Question 1

What is the primary subject matter of sculptor Dan Flavin?

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A)  light and color
B)  stories from the bible
C)  surrealistic landscapes
D)  nude figuresE) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Question 2

Is Jane Hammond's Fallen an overall warm or cool "composition"?

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A)  warm
B)  cool
C)  both
D)  neitherE) B) and D)
F) All of the above

Question 3

How can an artist decrease a hue's intensity or saturation?

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Question 4

How has the restoration of the Sistine Chapel changed our understanding of Michelangelo's palette? Do you think Michelangelo used color to help define form?

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Question 5

In the history of art,the association of good with light and evil with dark was first fully-developed by

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A)  Leonardo DaVinci.
B)  Michelangelo.
C)  Artemesia Gentileschi.
D)  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.E) None of the above
F) B) and D)

Question 6

The artist that painted Le Chahut (The Can-Can) was interested in harmonizing complementary colors.The resulting process came to be known as

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A)  chromaticism.
B)  pointillism.
C)  orphism.
D)  constructivism.E) C) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 7

In the 1660s,who discovered that color is a direct function of light by passing sunlight through a prism and observing the bands of spectrum of colors?

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A)  Rembrandt van Rijn
B)  Isaac Newton
C)  Gianlorenzo Bernini
D)  Jacob van RuisdaelE) All of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 8

With atmospheric perspective,objects further from the viewer appear

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A)  warmer and more detailed
B)  cooler and less distinct
C)  warmer and less distinct
D)  cooler and more detailedE) B) and C)
F) All of the above

Question 9

What is yellow's complementary color?

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A)  blue
B)  red
C)  orange
D)  violetE) A) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 10

Jane Hammond's Fallen is made of many pieces,sewn together as a whole.What is it made of?

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A)  fallen autumn leaves
B)  cut-out paintings of leaves
C)  digitally scanned and printed images of a leaf
D)  fabric made to look like leavesE) All of the above
F) C) and D)

Question 11

The range of colors that an artist has preferred to use in a work is referred to as the

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A)  composition.
B)  style.
C)  palette.
D)  spectrum.E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 12

Discuss the emotional effects of warm and cool colors by citing examples from the chapter.

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Question 13

Artists sometimes choose to paint objects using colors that are not "true" to their optical or local colors.This is an example of the expressive use of

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A)  arbitrary color.
B)  artistic color.
C)  secondary color.
D)  oblique color.E) None of the above
F) A) and C)

Question 14

By the 19th century,the type of perspective used in paintings such as J.M.W.Turner's Rain,Steam,and Speed-The Great Western Railway had come to dominate the thinking of landscape painters.What type is it?

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A)  luminous perspective
B)  aerial or atmospheric perspective
C)  two-point linear perspective
D)  axonometric projectionE) C) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 15

The author describes Chuck Close's painting Stanley as

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A)  "layered" pointillism.
B)  "lusterless" and "murky."
C)  "polychromism as its best."
D)  All of the above.E) None of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 16

One of the chief tools employed by artists of the Renaissance to show the effects of light is

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A)  chiaroscuro.
B)  perspective.
C)  key.
D)  perceptual key.E) B) and C)
F) A) and C)

Question 17

The artist Artemisia Gentileschi heightens the drama of Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes by using a technique that comes from an Italian word meaning "murky." This technique is called

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A)  hatching.
B)  cross-hatching.
C)  tenebrism.
D)  simultaneous contrast.E) B) and D)
F) None of the above

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