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Chapters 1,2 and 3 Quiz Chapter 1 1) What human ability seems as deeply ingrained as the impulse to make and respond to art? A) Learn language B) Hunt for food C) Fight or flight response D) Reproduce 2) What is the famous Neolithic structure in England, made of megaliths that once formed several concentric circles? A) Megalopolis B) Stonehenge C) Jahangir D) Chauvet 3) According to the author, why do humans have the impulse to create art? A) To achieve superiority over animals B) To explore aesthetic possibilities C) To construct images and forms that carry meaning D) To create order and structure 4) How can the purpose of Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial be described? A) It creates a space for contemplation and remembrance. B) It emphasizes the mundance aspects of life. C) It celebrates the victories of the American military. D) It creates an extraordinary version of an everyday object. 5) According to the author, what is the most important meaning of an artwork? A) The explanation given by a critic B) An art historian's interpretation C) The interpretation of each viewer D) The work's subject matter

Chapter 2 1) During the ________, there began to be a separation between "art" and "craft"; painting, sculpture, and architecture, came to be thought of as more elevated forms of art. A) Renaissance B) Middle Ages C) Baroque era D) Nineteenth century 2) Marcel Duchamp's Fountain is known as what type of art? A) Ready-made B) Abstract C) Nonrepresentational D) Iconography 3) What term is used to refer to the recurring pattern of choices—characteristic subject matter or materials, distinctive ways of drawing or of applying paint, preferences for certain colors or color combinations—in an artist's work? A) Iconography B) Style C) Form D) Content 4) What formal qualities are associated with beauty in art? A) Symmetry B) Complex geometrical shapes C) Repeated lines D) Monochromatic color scheme 12) Art that does not refer to the world outside itself, creating meaning and expressive power from the elements of art itself, is called ________. A) nonrepresentational B) abstract C) trompe l'oeil D) stylized

Chapter 3

1) Iconoclasm means the ________ of images based on religious beliefs. A) creation B) worship C) contemplation D) destruction 2) Which of the following is an example of a theme in art? A) Painting B) Renaissance C) Mural and tapestry D) The natural world

3) What work of fantasy is by the bizarrely inventive Hieronymus Bosch? A) The Dream B) The Garden of Earthly Delights C) The Oxbow D) Windward 4) ________ are broad areas of meaning that have been reflected in the arts of many cultures. A) Narratives B) Themes C) Assemblages D) Forms 5) What was Pablo Picasso's Guernica a protest against? A) The Vietnam war B) The bombing of a civilian population C) The atomic bomb D) Concentration camps

Bonus Question (Extra Credit) Consider Garden of Earthly Delights, by Bosch, and identify the historical/artistic period in which it was created. Then discuss the ways in which this painting is both a work of fantasy and one that relates to the religious beliefs of its time.

The Garden of Earthly Delights forms part of Hieronymus Bosch triptych and probably his most bold and famous painting. Created between 1940 and 1510, placing this artwork in the Renaissance. It’s a both a work of fantasy and its relative to religious beliefs of the time, because it shows magical and unrealistic creatures inside the painting, forms of strange fishes and nymphs and other mythological creatures as well as fusiform and colorful houses and castles. Religiously talking, this work of art is the middle part of the triptych where the first part is a representation of heaven and the third part is hell, being the center where we find the human live, people having sexual relations, orgies, riding mythical creatures and other things were seen

as taboos specially by the religion and church canons. That’s why this painting is a bold representation of true human desires and it’s considered to have been ahead of its time....