Question 1

ThÃ©odore GÃ©ricault\'s Raft of the Medusa focuses on

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The survivors at sea

Question 2

Joseph Mallord William Turner\'s Slave Ship condemned

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slavery in general

Question 3

Pablo Picasso\'s Guernica was created in black and white in order to

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resemble newspaper print and photographs

Question 4

Pablo Picasso\'s Guernica, 1937, can be interpreted as

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outrage against violence

Question 5

The film Hotel Rwanda, directed by Terry George, increased America\'s public awareness of ________ in Rwanda.

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genocide

Question 6

Dorothea Lange\'s Migrant Mother is a well-known symbol for the plight of

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the impoverished

Question 7

In 1914, Diego VelÃ¡zquez\'s The Toilet of Venus (Rokeby Venus) was

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slashed

Question 8

The sixth-century icon Virgin and Child Surrounded by Saints is an object of worship that

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was intended to create a state of meditation

Question 9

Jacques-Louis David\'s Death of Marat is about Jean-Paul Marat\'s

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murder

Question 10

Maya Lin\'s Vietnam Veterans Memorial is located in

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Washington, D.C

Question 11

Hokusai is said to have used a live chicken\'s footprints in a painting that communicated

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the sensations of a fall day by the river

Question 12

Stolen art loses much of its value because

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lacking good title and proper provenance prevents its resale

Question 13

Traditionally, artists in China learned their craft by

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copying the work of a great master

Question 14

The Turkish soldiers in Delacroix\'s painting The Massacre at Chios are shown wearing turbans because the artist wanted

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the Turks to seem exotic and frightening

Question 15

Western artists since the Renaissance have usually considered ______ to be the highest forms of art

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sculpture and painting

Question 16

William G. Wall\'s print Fort Edward is a vehicle for expressing the artist\'s thoughts about

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(ALL THE BELOW) a.the expansion and development of America  b.the beauty of the American landscape c.the struggles between Native and European Americans

Question 17

During his lifetime, Vincent van Gogh

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practiced as an artist for only ten years

Question 18

African masks displayed in museums were originally made

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to be worn during spiritual or magic ceremonies

Question 19

The Nazis\' Degenerate Art Exhibition contained work that

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attracted a large number of visitors

Question 20

Art is sometimes censored by the authorities because

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(ALL THE BELOW) a. it offends people\'s religious beliefs  b. its sexual content seems pornographic  c. it carries a political message that worries the authorities  d. its moral values seem improper

Question 21

These 1300-year-old South American drawings, which include an enormous image of a spider, were first discovered by overflying commercial aircraft because they are so huge

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Nazca Lines

Question 22

Line can be used as a tool to

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all of the other answers

Question 23

Barbara Hepworth uses line to plan and visualize her three-dimensional artwork. What kind of three-dimensional artwork does she produce

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sculpture

Question 24

This artist would sometimes go for days without food or sleep in an attempt to explore the deep-rooted sources of creativity and truth

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Andre Masson

Question 25

Dashes and grids in The Devil Made Me Do It, by Sauerkids, are a good example of this kind of line

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Implied

Question 26

In the work The Connectors, the artist James Allen uses this kind of line to draw the viewer\'s attention to the great height that faced the builders of the Empire State Building

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Directional

Question 27

Vertical lines tend to communicate

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strength

Question 28

This kind of shape is mathematically regular and precise

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Geometric

Question 29

This artist used contrasting positive and negative shapes to create his \"Obey\" campaign, an expression of guerrilla marketing and street theater

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Shepard Fairey

Question 30

Using negative shape, the graphic designer Al Grivetti inserted this number into the Big Ten logo to express the league\'s expansion

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11

Question 31

Which of these is a form

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Pyramid

Question 32

This famous object is the largest carving in the world created from a single stone.

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The Sphinx

Question 33

Which of these is not a geometric form

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Leaf

Question 34

The human figure communicates the rich experience of humanity, and artists emulate this experience using this kind of form:

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organic

Question 35

There are two kinds of relief sculpture, a pronounced surface treatment called high relief and a shallow surface low relief called

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bas relief

Question 36

This element of art is used to describe the usable interior space of an architectural form

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Volume

Question 37

This element of art is used to describe the solidity of a form, such as that of the Colossal Olmec Heads

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Mass

Question 38

A slick cold surface of a finely finished metal object, the rough-hewn splintery character of a broken branch, and the pebbly surface of a rocky beach are all examples of this element of art:

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Texture

Question 39

Artists use this kind of texture if they want to contradict a viewer\'s normal expectations of a textured surface

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Subversive

Question 40

Frank Gehry\'s design for the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, uses contrasts of

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organic and geometric form

Question 41

A series of closely arranged parallel lines that are overlapped by another set of parallel strokes to create a sense of value is called

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cross-hatching

Question 42

Contemporary filmmakers use this aerial effect to give the illusion of great depth, even when the scene is in a limited space

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Atmospheric perspective

Question 43

Artists intersperse value and texture to create a sense of

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rhythm

Question 44

An artist can create an illusion of depth using only color by varying the

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intensity

Question 45

This Italian artist was the first to apply the tenets of linear perspective to the creation of artworks

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Brunelleschi

Question 46

In The Treachery of Images, Magritte tell us that painting is a

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Visual trick

Question 47

This type of perspective is used by game designers because it allows them to create depth using parallel diagonal lines

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Isometric

Question 48

Artists sometimes use this method of applying value to give a feeling of three-dimensionality

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Chiaroscuro

Question 49

These two values are at the extreme ends of a value range

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Black and white

Question 50

The method whereby rules of perspective are applied to represent unusual points of view is called

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foreshortening

Question 51

Reflected light excites __________ that line the back of our eyes, and their signals are reprocessed and interpreted as color in our brains

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Nerve Cells

Question 52

Secondary colors can be created from a mixture of

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Two Primary Colors

Question 53

A color that is lighter than its basic hue is called a

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Tint

Question 54

A color that is almost gray has a low

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Saturation

Question 55

This is a kind of color map that allows an artist to assess quickly the attributes of colors as they relate to each other

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Color Wheel

Question 56

Matisse was interested in using vibrant colors to

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evoke an emotional response

Question 57

By using this kind of color combination, artists avoid jarring, contrasting color and mood

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Analogous

Question 58

This color with a cool temperature is often used to describe a depressed psychological state of mind

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Blue

Question 59

Color mixtures using light, like those in digital displays, are called __________ color mixtures

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Additive

Question 60

When Paul Gauguin chose yellow for his work Yellow Christ, he chose the color for its __________ qualities

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Expressive

Question 61

An interior designer can balance curved and straight lines to __________ each other

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Complement

Question 62

Artists face a communication challenge: to find a __________ within the chaos of nature and to select and organize materials into a harmonious composition

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Structure

Question 63

Gestalt unity is a term that is derived from this language

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German

Question 64

A work can still display unity, even if none of the visual elements has anything in common, if

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conceptual unity is used

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