Art History

What is art history?

• the study of art in the ancient world

• the study of present day art

• the study of art from across the world

• All the answers are correct

Art has been around for many _______ of years.

• hundreds

• thousands

• millions

• billions

• Nobody knows specifically when the first people started producing art, but it is believed that art was created as far back as _____ years ago. 

• 1,000

• 10,000

• • 100,000

• 1,000.000

The earliest artwork comes from _____ in the form of stone carvings.

• Asia

• Africa

• Europe

• the Americas

There are many examples of cave paintings and carvings from both Africa and Europe, dating back to ____

• • 32 BC

• • 320 BC

• • 3,200 BC

• • 32,000 BC.

What is this called?

• pop art

• cave painting

• Renaissance art

• Middle Ages art

In West Asia and Egypt, the first stone and clay statues were created and this is also when artists began to create decorated ______.

• walls

• statues

• temples

• pottery

Around 3,000 BC, people learned how to work with metals and began to create small pieces of art from _______

• • gold

• • silver

• • copper

• • bronze

What colors were the Greek vases decorated with?

• • blue and green

• • yellow and purple

• • black and white

• • red and black

Things changed when ____________conquered West Asia in 325 BC and people were able to travel throughout the empire.

• • George Washington

• • Alexander the Great

• • Napoleon

• • Hamurrabi