1. Which of the following men designed Monticello?
A. James Wines
B. Robert Venturi
C. Frank Lloyd Wright
D. Thomas Jefferson
2. In what city is the tomb of Empress Gala Placida?
A. Ravenna
B. Rome
C. Florence
D. Venice
3. Which one of the following artists created Fallingwater?
A. James Wines
B. Richard Rogers
C. Robert Venturi
D. Frank Lloyd Wright
4. Byzantine art is a combination of Christian symbolism and ______style.
A. Roman
B. Egyptian
C. French
D. Greek
5. Which one of the following divisions of the applied and decorative arts is used to produce primarily
functional items?
A. Fiber
B. Ceramics
C. Glass
D. Metalwork
6. Which of the following groups of artists launched a war on conventional thinking?
A. Surrealists
B. Expressionists
C. Abstracts
D. Dadaists
7. Which one of the following philosophies was based on dreams?
A. Dadaism
B. Abstract art
C. Expressionism
D. Surrealism
8. Which one of the following artists was associated with Impressionism?
A. William Turner
B. Paul Cezanne
C. Paul Gauguin
D. Claude Monet
9. ______began his career as an illustrator, but later became a political cartoonist.
A. Jean-François Millet
B.Honoré Daumier
C. Gustave Courbet
D. Marc Chagall
10. Which one of the following artists founded the Hudson River School of painting?
A. Albert Bierstadt
B. J. M. W. Turner
C. Thomas Cole
D. John Constable
11. Which one of the following artists was known to use art as a way of reliving the past?
A. Pablo Picasso
B. Jackson Pollock
C. Willem de Kooning
D. Marc Chagall
12. What artistic development is characterized by the use of bright colors, elaborate compositions,
exaggerated forms, and dramatic movement?
A. Baroque
B. Rococo
C. Modernism
D. Mannerism
13. What is one characteristic of Cubism?
A. Subjects of nature
B. Multiple viewpoints
C. Highly accurate perspective
D. Appearance of great depth
14. To define a picture plane, a two-dimensional artist must establish
A. specific atmospheric perspective.
B. the borders of the artwork.
C. a vanishing point and horizon.
D. the figure-ground effect.
15. Impressionism began in what time period and in what country?
A. Eighteenth-century England
B. Nineteenth-century France
C. Seventeenth-century France
D. Nineteenth-century England
16. Another name for serigraphy is
A. silkscreen printing.
B. metal printmaking.
C. etching.
D. wood engraving.
17. Michelangelo was ______years old when he carved the Pieta.
A. 23
B. 57
C. 81
D. 30
18. Wood carving is the most important form of sculptural art from
A. Africa.
B. Germany.
C. Italy.
D. Japan.
19. Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were artists from the ______period.
A. Medieval
B. Baroque
C. Romanesque
D. Renaissance
20. The metal skeleton artists use to support clay sculptures is called a/an
A.maquette.
B. scaffold.
C. armature.
D. casting.
21. ______was stolen from the Louvre in 1911 and remained missing for two years.
A.Raft of the Medusa
B.Venus de Milo
C.TheMona Lisa
D.Liberty Leading the People
22. Oil paint can be diluted with an oil medium or solvents such as turpentine to be made into transparent
A. glazes.
B. impasto.
C.sfumato.
D. underpainting.
23. What was one of the most significant achievements of Albrecht Durer?
A. He created the art form known as installation sculpture.
B. He wrote treatises on painting, perspective, and human proportions.
C. He made printmaking a fine art form.
D. He raised commonplace objects in his subjects of fine art.
24. Many of Hans Holbein's religious paintings were destroyed in the name of the Protestant movement
known as
A.Papism.
B. Agnosticism.
C. Monotheism.
D. Iconoclasm.
25. Action Painting was associated with what artist?
A. Frank Stella
B. Jackson Pollock
C. Henri Matisse
D. Salvador Dali
26. Mary Cassatt was part of what art movement?
A. Feminism
B. Expressionism
C. Impressionism
D. Realism
27. ______has the most stained glass windows.
A. France
B. Italy
C. America
D. England
28. ______is the opposite of relief printmaking.
A. Etching
B. Metal printmaking
C. Wood engraving
D. Intaglio
29. The development of Western art was influenced by fine art prints from which one of the following
countries?
A. China
B. Japan
C. India
D. Tahiti
30. What group promotes the rights of women artists?
A. Guerrilla Girls
B. Postmodernists
C. National Endowment of the Arts
D. Abstract Expressionists
31. Organic shapes can be described as
A. naturalistic and formed by uneven curves.
B. three-dimensional and geometric.
C. two-dimensional and representational.
D. representational and simplified.
32. The ______is considered the beginning of the modern world.
A. scientific revolution
B. Rococo period
C. Classical period
D. Renaissance
33. Color-Field Painting was associated with what artist?
A. Jackson Pollock
B. Willem de Kooning
C. Mark Rothko
D. Franz Kline
34. Which Renaissance artist created the dome of the Florence Cathedral?
A. Andrea Mantegna
B. Donatello
C. Lorenzo Ghiberti
D.Filippo Brunelleschi
35. In Jan van Eyck's painting Giovanni Arnolfini and his Bride, the dog symbolizes
A. fertility.
B. fidelity.
C. longevity.
D. the nuptial service.
36. ______was the most famous practitioner of Classicism.
A. Nicolas Poussin
B. Rembrandt
C.Eugène Delacroix
D. Caspar David Friedrich
37. ______vaults were used to construct the nave of the Church of Sainte-Madeleine in Vezelay in
France in the twelfth century.
A. Pointed
B. Barrel
C. Groin
D. Ribbed
38. Which one of the following artists was censored because of the subject matter of his or her
photographs?
A. Bruce Nauman
B. Faith Ringgold
C. Robert Mapplethorpe
D. Jeff Koons
39. Throughout the Renaissance the ______was used in paintings as a structural innovation that used
geometric underpinning.
A. foursquare theorem
B. horizon line
C. base line
D. figure triangle
40. The pyramids of the Mayans were used as
A. religious sites.
B. government seats.
C. tombs.
D. royal dwellings.