A. Which of these is a paint made from pigments and plastic?

_____1)
A) Acrylic
B) Gesso
C) Acetone
D) Tempera
Answer: A
An acrylic paint is water-soluble, and made from pigments with a plastic
binding agent.
A. Early photographers made their images on which of these materials?
_____2)
A) Glass
B) Stone
C) Paper
D) Plastic
Answer: A
Early photographers applied light-reactive chemicals to fragile glass plates
and exposed them to light to make images.

C. To which artistic movement does Paul Gauguin’s The Yellow Christ belong?
_____3)
A) Impressionism
B) Bauhaus
C) Cloisonnism
D) Fauvism

A. What does the Venus of Brassempouy represent?

_____4)
A) a woman’s head
B) an angel
C) a human figure
D) an old man

A. Which architect founded the Bauhaus school of design?

_____5)
A) Walter Gropius
B) Frank Gehry
C) I.M. Pei
D) Frank Lloyd Wright

B. Who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?

_____6)
A) Henri Matisse
B) Maya Lin
C) Frank Gehry
D) Frank Lloyd Wright

D. What did I.M. Pei design outside the Louvre, in Paris?

_____7)
A) Sarcophagus
B) Obelisk
C) Ziggurat
D) Pyramid
 B. Which one of these is not a well-known Indian sculptor?
_____8)
A) Ramkinkar Baij
B) Henry Moore
C) Kumaradeva
D) Krishna Reddy
D. What animal often symbolizes peace in art?
_____9)
A) Dog
B) Duck
C) Deer
D) Dove
A.
_____10) What was the subject of the earliest known paintings?
A) Animals
B) Landscapes
C) Sports
D) Flowers

A.
_____11) What Dutch artist is famous for his strange geometrical puzzles?
A) M.C. Escher
B) Pieter Breughel
C) Vincent Van Gogh
D) Jan Van Eyk
B.
_____12) Which of these artists is famous for using human paintbrushes?
A) Paul Cezanne
B) Yves Klein
C) Giorgio Vasari
D) Jackson Pollock

D.
_____13) Which of these artists used musical terms such as “nocturne” and
“harmony” to describe his pictures?
A) Vincent van Gogh
B) Leonardo da Vinci
C) Edgar Degas
D) James Whistler

C.
_____14) Who was the first famous artist of the Italian Renaissance?
A) Michelangelo
B) Mantegna
C) Masaccio
D) Leonardo da Vinci
B.
_____15) With what painter did Jean-Michel Basquiat collaborate?
A) Roy Lichtenstein
B) Andy Warhol
C) Claude Monet
D) Willem de Kooning
 B.
_____16) Which artist is best known for her large-scale paintings of poppies?
A) Judith Leyster
B) Georgia O’Keeffe
C) Joan Miro
D) Annie Leibovitz
D.
_____17) Which of these painters did not work during the Renaissance?
A) Titian
B) Michelangelo
C) Raphael
D) Salvador Dali

A.
_____18) Which of these was not a Renaissance artist?
A) Henry Moore
B) Michelangelo
C) Raphael
D) Leon Battista Alberti
A.
_____19) What did Jan van Eyck paint on, mostly?
A) Wooden panels
B) Canvas
C) Glass
D) Cotton

D.
_____20) Which of these artists made a well-known drawing of Don Quixote?
A) Jan van Eyck
B) Rembrandt
C) Pablo Picasso
D) Paloma Picasso

A.
_____21) How many foot positions are there in ballet?
A) 5
B) 17
C) 10
D) 1
B. 22) Who founded the Ballets Russes?
_____
A) Frederic Chopin
B) Sergey Diaghilev
C) Pyotr Tchaikovsky
D) Mikhail Baryshnikov

B.
_____23) What is the name for a traditional Argentine music and dance?
A) Toreador
B) Tango
C) Waltz
D) Jazz
 D. Who was Fred Astaire’s best-known dancing partner?
_____24)
A) Mimi Rogers
B) Ginger Baker
C) Ethel Waters
D) Ginger Rogers
B.
_____25) Which of these dances was popular in the 1920s?
A) Watusi
B) Charleston
C) Twist
D) Lambada

C.
_____26) In ballet, what is a glissade?
A) a stomp
B) a twirl
C) a glide
D) a split
C.
_____27) Charles Nègre is known for:
A) Inventing a method to photograph night scenes
B) Inventing the first camera
C) His photographs of Paris
D) His photographs of cats and dogs
A.
_____28) The famous photograph titled Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville (1950) was taken
by:
A) Robert Doisneau
B) Eugène Atget
C) André Kertész
D) Henri Cartier-Bresson
D.
_____29) Alfred Steiglitz was a champion of what type of photography?
A) Fine art photography
B) Pictorialism
C) Straight photography
D) All of these
B.
_____30) Which of these photographers was also a director of the MoMA’s
photography department?
A) Edward Weston
B) Edward Steichen
C) Berenice Abbott
D) Walker Evans
C.
_____31) Which one of the following was NOT a street photographer?
A) Garry Winogrand
B) Brassaï
C) Ansel Adams
D) Lee Friedlander
 C.
_____32) Who is credited with coining the term the “decisive moment”?
A) Dorothea Lange
B) Robert Frank
C) Henri Cartier-Bresson
D) John Szarkowski
B.
_____33) Robert Frank published a seminal book of street photography titled:
A) Street Life
B) The Americans
C) Places
D) New Documents
B.
_____34) William Eggleston is known for what?
A) Surrealist photos of plants and trees
B) Color photographs
C) Photographs of New York City
D) Photos of famous actors

C.
_____35) This photographer’s large archive of work created in the mid-20th century
was discovered by chance in 2007.
A) Margaret Bourke-White
B) Elliott Erwitt
C) Vivian Maier
D) Julia Margaret Cameron
A. 36) The “Rayograph” was invented by:
_____
A) Man Ray
B) Lucia Moholy
C) Josef Koudelka
D) Lazlo Moholy-Nagy