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To Focus or Not to Focus Pankey

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the photographic style where the artists tried to make their pictures look like paintings?

a)

Pictorialism

b)

Realism

c)

Pseudophotography

d)

Lens retouching

2.

Which of the following images is from the Pictorialist movement?

a)
b)
c)
d)
3.

The Pictorialists wanted to make their photos look like...

a)

paintings

b)

garbage

c)

real life

d)

children's drawings

4.

What is NOT one of the processes the Pictorialists used?

a)

Sharp focus

b)

Snow

c)

Fog

d)

chemicals

5.

What is the main idea of the essay "To Focus or Not to Focus"?

a)

The styles of photography can change.

b)

Photography rarely changes.

c)

Weston and Adams were the same person.

d)

Adams was secretly a Pictorialist.

6.

Edward Weston and Ansel Adams believed that photographs should show...

a)

Life as it really is

b)

A lot of booty

c)

paintings

d)

their contemporaries

7.

What was the name of the group that Edwards and Weston founded?

a)

f/64

b)

Figure 8

c)

Contemporaries

d)

Abstractures

8.

dominant-

a)

superior or strongest

b)

least favorite

c)

most hated

d)

infamous

9.

origins-

a)

where something came from or how it began

b)

where something ends and dies

c)

where something gets destroyed

d)

how something breaks into pieces

10.

contemporaries-

a)

A group of people doing the same kind of things around the same time

b)

New stuff

c)

Old stuff

d)

A group of people taking pictures of mountains

11.

Who do you think took this picture?

a)

Ansel Adams

b)

Edward Weston

c)

Pablo Picasso

d)

Georgia O'Keefe

12.

Who do you think took this picture?

a)

Ansel Adams

b)

Edward Weston

c)

Pablo Picasso

d)

Georgia O'Keefe

13.

mundane

a)

boring and ordinary

b)

exciting

c)

scary

d)

black and white

14.

Where did Ansel Adams take many of his pictures?

a)

Yosemite National Park

b)

New England

c)

France

d)

Europe

15.

Where did Pictorialism begin?

a)

Europe

b)

Yosemite National Park

c)

The American West

d)

Africa

16.

How can you tell what the 'main idea' of an essay is?

a)

It is something that is discussed in every paragraph.

b)

It is something that is only found in one paragraph or sentence.

c)

It is something that can apply to many things other than the topic of the essay.

d)

It is something about the author.

17.

How can you tell what a 'specific idea' in an essay is?

a)

It is something that is discussed in every paragraph.

b)

It is something that is only found in one paragraph or sentence.

c)

It is something that can apply to many things other than the topic of the essay.

d)

It is something about the author.

18.

What is a 'general idea' in an essay?

a)

It is something that is discussed in every paragraph.

b)

It is something that is only found in one paragraph or sentence.

c)

It is something that can apply to many other things yet including the topic of the essay.

d)

It is something about the author.

19.

Which statement is specific?

a)

Ansel Adams and Edward Weston took sharply focused photographs.

b)

A lot of art forms can show realistic things.

c)

Some photos are out of focus.

d)

Styles in the arts are known to periodically change.

20.

Which statement is general?

a)

Art styles change from time to time.

b)

Adams took pictures of Yosemite National Park.

c)

Weston took pictures of mundane things.

d)

Pictorialists wanted their pictures to look like paintings.