Test Your Knowledge About Art Terms
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- 1.What is a building, sculpture or structure especially built to remember and honor a person or event?
- A.
Gateway
- B.
Statue
- C.
Monument
- D.
Church
- 2.Which is the style in which an artist represents a subject as it appears in the natural world?
- A.
Futurism
- B.
Impressionism
- C.
Naturalism
- D.
Modernism
- 3.What is the word for an upright pillar or post often used to bear weight?
- A.
Foundation
- B.
Pole
- C.
Column
- D.
Stick
- 4.What is a design made of tiny pieces of colored stone, glass, tile or paper stuck to a surface?
- A.
Pattern
- B.
Motif
- C.
Mosaic
- D.
Decoration
- 5.What is the term for a line neither vertical nor horizontal but having a slanted direction?
- A.
Turned
- B.
Tilted
- C.
Diagonal
- D.
Bent
- 6.What is an image given back by a reflecting surface, such as a mirror or still water, called?
- A.
Refraction
- B.
Incidence
- C.
Reflection
- D.
Absorption
- 7.What is a craftsman or a skilled manual worker called?
- A.
Actor
- B.
Painter
- C.
Artisan
- D.
Sculptor
- 8.What is the word that denotes something made to enclose a picture or a mirror?
- A.
Frame
- B.
Cover
- C.
Border
- D.
Casing
- 9.What is a small figure usually with a cloth body and hollow head that is manipulated by hand called?
- A.
Scarecrow
- B.
Puppet
- C.
Automaton
- D.
Statue
- 10.What is the name of the egg-like two-dimensional shape that looks like a stretched circle?
- A.
Sphere
- B.
Ovoid
- C.
Oblong
- D.
Oval
- 11.What word means allowing light to pass through so objects can be clearly seen from the other side?
- A.
Transparent
- B.
Opaque
- C.
Backlit
- D.
Silhouette
- 12.What is a three-dimensional form of a person or animal sculpted, carved, modeled, or cast called?
- A.
Figurine
- B.
Figure
- C.
Model
- D.
Statue
- 13.What is the name given to the protective transparent finish applied in a liquid state to a surface?
- A.
Varnish
- B.
Layer
- C.
Spread
- D.
Cover
- 14.What is the interlacing of long, thin materials such as yarn or thread to make cloth called?
- A.
Macrame
- B.
Sewing
- C.
Knitting
- D.
Weaving
- 15.What is a quick drawing that loosely captures appearance or action of a place or situation called?
- A.
Sculpture
- B.
Sketch
- C.
Painting
- D.
Art
- 16.What is a picture of a scene at sea or a scene largely including a portion of the sea called?
- A.
Landscape
- B.
Seascape
- C.
Mountainscape
- D.
Riverscape
- 17.What the surface quality or "feel" of an object, its smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. called?
- A.
Texture
- B.
Touch
- C.
Feeling
- D.
Sensation
- 18.What is a group of artists whose style demonstrates a common origin or influence called?
- A.
Palette
- B.
Club
- C.
Objet D'Art
- D.
School
- 19.What is a three-dimensional form shaped like a ball and circular from all points of view called?
- A.
Cone
- B.
Cylinder
- C.
Cube
- D.
Sphere
- 20.What is a portrait an artist makes using himself or herself as its subject called?
- A.
Self-Portrait
- B.
Face Portrait
- C.
Reflected Portrait
- D.
Own Portrait
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