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Direction: Read each item carefully and write the letter of your answer in your Arts notebook.

1. Who is the artist/painter whose artworks are created by using “action painting”?
A. Ben Shahn C. Jackson Pollock B. Jack Pollack D. Salvador Dali
2. A movement which is more like a fleeting fragment of reality caught on canvas, sometimes in mid-
motion, at other times awkwardly positioned—just as it would be in real life.
A. Expressionism C. Abstract Expressionism B. Impressionism D. Abstractionism
3. How did the term impressionism originate?
A. It was coined from the title of a work by French painter Claude Monet, Impression, soleil levant.
B. It was coined from the title of a work by French painter Eugène Delacroix, Impression, soleil levant.
C. It was coined from the title of a work by French painter Claude Monet, The Barque of Dante.
D. It was coined from the title of a work by French painter Eugène Delacroix, The Barque of Dante.
4. What art movement in which artists created works with more emotional force, rather than with
realistic or natural images?
A. Dadaism C. Futurism
B. Impressionism D. Expressionism
5. Which art style does NOT belong to Abstractionism?
A. Futurism C. Non-objectivism
B. Cubist D. Surrealism
6. How does an artist express his role in social reform in the movement known as social realism?
A. The artists used their works to protest against the injustices, inequalities, and ugliness of the human
condition.
B. Artist’s artworks clearly expressing a departure from reality—as though the artists were dreaming or
seeing illusions.
C. The artist wanted to make reforms in traditional values.
D. The artists rebelled against established norms and authorities, and against the traditional styles in
art.
7. Pablo Picasso’s “Girl Before a Mirror” is an example of what style?
A. Mechanical Style C. Cubism
B. Futurism D. Social Realism
8. Which of the following does NOT describe abstractionism?
A. It was logical and rational.
B. In this movement, artists created works with more emotional force.
C. It involved analyzing, detaching, selecting, and simplifying.
D. It had the same spirit of freedom of expression and openness that characterized life in the 20th
century.
9. Which of the following is NOT one of the characteristics of futurism?
A. Artists created art for a fast-paced, machine-propelled age.
B. Artists used basic forms such as planes, cones, spheres, and cylinders all fit together precisely and
neatly in their appointed places.
C. Artists admired the motion, force, speed, and strength of mechanical forms.
D. Artists style is characterized by dream fantasies, memory images, and visual tricks and surprise.
10. In this art style, lines, spaces, and colors were precisely planned and positioned to give the illusion
of movement.
A. Pop art C. Conceptual Art
B. Op Art D. Non-objectivism
Direction: Read each item carefully and choose the correct answer from the given choices. Write the
letter of your answer in your notebook.
1. A movement which is more like a fleeting fragment of reality caught on canvas, sometimes in mid-
motion, at other times awkwardly positioned—just as it would be in real life.

A. Abstract Expressionism C. Expressionism


B. Abstractionism D. Impressionism
2. How did the term impressionism originate?

A. It was coined from the title of a work by French painter Claude Monet, Impression, soleil levant.
B. It was coined from the title of a work by French painter Eugène Delacroix, Impression, soleil levant.
C. It was coined from the title of a work by French painter Claude Monet, The Barque of Dante.
D. It was coined from the title of a work by French painter Eugène Delacroix, The Barque of Dante.
3. How does an artist express his role in social reform in the movement known as social realism?
A. The artists used their works to protest against the injustices, inequalities, and ugliness of the human
condition.
B. Artist’s artworks clearly expressing a departure from reality—as though the artists were dreaming or
seeing illusions.
C. The artist wanted to make reforms in traditional values.
D. The artists rebelled against established norms and authorities, and against the traditional styles in
art.
4. What art movement showed artists creating works with more emotional force, rather than with
realistic or natural images?
A. Dadaism C. Futurism
B. Expressionism D. Impressionism
5. This was a style that used bold, vibrant colors and visual distortions.
A. Dadaism C. Fauvism
B. Expressionism D. Surrealism
6. Who is this Filipino artist who developed transparent cubism, wherein the "delicate tones, shapes,
and patterns of figure and environment are masterfully superimposed"?
A. Vicente Manansala C. Fernando Amorsolo B. Jose Joya D. Napoleon Abueva
7. Who pioneered abstract expressionism in the Philippines?
A. Napoleon Abueva C. Jose Joya B. Vicente Manansala D. Fernando Amorsolo
8. Who is this Filipino artist who popularly known for his craftsmanship and mastery in the use of light?
A. Jose T. Joya C. Vicente Manansala
B. Fernando Amorsolo D. Napoleon de Leon
9. Fernando Amorsolo are known of the following artworks, EXCEPT:
A. Planting Rice C. Madaling Araw
B. Parusa ng Diyos D. Paper Moon
10. What does the word “dada” in Dadaism refer to?
A. new “elegant style” C. new “normal style”
B. new “non-style” D. new “out-of-style”
Direction: Read each item carefully and write your answers in your Arts notebook. Write the letter of
your choice.
2. What form of abstract expressionism uses the painting techniques such as splattering, squirting, and
dribbling paint with no planned pattern or design?
A. Color Field Painting C. Conceptual Art
B. Pictograph D. Action Painting
3. What establishment was made for American architects, scientists and artists in the 1950s to 1960s
in New York City?
A, School of Paris C. Museum of Modern Art
B. The New York School D. Academy of Fine Arts
4. What form of abstract expressionism uses different color saturations to create desired effects?
A. Color Field Painting C. Conceptual Art
B. Pictograph D. Action Painting
5. What approach is used in painting where artists fill the canvas with repeating picture fragments or
symbols?
A. Color Field Painting C. Conceptual Art
B. Pictograph D. Action Painting
A. Modified True or False
Direction: Write TRUE if the statement is correct and if false, change the underlined word/s to make
the sentence true or correct. Write your answers in your notebook.
1. Action painters attack their canvases with expressive brush strokes.
2. “The School of Paris” was an establishment for aspiring American painters, sculptors and writers.
3. The painter known for his paintings on huge canvases with paint splattered and dribbled is Jason
Pollock.
4. Color field painters used different color saturations to create their desired effects.
5. A more intimate approach in abstract expressionism called as “pictograph” where the canvas is filled
with repeating picture fragments or symbols are visible in the artworks of Adolph Gottlieb and Lee
Krasner.
6. In conceptual art, much of the artist’s time and effort goes into the concept or idea behind the work
and often requires more physical craftsmanship.
7. Pop art is another form or action painting with the action taking place in the viewer’s eye.
8. Roy Lichtenstein became the leading figure of Pop art movement in the year 1923-1997.
9. In op art, lines, spaces, and colors were precisely planned and positioned to give the illusion of
movement.
10. Celebrities, advertisements, billboards, and comic strips were some of the inspirations in Pop art
movement.

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