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Art History Exam Quiz

Total questions: 63

Worksheet time: 1hrs 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does Tenebrism mean?

a)

Darkened and Obscuring

b)

Light and Dark

c)

Darkish

d)

White

2.

What does Chiaroscuro mean?

(a)  

3.

What does Dynamism mean?

a)

The power of the mind

b)

Matter

c)

The theory that phenomena of matter or mind are due to the action of forces rather than to motion or matter.

d)

Mind over matter

4.

What was the purpose of the Counter Reformation in the early 16th and 17th centuries?

(a)  

5.

Who were the Council of Trent?

(a)  

6.

What does Idolatry mean?

a)

Worshiping of a false idol

b)

The worship of a cult image or “idol” as though it were a deity.

c)

A meme

d)

Icon

7-8.

7.

What country is this?

a)

America

b)

Greece

c)

Rome

d)

Italy

8.

What is Italy known for?

(a)  

9.

What is Absolutism?

a)

A political system in which one ruler or leader has complete power and authority over a country

b)

Religious and secular rulers consolidate influence and wealth using images of grandeur in art and architecture to communicate power.

c)

Higher power people

d)

Being absolute

10.

What Painting is this? (Include artist, name, date, mediums, dimensions and location)

(a)  

11.

What painting is this? (Include: artist, name, date, mediums, dimensions and location)

(a)  

12.

What painting is this? (Include: artist, name, date, mediums, dimensions and location)

(a)  

13.

Iconoclasm is…

a)

The rejection or destruction of religious images as heretical.

b)

A destroyer of images used in religious worship.

c)

Those who oppose icons.

d)

A person who attacks cherish beliefs and institutions.

14.

What is a group portrait?

(a)  

15.

What is ground in a painting?

(a)  

16.

What is a imprimatura?

a)

Impurity

b)

Ground in a painting

c)

A thin preliminary glaze applied to the ground in a painting.

d)

Glaze

17.

What is genre painting?

a)

A form of genre art that depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities.

b)

Different forms of paintings

c)

Offerings in paintings

d)

Multiple different aspects in one painting.

18-19.

18.

What country is this?

(a)  

19.

What is the Netherlands known for?

(a)  

20.

What painting is this? (Include: artist, name, date, mediums, dimensions and location)

(a)  

21.

What painting is this? (Include: artist, name, date, mediums, dimensions and location)

(a)  

22.

What painting is this? (Include: artist, name, date, mediums, dimensions and location)

(a)  

23.

What is enlightenment?

a)

Reaching enlightenment

b)

The acts or means of enlightening

c)

sought to express the ideals of rationality, morality, and reason that are part of Locke and Newton's philosophies

d)

Philosophy of rational thought based on empirical evidence and optimism for the perfectibility of human society, championed science and progress.

24.

Explain Federal Style

(a)  

25-26.

25.

What country is this?

a)

France

b)

Italy

c)

Paris

d)

Madagascar

26.

What is France known for?

(a)  

27.

What painting is this? (Include: artist, name, date, medium, dimensions and location)

(a)  

28.

What painting is this? (Include: artist, name, date, medium, dimensions and location)

(a)  

29.

What painting is this? (Include: artist, name, date, medium, dimensions and location)

(a)  

30.

What is Indigo?

a)

A nice blue color

b)

A plant source of blue dye from ancient Mesopotamia

c)

Synthetic blue dye

d)

Blue dye

31.

What is Prussian Blue or Berlin Blue?

a)

Blue

b)

A synthetic blue color created in America

c)

A secondary color

d)

A synthetic blue color created in Germany

32-33.

32.

What country is this?

a)

Germany

b)

Italy

c)

Berlin

d)

France

33.

What is Berlin known for?

(a)  

34.

Edo was…

(a)  

35.

Ukiyo-e means…

a)

A school of Japanese art depicting subjects from everyday life.

b)

Painting in Japanese

c)

Ocean or water

d)

“Pictures of the floating world”

36.

What does Aizuri-e mean?

(a)  

37.

What is Polychrome?

a)

Painted, printed or decorated in serval colors

b)

A black and white painting

c)

Multiple forms of art

d)

Multiple colors

38.

What painting is this? (Include: artist, name, date, medium, dimensions and location)

(a)  

39.

What is this painting? (Include: artist, name, date, mediums, dimensions and location)

(a)  

40.

Rods are responsible for…

a)

Vision at low light levels (scotopic vision)

b)

Higher level vision (photopic vision)

c)

No vision

d)

Color blind

41.

Cons are responsible for…

a)

Higher light levels (photopic vision

b)

Capable of color vision and are responsible for high spatial acuity

c)

Low light levels

d)

Blurry vision

42.

Perceptual Color is…

(a)  

43.

What are the physics of color?

(a)  

44.

What are primary colors?

a)

Blue and green

b)

Mixing secondary colors

c)

Any group of colors which all the colors can be obtained by mixing.

d)

None

45.

What is a secondary color?

a)

Colors being obtained by mixing

b)

A color resulting from the mixing of two primary colors

c)

Pairs of colors when mixed make black

d)

Two colors when mixed make white

46.

What are Complementary colors?

(a)  

47.

What is Chevreul’’s Theory?

(a)  

48.

What is a additive color?

(a)  

49.

What is a subtractive color?

a)

Subtracting colors

b)

Uses ink to display color by mixing cyan, magenta, yellow and black.

c)

Taking away colors

d)

The system used for color printing.

50.

What is the color wheel/circle?

(a)  

51.

Explain the RGB color model.

(a)  

52.

What is CMYK?

a)

The four ink plates used in some color printing

b)

Secondary Colors

c)

Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key(black)

d)

Primary colors

53.

What is Mauveine?

a)

Green dye

b)

Synthetic purple dye created 1850’s in England by chemist William Henry Perkin.

c)

Natural purple dye

d)

Pink dye

54-55.

54.

What country is this?

a)

America

b)

Germany

c)

Italy

d)

Ghana

55.

What is Ghana known for?

(a)  

56.

Explain Gold Coast Africa.

(a)  

57.

What is Colonialism?

(a)  

58.

What are Regalia’s?

a)

Emblems or insignia of royalty

b)

Crown, scepter, other ornaments used in a coronation

c)

Jewelry

d)

Throne

59.

Explain the a Kente Cloth and it's importance.

(a)  

60.

What image is this? (Include: artist, name, date, mediums, dimensions and location)

(a)  

61.

What image is this? (Include: artist, name, date, mediums, dimensions and location)

(a)  

62.

Explain Colonialism.

(a)  

63.

What is an ethnographic museum?

a)

A regular museum

b)

A museum for American History

c)

A specialized history museum that conserves, display, and contextualize items relevant to the study of people and their histories

d)

A history of museum for Indigenous history

64.

What is a formline?

(a)  

65.

What is positive space?

a)

Being positive about art.

b)

Refers to the areas of interest and focus in a piece of artwork.

c)

The empty space in a piece of artwork.

d)

A planet in space

66.

What is negative space?

a)

Refers to the areas of empty space in a piece of artwork.

b)

Refers to the areas of interest in a piece of artwork.

c)

Symmetry in an artwork

d)

The formline

67.

What image is this? (Include: artist, name, date, mediums, dimensions and location)

(a)  

68.

What image is this? (Include: artist, name, date, mediums, dimensions and location)

(a)