TEST BANK
A World of Art 9th Edition
by Henry Sayre. Chapter 1 to 27
A WORLD OF
@ HENRY M. SAYRE
1
,TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART I-THE VISUAL WORLD: UNDERSTANDING THE ART YOU SEE
1. Discovering a World of Art
2. Developing Visual Literacy
PART II- THE FORMAL ELEMENTS AND THEIR DESIGN: DESCRIBING THE ART
YOU SEE
3. Line
4. Shape and Space
5. Light and Color
6. Texture, Time, and Motion
7. The Principles of Design
PART III- THE FINE ARTS MEDIA: LEARNING HOW ART IS MADE
8. Drawing
9. Painting
10. Printmaking
11. Photography and Time-Based Media
12. Sculpture
13. The Craft Media
14. Architecture
15. The Design Profession
16. Digital Media
PART IV -THE VISUAL RECORD: PLACING THE ARTS IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT
17. The Ancient World
18. The Age of Faith
19. The Renaissance through the Baroque
20. The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
21. From 1900 to the Present
PART V-THE THEMES OF ART: SEEING CONTINUITY AND CHANGE OVER TIME
22. Spiritual Belief
23. The Life Force
24. The Body, Gender, and Identity
25. The Individual and Cultural Identity
26. Power
27. Science, Industry, and the Environment
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, Test Bank for A World of Art, 9th Edition by Henry M. Sayre
Chapter 01: Discovering a World of Art
1. Renzo Piano's Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center is an example of "green architecture." Such
buildings are praised for their
A) self-sufficiency.
B) lack of windows.
C) use of high-tech materials.
D) lack of renewable resources.
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-01
Topic: The World as Artists See It
Skill: Understand the Concepts
Objective: 1.2 Define the creative process and describe the roles that artists most often assume when they
engage in that process.
Answer: A) self-sufficiency.
2. Jasper Johns chose to paint his image of the American flag to express
A) his proclivity for things seen but not examined.
B) his own patriotism during the McCarthy era.
C) a universal concept of freedom.
D) the injustices incurred during the Civil Rights Movement.
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-02
Topic: The World as We Perceive It
Skill: Understand the Concepts
Objective: 1.1 Differentiate between passive and active seeing.
Answer: A) his proclivity for things seen but not examined.
3. The imagery in Faith Ringgold's God Bless America was inspired by the
A) Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
B) parade in New York City on Allies Day, May 1917.
C) McCarthy era in the 1950s.
D) Desert Storm conflict.
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 01-03
Topic: The World as We Perceive It
Skill: Remember the Facts
Objective: 1.1 Differentiate between passive and active seeing.
Answer: A) Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
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, 4. What is the function of the nkisi nkonde figure?
A) It pursues wrongdoers at night and punishes them when nails are driven into it.
B) It is purely aesthetic.
C) It is a fertility idol.
D) It was made so that it could be stolen and exhibited in museums in Europe and the United States.
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-04
Topic: The World as Artists See It
Skill: Understand the Concepts
Objective: 1.2 Define the creative process and describe the roles that artists most often assume when they
engage in that process.
Answer: A) It pursues wrongdoers at night and punishes them when nails are driven into it.
5. Artist Vija Celmins challenges us to look carefully in her work, To Fix the Image in Memory, by
A) casting eleven stones in bronze and painting them to resemble the original stones as closely as possible.
B) taking small river stones and lining them on a windowsill.
C) making individual paintings of eleven different stones.
D) creating a large stone monument.
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-05
Topic: The World as We Perceive It
Skill: Understand the Concepts
Objective: 1.1 Differentiate between passive and active seeing.
Answer: A) casting eleven stones in bronze and painting them to resemble the original stones as closely as
possible.
6. According to Sayre, what are the three steps in the process of "seeing"?
A) reception, extraction, inference
B) detection, processing, reference
C) looking, seeing, believing
D) reception, interpreting, understanding
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-06
Topic: The World as We Perceive It
Skill: Understand the Concepts
Objective: 1.1 Differentiate between passive and active seeing.
Answer: A) reception, extraction, inference
7. What might have affected Pablo Picasso's severe style of representation seen in Les Demoiselles
d'Avignon?
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A World of Art 9th Edition
by Henry Sayre. Chapter 1 to 27
A WORLD OF
@ HENRY M. SAYRE
1
,TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART I-THE VISUAL WORLD: UNDERSTANDING THE ART YOU SEE
1. Discovering a World of Art
2. Developing Visual Literacy
PART II- THE FORMAL ELEMENTS AND THEIR DESIGN: DESCRIBING THE ART
YOU SEE
3. Line
4. Shape and Space
5. Light and Color
6. Texture, Time, and Motion
7. The Principles of Design
PART III- THE FINE ARTS MEDIA: LEARNING HOW ART IS MADE
8. Drawing
9. Painting
10. Printmaking
11. Photography and Time-Based Media
12. Sculpture
13. The Craft Media
14. Architecture
15. The Design Profession
16. Digital Media
PART IV -THE VISUAL RECORD: PLACING THE ARTS IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT
17. The Ancient World
18. The Age of Faith
19. The Renaissance through the Baroque
20. The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
21. From 1900 to the Present
PART V-THE THEMES OF ART: SEEING CONTINUITY AND CHANGE OVER TIME
22. Spiritual Belief
23. The Life Force
24. The Body, Gender, and Identity
25. The Individual and Cultural Identity
26. Power
27. Science, Industry, and the Environment
2
, Test Bank for A World of Art, 9th Edition by Henry M. Sayre
Chapter 01: Discovering a World of Art
1. Renzo Piano's Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center is an example of "green architecture." Such
buildings are praised for their
A) self-sufficiency.
B) lack of windows.
C) use of high-tech materials.
D) lack of renewable resources.
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-01
Topic: The World as Artists See It
Skill: Understand the Concepts
Objective: 1.2 Define the creative process and describe the roles that artists most often assume when they
engage in that process.
Answer: A) self-sufficiency.
2. Jasper Johns chose to paint his image of the American flag to express
A) his proclivity for things seen but not examined.
B) his own patriotism during the McCarthy era.
C) a universal concept of freedom.
D) the injustices incurred during the Civil Rights Movement.
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-02
Topic: The World as We Perceive It
Skill: Understand the Concepts
Objective: 1.1 Differentiate between passive and active seeing.
Answer: A) his proclivity for things seen but not examined.
3. The imagery in Faith Ringgold's God Bless America was inspired by the
A) Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
B) parade in New York City on Allies Day, May 1917.
C) McCarthy era in the 1950s.
D) Desert Storm conflict.
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 01-03
Topic: The World as We Perceive It
Skill: Remember the Facts
Objective: 1.1 Differentiate between passive and active seeing.
Answer: A) Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
1
, 4. What is the function of the nkisi nkonde figure?
A) It pursues wrongdoers at night and punishes them when nails are driven into it.
B) It is purely aesthetic.
C) It is a fertility idol.
D) It was made so that it could be stolen and exhibited in museums in Europe and the United States.
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-04
Topic: The World as Artists See It
Skill: Understand the Concepts
Objective: 1.2 Define the creative process and describe the roles that artists most often assume when they
engage in that process.
Answer: A) It pursues wrongdoers at night and punishes them when nails are driven into it.
5. Artist Vija Celmins challenges us to look carefully in her work, To Fix the Image in Memory, by
A) casting eleven stones in bronze and painting them to resemble the original stones as closely as possible.
B) taking small river stones and lining them on a windowsill.
C) making individual paintings of eleven different stones.
D) creating a large stone monument.
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-05
Topic: The World as We Perceive It
Skill: Understand the Concepts
Objective: 1.1 Differentiate between passive and active seeing.
Answer: A) casting eleven stones in bronze and painting them to resemble the original stones as closely as
possible.
6. According to Sayre, what are the three steps in the process of "seeing"?
A) reception, extraction, inference
B) detection, processing, reference
C) looking, seeing, believing
D) reception, interpreting, understanding
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 01-06
Topic: The World as We Perceive It
Skill: Understand the Concepts
Objective: 1.1 Differentiate between passive and active seeing.
Answer: A) reception, extraction, inference
7. What might have affected Pablo Picasso's severe style of representation seen in Les Demoiselles
d'Avignon?
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