History of Western Art Pre-Test Questions
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History of Western Art explores the development of artistic expression in Europe and the broader Western world from ancient times to the present. The course examines major movements, styles, artists, and works, situating them within their historical, social, and cultural contexts. Students will gain an understanding of how political, philosophical, and technological changes influenced the visual arts. Through the study of painting, sculpture, architecture, and other media, the course encourages critical analysis and fosters appreciation for the contributions and legacies of Western art throughout history.
Recommended Textbook Art History 5th Edition Volume 2 by Marilyn Stokstad
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Chapter 1: Fourtheenth-Century Art in Europe
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Q1) Discuss the creation of Duccio's Maestà .Address specifics,such as its purpose,its size,the style,the technique,and subject matter.What is its present-day condition?
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Q2) Cimabue,an artist working in ____________,was one of the first to demonstrate the shift to a more modern painting style.
A) Florence
B) Sienna
C) Pisa
D) Venice
Answer: A
Q3) Which of the following themes is NOT found in Giotto's program of frescoes decorating the Scrovegni Chapel ?
A) scenes from Dante's Inferno
B) the virtues and vices
C) scenes from the life of Mary
D) the Last Judgment
Answer: A
Q4) Discuss the techniques of buon fresco and fresco secco,citing examples of each.
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Chapter 2: Fifteenth-century Art in Northern Europe
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Q1) Which feature is characteristic of French painting in the fifteenth century?
A) elaborate details and complex iconography
B) a reserved detachment among the figures
C) an emphasis on symmetry and geometric patterns
D) the use of Gothic architectural settings
Answer: B
Q2) Discuss the Flemish school of painting in the fifteenth century.Address its origins,technique,major artists,individual styles,commissions,and subject matter.
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Q3) The earliest printed books were __________ books.
A) intaglio
B) engraving
C) block
D) textile
Answer: C
Q4) Discuss the importance of the fiber arts in -fifteenth century Flanders.Cite specific examples.
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Chapter 3: Renaissance art in fifteenth-century Italy
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Q1) The detailed landscape,symbolic details and luminous palette of Bellini's St.Francis in Ecstasy is reminiscent of _______________.
A) Trecento art
B) frescos in the Brancacci Chapel
C) Flemish art
D) Andrea della Robbia
Answer: C
Q2) In contrast to Donatello,Verrocchio portrayed his David as a
A) proud adolescent who meets the viewer's gaze
B) fully armored soldier
C) muscle bound Greek warrior
D) knight on horseback
Answer: A
Q3) __________ created some smaller,bronze sculptures,designed for interior spaces,for the Medici family.
A) Masaccio
B) Brunelleschi
C) Alberti
D) Pollaiuolo
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Sixteenth-century art in Italy
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Q1) Why was Michelangelo's Greek Cross plan for St.Peter's Basilica later changed to a longitudinal plan?
A) to resemble Old St. Peter's more closely
B) to reflect ancient Roman traditions
C) to accommodate changes in liturgical practice during the Counter-Reformation
D) none of the above
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Mannerism?
A) irrational spatial environments
B) esoteric subject matter
C) subtle coloration and lighting effects
D) elongated proportions
Q3) Possibly a self-portrait,__________ on the Tomb of Giuliano de' Medici may serve as Michelangelo's signature and justify his presence there.
A) shield
B) the coint
C) the mask
D) servant
Q4) What was the debate between painting and sculpture during the High Italian Renaissance?
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Chapter 5: sixteenth-century art in northern Europe and the Iberian peninsula
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Q1) Tilman Riemenschneider had the largest workshop in __________.
A) Würzburg
B) Vienna
C) Munich
D) Berlin
Q2) __________ was the foremost artist of the German Renaissance.
A) Charles V
B) Tintoretto
C) Dürer
D) Fontana
Q3) The Spanish painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos,known as El Greco,was originally from __________.
A) Wittenberg
B) Paris
C) Crete
D) Lisbon
Q4) What features characterize early sixteenth-century German sculpture?
Q5) What kind of art was favored in the Tudor Court?
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Q6) How did the crafts emerge as fine arts early in the sixteenth century?
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Chapter 6: Seventeenth-Century art in Europe
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Q1) What object or objects seen in Dutch still lifes conveys the theme of vanitas?
A) watches and other time-keeping devices
B) a half-eaten meal
C) flowers in bloom
D) all of the above
Q2) In the fourth state of the Three Crosses,Rembrandt modified the scene ________________.
A) adding God the Father at the top
B) increasing the amount of figures
C) expanding it to include more landscape
D) making it darker and simpler
Q3) Renewed interest in __________ provided the funds necessary to expand the façade of the Cathedral of St.James,Santiago de Compostela .
A) pilgrimages
B) wealth
C) Madrid
D) dueling
Q4) How did the patronage change in seventeenth-century art and what impact did it have on art?
Q5) Why did Rembrandt's fortunes rise and fall?
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Chapter 7: art of south and southeast Asia after 1200
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Q1) Which cultural influence is NOT reflected in art produced in India after 1200?
A) European
B) Islamic
C) Central Asian
D) Byzantine
Q2) The painting of Jahangir and Shah Abbas is a strong reminder of the power of what period in India?
A) Ancient
B) Modern
C) British Colonial
D) Mughal
Q3) The twentieth-century Indian painter,__________,rejected the academic approach of Western art and created images that reflect his ethnic origins,such as Bharat Mata (Mother India).
A) Abanindranath Tagore
B) Gandhi Bhavan
C) Shah Jahan
D) B.P. Mathur
Q4) Define the movement known as bhakti.
Q5) Discuss the temple complex at Madurai .What are its characteristics?
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Chapter 8: Chinese and Korean art after 1279
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Q1) How did China view itself in relation to the rest of the world?
Q2) The newly established Joseon dynasty of __________ patterned its government after Ming-dynasty China.
A) Korea
B) Malaysia
C) India
D) Taiwan
Q3) In the last decade of the sixteenth century,Japanese armies destroyed many of Korea's __________ kilns and brought the ware's production to a halt.
A) guanzhong
B) joseon
C) buncheong
D) shitao
Q4) Discuss the rise of literati painting in Chinese art history.Using specific examples,discuss the philosophical and artistic characteristics of these works and their historical relationship to China's imperial dynasties.
Q5) Discuss the use of seals in Chinese painting? What was their function and how do they contribute to a particular work of art?
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Chapter 9: Japanese art after 1333
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Q1) The Tea Bowl,called Yugure ("Twilight"),is attributed to Chojiro,thought to be the founder of what type of pottery?
A) raku
B) Mount Fuji
C) crackle glaze
D) Hokusai
Q2) Winter Landscape by Sesshu features jagged brushstrokes and flat overlapping planes.What period was this work created?
A) Muromachi
B) Edo
C) Momoyama
D) Modern
Q3) The seventeenth-century painter __________,considered the first great painter of the Rimpa school,painted the Waves at Matsushima ,some of the finest surviving golden screens.
A) Sen no Rikyu
B) Sotatsu
C) Qin Ling
D) Weh Hong
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Chapter 10: Art of the Americas after 1300
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Q1) Woodlands art focused on personal adornment and fragile arts such as __________.
A) altars
B) games
C) quillwork
D) sculpture
Q2) How did Native Americans use basketry?
Q3) What are some qualities of Plains Indian art?
Q4) The __________ formed a powerful federation of five northeastern Native American nations and played a prominent role until after the American Revolution.
A) Plains
B) Apache
C) Navajo
D) Iroquois
Q5) For the Great Plains people,what is the purpose of the hole in the top of a tipi?
A) it assists the clan in meditation and prayer
B) it served as a smoke hole for a central hearth
C) it allowed them to see the moon at night
D) they did not devise a way to cover this, so they left it open
Q6) How is beadwork related to quillwork?
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Chapter 11: art of pacific cultures
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Q1) As Polynesians migrated across the Pacific,they brought with them the production of __________,which was used for clothing,sails,mats,and ceremonial purposes.
A) tufa
B) bark cloth
C) bamboo
D) coral
Q2) People in the Marshall Islands relied on stick charts called wapepe or mattang ,which ____________.
A) show navigational routes connecting islands
B) show a schematic diagram of ocean currents and wave patterns
C) are shells and sticks held together by coconut fibers
D) all of the above
Q3) Which material is NOT used in the production of Micronesian art?
A) feathers
B) coconut and banana fibers
C) turtle shells
D) wood
Q4) How were the visual arts of the Pacific cultures connected to music,dance,and oral literature?
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Chapter 12: art of Africa in the modern era
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Q1) What African tradition(s)are evoked in the work of contemporary artist El Anatsui (29-24)?
A) the performative context of sculptural masks
B) the surface design in textiles
C) the use of ephemeral materials such as leaves, grass, and feathers
D) none of the above
Q2) The performance of children in Yoruba masquerades is viewed as _____________.
A) entertainment for the adults
B) training for the future
C) a taboo practice
D) a rite of passage
Q3) How do leaders in Africa use art if it isn't intended to convey their authority and status?
Q4) Olodumare of the __________ peoples is almost never depicted or portrayed in art.
A) Baule
B) Ifa
C) Yoruba
D) Bwa
Q5) What is the prestige attire of the Kuba nyim?
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Chapter 13: Eighteenth- and early-nineteenth century art in Europe and NORTH America
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Q1) How did Wright glorify science?
Q2) Visitors to Italy on the Grand Tour desired two types of __________ views: the capriccio and the veduta.
A) nude
B) French
C) city
D) fashion
Q3) Angelika Kauffman's Cornelia Pointing to her Children as Her Treasures expresses the idea of __________,a popular theme among eighteenth century audiences who preferred Classical subjects that taught lessons of civic virtue.
A) family loyalty
B) the obedient child
C) the good mother
D) the faithful wife
Q4) How do scientific discoveries impact on art during the eighteenth century?
Q5) How did Neoclassical artists rebel against Rococo art?
Q6) When did the Romantic movement in England begin?
Q7) What impact did the French Revolution have on art?
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Chapter 14: mid-to late nineteenth-century art in Europe and the united
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Q1) What was George Seurat's goal in his "Divisionist" paintings?
A) to enliven paintings through the use scientific theories about color and optic function
B) to bring Classical structure to the Impressionists' approach to painting
C) to use color to generate a strong emotional response from the viewer
D) to produce an idiosyncratic style characterized by the use of small dots of color
Q2) Garnier revived the __________ style in The Opéra ,that earlier period of French greatness.
A) Gothic
B) Byzantine
C) Baroque
D) Oriental
Q3) __________ and his compatriots designed furniture,stained glass,tiles,wallpaper,and fabrics.
A) Eakins
B) Homer
C) Whistler
D) Morris
Q4) Why are engravings important in spreading an artist reputation?
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1900-1950
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Q1) Discoveries in __________,especially the work of Freud,influenced Modern art.
A) psychology
B) science
C) philosophy
D) marxism
Q2) Why did Mexican muralists employ naturalism in the works they produced for public buildings?
A) It symbolized the historical status of Western culture.
B) The government felt the public could not comprehend abstract art.
C) They wanted to reference Native American traditions.
D) European modernism did not impact Mexico until the mid-twentieth century.
Q3) The __________ of Gerrit Rietveld's Schröder House created the radical asymmetry sought after in the De Stijl movement.
A) exposed skeletal structure
B) large expanses of windows
C) richly encrusted surface
D) the white planes and horizontal and vertical accents in primary colors
Q4) How did Modern artists in the Americas combine their experiments in form with efforts to uncover their national or cultural identities?
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Chapter 16: The international scene since 1950
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Q1) Although initially a revolutionary style,_____________ architecture came to stand for corporate wealth and power.
A) International Style
B) Deconstructivist
C) High Tech
D) Postmodern
Q2) Jean-Michel Basquiat's Neo-Expressionist paintings of the early 1980s developed out of his work as a___________________.
A) musician
B) professional athlete
C) graffiti artist
D) poet
Q3) What are Earthworks?
Q4) How did Feminists impact the art world?
Q5) What social issue motivated David Wojnarowicz's Untitled (Hands)?
A) the Vietnam War
B) the AIDS crisis
C) housing for the urban poor
D) funding for the arts
Q6) What did artists do from 1955 to 1965 to bring the real world into their art?
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