture, romantic line

Match the vocabulary to the following works. Identify and define the type of line used in each work:

6. Gaudier-Brzeska, Female nude

5. Jaune Quick to See Smith. House.

8. Titian, Assumption

14. Van Gogh, Starry Night

18. LeWitt, Wall Drawing No. 681

20. Johns, Numbers in Color

25. David, Death of Socrates

28. Delacroix, Study for Death of Sardanapalus

Chapter 5: Space

vocabulary: shape, mass, two and three-dimensional space; negative shapes, scale, one and two-point linear perspective, vanishing point, foreshortening, axonometric, binocular

Define and match the vocabulary terms to the following artworks:

2) Sultan, Lemons

4) Puryear, Self

5) Hepworth, Two Figures

15) Leonardo, Last Supper

18) Caillebotte, Place de l'Europe

24) Mantegna, Dead Christ

29) Matisse, Harmony in Red

Chapter 6: Light and Color

vocabulary: atmospheric (aerial) perspective, chiaroscuro, modeling, tenebrism, hatching and cross hatching, primary, secondary and intermediate colors, intensity or saturation, analogus and complementary color schemes, polychromatic, perceptual, arbitrary, simultaneous color contrast, symbolic color, pointillism, key/value

Define and match the vocabulary terms to the following images:

3. Leonardo, Madonna of the Rocks

4. Turner, Rain, Steam and Speed

5. Colin, Figure of a Woman

7. Gentileschi, Judith and Holofernes

9. Michelangelo, Head of a Satyr

29. Jane Hammond, Fallen

31. Cara Grande Feather Mask

33. Seurat, La Chahut

41. Monet, Grainstack

42. Bonnard, Terrace at Vernon

43. Van Gogh, Night Café

Ch 7 Other Formal Elements

vocabulary: texture, actual texture, impasto, pattern, space and time, process, visual texture

Define and match the vocabulary terms to the following images:

2. Michelangelo, Pieta

3. Ryman, Long

6. Garnett, Erosion and strip farms

7. Cross page

10. Bernini, David

15. Pollock, No.29

Chapter 8: Principles of Design

vocabulary: symmetrical balance, bilateral symmetry, asymmetrical balance, radial balance, emphasis and subordination, focal point, scale, proportion, repetition, rhythm, unity, variety, canon, golden section

Define and match the vocabulary terms to the following images:

1. Leonardo da Vinci. Vitruvian Man. Study for Human Proportions

6. Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance

4. Quarton, Coronation of the Virgin

7. Hassam. Boston Common at Twilight

9. Rose window Chartres

12. de la Tour. St Joseph the Carpenter

14. Poons, Orange Crush

20. Oldenburg. Spoon Bridge and Cherry

23. Polykleitos, Doryphoros

24. Parthenon

27. Jacob Lawrence, Barber Shop

31. James Lavadour, The Seven Valleys and the Five Valleys

QUIZ 2: CHAPTERS 9-17

Chapter 9: Drawing

vocabulary: cartoon, pigments, binders, metalpoint, heightening, chalk, charcoal, graphite, pastel, pen and ink, wash and brush, conte crayon, sinopie

Define and match the vocabulary terms to the following artworks:

4. Leonardo, Virgin and Child with St. Anne

11. Kollwitz, Self Portrait

13. Celmins, Untitled

14. Degas, After the Bath

18. Dubuffet, Corps de Dame

19. Tiepolo, Adoration of the Magi

Chapter 10: Printmaking

vocabulary: edition, proofs, relief, woodcut, engraving, linocut, registration, intaglio, stippling, ground, burin, drypoint, burr, mezzotint, rocker, aquatint, lithography, planographic process, silkscreen, monotype

Define and match the vocabulary terms to the following artworks:

5. Nolde, Prophet

12. Utamaro. Shaving a Boy’s Head

13. Cassatt. The Bath.

14. Powell. Marble Canyon.

15. Power, Tube Train.

21. Durer, Adam and Eve

22. Rembrandt, Angel Appearing to the Shepherds

24. Cassatt, The Map

25. Prince Rupert, Standard Bearer

26. Dickson, Stairwell

27. Daumier, Rue Transnonain

34. Warhol. Marilyn

33. Scholder, Dream Horse

Chapter 11: Painting

vocabulary: pigments, medium, encaustic, fresco, tempera, oil, glaze, Abstract Expressionism, watercolor, gouache, synthetic media, acrylic, solvent, support, ground, mixed media, collage

Define and match the vocabulary terms to the following artworks:

3. Faiyum, Mummy Portrait

6. Giotto, Lamentation

14. Campin, Annunciation

22. Homer, A Wall, Nassau

24. Lawrence, No. 15

31. Hoch, Cut with a Kitchen Knife

35. Rauschenberg, Monogram

Chapter 12: Camera Arts

vocabulary: daguerreotype, camera obscura, form and content, color photography, digital photography, video

Define and match the following terms to the artworks:

3. Walker Evans

4. Cambera Obscura

6. Daguerre, Le Boulevard du Temple

8. Talbot, The Open Door

10. O'Sullivan, Harvest of Death

11. Stieglitz, The Steerage

15. Cartier-Bresson, Athens

22. Meyerwitz, Bay Sky

37. Paik, Video Flag

Chapter 13: Sculpture vocabulary: low and high relief, frieze, in-the-round, environment, installation, earthwork, ponderation, modeling, ceramics, casting, lost wax, assemblage, earthworks, carving, contrapposto, installation, performance art Define and match the following terms to the artworks: 2. Senwosret I, Karnak 3. Maidens and Stewards, Parthenon 4. Yu the Great, Taming the Waters 5. Bologna, Rape of the Sabine Women 7. Michelangelo, Slave 10. Kritios boy 11. Praxiteles, Hermes and Dionysius 15. Arneson, Case of Bottles 17. African, Head of an Oba 35. Smithson, Spiral Jetty 38. Holt, Sun Tunnels 44. Abramovic. The House with the Ocean View Chapter 14: Crafts as Fine Art vocabulary: ceramics, earthenware, stoneware, porcelain, glass, fiber, warp, tapestry, embroidery, metal, wood Define and match the following terms to the artworks: 3. Ethymides, Revelers 9. Plate, Ming Dynasty 16. mosaic glass 18. Chihuly, Rotunda Chandelier 20. Hunt of the Unicorn 38. Heiltsuk, Bent Corner Chest Chapter 15: Architecture vocabulary: topography, ziggurats, shell system, skeleton and skin, load bearing, post and lintel, fluting, colonnade, cornice, frieze, architrave, entablature, capital, shaft, column, platform, (Greek Orders: Doric, Iconic, Corinthian), keystone, arch, barrel vault, groin vault, , dome, springing, oculus, crossing, transept, nave, apse, pointed arch, flying buttress, cast-iron construction, wood frame, steel skeletal frame, reinforced concrete, cantilever, International style, ziggurat, kiva, pyramid Define and match the following terms to the works of architecture: 4. Pyramids at Gizeh 5. Ziggurat, Ur 9. Lion Gate 10. Basilica temple, Paestrum 11. Greek orders 13. Pont du Gard Nimes France 16. Colosseum 17 Pantheon 19. St. Sernin 23-24. Notre Dame, Chartres 25. Eiffel Tower 27. Model of St. Peter's 32. Sullivan, Bayard Building 34. Wright, Robie House 42. Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Building Chapter 16: Design vocabulary: Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Avant-Garde, Bauhaus, Streamlining 9. Tiffany, Water-lily table lamp 12. Frankl, Skyscraper bookcase 18. El Lissitzky, Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge 21. Breuer, Armchair 26. Wright, dinnerware

FINAL EXAM: CHAPTERS 17-21

Chapter 17: Ancient World

vocabulary: Paleolithic, Neolithic, Sumer, Egypt, ka, Akhenaten style, King Minos, minotaur, acropolis, Hellenistic, Roman, contrapposto, Classical Greek, Phidian style, Ideal Canon of Human Proportions, Buddha, stupa

Define and match the vocabulary to the following works:

1. Horses Chauvet Cave

2. Worshippers Abu Temple

10. King Khafre

16. Toreador fresco

18. Acropolis

19. Nike

22. Laocoon

25.Augustus of Primaporta

27. Column of Trajan

32. Great Stupa

Chapter 18: Age of Faith

vocabulary: basilica, ambulatory, mosaic, tesserae, Byzantine, pendentives, animal style, Celtic-Germanic, Carolingian, Romanesque, tympanum, Gothic, Islam, mihrab, qibla, minaret

Define and match the vocabulary to the following works:

4. Theodora and her Attendants, San Vitale

7. Hagia Sophia

13. Hinged clasp from Sutton Hoo burial ship

15. St. Matthew, Gospel Book of Charlemagne

16. Gislebertus, Last Judgment

17. Chartres Cathedral

12. mosque at Cordoba

Chapter 19: Renaissance through Baroque

vocabulary: humanism, contrapposto, Neoplatonism, linear perspective, chiaroscuro, Medici, Renaissance, High Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque

Define and match the vocabulary to the following works:

2. Donatello

3. Masaccio, Tribute Money

6. Botticelli, Birth of Venus

9. Raphael, School of Athens

28. El Greco, Burial of Count Orgaz

29. St. Peter's, Rome

31. Bernini, Ecstasy of St. Theresa

33. Caravaggio, Calling of St. Matthew

Chapter 20: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

vocabulary: Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, sublime

Define and match the vocabulary to the following works:

4. Fragonard, Bathers

9. David, Death of Marat

11. Ingres, Grande Odalisque

14. Gericault, Raft of the Medusa

19. Courbet, Burial at Ornans

22. Manet, Olympia

24. Monet, Impression-Sunrise

30. Gauguin, Day of the God

Chapter 21: From 1900 to the Present

vocabulary: Cubism, Fauvism, German Expressionism, Futurism, Dada and Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Dada, Surrealism, modernism, Pop Art, Minimalism, postmodernism

1. Braque, Houses at l'Estaque

3. Matisse, The Green Stripe

5. Marc, The Large Blue Horses

6. Balla, Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash

8. Duchamp, Mona Lisa (L.H.O.O.Q.)

9. Duchamp, The Fountain

14. Picasso, Guernica

24.Durham, Headlights

31. Kahlo. Las Dos Fridas