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Girl with a Pearl Earring was painted by this Dutch artist.
a. Rembrandt d. Johannes Vermeer
b. Vincent van Gogh e. Albrecht Drer
c. Jan van Eyck
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The original painting of the Virgin of Guadalupe is housed in a basilica at the base of Tepeyac hill, Mexico, but many people keep their own image of her at home or in their vehicle.
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Artist Ai Weiwei was arrested by Chinese government officials in 2011, just three years after he had been involved in designing the stadium for the Beijing Olympics.
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The pose, facial expression, and landscape background of Leonardo da Vincis Mona Lisa communicate to the viewer a mood of ________.
a. romance and love d. worry and unease
b. anger and jealousy e. none of the other answers
c. calm and introspection
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The oldest museum in America, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, was founded in:
a. 1405 d. 1905
b. 1605 e. 1955
c. 1805
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Choose a museum that is close to your home town or in your state. Research its history: in what year was it founded, and by whom? Did a private collector donate artworks to the museum? Did it always function as a museum, or did it have other uses too, for example as an art school? Write a short essay on your findings.
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The work now known as the Watts Towers was in fact given a different title by its creator. That title was ________.
a. LA Towers d. Nuestro Pueblo
b. Skyscrapers 1 and 2 e. it had no title originally
c. Found Objects
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The city of Los Angeles disapproved of Simon Rodias Watts Towers.
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Even though Jeff Koons did not make the sculpture Rabbit with his own hands, it is considered his work because ________.
a. he designed it d. it was modeled on his pet rabbit
b. he chose its color e. none of the other answers
c. he displayed it in his home
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Jeff Koons made his sculpture Rabbit himself.
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In Japan, ceramic tea bowls were appreciated not just for their color, shape, and pleasing irregular surface, but as part of the experience of sipping tea.
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In Japan, ceramic tea bowls were appreciated because ________.
a. of their shape, subtle colors, and irregular surface
b. they kept the tea warm
c. they were symmetrical and smooth to touch
d. they did not break easily
e. they were expensive
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In ancient Peru, people placed a high value on objects made of wool. In Japan, ceramic tea bowls are a greatly esteemed form of art. What form of art do you consider to be the highest? Explain your answer. Do you prefer this art form for personal reasons, or do you think you are influenced by the opinions held by your culture or society? What has your answer got to do with such concepts as beauty, value, and craftsmanship?
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Louise Nevelsons work White Vertical Water is a realistic depiction of fish in a river.
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Agnolo Bronzinos painting of Eleonora di Toledo is categorized as fine art.
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Agnolo Bronzinos portrait Eleonora di Toledo and Her Son Giovanni conveys a sense of:
a. wealth d. high status
b. power e. all of the other answers
c. luxury
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A graphic designer usually intends to please one individual patron.
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Identify four recognizable brand logos, at least one that is pictorial only, with no text. Do you think the logos without text are less or more successful? Why?
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El Anatsuis artworks reference both ________ and ________.
a. traditional Pakistan . . . the digital age
b. colonial Africa . . . modern consumerism
c. ancient Greek sculpture . . . contemporary photography
d. Persian miniature painting . . . cell phones
e. ancient weaving techniques . . . modern factory conditions
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Which of the following can be considered part of visual culture?
a. roadside billboards d. oil paintings
b. television commercials e. all of the other answers
c. comic books
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An x-ray of Picassos Girl before a Mirror showed that the artist altered the body of Marie-Thrse Walter while working on the painting.
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The ancient Egyptian depiction of the journey of the Sun god Re (0.0.1) was painted on ________.
a. a vase d. the wall of a tomb
b. stone e. copper
c. a coffin
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The ancient Egyptian artist who painted The Journey of the Sun God Re (0.0.1) on a coffin chose his subject because ________.
a. Egyptians were interested in astronomy
b. he believed in ghosts
c. it expresses beliefs in an afterlife
d. Egypt has a very sunny climate
e. the person buried in the coffin was a priestess of the god
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Niagara Falls was a popular subject for North American artists in the second half of the nineteenth century, because it symbolized:
a. Americas territorial expansion d. the beauty and power of nature
b. the presence of God in nature e. all of the other answers
c. grandeur
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Louise Nevelsons work White Vertical Water is made of ________.
a. carved marble d. plastic
b. painted wood e. metal
c. plaster
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The elements of time and motion are not applicable to the art of photography.
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The sequence of photographs Dorothea Lange took of a migrant family in 1936 shows how photographers move around their subject and anticipate the right time to capture the image they seek. In this way, photography is still deeply concerned with the elements of ________ and time.
a. motion d. volume
b. color e. texture
c. light
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When she made the photograph called Migrant Mother, Dorothea Lange:
a. waited all day for the woman and her family to return to their camp
b. first passed the pea-pickers camp, but decided to turn back to take pictures
c. refused to let the prints be published
d. used actors in a studio pretending to be migrants
e. none of the other answers
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Discuss the idea that certain photographs can become so familiar that they are deemed icons. What makes a particular picture iconic? Think about famous photographs that might come under this title. What are their similarities? Does the reason they are so famous have to do with the artist, or another factor?
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The term vanitas in art includes references to ______.
a. the fleeting nature of life
b. the passing of time
c. memento mori
d. transient sights, smells, and sounds
e. all of the other answers
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Trompe loeil techniques are used to make artworks look extremely realistic.
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Pablo Picassos Girl before a Mirror can best be described as ______.
a. a realistic still life painting d. an abstract portrait
b. a colorful sculptural landscape e. video art
c. a piece of functional pottery
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Pablo Picassos Girl before a Mirror relates to the theme of vanitas through which of the following elements?
a. the rotten food in the corner reflects the fact that all living things decay
b. the woman looks in a mirror to contemplate her beauty, which will fade over time
c. the realistic depiction of a cemetery reminds us that death is inevitable
d. the instruments remind us that life, like music, is transient
e. the skull on the table represents death
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Pablo Picassos painting Girl before a Mirror reflects his knowledge of ______.
a. the history of art d. images of the goddess Venus
b. Dutch still life painting e. all of the other answers
c. Renaissance and Baroque figure studies
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Compare Pieter Claeszs painting Vanitas with Violin and Glass Ball with Pablo Picassos Girl before a Mirror. Begin by describing each artwork, both in terms of what it looks like stylistically and its subject matter. Next, consider the underlying meaning of each artwork. Name several similarities and differences in both form and content. Finally, consider how the appearance of each artwork contributes to our understanding of its message.
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Pentimenti was the term used by Picasso for his young students.
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In the painting The Third of May, 1808, this Spanish artist used alternating rhythm to contrast good and bad.
a. Suzanne Valadon d. Rosa Bonheur
b. Chuck Close e. Edward Weston
c. Francisco Goya
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In the etching The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, Francisco Goya uses regularity of line and shape to create a/an ________ rhythm, with a benign effect, in the lower half of the work.
a. erratic d. wild
b. wistful e. all of the other answers
c. stable
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Francisco Goya used visual rhythms to convey ideas and emotions in his works The Third of May, 1808 and The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters. Do the rhythms in Goyas works communicate the dichotomy of good and evil to you? If so, how? If not, what other meanings are created?
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This Spanish artist created artworks in both print and paint that depict horrific events that happened during the French occupation of Spain between 1808 and 1814.
a. Albrecht Drer d. Max Beckmann
b. Pablo Picasso e. Rembrandt
c. Francisco Goya
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In Francisco Goyas Family of Charles IV:
a. the royal family is portrayed in an idealized way
b. the artist includes a portrait of himself standing at his easel
c. Charles IV is shown knighting his son, Ferdinand VII
d. the family are very simply dressed
e. none of the answers
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Francisco Goyas The Second of May, 1808 depicts:
a. the coronation of Napoleon
b. the execution of Spanish rebels
c. Spanish civilians attacking French soldiers
d. a horse race
e. none of the other answers
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The fact that Goyas paintings The Second of May, 1808 and The Third of May, 1808 portray different sides committing acts of violence shows that Goya was condemning war in general.
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What principle of art did Katsushika Hokusai employ in The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa in order to bring harmony to what could otherwise be a very chaotic scene?
a. pattern d. scale
b. always use the color blue e. none of the other answers
c. unity
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Katsushika Hokusai, in his woodcut The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa, simplified and ordered the visual elements in the work to create ________.
a. compositional unity d. realism
b. conceptual unity e. symmetry
c. chaos
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To create a color woodblock, such as Hokusais famous The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa, a printer must produce a new ________ for each separate color.
a. style d. design
b. piece of paper e. medium
c. relief block
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Mount Fuji, the Japanese mountain that features in Hokusais famous print The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa, is sacred to believers of ________.
a. Islam d. Hinduism
b. Christianity e. Scientology
c. Shinto
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Artemisia Gentileschi was influenced by the style of which other artist?
a. Masaccio d. Nicolas Poussin
b. Caravaggio e. all of the other answers
c. Sofonisba Anguissola
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Artemisia Gentileschis Judith Decapitating Holofernes is part of which movement?
a. early Renaissance d. Medieval
b. Mannerism e. Classical Greek
c. Baroque
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Gustav Klimts work Judith I features:
a. gold leaf d. flattened figures
b. an element of danger e. all of the other answers
c. decorative patterning
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The decapitation of Holofernes, which is the subject of an oil painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, happened because:
a. Holofernes was cruel and violent to Judiths people
b. Judith was jealous because he was her adulterous husband
c. Judith was vengeful because he had killed her son
d. Holofernes was a magician and Judith was his assistant for this trick
e. none of the answers
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In Goyas The Third of May, 1808, the artist used a variety of actual and implied lines to attract attention to specific points within the composition. Lines that draw the viewers attention in this way are known as ________ lines.
a. directional d. irregular
b. regular e. organic
c. contour
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The Taj Mahal features four towers, each 162 feet high, called ______, a characteristic feature of Islamic architecture.
a. minarets d. mihrabs
b. qiblas e. sahms
c. minbars
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The unique foundation structure of the Taj Mahal may be compromised because of lower water levels in the Yamuna River in recent years.
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In the Islamic faith, gardens are symbolic of Paradise on Earth.
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The gardens at the Taj Mahal were heavily influenced by the royal palaces and gardens of the Christian French monarchy.
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The Taj Mahal ________.
a. is asymmetrical when viewed from above
b. is covered with smooth white marble and lacks any writing
c. is surrounded by gardens that represent Paradise
d. stands alone, and is not part of a larger complex
e. none of the answers
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Italian Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi used this medium for her Allegory of Painting, a self-portrait of the artist with a paintbrush in hand.
a. acrylic paint d. tempera
b. fresco e. encaustic
c. oil paint
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Olmec heads were easily found at La Venta because they were still on prominent display, exactly as the Olmec had left them.
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In his work The School of Athens, this Renaissance artist created figures using the ideal human proportions developed by the ancient Greeks.
a. Raphael d. Michelangelo
b. Claes Oldenburg e. Leonardo da Vinci
c. Dorothea Tanning
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When Raphael was preparing to paint his fresco The School of Athens he did a large drawing called ________ to help place the design on the wall.
a. a cartoon d. an intonaco
b. a layout e. an arrezzo
c. a sketch
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Raphaels The School of Athens contains:
a. accurate portraits of ancient scholars and writers
b. accurate portraits of sixteenth-century scholars and writers
c. ancient scholars looking like sixteenth-century artists
d. contemporary scholars looking like ancient artists
e. only people the artist knew personally
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Why were the Greek god Apollo and the goddess Athena included in The School of Athens?
a. because Renaissance artists admired Greek mythology, philosophy, and art
b. because there were no longer deities during the Renaissance
c. because the artist was Greek
d. because the huge flowers the artist wanted to carve fell apart
e. none of the answers
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Analyse the ways in which illusion is created in Raphaels School of Athens. What are the artists methods for creating depth in the painting? How does the painting contribute to the wider scheme of Pope Julius IIs library?
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The Taj Mahal was commissioned by the grieving ________ as a memorial to his third and beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal.
a. Kubla Khan d. Gengis Khan
b. Gunga Din e. Shah Jahan
c. Alexander the Great
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The design of the Taj Mahal and gardens uses both ________ and ________ symmetry.
a. radial and bilateral d. round and square
b. organic and geometric e. left and right
c. positive and negative
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The designers of the Taj Mahal went to great lengths to use radial and bilateral symmetry. Based on what you have read about the building and its history, what were the main ideas that the architects wanted to communicate to viewers? Why?
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The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal to ______.
a. show the power of his reign
b. commemorate and entomb his third wife
c. use as a summer home
d. use as a mosque for daily prayers
e. none of the answers
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What did the artist of Loving Care do to create the work?
a. she took pictures of thousands of nude people
b. she impersonated a famous work of art
c. she instructed a room full of models to stand still and not speak
d. she dipped her head in a bucket of dye and mopped the floor with her hair
e. she directed other people to paint with their bodies
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The painting called Dead Christ focuses the viewers attention on ________.
a. the immediacy of Christs body and the fact that he is no longer alive
b. the grief of the women who are prominently placed in the center of the picture
c. the agony that Christ endured while he was being crucified
d. the injustice of the treatment Christ received prior to the crucifixion
e. none of the other answers
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Compare Yves Kleins Anthropomtries de lpoque bleue (4.9.11a) with Loving Care by Janine Antoni (4.9.12). Briefly describe what each one looks like, in terms of materials used, shape, size, and so on, concentrating on the most noticeable similarities and differences. What are the artists intentions for each artwork? What does comparing the artworks in this way reveal that you had not thought of before making the comparison?
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Who is the artist of The Morgue (Gun Murder)?
a. Andrea del Sarto d. Carl Andre
b. Andres Serrano e. Andrea Frasier
c. Andrea Mantegna
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The key component of Spencer Tunicks installation at Zcalo, Mexico City, is ________.
a. a group of police officers
b. thousands of nude bodies
c. replicas of famous sculptures
d. a replica of Mount Vesuvius erupting
e. none of the other answers
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The Morgue (Gun Murder) is shocking because:
a. we know exactly who this person is
b. the crime scene is especially gory
c. as a society we no longer have a direct relationship with the dead
d. the deceased is wearing such elaborate clothing
e. we see dead bodies all the time in present-day life, so it is not shocking
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Spencer Tunick considers his artworks to be ________.
a. performances d. drawings
b. photographs e. priceless
c. installations
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Photographs, such as Andres Serranos The Morgue (Gun Murder), cannot display the perspective technique of foreshortening.
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Auguste Rodin made which of the following artworks?
a. Man Pointing d. Walking Man
b. Recumbent Figure e. Discus Thrower
c. Blue Nude II
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The visual impact of the Olmec sculpture of a Colossal Head is directly related to its mass.
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What is one of the main reasons that the creation of the Olmec colossal heads is so impressive?
a. they are lifelike individual portraits
b. they were created without metal tools
c. they can be seen from space
d. they were done by children
e. all of the other answers
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In 1940 Matthew and Marion Stirling found ________ at the site of ________.
a. Inca mummies . . . Cerro Gordo
b. Aztec fishing boats . . . Tenochtitlan
c. Olmec colossal heads . . . La Venta
d. Maya paintings . . . Bonampak
e. Kwakiutl masks . . . British Columbia