Chapter Four: Describing Art Quiz
Question 1
The first step in a formal analysis of an artwork is
Describing the elements and principles of design.
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Careful description of the elements and principles of design of an artwork helps identify what choices the artist has made toward creating a work with meaning.
Question 2
Romanesque art of the 11th and 12th centuries is noteworthy with regard to the idea of expressing a prevalent preoccupation among Christians about the ends of their lives and the end of time.
Question 3
Which of the following is located in a cathedral portal?
Tympanum
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The tympanum is the semi-circular area located above the doorway in Romanesque and Gothic cathedrals and is filled with sculpture.
Question 4
We defined the Italian Renaissance as a period style that
was a conscious and purposeful revival of the ideals of Greece and Rome.
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The term Renaissance means "re-birth". The Italian Renaissance was a period of concious and purposeful revival of the ideas and ideals of the classical past, those of Ancient Greece and Rome.
Question 5
Classical period Greek sculptors captured the potential for naturalistic movement using Contrapposto.
Question 6
Naturalistic works are those in which the appearance corresponds to nature, and Realistic relay information or opinions about the underlying social or philosophical reality of the subject matter.
Question 7
Ecole des Beaux-Art was the nationally institutionalized body in control of training and exhibition of art in France
True
Question 8
Which of the following is a sub-category of Ancient Greek art?
Classical
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Ancient Greek art has many stylistic sub-divisions, including:
- Geometric (@ 900 - 700 BCE)
- Orientalizing (@ 700 - 600 BCE)
- Archaic (@ 600 - 480 BCE)
- Classical
- Early Classical (@ 480 - 450 BCE)
- High Classical (@ 450 - 400 BCE)
- Late Classical (@ 400 - 323 BCE)
- Hellenistic (@ 323 - 31 BCE)
Question 9
Greek artists developed a keen understanding of human physiognomy and increasingly rendered the human form with great anatomical accuracy
True
Question 10
If a work has visual reference to the phenomenal world it is considered Representional.