The Visual Arts Unit 6

Unit #6 1) Masaccio used which of the following elements and principles in a) Naturalism b) Continuous narrative c) All of the other answers d) Atmospheric perspective e) Linear perspective ? 2) The painting of in the Sistine Chapel includes a ________. a) Portrait of Pontormo’s uncle as Laocoön b) self-portrait of Artemisia Gentileschi as Judith c) self-portrait of Michelangelo as St. Bartholomew’s flayed skin d) portrait of Leonardo da Vinci looking like Plato 3) Which of the following artworks is a very graphic depiction of Christ’s crucifixion? a) Michelangelo's Last Judgement b) Durer's Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse c) Grunewald's Isenheim Altarpiece d) Van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece An important feature of late-Renaissance artwork, compared to art created during the early and high Renaissance, is ________. a) a greater emphasis on dissonance over harmony b) more dynamic compositions and subjects c) an increase in imaginative elements as opposed to strict believability d) greater emotional intensity e) all of the other answers 5) El Greco was ________. a) a Greek artist who worked in Italy and Spain during the Renaissance b) an Italian artist who worked in Greece during the Baroque period c) a Spanish artist who worked in Greece during the Renaissance d) an Italian artist who worked in Greece during the Renaissance 6) Which pair of artists listed below is known for painting with dark backgrounds that make the figures look like they are emerging into light? a) Caravaggio and Rembrandt b) Giorgio Vasari and Pieter Bruegel the Elder c) Artemisia Gentileschi and Filippo Brunelleschi d) Michelangelo and Gianlorenzo Bernini 7) Which of the following influenced the art made from 1700 to 1900? a) all of the other answers b) industrialization c) the Age of Reason d) the Enlightenment e) revolutions in France and America 8) New North American cities in the late eighteenth century chose neoclassicism as their architectural style because: a) Thomas Jefferson made it law b) it was the only style of architecture that could withstand the climate c) it seemed exciting and exotic d) it represented the ideals to which they aspired 9) Which painting was included in the first Salon des Refusés (Salon of the Rejected)? a) all of these paintings were in this exhibition b) Jacques-Louis David’s The Oath of the Horatii c) Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) d) Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s The Swing 10) A painting by which artist provoked the comment by a critic that gave the Impressionists their name? a) Gustave Caillebotte b) Claude Monet c) Edgar Degas d) Édouard Manet 11) Who repeatedly painted studies of the mountain he had seen throughout his childhood and later observed from his studio window? a) Paul Gauguin b) Vincent van Gogh c) Gustave Courbet d) Paul Cézanne 12) Gustav Klimt’s work features: a) an element of danger b) all of the other answers c) decorative patterning d) flattened figures e) gold leaf 13) The colors of the bodies and trees in Matisse’s a) copied from another famous artwork b) based on what the artist saw, but exaggerated c) completely naturalistic d) strictly from the artist’s dreams 14) a) b) c) d) e) are ________. was revolutionary because: the space of the background and foreground meld together it shows frontal and profile views at the same time all of the other answers it is not a naturalistic re-creation of the way we see the world it includes simplified forms and bodies as geometric shapes 15) Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s is part of the ________ movement as seen ________. a) Expressionist . . . in the painting’s intentionally raw and aggressive intensity b) Cubist . . . in the painting’s geometric treatment of forms c) Dada . . . in the painting’s use of found objects (d) Conceptual . . . in the artist’s burning of the painting at its first exhibition d) Pop art . . . in the painting’s use of commercial imagery 16) Vasily Kandinsky, the artist of , believed ________. a) all art museums and libraries should be destroyed b) emphasis on an artist’s creativity should be minimized c) art should express an inner spiritual necessity d) art should express the idealism of the ancient Greeks 17) The Dada performance of