Contemporary Arts Test 1

It refers to any person, object, scene or event described or represented in a work of art.

• Meaning of art
• Subject of art
• Function of art
• None of them

An artist may use the manner of representing subject matter according to his/her inventiveness and purpose. What is employed by Dali in his Persistence of Memory? 

• Distortion
• Realism
• Surrealism
• Abstraction

What  manner of representing a subject is employed by Edvard Munch?

• Realism
• Surrealism
• Abstraction
• Distortion

These kinds of art do not present description, do not show a person, event or a scene. Instead, they appeal directly to the senses. 

• Non-objective arts
• Objective arts
• Representational arts
• Abstract arts

It is usually done to dramatize the shape of a figure or to create an emotional effect. This political art is an example.

• Distortion
• Realism
• Abstraction
• Surrealism

In this painting, the representation of the subject matter is said to be realistic. But strictly speaking, not a single work of art is truly realistic. An art is only a copy of what exists in the natural work. It is not realistic.

• True
• False

The word that describes what a painting is about is ___________________.

• subject

• genre

What is the word that means the lightness or darkness of shades or colors? 

• Space
• Accuracy
• Value
• Form

What is the lightest value tone and the absence of all color?

• White

• Light Pink

• Grey

• Black

Which colors are cool colors?

• Red, Yellow, Blue

• Blue, Green, Violet (Purple)

• Orange, Green, Violet

• Red, Orange, Yellow