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Chapter 2: What Is a Work of Art?
Select the letter of the choice that BEST answers the question:
1. Which of the following cannot be a work of art?
a. a car
b. a sunset
c. a photograph
d. pottery
Answer: b
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2. Which of the following terms means sustained attention and loss of self-awareness?
a. participation
b. content
c. artistic form
d. subject matter
Answer: a
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3. In order for something to be art it must
a. be a painting
b. be in a museum
c. be beautiful
d. be human made
Answer: d
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4. The elements of painting include
a. color, lines, texture, and light
b. rhythm, media, clay, and glaze
c. silver, bronze, bitumen, and gold
d balance, repetition, symbols, and a title
Answer: a
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5. Which of the following is some value expressed in a work of art?
a. participation
b. content
c. artistic form
d. subject matter
Answer: d
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6. Which of the following paintings represents an idealized female nude?
a. Renoir, Bather Arranging Her Hair
b. Giorgione, Sleeping Venus
c. Valadon, Reclining Nude
d. Neel, Margaret Evans Pregnant
Answer: b
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7. It is easier to change parts around without losing meaning in
a. Goya’s May 3, 1808
b. Cezanne’s Mont Sainte Victoire
c. Litchenstein, Torpedo…Los!
d. Adams’ Execution in Saigon
Answer: d
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8. Which of the following is true of spectator attention?
a. It comes more naturally to children.
b. It is inefficient by nature.
c. It dominates most of our experiences.
d. It enables us to lose ourselves in a work of art.
Answer: c
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9. Which of the following groups finds the participative experience easiest?
a. young children
b. young adults
c. middle age adults
d. old adults
Answer: a
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10. Which of the following means the organization of a medium that results in clarifying a value expressed in a work of art?
a. participation
b. content
c. artistic form
d. subject matter
Answer: c
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11. A participative experience involves
a. participating with other people in enjoying a work of art
b. feeling sympathy for some character in a work of art
c. identifying with some character in a work of art
d. undivided and sustained attention to a work of art
Answer: d
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12. According to the authors, which of the following basic distinctions of art is the most fundamental?
a. participation
b. content
c. artistic form
d. subject matter
Answer: a
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13. Who of the following said, “If the world were clear, art would not exist”?
a. Vincent Van Gogh
b. Albert Camus
c. Edward Weston
d. Clive Bell
Answer: b
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14. Anyone who has participated with cummings’ “1(a” will understand
a. the personality of cummings better
b. the poem is a kind of crossword puzzle
c. the isolation of loneliness and death
d. none of the above
Answer: c
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15. Lichtenstein used comic strips as subject matter because
a. he could make money with such a commercial subject matter
b. the comic strips were almost art and thus easily improved into art
c. of the stark simplicity and power of comic strips
d. he felt they were beautiful
Answer: c
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Essay question:
Look at a work of art (the professor may choose from http://www.artcyclopedia.com) and explain what makes it art using the guidelines set forth in this chapter.
