Art App Prelim Exam

Test 1. Multiple choice. Choose the correct answer from the choices provided for inside the
paragraph. Write the letters only.

1. When artists create images that help us remember the present after it slips into the past, that keep us
in mind of our history, and that will speak of our times to the future, the art functions:

a. to give tangible form to the unknown

b. to record and commemorate

c. to give tangible forms to feelings and ideas

d. to write poems as inspiration

2. An example of an art that gives tangible form to ideas about the cyclical nature of time that are part
of religious culture of Hinduism is:

a. The Starry Night

b. The Last supper

c. The Shiva

d. The Mahabharata

3. The artist who labored to create a visual equivalent for his feelings as he stood on the outskirts of a
small village in France and stared up at the stars which was surrounded by halos of radiating light, the
stars have exaggerated urgent presence as though each one is a brilliant sun. Who was the artist?

a. Henri Matisse

b. Vincent van Gogh

c. Andy Warhol

d. Thomas Cole

4. Through art we can live more than one life, see through more than one pair of eyes. Like self
expression, newness and originality are valued very highly today in our thinking about art. Art’s function
this time is:

a. to record and commemorate

b. to give tangible form to the unknown

c. to give tangible feelings and ideas

d. to help us experience a way of seeing different from our own

5. Creativity is a word that comes up often when talking about art. While the exact nature of creativity
remains elusive, there is a general agreement that creative people tend to possess certain traits. What is
the trait which refers to the heightened awareness of what one sees, hears, and touches as well as
responsiveness to other people and their feelings?

a. flexibility

b. sensitivity

c. originality

d. productivity

6. Another trait that is found in a creative person is the talent for exploring problems, taking them apart,
and finding out how things work. What is this trait?

a. productivity

b. fluency

c. analytical skill
 d. Organizational skill

6. An artist who took a more ambiguous stance toward art, money, and fame. His famous two subjects
are glamour and celebrity. He painted Marilyn Diptych and Diamond Dust Shoes. Who is this artist?

a. Robert Frank

b. Pablo Picasso

c. Andy Warhol

d. Michelangelo

7. What is the term that refers to the study of signs, which includes the elements, the technical and
physical aspects of any work of art?

a. Evaluative Plane

b. Contextual Plane

c. Iconic Plane

d. Semiotic Plane

8. What is the plane analysis that examines the signifiers as unique signs with particular and highly
nuanced meanings. It involves position of figures and style of figuration?

a. Semiotic Plane

b. Iconic Plane

c. Contextual Plane

d. Evaluative Plane

9. Who was the artist who relied entirely on lines in the drawings he made on the black paper covering
vacant advertising spaces in New York subway stations during the 1980’s.

a. Henri Matisse

b. Keith Haring

c. Theodore Gericault

d. Thomas Eakins

10. The following are Arts of Early Civilizations except one. What is the exception?

a. Sumerian Civilization: Ziggurats

b. Akkadian Period: Literature

c. Babylonian Civilization: The Code of Hammurabi

d. The Italian Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci

11. Modern Art are arts that basically started from the later 19th century up to the present. Post
Impressionism was the French art movement that immediately followed Impressionism. Who was the
notable artist in Post Modernism?

a. Vincent van Gogh

b. Leonardo da Vinci

c. Immanuel Kant

d. Henri Matisse

12. Art has been an integral part in European history. From the time of the ancient civilizations like the
Greeks and the Romans all the way to modern times, art has been used to communicate ideologies and
belief systems prevalent within their context. Greek and Roman civilizations were also known as:
 a. Western World

b. Mythological World

c. Classical World

d. European World

13.

TRUE or FALSE. Write the word TRUE if you think the statement is correct and FALSE if you believe the
statement is not right.

1. Cave paintings were made by the first artists because they lived – slept, cooked their meals, raised
their children – much nearer to the mouth of the caves, close to daylight and fresh air.

2. The famous paintings during the later Upper Paleolithic Period are the paintings of the caves at
Lascaux in France.

3. Until the Chauvet cave was discovered, many experts believe that ancient cave paintings were done
for magical assistance in the hunt, to ensure success in bringing down game animals.

4. Art historians often point to cave paintings as the last art.

5. The contemporary British sculptor Anthony Caro has said that “all art is basically Paleolithic or
Neolithic, like piling stone upon stone.”

6. The most impressive and most haunting work to survive from the Stone Ages, is the structure in the
south of England, known as the Stonehenge.

7. The height of the stones in Stonehenge is 13’6” and is founded in Salisbury Plain, England.

8. One of the famous works in Western tradition is the Aphrodite of Melos popularly known as Venus de
Milo is one of the most important example of an idealized female form.

9. Much of the world’s art especially art from the past, is anonymous. Therefore, we can still consider a
work to be art, and even great art without knowing who made it.

10. The Romans were known to excel in various fields and aspects of society. Their political ideals
eventually became the framework for the democratic form of government in modern times.

11. The Greeks were known to place prime importance in the use of imagination.

12. For this civilization, nature was the center of their beliefs and how they respected nature could be
the very foundation of how they lived in their lives.

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10. Aesthetics is the branch of philosophy that studies emotions, it also studies about psychology.

11. Representational art represent the world more or less as our eyes see it.

12. Stylization is the process where a representational art and its aspects of visual reality is simplified or
recombined.

13. An outline defines a two-dimensional shape. Contours are the boundaries we perceive of three-
dimensional – form, and contour lines are the lines we draw to record boundaries.

Match the titles in Colum A with the Artworks in Column B.

1. Shiva Natoraja (Lord of the Dance)

2. “The Lion Panel” Chauvet Cave
3. Stonehenge c. 2000 – 1500 B.C.E
4. Reversible Vase – profiles. After Edgar Rubin
5. Aphrodite of Melos also called Venus de Milo
6. Diamond Dust Shoes
7. Grotesque Old Woman
8. Pieta
9. Three Women by Pablo Picasso
10. Keith Haring Subway Drawing