ARH 100 MCCRSC The 20th Century Celebrated Frescoes MES VOEUX & Oil Paints Worksheet

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ARH100
Introduction to Art
Lesson 6 Assignment D – Part 1

This assignment is worth a total of 20 points.

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The most celebrated frescoes of the 20^th century were created in __________.

	China
	Italy
	India
	Mexico
	none of the above

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2 of 20

When oil paints emerged, most artists worked on canvas but gradually they adopted wood panels.

	True
	False

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3 of 20

Annette Messager’s assemblage MES VOEUX demonstrates the use of __________.

	hierarchical scale
	radial balance
	conceptual unity
	the golden section

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4 of 20

Georges Seurat utilized a technique in which tiny dots of color are massed together to build form, such as with the painting EVENING, HONFLEUR. This is called __________.

	pattern
	pointillism
	linear perspective
	isometric perspective

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5 of 20

It is the Europeans who are credited with the invention of paper.

	True
	False

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6 of 20

Which one of the following is NOT an example of dry media?

	pastel
	graphite
	crayon
	brush and ink
	All of the above are examples of dry media.

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7 of 20

Robert Rauschenberg’s work is challenging to categorize because he has created so much. Which one of the following is NOT attributed to him?

	prints
	graphic design for books and magazines
	costume and set design for dances
	reverse graffitti
	All of the above are attributed to Robert Rauschenberg.

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8 of 20

Which one of the following does NOT pertain to the Guerrilla Girls?

	Each Guerrilla Girl has taken the name of a prominent male artist in mockery.
	They wear gorilla masks when appearing in public.
	They are comprised of anonymous female artists.
	They came into existence in 1985 after the opening of a large art exhibition with less than 10% of the works by women.

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9 of 20

Which one of the following does NOT apply to tapestry?

	Tapestry involves two sets of threads, one the warp and the other the weft.
	Tapestry designs were produced as cartoons with full-scale painted drawings on paper.
	Tapestry refers to a wall, ceiling, floor, and outdoor decorating technique.
	Tapestry production started in Europe during the Middle Ages.

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10 of 20

With both RATHNASAMBHAVA, THE TRANSCENDENT BUDDHA OF THE SOUTH and Cimabue’s MADONNA ENTHRONED, the central figures are surrounded by angels wearing halos to signify their holiness.

	True
	False

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11 of 20

RATHNASAMBHAVA, THE TRANSCENDENT BUDDHA OF THE SOUTH and Cimabue’s MADONNA ENTHRONED are similar in all of these ways EXCEPT __________.

	they share a common theme of the sacred
	their compositional structure is similar
	they both include symbolic hand gestures
	they share the same iconography

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12 of 20

Which one of the following does NOT apply to artist Jacob Lawrence?

	His art conveys the theme of the hardships of poor people in the ghettos.
	He began to exhibit his artwork by the age of twenty.
	He never painted individual pictures.
	His work was often done in series, some of them with as many as sixty images.
	One of his preferred painting media was tempera.

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13 of 20

Which one of the following does NOT apply to Eugène Delacroix’s LIBERTY LEADING THE PEOPLE, 1830?

	Completed in 1830, it is housed at the Musée du Louvre.
	The artist condemns violence in the service of democracy.
	It demonstrates the art theme of politics and the social order.
	It shows a female personified as a Greek statue rallying the citizens of Paris, France.
	All of the above apply to the painting.

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14 of 20

Peter van Lint’s FARNESE HERCULES was created using __________ on blue paper.

	pencil
	chalk
	charcoal
	metalpoint

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15 of 20

Which one of the following does NOT pertain to charcoal?

	It is scorched wood and has been used since ancient times.
	The highest quality charcoal is made from heated willow twigs or special vine.
	Pure, solid charcoal is precious and rare, extracted from various ores.
	Natural charcoal makes a scattered, soft line that readily smudges.

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16 of 20

Which one of the following does NOT apply to Georgia O’Keeffe?

	She is most widely noted for her close-up paintings of flowers.
	Her goal was to record faithfully what she saw with expressive paintings.
	She did not conform to any particular artistic movement or school.
	She had a lifelong infatuation with the landscape of the Southwest.
	All of the above apply to Georgia O’Keeffe.

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17 of 20

Leonardo da Vinci’s THE LAST SUPPER __________.

	is a fresco painted on a monastery wall in Milan, Italy
	was painted in 1503-05
	uses atmospheric perspective to skillfully construct space
	depicts a story as related in the Gospel of John in the Bible

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18 of 20

Which one of the following statements is NOT TRUE?

	Acrylics or polymer paints dry fast and permanently.
	Gouache dries fast and uniformly.
	Oil paint dries very slowly.
	Tempera dries very fast.
	All of the above statements are true.

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19 of 20

Which one of the following is made with a DIFFERENT support?

	Beatriz Milhazes’s MARIPOSA
	Amy Sillman’s NUT
	Henri Rousseau’s THE DREAM
	Hieronymus Bosch’s THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS

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20 of 20

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen created shock value through the use of __________.

	symmetry
	foreshortening
	scale
	abstraction