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WorksheetsArt History Exam Quiz
Total questions: 63
Worksheet time: 1hrs 6mins
What does Tenebrism mean?
Darkened and Obscuring
Light and Dark
Darkish
White
What does Chiaroscuro mean?
(a)
What does Dynamism mean?
The power of the mind
Matter
The theory that phenomena of matter or mind are due to the action of forces rather than to motion or matter.
Mind over matter
What was the purpose of the Counter Reformation in the early 16th and 17th centuries?
(a)
Who were the Council of Trent?
(a)
What does Idolatry mean?
Worshiping of a false idol
The worship of a cult image or “idol” as though it were a deity.
A meme
Icon
What country is this?
America
Greece
Rome
Italy
What is Italy known for?
(a)
What is Absolutism?
A political system in which one ruler or leader has complete power and authority over a country
Religious and secular rulers consolidate influence and wealth using images of grandeur in art and architecture to communicate power.
Higher power people
Being absolute
What Painting is this? (Include artist, name, date, mediums, dimensions and location)
(a)
What painting is this? (Include: artist, name, date, mediums, dimensions and location)
(a)
What painting is this? (Include: artist, name, date, mediums, dimensions and location)
(a)
Iconoclasm is…
The rejection or destruction of religious images as heretical.
A destroyer of images used in religious worship.
Those who oppose icons.
A person who attacks cherish beliefs and institutions.
What is a group portrait?
(a)
What is ground in a painting?
(a)
What is a imprimatura?
Impurity
Ground in a painting
A thin preliminary glaze applied to the ground in a painting.
Glaze
What is genre painting?
A form of genre art that depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities.
Different forms of paintings
Offerings in paintings
Multiple different aspects in one painting.
What country is this?
(a)
What is the Netherlands known for?
(a)
What painting is this? (Include: artist, name, date, mediums, dimensions and location)
(a)
What painting is this? (Include: artist, name, date, mediums, dimensions and location)
(a)
What painting is this? (Include: artist, name, date, mediums, dimensions and location)
(a)
What is enlightenment?
Reaching enlightenment
The acts or means of enlightening
sought to express the ideals of rationality, morality, and reason that are part of Locke and Newton's philosophies
Philosophy of rational thought based on empirical evidence and optimism for the perfectibility of human society, championed science and progress.
Explain Federal Style
(a)
What country is this?
France
Italy
Paris
Madagascar
What is France known for?
(a)
What painting is this? (Include: artist, name, date, medium, dimensions and location)
(a)
What painting is this? (Include: artist, name, date, medium, dimensions and location)
(a)
What painting is this? (Include: artist, name, date, medium, dimensions and location)
(a)
What is Indigo?
A nice blue color
A plant source of blue dye from ancient Mesopotamia
Synthetic blue dye
Blue dye
What is Prussian Blue or Berlin Blue?
Blue
A synthetic blue color created in America
A secondary color
A synthetic blue color created in Germany
What country is this?
Germany
Italy
Berlin
France
What is Berlin known for?
(a)
Edo was…
(a)
Ukiyo-e means…
A school of Japanese art depicting subjects from everyday life.
Painting in Japanese
Ocean or water
“Pictures of the floating world”
What does Aizuri-e mean?
(a)
What is Polychrome?
Painted, printed or decorated in serval colors
A black and white painting
Multiple forms of art
Multiple colors
What painting is this? (Include: artist, name, date, medium, dimensions and location)
(a)
What is this painting? (Include: artist, name, date, mediums, dimensions and location)
(a)
Rods are responsible for…
Vision at low light levels (scotopic vision)
Higher level vision (photopic vision)
No vision
Color blind
Cons are responsible for…
Higher light levels (photopic vision
Capable of color vision and are responsible for high spatial acuity
Low light levels
Blurry vision
Perceptual Color is…
(a)
What are the physics of color?
(a)
What are primary colors?
Blue and green
Mixing secondary colors
Any group of colors which all the colors can be obtained by mixing.
None
What is a secondary color?
Colors being obtained by mixing
A color resulting from the mixing of two primary colors
Pairs of colors when mixed make black
Two colors when mixed make white
What are Complementary colors?
(a)
What is Chevreul’’s Theory?
(a)
What is a additive color?
(a)
What is a subtractive color?
Subtracting colors
Uses ink to display color by mixing cyan, magenta, yellow and black.
Taking away colors
The system used for color printing.
What is the color wheel/circle?
(a)
Explain the RGB color model.
(a)
What is CMYK?
The four ink plates used in some color printing
Secondary Colors
Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key(black)
Primary colors
What is Mauveine?
Green dye
Synthetic purple dye created 1850’s in England by chemist William Henry Perkin.
Natural purple dye
Pink dye
What country is this?
America
Germany
Italy
Ghana
What is Ghana known for?
(a)
Explain Gold Coast Africa.
(a)
What is Colonialism?
(a)
What are Regalia’s?
Emblems or insignia of royalty
Crown, scepter, other ornaments used in a coronation
Jewelry
Throne
Explain the a Kente Cloth and it's importance.
(a)
What image is this? (Include: artist, name, date, mediums, dimensions and location)
(a)
What image is this? (Include: artist, name, date, mediums, dimensions and location)
(a)
Explain Colonialism.
(a)
What is an ethnographic museum?
A regular museum
A museum for American History
A specialized history museum that conserves, display, and contextualize items relevant to the study of people and their histories
A history of museum for Indigenous history
What is a formline?
(a)
What is positive space?
Being positive about art.
Refers to the areas of interest and focus in a piece of artwork.
The empty space in a piece of artwork.
A planet in space
What is negative space?
Refers to the areas of empty space in a piece of artwork.
Refers to the areas of interest in a piece of artwork.
Symmetry in an artwork
The formline
What image is this? (Include: artist, name, date, mediums, dimensions and location)
(a)
What image is this? (Include: artist, name, date, mediums, dimensions and location)
(a)
