Visual Arts Survey
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Course Introduction
Visual Arts Survey provides students with a broad overview of the visual arts, exploring major movements, styles, techniques, and influential artists from prehistoric times to the present day. The course examines various artistic media, including painting, sculpture, drawing, and digital arts, while emphasizing the cultural and historical contexts that shaped their development. Through critical analysis, hands-on projects, and museum visits, students gain an appreciation for the visual language of art and develop foundational skills in art analysis, interpretation, and creative expression.
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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) For most of the history of art,the __________is recognizable or at least reflects some sort of visual experience.
A) content
B) humanism
C) narrative
D) iconography
E) subject
Answer: E
Q2) One of the best ways to illustrate stylistic differences between works of art is to choose several works that have a __________.
A) similar size
B) common form
C) common context
D) common composition
E) common theme
Answer: E
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Chapter 2: Line and Shape
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Q1) The ____________ shape of an artistic composition is considered the ground.
A) biomorphic
B) positive
C) irregular
D) negative
E) complementary
Answer: D
Q2) 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
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Chapter 3: Light and Color
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Q1) Value refers to the relative degree of ______________or darkness of a surface or a color.
A) hue
B) saturation
C) lightness
D) contrast
E) intensity
Answer: C
Q2) ___________ creates the illusion of roundness or three dimensionality through the use of light and shadow on a two-dimensional surface.
A) Linear perspective
B) Shape
C) Color
D) Value
E) Modeling
Answer: E
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Chapter 4: Texture and Pattern
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Q1) What is pattern?
Q2) Discuss the use of texture in Vincent Van Gogh's Mulberry Tree.
Q3) Explain the difference between actual texture and visual texture,and provide an artistic example of each.
Q4) The goal of visual texture is to simulate the look and feel of actual _________and textures.
A) brushstrokes
B) gouging
C) surfaces
D) lines
E) applications
Q5) Actual texture is primarily experienced through the sense of ___________.
A) sight
B) taste
C) touch
D) hearing
E) smell
Q6) Compare and contrast Céleste Boursier-Mougnnot's From Here to Ear with Jean Dubuffet's Blossoming Earth.
Q7) What are El Anatsui's magnificent "woven" wall hangings composed of?
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Chapter 5: Space,Time,and Motion
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Q1) Explain the difference between actual space and implied space,and provide an artistic example of each.
Q2) _____________,in which parallel lines converge at one or more vantage points on the horizon to create the illusion of depth,was highly refined by __________ artists.
A) Implied line; Japanese
B) Atmospheric perspective; Byzantine
C) Texture gradient; Baroque
D) Relative size; Chinese
E) Linear perspective; Renaissance
Q3) How does Bernini's sculpture David make use of implied motion and implied time?
Q4) What accounts for spatial complexity in Martina López's Heirs Come to Pass,3?
Q5) Futurist artists,like Boccioni,were seduced by what?
Q6) 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
Q7) Name two types of visual space.
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Chapter 6: Principles of Design
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Q1) 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?
Q2) In Kay Sage's I Saw Three Cities,most of the visual weight in the composition occurs in the lower half but is balanced in the upper reaches of the sky by __________.
A) a flowing column of drapery
B) a colossal statue
C) two bright orange spheres
D) a tower in the distance
E) several tall trees
Q3) __________ is evident in compositions in which the elements radiate from-or are organized around-a center point
A) Vertical balance
B) Radial balance
C) Horizontal balance
D) Imbalance
E) Asymmetrical balance
Q4) Discuss two design principles fromChapter 6.Use examples.
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Chapter 7: Drawing
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Q1) Who advised artists to keep a "little book of leaves" and sketch what they saw in order to serve their future plans?
Q2) __________________ chose the medium of drawing to render the dramatic Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features.
A) Marc Brandenburg
B) Adrian Piper
C) George Condo
D) Elizabeth Peyton
E) Claudio Bravo
Q3) Käthe Kollwitz's Self Portrait reveals one aspect of the character of ________________.
A) silverpoint
B) chalk
C) pencil
D) pen and wash
E) charcoal
Q4) List two techniques by which artists can achieve dramatically different effects with fluid media.
Q5) Explain the evolution of the pencil and how it is now made.
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Chapter 8: Painting
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Q1) While creating an encaustic painting,an artist must keep the __________ at a constant temperature.
A) linseed oil
B) water
C) pigment
D) plaster
E) molten wax
Q2) Rembrandt used __________ to create his oil-on-board painting of the Head of St.Matthew.
A) tenebrism
B) plasticity
C) impasto
D) relief
E) cross-hatching
Q3) What are the advantages of painting with oils?
Q4) Describe the process of buon fresco.
Q5) What are the advantages and limitations of working in tempera?
Q6) Compare and contrast the paintings of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart and Roy Lichtenstein.
Q7) Describe three ancient uses for encaustic painting.
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Chapter 9: Printmaking and Graphic Design
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Q1) What is the subject matter of Käthe Kollwitz's lithograph The Mothers?
Q2) __________ is the only printmaking process in which prints can be rendered in paint as well as ink.
A) mezzotint
B) woodblock
C) etching
D) serigraphy
E) engraving
Q3) Chinese artist Wang Guangyi's Great Criticism: Coca-Cola is a __________ that resembles a commercially produced propaganda poster.
A) mixed media photo-etching
B) black and white lithograph
C) color woodblock
D) silkscreen
E) color lithograph
Q4) List four types of matrices used in printmaking.
Q5) Compare and contrast the intaglio processes of engraving and etching.
Q6) Describe the process of producing lithographic prints.
Q7) List two reasons why printmaking is an important artistic medium.
Q8) How is it possible to produce gauffrage,or inkless intaglio prints?
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Chapter 10: Imaging: Photography, Film, Video, and Digital Arts
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Q1) Which classic early color film depicted real life in black and white and imaginary life in expressionistic color?
A) Gone with the Wind
B) Citizen Kane
C) The Wizard of Oz
D) North by Northwest
E) Birth of a Nation
Q2) Compare and contrast the musical films of the 1930s with the photographs of Dorothea Lange and other Depression-era photographers.
Q3) When a camera shutter opens for a few thousandths of a second over and over again in quick succession,__________ shots are being taken.
A) still
B) resolution
C) shutter
D) panoramic
E) candid
Q4) What is one of the major keys to success for a photojournalist?
Q5) What is a camera obscura,and how was it used by Renaissance artists?
Q6) Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of digital photography.
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Chapter 11: Sculpture, Installation, Site-Specific Art, and 3d Design
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Q1) Louise Nevelson said,"I began using found objects.I had all this wood lying around and I began to move it around,I began to compose." Nevelson's compositions are considered __________.
A) assemblages
B) ready-mades
C) collages
D) relief sculptures
E) earthworks
Q2) Explain why Sylvie Fleury could easily be described as a Pop artist.
Q3) In sculptural works such as Gay Liberation,George Segal produces__________ replicas of people.
A) bronze
B) plaster
C) wax
D) delicate
E) wood
Q4) Compare and contrast the visual and emotional effects engendered by Michelangelo's The Cross-Legged Captive with Louise Bourgeois's Portrait of Robert.
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Q5) Compare and contrast George Segal's Gay Liberation and Louise Bourgeois's Eyes.
Chapter 12: Craft Arts
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Q1) Textile art make what two types of objects?
Q2) The botanical forms of __________ are considered some of the finest examples of Art Nouveau glass.
A) Cellini
B) Toulouse-Lautrec
C) Whistler
D) Mapping and Webb
E) Tiffany
Q3) Discuss how Robert Arneson's Jackson Pollock blurs the line between craft and fine art.How does the glaze relate to the subject?
Q4) Glass that has been spun into fine filaments can be used for __________.
A) pressed glass
B) insulation
C) blown glass
D) flint glass
E) stained glass
Q5) How does Kiff Slemmons's Transport bridge the gulf between fine art and the functional object?
Q6) List five things that can be done with molten glass.
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Chapter 13: Architecture and Urban Design
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Q1) What are the advantages and disadvantages of wood as a building material? How has modern technology helped to overcome some of the disadvantages?
Q2) __________,primarily used for covering roofs of structures,acquire their strength from the fact that the sides of a triangle,once joined,cannot be forced out of shape.
A) Pendentives
B) Shingles
C) Balloon framings
D) Trusses
E) Clapboards
Q3) Richard Morris Hunt's Griswold House,built in 1863,was designed in the short-lived __________ style.Its exterior treatment resembled an assemblage of matchsticks with many turrets,gables,and dormers.
A) Cape Cod
B) Salt Box
C) Romanesque
D) Bungalow
E) Stick
Q4) How are fabric roofs held up in sports arenas?
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Chapter 14: Art of the Ancient World
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Q1) Which of the following is considered one of the Bronze Age civilizations of pre-Hellenic Greece?
A) Assyria
B) The Cyclades
C) Alexandria
D) Akkad
E) Tarquinia
Q2) Describe the configuration of the Neolithic Stonehenge,and explain what its purpose is believed to have been.
Q3) Large-scale tomb sculptures that were intended to house the spirit of the deceased if mummification failed were known as __________.
A) pharaoh figures
B) idealized figures
C) mummy figures
D) ka sculptures
E) votive figures
Q4) Compare and contrast the art and architecture of the Sumerians with that of the Assyrians.
Q5) What were the Fertile Crescent and the Fertile Ribbon?
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Chapter 15: Greece, Rome, and the Early Judeo-Christian World
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Q1) 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.
Q2) The stylized faces of the man and wife represented on the Etruscan Sarcophagus from Cerveteri were most likely influenced by __________ sculpture.
A) Geometric
B) Archaic
C) Classical
D) Hellenistic
E) Golden Age
Q3) The François Vase,with black figures on a reddish background,is an example of the __________ painting technique and was produced during the __________ period of Greek art.
A) red-figure; Classical
B) black-figure; Geometric
C) red-figure; Archaic
D) red-figure; Geometric
E) black-figure; Archaic
Q4) 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) Perhaps the most famous surviving tapestry is the 230-foot long Romanesque period Bayeux Tapestry,which describes __________ in a continuous narrative.
A) feudal lords and ladies dancing
B) the invasion of Italian city-states by the Normans
C) Pope Urban reclaiming the Holy Lands from the Turks
D) the invasion of England by William the Conqueror
E) the Crusades of the Knights Templar
Q2) The San Vitale apse mosaic Justinian and Attendants is characterized by all of the following except __________.
A) thickly lidded eyes staring outward
B) costumes that appear to hang on invisible frames
C) heavily draped figures that have no substance
D) unnatural gestures
E) that Justinian is by far the largest figure
Q3) What period is Charlemagne linked with,and what did he do to become crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the pope?
Q4) Discuss the design of Charlemagne's Palatine Chapel at Aachen and how he incorporated two stylistically diverse influences into the church.
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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 The Burial of Count Orgaz,the __________ painter El Greco's heavenly figures appear __________.
A) Italian; sculptural and three-dimensional
B) French; ghostly
C) Spanish; extremely attenuated
D) Flemish; unemotional and calm
E) Venetian; distressed
Q3) Using the Madonna of the Rocks as an example,trace the changes that occurred in the representation of the Virgin and Child from the proto-Renaissance to the High Renaissance.
Q4) Identify the two most significant areas of Europe for the arts during the Renaissance.
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Chapter 18: The Baroque ERA
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Q1) After Martin Luther's Reformation,Dutch artists painted scenes of daily life,whereas Flemish artists __________.
A) painted primarily portraits and religious scenes
B) painted still lifes and portraits
C) continued painting classical imagery as done in the Renaissance
D) depicted graphic scenes of civil war
E) continued painting religious and mythological scenes as in Baroque Italy
Q2) In Jean-Honoré Fragonard's Happy Accidents of the Swing,all of the following are characteristics of the Rococo and depicted in the painting except __________.
A) a subject of frivolity
B) a soft, pastel palette
C) classically inspired facial features
D) lacy, delicate brushwork
E) soft lighting
Q3) Describe Rembrandt's painting techniques and how they contributed to the psychological nature of his art.
Q4) Describe how Peter Paul Rubens conveys space,time,and theatricality in The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus.
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Chapter 19: The Modern ERA
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Q1) Discuss the Art Nouveau style and how and where it was used.
Q2) Who were the American Expatriates?
Q3) The modern Realist painters of the nineteenth century,including Honoré Daumier and Édouard Manet,were bound by all of the following except they __________.
A) chose to depict subjects from everyday life
B) attempted to paint objects as they saw them optically
C) were preoccupied with the science of optics
D) emphasized the two-dimensionality of the canvas
E) highlighted the physical properties of their pigments
Q4) "I saw the flaming clouds like blood and a sword-the bluish-black fjord and town-my friends walked on-I stood there-trembling with anxiety-and I felt as though Nature were convulsed by a great unending scream." This quote is describing
A) Käthe Kollwitz's The Scream
B) Edvard Munch's The Outbreak
C) Käthe Kollwitz's The Outbreak
D) Edvard Munch's The Scream
E) Vincent van Gogh's Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear
Q5) Compare and contrast Titian's Venus of Urbino with Manet's Olympia.
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Chapter 20: The Twentieth Century: The Early Years
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Q1) Henri Matisse consolidated all of the following influences into his Fauvist canvases except __________.
A) a traditional compositional structure learned from Bouguereau
B) the copying of Old Masters in the Louvre
C) the stark realism of Courbet
D) a loose brushwork reminiscent of Impressionism
E) a palette inspired by color theories of the Postimpressionists
Q2) What event drove major refugee artists to the United States,thereby moving the center of the art world to New York?
Q3) Alexander Archipenko's Walking Woman displays an important innovation in Cubist sculpture: the use of __________.
A) flat solids in relief
B) curving shapes to indicate movement
C) void space as solid form
D) bronze as a Cubist material
E) solid form as void space
Q4) Explain how the Fauves got their name.
Q5) What did the Dadaists declare about art?
Q6) Discuss Joan Miró's approach to painting,his influences,and his technique.
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Q1) The term __________ was coined in 1951 to describe the process of dripping and splattering paint on huge canvases,a technique associated primarily with
A) unconscious painting; Lee Krasner
B) minimalist painting; Georgia O'Keeffe
C) synthetic painting; Alexander Archipenko
D) deconstructivist painting; Piet Mondrian
E) action painting; Jackson Pollock
Q2) In Robert Rauschenberg's combine painting The Bed,he uses a(n)__________ as his canvas.
A) sleeping woman
B) quilt and pillow
C) electric blanket
D) floral curtain
E) stuffed ram
Q3) Where and when did Pop art originate; who was one of its first creators; and what artist influenced him?
Q4) Briefly explain why Michael Graves's Humana Building is considered a Postmodernist design.
Q5) Explain how Mark Rothko's depression affected his color field canvases.
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Chapter 22: Art Now: A Global Perspective
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Q1) Mexican artist Enrique's Illegal Alien's Guide to Critical Theory is a satire of his own experience as an_______________.
A) artist
B) salesperson
C) chief
D) immigrant
E) teacher
Q2) 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.
Q3) Describe the link between globalization and what is known as the postcolonial condition.
Q4) Discuss the cultural issues that Iranian artist Shirin Neshat addresses in works such as Passage.
Q5) Explain why artists use appropriation in contemporary art.Use examples.
Q6) What has the phenomenon of globalization created?
Q7) How does hybridity integrate high art and low art? Use examples.
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