Fine Arts Survey Test
Please answer the following multiple choice questions on the information covered during class. The unit topics are Classicism, Romanticism, and Abstraction.
- 1.
- 2.The Elements of Design are
- A.
Line, emphasis, texture, unity, contrast, mass
- B.
Emphasis, contrast, direction, unity, repetition, scale and proportion
- C.
Line, shape, mass, space, value, color, texture
- D.
Line, value, shape, form, color, texture and unity
- 3.The Elements of Design are the building blocks for creating a picture. The Principles of Design help you determine how these elements should be place.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 4.The following are examples of some of the Principles of Design
- A.
Color and value
- B.
Contrast and emphasis
- C.
Texture and mass
- D.
Media and style
- 5.What architectural elements do you associate with the classical style?
- A.
Pediments on temples
- B.
Doric, ionic capitals and columns
- C.
Barrel vault
- D.
All of the above
- 6.Who created concrete and perfected the use of the arch in building?
- A.
The Ancient Mesopotamians
- B.
The Ancient Greeks
- C.
The Ancient Romans
- D.
The Ancient Greeks and Romans
- 7.The art of ancient Greece and Rome was based on a clear rational, and regular structure; emphasizing horizontal and vertical directions, and organizing its parts with an emphasis on balance and proportion.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.What other period embraces the classical qualities of Ancient Greek and Roman artwork?
- A.
The Renaissance
- B.
The Middle Ages
- C.
Modernism
- D.
Romanticism
- 9.Romanticism was
- A.
A countermovement to Neoclassicism
- B.
Characterized by intense emotional excitement
- C.
Characterized by powerful forces in nature, the exotic and the suffering human condition.
- D.
All of the above
- 10.One of the key artists of the 18th- 19th c. Romantic period were
- A.
Pablo Picasso
- B.
Francesco Goya
- C.
Jackson Pollock
- D.
Keith Haring
- 11.J.M.W Turner's work, "Rain, Steam, and Speed: The Western Railway", sought to
- A.
Capture the feeling of modern technology.
- B.
Capture the expression of paint
- C.
Confront his fear of modern technology
- D.
All of the above
- 12.The Impressionist were concerned with the following,
- A.
The careful rendering of objects
- B.
The effects of light and time on nature
- C.
Photorealism
- D.
Cubism
- 13.Romanticism was a style of spontaneity, intuition and emotion rather than carefully organized rational approaches to form.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 14.Eugene Delacroix's painting, "Liberty Leading the People" was a social commentary on slavery.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 15.Which artist does not paint in the abstract style
- A.
Michelangelo
- B.
Kandinsky
- C.
Picasso
- D.
Van Gogh
- 16.The following were influences on abstraction,
- A.
Science
- B.
Technology
- C.
War and revolution
- D.
All of the above
- 17.Kandinsky sought a visual form of expression in photography
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 18.What are the two main streams of abstraction
- A.
Horizontal and vertical
- B.
Geometric and organic
- C.
Overt and covert
- D.
All of the above
- 19.Abstraction is
- A.
The depiction of recognizable space
- B.
Representational art
- C.
Non-representational art
- D.
Realism
- 20.Vincent van Gogh was a romantic painter who killed himself?
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 21.What art movement marked the beginning interest in abstraction?
- A.
The Surrealists
- B.
The Cubist
- C.
The Impressionists
- D.
The Post-Impressionists
- 22.Painting en-plein air (in the open air) is a French term associated with Impressionism
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 23.Keith Haring creates artwork
- A.
That is called street art
- B.
That has political and social messages
- C.
That is stylized
- D.
All of the above
- 24.What distinguished the Greeks from other peoples in Europe? Their attitude towards being human.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 25.Christo and Jeanne-Claude are artist who,
- A.
Use fabric to build houses
- B.
Use fabric to create temporary artworks
- C.
Use art to exploit the environment
- D.
Use paint to create splatter paintings
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