ART 101 - Questions With Actual Answers
Andrea Mantegna's Dead Christ appears out of proportion due to... Right
Ans - foreshortening
A highly refined ceramic material that was initially produced in China and is
often used to produce objects that are semi-translucent, intricate, and glass-
like, is... Right Ans - porcelain
DaVinci's Madonna of the Rocks uses atmospheric perspective by including
Right Ans - the use of the color blue implying distance
Encaustic is a method of painting in which colored pigment is mixed with...
Right Ans - wax
In Kara Walker's Insurrection, the figures are drawn on the wall in the style
of... Right Ans - silhouettes
Agnes Martin used a simplified palette of color and line in her paintings as a
way to ponder... Right Ans - a world without objects, without interuption
Olafur Eliasson's Beauty is a work whose movement is dependent on...
Right Ans - the viewer moving through the space creating air movements
Which of the following was initially NOT designed as a large scale public
artwork for an exterior site? Right Ans - Alexander Calder's Le Grande
Vitesse (?)
John Whitten's Mass In Green is an example of an artwork that... Right Ans -
is radially balanced
When a composition has an even distribution of either actual weight or visual
weight it has Right Ans - balance
The Glorification of Saint Ignatius by Fra Andrea Pozzo manipulates the
viewers experience of space most evidently by... Right Ans - creating an
image that seemingly extends beyond the ceiling of the church
, The Annunciation (The Merode Altarpiece) was a departure from Italian
frescos because...
a) all of the answers apply
b) it was created using oil paint
c) it was much smaller in size
d)it had more depth and detail Right Ans - all of the answers apply
Olafur Eliasson in his video about Art and Space believes that space is critical
to consider in the way we experience artwork and the world because it...
a) it allows us to shape our own reality
b) it allows us to have shared experiences
c) it is tangible and negotiable
d)all answers apply Right Ans - all answers apply
Hokusai emphasizes scale in his Great Wave off Kanagawa by... Right Ans -
showing the waive as much larger than Mount Fuji in the composition
Cai Guo-Qiang recreated the line of the Great Wall of China using... Right
Ans - fireworks
A line that delineates shape and form is called a... Right Ans - contour line
Works of art that are created directly on a wall are generally referred to as...
Right Ans - murals
The viewer becomes an active element of Kara Walker's Insurrection when...
Right Ans - they approach the wall and their shadow is projected on the wall
The misunderstandings, barriers, and prejudices that exist between Islam and
the west are what Shirin Neshat's work comments on. She is uniquely situated
to create work like this because...
a) all the answers apply
b) she was born and raised in secular Iran
c)she feels as though she doesn't fully relate to contemporary Iranian culture,
or western culture.
d)she has spent much of her adult life in western countries Right Ans - all
the answers apply
Andrea Mantegna's Dead Christ appears out of proportion due to... Right
Ans - foreshortening
A highly refined ceramic material that was initially produced in China and is
often used to produce objects that are semi-translucent, intricate, and glass-
like, is... Right Ans - porcelain
DaVinci's Madonna of the Rocks uses atmospheric perspective by including
Right Ans - the use of the color blue implying distance
Encaustic is a method of painting in which colored pigment is mixed with...
Right Ans - wax
In Kara Walker's Insurrection, the figures are drawn on the wall in the style
of... Right Ans - silhouettes
Agnes Martin used a simplified palette of color and line in her paintings as a
way to ponder... Right Ans - a world without objects, without interuption
Olafur Eliasson's Beauty is a work whose movement is dependent on...
Right Ans - the viewer moving through the space creating air movements
Which of the following was initially NOT designed as a large scale public
artwork for an exterior site? Right Ans - Alexander Calder's Le Grande
Vitesse (?)
John Whitten's Mass In Green is an example of an artwork that... Right Ans -
is radially balanced
When a composition has an even distribution of either actual weight or visual
weight it has Right Ans - balance
The Glorification of Saint Ignatius by Fra Andrea Pozzo manipulates the
viewers experience of space most evidently by... Right Ans - creating an
image that seemingly extends beyond the ceiling of the church
, The Annunciation (The Merode Altarpiece) was a departure from Italian
frescos because...
a) all of the answers apply
b) it was created using oil paint
c) it was much smaller in size
d)it had more depth and detail Right Ans - all of the answers apply
Olafur Eliasson in his video about Art and Space believes that space is critical
to consider in the way we experience artwork and the world because it...
a) it allows us to shape our own reality
b) it allows us to have shared experiences
c) it is tangible and negotiable
d)all answers apply Right Ans - all answers apply
Hokusai emphasizes scale in his Great Wave off Kanagawa by... Right Ans -
showing the waive as much larger than Mount Fuji in the composition
Cai Guo-Qiang recreated the line of the Great Wall of China using... Right
Ans - fireworks
A line that delineates shape and form is called a... Right Ans - contour line
Works of art that are created directly on a wall are generally referred to as...
Right Ans - murals
The viewer becomes an active element of Kara Walker's Insurrection when...
Right Ans - they approach the wall and their shadow is projected on the wall
The misunderstandings, barriers, and prejudices that exist between Islam and
the west are what Shirin Neshat's work comments on. She is uniquely situated
to create work like this because...
a) all the answers apply
b) she was born and raised in secular Iran
c)she feels as though she doesn't fully relate to contemporary Iranian culture,
or western culture.
d)she has spent much of her adult life in western countries Right Ans - all
the answers apply
