ARTS 209 Quizzes

ARTS 209 Quizzes

All 4 quizzes

Visual Communication Quiz

1. The subject matter in this work deals with ____.
2. Art is always a serious endeavor and never functions as entertainment.
3. England’s Houses of Parliament used new building materials such as ____.
4. King Louis XIV of France was also called the Sun King because he identified himself with the god Apollo.
5. Osorio’s mixed-media ____ The Scene of the Crime (Whose Crime?) affirms the worth of Puerto Rican culture in New York, while depicting how the people are depicted in mass media.
6. Popular art includes:
7. This image is an example of a(n) ____.
8. Visual texture consists of physical surface variations that can be experienced by the sense of touch.
9. This work is an example of art as ____.
10. Art is a ____ phenomenon.
11. The twelve figures flanking Emperor Justinian in this image allude to ____.
12. Every color has three properties: hue, value, and ____.
13. The ____ was most noted for its dome.
14. An equestrian sculpture is one that includes a ____.
15. The Palette of King Narmer glorifies ____.
16. Eugene Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People is ____ in its portrayal of fighting as thrilling, dangerous, and liberating.
17. Abandoned prior to Spanish conquest, the ____ created Palenque, a large palace complex with high platforms and relief sculpture.
18. Rhythm in art is demonstrated by the ____ of one or more of the elements of art.
19. The ____ in China was built as a sign of Imperial power and as an instrument to maintain power.
20. Palaces are different from ordinary residences by ____.
21. Pendentives and squinches are associated with ____.
22. Versailles was built in the ____ style.
23. Known for its cinematic technique, the film The Battleship Potempkin used ____ to allow viewers to piece together the story from fleeting images.
24. ____ patterns occur all around us in nature.
25. Hawaiian royal objects were made of materials that were taboo to all others except royalty.
26. In the ____ color system, artists mix pigments to control the light that is reflected from them.
27. Jacob Lawrence did a series of paintings describing the tribulations of____.
28. The function of this painting was to ____.
29. What’s missing in this definition of art? Art is primarily a ____ medium that is used to express our ideas about our human experience and the world around us.
30. The ____ Codex Borbonicus is a religious calendar that was made during the period of the Spanish conquest.
31. The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti uses ____ as a protest strategy.
32. Jacob Lawrence’s artistic style was____.
33. The content of a work of art refers to ____.
34. A ruler’s image is often ____, meaning it is depicted without flaws and often with youthful vigor.
35. Traditional Chinese paintings were not made from life, but from memory.
36. Lewis Hine’s photos of child laborers have long ____, which fully documented their youthfulness.
37. Ornamentation in architecture is the ____ of forms or surfaces beyond structural necessity.
38. Stylistically this painting would be categorized as ____ art.
39. Tomatsu Shomei’s photographs are of victims of ____.
40. Art is whatever a society or a culture determines is art.

Visual Culture Quiz

1. What is the history of animation?
2. Animation grew out of ____, in which a series of drawn images seem to move as book pages are flipped rapidly.
3. Central Park was designed to be a(n) ____ from city life.
4. The Sydney Opera House owes a stylistic debt to the architecture of ____.
5. The posters of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec were influenced by ____.
6. _ is the academic discipline that investigates visual media and its effect on entertainment, information, political power, and social structures.
7. A favorite subject of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, ____ was a singer and dancer at the famous cabaret Moulin Rouge.
8. art is a visual art form that incorporates live action and mixed media and is presented before a live audience.
9. A modern theatrical puppet performance on Broadway is ____.
10. In 1927, ____ was/were added to motion pictures.
11. Western theater began as a form of worship of the god ____.
12. The first examples of performance art were called ____.
13. Ancient Greek comedies and tragedies were originally part of ritual festivals dedicated to the deity Dionysos.
14. The ultimate purpose of visual culture is to record the language of visual media so that images have a universal meaning regardless of nationality or culture.
15. The opening ceremonies for the Olympic games is an example of ____ — a public exhibition on a grand scale.
16. In its original state, the Colosseum in Rome was a spartan amphitheater devoid of any ornamentation except for its Doric capitals.
17. The structure of the Sydney Opera House is referred to as ____.
18. Matthew Barney’s Cremaster I references Busby Berkley musical productions from 1930s’ Hollywood films.
19. ____ is a relatively early form of animation which uses clay sculptures that are moved and photographed in tiny increments.
20. culture refers to the production, use and dissemination of images and visual objects, particularly in industrial and postindustrial nations.
21. Visual culture is an area of academic study that deals with the totality of images and visual objects produced in ____, and the ways that those images are disseminated, received, and used.
22. Briefly define Gestalt Theory.
23. is the way television companies make money
24. The motion picture is the marriage of photography and.

Quiz Week 5

1. The photographs of James VanDerZee reflect the ____.
2. Psychoanalytic criticism helps to interpret artwork with strong ____ content.
3. The ____is a collective of anonymous women artists and arts professionals protesting racial and gender discrimination in the arts.
4. Dona Schlesier’s mixed-media piece Setting Cycles has a subject matter that is ____.
5. The Northwest Coastal people believed that the thunderbird represented a ____.
6. ____ is a system of symbols that allows artists to refer to complex ideas.
7. Feminist criticism deals with ____ in art.
8. Artistic metaphors and symbols are ____.
9. The subject matter of ukiyo-e prints were usually famous kabuki actors, beautiful young women,and
10. Gerhard Richter’s series of fifteen paintings titled October 18, 1977 reflects ____ ideas.
11. Ideological criticism deals with a work of art’s ____ significance.
12. The painting Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus by Peter Paul Rubens is an example of ____ as subject matter.
13. A revival of Greek and Roman aesthetics inspired a style called ____, which emphasized the use of classical elements in art and architecture.
14. Jacques-Louis David’s The Oath of the Horatii revealed that heroic actions were ____.
15. In his paintings, Marc Chagall sometimes used the ____ device of fracturing space to represent instability.
16. The subject in Neshat’s art is Islamic women and femininity in a country where women’s actions and rights are limited by law.
17. In Las Meninas, Velazquez places Infanta Margarita at the center of the painting and surrounds her with dwarfs, chaperones, and ladies in waiting to reveal her
18. The subtext in an artwork refers to ____.
19. Peter Paul Rubens’ Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus revealed that the women of that time were expected to be
20. Eighteenth-century Rococo architecture was seen as ____, with its emphasis on delicacy, curves, and color.
21. Relational aesthetics focuses on human relationships and social spaces, rather than emphasizing art objects in private galleries, homes, or museums.
22. In Western culture, architecture is gendered — different styles are associated with certain qualities that are perceived to be masculine or feminine.
23. In the 1960s and 1970s, high-profile art exhibitions in prestigious American museums frequently included work by women artists.
24. Symbols are culturally determined and cannot be taught.
25. A recent discipline in critical writing is ____ , which attempts to integrate and analyze the visual components of contemporary culture.
26. The Guerrilla Girls are a group of artists that ____.
27. Hung Liu examined the Chinese practice of ____.
28. Content is about a work of art’s ____.
29. According to ____, all art supports some particular political agenda, cultural structure, or economic/class hierarchy.
30. A subtext of Hopper’s Nighthawks would be ____.
31. In ancient Egypt, the human body was sculpted in different ways depending on the class of the person.
32. While ____ was important to modernists, ____ is important to postmodernists.
33. Iconography uses ____ to suggest concepts and ideas.
34. Deconstruction involves the belief that any image has ____ of meanings.
35. Sepik men performed ____, called “Tambaran,” which took place in large, decorated cult houses.
36. Ancient Romans believed that their ancestry ____.
37. The role of the art critic is ____.
38. Unlike the Western belief that an individual exists at birth, many South Pacific peoples believe that a person’s being is built through a lifetime of
39. The ancient Greeks viewed Doric architecture as ____.
40. A ____ is a group of people joined by blood or marriage ties.

Quiz Week 8

1. This person was one of many historical figures regularly photographed with Dagurerrotypes.
2. What was the name of the early photographic process that resulted in ghostly, monochromatic images?
3. is a program commonly used for modern day photomanipulation.
4. One example of photo manipulation is:
5. What are three ethical implications of the use of photo manipulation?
6. was the creator of “Electronic Mail”.
7. In 1972, the first internet message was sent over the “Arpanet”.
8. What was the underlying cause for the creation of the system that came to be called the “Arpanet”?