PLATO Course Art History and Appreciation > Pretest Unit 1. Question 1. Question 2. Question 3. Name: Date: Instructor: What is silkscreen?

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1 PLATO Course Art History and Appreciation > Pretest Unit 1 Name: Date: Instructor: Question 1 What is silkscreen? a textile art form commonly used for household decoration in ancient China a printmaking technique that uses a stencil placed on a silk screen a furniture making technique in which carved wood is decorated with silk cloth Question Serial Number: nnwr46 Question 2 What is the drawing technique of using dots instead of lines called? cross hatching dotting stippling Question Serial Number: hfxd79 Question 3 Which type of ceramics is used for making bricks? earthenware stoneware porcelain Question Serial Number: mztc36

2 Question 4 Why is charcoal a limited drawing medium? It smears easily. It can be used to create only two tones. It is used to create light and shade. Question Serial Number: mptd67 Question 5 Which does not affect the quality or pattern of cloth as it is woven on a loom? speed of weaving type of thread used how the loom is threaded Question Serial Number: yrnp34 Question 6 This advertisement displays a graph representing a company's profits. What kind of appeal is the advertisement making?

3 pathos logos denotative Question Serial Number: hbzr83.2 Question 7 Look at this image. Which is a connotative interpretation of this image? Different parts of a face are partially shown. Color is used abstractly to make various faces. Multiple faces symbolize different aspects of someone s personality. Question Serial Number: dkkx63.2 Question 8

4 If this were an advertisement for stopping deforestation, what kind of appeal would it be making? pathos logos rhetorical Question Serial Number: eeyc82.2 Question 9

5 This image shows a child's fingers dipped in paint colors and smeared on blank paper. What type of interpretation is this description? denotative connotative pathos Question Serial Number: wadj43.2 Question 10 This image shows a hand nuturing a plant. Its purpose is to persuade people to take care of the Earth. What is this visual an example of?

6 semiotics logos visual rhetoric Question Serial Number: zfej29.2 Question 11 Which aesthetic theory do art teachers use to grade their students? emotionalism formalism imitationalism Question Serial Number: hbat28 Question 12 Which aesthetic theory judges art on how well it expresses feelings, moods, and ideas? imitationalism formalism emotionalism Question Serial Number: fteh29 Question 13 Which artist chose graffiti for creative expression? Martin Maloney Tom Hunter Keith Haring

7 Question Serial Number: dkdx32 Question 14 Question 15 Which of Michelangelo's sculptures is a metaphor for courage, determination, and strength? Bacchus David Moses Question Serial Number: rmbf26 Question 16 Which describes emphasis in design? a method of giving an area or areas more focus a method of repeating forms in a work a method of creating rhythm in one area Question Serial Number: kpxk87 Question 17 Which is a feature of balance in design? stability of elements on either side of an imagined vertical line recognizable arrangement of elements based on their proportions systematic arrangement of elements based on their size

8 Question Serial Number: pdcj82 Question 18 Which best explains the concept of pattern? a repeated arrangement of elements, such as colors, lines, sizes, forms, or shapes an ordered repetition of strong and weak elements at regular or irregular intervals a nonarbitrary arrangement of visual elements in relation to each other Question Serial Number: bmaw96 Question 19 Which statement best explains emphasis? a recognizable system of elements a method of drawing attention to an area or areas a harmonious relationship of the parts to each other and to the whole Question Serial Number: cxyx74 Question 20 In design, what kind of unity is created when individual elements have an effect of their own and are not subordinate to the total effect? absolute relative total Question Serial Number: kanc82 Question 21

9 Which visual element influences your sense of touch? line space texture Question Serial Number: npay77 Question 22 Which is a good guideline to follow when evaluating art? Stand by your immediate emotional response. Begin by forming an opinion of the artist. Study the artist s background. Question Serial Number: xznr99 Question 23 Which type of art has no visible subject? representational art abstract art nonrepresentational art Question Serial Number: zctd37 Question 24 What is perception? the complete awareness of an object the artist s point of view

10 the outline of an object Question Serial Number: mpzw63 Question 25 What are positive shapes? the shapes between objects the main shapes or subjects in a painting the shapes created as background Question Serial Number: hcym24