Question 15 pts

What is the fundamental component of creativity for both scientists and artists?

LOGICAL REASONING

SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY

INTRINSIC MOTIVATION

GUESSWORK

ANALYTICAL THOUGHT

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Children begin life as eager learners. How do parents and teachers destroy, by the age of twelve, their creative impulse?

BY SHOWING INTEREST IN THEIR DISCOVERIES AND FEELINGS

BY MAKING THEM AFRAID TO EXPERIMENT

BY ALLOWING THEM TO EXPLORE THE WORLD AROUND THEM

BY GIVING THEM ONGOING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONAL EXPRESSION

BY LOVING AND CARING FOR THEM

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Which of the following are characteristic of folk art?

FOLK ARTISTS ARE STRONGLY INFLUENCED BY ART TRENDS OF THEIR TIME.

FOLK ARTISTS ARE FORMALLY TRAINED IN ART.

FOLK ARTISTS ARE USUALLY INTERESTED IN CURRENT EVENTS.

FOLK ARTISTS WORK WITHIN AN UNCHANGING TRADITION.

FOLK ARTISTS ARE INTERESTED IN AESTHETIC ADVANCEMENT.

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What is iconography? For example, in a work such as The Virgin of Carmel, what carries the deepest level of meaning?

THE SYMBOLISM OF THE WORK

THE MEDIUM

THE OVERALL COMPOSITION

THE CONTEXT OF THE WORK

THE FORMAL ELEMENTS

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An aptitude for Spatial Reasoning would be most useful to:

A COMPOSER

AN ARTIST

A DANCER

A MINISTER

A WRITER

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Why did the Belgian surrealist painter Magritte do a painting of a pipe and beneath it write “This is not a pipe”?

IT WASN’T AN ACCURATE PAINTING OF A PIPE.

BECAUSE HE WAS OPPOSED TO PIPE-SMOKING WHICH CAUSES CANCER

HE WAS MAKING A PRETENTIOUS STATEMENT.

TO REMIND THE VIEWER THAT IT WAS A PAINTING

TO MAKE A SOCIAL STATEMENT.

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Creativity is found in most human endeavors, across cultures. Why do artists choose to express themselves in visual forms?

BECAUSE THEY HAD UNHAPPY CHILDHOODS

BECAUSE MOST ARTISTS NEVER LEARN MUSIC

BECAUSE IMAGERY COMMUNICATES BEYOND MERE WORDS.

BECAUSE THEY STRUGGLE COMMUNICATING WITH VERBAL LANGUAGE

BECAUSE MAKING VISUAL ART IS SO MUCH EASIER THAN OTHER CAREERS.

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What is meant by the artist Robert Irwin’s statement, “seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees”?

NAMING THINGS WE SEE HELPS US TO BETTER APPRECIATE THEM.

ROBERT IRWIN ONLY LIKES ART THAT CANNOT BE NAMED.

A VIEWER CAN ONLY UNDERSTAND A WORK OF ART BY READING ABOUT IT.

NAMING THINGS PREVENTS US FROM EXPERIENCING THE UNIQUENESS OF VISUAL FORM.

ROBERT IRWIN ONLY LIKES ABSTRACT ART.

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What is the primary function of the 19th Century Mende Mask from Sierra Leone?

TO INSPIRE YOUNG WOMEN TO VIRTUOUS CONDUCT.

IT WAS USED IN RELIGIOUS WORSHIP.

TO FRIGHTEN AWAY ENEMIES.

IT WAS ART FOR VISUAL DELIGHT.

TO PRESENT A NATURALISTIC PORTRAIT OF THE WEARER.

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What is the correct use of the term abstract in art?

ABSTRACT ART HAS NO REFERENCE TO NATURAL OBJECTS.

ABSTRACT ART DISTORTS AND EXAGGERATES NATURAL OBJECTS.

ABSTRACT ART IS HIGHLY ILLUSIONISTIC.

ABSTRACT ART HAS NO CONTENT.

ABSTRACT ART IS ALWAYS NON-OBJECTIVE.

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What do traditional fine arts have in common with more recent media such as photography, film and television?

THEY BOTH ARE MARKETED ONLY TO THE WELL-EDUCATED.

THEY TELL STORIES AND COMMUNICATE INFORMATION.

THEY ARE CREATED BY THE UNTRAINED.

THEY RELY PRIMARILY ON THE USE OF PHOTOGRAPHY.

THEY BOTH ARE MARKETED ONLY TO THE MASSES.

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How can a viewer understand the context of a work of art?

BY ANALYZING THE VISUAL ELEMENTS

BY STUDYING THE MEANING OF THE WORK OF ART

BY STUDYING THE COMPOSITION OF THE WORK OF ART

BY STUDYING THE HISTORY OF THE TIME PERIOD IN WHICH IT WAS CREATED

BY IDENTIFYING THE MEDIUM AND TECHNIQUE USED TO EXECUTE IT

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What was the fundamental purpose of Francisco Goya’s etchings titled The Disasters of War?

IT WAS ART FOR COMMENTARY.

IT WAS ART FOR VISUAL DELIGHT.

IT WAS DECORATIVE ART.

IT WAS FUNCTIONAL ART.

IT WAS ART FOR WORSHIP AND RITUAL.

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How does visually attractive, aesthetically oriented art “lift us above the stream of life?”

BY TELLING STORIES

BY MAKING A POWERFUL RELIGIOUS STATEMENT

BY COMMUNICATING STRONG POLITICAL NARRATIVE

BY ABSORBING US IN CONTEMPLATION

BY REMINDING US OF THE DRUDGERY OF OUR DAILY LIFE

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Briefly describe the look of a painting executed in a style called trompe l’oeil, pronounced “tromp loy”.

THE PAINTING WAS DONE IN OIL.

THE STYLE LOOKS TRIUMPHANT.

THE PAINTING IS ABSTRACT.

THE PAINTING IS COLORFUL.

THE PAINTING’S SUBJECT LOOKS REAL.

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For Leonardo da Vinci, what was the relation of beauty and ugliness?

UGLINESS WAS A VARIATION OF BEAUTY.

UGLINESS WAS MORE IMPORTANT THAN BEAUTY.

BEAUTY WAS NOT A SUBJECT OF THE RENAISSANCE.

LEONARDO WAS NOT INTERESTED IN DRAWING UGLY PEOPLE.

LEONARDO WAS ONLY INTERESTED IN DRAWING UGLY PEOPLE.

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How do children, before the age of six, depict the world?

SYMBOLICALLY

NATURALISTICALLY

REALISTICALLY

ILLUSIONISTICALLY

STYLISTICALLY

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Which of the following is characteristic of Fine art?

FINE ARTISTS ARE NOT FORMALLY TRAINED.

FINE ART TENDS TO REQUIRES FORMAL TRAINING.

FINE ART TRADITIONS REMAIN UNCHANGED.

FINE ARTISTS ARE USUALLY UNAWARE OF THEIR PLACE IN HISTORY.

FINE ART IS USUALLY MARKETED TO MASS AUDIENCES.

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What is the purpose of the Taj Majal in Agra, India?

IT WAS ART FOR SOCIAL COMMENTARY.

IT WAS ART FOR COMMEMORATION.

IT IS A MOSQUE.

IT IS A GOVERNMENT BUILDING.

IT WAS ART FOR PERSUASION.

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What aspects do we consider when we describe the form of a work of art?

THE MEDIUM AND COMPOSITION

THE LOCATION OF THE WORK OF ART

THE BELIEF SYSTEM OF THE ARTIST

THE RELIGIOUS AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT

THE POLITICAL EVENTS OF THE TIME PERIOD