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The Humanities course offers an interdisciplinary exploration of human culture, examining literature, philosophy, history, art, religion, and music from ancient to contemporary times. Students will analyze critical texts, cultural movements, and artistic expressions to understand how individuals and societies have grappled with fundamental questions of meaning, identity, ethics, and beauty. Through reading, discussion, and reflective writing, the course fosters analytical thinking, cultural awareness, and communication skills, enabling students to connect the past and present and appreciate diverse perspectives within the human experience.
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Understanding Art 11th Edition by Lois Fichner-Rathus
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Chapter 1: Understanding Art
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Q1) _________________ in a composition describes an attention-grabbing aspect that directs the viewer's eye to a particular area,giving it visual or conceptual dominance.
A) Focal point
B) Emphasis
C) Variety
D) Chaos
E) Unity
Answer: B
Q2) The form of an artwork includes all of the elements that make up the composition except __________.
A) texture
B) balance
C) color
D) subject matter
E) three dimensionality
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Line and Shape
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Q1) Diagonal lines are often used to _______________.
A) imply movement and directionality
B) suggest stability
C) suggest assertiveness
D) imply heaviness and weight
E) suggest rigidity
Answer: A
Q2) _____________ are formed when intersecting or connected lines enclose space.
A) Textures
B) Compositions
C) Horizons
D) Volumes
E) Shapes
Answer: E
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Chapter 3: Light and Color
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Q1) ______________that are achieved by mixing various amounts of black and white are called achromatic.
A) monochromatic
B) brown
C) white
D) black
E) grays
Answer: E
Q2) The brightness or ____________of a color is its saturation.
A) hue
B) value
C) dullness
D) intensity
E) color
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Texture and Pattern
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Q1) Discuss the use of texture in Vincent Van Gogh's Mulberry Tree.
Q2) The word texture derives from the _______for weaving.
A) Latin
B) Greek
C) English
D) French
E) German
Q3) The literal meaning of the __________phrase trompe l'oeil is "trick the eye."
A) Latin
B) Greek
C) English
D) French
E) German
Q4) Texture can be used in concert with pattern,which is a design based on the repetition or grouping of elements such as_______________.
A) iconography
B) emphasis and mark
C) line, shape, color, or texture
D) cross hatching, and line
E) painting
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Chapter 5: Space,Time,and Motion
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Q1) In Martina Lopez' Heirs Come to Pass,3,the primary technique used to create the illusion of depth is __________.
A) linear perspective
B) atmospheric perspective
C) relative size
D) overlapping
E) brightness gradient
Q2) The photograph of the mountain fortress of Machu Picchu illustrates the role of what?
Q3) Relative size and ____________often work hand in hand to suggest space.
A) perspective
B) shape
C) color
D) value
E) overlapping
Q4) Compare and contrast Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin's Still Life with Bottle of Olives with Juan Gris's The Bottle of Banyuls.
Q5) What accounts for spatial complexity in Martina López's Heirs Come to Pass,3?
Q6) Discuss the use of relative size in Martina López's Heirs Come to Pass,3.
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Chapter 6: Principles of Design
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Q1) Leonardo da Vinci's Proportion of the Human Figure can best be considered an example of __________.
A) asymmetrical balance
B) symmetry
C) actual balance
D) informal balance
E) horizontal balance
Q2) If you superimpose a diagram of a __________ over a photograph of the East façade of the Parthenon,it is a perfect fit.
A) Golden Mean
B) Golden Rectangle
C) Golden Triangle
D) root five rectangle
E) square
Q3) The ancient Greek Polykleitos is credited with developing a set of rules about body parts and their relative dimensions that became the standard for creating the ideal figure.What is this set of rules called?
Q4) How is repetition used in Andy Warhol's Ethel Scull Thirty-Six Times.
Q5) Identify six design principles.
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Chapter 7: Drawing
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Q1) __________ artists are masters of the brush-and-ink medium.They have used it for centuries for all types of __________.
A) Chinese; drawings
B) Italian; preparatory sketches
C) Japanese; calligraphy
D) Japanese; woodblocks
E) Japanese; everyday writings
Q2) Which of the following drawing materials cannot be smudged or rubbed for a hazy effect?
A) charcoal
B) metalpoint
C) pencil
D) chalk
E) pastel
Q3) Identify and discuss the different categories of drawings,and provide an artistic example from each category.
Q4) List two techniques by which artists can achieve dramatically different effects with fluid media.
Q5) Identify six types of dry media used for drawing.
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Chapter 8: Painting
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Q1) __________ was the exclusive painting medium of artists during the medieval era.
A) Oil
B) Tempera
C) Encaustic
D) Fresco
E) Gouache
Q2) __________ is a mixture of pigment and a plastic vehicle that can be thinned with water.
A) Tempera
B) Aquarelle
C) Gouache
D) Gum arabic
E) Acrylic
Q3) From what sources do pigments derive their many colors?
Q4) Compare and contrast the paintings of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart and Roy Lichtenstein.
Q5) Why is a gesso surface needed to prepare tempera and oil paintings?
Q6) What are the limitations of working in fresco?
Q7) Describe three ancient uses for encaustic painting.
Q8) List seven commonly used paint vehicles.
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Chapter 9: Printmaking and Graphic Design
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Q1) Etching is a very versatile medium.In Henri Matisse's Loulou Distracted,he used __________ to represent the essential features of a woman.
A) hazy shading
B) numerous thin and thick lines
C) a combination of drypoint and etching
D) tight, rhythmic, flowing lines
E) only a few uniformly etched lines
Q2) Serigraphy,or silkscreen,was first developed for use as a(n)__________ medium,a fitting medium because Pop artist __________ used it to create Four Multi-Colored Marilyns.
A) artistic; Roy Lichtenstein
B) commercial; Claes Oldenberg
C) abstract; Robert Rauschenberg
D) commercial; Andy Warhol
E) artistic; Richard Hamilton
Q3) List two reasons why printmaking is an important artistic medium.
Q4) Compare and contrast the intaglio processes of engraving and etching.
Q5) How is it possible to produce gauffrage,or inkless intaglio prints?
Q6) Describe the process of creating a mezzotint engraving.
Q7) List four types of matrices used in printmaking.
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Chapter 10: Imaging: Photography, Film, Video, and Digital Arts
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Q1) Discuss how and why the art of photography is far more than a mechanical process.
Q2) Edward Steichen's __________,taken in 1906,is one of the foremost early examples of the photograph as a work of art.
A) Future Expectations
B) Impression: Sunrise
C) Blue Period
D) The Flatiron Building-Evening
E) Evening Nocturne
Q3) Explain why German director Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will is considered one of the greatest yet most damaging propaganda films of all time.
Q4) The Artist's Studio,taken in 1837,was the first photograph of its kind and was produced on silver-plated copper by __________.
A) Niepce
B) Talbot
C) Lumière
D) Nadar
E) Daguerre
Q5) Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of digital photography.
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Sculpture, Installation, Site-Specific Art, and 3d Design
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Q1) Compare and contrast George Segal's Gay Liberation and Louise Bourgeois's Eyes.
Q2) Explain how the lost wax process of casting works.
Q3) In spirit and style,which of Picasso's two-dimensional works were very similar to his constructed sculpture?
Q4) Claes Oldenburg's Soft Toilet elevates an everyday object to a work of art and forces us to rethink its function in society.This is an example of __________.
A) impressionist art
B) kinetic art
C) Pop art
D) abstract art
E) a readymade
Q5) The painful realism of Kiki Smith's figures,complete with body parts and bodily fluids,was likely influenced by her career as a(n)__________.
A) doctor
B) nurse
C) coroner
D) emergency medical technician
E) lab technician
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Chapter 12: Craft Arts
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Q1) Discuss how Robert Arneson's Jackson Pollock blurs the line between craft and fine art.How does the glaze relate to the subject?
Q2) Unlike a typical chandelier,Dale Chihuly's are a different species.They __________.
A) contain batteries
B) contain strobe lighting
C) are always placed outside
D) do not emit light of their own
E) emit only neon lighting
Q3) Ceramic glazing dates back to around 3000 bce and has been found on
A) Greek statuary
B) the bust of the Emperor Trajan
C) King Tut's sarcophagus
D) a pipe buried with Alexander the Great
E) tomb tiles of the Egyptian King Menes
Q4) Textile art make what two types of objects?
Q5) Describe the setting and visual effect of Dale Chihuly's Icicle Creek Chandelier.
Q6) Discuss the allegorical significance of Benvenuto Cellini's gold Saltcellar of Francis I.
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Chapter 13: Architecture and Urban Design
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Q1) The original idea for reinforced concrete began in the 1860s with Jacques Monier,who proposed strengthening concrete __________ with wire mesh.
A) pavers
B) sidewalks
C) benches
D) garden statuary
E) flowerpots
Q2) How are fabric roofs held up in sports arenas?
Q3) Which of the following statements about steel cable construction,first used to build the Brooklyn Bridge,is not true?
A) It has great tensile strength.
B) Its many parallel wires share the stress.
C) It is flexible, allowing the roadway underneath to sway.
D) It can only span very short distances.
E) It can be aesthetically pleasing.
Q4) Explain why an architect must be not only an artist but also a mediator and compromiser.What are some of the variables that must be dealt with by an architect?
Q5) List and provide an example of three functions of arches.
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Chapter 14: Art of the Ancient World
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Q1) In the Victory Stele of Naram Sin,the king and his men are represented in a conceptual manner,probably meant to indicate __________.
A) respect and victory
B) fear of the enemy
C) deification of the king
D) a state of chaos
E) a borrowing of Egyptian motifs
Q2) It was during the Neolithic period that __________ monuments were erected,and the most famous example is __________.
A) architectural; the Great Pyramids
B) Mesolithic; the Ziggurat at Ur
C) monolithic; Stonehenge
D) megalithic; Stonehenge
E) Sumerian; the Ziggurat at Ur
Q3) Compare and contrast the art and architecture of the Sumerians with that of the Assyrians.
Q4) Describe the ziggurat and discuss the function it served in ancient Mesopotamia.
Q5) Identify four key advancements that separate historic societies from prehistoric societies.
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Chapter 15: Greece, Rome, and the Early Judeo-Christian World
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Q1) During the Classical period,__________ became the center of Greek art and culture under the dynamic statesman __________.
A) Aegina; Callicrates
B) Corinth; Phidias
C) Olympia; Praxiteles
D) Alexandria; Alexander the Great
E) Athens; Pericles
Q2) Describe the Phidian style of sculpture as typified in The Three Goddesses.Identify the location and subject matter of Phidias's sculptural program for the Parthenon.
Q3) Some of the earliest freestanding sculptures of the Archaic period were kouros figures,or blocky statues of nude young men,all with a conventionalized facial expression called the __________.
A) kouros smile
B) stylized smile
C) conventional smile
D) Archaic smile
E) Classical smile
Q4) Explain the Greek use of color on sculpture.
Q5) What was the Ara Pacis,and when and why did Augustus have it constructed?
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Chapter 16: The Age of Faith
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Q1) The cathedral of Florence features all of the characteristics below except
A) geometric patterns of green-and-white marble
B) a minimum of fenestration
C) a huge octagonal dome
D) twin bell towers
E) a horizontal, earthbound quality
Q2) An architectural aspect of he church of St.Sernin is its use of the __________.
A) transept
B) clerestory
C) crossing square
D) facade
E) nave
Q3) The jamb figures of Mary and Elizabeth on the west portal of Reims Cathedral are placed in a naturalistic weight-shift stance also known as __________.
A) the International Gothic style
B) intarsia
C) tenebrism
D) quatrefoil
E) contrapposto
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Chapter 17: The Renaissance
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Q1) Considered a true Renaissance man,__________ excelled in engineering,the natural sciences,anatomy,music,and technological prototypes,not to mention creating some of the world's best loved paintings.
A) Leonardo da Vinci
B) Michelangelo
C) Raphael
D) Bramante
E) Piero della Francesca
Q2) In his Creation of Adam scene from the Sistine Chapel ceiling,Michelangelo created the most __________ in the history of art as God reached out to spark life into Adam.
A) incredible sense of three-dimensionality
B) intense moment
C) dramatic negative space
D) anticlimatic moment
E) spiritual experience
Q3) Identify the two most significant areas of Europe for the arts during the Renaissance.
Q4) Compare and contrast Leonardo's The Last Supper with Tintoretto's The Last Supper.
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Chapter 18: The Baroque ERA
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Q1) Baciccio's Triumph of the Sacred Name of Jesus in Il Gesu in Rome achieves a trompe l'oeil effect by combining painted figures with __________.
A) marble sculptures and an oculus
B) white stucco modeled figures and a bronze ceiling
C) marble sculptured figures and a coffered stone ceiling
D) white stucco modeled sculptures and a gilded stucco ceiling
E) painted stucco sculptures and a wooden ceiling
Q2) Before the Baroque period ended,__________ began to replace Rome as the center of the art world.
A) Spain
B) Flanders
C) France
D) London
E) Venice
Q3) Discuss how Borromini's San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane can be appreciated first as sculpture and only second as architecture.
Q4) Explain how uncontrollable and theatrical drama might best describe Bernini's The Ecstasy of St.Theresa.
Q5) What are the five major characteristics of Baroque art?
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Chapter 19: The Modern ERA
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Q1) The shocking realism depicted in Thomas Eakins's The Gross Clinic stems from his
A) training as a surgeon
B) close observation of wounded soldiers in the Civil War
C) commitment to Gustave Courbet's realist philosophy
D) morbid psychological state
E) experience working with live models and dissecting corpses
Q2) The most famous Rubeniste and Ingres's archrival was __________,whose dynamic painting of The Death of Sardanapalus was inspired by a tragedy by
A) Gericault; Keats
B) Constable; Coleridge
C) J.M.W. Turner; Shelley
D) Goya; Wordsworth
E) Delacroix; Byron
Q3) What contemporaneous events that occurred during the Napoleonic period fueled a renewed interest in antiquity?
Q4) Into what two stylistically divergent groups did the Post-Impressionists fall?
Q5) On what two levels did the "modern" painters of the nineteenth century object to Academic art?
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Chapter 20: The Twentieth Century: The Early Years
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Q1) In Constantin Brancusi's sculptures,such as Bird in Space,he reached for the essence of the subject by __________.
A) leaving a few recognizable features for the viewer
B) finding the simplest form that, along with a title, would fire recognition in the viewer
C) purposefully stripping away any nod at representation and allowing the title to determine the subject
D) trying to depict movement in a manner similar to Umberto Boccioni
E) following the tenets of Autonomist Surrealism
Q2) Discuss Joan Miró's approach to painting,his influences,and his technique.
Q3) Discuss how modern artists,beginning with Gustave Courbet,managed to persist despite hostile criticism from the art establishment.
Q4) The artists who began the Die Brücke movement chose that name because
A) they saw their movement as bridging a number of disparate styles
B) it was the title of a painting by Emil Nolde, a member of the group
C) it was the name of their first art exhibition together
D) an art critic had written an article about them using that title
E) it was the German hometown of three of the artists
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Chapter 21: The Twentieth Century: Postwar to Postmodern
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Q1) Modern architecture encompassed many architectural visions,including those of all but which one of the following architects?
A) Frank Lloyd Wright
B) Le Corbusier
C) Frank Stella
D) Mies van der Rohe
E) Gordon Bunshaft
Q2) Identify five artistic influences that converged in New York City in the twentieth century to produce an artistic melting pot that inspired the Abstract Expressionist movement.
Q3) Briefly explain why Michael Graves's Humana Building is considered a Postmodernist design.
Q4) Jean Tinguely once remarked,"The only stable thing is movement." This reminds us that he was a __________ sculptor.
A) figurative
B) Pop Art
C) kinetic
D) mixed media
E) light
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Chapter 22: Art Now: A Global Perspective
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Q1) What has the phenomenon of globalization created?
Q2) Indian artist Subodh Gupta's Silk Route is composed entirely of __________.
A) kitchen utensils
B) computer hardware
C) electric appliances
D) junk
E) automotive mufflers
Q3) Discuss the cultural issues that Iranian artist Shirin Neshat addresses in works such as Passage.
Q4) Which of the following is not an example of globalization?
A) A war around the globe finds its way into living rooms.
B) New York is the center of the art world.
C) One stock market affects all stock markets.
D) China's air pollution flows into California.
E) Cellular phones and the Internet allow for instant communication.
Q5) Describe the link between globalization and what is known as the postcolonial condition.
Q6) Briefly discuss the anxieties experienced by ordinary Chinese people due to rapid industrialization.
Q7) Explain why artists use appropriation in contemporary art.Use examples.
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