Deck 15: Praxis Art

Question 1

Paul Gauguin was greatly influenced by non-Western art. In particular, he was greatly affected by objects from where?

A)Africa
B)Oceania
C)Japan
D)South America

Answer 1

Oceania

Question 2

Which of the following is a type of early photograph, first developed by William Talbot, which is characterized by its very grainy quality?

A)Daguerroeotype
B)Photogram
C)Calotype
D)Lithography

Answer 2

Calotype

Question 3

Which twentieth-century museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, was built in a curvilinear pattern on the outside, revealing a circular domed walkway on the inside of the building?

A)The Georges Pompidou Center
B)Le Corbusier
C)MOMA
D)The Guggenheim Museum

Answer 3

The Guggenheim Museum

Question 4

What is the correct date for the construction of the dome of the Florence Cathedral?

A)1220-1236
B)1320-1336
C)1420-1436
D)1520-1536

Question 5

Fill in the blanks:
In a Greek temple, ________ project over the tops of columns and a(n) ________ separates the upper and lower parts of the temple.

A)Triglyphs, metope
B)Shafts, capital
C)Entablatures, architrave
D)Pediments, cornice

Question 6

Where are rock-cut temples a specialty?

A)Turkey
B)Japan
C)Israel
D)India

Question 7

Stonehenge is usually discussed as a ring of ____________, originally all united by ___________.

A)Cromlechs, menhirs
B)Mortises, tenons
C)Megaliths, lintels
D)Megaliths, cromlechs

Question 8

Where are Japanese haniwa figures found?

A)Royal residences
B)Monasteries
C)Temples
D)Burial mounds

Question 9

Typically, what is the largest feature on an African figure?

A)The hands
B)The stomach
C)The figure's weapon
D)The head

Question 10

How many terracotta warriors make up the Army of Emperor Shi Huangdi?

A)500
B)1,000
C)5,000
D)8,000

Question 11

What is the correct term for an altarpiece in which the Madonna and Child are joined by saints and with them, are engaged in a "holy conversation?"

A)Pietà
B)Ignudi
C)Maestà
D)Sacra conversazione

Question 12

What is the term for perforated ornamental stone screens that appear in Islamic art?

A)Jali
B)Minbar
C)Mihrab
D)Arabesque

Question 13

Images of lions grace the capitals of many Buddhist buildings, most likely stemming from earlier examples from where?

A)Greece
B)Rome
C)China
D)Persia

Question 14

What unique variation of Gothic architecture did the English develop in the mid 1300s, in which enormous window spaces were combined with elaborate decorative patterns of stone tracery?

A)Flamboyant
B)High Gothic
C)Early Gothic
D)Perpendicular Gothic

Question 15

Which of the following key architectural features was first developed in the Hagia Sophia?

A)Pendentive
B)Altar
C)Transoms
D)Nave

Question 16

What was the great intellectual movement that came out of the Renaissance that emphasized secular life over the religious, focusing upon classical works of philosophy, art, history, and literature?

A)Trompe l'oeil
B)Orthogonal
C)Humanism
D)Classicism

Question 17

What term refers to a group of scholarly and sophisticated Chinese artists who worked to paint for themselves rather than for fame and fortune?

A)Literati
B)Yakshi
C)Poussinistes
D)Classists

Question 18

Where was the statue Nike of Samothrace originally positioned?

A)On a temple
B)On a fountain
C)In a home
D)In a marketplace

Question 19

Which of the following medieval technological innovations was used in the Gothic architecture movement in Europe?

A)Glass blowing
B)Wooden scaffolding
C)Pointed arches
D)Concrete molds

Question 20

What art style, popular in the early twentieth-century, is typified by works such as Mondrian's Composition in Black and White and Red and Rietveld's Schröder House?

A)DeStijl
B)Suprematism
C)Bauhaus
D)Constructivism

Question 21

Of the following modern photographers, which one promoted photography as a legitimate art form that was equal to painting when he or she hung photographs in a contemporary art gallery?

A)Alfred Stieglitz
B)Cindy Sherman
C)Dorthea Lange
D)Barbara Kruger

Question 22

The Swing, by Jean-Honoré Fragonard is from which period?

A)Romanticism
B)Renaissance
C)Rococo
D)Surrealism

Question 23

Before the advent of the twentieth century, female artists were generally not permitted to attend art schools and academies, thus, they often learned to paint from their fathers.

Question 24

The Old Testament queens and kings who adorn the jambs of the Royal Portals at Chartres are meant for what purpose?

A)To show the royalty the proper place to pray
B)To support the church both morally and physically
C)To only provide artistic beauty
D)To show the contemporary French royalty how far they have fallen from grace

Question 25

Who painted the major fifteenth-century Italian painting Adoration of the Magi?

A)Andrea del Castagno
B)Fra Angelico
C)Masaccio
D)Gentile da Fabriano

Question 26

When did Joseph Paxton build The Crystal Palace in London?

A)1650-1651
B)1850-1851
C)1910-1911
D)1800-1801

Question 27

In which Romanesque cathedral were rib vaults first used?

A)Pisa Cathedral
B)Saint-Étienne
C)Saint-Sernin
D)Durham Cathedral

Question 28

What is the name for the Gothic-era stone arch and its pier that work together to support a roof from a pillar outside the building?

A)Ogee arch
B)Fan vault
C)Choir
D)Flying buttress

Question 29

Which royal built the famous Palace of Versailles, where they required the nobility to reside for a portion of the year?

A)Marie de Medici
B)Louis XIV
C)Louis XIII
D)Henry IV

Question 30

Whose famous Renaissance masterpieces include the paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?

A)Da Vinci
B)Raphael Sanzio
C)Michelangelo
D)Monet

Question 31

Which of the following is the single most significant invention in the development of the contemporary skyscraper?

A)The elevator
B)Cast iron
C)Windows that do not utilize lead
D)Wrought iron

Question 32

What was the purpose of the massive Great Enclosure at Great Zimbabwe?

A)It was the home of the king
B)It held prisoners of war and slaves
C)It was the first zoo
D)Its purpose is unknown

Question 33

Who usually attends Buddhas in Indian art?

A)Chaityas
B)Mudras
C)Bodhisattvas
D)Yakshis

Question 34

Which of the following is a system of writing in which the strokes are formed in an arrow-head shape or a wedge?

A)Hieroglyphics
B)Cuneiform
C)Japanese characters, or Kanji
D)Mayan

Question 35

What is a work of art that possesses a symbolic meaning in addition to a literal interpretation?

A)Trecento
B)Maniera greca
C)Allegory
D)Predella

Question 36

In a Greek temple, what is the name for the main room where the god is housed?

A)Ornice
B)Kylix
C)Acropolis
D)Cella

Question 37

Which of the following ancient civilizations was unearthed by Sir Arthur Evans in the early twentieth century?

A)Crete
B)Troy
C)The Ancient Greeks
D)Sparta

Question 38

Which piece of Greek pottery was most likely designed to be portable and to store provisions like wine or oil?

A)Amphora
B)Kylix
C)Krater
D)Cornice

Question 39

Which major Feminist artist created a collection of photographs called Untitled Film Stills that imitate the way in which women have been stereotypically depicted in film?

A)Barbara Kruger
B)Frida Kahlo
C)Cindy Sherman
D)Maya Lin

Question 40

What is the scientific study of ancient peoples and cultures, mainly revealed through excavation, called?

A)Paleontology
B)Archaeology
C)Astronomy
D)Anthropology

Question 41

Which painting technique uses small dots of color that are combined by the eye at a given distance?

A)Impressionism
B)Positivism
C)Avant-garde
D)Pointillism

Question 42

Which of the following great pieces of Byzantine structure was commissioned by Ivan the Terrible?

A)Saint Mark's Cathedral
B)Hagia Sophia
C)San Vitale
D)Saint Basil's Cathedral

Question 43

Which theory, popularized by August Comte, expresses that all knowledge must come from proven ideas based on scientific theory?

A)Positivism
B)Japonisme
C)Neo-classicism
D)The sublime

Question 44

In Greek art, what was the amphora most likely used for?

A)Mixing water with wine
B)A drinking cup
C)A cooking pot
D)A portable vessel to hold oil, water, or wine

Question 45

In the early years of the Renaissance, who was known for hand-printing/hand-inking books for super-wealthy patrons who could afford such an extravagance?

A)Gutenberg
B)Limbourg Brothers
C)Jan van Eyck
D)Robert Campin

Question 46

Who was responsible for the remodeling of Saint Denis?

A)Abbot Suger
B)Louis XVI
C)Catherine de Medici
D)Marie Antoinette

Question 47

In Roman art, what is the name of the term for a graceful arrangement of the body based on tilted shoulders and hips and bent knees?

A)Encaustic
B)Contrapposto
C)Impluvium
D)Veristic

Question 48

What major work of Prehistoric sculpture was a small figure with highly-emphasized reproductive organs and may have been a symbol of fertility?

A)The Lascaux Goddess
B)Woman or "Venus" of Willendorf
C)Woman of Stonehenge
D)Cromlech

Question 49

Which of the following was a type of pattern heavily used in Islamic art?

A)Arabesques
B)Tessellation
C)Calligraphy
D)All of the above

Question 50

What are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?

A)War, greed, death, and famine
B)Pestilence, illness, war, and misery
C)War, pestilence, death, and famine
D)Plagues, drought, floods, and war

Question 51

Where is the Pyramid of the Sun, built in roughly 200 c.e., found?

A)Teotihuacán, Mexico
B)Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
C)Chichén-Itzá, Mexico
D)Egypt

Question 52

Who painted the immensely-famous Birth of Venus in which Venus emerges fully grown from the sea?

A)Sandro Botticelli
B)Andrea Mantegna
C)Fra Angelico
D)Pietro Perugino

Question 53

In whose court did Holbein work?

A)Philip II
B)Louis XIV
C)Louis XVI
D)Henry VIII

Question 54

Of the following artists, who was not part of the Abstract Expressionism movement (otherwise known as the New York School)?

A)Willem de Kooning
B)Jackson Pollock
C)Piet Mondrian
D)Louise Nevelson

Question 55

What is the main purpose of the Casa Mila, designed by Antonio Gaudí?

A)It is a government building.
B)It is an office building.
C)It is an apartment building.
D)It is a library.

Question 56

Why did the Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt use women as a subject for her painting?

A)Women did not make as much money, so they were cheaper to hire as models.
B)She was attempting to create a world in which women did not need men to complete them.
C)Men refused to model for a female artist.
D)Cassatt believed men to be unattractive to the eye.

Question 57

Which type of Rococo painting featured members of the aristocracy listening to love songs in garden settings or taking long walks in pastoral backgrounds?

A)Pastel
B)Fête galante
C)Apotheosis
D)Genre painting

Question 58

Which of the following descriptions characterizes Romanesque architecture?

A)Sparsely-decorated interiors
B)Intricately-decorated interiors
C)Light, airy design
D)Heavy, solid design

Question 59

What is the name of the building where flying buttresses were first used on a large scale?

A)Chartres Cathedral
B)Notre Dame de Paris
C)Saint-Denis
D)Amiens Cathedral

Question 60

What American art movement from the early twentieth century emphasized rural life in the Midwest?

A)Collage
B)Action Painting
C)Realism
D)Regionalism

Question 61

What Roman temple, situated in Nîmes, France, was used as the model for Jefferson's State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia?

A)The Pantheon
B)Aula Palatina
C)Maison Carrée
D)House of the Vettii

Question 62

What is the polygonal base of a dome that makes the transition from the round dome to a flat wall?

A)Codex
B)Squinch
C)Triptych
D)Pendentive

Question 63

Which of the following is a theme in still life paintings that stresses the folly of human vanity and how short human life truly is?

A)Allegory
B)Vanitas
C)Baldacchino
D)Impasto

Question 64

Where was Minoan culture centered?

A)In what is now Turkey
B)In what is now Jordan
C)Near Sparta on the Greek mainland
D)On Crete