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Test Bank for Exploring Art A Global, ThematicApproach (Revised) 5th Edition By Margaret Lazzari,
Dona Schlesier (
Contemporary art and popular culture often share the same images. - ANSWER
True
Art has several functions, including: - ANSWER Protesting social injustice;
instructing or teaching the viewer;
enhancing our environment
Describing this work of art as geometric refers to its ______. - ANSWER Visual
Form
Art is always a serious endeavor and never functions as entertainment. - ANSWER
False
The content of a work of art refers to ____. - ANSWER Its meaning
An equestrian sculpture is one that includes a ____. - ANSWER Horse
CHAPTER 2 QUESTIONS - ANSWER
Rhythm in art is demonstrated by the ____ of one or more of the elements of art. -
ANSWER Repetition
Black and white added to colors creates ____ and ____. - ANSWER Shades and
tints
Gesture lines are a type of line with an expressive character. - ANSWER True
An achromatic value scale doesn't utilize ____. - ANSWER Colors
Geodesic domes can be made without interior supports. - ANSWER True
Comlimentary colors are ____ each other on the color wheel. - ANSWER Opposite
CHAPTER 3 QUESTIONS - ANSWER
Drypoint, engraving, and aquatint are all versions of the ______ process. - ANSWER
Intaglio
Tempera, gouache, and watercolor are all water-based paint media. - ANSWER
True
, ____ is a type of printmaking process which uses a slab of limestone or metal and
oily crayons, pencils or liquid. - ANSWER Lithography
The oldest method of printing is probably - ANSWER Relief
____ sculptures are meant to be viewed from all sides. - ANSWER Freestanding
The word "intaglio" comes from the Italian verb meaning ____. - ANSWER To Cut
into
CHAPTER 4 QUESTIONS - ANSWER
While ____ was important to modernists, ____ is important to postmodernists. -
ANSWER Painting/Photography
Feminist criticism deals with ____ in art. - ANSWER Gender
Content is about a work of art's ____. - ANSWER Theme
Expressive criticism is __________. - ANSWER concerned with the artist
____ is a system of symbols that allows artists to refer to complex ideas. - ANSWER
Iconography
In a work of art, content is conveyed primarily in three ways: through its symbolic
references, through written materials and cultural context, and ____. - ANSWER
through the subject matter
CHAPTER 5 QUESTIONS - ANSWER
In the Japanese tea ceremony the tea bowls are part of a matching set to represent
that we are all similar. - ANSWER False
A ____ painting is a work of art, which uses a still life as a metaphor for the
inevitability of death - ANSWER Vanitas
As its name suggests, the ancient Greek ____ was used for carrying and storing
water. - ANSWER Hydria
Trajan's Market has tabernas whose form and arrangement suggests a ____. -
ANSWER shopping Mall
Wayne Thiebaud's paintings glorify the abundance of mass-produced food. -
ANSWER False
The Lascaux cave paintings, in southern France, were likely made for a ritual
purpose linked to food and survival. - ANSWER False
CHAPTER 5 QUIZ - ANSWER
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