SAMPLE TEST

Name:___________________________________
A103 MidTerm W09
SAMPLE TEST
Multiple Choice (1 pt each, no partial credit)
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1.
Ways of categorizing art include:
a. geographical
b. historical
c. chronological
d. thematic
e. all of the above
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2.
Art is a ____ phenomenon.
a. natural
b. scientific
c. geographical
d. human
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3.
Art has several functions, including: (choose the best answer)
a. serving as a profession in society
b. providing economic benefits to the artist
c. protesting social injustice
d. decorating museum walls
e. all of the above
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4.
Aesthetics is:
a. a branch of philosophy
b. a study of creativity
c. a study art and its effects
d. none of the above
e. all of the above
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5.
Popular art includes:
a. gallery displays
b. calendars
c. museum works
d. art history slides
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6.
Craft refers to which of the following?
a. painting
b. sculpture
c. pottery
d. architecture
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7.
The content of a work of art refers to ____.
a. its size
b. its media
c. its meaning
d. its form
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8.
In a work of art, the word “composition” refers to ____.
a. the physical material used by the artist
b. the arrangement of the formal elements of art
c. the technical style used by the artist
d. the physical texture of the work
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9.
Value in art refers to ____ and ____.
a. worth and price
b. brightness and dullness
c. lightness and darkness
d. artificial and natural
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10.
An achromatic value scale doesn't utilize ____.
a. tones
b. colors
c. grays
d. illumination
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11.
Another name for atmospheric perspective is ____ perspective.
a. tonal
b. linear
c. aerial
d. one-point
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12.
Every color has three properties: hue, value and ____.
a. tone
b. spectrum
c. wavelength
d. intensity
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13.
Black and white added to colors creates ____ and ____.
a. hues and tones
b. shades and tints
c. harmony and reflection
d. subtractives and additives
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14.
Analogous colors are ____ each other on the color wheel.
a. opposite
b. horizontally across from
c. diagonally across from
d. next to
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15.
The various branches of art making activity, like painting or sculpture, are called ____.
a. media
b. avante guard
c. museology
d. disciplines
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16.
The surface or material that underlies a two-dimensional work of art is called the ____.
a. slip
b. plate
c. support
d. pigment
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17.
In ____ printing, areas which are not to be printed are cut away from the printing surface, so the areas to be printed are left higher.
a. drypoint
b. relief
c. screen
d. monotype
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18.
A(n) ____ print is an example of a relief print.
a. woodblock
b. intaglio
c. serigraphy
d. lithography
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19.
____ is a type of printmaking process which uses a slab of limestone or metal and oily crayons, pencils or liquid.
a. Lithography
b. Drypoint
c. Serigraphy
d. Aquatint
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20.
____ sculptures are meant to be viewed from all sides.
a. Bas relief
b. Freestanding
c. Assemblage
d. Haute relief
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21.
A marble sculpture made by cutting away stone is made in a ____ process.
a. additive
b. constructed
c. haute relief
d. subtractive
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22.
Except for very small sculptures, all cast sculptures are created using the ____ method of casting.
a. subtractive
b. lost wax
c. bronze
d. mixed media
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23.
Formal analysis is important because it is helpful in understanding the ____ of a work of art.
a. design
b. importance
c. meaning
d. quality
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24.
The horizon line refers to the ____ eye level.
a. picture plane’s
b. artist’s
c. subject’s
d. none of the above
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25.
Artistic metaphors and symbols are:
a. elements which are descriptive of something else
b. elements which represent some other concept
c. culturally determined
d. all of the above
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26.
Iconography uses ____ to suggest concepts and ideas.
a. writing
b. symbols
c. paint
d. figures
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27.
Ideological criticism deals with a work of art's ____ significance.
a. religious
b. political
c. economic
d. social
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28.
Structuralists believe that the study of art ____ focus only on the significance of any one artwork.
a. cannot
b. can
c. must
d. should
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29.
Deconstruction involves the belief that any image has a ____ of meanings.
a. only one set
b. a religiously determined set
c. a multiplicity
d. a universal set
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30.
Psychoanalytic criticism helps to interpret artwork with strong ____ content.
a. religious
b. social
c. preconceived
d. emotional
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31.
Feminist criticism deals with ____ in art.
a. postmodernism
b. gender
c. prejudice
d. psychoanalysis
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32.
The role of the art critic is ____.
a. to research art of the past and art of other cultures
b. to write material for museum exhibitions
c. to describe works of art and evaluate their significance
d. define popular taste in art
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33.
Artists who haven't been trained in academies and who work outside the mainstream of art are referred to as ____.
a. populist
b. naïve
c. self-motivated
d. interns
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34.
The view of an artist as a creative genius rather than a skilled worker began to form in Europe in the ____.
a. thirteenth century
b. fourteenth century
c. fifteenth century
d. sixteenth century
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35.
The opposite of an artist working on a commission is an artist working on ____.
a. speculation
b. contract
c. auction
d. exchange
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36.
Art created for the tourist market generally helps local art production to ____.
a. decrease
b. survive
c. increase
d. fail
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37.
Art is kept by various cultures for the following reasons:
a. aesthetic
b. religious
c. political
d. personal
e. a, b, and c
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38.
The Statue of Liberty is an example of a visual ____.
a. metaphor
b. statue
c. symbol
d. personification
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39.
Museums became common in ____ during the nineteenth century.
a. Europe
b. North America
c. Asia
d. Africa
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40.
Two factors which influenced the growth and popularity of museums were:
a. religion and spirituality
b. capitalism and colonialism
c. government and politics
d. aesthetics and education
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41.
A virtual museum is one which is accessible through the ____.
a. media of radio, television, film, etc.
b. Internet
c. use of special red and green glasses
d. shopping mall
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42.
The iconoclasts were known as:
a. pagan idolaters
b. ethnic cleansers
c. image breakers
d. holy rollers
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43.
Art has been used in diagnosing and treating mental illnesses, because art represents:
a. mental health
b. another language
c. art therapy
d. human development
True/False (1 pt each, no partial credit)
Indicate whether the statement is true or false. “A” for true, “B” for false
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44.
Regardless of culture, content is always readily apparent in a work of art.
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45.
Every culture, both past and present, has a word that corresponds to ours for art.
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46.
Gesture lines are a type of line with an expressive character.
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47.
Gesso is a white, paint-like substance that is brushed onto paper or canvas to serve as a ground for painting or drawing.
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48.
From an art historical perspective, drawing is one of the newest forms of art making.
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49.
Printmaking excludes any medium that can produce multiple copies of an image or a design.
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50.
Unlike most printmaking processes, monoprinting is a type of printmaking which makes only one copy of an image.
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51.
Tempera, gouache, and watercolor are all water-based paint media.
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52.
Because oil paints dry quickly, it is difficult for artists to make changes to their paintings.
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53.
Some contemporary artists use the craft of quilting as an art medium.
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54.
The most obvious factor in determining the content of a work of art is its subject matter.
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55.
Transversals are lines that converge on one or many vanishing points in a two-dimensional composition.
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56.
From the moment a work of art is made, its content is subject to change.
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57.
Art historians and art critics from different periods of time often have the same interpretations of the same works of art.
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58.
Artists always establish set standards for determining what is art within a culture.
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59.
A skull representing “death” is an example of an allegorical symbol.
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60.
Most people who want to study art in the United States today study in a college or university.
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61.
Outsider artists always apprentice with a mature artist to learn their craft.
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62.
Art in most cultures is used either for performance or display.
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63.
Nations sometimes keep and preserve art because it can help promote tourism.
Completion (1 pt each, no partial credit)
Complete each statement from the list of terminology.
restoration
Modern/Contemporary
cross-contour
implied
mixed media
orthogonals
contour
complementary
subtractive
media
pigments
semiotics
movement
additive
style
performance
subject matter
apprentices
metaphor
value
visual
encaustic
collection
symmetrical
content
history
cultural
64.
____________________ is the mass of ideas associated with a work of art.
65.
____________________ is the manner of expression that is characteristic of art made by an individual artist, from a historic period or
from an entire civilization.
66.
A line which describes volume across the surface of an object or shape is called a _________________________ line.
67.
Cross-hatching is used to create ____________________ in a work of art.
68.
In the ____________________ color system, artists mix pigments to control the light that is reflected from them.
69.
____________________ represents the edges of objects that define depth in a two-dimensional image.
70.
Artists drawing only the outlines of an object are using ____________________ lines.
71.
The use of red and green at Christmas is an example of _________________________ colors.
72.
Lines in art can be either actual or ____________________.
73.
Balance which involves a mirror-like repetition on either side of a central axis is called ____________________ balance.
74.
The actual material substances used to create an artwork are called ____________________.
75.
The intense colorful powders used to make paints are called ____________________.
76.
____________________ painting is an ancient medium which uses pigments mixed with hot beeswax.
77.
In kinetic sculptures, ____________________ is required to make the sculpture complete.
78.
Modeling is often considered a(n) ____________________ process, because material is built up to create sculptural form.
79.
An assembled art work made with a variety of techniques and materials is categorized as a _________________________ piece.
80.
A ____________________ is a live-action event that is staged as an artwork.
81.
The ______________________________ tells us what a work of art is about.
82.
A visual ____________________ is an image or element that is descriptive of something else.
83.
The study of signs in verbal or written communication is called ____________________.
84.
A recent discipline in critical writing is ____________________ culture, which attempts to integrate and analyze the visual components
of contemporary culture.
85.
Traditionally, in Western culture, artists learned their craft as ____________________ — working directly with mature artists to
become skilled in materials, manual skills and styles.
86.
An art ____________________ is an accumulation of art objects that are publicly held or are owned by private individuals.
87.
Museums of ____________________ Art are dedicated to current art, which is often unusual or challenging to the public.
88.
The goal of art ____________________ is to return damaged or deteriorating art to its original condition.
89.
Art ____________________ is the historical study of visual arts and art objects.
90.
____________________ anthropology is the study of humanity within cultures, including human behavior, social organization, and the
creation and use of objects.
Essay (5 pts each, partial credit available)
Choose 2 (two) Essays from the list below and answer each completely in a few paragraphs.
A.
Discuss the difference between "high" and "low" art. How can you tell which is which? What has the setting to do with the different
classifications?
B.
Discuss the difference between nonobjective and abstract art.
C.
Discuss the various meanings the term “classical” has in reference to style.
D.
What are the “disciplines” and “media” in art?
E.
Define the term installation and describe a particular work of art that would be categorized as an installation.
F.
Discuss some of the iconographic images mentioned in this chapter. How do they add to an understanding of the work of art?
G.
Describe the two interpretations of this work presented in lecture and in your text.
H.
Do you agree or disagree that taxes should support artists? Explain.
I.
What are some roles artists fulfill in society?
J.
Discuss the reasons for and give examples of art which has been destroyed in conflicts.
K.
Is preservation/restoration beneficial or harmful to an understanding of art done in the past?