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DSST Art of the Western World Question & Answers, Exams of Nursing

A list of questions and answers related to art history, covering various periods and styles from Mesopotamia to Impressionism. information on the art of Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassicism, and American Realism. The document also mentions famous artists and their works, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, and Monet. The document can be useful for students studying art history or preparing for exams on the subject.

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DSST Art of the Western World Question & Answers 100% Accuracy Latest 2024 Mesopotamia - Correct Answer the valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, "cradle of civilization" Sumerians - Correct Answer developed cuneiform, temples built upon ziggurats (White Temple of Uruk) votive statuary (Sumerians) - Correct Answer inlaid paid lazuli, large round eyes special steles (Sumerians - Correct Answer to authenticate ownership Code of Hammurabi - Correct Answer Babylon, black basalt stele Egypt: Early Dynastic Period - Correct Answer belief in afterlife, composite/side view, hieratic scale (size=importance), elaborate tombs (Palette of King Narmer) Egypt: Old Kingdom - Correct Answer pyramids of Giza, great sphinx, , life sized stone, copper, wood statues, more lifelike than idealistic (King Khafre statue) DSST Art of the Western World Question & Answers 100% Accuracy Latest 2024 Egypt: Middle Kingdom - Correct Answer statues reflect human emotion (Head of Schwosret III) funerary stelai: stone slabs to honor dead by wealthy Egypt: New Kingdom - Correct Answer "golden age of art", temple complexes built (Deir el-Bahri Temple), more flawed, caricaturist style (Bust of Nefertiti) Prehistoric Greece - Correct Answer natural yet idealized, human supremacy, heroic ideal, Cycladic produced marble figurines, Minoans on Crete has palaces with frescos, Mycenaeans know for gold metalwork Greek Geometric Period - Correct Answer 1200-800 BC "Dark Age", meander pattern Greek Archaic Period - Correct Answer smiles added, naked men, black figure painting Greek Classical Period - Correct Answer balance/perfection (Acropolis, Parthenon), contrapposto (Kritios Boy) Greek Hellenistic Period - Correct Answer strong emotion, against classical design (Venus de Milo) DSST Art of the Western World Question & Answers 100% Accuracy Latest 2024 Botticelli - Correct Answer beauty and simplicity, focused on human figure "Birth of Venus" 1400s Flanders and France - Correct Answer led to Reformation (Jan van Eyck, Robert Campin, Claud Slutter) Jan van Eyck - Correct Answer "Giovanni and his Wife" first secular painting, symbolism Robert Camptin - Correct Answer "Mérod Altarpiece" realistic Mary, triptych (3 panels) Claus Sluter - Correct Answer Well of Moses, limestone sculpture with Old Test. prophets Limbourg Brothers - Correct Answer "Très Riches Heures" humanistic themes, for French duke 1400s Germany - Correct Answer ornamental gothic over classical style, more realistic, more wooden panel painting than frescos (Konrad Witz, Johannes Gutenberg) DSST Art of the Western World Question & Answers 100% Accuracy Latest 2024 Konrad Witz - Correct Answer "Miraculous Draught of Fish" realistic landscape Johannes Gutenberg - Correct Answer published Gutenberg Bible then Nuremberg Chronicle 1500s Italy - Correct Answer Pope Julius II launched High Renaissance in Rome (Leo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Bramante) Leonardo da Vinci - Correct Answer "Last Supper" geometric balance, humanism, linear structure, chiaroscuro Michelangelo - Correct Answer sculptures of "David" classical Greek nude but psychological intensity, "Pietá" Mary holding Jesus, common theme in early French art Raphael Santi - Correct Answer "School of Athens" pyramid structure, head tilting, classical thought Mannerism - Correct Answer copying art by imitating the artistic, distorting figures, lack of focal point, uneven color use Bramante - Correct Answer Architect of St. Peter's Basilica DSST Art of the Western World Question & Answers 100% Accuracy Latest 2024 Andrea Palladio - Correct Answer architect using classical style (Villa Rotunda) 1500s Spain and France - Correct Answer Ecole de Fontainbleau (building French palaces) (Jean Closet, El Greco) Jean Clouet - Correct Answer portrait painter for French court "Francis I" dramatic use of space, exaggerated features El Greco - Correct Answer dramatic, expressive, imagination, color over form 1500s Germany - Correct Answer (Albrecht Durer, Matthias Grunewalk, Albrecht Altdorfer) Albrecht Durer - Correct Answer used Italian style, classical ideals; "Self-Portrait" is Christ-like with detail and linear perspective Matthias Grünewald - Correct Answer rejected classical style, used realism, symbolism, emotion; "Crucifixion" exaggerated torture of Christ's death DSST Art of the Western World Question & Answers 100% Accuracy Latest 2024 caravaggio - Correct Answer emphaszied realistic and gloomy elements of human condition "The Calling of St. Matthew" ; tenebrism: using light and dark with dark background France Baroque - Correct Answer Sun King Louis XIV built Palace of Versailles, mathematical basis for beauty, extravagant interiors (Nicholas Poussin, Georges de La Tour) Nicholas Poussin - Correct Answer restraint with classical antiquity "Rape of Sabine Woman" Georges de La Tour - Correct Answer use of caravaggio "The Penitent Magdalene" Spain Baroque - Correct Answer mysticism and religiosity (Diego Velázquez, Zurbarán) Diego Velázquez - Correct Answer harsh realism, court paint, historical events "Water Carrier of Seville" "Surrender at Brenda" Zurbaran - Correct Answer caravaggio and religion "Birth of the Virgin" " Still Life with Lemons" DSST Art of the Western World Question & Answers 100% Accuracy Latest 2024 Flanders Baroque - Correct Answer Catholic (Peter Paul Rebens, Clara Peeters) Peter Paul Rubens - Correct Answer chiaroscuro and movement "Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus" Anthony Van Dyck - Correct Answer sympathetic portraiture "Charles I at the Hunt" Clara Peeters - Correct Answer Still Life with Flowers, Goblet, Dried Fruit, and Pretzels Holland Baroque - Correct Answer Protestant, focused on landscape and genre painting: everyday people (Rembrandt can Rijn, Jan Vermeer) Rembrandt van Rijn - Correct Answer inner characteristics of person "Self-Portrait with a Cap" "Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolas Tulp" "Bathsheba with King David's Letter" Jan Vermeer - Correct Answer serenity of everyday people "Woman with a Water-Jug" DSST Art of the Western World Question & Answers 100% Accuracy Latest 2024 Rococo Style - Correct Answer an 18th century, Enlightenment, characterized by lightness, rationality, and an exuberant use of curving, natural forms of ornamentation Balthasar Neumann - Correct Answer architect of the Church of the Fourteen Saints Jean Antoine Watteau - Correct Answer rubensque style "Pilgrimage to Cythera" Frances Boucher - Correct Answer controversial "Blonde Odalisque" Jean-Honore Fragonard - Correct Answer French Revolution "The Swing" Johann Baptist Zimmermann - Correct Answer "ceiling of Wieskirche" Neoclassism - Correct Answer balancing emotion restraint, freedom, simplicity, minimal use of color Neoclassicism Architecture - Correct Answer Pantheon, Buckingham Palace DSST Art of the Western World Question & Answers 100% Accuracy Latest 2024 Honoré Daumier - Correct Answer caricature "The Legislative Belly" Gustave Courbet - Correct Answer humble sexual scenes "Burial at Ornans" "Young Reading Woman" Edward Manet - Correct Answer "Luncheon on the Grass" American Realism - Correct Answer (Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer) Thomas Eakins - Correct Answer detailed accuracy "Max Schmitt in a Single Scull" Winslow Homer - Correct Answer seascapes "Snap the Whip" Impressionism (1850s) - Correct Answer sensory effect over detail (Monet, Renoir, Degas, Morisot, Cassatt, Pissarro) Claude Monet - Correct Answer Impression: Sunrise Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Correct Answer figures "By the Seashore" Edgar Degas - Correct Answer urban life "The Rehearsal" DSST Art of the Western World Question & Answers 100% Accuracy Latest 2024 Berthe Morisot - Correct Answer females "The Cradle" Mary Cassatt - Correct Answer mother and child "The Child's Bath" Camille Pissarro - Correct Answer rural life "Hoar Frost" Post-Impressionism - Correct Answer dreams and fantasy (Lautrec, Seurat, Cezanne, van Gogh, Gaugin) Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - Correct Answer marginalized people "Streetwalker" Georges Seurat - Correct Answer A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Paul Cezanne - Correct Answer abstract "Still Life with Basket of Apples" Vincent van Gogh - Correct Answer emotion "Starry Night" impasto - Correct Answer thick application of paint DSST Art of the Western World Question & Answers 100% Accuracy Latest 2024 Paul Gaugin - Correct Answer synthetism "Day of the God" August Rodin - Correct Answer symbolism "The Thinker" Art Nouveau - Correct Answer celebration of modern world; represented through useful objects (Gaudi's Casa Mila Apartments) Fauvism - Correct Answer Bold, shocking color. Joyous tone, usually. Henry Matisse "Woman with a Hat" Expressionism - Correct Answer express emotional experience rather than impressions of the external world (Edvard Munch's "The Scream") Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Correct Answer The Bridge, "Street Dresden" Wassily Kandinsky - Correct Answer The Blue Rider abstraction - Correct Answer completed removed form reality to emphasize concerns ("Sketch for Composition VII") DSST Art of the Western World Question & Answers 100% Accuracy Latest 2024 Social Realism - Correct Answer common people as heroic, sympathetic Harlem Renaissance - Correct Answer A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished (Jacob Lawerence's "Life of Harriet Tubman") Figurative art - Correct Answer midwest America, depict religious descendants (Grant Wood's "American Gothic") Dorothea Lange - Correct Answer American photographer who recorded the Great Depression by taking pictures of the unemployed and rural poor "Migrant Mother" Edward Hopper - Correct Answer "Nighthawks" Frida Kahlo - Correct Answer human suffering "Diego in My Thoughts" Diego Rivera - Correct Answer celebrated Mexican indigenous people "Distributing Arms" DSST Art of the Western World Question & Answers 100% Accuracy Latest 2024 existentialism - Correct Answer people give meaning to their lives through their choices and actions Abstract expressionism - Correct Answer expressing emotion and feelings through abstract images and colors, lines and shapes. Jackson Pollock - Correct Answer illusion of infinity "Autumn Rhythm" Willem de Kooning - Correct Answer "Woman I" Formalist/ Hard-Edge Abstraction - Correct Answer exact smooth planes to emphasize flatness Elisworth Kelly - Correct Answer "Red Blue Green" color stain painting - Correct Answer pouring paint on canvas (Helen Frankenthaler's "The Bay") Minimalism Art - Correct Answer extreme simplification of form (Joseph Stella's "Mas o menos") Pop Art - Correct Answer based on modern popular culture and the mass media DSST Art of the Western World Question & Answers 100% Accuracy Latest 2024 Andy Warhol - Correct Answer bland aspects of contemporary life "32 Campbell Soup Cans" Roy Lichtenstein - Correct Answer comic book scenes "Drowning Girl" Jasper Johns - Correct Answer "Three Flags" Robert Raushenberg - Correct Answer combine painting: attaching everyday items to canvas "Bed" Post-Minimalism - Correct Answer art to make statements conceptual art - Correct Answer based on an idea-apart from aesthetics (Joseph Kosuth's "One and Three Chairs") earthworks - Correct Answer artworks created by altering a large area of land using natural and organic materials (Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty") Judy Chicago - Correct Answer feminist "The Dinner Party"
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