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Study Guide for Final Exam
Introduction to Fine Arts
Visual Art

The Final Exam will cover the material since the last exam. In theVisual Arts lectures, we have seen works from the Romantic period through the Contemporary period in the visual arts. Note that some of the theatre lectures referred to visual art works from the 1950's forward. Review your notes, look at the works of art which are noted on your lecture handouts, and review the selections in your text book.

You should be able to:
1. Distinguish the stylistic periods by identifying key characteristics of each style. For example, how would you recognize an Impressionist painting? What is characteristic about a Cubist work or a Romantic work? What is an example of an Abstract Expressionist work and a German Expressionist work?
2. Identify key ideas, themes or concepts associated with works of art from various stylistic periods.
3. Make connections between visual art, music, theatre and dance.
4. Identify key artists associated with the stylistic periods, for example:

Courbet Gauguin Lawrence
Muybridge Cezanne Pollock
Delacroix Picasso Warhol
Manet Matisse Stella
Monet Kirchner Pearlstein
Renoir Duchamp Hanson
Van Gogh Dali Christo

The Visual Arts test questions will be worth 20 points. The kinds of test questions may include:
1. Multiple choice questions which relate to slides.
2. Multiple choice questions about works of art, artists, or movements, but slides are not shown.
3. True/False statements.

Integrated Essay (40 points)
For the essay, you will discuss how the visual arts, music, and theatre/dance evidence similar characteristics in a specific stylistic period, for example, Romanticism. You may be asked to compare and contrast two stylistic periods. If a comparison, you will need to discuss, at the minimum, one work of art, music, theatre/dance from each period (minimum total of six works).

Review study questions below.

Sample Questions for the Visual Arts component:

Multiple choice with slides. Circle the best answer for the slide shown. Each slide will be shown for 1 minute.

1. The figures in this particular painting reveal that the artist was influenced by:

2. Artists who painted in this style were interested in:

3. This work is an example of which of these styles:

4. The artists who developed this style were especially interested in:

5. This painting not only shocked the public because of its subject matter but also because of the artist's:

Multiple choice without slides. Circle the word or phrase which best completes or answers the statement.

1. The distortion and anxiety which is seen in the work of the German expressionist artists, for example Kirchner, may be compared to the music of which of the following composers:

2. The movement known as Dada sprang up during the period of:

3. Romanticism was a style of painting that often capitalized on:

4. In postmodern art it would not be unusual to see:

5. The actual surface of a two-dimensional work of art (painting, drawing, etc) is called the:

True/False. If the statement is true check T; if it is false check F.

1. Romanticism in the arts stresses the importance of the political state.

2. Experimental dance in the 1960's may be compared to "happenings" and the work of Robert Raushenberg.

3. In the late nineteenth century, many artists become increasingly interested in the expressive use of color.

4. Fauvism is derived from the French word that means "wild beast".

5. Artists such as Picasso and Braque were interested in visualizing the concept of time in a new way.

Study Guide for Final Exam Introduction to Fine Arts Visual Art

Study Guide for Final Exam
Introduction to Fine Arts
Visual Art