Pentathlon 2022 Fine Arts (I, II, III)

Which of the following sets are NOT the varieties of minor scale?

• big, small, both

• slight, tempered, major

• whole, half, quarter

• natural, harmonic, melodic

• rhythm, rhyme, beat

How did Benjamin Franklin distinguish musical bowls from one another for the musician?

• He carved names on the bowls.

• He painted the rims different colors.

• He added texture to the rim of the bowl.

• He changed the shapes of the bowls.

• He created a different angle to the rim of the bowl.

Which type of painting technique originated in China and spread through East Asia and became popular in

Japan and Korea?

• oil

• portrait

• pigment

• ink wash

• pastel

Which artist was commissioned by Harper’s Weekly to document the Civil War as an artist-correspondent?

• John Ruskin

• Edward Hopper

• George Bellows

• Robert Henri

• Winslow Homer

For paint, egg yolk, linseed oil, and wax have all been used as

• binders

• pigments

• gessoes

• solvents

• frescoes

In musical notation, when a stem is added to an oval, what is indicated?

• Two notes will be connected together.

• A rest between notes is needed.

• Time value is half as long as the whole note.

• Notes will be held four times as long.

• Two instruments will be played at the same time.

On sailing ships, it was common to use different kinds of _____ to guide seamen through varying motions,

whether quicker, rhythmic tugs of longer steady efforts.

• hand signals

• songs

• lights

• smoke signals

• notes from the Captain

What is the term for a set of phrases that make a complete melody, while plays a prominent role in a longer

piece of music?

• perspective

• theme

• variation

• balance

• form

The origins of ink wash painting or ______, as it is known in Chinese, is directly tied to the history of _______

in China.

• xiexie, writing

• nihao, poetry

• mahjong, warfare

• shuimohua, calligraphy

• shenme, song writing

Berlin blue was a synthetic dye produced in Germany. It was used for the vivid water in

• Winslow Homer’s The Gulf Stream

• John James Audubon’s Golden Eagle

• Georgia O’Keeffe’s Black Lava Bridge, Hana Coast No. 1

• Jacob Lawrence’s Washington Crossing the Delaware

• Katsushika Hokusai’s The Great Wave