TEST #1 of 5 Results

Each correct answer equals 3 points. 33 questions x 3 = 99. I will give you one extra point for just being an excellent participant of our plant. There are a number of questions at the conclusion of the test that you may answer to gather more points into your rich cache. 

1. Draw a contemporary symbol in the space below:                  @#$%^&*

2. Name three ways Paleolithic humans created visual forms: 

drawings - paintings - reliefs - sculptures (in the round)

3.  What is a binder?

A substance usually added to paint to make it sticky

4. Regarding Stonehenge, describe what it looks like or write about it:

Standing stones — enormous, in a circle

i. Where is Stonehenge? England

ii. Is it still around today? Yes

iii. Who made it? Believed to be the Druids

5.  Is this statement true? “Art history requires knowledge of a historical context of an artwork.”                  

           True                     or                   False

6.  Scientific evidence shows that our ancestors have been around for an awfully long time.  

1. more than 250,000 years
2. less than 10,000 years
3. less than 6,000 years

7. Another name for a two dimensional abstract art work is non-objective or non-representational.      

                               True                  or                False

8. Explain what a crucible is?

A high fire ceramic/plaster bowl that holds metal when it is smelted

9. How do works of art shed light on the cultures that made them? Explain: 

Often illustrates their beliefs, their everyday life, their myths, their history

10. The Winter Olympic games are now going on in South Korea.  What civilization we have spoken about began these games?

Ancient Greece

11. What are archeologists concerned with through their work?

Past civilizations’ artifacts, often includes human remains

12. What are paleontologists concerned with in their study?

Fossils

13. Describe what a “provenance” is/means?

The previous ownership list (similar to a cart title)

14. Explain what a representational art work might look like:

Drawings, etc. appears as plant, mineral, animal - it looks like what it represents, a portrait, for example

15. The materials used in producing a lost-wax cast, the artist begins with this as their medium ____WAX _  followed with the addition of heat, this _ metal (bronze, gold, silver, etc.)

16. Name six formal elements here:

i. SHAPE

ii. LINE

iii. VOLUME

iv. COLOR

v. SPACE

vi. TEXTURE

17. Draw a color wheel in the circle below. Divide the circle into 6 parts, noting all colors.

18.  What is (are) the analogous color (s) of BLUE:  

GREEN and VIOLET

19. “Complimentary colors sit side by side on the color wheel, sharing a border.” 

           True                  or              False

20. In the space below draw a post and lintel structure, naming the two parts: 

21. What does linear perspective mean and produce? A spatial system that defines depth of field by having objects appear as if they’re receding to a vanish point - one point, two point, three point perspective

22. Is this statement true? “We only find cave art on the continent of Africa.”    

TRUE                    or             FALSE   

23. Explain the difference between a relief sculpture and one that is ‘in the round.’

Relief = remains attached to it’s background

In the Round = we can walk around it

24. Circle the correct answer: Another name for a symbol is:

i. words             ii. icon                   iii. pretty picture that often looks like a heart

25. We know that people have made visual forms for numerous reasons, cross culturally and throughout time.  Name three reasons here we have discussed in class:

i. their political ideas

ii. their belief system

iii. their history / communicating narratives / etc.

26. Aesthetic attitudes differ from person to person.  This is our  XX response.  

Circle what XX is:   

i. objective response          or          ii. subjective response                 

27. If I were an individual belonging to the Upper Paleolithic period, I would be using

these types of colors, including reds, browns, ochres, black.  They are also known as this type of a palette:   EARTH  colors.

28. Why did early humans settle along the Nile River? 

The land around it was extremely fertile.

29. What human inventional separates Pre history from History?

WRITING

30. Hierarchical scale means:

1. people are always the most important thing in the pictorial space
2. things that are depicted larger are the most important

31. What does CE mean? COMMON ERA

Thus BCE means this: BEFORE THE COMMON ERA

32. Draw a bilateral symmetrical icon on the horizontal axis below: 

33. What do the following words mean fully?

PALEOLITHIC = old stone age

NEOLITHIC = new stone age

MESOLITHIC = middle stone age

Bonus points: 

Correct answers = one question equates to one point

34. We have seen a number of different sculptures already in class. Name four media that has produced them.

i. GRANITE

ii. MUD

iii. MARBLE

iv. PLASTER

35. In our Western world, people in power have never dictated what a visual designer/artist should be made.  This includes individuals who are Pharaohs, Popes, patrons, The Church, emperors, monks, etc.

                   TRUE                       or                         FALSE

36. The artifacts we have found tell so many stories about ancient Egypt. They are found specifically in what types of human created forms?

TOMBS — WHERE THE DEAD ARE BURIED

37. We have seen artists make use of tessellation patterning to draw focus.  What do we mean by the word “tessellation” ? 

REMEMBER, M.C. ESCHER? —- IT’S A 2D FORM THAT REPRESENTS PATTERN WITHOUT NEGATIVE SPACE