Visual Arts CST Questions with Detailed Verified
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Quiz: Geometric Art (Greece), Ans: 9th - 8th Century B.C.
Pottery ornamented with geometric banding, friezes of simple animals,
humans
Quiz: Hellenistic Art (Greece), Ans: 323 - 31 B.C.
Greek derived style found in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Egypt
More melodramatic than Classical style
Quiz: Japanese woodblock printing, Ans: Flat, bright colored prints
Contrast, linear patterns
Cropped compositions, single point perspective
ukiyo-e prints - floating world (brothels, red light district)
Quiz: Waste Molding, Ans: Can only be used once
Plaster mold
Best for large scale sculpture
Steps: (1) coat original in vaseline or resist, section off with lines
(2) Coat with plaster mix in several layers
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,(3) Mother mold, cut based on sections
(4) Original is destroyed, fill mold with material
Quiz: Baroque, Ans: "The Ornate Age" - mid 16th - 18th century (1600 -
1750)
Sensitivity/Mastery of light for emotional impact
Roman Catholic Church - dramatic style - power and control
Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt, Velazquez
Quiz: Cubism, Ans: Analytic (1st phase) to Synthetic (2nd - collage)
Natural forms changed by geometrical reduction
Early 20th century
Many views of one subject
Picasso, Braque, Leger
Quiz: Art Nouveau, Ans: 1890s
Decorative style - forms based on objects found in nature
Gaudi (Barcelona, Spain)
Aubrey Beardsley - erotic illustration, based on Japanese prints
Quiz: Baldacchino, Ans: Ornamental canopy over an altar (church)
Quiz: S Curve, Ans: Ancient Greek and Roman sculpture
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, Extension of contrapposto
Quiz: Contrapposto, Ans: Italian "counterpose"
Weight shift on one foot
Quiz: Bauhaus, Ans: Walter Gropius
Functional and aesthetically pleasing
Mass produced for society
20th century
Quiz: Abstract Expressionism, Ans: New York 1940s painting movement
Non-representational
Action Painting
(deKooning, Pollock, Kline, etc)
Quiz: Armory Show, Ans: 1913 exhibition, New York
introduced Modernism (Paris) to America
Marcel Duchamp - Nude Descending a Staircase (II), 1912 - beginning of
Cubism
Quiz: Art Deco, Ans: Applied design, 1920s - 30s
Derived from French, African, Aztec, Chinese motifs
Architecture and crafts
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Quiz: Geometric Art (Greece), Ans: 9th - 8th Century B.C.
Pottery ornamented with geometric banding, friezes of simple animals,
humans
Quiz: Hellenistic Art (Greece), Ans: 323 - 31 B.C.
Greek derived style found in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Egypt
More melodramatic than Classical style
Quiz: Japanese woodblock printing, Ans: Flat, bright colored prints
Contrast, linear patterns
Cropped compositions, single point perspective
ukiyo-e prints - floating world (brothels, red light district)
Quiz: Waste Molding, Ans: Can only be used once
Plaster mold
Best for large scale sculpture
Steps: (1) coat original in vaseline or resist, section off with lines
(2) Coat with plaster mix in several layers
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,(3) Mother mold, cut based on sections
(4) Original is destroyed, fill mold with material
Quiz: Baroque, Ans: "The Ornate Age" - mid 16th - 18th century (1600 -
1750)
Sensitivity/Mastery of light for emotional impact
Roman Catholic Church - dramatic style - power and control
Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt, Velazquez
Quiz: Cubism, Ans: Analytic (1st phase) to Synthetic (2nd - collage)
Natural forms changed by geometrical reduction
Early 20th century
Many views of one subject
Picasso, Braque, Leger
Quiz: Art Nouveau, Ans: 1890s
Decorative style - forms based on objects found in nature
Gaudi (Barcelona, Spain)
Aubrey Beardsley - erotic illustration, based on Japanese prints
Quiz: Baldacchino, Ans: Ornamental canopy over an altar (church)
Quiz: S Curve, Ans: Ancient Greek and Roman sculpture
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, Extension of contrapposto
Quiz: Contrapposto, Ans: Italian "counterpose"
Weight shift on one foot
Quiz: Bauhaus, Ans: Walter Gropius
Functional and aesthetically pleasing
Mass produced for society
20th century
Quiz: Abstract Expressionism, Ans: New York 1940s painting movement
Non-representational
Action Painting
(deKooning, Pollock, Kline, etc)
Quiz: Armory Show, Ans: 1913 exhibition, New York
introduced Modernism (Paris) to America
Marcel Duchamp - Nude Descending a Staircase (II), 1912 - beginning of
Cubism
Quiz: Art Deco, Ans: Applied design, 1920s - 30s
Derived from French, African, Aztec, Chinese motifs
Architecture and crafts
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