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Which of the artists below created a work titled Pietà?

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Michelangelo

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The systematic and repetitive use of the same motif or design creates a pattern on the pages of the Lindisfarne Gospels, illustrates that pattern is an especially important

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decorative tool

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Because Gianlorenzo Bernini's David tells a story—of David slaying Goliath—it is said to have a _______ sequence.

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narrative

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A friend of Claude Monet described his great paintings of Water Lilies, Morning: Willows in the Musée de l'Orangerie as demonstrating

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Brownian motion

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Hans Namuth's photos teach us that Jackson Pollock longed to be involved in

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the process of painting.

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Some works of art are created precisely to give us the illusion or sensation of movement. This style of art is called

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Op Art.

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In what way can a large-scale work be considered a "temporal" art form?

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The spectator moves through time and space to view it.

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Alexander Calder's "mobiles," like Untitled, move when air currents move through them, making them

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kinetic

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Thick paint applied to a canvas, like on Robert Ryman's Long, creates actual texture known as

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impasto

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Which is the most obvious difference between Bernini and Michelangelo's David?

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Bernini's David is caught in the midst of action

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Chartres Cathedral's rose window best illustrates

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radial balance.

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The Taj Mahal is a perfect example of

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symmetry

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Where does that author say that the focal point in Larry Poons's Orange Crush is?

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there is no focal point

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The Taj Mahal was built by Shah Jahan

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as a mausoleum for his favorite wife.

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Jan Vermeer's Woman Holding a Balance is a perfect example of ____________.

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an asymmetrically balanced composition

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In her painting, Still Life with Lobster, Anna Vallayer-Coster establishes emphasis through

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the manipulation of light and color.

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Repetition often implies monotony, yet it also creates a sense of

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rhythm.

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When each side of a composition is exactly the same, it shows

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absolute symmetry

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The dimensions of an object, in relation to some constant, such as the human figure, are known as its

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proportions

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Proportion is defined as

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the relationship between the parts to each other and the whole in a composition

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Who drew Banana Flower?

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Georgia O'Keeffe

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In Käthe Kollwitz's Self-Portrait, Drawing, the artist has revealed the expressive capabilities of what medium?

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charcoal

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According to Sayre, Jean Dubuffet's Corps de Dame can be read as

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an attack on academic figure drawing

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Whitfield Lovell's Whispers from the Walls is an example of

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installation art.

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Where did Marjane Satrapi draw the title of her graphic novel Persepolis?

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from the present-day capital of Iran

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Leonardo da Vinci made a drawing, Madonna and Child with St. Anne and Infant St. John the Baptist, for a fresco of the same title. This type of drawing is called

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a cartoon

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By the end of the 15th century, artists and collectors such as Vasari had come to recognize that drawings could

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sell for as much as paintings.

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A popular drawing medium during the Renaissance consisted of a stylus of gold, silver, or other metal that was dragged across a prepared ground of lead white, bone, and water. This process was called

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metalpoint.

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The artist who felt that a cut line made with scissors could acquire more feeling than a pencil or charcoal was

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Vincent van Gogh

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When ink is diluted with water and applied in broad flat areas, the result is called a

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wash

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Which of the following is a form of soft carbon discovered in England in 1564?

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Graphite

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The longest continuously practiced (from 40,000 years ago to present) artistic tradition in the world comes from

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Australian Aborigines

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When did artists in the Western world first have ready access to paper?

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in Italy in the early Renaissance

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The word paper is derived from

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Egyptian papyrus

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What was early paper in the West made of?

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cloth rags

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Which of these statements about drawing is not true?

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It is now, and always has been, exclusively, a means of pure representation.

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A woodcut print such as Emile Nolde's Prophet is an example of

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a relief print.

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Which famous French illustrator created Rue Transnonain?

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Honoré Daumier

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One of the greatest of the early masters of the intaglio process was the artist

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Albrecht Dürer

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Two Courtesans, Inside and Outside the Display Window by Suzuki Harunobu is an example of what kind of art?

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Japanese nikishi-e

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Peter Halley's Exploding Cell is an example of what kind of printmaking?

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silkscreen

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Marilyn Monroe, by Andy Warhol, is an example of what kind of printmaking?

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silkscreen

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The Japanese print by Utamaro, titled The Fickle Type, represents what type of printmaking?

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ukiyo-e

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Jane Dickson's Stairwell illustrates which printmaking process, which relies for its effect not on line but on tonal areas of light and dark?

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aquatint

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Which of the following is an example of relief printmaking?

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woodcut

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What is the process that assures that the colors of a linocut or other relief print will align perfectly?

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Registration

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Because in lithography the printing surface is completely flat, it is referred to as

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planographic.

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Monotype is unique among printmaking processes because it produces

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only one print from the plate.

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In any type of printmaking, after an initial set of prints is made and the block or plate is destroyed, the set of prints is referred to as

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an edition.

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When and where was printmaking first developed?

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in the 9th century in China

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