Lesson 1 The Language of Art
EXAMINATION NUMBER
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1. Rachel Whiteread’s House and Zhan Wang’s Urban Landscape both utilize everyday objects to
A. show the joy of urban living.
B. compare urban life with rural life.
***C. demonstrate humanity’s loss due to urbanization.
D. demonstrate how modern architecture has improved society.
2. Picasso’s Girl before a Mirror and Constable’s The Glebe Farm both demonstrate the fact that the colors used by an artist in a painting
A. don’t really affect the spectator’s understanding and appreciation of that work.
***B. are sometimes naturalistic and sometimes arbitrary.
C. are not only naturalistic but also arbitrary.
D. are realistic and invented by the painter to convey an emotional content. …show more content…
Which of the following works of art was created by an artist who had no formal art training?
A. Marisol’s Last Supper
B. Marc Chagall’s I and the Village
****C. Anna Mary Moses’ Hoosick Falls
D. Frida Kahlo’s The Little Deer
10. Classical Greek artworks are not usually regarded as expressions of
A. athletic strength and physical beauty.
B. monumental vigor and spiritual growth.
***C. a balance of surrealism and rationalism.
D. realism balanced with idealism.
11. Which of the following twentieth-century artists believed in a philosophy of art that stressed expressiveness, used colors to communicate emotion, and maintained that art should hint rather than be dogmatic?
A. Georgia O’Keeffe C. Andy Warhol
***B. Willem de Kooning D. Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
12. Representations of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa appear in several twentieth-century artworks, including
****A. Duchamp’s L. H. O. O. Q.
B. Saar’s The Liberation of Aunt Jemima.
C. Kahlo’s The Little Deer.
D. Marisol’s Last Supper.
13. Unlike a two-dimensional artist, such as John Constable, a three-dimensional artist, such as Tony Smith, must consider
***A. spatial issues from every possible viewing