12-ABM ZECHARIAH

New Era University

BASIC EDUCATION Department
General Santos City Branch
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
Midterm Examination in Contemporary Arts-12
2nd SEMESTER Academic Year: 2022-2023

Name: ___________________________________ Score:

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Strand: __________________________ Date:
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Test I. Multiple Choice. Encircle the letter of the correct answer.

1. It is the manner in which artists use and manipulate materials to achieve the desired formal
effect.
a. Technique c. Style
b. Medium d. Strategy

2. A person who uses metal, wood, stone, clay and glass.

a. Architect c. Sculptor
b. Carpenter d. Painter

3. S/He uses pigments usually on a flat ground.

a. Architect c. Sculptor
b. Carpenter d. Painter

4. S/He uses the body and its movements.

a. Dancer c. Dramatic artist
b. Singer d. Poet

5. Integrates all the arts and uses the stage, production design and other aspects to come
together as a whole.
a. Singer c. Theater artists
b. Dancer d. Filmmaker

6. S/He uses wood, bamboo, bricks, stone and various building materials.
a. Architect c. Director
b. Musician d. Designer

7. S/He uses sound and instruments (including human voice).

a. Dancer c. Director
b. Musician d. Designer

8. S/He uses ink printed or transferred on a surface.

a. Filmmaker c. Pictorial Works
b. Printmaker d. Musical Arts

9. These include music, poetry, and dance that are accompanied by music.
 a. Practical arts c. Pictorial arts
b. Environmental arts d. Musical arts

10. Works that are staged and performed based on stories which include drama, novel, fiction,
nonfiction, music and dance is classified as ______.
a. Installation c. Narrative
b. Collaboration d. None of the above

11. It is defined as the material or the substance out of which a work is made.
a. Technique c. Theme
b. Medium d. Subject matter
12. It is associated with body’s axis as it moves towards different directions.
a. Color c. Shape
b. Line d. Volume

13. This was created when several lines come together which can be very thin, washed or very
thick, rough or fine.
a. Value c. Texture
b. Line d. Saturation

14. It is associated with our experiences of cold and warmth and the quality of light in our tropical
environment, the cycles of night and day, of darkness and light.
a. Value c. Color
b. Brilliance d. Saturation
15. It refers to the hue’s brightness or darkness.
a. Value c. Brilliance
b. Saturation d. Color
16. It refers to forms that are two-dimensional or three-dimensional
a. Line c. Color
b. Shape d. Texture

17. It is very much related to line, and the direction of the eye.
a. Movement c. Intensity
b. Volume d. Saturation
18. Refers to what they are all about, it can be figurative or nonfigurative.
a. Medium c. Theme
b. Technique d. Subject matter
19. There is totally no subject at all- just interplay of pure elements like line, shape, or color.

a. Non-objectivism c. Non-representational
b. Non- figurative d. All of the above
20. The style where the artist uses his/her imagination and alters the subject according to his/her
 desire.
a. Distortion c. Realism
b. Abstraction d. Non-objectivism

21. It is the recurring idea or element in a work of art, it refers to the ideas, thoughts, and

feelings of the artist.

a. Technique c. Theme
b. Medium d. Subject matter
22. The "crossbreeding" in the contemporary scene has resulted in a hybrid art called___.
a. Integrative art c. Western art
b. Contemporary art d. Modern art
23. What year did modern art emerged?
a. 1700 c. 1800
b. 1900 d. 2000

24. It is the newest form of art, amusing people from the middle to the late 20th century up to this
very minute.
a. Integrative art c. Western art
b. Contemporary art d. Modern art
25. It deals with the object study of the external world – what we see in it and all processes that
happen within it.
a. Science c. Social
b. Humanities d. psychology
26. It is any person, animal, thing, or issue that is described or presented in a work.
a. Technique c. Theme
b. Medium d. Subject matter
27. It refers to the study of how people process and record their thoughts, beliefs, and longings.
a. Science c. Social
b. Humanities d. psychology
28. What is the Latin word of contemporary?
a. Contemporarius c. Contemporaneo
b. Contempo d. None of the above
29. It refers to the style that imitates another work, artist, or period. It means artistic, works that come
from diverse sources – a mixture, a medley of different ideas.
a. Pastiche c. Assemblage
b. Bricolage d. Modernism
30. This refers to the use of the style and content of another culture for a performance.
a. Pastiche c. Appropriation
b. Bricolage d. Installation
 Test II. MatchingType. Write the letter on the space provided.

Column A Column B

_____1. The surface of the artwork.

_____2. It is the personal type, for it concerns the sentiments of the a. Content
artists.
_____3. The subject matter of the work of art b. Form

_____4. It refers to the varied situations in which the works have been c. Context
produced or interpreted. 
d. Primary Context
_____5.It refers to the place and period in which the artist has made his
work e. Secondary Context
_____6. It was established “to preserve, develop arts and culture in the f. July
Philippines” 
_____7. It is an outreach program which promotes the regional arts g. Modernism
through cultural interactions and exchange tours of accomplished artists
h. Cinema
and art groups in the regions last 2010.
_____8. Its goal was “to further strengthen its linkages and cooperation i. Philippine High
with local organizations in the regions.”
School for the Arts
_____9. This school was established in 1976 for young and aspiring
artists. j. Musical Instruments
_____10. responsible for “preserving, promoting and developing culture k. National High
and the arts in the Philippines.”
School for the Arts
_____11. known as the National Arts Month (NAM) 
_____12. is an arrangement or design for dance movements usually l. CCP
accompanied by music.
m. Installation
_____13. It is any tool or device that produces sound. It consists of an
array of shapes and styles from the simple to the complex.  n. Choreography
_____14. These are written works meant to be read, sung or delivered
o. NCCA
in a play.
_____15. It is a composition or layout of lines, shapes and color to form p. Literary Works
patterns on paper, textile, or any piece for that matter.
q. Bricolage
_____16. . It is the most popular of the art forms; yet, it is the youngest
of all. It appeared only in the early 1900s in Manila and later spread in r. Theatrical
the regions.
Performance
_____17. These are written works meant to be read, sung or delivered
in a play. s. CPP
_____18. This is popularly used in visual arts. It refers to a creation or t. Kaisa sa Sining
construction that uses a diverse range of materials – from mass –
produced to recovered objects. u. NCAA
_____19. It is an art made indoors or outdoors where particular space
v. Ugnayan sa Sining
is transformed into three-dimensional artwork. It is made of diverse
material using realistic or abstract style.  w. February
_____20. In all art forms evolved into a variety of expressions and
x. Visual Design
media that turned the entire world into a “creative upheaval.”
Test III. True or False

1. ____________ Artists don’t know that their tools are powerful.

2. ____________The artist’s role is to create something that uplift the spirit, something
aesthetically pleasing and entertaining.

3. ____________Filipino artists today still cling to Western ideas.

4. ____________The artist does not express what he or she feels.

5. ____________ The artist is able to refine us and to elevate our senses of what is beautiful and
sublime.

6. ____________The Filipino artist is a crusader who attempts to sway the viewer to his or her
side and in the past decades, there has been a rise in national fervor.

7. ____________He or she creates an artistic controversy thereby becoming an agent of

change.
8. ____________A Filipino artist is not versatile because he or she creates; not only realize his or
her personal fulfillment, but also expresses a point of view.

9. ____________An artist creates an artistic controversy thereby becoming an agent of change.

10. ____________An artist is a social critic who exposes the inequalities of life, the effects of
urbanization, globalization, and neocolonialism, evident in most contemporary
works today.

11. ____________A GAMABA awardee must have engaged in a folk-art tradition that has been in
existence and documented for at least sixty years.

12. ____________ The first recipient of the National Artist Award is Guillermo Tolentino.

13. ____________GAMABA is the highest award conferred by the President of the Philippines to

the nation’s artists.
14. ____________There are no categories for the Order of National Artists.

15. ____________Cultural organizations, educational institutions, and private foundations and

councils cannot submit nominations for the Order once the Secretariat
announces the opening for nominations.

16. ____________To be a GAMABA awardee, the artist must have passed on and/or will pass on
to other members of the community his/her skills in the folk art for which the
community is traditionally known.

17. ____________The President will decide the final list of awardees and will then issue a
proclamation, conferring the rank and title on the awardees.

18. ____________Only living artists will be granted the title of national artist.
 19. ____________Julie Lluch was the artist behind “Cutting Onions Always makes me cry”.

20. ____________The categories for NAA are folk architecture, maritime transport, weaving,
carving, performing arts, literature, graphic and plastic arts, ornament, textile or
fiber art, pottery, and other artistic expressions of traditional culture.

Test IV. Determine the style used in the following images. Write in the space provided if it is realism
distortion , abstraction or non-representational.

1.__________________
6.__________________

2.__________________ 7.__________________

8.__________________
3.__________________

4.__________________
9.__________________

5.____
Test V. Determine the kind of balance present in the following images. Write in the space provided if
it is radial, asymmetrical or symmetrical balance.

1.__________________ 4.__________________

2.__________________
5.__________________

3.__________________
Test VI. Determine the principles of design used in the following images. Write in the space provided
if it is emphasis, movement, repition or pattern, proportion and rhythm.

1.__________________

4.__________________

2.__________________

5.__________________

3.__________________
Test VII. Give the meaning of the following acronym (2 points each).
1. NCCA-
___________________________________________________________________________
2. CCP-
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3. GAMABA-
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4. NAA-
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Test VII. Determine the complementary color of the following.

1. Violet=______________________
2. Blue=_______________________

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Prepared by:

Tr. Donna Mae Delos Santos- Radin