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How are Rembrandt’s Three Crosses and Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night similar?

How are Rembrandt’s Three Crosses and Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night similar?

How are Rembrandt’s Three Crosses and Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night similar?
a) They both use expressive line to convey emotion.
b) They both connect imagery with grid lines.
c) They both use controlled lines to create stability.

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Yoshitomo Nara’s Dead Flower contrasts its menacing subject with the use of a heavy outline ...

Yoshitomo Nara’s Dead Flower contrasts its menacing subject with the use of a heavy outline ...

Yoshitomo Nara’s Dead Flower contrasts its menacing subject with the use of a heavy outline associated with
a) the cuteness of a juvenile style.
b) the simplicity of a naïve style.
c) the drama of an energetic style.
d) stabili

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What cultural conventions did Robert Mapplethorpe challenge in his photographic portrait of female ...

What cultural conventions did Robert Mapplethorpe challenge in his photographic portrait of female ...

What cultural conventions did Robert Mapplethorpe challenge in his photographic portrait of female bodybuilder Lisa Lyon?
a) the traditional representation of the female nude
b) the role of religion in art
c) the use of classical model

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Hung Liu studied and taught painting with a strict classical line that is associated with the style ...

Hung Liu studied and taught painting with a strict classical line that is associated with the style ...

Hung Liu studied and taught painting with a strict classical line that is associated with the style of
a) Russian Social Realism.
b) the Expressionists.
c) Abstract Expressionism.
d) Post-Impressionism.

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Lines that form the outer edge of a three-dimensional shape and suggest its volume are calleda) ...

Lines that form the outer edge of a three-dimensional shape and suggest its volume are calleda) ...

Lines that form the outer edge of a three-dimensional shape and suggest its volume are called
a) contour lines.
b) grid lines.
c) outlines.
d) implied lines.

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We know about Vincent Van Gogh’s thoughts on his work The Sower froma) letters he wrote.b) ...

We know about Vincent Van Gogh’s thoughts on his work The Sower froma) letters he wrote.b) ...

We know about Vincent Van Gogh’s thoughts on his work The Sower from
a) letters he wrote.
b) contemporary reviews.
c) inventories.
d) inscriptions he wrote on the painting.

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Jacques-Louis David’s The Death of Socrates is set up in a system of right angles on a grid ...

Jacques-Louis David’s The Death of Socrates is set up in a system of right angles on a grid ...

Jacques-Louis David’s The Death of Socrates is set up in a system of right angles on a grid structure. How does this affect the content of the piece?
a) It reiterates the rationality of Socrates’ actions.
b) It does not; it is purely coinci

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In Pat Steir’s The Brueghel Series: A Vanitas of Style, a series of sixty-four separate panels are ...

In Pat Steir’s The Brueghel Series: A Vanitas of Style, a series of sixty-four separate panels are ...

In Pat Steir’s The Brueghel Series: A Vanitas of Style, a series of sixty-four separate panels are held together by what category of line?
a) grid lines
b) contour lines
c) expressive lines
d) calligraphic lines

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What type of line did Hung Liu say was closer to the real Chinese traditions than her training in ...

What type of line did Hung Liu say was closer to the real Chinese traditions than her training in ...

What type of line did Hung Liu say was closer to the real Chinese traditions than her training in the Russian Social Realist style?

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Hung Liu’s Relic 12 juxtaposes an image of a Chinese courtesan with the characters for ...

Hung Liu’s Relic 12 juxtaposes an image of a Chinese courtesan with the characters for ...

Hung Liu’s Relic 12 juxtaposes an image of a Chinese courtesan with the characters for “female” and “Nu-Wa” in a red box in the middle of the canvas. Who is Nu-Wa, and how do Hung Liu’s lines work together to depict her?

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Compare and contrast the use of line in the works of Vincent van Gogh and Sol LeWitt.

Compare and contrast the use of line in the works of Vincent van Gogh and Sol LeWitt.

Compare and contrast the use of line in the works of Vincent van Gogh and Sol LeWitt.

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In Harmony in Red (The Red Room), Henri Matisse deliberately intended to violate the laws of ...

In Harmony in Red (The Red Room), Henri Matisse deliberately intended to violate the laws of ...

In Harmony in Red (The Red Room), Henri Matisse deliberately intended to violate the laws of perspective. Why?
a) His interests were in things other than verisimilitude.
b) He preferred flat space and disliked shading.
c) He did not un

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Paul Cézanne’s Mme. Cézanne in a Red Armchair illustrates the artist’s strong interest ina) ...

Paul Cézanne’s Mme. Cézanne in a Red Armchair illustrates the artist’s strong interest ina) ...

Paul Cézanne’s Mme. Cézanne in a Red Armchair illustrates the artist’s strong interest in
a) design.
b) subject matter.
c) color.
d) composition.

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What is the metaphorical significance of the feast-making spoon sculpture from the Ivory Coast?

What is the metaphorical significance of the feast-making spoon sculpture from the Ivory Coast?

What is the metaphorical significance of the feast-making spoon sculpture from the Ivory Coast?
a) It represents the imagination transforming an everyday object for good.
b) It represents the battle between good and evil.
c) It gives a

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Where is the vanishing point in the perspective analysis of Duccio’s Annunciation of the Death of ...

Where is the vanishing point in the perspective analysis of Duccio’s Annunciation of the Death of ...

Where is the vanishing point in the perspective analysis of Duccio’s Annunciation of the Death of the Virgin, from the Maestà Altarpiece?
a) at several points in the composition
b) just above and to the left of the Virgin’s head
c) at

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In Deliverance, which technique does Steve DiBenedetto use to create a sense of space?

In Deliverance, which technique does Steve DiBenedetto use to create a sense of space?

In Deliverance, which technique does Steve DiBenedetto use to create a sense of space?
a) overlapping images
b) line
c) linear perspective
d) atmospheric perspective

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Which element of Matisse’s Harmony in Red (The Red Room) creates a visual contradiction to the ...

Which element of Matisse’s Harmony in Red (The Red Room) creates a visual contradiction to the ...

Which element of Matisse’s Harmony in Red (The Red Room) creates a visual contradiction to the work’s title?
a) its representation of spatial depth
b) its use of color
c) its use of negative space
d) its placement of vantage point

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What relationship exists between Leonardo da Vinci’s perspective system in The Last Supper and the ...

What relationship exists between Leonardo da Vinci’s perspective system in The Last Supper and the ...

What relationship exists between Leonardo da Vinci’s perspective system in The Last Supper and the painting’s actual location?
a) The painting’s perspective is directly linked to the architectural space of its location.
b) The painting’s p

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In the Rubin vase illustration, the black shape can be seen alternately as a foreground object ...

In the Rubin vase illustration, the black shape can be seen alternately as a foreground object ...

In the Rubin vase illustration, the black shape can be seen alternately as a foreground object resembling a vase or as a background space between two white profiled faces. What is this relationship called?
a) figure-ground reversal
b) atmos

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Although created for different purposes, Barbara Hepworth’s Two Figures and the African ...

Although created for different purposes, Barbara Hepworth’s Two Figures and the African ...

Although created for different purposes, Barbara Hepworth’s Two Figures and the African feast-making spoon share a similar trait. What is it?
a) They are both positive forms that contain negative space.
b) They are both based on the animal

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Which element of Janine Antoni’s Touch, if changed from its position in the original frame view, ...

Which element of Janine Antoni’s Touch, if changed from its position in the original frame view, ...

Which element of Janine Antoni’s Touch, if changed from its position in the original frame view, would break the illusion of flattened space?
a) vantage point
b) vanishing point
c) orthogonal line
d) figure-ground line

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When and where was linear perspective first codified (studied, organized, and written down)?

When and where was linear perspective first codified (studied, organized, and written down)?

When and where was linear perspective first codified (studied, organized, and written down)?
a) during the Renaissance in Italy
b) in the twelfth century in Japan
c) in the twentieth century in the United States
d) during the Cla

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Paul Strand’s Abstraction, Porch Shadows reflects a twentieth-century effort to challenge the ...

Paul Strand’s Abstraction, Porch Shadows reflects a twentieth-century effort to challenge the ...

Paul Strand’s Abstraction, Porch Shadows reflects a twentieth-century effort to challenge the viewer’s perspective with
a) odd or distorted perspective.
b) high contrast images.
c) patterns of light and dark.
d) traditional compo

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What do Antoni’s Touch and Matisse’s Harmony in Red (The Red Room) have in common?

What do Antoni’s Touch and Matisse’s Harmony in Red (The Red Room) have in common?

What do Antoni’s Touch and Matisse’s Harmony in Red (The Red Room) have in common?

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Which elements of The Dead Christ did Mantegna have to adjust significantly to avoid undesired ...

Which elements of The Dead Christ did Mantegna have to adjust significantly to avoid undesired ...

Which elements of The Dead Christ did Mantegna have to adjust significantly to avoid undesired effects of extreme foreshortening given the vantage point of the image?

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Compare Boccioni’s Futurist principles to Winters’s Color and Information.

Compare Boccioni’s Futurist principles to Winters’s Color and Information.

Compare Boccioni’s Futurist principles to Winters’s Color and Information.

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Artist Artemisia Gentileschi heightens the drama of Judith and Maidservant with the Head of ...

Artist Artemisia Gentileschi heightens the drama of Judith and Maidservant with the Head of ...

Artist Artemisia Gentileschi heightens the drama of Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes by using a technique that comes from an Italian word meaning “murky.” This technique is called
a) tenebrism.
b) cross-hatching.
c)

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Mary Cassatt has manipulated light and color in In the Loge to emphasize thea) division between male ...

Mary Cassatt has manipulated light and color in In the Loge to emphasize thea) division between male ...

Mary Cassatt has manipulated light and color in In the Loge to emphasize the
a) division between male and female spaces.
b) passive role of a female spectator.
c) prison-like opera box.
d) significance of opera in the late ninetee

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With atmospheric perspective, objects further from the viewer appeara) cooler and less distinct. b) ...

With atmospheric perspective, objects further from the viewer appeara) cooler and less distinct. b) ...

With atmospheric perspective, objects further from the viewer appear
a) cooler and less distinct.
b) warmer and more detailed.
c) warmer and less distinct.
d) cooler and more detailed.

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One of the chief tools employed by artists of the Renaissance to show the effects of light isa) ...

One of the chief tools employed by artists of the Renaissance to show the effects of light isa) ...

One of the chief tools employed by artists of the Renaissance to show the effects of light is
a) chiaroscuro.
b) perspective.
c) key.
d) perceptual key.

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On the color wheel, blues and greens are usually thought of asa) cool colors.b) complementary ...

On the color wheel, blues and greens are usually thought of asa) cool colors.b) complementary ...

On the color wheel, blues and greens are usually thought of as
a) cool colors.
b) complementary colors.
c) intermediate colors.
d) opposite each other.

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On Newton’s color wheel, colors that lie directly between a secondary and primary are calleda) ...

On Newton’s color wheel, colors that lie directly between a secondary and primary are calleda) ...

On Newton’s color wheel, colors that lie directly between a secondary and primary are called
a) intermediate colors.
b) complementary colors.
c) secondary colors.
d) primary colors.

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The range of colors that an artist has preferred to use in a work is referred to as thea) palette.b) ...

The range of colors that an artist has preferred to use in a work is referred to as thea) palette.b) ...

The range of colors that an artist has preferred to use in a work is referred to as the
a) palette.
b) style.
c) composition.
d) spectrum.

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Which medium did sculptor Dan Flavin employ to transform a room?

Which medium did sculptor Dan Flavin employ to transform a room?

Which medium did sculptor Dan Flavin employ to transform a room?
a) fluorescent lighting
b) human ashes
c) oil paint
d) dirt

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At the end of the nineteenth century, which invention allowed color to be projected with increased ...

At the end of the nineteenth century, which invention allowed color to be projected with increased ...

At the end of the nineteenth century, which invention allowed color to be projected with increased brightness and clarity?
a) the electric light
b) the color wheel
c) the gelatin silver print
d) tenebrism

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In the history of art, with what has the color black been associated?

In the history of art, with what has the color black been associated?

In the history of art, with what has the color black been associated?
a) Goethe associated black with the absence of good, but for African Americans, black is a color of pride.
b) In medieval art, black is associated with the owl, which sym

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The background mountains in Leonardo’s Madonna of the Rocks provide a perfect example of

The background mountains in Leonardo’s Madonna of the Rocks provide a perfect example of

The background mountains in Leonardo’s Madonna of the Rocks provide a perfect example of
a) atmospheric perspective.
b) stacked perspective.
c) hieratic perspective.
d) linear perspective.

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In the 1660s, who discovered that color is a direct function of light by passing sunlight through a ...

In the 1660s, who discovered that color is a direct function of light by passing sunlight through a ...

In the 1660s, who discovered that color is a direct function of light by passing sunlight through a prism and observing the bands of spectrum of colors?
a) Isaac Newton
b) Rembrandt van Rijn
c) Gianlorenzo Bernini
d) Pierre Bonna

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The temperature of Jane Hammond’s Fallen, with a color scheme of oranges, yellows, and reds, can ...

The temperature of Jane Hammond’s Fallen, with a color scheme of oranges, yellows, and reds, can ...

The temperature of Jane Hammond’s Fallen, with a color scheme of oranges, yellows, and reds, can be described as
a) warm.
b) cool.
c) intermediate.
d) primary.

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What did Jane Hammond use to create Fallen?

What did Jane Hammond use to create Fallen?

What did Jane Hammond use to create Fallen?
a) digitally scanned and printed images of a leaf
b) cut-out paintings of leaves
c) fallen autumn leaves
d) fabric made to look like leaves

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