WorksheetsFinals Practice
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What distinguishes television from video art?
Unlike television programs, video art can be viewed on video monitors, but not on a computer screen.
The moving image is not the subject matter of video art.
Only television uses animation.
Unlike television programs, video art can be viewed on video monitors, but not on a computer screen.
Early situation comedies typically
lacked diversity, thus reflecting prevailing racist attitudes of the time.
were one hour long, rather than the half-hour format that is common today.
centered on the social structure of the family and the larger community.
focused on upper-class families that audiences would want to emulate.
During the silent film years, films usually were shown
in a theater that was completely silent.
to the accompaniment of carefully coordinated music.
while a narrator contributed a running explanation.
with the dialogue being read by live actors in the theater.
Which arts appropriate the most from other arts?
dance and sculpture
music and poetry
painting and photography
opera and architecture
Which of the following refers to an elaborate solo song frequently used in opera?
pianissimo
aria
libretto
cantata
The origins of which of the following are traced to the early seventeenth century, when dancers performed interludes between scenes of an opera?
ballet
social dance
court dance
modern dance
Which of the following is based largely on African American spirituals and experience?
Medea
New Dance
Revelations
Swan Lake
In order for something to be art, it must be
Human-made
A painting
Beautiful
A natural phenomenon
What is the subject matter of theatre?
Plot
Soliloquy
The Human Condition
Fatal flaw
Why is repetition so important in music?
It is processed through the same part of the brain as empathy
It is difficult for the human ear to retain musical patterns
It makes a song sound more modern
It makes a song more interesting
In painting, what is an axis line?
The intersection of two points on a canvas.
A continuum of changes in the details and regions.
The property of reflecting light of a particular wavelength.
An imaginary line that helps determine basic visual directions.
The purity, vividness, or intensity of a hue refers to its
Saturation
Shading
Value
Texture
What is the antithesis of commercial entertainment television?
network programming
television serials
crime drama
video art
Who is the most celebrated video artist working today?
Peter Campus
Judith Barry
Bill Viola
Doug Aitken
Which of the following films features Rick as a expatriot bar owner during the height of World War II?
Casablanca
The Godfather
The Piano
Do The Right Thing
In appropriation, what is the artistic process?
None of the answers are correct.
to use only the media appropriate to the artist's own art
to mix the media of other art forms with the artist's own
to subordinate the media of the artist's own art to another artistic medium
In The Marriage of Figaro opera, which pattern did Mozart use to intensify the emotional effects of the music by repetition?
libretto
pointillism
arabesque
arpeggio
Matisse's The Dance took its inspiration from
one of Picasso's paintings.
designs by Shchukin's wife in Moscow.
a dance Matisse saw in a small fishing village.
the space in which it was painted.
How do states of mind differ from feelings?
They cannot be pretexts for dance.
They are more enduring.
Unlike feelings, they are synonymous with passions.
They are more transient.
Which of the following court dances was a favorite at Queen Elizabeth's court in the sixteenth century?
allemande
minuet
pavane
volta
