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1. The influence of classical sculpture on Donatello's bronze David is reflected in the fact
that the youthful male figure is depicted as_________(unclothed, smiling, gigantic)
1. "Genre painting", as the term used in art history refers to_________ (scenes of
everyday life , scenes of aristocratic life, biblical scenes)
1. _________is the first artist known by name. He was a priest in the Egyptian religion as
well as a renowned doctor, the architect of the Step Pyramid. (Imhotep, Zosher, Narmer, Khufu)
1. _________occurs when objects are positioned around a central point. (Radial balance,
symmetrical balance, felt balance)
1. _________ were the major art patrons during the period of Renaissance. (Dominican
family, Visconti family, Medici family)
1. In Rome during the Renaissance_________ was an active art patron. (Pope Julius I,
Pope Julius II, Pope Julius III )
1. _________ was among Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti of the three
Renaissance geniuses. (Durer, Titian, Raphael)
1. Peter Paul Ruben is famous for his _________ style of painting (Calm, impressionistic,
dynamic)
1. Rococo art movement was principally initiated as_________ design movement (textile,
graphic, interior)
1. Jacques Louis David is famous for his _________ style of paintings ( expressionist,
cubist, Neo-classical)
1. Impressionists favored painting _________ (at home, indoor, out of door)
1. Famous Viennese painter Gustav Klimt painted two most expensive paintings of all
time in _________ style (Realist, Romanticism, Art Nouveau)
1. There are two types of Cubism, one is analytic and the other is__________
(assemblage, electronic, synthetic)
1. Op art is a common word used for __________ (obscure art, origami art, Optical art)
1. In painting, sharp light used against the dark background to create a dramatic effect is
called___________ (spot light, sfumato, tenebrism)
1. Humanistic philosophy and learning were spread across the Europe during
__________ (middle ages, Byzantine era, Renaissance)
1. The scream was painted by _________ a famous Norwegian painter (Edward Munch,
Van Gogh, Georges Braque)
1. _________ art is based on the notion that light and movement can create the work of
art (conceptual art, Op art, Kinetic art)
1. In the last supper painting of Leonardo da Vinci, the halo is replaced by _________
behind the Christ’s head (arches, moon, windows)
1. Giotto painted the walls of _________ chapel (Sistine, St. Peter’s, Arena)
1. Ruben painted__________ kind of female figure (Dark and fleshy, thin and elongated,
soft and supple)
1. ___________is common in the paintings of Durer, Rembrandt and Van Gogh (Historic
subjects, street scenes, Self portraits)
1. Knight, Death and Devil, a painting by Durer is done in _________ medium (Painting,
Drawing , Print)
1. Jackson Pollock is famous for his ________ paintings (Pure, conceptual, Action)
1. _________ mostly painted the scenes of his native Suffolk where he grew up (Turner,
Gauguin, Constable)
1. _________ is a term applied to any kind of art which stresses the use of accepted
technique and form organization (avante garde, folk, Academic)
1. Giotto was the pupil of a famous artist of his time named ____________ (Duccio,
Simone Martini, Cimabue)
1. Besides being a famous painter Durer was also a master ______________ (sculptor,
musician, printmaker)
1. Botticelli created his forms through the extensive use of ________________ instead
of chiaroscuro (color, values, line)
1. An art movement called impressionism got its name from a famous painting of Eduard
Monet ______________ (Impression-sunset, Impression-starry night, Impression-sunrise)
1. Leonardo painted two versions of his famous painting ____________ (Mona Lisa,
Annunciation, Madonna of rocks)
1. “Die bruke”, the bridge was founded in ______________ (France, Italy, Germany)
1. __________was a driving force behind the birth of cubism (Gaustav Courbet, Georges
Seurat, Picasso)
1. Abstract art is also called as _________ art (absent art, objective art, non objective
art)
1. Blue period was an artistic phase of ____________ artist (Braque, Gustav Courbet,
Picasso)
1. John Constable is famous for his _____________ (Prints, fresco paintings, landscapes)
1. The old guitarist belonged to _____ period, the life of Picasso’s painting (yellow, rose,
blue)
1. Wassily Kandinsky was one of the exponents of _________ (Die Bruke, Fauvism, the
blue riders)
1. __________refers to the universal images of the pop culture (Op art, abstract art, pop
art)
1. In art movement which started against art was called __________ (expressionism,
surrealism, Dadaism)
1. Leonardo unsuccessfully used __________ technique for the painting of the Last
Supper. (relief , gold leaf, oil-tempera combination)
1. The process that Michelangelo used for his sculptures can best be seen in the
__________ (Awakening prisoner, Mona Lisa, Pieta)
1. The painter Titian used a heavy layer of __________ on areas of his painting (fiasco,
tempera, impasto)
1. El-Greco is known for his ____________ style of painting (static, baroque, Mannerism)
1. To produce __________ the artist scratched a design on a metal plate with a steel
needle. (lithograph, wood cut, dry point)
1. A painted panel with two halves is called a__________ (triptych, tondo, diptych)
1. Painting in oil usually requires putting oil pigments on_________ (wall, stone, canvas)
1. Carving woodblock for making prints was done by________ (painters, sculptors,
artisans)
1. On his trip back from Italy, Durer was to the first artist to use the medium of
__________ for landscape studies. (tempera, oil, watercolor)
1. Rubens received a commission for a series of large- scale paintings devoted to the life
of __________ (Phillip II, Charles III, Marie de Medici)
1. The earliest examples of Prehistoric paintings of animals are usually found _________
in cave(Lascaux, Altamira, Chauvet)
1. Cave paintings served __________ (illustration of daily life, decoration, aid in hunting
or magic)
1. Little Neolithic art remains today because___________ (the lack of interest of early
man, little archeological records, early man used perishable material)
1. A volcanic glass fashioned into tools for cutting is ________ (a dolmen, a barrow, an
obsidian)
1. To carve bone, horn or stone, Neolithic man used _______ (flint tools, bronze tools,
iron tools)
1. Many of the decorative elements found on the earliest pottery were derived
from________.(embroidery, jewelry, basket weaving)
1. The Great Sphinx is thought to portray the pharaoh _____. (Thutmose, Seth, Khufu)
1. The name for sacred pictorial writing is__________ (Cuneiform, Aramaic, Hieroglyphs)
1. The Amarna Style, with its greater realism, suggestions of movement, and anti-cubic
aesthetic, is associated with _____. (Ramses II, Hatshepsut, Akhenaton)
1. King Djoser was buried in a _____. (mastaba, pyramids at Giza, step pyramid)
1. The New Kingdom Book of the Dead was executed with paint on______ (slate,
parchment, papyrus)
1. The pyramids at Giza were originally covered with _________. (mud bricks, limestone,
dressed stone and gold)
1. King Narmer's Palette is divided horizontally into strips called ________. (continuous
narration, ground lines, register)
1. Stone used for the statue of Kahfre is________ (wood, gold, diorite)
1. Materials used for coffin cover of Tutankhamen were__________ (diorite, stone, gold)
1. Technique of printmaking, in which instead of incising lines into plate, various textures
are created from acrylic mediums, paints, leaves, sand etc is called_________ (lithograph,
collage, Collagraph)
1. Word Lithograph is a Greek word in which Litho means __________ (paper, Ink, stone)
1. A means of coloring cloth by using wax is called __________ (block print, stenciling,
Batik)
1. A line which creates a boundary on an area of space and separates it from its
surrounding background is called________ (calligraphy, texture, contour)
1. ___________ is a term which describes the relative degree of lightness and darkness
(Hue, halftone, value)
1. When artist chooses to attach real materials to his work, this creates ________
texture (simulated, inventive, actual)
1. The natural color of an object as seen by the eye, such as green grass, blue sky, is
called________ (suggestive color, subjective color, objective color)
1. The neighboring colors on the color wheel closely related to each other are
called_________ (neutral colors, complementary colors, analogous colors)
1. The shapes without the clarity of definition, formless, indistinct and of uncertain
dimensions are called __________ (biomorphic, geometric, amorphous)
1. Shapes which are irregular in form and resemble the freely developed curves found in
organic life are called___________ (curvilinear, amorphous, biomorphic
1. The final limit or boundary of the picture plane is called_________ (picture end,
picture sides, picture frame)
1. Tone chosen by the artist without regard to the real color of an object to be painted is
called______ (objective colors, naturalistic colors, subjective colors)
1. The whole effect of a work of art resulting from the combination of all its component
parts is called_________ (rhythm, harmony, unity)
1. Sticks of color made by mixing powdered pigment with gum Arabic or resin binder are
called________ (crayons, charcoal, pastels)
1. _________is an opaque, water soluble, quickly drying paint. (oil, enamel, acrylic)
1. Oil colors came into fashion by mid_________ (12th century, 13th century, 15th century)
1. A type of sculpture which is not free standing and has a background like a painting is
called _________ (collage, relief)
1. The thinker and the kiss, are the world famous sculptures which were made by French
sculptor named_________ (Boccioni, Henry Moore, Auguste Rodin)
1. The ruins of the Pompeii reveal the genius of _____________ civilization (Etruscans,
Greeks, Romans)
1. Paintings on the walls and ceilings of the _________ are the earliest examples of
Christian art. (churches, roadsides, catacombs)
1. During the reign of ____________ Christianity was legalized and huge churches were
erected. (Caesar, Charlemagne, Constantine)
1. Early Christian architecture reached at its peak during the ____________ era. (Roman,
dark ages, Byzantine)
1. Of all the Mogul emperors _________ was the greatest patron of architecture.
(Hamayun, Aurangzeb, Shah Jahan)
1. The Indus Valley civilization’s close links with Mesopotamia and Sumer were
established through the _________ discovered that were common in all. (inscriptions, coins,
seals)
1. _____________ is a technique in which small dots are used instead of shading motifs
and backgrounds. (sponging, spattering, stippling)
1. The conventions of _______________ art were challenged by the more naturalistic art
of Giotto. (roman art, renaissance art, byzantine art)
1. A style of painting in which the pigment is applied thickly or in heavy lumps, favored by
Rembrandt is called __________ (luster, glazing, Impasto)
1. The art of making objects such as pottery of clay etc is called ___________ (weaving,
mosaic, ceramic)
1. Early Greek sculptures carved of marble (600BC) were the unclothed young male
called _______ (kore, Narmer, kouros)
1. Carving and modeling are two separate techniques of _________ (painting, printing,
sculpture)
1. _________ is known as father of art in Pakistan. (Gulgee, Ustad Allah Bux, Abdul
Rehman Chughtai)
1. __________ Pakistani artist is famous for painting series of Cactus into his paintings.
(Amin Gulgee, Zubaida Agha, Sadeqain)
1. Taj Mahal was built by Shah Jehan for his beloved wife named __________ (Noor
Jehan, Haji Begum, Mumtaz Mahal)
1. Taj Mahal is entirely made up of _________ (red sand stone, tile mosaic, white marble)
1. Mogul miniature painting reached at its peak during the time of___________
(hamayun, shahjehan, Jehangir)
1. Use of fantastic creature such as phoenix and dragons in Persian miniature is due the
________ influence. (Central Asian, Indian, Chinese)
1. Most of the buildings built during the reign of Mogul emperor Akbar are made of
__________ (white marble, Abri stone, red-sand stone)
1. __________ brought with himself famous Persian artist to his Mogul court from the
court of Shah Tahmasp. (Babur, Akbar, Hamayun)
1. Aphrodite, goddess of love, beauty, and fertility, is also known by her Roman name
______. (Hera, Vesta, Venus)
1. In Greek mythology ________was the god of the sky who ruled over the deities on
Mount Olympus. He fathered Mars, the god of war; his queen was Hera or Juno. (Poseidon,
Hades, Zeus)
1. In printing, CMYK stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and ________ (green, Red, Black)
1. __________ is the most durable material for making of any art piece. (iron, wood,
stone)
1. __________ is the most durable medium for painting (oil, water color, fresco)
1. Ancient Greek mosaics were pictures constructed with ____________. (semi precious
stones, tile pieces, pebbles)
1. Many original Greek statues were executed in bronze although we currently know
them from Roman copies made in ________.(mosaic, iron, marble)
1. The triangular section crowning a Greek temple and often containing freestanding
sculpture is the ________. (frieze, plinth, pediment)
1. Masaccio learnt knowledge of classical art from his sculptor friend named _________
(Fillipo Lippi, Ghirlandaio, Donatello)
1. The last supper by Leonardo da Vinci was painted for __________ (Sistine chapel,
Assisi chapel, Milan monastery)
1. Eloborately decorated boxes of different shapes to contain the bones and relics of the
sacred person are____________ (stupas, kamandalus, reliquaries)
1. Raphael is well known for setting his figures in_________ background (golden,
unidentified, architectural)
1. In Michelangelo’s sculpture Pieta, Virgin Mary is shown with ________ emotions (high,
negative, restraint)
1. __________ brought back the lost naturalism of classical art which was lost during the
Middle Ages. (Cimabue, Duccio, Giotto)