1. Which of the following types of decoration was often used in Italian churches during the Middle Ages?
A. Intricate tapestries
B. Sculpted marble doors
C. Painted wooden altarpieces
D. Stained-glass windows
2. A long, rectangular room in a Christian church during the early Middle Ages was called a
A. transept.
B. nave.
C. trumeau.
D. barrel vault.
3. Which of the following components of the architecture of the Romans was used extensively in theeleventh century in Medieval Europe in the construction of castles, fortresses, churches, and monasteries?
A. Architrave
B. Flying buttress
C. Pointed arch
D. Round arch
4. Which pharaoh built the Great Sphinx?
A. Tutankhamen
B. Chephren
C. Akhenaton
D. Mycerinus
5. Giotto developed a new way of presenting biblical stories by
A. using sacred stories to create a conceptual design.
B. creating figures that are unearthly and godlike.
C. choosing one significant moment to illustrate.
D. using multiple scenes in up to five windows.
6. Which of the following statements is the best definition of a triptych?
A. A painting with a figure triangle
B. A representation of the Stations of the Cross
C. A carving of the Holy Trinity
D. A painting on three panels
7. What was the highest goal of the Mannerist artists?
A. Formal technique
B. Unique use of color
C. Witty social commentary
D. Elegance
8. Which artistic value is least apparent in Mannerist paintings?
A. Elegance
B. Dramatic lighting
C. Serptentine curves
D. Refined style
9. Which one of the following artists won the competition to design the bronze doors of the city ofFlorence's baptistery?
A. Filippo Brunelleschi
B. Lorenzo Ghiberti
C. Michelangelo
D. Leonardo Da Vinci
10. Which artist solved a unique engineering challenge while still achieving awe-inspiring beauty in regards tothe Dome of the Florence Cathedral?
A. Michelangelo
B. Brunelleschi
C. Rembrandt
D. Donatello
11. Which one of the following artists was held in high esteem by the popes?
A. Lorenzo Ghiberti
B. Gianlorenzo Bernini
C. Hans Holbein
D. Andrea Palladio
12.In religious works of art, the Holy Ghost is often represented symbolically as a/an
A. star.
B. angel.
C. ray of sun.
D. dove.
13. Which one of the following artists sculpted a statue of David?
A. Donatello
B. Lorenzo Ghiberti
C. Raphael
D. Andrea Palladio
14. Who was considered the "Leonardo of the North"?
A. Pieter Bruegel
B. Matthias Grünewald
C. Hans Holbein
D. Albrecht Dürer
15. Due to their resemblance to the women painted by the Flemish artists in the early 1600s, full-figuredfemales even today are often described as
A. Alla prima.
B. Herregouts.
C. Rubenesque.
D. Teniers.
16. Which of the following works of art did Michelangelo complete first?
A. The Creation of Adam
B. Tomb of Pope Julius II
C. Pietà
D. David
17. Bernini's David, unlike Michelangelo's, shows David
A. at rest.
B. in motion.
C. as a strong Warrior.
D. as a thinking man.
18. One of the primary consequences of the Council of Trent in art and architecture was that
A. Roman Catholic art concerned itself more with the spectator's emotions.
B. the Catholic church strengthened its position as an art censor.
C. Catholic art became increasingly two-dimensional.
D. Protestant art became more realistic.
19. Which of the following descriptions best characterizes impasto?
A. Thick layers of paint built up on a canvas
B. Pigment and water painted directly onto wet plaster
C. Pigments mixed with egg yolk rather than oil
D. Designs using tiles of stone, ceramic, or glass
20. What quality do the paintings of Titian possess because of his use of the impasto technique in painting?
A. Restraint
B. Piety
C. Sensuality
D. Religiosity
21. Which of these artistic values is most apparent in the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch?
A. Simplicity
B. Grazia
C. Symbolism
D. Idealism
22. The fact that the figures in Leonardo da Vinci's The Virgin of the Rocks are arranged in a figuretriangle gives the painting
A. a strong sense of immediacy.
B. structural strength.
C. immediate viewer appeal.
D. clear market value.
23. Giotto's Lamentation in the Arena Chapel in Padua is remarkable primarily because
A. it's one of the first religious oil paintings with real human figures.
B. the characters in the painting are presented as individuals.
C. Giotto painted it in one sitting and made no revisions to the completed work.
D. of the colors used to convey allegorical meaning.
24. When a painting is done quickly in one sitting, it's called
A. sfumato.
B. impasto.
C. alla prima.
D. chiaroscuro.
25.Which artist developed the painting method of Pointillism?
A. Renoir
B. Monet
C. Manet
D. Seurat
26. Some of the consequences of the economic depression that devastated Germany in the years followingWorld War I are
A. manifest in the gouaches of René Magritte.
B. portrayed in Picasso's Guernica.
C. the subject of Giorgio di Chirico paintings.
D. chronicled in the paintings of Otto Dix.
27. Which of the following Postimpressionist painters had the greatest impact on twentieth-century art?
A. Gauguin
B. Cézanne
C. Seurat
D. Van Gogh
28. Which French leader was embarrassed by a sculpture of himself naked?
A. Napoleon
B. Louis XIV
C. Marat
D. Charlemagne
29. Which painter's work was never accepted by other Impressionist artists?
A. Delacroix
B. MOnet
C. Toulouse-Lautrec
D. Seurat
30. Fine art prints from which of these countries influenced the development of twentieth-century art?
A. Tahiti
B. India
C. China
D. Japan
31. Gauguin isn't regarded by art historians as a Fauvist painter. Like the Fauves, however, Gauguinbelieved that
A. the reality of dreams takes precedence over conventional reality.
B. form follows function.
C. naturalistic forms and colors are inseparable.
D. colors in a painting are a function of emotional truths and not visual reality.
32. Which subject matter was a specialty of Jacques-Louis David?
A. Nature scenes
B. Peasant scenes
C. Historical events
D. Seascapes
33. Which one of the following artists painted The Great Wave?
A. Katsushika Hokusai
B. Kitagawa Utamaro
C. Angelica Kauffmann
D. Claude Monet
34. Which of the following human values is forcefully expressed in the paintings and lithographs of EdvardMunch?
A. Honesty
B. Delicacy
C. Hope
D. Nobility
35. Fundamental to the artistic credo and practice of the Fauvist painters was the belief that
A. academic forms and structures can't be set aside in the name of color.
B. arranging and balancing raw hues can achieve equilibrium throughout the work.
C. naturalistic colors take precedence over arbitrary colors.
D. equilibrium in a painting is achieved through the use of Renaissance perspective.
36. The Surrealists painters and Sigmund Freud were interested in exploring the dream state. In thatrespect, their explorations are reminiscent of the artistic inquiries of which of the following painters?
A. Picasso
B. de Chirico
C. Braque
D. Renoir
37. Which of the following painters was often seen wearing male attire?
A. Berthe Morisot
B. Paulina Borghese
C. Angelica Kauffman
D. Rosa Bonheur
38. Some people are perplexed by the meaning of Salvador Dalí's paintings because the artist portrayed
A. irrational dream states.
B. non-naturalistic machine images.
C. religious doctrines in an arbitrary manner.
D. hallucinatory self-portraits.
39. What does Gainsborough's The Blue Boy depict?
A. A contemporary view of St. George
B. A son of Charles I
C. The son of a merchant
D. William, the young hero of a romantic novel
40. In his celebrated "Manifesto of Futurism," FilipoTomasso Marinetti expressed the belief that
A. that sculpture should be regarded as the leading art form of the new century.
B. painting, but not sculpture, is not to be bound by traditional art theory.
C. the traditional cultural forms and arts are valueless.
D. art and technology are independent human expressions.
41. Which of the following artists painted Still Life with Apples?
A. Claude Monet
B. Pierre-Auguste Renoir
C. Vincent van Gogh
D. Paul Cézanne
42. The artist ______trained to be a lawyer.
A. Henri Matisse
B. Pablo Picasso
C. Paul Gauguin
D. Emil Nolde
43. What were Realists inspired by?
A. Problems in the world
B. Contemporary scientific study
C. Political issues
D. Reinterpretation of myths
44. By which primitive art form was Pablo Picasso known to have been inspired?
A. Neolithic amulets
B. Ice Age cave paintings
C. African masks
D. Eskimo carvings
45.Which of the following artists painted using a technique similar to that used by Jackson Pollock?
A. Hans Hofmann
B. Girogio de Chirico
C. Georgia O'Keeffe
D. Helen Frankenthaler
46. Who created art out of platinum, diamonds, and human teeth?
A. Matthew Barney
B. Damien Hirst
C. YinkaShonibare
D. Takashi Murakami
47. By the mid-1950s, which artistic movement was the most powerful force in Western art?
A. The new Surrealism
B. Minimalism
C. Neorealism
D. Abstract Expressionism
48. Which of the following political leaders closed the Bauhaus?
A. Joseph Kennedy
B. Adolph Hitler
C. Franklin Roosevelt
D. Winston Churchill
49. The Bauhaus was a prime example of ______Style.
A. De Stijl
B. International
C. Classical
D. American
50. During the 1940s and 1950s, the center of Western art was
A. Paris.
B. New York City.
C. Arles.
D. Munich.
51. The ______movement began in Holland during World War I.
A. Abstract Expressionist
B. De Stijl
C. straight photography
D. Color-Field Painting
52. Which of the following artists used the motto "form follows function"?
A. Frank Lloyd Wright
B. Le Corbusier
C. Mark Rothko
D. Vasily Kandinsky
53. Which Earth artist used lightning as part of his or her piece?
A. Walter De Maria
B. Jeanne-Claude
C. Christo
D. Richard Estes
54. The organization SITE, Sculpture in the Environment, was formed in 1970 for the purpose of
A. creating an art-for-art architectural movement.
B. promoting the acceptance of kinetic sculpture.
C. reviving the iconography of the nineteenth century.
D. finding sources of content in the present.
55. The vigorous brushstrokes and emotion-laden imagery in the paintings of Anselm Kiefer are
reminiscent of the paintings of
A. Expressionism.
B. Neoclassicism.
C. Realism.
D. Superrealism.
56. It would be virtually impossible to mount a traveling exhibition of the works of which of the following artists?
A. Claes Oldenburg
B. Mark Rothko
C. Christo and Jeanne-Claude
D. Roy Lichtenstein
57. Nonrepresentational, energetic Abstract Expressionist pictures first came into the art world scene with the works of
A. Picasso.
B. Rothko.
C. Pollock.
D. de Kooning.
58. Superrealism is also known as
A. photorealism.
B. forced perspective.
C. The New Image.
D. illusionism.
59. Which of the following artists created paintings in which no one part or section dominated the others or could be called the subject, in which everything was intended to be equal in impact?
A. Jackson Pollock
B. Hans Hofmann
C. Willem de Kooning
D. Helen Frankenthaler
60. When Vasily Kandinsky composed a painting, his aim was the expression of
A. energy.
B. line.
C. pathos.
D. shape.
61. Diebenkorn'sOcean Park series is
A. an integration of new technologies.
B. handcrafted sculpture that resembles a cornucopia.
C. a preservation of the view of a castle for apartment dwellers.
D. a study of radiant Southern California light.
62. Which of the following statements is an accurate description of Pop Art?
A. Art created by artists who are interested in rediscovering the past, not rejecting it, and who aim to speak in clearer images and see history as a vast menu from which to select
B. Art created by artists who believe that no kind of subject matter is more important than any other and who attempt to all but eliminate personal involvement
C. Art that combines the potent psychological content of Expressionism with an abandonment of any clear reference to the visual world
D. Painting and sculpture that is self-sufficient and has no subject matter, content, or meaning beyond its presence as an object in space
63. Which of the following is not typically associated with electronic art?
A. Computer coding
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B. Laser collages
C. Video images
D. Neon lights
64. Which one of the following artists was described as one of the fathers of straight photography?
A. Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
B. Edward Weston
C. Edward Steichen
D. William Henry Fox Talbot