Art Appreciation Final Test Questions – Flashcards
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Which of the following cultures did not have a written language?
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Cycladic
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True or false: the earliest surviving paintings are found in caves.
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TRUE
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What style is the Church of Sainte-Foy at Conques?
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Romanesque
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What is depicted on the Sumerian Standard of Ur?
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peace and war
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What are the tall towers adjoining a mosque called?
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minarets
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Who developed a canon of harmonious proportions to be used for the portrayal of the ideal human body in sculpture?
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Polykleitos
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Which of these cultures was part of Mesopotamia?
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Assyrians
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What did the Parthenon in Athens originally house?
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A large statue of Athena
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What are the small pieces of glass that make up a mosaic called?
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tesserae
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Metopes are a part of which architectural order?
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Doric
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True or false: all Islamic manuscripts include a portrait of Allah.
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False
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True or false: the Emperor Constantine recycled sculpture from earlier monuments to use on his triumphal arch.
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True
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What period is the Church of San Vitale in Ravenna from?
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Byzantine
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What is the medium used for the depiction of Theodora and Attendants in the Church of San Vitale in Ravenna?
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mosaic
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Which two Gothic architectural innovations allowed cathedral walls to be built higher than before?
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flying buttresses and rib vaults
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The Dome of the Rock belongs to which culture/period?
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islamic
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What is the most common subject of Cycladic sculptures?
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female figures
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What artifact made it possible to decipher hieroglyphics?
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the Rosetta Stone
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Where have the earliest examples of Christian art been discovered?
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catacombs
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True or false: the Egyptians took a haphazard approach to building the pyramids, suggesting that they did not have a strong understanding of math and geometry.
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False
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What does the Great Stupa contain?
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The Buddha Remains
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Match the site with the country in which it is located. Use each term once: JAPAN CHINA CAMBODIA INDIA
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Japan: Taian Teahouse China: Tomb of Qin Shi Huangdi Cambodia: Angkor Wat India: Great Stupa
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True or false: the Taj Mahal was built by the Mughal Emperor Jahangir to celebrate the birth of his first son.
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False
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Where were the terracotta warriors found?
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the tomb of Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi
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True or false: a Chinese scroll is likely to comprise only illustrations and not include any writing.
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FALSE
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True or false: the Japanese tea ceremony has its roots in Zen Buddhism.
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TRUE
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Where did Buddhism originate?
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India
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What are some of the oldest human-made objects found in the Americas?
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Clovis Points
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What is the Raimondi Stela?
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A stone monument
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Which term applies to indigenous art from South America?
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Andean
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Why have Paracas textiles survived from ancient times?
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the climate in Peru is very dry
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Why was gold important to the Moche culture?
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it was associated with the sun
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What animal is represented in Incan art to celebrate its role in textile manufacture?
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llamas
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What is Machu Picchu?
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Mountaintop city in Peru
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Where is the Aztec Pyramid of the Sun located?
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Teotihuacan
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True or false: the only people ever sacrificed by the Aztecs were prisoners of war.
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FALSE
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Who built the cliff dwellings in the American Southwest?
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Anasazi
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Which period in European art came first?
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Renaissance
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Why does art from Africa and the Pacific Islands tend to look the same over long periods of time?
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maintains traditional methods
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Artemisia Gentileschi was influenced by the style of which other artist?
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Caravaggio
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A "deposition" scene shows which of the following
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Jesus' body being taken down from the cross
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Which Biblical figure was depicted frequently in Renaissance and Baroque sculpture?
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DAVID
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Match the kente cloth color with its meaning. green red yellow gold
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green: growth and good health red: strong political or spiritual feelings yellow: holy and precious gold: royalty, wealth, and spiritual purity
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The Arnolfini Portrait is a part of which period in art?
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Northern Renaissance
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Why did the Yoruba of western Nigeria create sculptures twin figures?
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To represent a twin that died at birth or infancy
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What was innovative about Brunelleschi's design for the dome of Florence cathedral?
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it was built without the need for wooden centering
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What do the Moai of Easter Island represent?
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defied ancestors who were chiefs
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What does linear perspective do?
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represent the illusion of three-dimensional space in two dimensions
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What do cowrie shells represent in the arts of both Africa and the Pacific Islands?
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fertility
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What is depicted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
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scenes from Genesis
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Which culture is known for making terra-cotta heads with prominent holes in the pupils, nostrils, mouth and ears?
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Nok
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Which of the following design elements relate to Baroque art and architecture?
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Which of the following design elements relate to Baroque art and architecture?
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True or false: abstract designs and patterns can convey information that is as important, recognizable, and specific as both representational and narrative imagery.
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TRUE
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When are African masks most meaningful to the groups that made them?
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when they are worn in ceremonial performances
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Which of the following influenced the art made from 1700 to 1865?
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Industrialization, The Age of Reason, revolutions in France and America
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True or false: in the French Academy, individual portraits and landscapes were considered more valuable than any other subject matter.
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False
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What was the primary subject matter of the the Hudson River School?
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American landscapes
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In portrait photography of the 1860s, how long were exposure times?
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seconds
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What is the subject of Eugene Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People?
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July Revolution of 1830 in France
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True or false: Gustave Courbet's Stonebreakers alarmed upper-class viewers because it reminded them of recent uprisings by the poor.
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TRUE
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True or false: the ornate and fanciful style called Rococo was only fashionable in France.
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FALSE
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What is Jacques-Louis David's painting The Oath of the Horatii about?
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duty and self-sacrifice
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Which statement about artist William Blake is accurate?
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He believed in personal and creative freedom, rebelled against the teachings of the Royal Academy and did not accept Christian values
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True or false: Goya painted an unflattering portrait of the Spanish royal family because he disliked them and wanted to insult the king.
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FALSE
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What does Fragonard's The Swing depict?
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Flirtation between two young aristocratic lovers
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Artists in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were inspired by works from which period in history?
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The middle ages
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What is William Hogarth's series Marriage a la Mode about?
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an arranged marriage in which the couple behave immorally
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What inspired Joseph Mallord William Turner to paint Slave Ship?
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a real-life incident
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Why did North American cities in the late eighteenth century choose neoclassicism as their architectural style?
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it represented ideals to which they aspired
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Who was called the Sun King?
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Louis XV
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Which was the biggest influence on Henry Ossawa Tanner?
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Gustave Courbet
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Who built Monticello?
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Thomas Jefferson
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Who visited Salons, such as the one depicted in Pietro Martini's print of 1785?
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public, painters, and critics
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In addition to being inspired by ancient Greece and Rome, what did Neoclassical paintings, such as those by Jacques-Louis David and Angelica Kaufmann, try to accomplish?
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a convey a moral message
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What role did photography play for the artist Thomas Eakins?
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he used photography to study anatomy and proportion
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True or false: Roy Lichtenstein challenged traditional notions of the subject matter and appearance of fine art painting by embracing everyday subjects.
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TRUE
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Vincent van Gogh used thick application of paint in his work Starry Night. What is this technique called?
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IMPASTO
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What formal element did Mark Rothko focus on?
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COLOR
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Why was the Eiffel Tower built?
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to welcome visitors to a World's Fair
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Which of the following approaches is characterized by artworks that have aggressive lines, rough textures, and personal narrative?
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neo-expressionism
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Alexandre Cabanel's Birth of Venus is an example of which type of painting
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ACADEMIC
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What does conceptual art emphasize?
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THE IDEAS BEHIND THE ARTWORK
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Which artist repeatedly painted studies of the mountain he had seen throughout his childhood and later observed from his studio window?
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Paul Cezanne
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Art objects from which place influenced Picasso in his creation of Demoiselles d'Avignon?
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Africa
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A painting by which artist provoked the comment by a critic that gave the Impressionists their name?
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Claude Monet
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Which statement is true about Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Moulin de la Galette?
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It depicts the new urban middle class
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True or false: Edgar Degas was fascinated by observing ballet dancers, both in practice and during performance.
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TRUE
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What aspect of Edouard Manet's Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) made viewers uncomfortable when it was first exhibited?
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the nude woman seated next to fully dressed me, the sketchy painting technique, the way the woman looks out at the viewer
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True or false: Camille Claudel's sculpture The Waltz received some criticism for being too erotic.
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TRUE
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True or false: twentieth-century artists continued the exploration in representation started by the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists.
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true
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Who painted Paris Street: Rainy Day?
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Gustave Caillebotte
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True or false: Paul Gauguin liked to paint subjects from modern, industrial cities.
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FALSE
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Georges Braque's Houses at L'Estaque is part of which movement?
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cubism
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How did Jackson Pollock make his paintings?
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He dripped paint onto a canvas on the floor
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What does Rineke Dijkstra's series Mothers focus on?
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depicting mothers with their newborn children
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Who is the artist of Dead Christ?
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Mantegna
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Bis pole sculptures were made by which culture?
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Asmat
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What does the term "vanitas" in art reference?
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the fleeting nature of life
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What is Shiva Nataraja responsible for doing?
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dancing the world into existence, balancing contradictory qualities, for example creation and destruction, bringing to life the endless cycle of birth and rebirth
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True or false: artists have often been influenced by scientific discoveries.
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TRUE
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True or false: astrolabes were used by Muslims to determine the direction of Mecca.
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TRUE
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Which of these artworks reveals a culture's understanding of astronomy?
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The Maya flint depicting a crocodile canoe with passengers, The Aztec Sun Stone, Muhammad Mahdi al-Yazdi's astrolabe
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True or false: because restorers accidentally removed the original varnish, the Sistine Chapel ceiling looks brighter than it was in Michelangelo's time.
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False
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Which of these terms applies to Georges Seurat's Sunday on La Grande Jatte?
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pointillism
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True or false: "Trompe l'oeil" means "fool the eye."
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TRUE
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Who advised artists in his treatise On Painting that paintings should look like illusionary windows?
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Leon Battista Alberti
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Which statement is true of the oculus in the Camera degli Sposi in the Ducal Palace in Mantua, painted by Andrea Mantegna?
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It is just a painted illusion
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True or false: William Hogarth's False Perspective demonstrates incorrect applications of the laws of perspective.
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true
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What is it called when columns are intentionally designed to swell at the midpoint?
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entasis
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What elements have an ambiguous reflection in Edouard Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergere?
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the barmaid, liquor and wine bottles, the bar top
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True or false: the term "iconic" refers to something that has become famous and has widely recognizable characteristics.
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TRUE
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True or false: Mayan bloodletting rituals were only enacted on slaves.
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false
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What technique was used to create the portrait of King Akhenaten, his wife Nefertiti, and their three daughters?
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a sunken-relief carving
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Which statement is true of the Stela of Hammurabi?
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it has an entire law code written on it
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What is the medium of Henry Moore's Recumbent Figure?
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stone
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What does Theodore Gericault's painting Raft of the Medusa depict?
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the results of a shipwreck off the coast of West Africa
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Which of these artists created a war artwork that was an interactive performance?
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Wafer Bilal
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When and where was the artist of Olympia working?
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19th Century France
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Which artwork did Carrie Mae Weems make?
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You Became A Scientific Profile
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Why did Mary Richardson attack the Rokeby Venus in 1914?
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she wanted more rights for women
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What medium is Kahinde Wiley's Portrait Bust of Cardinal Richelieu?
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painting
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What does Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe convey?
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he agitation of the artist's internal reality through his painting
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What kind of artworks do the Guerilla Girls make?
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feminist posters and pamphlets
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What is the subject matter of Myron's Discus Thrower?
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A Greek Athlete
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Menkaure and His Wife, Queen Khamerernebty was made by sculptors from which culture?
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Egyptian
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What does Francisco Goya's Second of May, 1808 depict?
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Spanish civilians attacking French soldiers
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What movement influenced the Untitled Film Stills series?
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Feminism
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Timothy O'Sullivan's famous photograph of dead bodies on a deserted battlefield was taken during which war?
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American Civil War
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Auguste Rodin made which of the following artworks?
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Walking Man
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What does the layout of The Dinner Party allude to?
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the Last Supper, a coven of witches, an ancient sign for woman
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True or false: Emil Nolde's Crucifixion was admired by Adolf Hitler.
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FALSE
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Why were some against Maya Lin's design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?
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it was black stone, it wasn't a traditional monument with figures, it descended into the ground
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What happened to the woman featured in Migrant Mother after Dorothea Lange photographed her?
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she was ashamed of the photograph
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What element is part of the 9/11 Memorial in New York City?
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water
