CST Visual Arts Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass

CST Visual Arts Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass Prehistoric Art - -Art objects were created as an attempt to control or appease natural forces. -Symbols of animals and people had supernatural significance and magic powers -Cave paintings (created animal images to guarantee a successful hunt) no background subject seemed to float in space -Sculptures were either engraved, carved in deep relief, or fully rounded 3D sculptures -Architecture 3 basic forms (dolmen, menhir, cromlech) Archaic Art - -Period includes kouros stone figures and vase painting Classical Art - -Peak of Greek art and architecture 2 100% Pass Guarantee Katelyn Whitman, All Rights -Idealized figures -Exemplify order and harmony Hellenistic Art - -Greek-derived style -Found in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Egypt -More melodramatic than Classical style Navaho Art - -Southwest tribe known for geometric-design rugs colored with herbal and mineral dyes, especially carmine red. -Shamans created sand paintings to heal disease, promote fertility, or assure a successful hunt. Hopi Art - -Carved and painted kachina dolls out of cottonwood roots to represent gods and teach religion -Also decorated ceremonial underground kivas in Arizona with elaborate mural paintings of agriculture deities Kwakiutl Art - -Northwest coast tribe that produced totem poles, masks, and decorated houses and canoes 3 100% Pass Guarantee Katelyn Whitman, All Rights -Facial features of masks exaggerated in forceful wood carvings. Eskimo Art - -Alaskan tribe that carved masks with moving parts used by shamans -Often combined odd materials in surprising ways Mayan Art - -In Guatemala and Mexico, Mayans created enormous temples in stepped-pyramid form -Huge limestone temples were richly carved with relief sculpture and hieroglyphics. Aztec Art - -Produced massive statues of gods who demanded regular human sacrifices -Skilled in gold work Incan Art - -Peruvian tribe known for precisely constructed masonry temples and metallurgy Byzantine - -Refers to eastern Mediterranean art from A.D. 330 to 1453 4 100% Pass Guarantee Katelyn Whitman, All Rights -Combination of early Christian art with the Greek Oriental taste for rich decoration and color -Mosaics: intended to publicize the now official Christian creed, so their subject was generally religion w/ Christ shown as teacher and all powerful ruler, Sumptuous grandeur, with halos spotlighting sacred figures and shimmering gold backgrounds. Used reflective glass cubes, left surfaces uneven so it sparkled, wide range of colors, found on walls and ceilings especially church domes and apses, large cubes in stylized designs -Human figures were tall, slim, with almond-shaped faces, big eyes, and solemn expressions gazed straight ahead without the least hint of movement. They were flat, stiff, and symmetrically placed, seeming to float as if hung from pegs. No perspective or volume. -Icons (Small wood-panel paintings believed to possess supernatural powers. The image of saints or holy persons were typically rigid, frontal poses often with halos and staring wide eyes) -Architecture: Central-dome church Example: Hagia Sophia 5 100% Pass Guarantee Katelyn Whitman, All Rights -Place: Constantinople, Turkey Romanesque - -Mosaics: used opaque marble cubes, pieces had smooth/flat finish, colors were limited due to use of natural stones, typically found on floor of private homes, subjects were secular (battles or games), used minute pieces for realistic detail, background represented landscape -Frescoes and stylized sculpture -Architecture: Barrel-vaulted church Had round arches and stylized sculpture horizontal, modest height, multiple units, rounded arch, piers & walls for support, barrel & groin vaults, dark & solemn