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Art Periods

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 40mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
This painting is what style of art? 
a)
Impressionism
b)
Dada
c)
Expressionism
d)
Rococo
2.
This painting belongs to which art movement?
a)
Post Impressionism
b)
Non-Objective
c)
Impressionism
d)
Realsim
3.
This is an example of what art style?
a)
Abstract
b)
Cubism
c)
Expressionism
d)
Surrealism
4.
This is an example of what art movement? 
a)
Surrealism
b)
Dada
c)
Exoressionism
d)
Renissance
5.

This is an example of which art style?

a)

Surrealism

b)

Cubism

c)

Post-Impressionism

d)

Expressionism

6.

Which art period is known for the importance of light entering art work?

a)

Impressionism

b)

Cubism

c)

Fauvism

d)

Realism

7.

Which art style influenced the creation of geometric objects and was co-founded by Georges Braque?

a)

Impressionism

b)

Expressionism

c)

Cubism

d)

Surrealism

8.

Which art style/ period used emotions as a base for its artwork?

a)

Realism

b)

Fauvism

c)

Expressionism

d)

Cubism

9.

Abstract art is defined as.....

a)

random placement of shapes and colors with no order or plan

b)

painting objects in a realistic way and removing some detail

c)

painting that an artist has no real vision for

d)

paintings that have planned shapes, colors, and lines that may or may not have a recognizable image.

10.

This period of art reflected emotions through color, even if it was not a realistic color of the object.

a)

Gothic

b)

Realism

c)

Abstract

d)

Fauvism

11.

This period of art focuses around popular images and themes with a minimal color palette.

a)

Realism

b)

Pop Art

c)

Romanicism

d)

Gothic

12.

This is an art process where an image is created using an assemblage of small piece of colored glass, stone or other materials.

a)

Encaustic

b)

Panel Painting

c)

Mosaic

d)

Kerch Style

13.

Paintings in this era are found in illuminated manuscript pages and frescoes on the walls of churches, The style is cosmopolitan, elegant, mannered and sophisticated.

a)

Romantic Era

b)

Gothic Era

c)

Medieval Era

d)

Ancient Egypt

14.

What period of art produced many mosaics?

a)

Late Medieval

b)

Classical Greek

c)

Byzantine

d)

Egyptian

15.

Which period of art grew from the Romanesque Period and is known primarily for its pointed architecture?

a)

Early Medieval

b)

Prehistoric

c)

Byzantine

d)

Gothic

16.

What art style is exemplified by the building shown here?

a)

Art Deco

b)

Art Nouveau

c)

Futurism

d)

Neoclassicism

17.

What mid-16th-century movement, Italian in origin, features distorted or elongated human figures?

a)

Mannerism

b)

Baroque

c)

High Renaissance

d)

Romanesque

18.

Jean-François Millet, Gustave Courbet, Théodore Rousseau were proponents of what movement that featured realistic depictions of nature?

a)

Barbizon School

b)

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

c)

Ashcan School

d)

Realism

19.

What Russian art movement is characterized by an industrial, angular style of work, and geometric abstraction?

a)

Constructivism

b)

Modernism

c)

Naive Art

d)

Symbolism

20.

Which movement included such members as Maurice Denis, Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard, and Ker-Xavier Roussel -- prophets of modern art?

a)

Les Nabis

b)

Environmental Art

c)

Social Realism

d)

The Eight

21.

What style consists of asymmetrical arrangements of curves in paneling, porcelain, and gold and features ornate curves, prettiness, and gaiety?

a)

Rococo

b)

Art Nouveau

c)

Aestheticism

d)

Neo-Impressionism

22.

Which movement was coined by French art critic Félix Fénéon in 1886 to describe an art movement founded by Georges Seurat?

a)

Neo-Impressionism

b)

Aestheticism

c)

Pointillism

d)

Op Art

23.

Which art style is exhibited in the painting?

a)

Abstract Expressionism

b)

Assemblage

c)

Constructivism

d)

Pop Art

24.

Velazquez and Bernini were artists in what period?

a)

Renaissance

b)

Baroque

c)

Romanesque

d)

Gothic

25.

The Lascaux cave paintings are...

a)

neolithic

b)

mesolithic

c)

paleolithic

d)

astrolithic

26.

Which of the following was a contributor to Neo-Classicism?

a)

Jaques-Louis David

b)

Antonio Canova

c)

Antoine Watteau

d)

Francisco Goya

27.

Which art style featured imaginative elements and a focus on passion, emotion, and observing the senses?

a)

Romanticism

b)

Rococo

c)

Symbolism

d)

Expressionism

28.

Dada emerged as a reaction against the horror and absurdity of which war?

a)

World War I

b)

Crimean War

c)

World War II

d)

Russo-Japanese War

29.

Which of the following artists was NOT a part of the Art Nouveau movment?

a)

Alphonse Mucha

b)

Antoni Gaudi

c)

Gustav Klimt

d)

Edward Hopper

30.

What characterized the style of arte povera?

a)

Use of soil, rocks, paper, and other natural elements to create a pre-industrial sentiment

b)

A focus on exactly what the art portrays, aside from outside realities and emotions

c)

Spontaneity, improvisation, colossally scaled works, unique techniques

d)

Use of colors, patterns, shapes, and contrast to create images that appeared to be moving or blurring

31.

What style is this painting?

a)

Art Nouveau

b)

Post-Impressionism

c)

Romanticism

d)

Art Deco

32.

Which Renaissance painter completed The School of Athens?

a)

Raphael

b)

Donatello

c)

Leonardo da Vinci

d)

Michaelangelo

33.

Who was a Fauvist other than Matisse?

a)

André Derain

b)

Wassily Kandinsky

c)

Max Ernst

d)

Mark Rothko

34.

Artwork in this movement presented unidealized views of city life in the saloons, tenements, pool halls, and slums.

a)

The Eight

b)

Barbizon School

c)

Realism

d)

Les Nabis

35.

Marcel Duchamp would be considered a proponent of which art style below?

a)

Conceptualism

b)

Minimalism

c)

Neo-Expressionism

d)

Street Art

36.

Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater, and James Abbott Whistler were proponents of what style?

a)

Aestheticism

b)

Social Realism

c)

Contemporary Art

d)

Ashcan School

37.

Hagia Sophia is from what period?

a)

Medieval

b)

Renaissance

c)

Ancient

d)

Prehistoric

38.

Barge Haulers on the Volga is a work from which period?

a)

Realism

b)

Neoclassicism

c)

Cubism

d)

Expressionism

39.

Os Retirantes is a work of what art style?

a)

Expressionism

b)

Fauvism

c)

Cubism

d)

Surrealism

40.

Bridget Riley is one of the most famous artists of what style?

a)

Op art

b)

Pop Art

c)

Photorealism

d)

Minimalism