ARTH210-FinalExam-Answers

John White (1540 - c. 1606) is best known for:

Choose one answer.

	a. Oil paintings from the Caribbean
	b. Sketches from New England
	c. Watercolors from the Jamestown Colony
	d. Sketches from the voyage of Christopher Columbus

Question 2

Modern-day Mexico City was built upon the ceremonial capital of which indigenous people?

Choose one answer.

	a. The Aztec
	b. The Mayan
	c. The Toltec
	d. The Spanish

Question 3

The earliest Catholic churches in the Western hemisphere featured which stylistic tendency, imported from Europe?

Choose one answer.

	a. Renaissance
	b. Baroque
	c. Medieval
	d. Classical

Question 4

The Native American Great Serpent Mound is found in which state?

Choose one answer.

	a. Pennsylvania
	b. Wisconsin
	c. California
	d. Ohio

Question 5

The earliest Christians to settle in the Western hemisphere were:

Choose one answer.

	a. The English
	b. The French
	c. The Spanish
	d. The German

Question 6

Benjamin West worked for most of his professional life in which city?

Choose one answer.

	a. Paris
	b. New York
	c. London
	d. Philadelphia

Question 7

The painter most renowned for portraits of George Washington is:

Choose one answer.

	a. John Trumbull
	b. Benjamin West
	c. Gilbert Stuart
	d. John Singleton Copley

Question 8

The painting The Death of General Wolfe was created by which artist?

Choose one answer.

	a. John Singleton Copley
	b. William Penn
	c. Benjamin West
	d. None of the above

Question 9

The painting Watson and the Shark was created by which artist?

Choose one answer.

	a. John Singleton Copley
	b. John Trumbull
	c. Benjamin West
	d. None of the above.

Question 10

The setting for Watson and the Shark is:

Choose one answer.

	a. Boston Harbor
	b. Havana Harbor
	c. Port of London
	d. None of the above

Question 11

Thomas Jefferson designed which building?

Choose one answer.

	a. The United States Capitol
	b. The White House
	c. The Pentagon
	d. Monticello

Question 12

Which artist is best known as the “official” painter of the New Republic?

Choose one answer.

	a. John Trumbull
	b. John Singleton Copley
	c. John Vanderlyn
	d. John Smibert

Question 13

Which formal element, of those given below, is most characteristic of the Neoclassical style in painting?

Choose one answer.

	a. Distorted anatomical proportion
	b. Stormy skies
	c. Loose brushwork
	d. Strong contours

Question 14

Which is true of Benjamin West’s painting Penn’s Treaty with the Indians?

Choose one answer.

	a. It depicts an event that happened the year it was painted
	b. It depicts a scene from a novel
	c. The work was copied in many forms
	d. The artist was related to William Penn

Question 15

Which painting deals with Native Americans in its theme?

Choose one answer.

	a. Death of General Wolfe
	b. Death of Jane McCrea
	c. Both A and B
	d. Neither A or B

Question 16

Which type of subject matter, from among those given below, is most common in Neoclassical art?

Choose one answer.

	a. Military heroism
	b. Domestic life
	c. Landscape
	d. Greek sculptural form

Question 17

A prominent theme of the Hudson River School is:

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	a. Domesticity
	b. Early industrialism
	c. Patriotic iconography
	d. The divine in nature

Question 18

Edward Hicks is best described as:

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	a. An academic painter
	b. A landscape specialist
	c. A Realist painter
	d. A self-taught painter

Question 19

Paintings of the Hudson River School are sometimes considered also to reflect:

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	a. Luminism
	b. Romanticism
	c. Both A and B
	d. Impressionism

Question 20

The most prominent elements of iconography in paintings by Lilly Martin Spence are:

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	a. domestic pets
	b. foodstuffs
	c. maps
	d. scientific objects

Question 21

The painter Thomas Cole is best known for which genre?

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	a. Portraiture
	b. Still life
	c. Landscape
	d. Everyday life

Question 22

The painting George Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze was created in which year?

Choose one answer.

	a. 1777
	b. 1801
	c. 1851
	d. 1880

Question 23

The underlying composition of the painting George Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze is best described as:

Choose one answer.

	a. A pyramidal form
	b. Repeated rectangular forms
	c. Repeated circular rhythms
	d. A bird’s eye view

Question 24

Which is true of the artist Charles Willson Peale?

Choose one answer.

	a. He opened the first public museum in America
	b. He had several sons that were accomplished artists
	c. He lived and worked mainly in Philadelphia
	d. All of the above

Question 25

“Trompe l’oeil” effects in painting refer to:

Choose one answer.

	a. Contrasts of darks and lights
	b. Illusionistic images that trick the eye
	c. Abstract backdrops
	d. Broad areas of color

Question 26

Which is most characteristic of early 19th-century portrait painting in America?

Choose one answer.

	a. Deep space/linear perspective
	b. Shallow space/flatness
	c. Sculptural modeling and shadows
	d. Thick application of paint

Question 27

A 19th-century genre painter who specialized in representations of African Americans is:

Choose one answer.

	a. William Sydney Mount
	b. George Catlin
	c. Will Harnett
	d. Edward Hicks

Question 28

After creating his famous painting The Banjo Lesson (1993), Henry Ossawa Tanner focused mainly on which genre?

Choose one answer.

	a. Religious
	b. Still life
	c. Portraiture
	d. Everyday life

Question 29

Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ sculptural monument to General Shaw and the 54th of Massachusetts was completed and installed on the Boston Commons in which decade?

Choose one answer.

	a. 1860s
	b. 1870s
	c. 1880s
	d. 1890s

Question 30

Impressionism is most concerned with which of the following formal aspects:

Choose one answer.

	a. The depiction of texture in still life
	b. Focus on detail in portraiture
	c. The capturing of outdoor lighting effects
	d. Emphasis on geometric forms in nature

Question 31

John Singer Sargent was influenced directly by which French Impressionist?

Choose one answer.

	a. Pissarro
	b. Degas
	c. Monet
	d. Renoir

Question 32

Of Louis Comfort Tiffany’s many artistic pursuits, which brought him the most acclaim?

Choose one answer.

	a. Painting
	b. Leaded glass work
	c. Ceramics
	d. Furniture design

Question 33

Photography was invented closest to which year?

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	a. 1800
	b. 1840
	c. 1860
	d. 1880

Question 34

Tanner imbues the most symbolic significance into which formal aspect of his paintings?

Choose one answer.

	a. Color
	b. Iconographic detail
	c. Light
	d. Contour

Question 35

The artist who painted The Gross Clinic also painted:

Choose one answer.

	a. Sports pictures of rowers
	b. Market scenes
	c. Family portraits
	d. Architecture of Washington, D.C.

Question 36

The genre of Winslow Homer’s painting Prisoners from the Front is best classified as:

Choose one answer.

	a. Landscape
	b. History
	c. Photographic
	d. Still life

Question 37

The medical painting The Gross Clinic was created by:

Choose one answer.

	a. Winslow Homer
	b. Eastman Johnson
	c. Raphaelle Peale
	d. Thomas Eakins

Question 38

The painter best known for society portraits in the Gilded Age is:

Choose one answer.

	a. Winslow Homer
	b. William Merritt Chase
	c. Edward Mitchell Bannister
	d. John Singer Sargent

Question 39

The public outdoor sculpture in Washington, D.C. that commemorates Emancipation was created by:

Choose one answer.

	a. Augustus Saint-Gaudens
	b. Edmonia Lewis
	c. Thomas Ball
	d. Eastman Johnson

Question 40

The setting for Eastman Johnson’s painting Negro Life at the South is:

Choose one answer.

	a. Georgia
	b. Pennsylvania
	c. Washington, D.C.
	d. Kentucky

Question 41

The style of Winslow Homer’s painting Prisoners from the Front is best described as:

Choose one answer.

	a. Impressionistic
	b. Luministic
	c. Romantic
	d. Realistic

Question 42

The term “Impressionism” was first used to define a new painting style in which decade?

Choose one answer.

	a. 1850s
	b. 1860s
	c. 1870s
	d. 1880s

Question 43

The World’s Columbian Exposition took place in what year?

Choose one answer.

	a. 1876
	b. 1885
	c. 1893
	d. 1900

Question 44

The World’s Columbian Exposition took place in what city?

Choose one answer.

	a. Chicago
	b. Philadelphia
	c. New York
	d. San Francisco

Question 45

Which artist is generally known as the first major American painter to embrace Impressionism in the United States?

Choose one answer.

	a. William Merritt Chase
	b. Winslow Homer
	c. Eastman Johnson
	d. J. Alden Weir

Question 46

Which best describes the overarching subject matter of Impressionist painting?

Choose one answer.

	a. Loose brushwork
	b. Literary narrative
	c. Modern life
	d. History

Question 47

Which is true of Edmonia Lewis?

Choose one answer.

	a. She lived her whole life in the Boston area
	b. She exhibited at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition
	c. Both A and B
	d. Neither A or B

Question 48

Which is true of Henry Ossawa Tanner’s painting The Banjo Lesson, in terms of content?

Choose one answer.

	a. It addresses common stereotypes of the era
	b. It was posed carefully by Tanner, using models
	c. Both A and B
	d. It depicts family members in Tanner’s home at the time

Question 49

Which is true of Saint-Gaudens’ sculptural monument to General Shaw and the 54th of Massachusetts?

Choose one answer.

	a. Saint-Gaudens made studies of carved wood before casting the bronze relief
	b. From original commission to completion to installation, the project took five years
	c. Both A and B
	d. Saint-Gaudens individualized the faces and bodies of the African America soldiers depicted.

Question 50

Which is true of Winslow Homer’s painting Dressing for Carnival?

Choose one answer.

	a. It was created after the Civil War ended
	b. It suggests African culture as well as American identity
	c. It was created on a trip by the artist to Virginia
	d. All of the above

Question 51

Which painter is known as an urban Impressionist?

Choose one answer.

	a. Mary Cassatt
	b. Childe Hassam
	c. William Merritt Chase
	d. J. Alden Weir

Question 52

“The Gilded Age” refers to:

Choose one answer.

	a. A style of 19th-century painting using gold hues
	b. New wealth in America from industrialization at the turn of the 20th century
	c. A popular legend of about the founded of the United States
	d. Classical Greek culture

Question 53

The Civil War ended in what year?

Choose one answer.

	a. 1875
	b. 1870
	c. 1865
	d. 1860

Question 54

Aaron Douglas embraced the formal language of which European modern art style?

Choose one answer.

	a. Surrealism
	b. Impressionism
	c. Cubism
	d. Post-Impressionism

Question 55

Alfred Stieglitz worked primarily in what media?

Choose one answer.

	a. Oil paint
	b. Photography
	c. Marble
	d. Etching

Question 56

James VanDerZee added subjective meaning to his photographic portraits through:

Choose one answer.

	a. Lighting
	b. Settings and poses
	c. Darkroom techniques
	d. All of the above

Question 57

The American painter best known for abstractions of flowers is:

Choose one answer.

	a. Arthur Davies
	b. Georgia O’Keeffe
	c. Marsden Hartley
	d. Max Weber

Question 58

The Armory Show is known for:

Choose one answer.

	a. Bringing European abstract art to New York
	b. Bringing American abstract art to Europe
	c. Bringing Renaissance masterpieces to New York
	d. None of the above.

Question 59

The Armory Show took place in what year?

Choose one answer.

	a. 1891
	b. 1901
	c. 1913
	d. 1924

Question 60

The Ashcan School artists settled in and became associated mainly with which city?

Choose one answer.

	a. Philadelphia
	b. Boston
	c. Washington, D.C.
	d. New York

Question 61

The leader of the Ashcan School is generally considered to be:

Choose one answer.

	a. Robert Henri
	b. George Luks
	c. Edward Hopper
	d. Ernest Lawson

Question 62

The painter best known for images inspired by nightlife in Chicago’s “black belt” is:

Choose one answer.

	a. Lois Mailou Jones
	b. Jacob Lawrence
	c. Archibald Motley, Jr.
	d. William H. Johnson

Question 63

Which artist specialized in boxing scenes?

Choose one answer.

	a. Everitt Shinn
	b. George Bellows
	c. John Sloan
	d. Robert Henri

Question 64

Which figure promoted the idea of the “New Negro” associated with the Harlem Renaissance?

Choose one answer.

	a. Alain Locke
	b. Langston Hughes
	c. Marcus Garvey
	d. W. E. B. DuBois

Question 65

Which is true of African art in connection to the Harlem Renaissance?

Choose one answer.

	a. It was advocated on the basis of its embrace by European artists
	b. It was advocated for its long tradition
	c. It was advocated as a sign of modernity
	d. All of the above

Question 66

Which of the following subjects did Ashcan School artists tend to depict?

Choose one answer.

	a. Interiors of the homes of the upper classes
	b. Landscape of leisure
	c. Family portraits
	d. Life in the neighborhoods of recent immigrants

Question 67

“291” refers to:

Choose one answer.

	a. A gallery in New York founded by Alfred Stieglitz
	b. An exhibition of modern European artists in New York
	c. An international artist alliance formed in 1900
	d. None of the above

Question 68

The Ashcan School artists first met in which city?

Choose one answer.

	a. Philadelphia
	b. Boston
	c. Washington, D.C.
	d. New York

Question 69

A distorted, elongated figure style is characteristic of which artist?

Choose one answer.

	a. Grant Wood
	b. Alvin Albright
	c. Robert Henri
	d. Thomas Hart Benton

Question 70

Frank Lloyd Wright designed which museum in New York?

Choose one answer.

	a. The Whitney Museum of American Art
	b. The Museum of Modern Art
	c. The Guggenheim Museum
	d. The Asia Society

Question 71

Frank Lloyd Wright developed an architectural style known as:

Choose one answer.

	a. International Style
	b. Prairie Style
	c. Geometric Style
	d. Organic Style

Question 72

Joseph Cornell’s style is usually linked to which is European style?

Choose one answer.

	a. Surrealism
	b. Cubism
	c. Impressionism
	d. Classicism

Question 73

Mural projects of the New Deal most frequently deal with which subject matter?

Choose one answer.

	a. Divine providence
	b. The history of a region
	c. Family legacies
	d. Naturalistic style

Question 74

Stuart Davis is mainly influenced by which European style?

Choose one answer.

	a. Surrealism
	b. Cubism
	c. Impressionism
	d. Classicism

Question 75

The government agency that put photographers to work during the Depression was:

Choose one answer.

	a. OWI
	b. FAP
	c. FSA
	d. None of the above

Question 76

The most renowned American mural painter of the 1930s and 1940s is:

Choose one answer.

	a. John Sloan
	b. Thomas Hart Benton
	c. John Steuart Curry
	d. Isabel Bishop

Question 77

Which artist painted an extensive series of the “Great Migration” of African Americans from the South to northern cities in the 1930s?

Choose one answer.

	a. William Henry Johnson
	b. Archibald Motley, Jr.
	c. Jacob Lawrence
	d. Aaron Douglas

Question 78

Which government agency put illustrators and mural painters to work during the Depression Era?

Choose one answer.

	a. Federal Works of Art Project
	b. Works Progress Administration
	c. Farms Securities Administration
	d. Both A and B

Question 79

Which is the preferred media of artist Joseph Cornell?

Choose one answer.

	a. Oil painting
	b. Wood and stone carving
	c. Assemblage of found materials
	d. Two-dimensional works on paper

Question 80

Which is true of Dorothea Tanning?

Choose one answer.

	a. She is a protégé of Georgia O’Keeffe
	b. She is known as an abstract painter
	c. She is known as a Surrealist
	d. She is known as a sculptor

Question 81

Which subject is most prominent in photography commissioned by the FSA?

Choose one answer.

	a. Farm communities around the country
	b. Northern urban cities
	c. Southern urban cities
	d. Rural communities of California

Question 82

Which subject, of those given, is the most popular in American paintings of the 1930s?

Choose one answer.

	a. Religious genre
	b. People at work
	c. Bucolic landscapes
	d. Still life

Question 83

Which term broadly describes mainstream art in America between the world wars?

Choose one answer.

	a. Social Realism
	b. Regionalism
	c. American Scene
	d. All of the above

Question 84

Whose style is the most abstract in form?

Choose one answer.

	a. William Henry Johnson’s
	b. Archibald Motley, Jr.’s
	c. Jacob Lawrence’s
	d. Lois Mailou Jones’

Question 85

The American president who initiated the “New Deal” at the time of the Great Depression was:

Choose one answer.

	a. Theodore Roosevelt
	b. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
	c. Alexander Hamilton
	d. Harry Truman

Question 86

A prominent aspect of Minimalist composition is:

Choose one answer.

	a. Figuration
	b. Lyrical line
	c. Repetition of forms
	d. Use of organic materials

Question 87

Abstract Expressionism is most closely associated with which city?

Choose one answer.

	a. Paris
	b. Los Angeles
	c. New York
	d. San Francisco

Question 88

Jasper Johns is best known for:

Choose one answer.

	a. “Drip” paintings
	b. Paintings based on the American flag
	c. Paintings of Campbell’s Soup cans
	d. Paintings of popular comic book characters

Question 89

Of the choices below, which is the most common subject in Pop Art?

Choose one answer.

	a. Consumer products
	b. Psychological portraiture
	c. Nature in the industrial world
	d. Reviving early oil painting techniques

Question 90

One impetus for the spread of total abstraction in American art was:

Choose one answer.

	a. Regionalist painting in the Mid-West
	b. European art styles brought by exiles from Europe before World War II
	c. Picasso’s paintings of the 1920s
	d. The Russian Revolution

Question 91

The Abstract Expressionist painter best known for his unconventional painting technique is:

Choose one answer.

	a. Willem de Kooning
	b. Clyfford Still
	c. Barnett Newman
	d. Jackson Pollock

Question 92

The renowned work of Earth Art, Spiral Jetty (1970), was created by which artist?

Choose one answer.

	a. Robert Smithson
	b. Bruce Nauman
	c. Julian Schnabel
	d. Donald Judd

Question 93

Which artist conceived of and designed the feminist installation work The Dinner Party?

Choose one answer.

	a. Audry Flack
	b. Hannah Wilke
	c. Betye Saar
	d. Judy Chicago

Question 94

Which artist is known primarily as a Pop Art sculptor?

Choose one answer.

	a. Andy Warhol
	b. Roy Lichtenstein
	c. Claus Oldenburg
	d. James Rosenquist

Question 95

Which is considered a component of “Postmodern” art?

Choose one answer.

	a. An interest in earlier art forms
	b. The appropriation of earlier art imagery
	c. Direct expressions of gender and ethnic identity in art
	d. All of the above

Question 96

Which is generally true of Abstract Expressionist paintings?

Choose one answer.

	a. They often have hidden narratives
	b. They often feature a single visual focal point
	c. They are characterized by all-over compositions
	d. All of the above

Question 97

Which is true of Minimalist art?

Choose one answer.

	a. It is considered non-objective in content
	b. It is based on geometric form
	c. Signs of the artist’s gesture are usually obscured
	d. All of the above

Question 98

Which is true of Richard Serra’s site-specific sculpture Tilted Arc (1981)?

Choose one answer.

	a. It remains installed at the site for which it was designed in Lower Manhattan
	b. It was moved to another public site in New York City
	c. It was removed and is not on view to the public
	d. The artist did not have a strong opinion about the controversy over the work and stayed out of the debates about it

Question 99

Which is true of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1983)?

Choose one answer.

	a. It was designed by a woman
	b. It includes figurative components
	c. Its style is influenced by American War memorials of the past
	d. All of the above

Question 100

Which term below relates to a form of Abstract Expressionist painting?

Choose one answer.

	a. Colorfield Painting
	b. Action Painting
	c. Neo-Impressionism
	d. Both A and B

Question 101

World War II ended in what year?

Choose one answer.

	a. 1940
	b. 1945
	c. 1950
	d. 1955