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Quiz about An Introduction to Art History
Quiz about An Introduction to Art History

An Introduction to Art History Quiz


Some basics from art history.

A multiple-choice quiz by SuperRo. Estimated time: 10 mins.
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Author
SuperRo
Time
10 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
68,012
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
25
Difficulty
Difficult
Avg Score
11 / 25
Plays
3095
Last 3 plays: angostura (25/25), Guest 173 (19/25), Guest 199 (11/25).
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Question 1 of 25
1. Which is the oldest of these works of art? Hint


Question 2 of 25
2. What period do megaliths date from? Hint


Question 3 of 25
3. What style did much of ancient Egyptian art emphasize? Hint


Question 4 of 25
4. The art of which civilization depicted sea life and included statues of a female snake goddess? Hint


Question 5 of 25
5. What was contrapposto designed to do? Hint


Question 6 of 25
6. What style of art is exemplified by the Tara Brooch? Hint


Question 7 of 25
7. Which is NOT a characteristic of the Romanesque style? Hint


Question 8 of 25
8. Which is NOT a characteristic of the Gothic style? Hint


Question 9 of 25
9. The transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance provides a good example that history cannot always be neatly divided into a series of discrete and separate styles and events. Styles from this period cannot be neatly identified as either Gothic or Renaissance, but are rather a mixture of the two. Who is the artist most often mentioned in connection with this transitional time period? Hint


Question 10 of 25
10. The beginning of the Renaissance is generally attributed to a competition held in Florence in 1400 to design of the doors for the city's new cathedral. Who won? Hint


Question 11 of 25
11. What is considered to be Leonardo da Vinci's key innovation in painting? Hint


Question 12 of 25
12. Who is credited with innovating the subject matter of landscapes? Hint


Question 13 of 25
13. This term is generally used to refer to artworks produced from the late 16th century through the mid-18th century. They differ from Renaissance styles in that these artworks tend to be less static than Renaissance artworks and are characterized by a greater sense of movement and energy. What is the term for these artworks?

Answer: (One Word)
Question 14 of 25
14. This style celebrated gaiety, romance, and the frivolity of the grand life of court, particularly the court at Versailles. The emphasis was on light-hearted decoration with the use of gold and pastel colors. What was this style?

Answer: (One Word)
Question 15 of 25
15. Who introduced the neoclassical style to France? Hint


Question 16 of 25
16. This style tended to be highly imaginative and was characterized by an emotional and dreamlike quality. It was something of a revolt against the Enlightenment and Science. William Blake was an example of this movement. What is this style?

Answer: (One Word)
Question 17 of 25
17. This style was inspired by the idea that painting was bound to show all the features of its subjects, including the negative ones. What is this style?

Answer: (One Word)
Question 18 of 25
18. This movement largely grew out of dissatisfaction with the rigid rules that had come to dominate the Salons. It was characterized clear, bright colors and feelings of light and air. What is this style?

Answer: (One Word)
Question 19 of 25
19. Which of these was NOT a post-Impressionist? Hint


Question 20 of 25
20. These artists created a style that attempted to return to the simpler forms of pre-Renaissance art. They created many quasi-religious works that often blended Romantic, archaic, and moralistic elements. Who were they? Hint


Question 21 of 25
21. This was a group of artists led by Henri Matisse. What was it?

Answer: (One Word)
Question 22 of 25
22. This movement was led by Russian artist Vasily Kandinsky. What was it? Hint


Question 23 of 25
23. This movement originated among a group of dissatisfied intellectuals living in Zurich and grew out of the angst of artists who were disillusioned with the First World War. What was it?

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Question 24 of 25
24. Some artists, influenced by the theories of Sigmund Freud, attempted to portray the inner workings of the mind in their artworks. This group became known as what?

Answer: (One Word)
Question 25 of 25
25. And finally, we'll end with an easy one: this was the school of design that attempted to reconcile industrial mass-manufacture with aesthetic form?

Answer: (One Word)

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1. Which is the oldest of these works of art?

Answer: Chauvet cave paintings

The Chauvet cave paintings date from 30,000 BCE and are placed in the Old Stone Age. The Lascaux and Altamira came later (c. 13,000-11,000 BCE). The Venus of Willendorf was c. 28,000-25,000 BCE.
2. What period do megaliths date from?

Answer: Neolithic Period

The most famous of these megaliths is Stonehenge, located on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England.
3. What style did much of ancient Egyptian art emphasize?

Answer: hieratic scale

Hieratic scale uses the status of figured or objects to determine their relative sizes within an artwork.
4. The art of which civilization depicted sea life and included statues of a female snake goddess?

Answer: Minoan

The Mycenaeans built elaborate tombs, and the objects that are best known from their art culture are made of gold and show mastery of goldsmithing. The Cycladic culture showed simplified geometric figures that demonstrate an affinity with modern abstract art.
5. What was contrapposto designed to do?

Answer: give the figure a more dynamic appearance

Contrapposto was invented to show the body to its best advantage. It involves showing most of the weight on one foot, so that the upper body is centred on a different axis from the lower part of the body.
6. What style of art is exemplified by the Tara Brooch?

Answer: Hiberno-Saxon

The Hiberno-Saxon style is the result of the merging of Viking, English, and Celtic artistic styles.
7. Which is NOT a characteristic of the Romanesque style?

Answer: ribbed groin vaults

The Romanesque churches were stone-vaulted buildings and replaced many churches that had highly flammable wooden roofs.
8. Which is NOT a characteristic of the Gothic style?

Answer: windows decorated with carving and relief sculpture

The Gothic style developed in the first half of the twelfth century and remained popular into the sixteenth. The effect of tall arches and mysterious light from stained glass windows attracts attention heavenward.
9. The transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance provides a good example that history cannot always be neatly divided into a series of discrete and separate styles and events. Styles from this period cannot be neatly identified as either Gothic or Renaissance, but are rather a mixture of the two. Who is the artist most often mentioned in connection with this transitional time period?

Answer: Giotto di Bondone

Giotto di Bondone was a Florentine best known for his frescoes. His works were different from many Gothic ones, as he gave his figures powerful gestures and emotional expressions.
10. The beginning of the Renaissance is generally attributed to a competition held in Florence in 1400 to design of the doors for the city's new cathedral. Who won?

Answer: Ghiberti

Lorenzo Ghiberti won. The winning door panel had figures that harkened back to the figures of classical Greece. Brunelleschi finished in second place. He would go on to design the dome on the Cathedral of Florence.
11. What is considered to be Leonardo da Vinci's key innovation in painting?

Answer: sfumato

Sfumato (from fumo, meaning smoke) is the use of mellowed colors and a blurred outline. It allows forms to blend subtly into one another without perceptible transitions. Sfumato is readily apparent in the 'Mona Lisa.'
12. Who is credited with innovating the subject matter of landscapes?

Answer: Giorgione

Until his work 'The Tempest,' artists usually began by drawing the figures that were to be the subject matter of the painting and added in the background later. However, in 'The Tempest,' the landscape became the focus of the painting.
13. This term is generally used to refer to artworks produced from the late 16th century through the mid-18th century. They differ from Renaissance styles in that these artworks tend to be less static than Renaissance artworks and are characterized by a greater sense of movement and energy. What is the term for these artworks?

Answer: baroque

The Baroque artists, influenced by the Counter Reformation, aimed at dramatic and moving appeals to faith.
14. This style celebrated gaiety, romance, and the frivolity of the grand life of court, particularly the court at Versailles. The emphasis was on light-hearted decoration with the use of gold and pastel colors. What was this style?

Answer: rococo

While the rococo style might be seen as an extension of the baroque period, it is quite different in style and content. The baroque aimed to arouse grand emotions. Rococo was more light-hearted.
15. Who introduced the neoclassical style to France?

Answer: Jacques Louis David

Neoclassicism hearkened back to ancient Greek and Roman ideals.
16. This style tended to be highly imaginative and was characterized by an emotional and dreamlike quality. It was something of a revolt against the Enlightenment and Science. William Blake was an example of this movement. What is this style?

Answer: Romanticism

The Romantics favored feeling over reason. Romantic works are also characterized by their incorporation of exotic or melodramatic elements, and often take awe-inspiring natural wonders as their subject matter. Eugene Delacroix, and Theodore Gericault were some other important Romantic artists.
17. This style was inspired by the idea that painting was bound to show all the features of its subjects, including the negative ones. What is this style?

Answer: Realism

This is in many ways a reaction to neoclassicism and Romanticism. Some prominent Realist artists were Honore Daumier, Jean-Francois Millet, and Gustave Courbet.
18. This movement largely grew out of dissatisfaction with the rigid rules that had come to dominate the Salons. It was characterized clear, bright colors and feelings of light and air. What is this style?

Answer: Impressionism

Edouard Manet, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Claude Monet, Mary Cassatt, and Berthe Morisot are some prominent Impressionists.
19. Which of these was NOT a post-Impressionist?

Answer: Sisley

Sisley was a prominent Impressionist.
20. These artists created a style that attempted to return to the simpler forms of pre-Renaissance art. They created many quasi-religious works that often blended Romantic, archaic, and moralistic elements. Who were they?

Answer: Pre-Raphaelites

Their emphasis on nature and sweeping curves paved the way for a style known as art nouveau.
21. This was a group of artists led by Henri Matisse. What was it?

Answer: Fauves

Taking their cue from van Gogh, these artists no longer felt their use of color needed to replicate the colors seen in the real world, and their wild use of arbitrary color earned them the name of Fauves, or wild beasts.
22. This movement was led by Russian artist Vasily Kandinsky. What was it?

Answer: Der Blaue Reiter

Kandinsky began to paint total abstraction around 1913. Other pioneers of total abstraction were Casimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian.
23. This movement originated among a group of dissatisfied intellectuals living in Zurich and grew out of the angst of artists who were disillusioned with the First World War. What was it?

Answer: Dadaism

Dada was an art that aimed to protest against everything in society and to lampoon and ridicule attempted values and norms.
24. Some artists, influenced by the theories of Sigmund Freud, attempted to portray the inner workings of the mind in their artworks. This group became known as what?

Answer: Surrealists

This group of artists included such artists as Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, and Joan Miro.
25. And finally, we'll end with an easy one: this was the school of design that attempted to reconcile industrial mass-manufacture with aesthetic form?

Answer: Bauhaus

The Bauhaus was closed by the Nazis in 1933.
Source: Author SuperRo

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