Art Appreciation Study Guide Questions
Course Introduction
Art Appreciation introduces students to the fundamental concepts, techniques, and historical contexts of visual art. The course explores a diverse range of artistic styles, movements, and mediums from ancient times to the contemporary era, enabling students to develop visual literacy and critical thinking skills. Through analysis of paintings, sculptures, architecture, and other art forms, students learn how to interpret artistic intent, evaluate aesthetic qualities, and understand the social, political, and cultural influences that shape art. The course encourages personal reflection and informed discussions, fostering a deeper appreciation for the role of art in society and everyday life.
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Art A Brief History 6th Edition by Marilyn Stokstad
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Chapter 1: Prehistoric Art in Europe
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Q1) In Russia and Ukraine,Upper Paleolithic homes were made of A)mammoth bones.
B)timber.
C)natural caves.
D)stones.
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following marked the emergence of the human body as the primary location of the human identity?
A)Lion-Human
B)Woman and Man
C)cave paintings in Chauvet Cave
D)Woman from Willendorf
Answer: B
Q3) The top rock on a dolmen is called the A)bridge.
B)henge.
C)capstone.
D)cairn.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Art of the Ancient Near East
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Q1) Explain how the iconography of the Stele of Naram-Sin speaks to the greatness of Naram-Sin.
Answer: Essay responses should include these points:
Naram-Sin is larger than the other figures on the low-relief sculpture; therefore, according to the hierarchic scale, he is more important.
He also wears horns on his helmet and is closest to the mountain top and sun symbolizing his importance and power.
He steps upon the bodies of enemies and ascends upward.
Q2) Discuss the formal characteristics of the lamassu figures?
Answer: Essay responses should include these points:
The large, high-relief sculpture of a winged lion guarded the palace doorways.
With the face of kings, shown through beard and helmet, the lamassu figures were meant to symbolize the dominance of the realm.
They were also supposed to act as protectors and were realistic from the front or side. The figures have five legs to show motion and look lifelike.
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Chapter 3: Art of Ancient Egypt
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Q1) In the Egyptian religion,who was the "Eater of the Dead"?
A)Thoth
B)Ammit
C)Anubis
D)Horus
Answer: B
Q2) Compare and contrast the styles of Mummy Wrapping of a Young Boy and inner Coffin of Tutankhamun.What does the medium suggest about status?
Answer: Essay responses should include these points:
Tuts inner coffin was made of gold and precious stones.
Tuts coffin shows the traditional symbols of the pharaoh.
Mummy Wrapping of a Young Boy shows the influence of Roman portraiture.
The mummy is a more realistic image in encaustic.
Tuts coffin is idealized.
Q3) Why is Upper Egypt in the south and Lower Egypt in the north?
A)The Nile River floods in the south.
B)The Nile River floods in the north.
C)The Nile River flows from north to south.
D)The Nile River flows from south to north.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Early Asian Art
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Q1) A stupa has a mast that connects the cosmic waters below the earth with the celestial realm above.The mast is known as the:
A)axis mundi.
B)torana.
C)yakshi.
D)pagoda.
Q2) Which relic is housed at the Great Stupa,Sanchi?
A)a wheel of life
B)a piece of a bodhi tree
C)part of the cremated body of Buddha
D)a lion skull
Q3) Which of the following are enduring monuments of Korea's distinctive Three Kingdoms period (57 BCE_668 CE)?
A)large tomb mounds
B)simplistic pagodas
C)decorative jewelry
D)cave sculptures of Buddha
Q4) Describe the architectural elements and symbolism of the Great Stupa at Sanchi.
Q5) Discuss how the purpose and design of Horiyu-Ji reveals the influence of China.
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Q6) Describe the Silk Road and its use and effect in China and the West.
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Chapter 5: Art of Ancient Greece and the Aegean World
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Q1) How does the Aphrodite of Melos combine fourth-century styles with Hellenistic styles?
Q2) Which of the following best describes Cycladic sculpture?
A)It has been reduced to geometric essentials.
B)It is rounded and fleshy.
C)Sculptures are in the shape of houses,boats,birds,and animals.
D)The glazes are splashed freely over the sculptures and allowed to run.
Q3) What subtle adjustments or refinements were made in the Parthenon that gave it a more organic appearance? Speculate about the possible reasons for these refinements.
Q4) Which of the following characteristics of Greek art became more pronounced during Hellenistic times?
A)It became more idealized.
B)It became more all-encompassing.
C)It was more individual and emotional.
D)It was more calm and aloof.
Q5) Give an example and describe the style of Minoan wall painting.What can we conclude about the Minoan people?
Q6) How does the altar from Pergamon highlight the characteristics of Hellenistic art?
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Chapter 6: Etruscan and Roman Art
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Q1) Two equal intersecting barrel vaults form
A)a buttress.
B)a spandrel.
C)a groin vault.
D)a corbeled vault.
Q2) What device is used inside the dome of the Pantheon to lighten its weight?
A)coffers
B)columns
C)groin vaults
D)pilasters
Q3) Discuss the details of the domestic life as seen through the remnants of Pompeii.
Q4) Discuss The Tetrarchs in regards to what has happened to the tradition of Roman verism.
Q5) A round arch consists of which of the following?
A)voussoirs and buttresses
B)voussoirs and keystones
C)keystones and voussoirs
D)keystones and arcades
Q6) Describe the idea of allegory as it demonstrated in the Augustus of Primaporta.
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Chapter 7: Jewish, early Christian, and Byzantine Art
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Q1) What does "anastasis" mean?
A)hell
B)resurrection
C)ascension
D)entombment
Q2) Which is the central space of a longitudinal church?
A)a nave
B)an apse
C)a transept
D)a narthex
Q3) St.Peter's in Rome was given its location because it was believed to be where Peter was
A)killed.
B)buried.
C)ordained as pope.
D)born.
Q4) Compare and contrast the early Christian church Old St.Peter's Basilica and the early Byzantine church Hagia Sophia.
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Chapter 8: Islamic Art
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Q1) What was the intended audience of the narrative painting,Court of Gayumars?
A)the rulers
B)the laity
C)the imam
D)the elite
Q2) Discuss the juxtaposition of traditional architecture and modernity as seen in the design of the Islamic Mosque and Cultural Center in Rome.
Q3) What art form influenced the bowl with kufic border from Samarkand?
A)Chinese porcelain
B)Korean celadon
C)Greek pottery
D)Byzantine mosaic
Q4) Which was the specialized art form developed by the Ottomans to symbolize the authority of the sultan on official seals,coins,buildings,and documents?
A)arabesques
B)tugras
C)muqarnas
D)madrasas
Q5) Relate the Islamic idea of paradise to the Alhambra's Court of the Lions.
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Chapter 9: Later Asian Art
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Q1) During the Heian period,Japan was culturally influenced by A)China and India.
B)India and Korea.
C)China and Cambodia.
D)China and Korea.
Q2) Southern Song painting applied the concept of "sudden enlightenment" from which of the following philosophies?
A)Chan Buddhism
B)Neo-Confucianism
C)Daoism
D)Shintoism
Q3) Which of the following is the world's oldest novel?
A)Beowulf
B)The Iliad
C)The Tale of Genji
D)Gilgamesh
Q4) Describe the Japanese aesthetic sensibility that has created such admiration for simple objects such as a teabowl.What characteristics should a proper teabowl have?
Q5) Discuss the iconography of Shiva Nataraja.
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Chapter 10: Early Medieval and Romanesque Art
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Q1) Define,describe,give an example,and explain the purpose of a continuous ambulatory in a pilgrimage church.
Q2) In the eleventh century,pilgrims traveled to what they considered to be the three holiest places in Christendom: Christ's tomb in Jerusalem,St.Peter's tomb in Rome,and the shrine of St.James in A)Alexandria,Egypt.
B)Bethlehem,Palestine.
C)Santiago de Compostela,Spain.
D)Patmos,Greece.
Q3) Who controlled the Western Roman Empire after it fell in the fifth century?
A)the Muslims
B)the Spaniards
C)Germanic peoples
D)the Byzantines
Q4) Which of the following modern geographical areas was part of Charlemagne's empire?
A)eastern Germany
B)England
C)Belgium
D)northeastern Spain
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Chapter 11: Gothic Art
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Q1) English needlework was well known outside England by the name
A)opus anglicanum.
B)mozarabic.
C)punchwork.
D)Hiberno-Saxon style.
Q2) At Reims Cathedral,what technique permitted the creation of even more expansive walls of glass?
A)bar tracery
B)stone tracery
C)plate tracery
D)gold tracery
Q3) Which of the following was an innovation in Gothic architecture?
A)horseshoe arches
B)round arches
C)ribbed groin vaults
D)stained glass windows
Q4) List and describe the architectural elements that combined to make the Gothic style and describe the overall effect that was achieved.
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Chapter 12: Early Renaissance Art
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Q1) Which of the following is defined as a line running back into the represented space of a picture that converges with other lines that are parallel in reality?
A)perspective line
B)vanishing line
C)orthogonal
D)giornata
Q2) Which artist studied Alberti's theoretical treatises and wrote his own on perspective,geometry,and volumetric construction?
A)Sandro Botticelli
B)Andrea Mantegna
C)Giovanni Bellini
D)Piero della Francesca
Q3) Which is the first free-standing bronze equestrian statue since antiquity?
A)Riemenschneider's Entry of Christ into Jerusalem
B)Gislebertus's Flight into Egypt
C)Donatello's Gattamelata
D)Verocchio's Bartolomeo Colleoni
Q4) Discuss the iconographic meaning of The Unicorn Is Found and its meaning in contemporary fifteenth-century society.
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Chapter 13: Art of the High Renaissance and Reformation
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Q1) What is the word for strong contrasts of light and dark on an object?
A)sfumato
B)chiaroscuro
C)trompe l'oeil
D)poesie
Q2) What generally happened to art in churches that became Protestant?
A)It was altered to fit the new doctrine.
B)It was sold to Catholic churches.
C)It was destroyed and the walls whitewashed.
D)It was forcibly sold back to artists and patrons.
Q3) How did El Greco begin his career?
A)as a Byzantine icon painter
B)as a stonecutter
C)as a copyist of Bosch's work
D)as a goldsmith
Q4) What inspired Giorgione's landscape paintings?
A)Roman sculpture
B)"Venus" paintings
C)classical landscape paintings
D)ancient pastoral poetry
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Chapter 14: Seventeenth-Century Art in Europe
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Q1) Discuss the composition and arrangement of space in Diego Velázquez's Las Meninas.What is the role of the viewer?
Q2) What was the subject of Charles Le Brun's painted ceiling in the Hall of Mirrors?
A)hunting scenes
B)military triumphs of Louis XIV
C)imaginary landscapes
D)luxurious fêtes galantes
Q3) Why was the figure of the Virgin Mary often shown standing on a crescent moon?
A)It signified the New World.
B)It symbolized her ability to cure the plague.
C)It represented the woman of the Apocalypse.
D)It showed her piety.
Q4) Who was Saint Serapion?
A)a Christian martyr
B)a Christian monk
C)a Spanish artist
D)a Spanish monarch
Q5) How is Vermeer's Woman Holding a Balance both a genre painting and an allegorical vanitas painting?
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Chapter 15: Art of the Americas
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Q1) The cultures in what is now the southeastern United States formed their communities around
A)lakes.
B)earthen mounds.
C)geoglyphs.
D)pyramids.
Q2) What are the Mayan half-reclining stone figures called?
A)chacmools
B)coyolxauhqui
C)talud-tablero
D)Coatlicue
Q3) Which was considered by the Incas to be a worthy gift to the gods?
A)smoke
B)cloth
C)obsidian
D)a human heart
Q4) Describe the iconography of The Founding of Tenochtitlan page from the Codex Mendoza.
Q5) How was the Chilkat Blanket used? Discuss the formal qualities and style.
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Chapter 16: African Art
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Q1) In Benin sculpture,such as that of the iyoba,what represents Olokun,the Lord of the Great Waters?
A)a Portuguese soldier
B)a mudfish
C)a panther
D)coral-beads
Q2) Where did Europeans have the most contact with African cultures?
A)the coastal areas
B)the Mediterranean sea
C)the Cape of Good Hope
D)the Nile River
Q3) In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,when rival warfare caused the decline of the city of Old Jenné,which of the following traditions came to an end?
A)weaving
B)stone architecture
C)bronze casting
D)ceramic sculpture
Q4) Describe the purpose of how a nkisi nkonde changes over time to become a visual record of a community.
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Chapter 17: European and American Art, 1715-1840
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Q1) Which best describes the painting of John Constable?
A)turbulent
B)fantastic natural scenery
C)naturalistic scenes of rural stability
D)depicting natural disasters
Q2) Who was the favorite painter of French Queen Marie Antoinette?
A)Marie-Louise-Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
B)Thomas Gainsborough
C)Angelica Kauffmann
D)Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
Q3) Which style developed as a reaction to the formality and rigidity of seventeenth-century court life?
A)Neoclassicism
B)Mannerism
C)Rococo
D)Realism
Q4) Describe the composition and style of Jean-Honoré Fragonard's The Swing.
Q5) Discuss why David's Oath of the Horatii is considered to be a severely Classical painting by a truly Neoclassical artist.
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18: European and American Art, 1840-1910
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Q1) What was Georges Seurat's technique called?
A)Impressionism
B)pointillism
C)symbolism
D)synthetism
Q2) In architecture,drawing on motifs from historic models is a practice called
A)passage technique.
B)Arts and Crafts Movement.
C)Art Nouveau.
D)historicism.
Q3) Which of the following differentiates Georges Seurat from Impressionism?
A)the subjects he chooses
B)the bright colors
C)the formal geometry of the composition
D)the lack of glazing and blending
Q4) Which of the following describes Harriet Hosmer's Zenobia in Chains?
A)submissive
B)defiant
C)seductive
D)erotic
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Chapter 19: Modern Art in Europe and the Americas,
1900-1945
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Q1) Mondrian thought that the beauty we see in nature is
A)sensual and subjective.
B)rational and universal.
C)ideal or perfect.
D)picturesque or sublime.
Q2) What caused Modern art to be transformed from an embattled fringe movement to a component of "high culture"?
A)the two world wars
B)the advance of capitalism
C)technological changes
D)state-supported museums of modern art
Q3) El Lissitzsky made what he called a "Project for the Affirmation of the New," otherwise known as
A)a Proun.
B)a readymade.
C)Suprematism.
D)Surrealism.
Q4) What characterizes de Stijl and how do Composition with Yellow,Red,and Blue and Schroder House embody the movement?
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Chapter 20: Art Since 1945
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Q1) What was the attitude of Aboriginal artists toward modern American and European mediums?
A)They rejected them.
B)They combined them with their traditional mediums.
C)They adopted them with Western subject matter.
D)They adopted them.
Q2) Discuss the International Style of Architecture and its expression in the Seagram Building in New York.Include its use of materials and ideas of aesthetics.
Q3) Discuss the controversies over public funding of the arts.Use Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary as an example.
Q4) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a
A)Bauhaus architect.
B)De Stijl architect.
C)Purist architect.
D)Neo-Baroque architect.
Q5) How does the work of Judy Chicago embody the feminist movement? Discuss the iconography of her work,The Dinner Party.
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Chapter 21: Introduction
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Q1) Which of the following terms best describes the painting Jack in the Pulpit,NO.IV by Georgia O'Keeffe?
A)abstraction
B)naturalism/realism
C)nonrepresentational
D)figurative
Q2) What does the erection of Le Corbusier's Notre-Dame-du-Haut symbolize?
A)the end of a war and hope for the future
B)the power of nature
C)the prevailing religion
D)the kingdom of heaven
Q3) Looking at Jan Steen's The Drawing Lesson,what can we deduce about an artist's studio and apprenticeship during the seventeenth century?
Q4) The English word "artist" comes from
A)Latin.
B)Greek.
C)Egyptian.
D)French.
Q5) Describe how the role of the artist has changed from ancient times to the present.
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