Art History Quiz-8
63 Questions
| Attempts: 109
Welcome to “Art History Quiz-8” where we’ll once again be turning out attention to the topic of history within the art industry, stretching back across many generations of artwork to define the methods we know today. What can you tell us about art history in this one? Let’s find out.
Questions and Answers
- 1.
_________ was a woman artist who often represented stories of strong women like Judith and helped spread Caravaggio's style beyond Rome, Italy during the Baroque period.
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Artemisia Gentileschi - 2.
________ describes the use of strong light and dark and artificially illuminated areas to create dramatic contrast in painting by artists such as Caravaggio in the Baroque period.
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tenebrism - 3.
The ____ was an event that was partially responsible for the increasingly dramatic portrayal of religious subjects in Italy during the Baroque.
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Counter-Reformation - 4.
The Jain religion traces its roots to a spiritual leader called ___ whose birth is represented in an image from the illustrated manuscript Kalpa Sutra.
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Mahavira - 5.
The Hindu temple complex dedicated to Shiva and his consort at Madurai, India is surrounded by 11 massive gateways called ____
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gopuras - 6.
The word ___ is used to describe a style of painting that reflects the taste of the educated class of east Asian intellectuals. Aspects include an appreciation for the antique, small scale and an intimate connection between maker and audience.
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Literati
literati - 7.
The painter Ni Zan's minimum of detail in The Rongxi Studio derived at least in part from his dry ____ technique.
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brush - 8.
Paintings and other objects imported from ___ influenced the style and subject matter of Japanese painting during the Muromachi period.
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China - 9.
____ influenced creations such as the stone and gravel garden at the temple Ryoan-ji during the Muromachi period in Japan.
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Zen Buddhism - 10.
___ describes paper covered sliding doors some of which were elaborately painted and designed for aristocratic residences during the Momoyama period in Japan.
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fusama - 11.
___ are plump, naked little boys with wings that are often included in French Rococo paintings.
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putti - 12.
The term ____ is used to describe state sponsored art schools that controlled artistic education and exhibition beginning in the 18th century in Europe.
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academy - 13.
Rococo is the art of the ____ class in 18th century France.
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aristocratic - 14.
The 18th century French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze created ___ paintings like The Drunken Cobbler, which were scenes of everyday life that were small in scale and often had a moral message.
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genre - 15.
Figures in Neoclassical artworks like Joshua Reynolds' Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces are often represented in the ____ pose found in objects from ancient Greece and Rome.
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contrapposto - 16.
____ , a trip to major cultural sites in Southern Europe taken by young Europeans and later Americans, led, in part, to the popularity of the Neoclassical style in France in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Grand Tour - 17.
The French artist ___ has been described as a "turncoat" or "sellout" because he worked for Louis XVI, the French Revolution and Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Jacques-Louis David - 18.
The term ___ describes the printing technique Spanish artist Francisco Goya used to create the series that includes 'The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters'.
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etching - 19.
Romantic landscapes like 'Snowstorm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps' by Joseph Mallord William Turner inspire ____ feelings because they instill "fascination mixed with fear" and/or make the viewer feel as if s/he is standing in the presence of something far larer than him/herself.
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sublime - 20.
The ____, a predecessor of the camera used since the Renaissance with roots in ancient China, consists of a darkened room or box with a lens through which light passes, projecting an image of the scene outside of the box.
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camera obscura - 21.
___ is a military term adopted to describe artists or concepts of a strikingly new, experimental, or radical nature for the time.
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avant-garde - 22.
The name Impressionism came from a painting by the artist ____.
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Claude Monet - 23.
___ is the term that refers to the tendency of many Impressionists to paint outside on location rather than in their studios as most artists had done before them.
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plein air - 24.
Many Impressionists like Mary Cassatt were influenced by the subject matter and composition of ___ prints that were imported to France in the 1850s
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Japanese - 25.
___ is a term used to describe a group of artists including Georges Seurat and Paul Cezanne who responded to Impressionism by imposing a greater sense of order and structure on their compositions.
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Post-impressionism - 26.
Late works of Vincent van Gogh contributed significantly to the emergence of ____ in which the intensity of an artist's feelings overrides fidelity to the actual appearance of things.
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expressionism - 27.
Modernism is characterized by a tendency towards ____ in which artists depart from imitating nature and communicate exclusively through formal language such as color and line.
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abstraction - 28.
Modernist ___ describes art objects which were inspired by the art of Africa, Pre-Columbian America, and Oceania as well as the work of children, fold artists, "naive" artists and the mentally ill.
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primitivism - 29.
___ describes the phase of Cubism in which Picasso and Braque "shattered their subjects into jagged forms analogous to momentary, partial glances" and then reassembled the pieces as in Picasso's Ma Jolie.
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Analytic - 30.
___ is a technique whose name comes from the French word "to glue" introduced by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in their Synthetic Cubist work and then adopted by many artists associated with Dada.
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collage - 31.
What period of Chinese history does the painting "Pine Spirit" by Wu Guanzhong belong to?
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Ming
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Yang
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Song
- D.
Modern
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Momoyama
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D. Modern -
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The Mongols ruled China during the ____ period.
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Yang
- B.
Ming
- C.
Yuan
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Modern
- E.
Song
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C. Yuan -
- 33.
Court painting from the Yuan period in China focused on ___
- A.
Color
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Exact imitation of nature
- C.
Technical skill
- D.
All of the above
- E.
None of the above
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D. All of the above -
- 34.
The Ming dynasty in China is well known for its exquisite ceramics, particularly those made of a translucent, white ceramic material called
- A.
Stoneware
- B.
Terracotta
- C.
Porcelain
- D.
Earthenware
- E.
None of the above
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C. Porcelain -
- 35.
The painting by Shen Zhou featuring a poet in nature from the Ming period is different from earlier literati painting because...
- A.
It is in color
- B.
The poet is at the bottom of the landscape, dwarfed by nature
- C.
The artist was paid to created it
- D.
It is life-sized
- E.
The poet is at the top of the composition surveying the landscape from a mountain plateau.
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E. The poet is at the top of the composition surveying the landscape from a mountain plateau. -
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In the film Inner Visions: Avant-Garde Art in China viewed in discussion section, the featured artists
- A.
Followed traditional Chinese art in that they took nature as their subject
- B.
Created social realist art sanctioned by the Chinese government.
- C.
Looked to themselves for their subject matter.
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Were freer to express themselves after the Tiananmen Square uprising.
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Were free to exhibit their artwork all over China.
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C. Looked to themselves for their subject matter. -
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A particularly Japanese aesthetic emerged early in Japanese history that included a love of natural materials and a taste for ___
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Symmetry
- B.
One-point perspective
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Tenebrism
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Asymmetry
- E.
Clutter
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D. Asymmetry -
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Sesshu's Winter Landscape from the Muromachi period in Japan is different from most of the literati landscapes we looked at from China because
- A.
It is life-sized
- B.
Nature is the focus
- C.
It is an ink painting
- D.
The composition is composed of the sharp, jagged, diagonal brushstrokes rather than soft lines
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None of the above
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D. The composition is composed of the sharp, jagged, diagonal brushstrokes rather than soft lines -
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Zen Buddhism was so popular during the Muromachi period that many ___ like Sesshu became artists and gave their paintings away
- A.
Aristocrats
- B.
Merchants
- C.
Literati
- D.
Monks
- E.
Shahs
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D. Monks -
- 40.
What artist best exemplifies the Baroque movement?
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Caravaggio - 41.
What style is the Calling of St. Matthew?
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Baroque - 42.
The Academy in both France and England considered which of the following category of paintings most important?
- A.
Landscape
- B.
Still-life
- C.
Genre
- D.
History painting
- E.
All of the above
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D. History painting -
- 43.
The Chiswick House constructed in the 18th century outside of London is an example of ___ architecture
- A.
Romantic
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Rococo
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Neoclassical
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Colonial
- E.
African
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C. Neoclassical -
- 44.
Cornelia Pointing to her Children as her Treasures painted by Angelica Kauffmann depicts a moralistic story from
- A.
18th century Italy
- B.
Renaissance Italy
- C.
The French Revolution
- D.
Republican Rome
- E.
The American Revolution
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D. Republican Rome -
- 45.
The 18th Century artist Marie Luoise Elisabeth Vigee LeBrun was the preferred portraitist of
- A.
Marie Antoinette
- B.
Louis XIV
- C.
Joshua Reynolds
- D.
Adelaide Labille Guiard
- E.
Napolean
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A. Marie Antoinette -
- 46.
The Raft of the Medusa by Theodore Gericault is believed to be an example of Romanticism because
- A.
It represents a contemporary, tragic event
- B.
Of its pyramidal composition
- C.
The figures are idealized in the style of Michelangelo
- D.
There is an emphases on horizontal and vertical lines
- E.
It represents a love story
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A. It represents a contemporary, tragic event -
- 47.
The sculpture Forever Free by the African-American and Native-American woman artist Edmonia Lewis commemorated the
- A.
Emancipation Proclamation
- B.
Declaration of Independence
- C.
Bill of Rights
- D.
French Revolution
- E.
American Revolution
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A. Emancipation Proclamation -
- 48.
An early photographic process invented and marketed in France in 1839 was called
- A.
Calotype
- B.
Daguerreotype
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Heliotype
- D.
Nadareotype
- E.
None of the above
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A. Calotype -
- 49.
Realists such as Gustave Courbet and Francois Millet often took the ___ as their subject matter in 19th century France
- A.
Aristocracy
- B.
Middle class
- C.
Prostitutes
- D.
Working class
- E.
None of the above
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D. Working class -
- 50.
Georges Seurat's painting technique is often referred to as
- A.
Impasto
- B.
Divisionism
- C.
Pointillism
- D.
B and C
- E.
None of the above
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D. B and C -
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