Art 2 1st sem week 2

Studying which of the following will allow you to communicate important

facts about a work of art, such as social and biographical information?

• art history

• art criticism

• elements of art

• principles of art

The purpose of the screen painting Waves at Matsushima was to

• decorate a private home.

• decorate a government building

• inspire the viewer to meditate.

• serve as a gift for a princess.

The artist from whose work Morisot learned to recognize the effects of

natural light and ambience was

• Manet.

• Corot.

• Hassam.

• Courbet.

Which of the following art styles used dabs of bright color to reproduce on

canvas the fleeting effects of light and shade on a subject?

• Realism

• Impressionism

• Expressionism

• Cubism

Morisot’s paintings illustrate

• the colorful festivals of nineteenth-century France.

• the difficulties of the poor in nineteenth-century France.

• the daily lives of factory workers in nineteenth-century France.

• leisurely side of French life in the nineteenth-century France.

Allies Day, May 1917 marks America’s entry into

• the Vietnam War.

• the Revolutionary War.

• World War II.

• World War I.

Which of the following artists had the greatest influence on Morisot and

taught her to paint with the same bold, irregular, and rapid strokes that he

himself used?

• Manet

• Corot

• Monet

• Picasso

The columns in Persian palaces were used mainly for

• decoration.

• support.

• style.

• none of the above.

Cave-dwelling artists used shading to help create the impression of

• flat, static forms.

• dull, uninteresting forms

• repetitious forms.

• three-dimensional forms.

During the Neo-Sumerian period, which king ordered many new temples

to be built?

• Gudea

• Nebuchadnezzar

• Akka

• Hammurabi