Art History Test Questions and Answers All Correct
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Art History Test Questions and Answers All Correct
The Mississippians built large truncated pyramid mounds topped with temples. - Answer-true
A basic belief in our human legacy is animism. The premise that all the forces of nature are inhabited by spirits. - Answer-true
In some religions, fo...
Art History Test Questions
and Answers All Correct
The Mississippians built large truncated pyramid mounds topped with temples. -
Answer-true
A basic belief in our human legacy is animism. The premise that all the forces of nature
are inhabited by spirits. - Answer-true
In some religions, followers believe that deities can be present in a work of art. -
Answer-true
In many religions, simple geometric shapes can symbolize (a) God. - Answer-true
The various branches of art making activity, like painting or sculpture, are called ____. -
Answer-disciplines
________________sculptures are meant to be viewed from all sides. - Answer-
freestanding
Because the Greeks considered themselves superior to other religions that worshipped
trees or mountains, Greek gods are generally personified as human-animal hybrids. -
Answer-true
Hinduism a mudra is a symbolic hand gesture signifying imbalance. - Answer-true
The Christian tradition has many kinds of images of God. - Answer-true
In Bali, religion is devoid of any artistic expression or depiction. - Answer-true
In Mayan culture, ball players were important members of society, and ball games were
seen as important religious rituals. - Answer-true
The Longmen caves in China, a Buddhist pilgrimage destination comprised of a
complex of cave shrines, were supported by imperial patronage. - Answer-true
Over a 3,000 year period, Egyptian temple design had more changes and technological
breakthroughs than any other concurrent culture. - Answer-false/ True?
Gothic cathedrals were all funded by and built in cities. - Answer-true
Mortality means - Answer-being subject to death
, One example of a Stone Age tomb is - Answer-newgrange
The Moche tombs revealed that gold and silver were______________. - Answer-only
for the elite
The Egyptians used the pyramid form to create the meeting place___________. -
Answer-between life on earth and eternity
The Etruscan tombs were very much like_____________. - Answer-houses
The Soldiers from Pit I from the tomb Shi Huangdi, China are made of______________.
- Answer-ceramic
The Romans felt that family tombs_______________ - Answer-should be as
ostentatious as possible
Traditional Chinese paintings were not made from life, but from memory. - Answer-true
Art is always a serious endeavor and never functions as entertainment. - Answer-true
Regardless of culture, content is always readily apparent in a work of art. - Answer-true
Art is whatever a society or a culture determines is art. - Answer-true
Every culture, both past and present, has a word that corresponds to ours for art. -
Answer-true
Contemporary art and popular culture often share the same images. - Answer-true
The language of art and architecture consists of (1) formal elements and (2) the
principles by which those elements are composed or structured. - Answer-true
The elements of art are line,light,value,color ,texture, and pattern shape and
volume.space, time,and motion,as well as chance,improvisation, and spontaneity. -
Answer-true
The principles of composition are balance ,rhythm,proportion,scale, emphasis,unity and
variety. - Answer-true
Implied lines physically exist - Answer-false
Line quality conveys emotional attributes. - Answer-true
Value is one step on a gradation from light and dark - Answer-true
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