THE TERM USED TO DESCRIBE SUMERIAN WRITING
--canonform
-- hieratic
--cuneiform
-- baroqueform
What is CUNEIFORM?
100
THE GREATEST TEMPLE BUILT BY THE GREEKS AND THE PROTOTYPE FOR ALL CLASSICAL BUILDINGS.
--Acropolis --Parthenon --Pantheon --Olympian
What is Parthenon?
100
THE EARLY RENAISSANCE FOUND ITS BEGINNING IN THIS WEALTHY CITY-STATE.
--Rome --Florence -- Athens -- Paris
What is Florence?
100
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY THAT EMPHASIZED IMAGINATION, FREE EXPRESSION, FEELING, COMMUNION WITH NATURE, AND THE IDEA OF THE CREATIVE ARTIST AS VISIONARY GENIUS.
--Romanticism --Realism --Neoclassicism --Impressionism
What is Romanticism?
100
AN ART MOVEMENT DENIED THE NOTION THAT WESTERN CULTURE REACHED ITS PEAK IN ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME.
--Modernism -- Futurism -- Cubism --Postmodernism
What is Modernism?
200
THE EARLIEST RECOGNIZABLE CULTURE TO EMERGE FROM THE MIDDLE EAST AROUND 6000 B.C.E.
Hittite-- Sumer -- Assyrian-- Egyptian
What is Sumer?
200
THE USE OF THIS MATERIAL BY ROMAN ARCHITECTS MADE POSSIBLE AESTHETICAL AND PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE GREEKS.
--bronze --concrete -- iron -- tile
What is concrete?
200
THE MOST DOMINANT ARTIST OF THE HIGH RENAISSANCE.
--Raphael --Leonardo da Vinci --Michelangelo
Who is Michelangelo?
200
IN FRANCE, THIS STYLE OF ART CREATED A NEW WAY OF EXPRESSING REALITY EMERGING IN COMPETITION WITH THE CAMERA.
--Realism --Expressionism --Impressionism
What is Impressionism?
200
VIOLENT DISTORTION AND OUTRAGEOUS COLORING MARKED THE WORK OF WHICH ART STYLE.
--Fauvism --Mechanism --Futurism --Cubism
What is Fauvism?
300
THE MOST REMARKABLE EDIFICES OF EGYPTIAN CULTURE AROUND 2700 BCE.
--Great Sphinx --Luxor Temple --Pyramids of Giza
What are the pyramids of Giza
300
THE MOST SIGNIFICANT CHARACTERISTIC OF TYPICAL ROMAN ARCHITECTURAL STYLE.
--dome
-- arch
--columns
-- lintel
What is the arch
300
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS MEDIA GAVE RENAISSANCE PAINTERS NEW OPPORTUNITIES TO VARY SURFACE TEXTURE, BLEND COLORS, AND CREATE BRILLIANCE.
--egg tempera --oil paint - -acrylic paint -- gouache paint
What is oil paint?
300
THE MEDIUM THAT THE AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTISTIC HERITAGE EMERGED AFTER THE CIVIL WAR.
--music --dance --theatre --painting
What is music?
300
THE BEST-KNOWN ARTIST OF CUBISM WAS...
--Picasso --Matisse --Beckmann
Who is Picasso?
400
THE EARLIEST IDENTIFIABLE ART IN MEXICO COMES FROM WHAT CULTURE...
--Olmec - --Mayan --Aztec --Incan
What is Olmec?
400
THE INTENT OF THIS ARTISTIC STYLE IS TO CREATE SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL DISTINCTION AND SOME DISTANCE BETWEEN THE VIEWER AND THE IMAGE, DEALING WITH PROPORTIONS.
--stoic style --totemic style --hieratic style --harem style
What is hieratic style?
400
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE AND BEN JONSON ARE PLAYWRIGHTS OF WHAT ENGLISH PERIOD.
--Renaissance --Gothic --Baroque --Enlightenment
What is Renaissance?
400
THE BEST KNOWN WORK OF ART NOUVEAU CREATED FOR THE PARIS UNIVERSAL EXPOSITION.
--Casa Botlo --Crystal Palace --Eiffel Tower --Royal Pavilion
What is Eiffel Tower?
400
JUDY CHICAGO’S, THE DINNER PARTY, PROVIDES A GOOD EXAMPLE OF WHAT TYPE OF ART.
--Female Art --Woman Art --Feminist Art
What is Feminist Art?
500
ANCIENT GREEK SCULPTURE OF ARCHAIC STYLE THAT FOCUS ON PHYSICALITY AND ATHLETICISM OF YOUTH.
--torso -- kouros --attic --colossal
What is kouros?
500
THE HIGHEST FORM OF ALL ART IN ISLAMIC SOCIETY.
--calligraphy --architecture --mosaics --scripture
What is calligraphy?
500
THIS STYLE OF ART EMPHASIZES COLOR AND GRANDEUR WITH DRAMATIC USE OF LIGHTS AND DARKS THAT CARRIES THE VIEWER’S EYE OFF THE CANVAS.
--Mannerism --Renaissance -- Baroque --Impressionism
What is Baroque?
500
A STYLE OF ARCHITECTURE CHARACTERIZED BY THE LIVELY, SERPENTINE CURVE AND A FASCINATION WITH PLANT AND ANIMAL LIFE.
--Modernism --Impressionism --Art Deco --Art Nouveau
What is Art Nouveau?
500
THIS ART FORM IS USED BY ALVIN AILEY AND BILL T. JONES; AND DRAWS UPON THEIR AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE.
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