Test your basic knowledge |

Art Appreciation

Subject : art
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Characteristics of postmodern photography include all of the following EXCEPT






2. The three _______ made of serpentine at the Olmec site of La Venta are unusual; they were not meant to be seen as they were buried soon after completion.






3. Stylistic characteristics of Postmodern architecture include all of the following EXCEPT






4. Rejecting the frenetic approach of Pollock and de Kooning - Mark Rotho's Abstract Expressionist pantings convey a _______ - not _______space.






5. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?






6. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?






7. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?






8. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


9. The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali illustrates how he looked to his subconscious (dreams - hypnosis - psychoanalysis) for his subject matter. What artistic movement is he associated with?






10. Great Serpent Mound is an example of a(n) _______.






11. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?






12. The Post-Impressionists (p. 496) were united by their interest in:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


13. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:






14. Romanticist artists - like Frederic Edwin Church - viewed nature as:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


15. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.






16. Joan Mira






17. Freed from the rigidity of modernism - architects such as _______ have liberated structural walls - using three-dimensional computer modeling to make these new shapes possible.






18. The three _______ made of serpentine at the Olmec site of La Venta are unusual; they were not meant to be seen as they were buried soon after completion.






19. A key focus of much postmodern art is _______.






20. The style of Burial of Count Orgaz is highly eclectic and individual. The artist is:






21. Creating a work densely packed with information concerns most postmodern artists more than _______.






22. What sets northern European artists (p. 454) apart from most artists of the Italian Renaissance is their interest in:






23. In What aspect of the twentieth century were Umberto Boccioni and other Futurist artists most interested?






24. The short-lived Nazca culture in present-day Peru is known primarily for its _______.






25. Which of these is an example of Dada art?

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


26. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:






27. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.






28. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.






29. On the relief carving on the lid of his sarcophagus - Pakal is depicted falling off the Wacah Chan - _______.






30. The Rococo style (pp. 479-480) has been characterized as:






31. Rejecting the frenetic approach of Pollock and de Kooning - Mark Rotho's Abstract Expressionist pantings convey a _______ - not _______space.






32. This artist of The Large Bathers pushed toward an idea of painting that established for the work an independent existence:






33. Anish Kapoor - the Indian-born British sculptor - explores the spiritual meanings of _______ - posing questions about the origination and persistence of those meanings when displaced from their traditional context.






34. Artists often find that the art they make has unintentional meaning. Georgia Papageorge's Africa Rifting: Lines of Fire: Namibia/Brazil is an example of this because:






35. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:






36. In his painting - Probla






37. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.






38. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.






39. A leading painter in the Realist movement - the artist of Burial at Ornans declared that 'painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the presentation of real and existing things.' The artist is:






40. The color schemes and flat patterns illustrated in Amrita Sher-Gil's The Swing were directly influenced by the Post-Impressionism of Paul Gauguin and:






41. At La Venta - a(n) _______ site near present-day Villahermosa - Mexico - colossal heads were unearthed exhibiting what some scholars identify as fetal facial characteristics.






42. _______ - the Aztec goddess of life and death is recognizable in the culture's art by her necklace of human hearts - severed hands and skull.






43. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.






44. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.






45. Rococo painting can best be characterized as:






46. In addition to the sophisticated stone masonry that built Machu Picchu - the Inca also engineered over _______ through their mountainous empire - allowing messages to be transported throughout the empire in less than one week.






47. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:






48. What is the story behind Gericault's Raft of the Medusa?

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


49. At La Venta - a(n) _______ site near present-day Villahermosa - Mexico - colossal heads were unearthed exhibiting what some scholars identify as fetal facial characteristics.






50. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.