Visual and Performing Arts
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Course Introduction
Visual and Performing Arts is an interdisciplinary course that explores the creation, history, and interpretation of various artistic expressions, including painting, sculpture, theater, dance, and music. Students engage with both the theoretical concepts and practical techniques that define these art forms, gaining insight into their cultural, historical, and social significance. The course fosters creative thinking, critical analysis, and hands-on experience, enabling students to appreciate and contribute to the vibrant world of the arts. Through a blend of lectures, workshops, and performances, students develop a comprehensive understanding of how visual and performing arts shape and reflect diverse human experiences.
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Creative Impulse An Introduction to the Arts 8th Edition by Dennis J. Sporre
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Chapter 1: Introduction Understanding the Arts
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Q1) __________ refers to wall material that is solid and continuous,rather than joined or pieced together.
A) Masonry
B) Monolithic
C) Monumental
D) Structural
E) Vaulted
Answer: B
Q2) __________ refers to the surface treatment of a sculpture.
A) Pattern
B) Patina
C) Texture
D) Haut-relief
E) Smooth
Answer: C
Q3) The hero or main character of a dramatic or literary work is called a(n)__________.
Answer: protagonist
Q4) The dominant idea of a story is called a(n)__________.
Answer: theme
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Chapter 2: The Ancient World
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Q1) Egyptian sculpture typically represents __________.
A) types
B) idealizations
C) individuals
D) gods
E) animals
Answer: C
Q2) Hammurabi's authority and law was believed to come from the __________.
A) Persians
B) ancestors
C) gods
D) Chinese
E) Sumerians
Answer: C
Q3) During the reign of __________,the stiff poses of earlier Egyptian art disappeared in favor of a more natural form of representation.
Answer: Akhenaton
Q4) What is one reason lifelike sculptures of humans were rare in the ancient period?
Answer: many ancient cultures considered lifelike portrayal dangerous
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Chapter 3: The Aegean and Archaic Greece
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Q1) What is the name for the style of Greek temples during the Archaic period?
Answer: Doric
Q2) The Greeks referred to cities by the collective name of their citizens.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Scholars call Epic poems that draw their material from legends and oral traditions
__________.
Answer: primary
Q4) __________ refers to the basic Greek city-state.
A) Demos
B) Plutos
C) Polis
D) Acropolis
E) Kouros
Answer: C
Q5) The religious rituals of ancient Greece centered on __________,from which Greek theatre likely developed.
Answer: dance
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Chapter 4: Greek Classicism and Hellenism
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Q1) __________ refers to the fusion of diverse religious beliefs and practices.
A) Emotionalism
B) Internationalism
C) Syncretism
D) Hubris
E) Phenomenalism
Q2) What is unique about the frieze on the Temple of Athena Nice?
Q3) The paired spiral shaped forms on the capital of an Ionic column are called
Q4) In general,what did the philosophy and aesthetics of the Greeks focus on?
Q5) __________ is a style of art relying on the fundamentals of simplicity,clarity of structure,and appeal to the intellect.
A) Hellenism
B) Expressionism
C) Classicism
D) Realism
E) Anti-classicism
Q6) Ptolemy I sought to unite Egyptians and Greeks by founding a new god.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: The Roman Period
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Q1) Which language did the early Romans consider a peasant language?
Q2) The Roman belief in "honor above life," or __________,helps explain their taste for blood sport.
A) pompa
B) plebs
C) paters
D) virtus
E) hydraulos
Q3) The most formidable religious cult in the Roman Empire was the Persian mystery-cult of __________.
A) Minerva
B) Vesta
C) Janus
D) Mithra
E) none of these
Q4) The first great age of Latin literature is called the __________ Age.
Q5) The phrase __________ refers to the Roman attempt to control the dissatisfied urban masses.
Q6) In Roman dance,pantomime was a serious form,while __________ was more light-hearted.
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Chapter 6: Judaism and Early Christianity
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Q1) The twelve apostles symbolically link to the twelve tribes of Israel.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The word __________ comes from the Greek word for "book," which itself referred to the town of Byblos from which papyrus was exported.
Q3) The inclusion of the Book of __________ into the canon of the Christian Bible was particularly controversial.
Q4) For the most part,Christian churches took the form of the Roman __________.
Q5) Rabbinical interpretations and commentaries on the Mishnah are called
A) Talmud
B) Oral Law
C) Gemara
D) Torah
E) Petateuch
Q6) The Western Empire greatly outlasted the Eastern Empire.
A)True
B)False
Q7) The Roman __________ arch became a symbol of Christ's triumph over death.
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Chapter 7: Byzantium and Islam
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Q1) In the early years of Islam,music was considered a "__________ pleasure."
Q2) __________ is the description of the lives of saints.
A) Eschatology
B) Hermeneutics
C) Hagiography
D) Ecclesiast
E) Transubstantiation
Q3) The fall of the Roman Empire occurred in the year __________.
A) 411
B) 330
C) 395
D) 476
E) 732
Q4) Which ivory carving includes depictions of emissaries from the West and from India?
Q5) Modern readers are often struck at the Byzantine distaste for __________ and their preference for elaboration on tradition.
Q6) Which Byzantine medium was more important for wall art than painting?
Q7) What were the two highest forms of study in Byzantine intellectual life?
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Q8) The "holy struggle" encouraged by Caliph Abu Bakr is referred to as __________.
Chapter 8: The Early Middle Ages
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Q1) Which art discussed in this chapter was an official court art?
Q2) The sects of Sufis who achieve ecstatic states through whirling dances include dervishes and __________.
A) fakirs
B) caliphates
C) Sunni
D) Shiite
E) horarium
Q3) __________ were secular lyric poet-musicians,located chiefly in southern France,northern Italy,and northern Spain.
A) Cycles
B) Knights
C) Balladeers
D) Troubadours
E) none of the above
Q4) The most widely adopted of all monastic rules is the __________.
Q5) Hildegard of Bingen's Book of Divine Works expounds on her theology of microcosm and macrocosm.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: The High Middle Ages
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Q1) __________ style is a synthesis of medieval intellect,spirituality,and engineering.
A) Verisimilitude
B) Realism
C) Allegory
D) Classicism
E) Gothic
Q2) Many important __________ gained their charters in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
A) monasteries
B) universities
C) towns
D) guilds
E) kingdoms
Q3) The Gothic style of painting is largely indistinguishable from earlier medieval styles.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Dante's The Divine Comedy employs the dramatic device of __________.
Q5) What was the purpose of Jean Froissart's Chronicles of England,France,and Spain?
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Chapter 10: The Early Renaissance
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Q1) The first of the Medici family to assume power was __________ de' Medici.
Q2) Leonardo's well-known drawing __________,influenced by the anatomical writing of Vitruvius,shows the Renaissance fascination with the human body.
Q3) What did the Greeks of Periclean Athens provide Renaissance artists?
Q4) A roofed,open arcade is called a __________.
Q5) The Italians refer to the fifteenth century as the __________.
Q6) Important patrons of the arts,the __________ family ruled Florence for a number of generations.
A) Alberti
B) Ferrara
C) Medici
D) Ficino
E) Lorenzo
Q7) What led the city of Florence to sponsor artistic competitions?
Q8) The Renaissance was the first time Europeans regained an interest in Antiquity.
A)True
B)False
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Q9) Masaccio's The Holy Trinity depicts Christ on the cross,which is being steadied by
Chapter 11: The High Renaissance and Mannerism
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Q1) A setting of lyric poetry for several voices is called a __________.
A) madrigal
B) motet
C) cantata
D) sonata
E) homophony
Q2) The highly influential Four Books on Architecture were written by __________.
A) Michelangelo
B) Bramante
C) Palladio
D) Maderno
E) Lescot
Q3) The High Renaissance is associated with a rise in idealism and classicism.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Consider the works of literature discussed in this chapter.Are there any common themes or ideas across the works discussed?
Q5) Did High Renaissance artists treat figures more as individuals or types?
Q6) Leonardo invented practical devices,including a device to cut nuts and
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Chapter 12: Renaissance and Reformation in Northern Europe
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Q1) Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great established __________ as the convention of later Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights.
A) iambic pentameter
B) free verse
C) blank verse
D) comedic styling
E) large spectacles
Q2) Which playwright is remembered for his low tolerance and vicious caricatures of contemporary individuals?
Q3) Montaigne's book inaugurated the term __________ for a short prose composition treating a given subject in a rather informal and personal manner.
A) prose poem
B) commentary
C) dialogue
D) discourse
E) essay
Q4) The interludes of dancing in "dinner ballets" are called __________.
Q5) Hieronymus __________ did not follow the developments of Italy.
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Q6) In which Protestant reform tradition did Puritanism and Presbyterianism develop?
Chapter 13: The Baroque Age
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Q1) Who were the patrons of landscape painting?
Q2) In France the absolutist state and the church worked in harmony.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The novel __________,by Miguel Cervantes,is a parody of chivalric romances.
Q4) The modern scientific method is based on __________.
A) rationalism
B) deduction
C) induction
D) idealism
E) the Reformation
Q5) Baroque painters symbolized the fleeting nature of life and beauty with
Q6) The philosophy of __________ was based on the premise "Doubt everything."
A) Bacon
B) Galileo
C) Descartes
D) Newton
E) Kepler
Q7) Was St.Theresa associated with the Reformation or the Counter-Reformation?
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Chapter 14: The Enlightenment
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Q1) In the work of __________,ordinary occurrences appear as symbols of a higher reality.
A) George Whitefield
B) Phillis Weatley
C) Jonathan Swift
D) Alexander Pope
E) Oliver Goldsmith
Q2) Johann Gottfried von Herder sought to revive __________ through the use of the "national language" in schools,books,and newspapers.
A) "national feeling"
B) community
C) democracy
D) traditional values
E) German mythology
Q3) Jacques-Louis David's painting Oath of the Horatii sought to inspire __________.
A) political debate
B) religious sentiment
C) appreciation of classical art
D) artistic controversy
E) patriotism
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Chapter 15: The Romantic Age
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Q1) What is the name of Percy Bysshe Shelley's famous poem about a "Destroyer and Preserver"?
Q2) The work of Géricault frequently emphasizes human struggles against the forces of
Q3) __________ allowed workers to promote their own interests in the economic realm.
A) Committees
B) Elections
C) Parties
D) Newspapers
E) Unions
Q4) A composition for solo voice with piano accompaniment and poetic text is called a __________.
A) prelude
B) nocturne
C) impromptu
D) Lied
E) bel canto
Q5) What did middle class morality emphasize?
Q6) Walt Whitman's use of long __________ lines was a first in American poetry.
Q7) Which well-known poem brought Edgar Allan Poe into the spotlight?
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Chapter 16: Realism, Impressionism, and Beyond
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Q1) The mid-nineteenth century painter __________ can be seen as an early commentator on urban alienation.
A) Honoré Daumier
B) Claude Monet
C) William Holman Hunt
D) Henry O. Tanner
E) Auguste Rodin
Q2) From where did Anton Chekhov obtain his subject matter and themes?
Q3) The first well-known African-American painter was __________.
A) Thomas Eakins
B) William Holman Hunt
C) Henry O. Tanner
D) Edouard Manet
E) Daniel Hudson Burnham
Q4) Consider the speed of technological developments during this period.Choose a work of any medium or movement,and discuss how it was influenced by or reflects upon technology.If you choose a skyscraper,for example,you might point out that its very existence is based upon the technology of steel frameworks,and also that its design reflects a society increasingly oriented around technology.
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Chapter 17: Modernism
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Q1) For existentialists,freedom lies in human consciousness and the human struggle to give meaning to otherwise meaningless events.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Albert Camus used the Greek myth of __________ to suggest humanity's endless struggle for meaning and purpose.
A) Medusa
B) Hercules
C) Sisyphus
D) Athena
E) Achilles
Q3) The character "Jesse B.Simple" is an invention of the poet __________.
A) James Baldwin
B) Carl Sandburg
C) Langston Hughes
D) T.S. Eliot
E) Ezra Pound
Q4) Migrant Mother,Nipomo,California is the work of the American photographer
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Chapter 18: From Modernism to Postmodernism and Beyond
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Q1) You may have noticed that Chapter Seventeen includes an unusually diverse array of arts,ranging from pottery to robotic art installations! Are there any similarities across all of these works? Do you think there can be a meaningful definition of "art" that can include them all? Is this confusing for art audiences today,or does the wide-range of arts make it easier to enjoy them because there's "something for everybody"? If this diversity is a good thing,do you think it is possible to assess the "quality" of such a wide range of arts-how can anything be "good" or "bad"?
Q2) Musique actuelle is characterized by a tendency toward __________.
A) humor
B) melancholy
C) nostalgia
D) seriousness
E) rationality
Q3) Cuban-American theatre has dealt with the topics of exile and nostalgia.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What was Helen Frankenthaler's signature painting process called?
Q5) Absolute freedom and individuality were assumptions of __________ painters in the postwar period.
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