Final

Question 1

What is the meaning of Eko Nugroho’s Dog People?

Answer 1

He is critiquing both Dutch colonization and the current xenophobia in Indonesia

Question 2

What event in Berlin in 1884-85 initiated the era of large-scale European colonization of Africa?

Answer 2

European powers met in conference and agreed on how Africa would be divided into colonies.

Question 3

Which revolt or military event does the image shown commemorate? (Liberty Leading the People)

Answer 3

July Revolution of 1830.

Question 4

What is the subject of this painting? (Cole, View from Mount Holyoke)

Answer 4

The taming of the wilderness in the United States.

Question 5

Which of the following statements accurately describes this work by the Indigenous Australian artist Yirawala?

Answer 5

It depicts supernatural beings who some local cultures believe first taught human artists how to paint.

Question 6

The distortions and tilting perspective in The Scream by Edvard Munch are intended to express which of the following?

Answer 6

The isolation and anxiety Munch saw in modern society.

Question 7

This painting by Vasily Kandinsky expresses Kandinsky’s interest in which one of the following?

Answer 7

parallels between color composition and music composition

Question 8

Which of the following is NOT something that Bharat Mata (Mother India) holds in one of her hands in this painting by Tagore?

Answer 8

A diaper to symbolize motherhood.

Question 9

This painting by Salvador Dali embodies an interest in which of the following?

Answer 9

unstable identities of objects and shapes in dreams

Question 10

Why do art historians describe the Salon des Refusés of 1863 in Parisas a turning point in the evolution of modern art?

Answer 10

The exhibition undermined official patronage and allowed avant-garde art to be shown to a wider public.

Question 11

Which one of the following reasons explains why Judy Chicago selected the media used in her installation The Dinner Party?

Answer 11

She wanted to validate media that were dismissed as feminine crafts.

Question 12

Which term describes this painting by Piet Mondrian, with its simplified shapes and straight lines at right angles?

Answer 12

Geometric abstraction.

Question 13

The street scene in Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre’s View of the Boulevard du Temple features no horses and carriages for which one of the following reasons?

Answer 13

The exposure time was too long to capture moving objects.

Question 14

How does Angelica Kauffman’s Zeuxis Choosing His Models for His Painting of Helen of Troy subvert conventional notions of women’s place in professional artistic practice?

Answer 14

Kauffman depicts a woman as an active subject and teller of history.

Question 15

What event does the object in this photograph reference? (black and white photo of a stopped watch)

Answer 15

The dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki.

Question 16

Roger Fenton’s photograph Pasha and Bayadère can be identified as an example of which of the following?

Answer 16

Orientalism

Question 17

Which of the following is a shared issue for contemporary Indigenous artists in many parts of the world?

Answer 17

Land rights.

Question 18

Where did Gregory Maloba, creator of this monument, first encounter figurative sculpture?

Answer 18

At a Catholic boarding school in Kenya.

Question 19

Which of the following is an accurate statement about Osman Hamdi Bey’s painting The Tortoise Trainer?

Answer 19

Scholars still debate the exact meaning of the work.

Question 20

How did Grand Tourists influence artistic production in Europe in the eighteenth century?

Answer 20

Grand Tourists wanted to collect both ancient and modern artworks, thus creating new markets for commissioned works of art.

Question 21

This posuban is a rallying point for an asafo company. What is an asafo company?

Answer 21

A ceremonial militia organization

Question 22

In High Rise: Lake City Drive what is Huma Mulji trying to do?

Answer 22

To question what is monumental and what the cost of progress is.

Question 23

Why was porcelain a material particularly suited for the Rococo style?

Answer 23

Its complex and delicate forms linked to ideals of refined nature.

Question 24

With which style is Alexandre Cabanel’s The Birth of Venus associated?

Answer 24

Neoclassicism.

Question 25

Which of the following qualities identifies this work by Lygia Clark as a pioneering example of relational art?

Answer 25

The interaction between the two participants is the main focus of the work

Question 26

What is a reliquary?

Answer 26

A storage case for the bones of deceased ancestors.

Question 27

What era of African American history does this painting depict? (Aaron Douglas, An Idyll of the Deep South)

Answer 27

The Reconstruction era.

Question 28

How were the ideals of equality, humility, and republican virtue undermined at Monticello?

Answer 28

Around 130 enslaved people worked at Monticello at any given time.

Question 29

The engineering behind the projecting terraces of this building by Frank Lloyd Wright depends on what principle?

Answer 29

Cantilevering.

Question 30

For what purpose did Dorothea Lange make this photograph?

Answer 30

To symbolize the plight of migrant workers during the Depression.

Question 31

What influenced the crescent-shaped appearance of the faces in this painting by Wifredo Lam?

Answer 31

African masks.

Question 32

Why did Claude Monet use broken brushstrokes in his painting Boulevard des Capucines?

Answer 32

He wanted to convey a modern sense of time passing quickly.

Question 33

All of the following influenced Picasso when he painted this image, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, EXCEPT:

Answer 33

German Expressionism

Question 34

What is a name for the type of sexualized, monstrous woman depicted in this illustration by Aubrey Beardsley?

Answer 34

femme fatale

Question 35

In what way does this image by Suzanne Valadon deviate from images of women by most European artists of her time?

Answer 35

The nude figure is not sexualized and seductive.

Question 36

Which of the following statements accurately describes the mask pictured here? (Tapuanu)

Answer 36

All of the statements are correct.

Question 37

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier’s tureen was made using:

Answer 37

Lost-wax casting

Question 38

Which of the following terms applies to this artwork?

Answer 38

Woodcut Movement

Question 39

Which of the following is NOT an accurate statement about Tyeb Mehta’s Diagonal Lines?

Answer 39

He was inspired to make this piece after seeing Henri Matisse’s work during a trip to France.

Question 40

Which of the following may NOT be a concern of this artwork?

Answer 40

Analyzing the iconography of Buddhist icons.

Question 41

Which of the following terms describes the stereotypical view, held by some nineteenth-century European artists, that a superior spontaneity, energy, and sincerity resides in the art and culture of Indigenous, pre-industrial people?

Answer 41

Primitivism

Question 42

The form of this sculpture by Sopheap Pich symbolizes which of the following historical conditions?

Answer 42

Food shortages during the Khmer Rouge era in Cambodia.

Question 43

How does Antonio Canova’s Cupid Awakening Psyche depart from ancient precedent?

Answer 43

Canova applied a clear patina to emphasize the whiteness of the sculpture.

Question 44

What is the purpose of the inclusion of Étienne-Maurice Falconet’s Seated Cupid in Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s The Happy Hazards of the Swing?

Answer 44

To encourage the reading of the painting as a form of visual play

Question 45

Why is it reasonable to assume that this particular mask was never actually used in a masquerade?

Answer 45

The surface of the mask is smooth and unblemished, not showing marks that would come with use.

Question 46

How does Jacques-Louis David’s The Death of Marat position the sitter as a martyr?

Answer 46

Marat is idealized and bathed in a warm glow of holy light

Question 47

Which of the following was an unusual aspect of Francisco de Goya’s The Third of May at the time Goya painted it?

Answer 47

Showing the effects of military conflict from the point of view of a civilian who was a victim.

Question 48

What source outside his own cultural context inspired Gustav Klimt during his so-called Golden Period to make paintings such as this one?

Answer 48

Byzantine mosaics.

Question 49

Distinguish the technique Henri Matisse used to increase the contrast between colors in this portrait of his wife.

Answer 49

enlarging the sizes of juxtaposed areas of color

Question 50

Which one of the following was Georges Seurat’s purpose in applying contrasting dabs of color side by side in this painting?

Answer 50

To enhance optical effects in which different colors appear to vibrate or fuse.

Question 51

Art historians analyze the repetition of the same image of Marilyn Monroe in a grid pattern in Andy Warhol’s diptych as a reflection of which of the following?

Answer 51

The power of mass media to promote celebrities.

Question 52

Which of the following is an early photographic process that produces a unique image on a metal plate?

Answer 52

Daguerreotype.

Question 53

The French government confiscated circulating copies of this lithograph by Honoré Daumier for which one of the following reasons?

Answer 53

They thought his image of violent police action would incite more unrest.

Question 54

Which of the following statements best describes the type of building seen here?

Answer 54

It is an example of a men’s ceremonial house from Melanesia.

Question 55

Which element in this design by Varvara Stepanova for sports uniforms was an emblem for the Soviet Union and a symbol of communism?

Answer 55

The red, five-pointed star.

Question 56

The Salon de la Princesse illustrates the ideals of the Rococo style through:

Answer 56

Delicate and opulent surfaces and the use of precious materials.

Question 57

Which of the following statements about the slit gongs of northern Ambrym Island in Vanuatu is NOT true?

Answer 57

Like Western violins, slit gongs are assembled from multiple pieces of carved wood, which are joined together to create the finished instrument.

Question 58

Which aspect of this ivory container, carved by a Vili artist, suggests that it was made for a European customer, not a Vili buyer?

Answer 58

The detail and naturalism of the human figures.

Question 59

Which of the following statements describes the contemporary Desert Acrylic paintings of Indigenous Australia?

Answer 59

They are an example of an artform that developed through the interaction of Indigenous and Western artistic traditions.

Question 60

When was photography first practiced in South Asia?

Answer 60

the 1840s

Question 61

To which movement does this painting belong? (Dog on a Leash)

Answer 61

Futurism