Discuss the significance of drawing as an art medium during the Renaissance
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. It allowed artists to study poses and body parts from life to use for a work of another medium.
2. It allowed artists to make life studies of motifs to use in a finished composition.
3. It allowed artists to make preparatory sketches of entire compositions.
4. It allowed artists to provide a cartoon of the finished composition to be executed in another medium.
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The Post-Impressionist Georges Seurat's painting technique is known as __________, which is a meticulous application of pigment that he derived from the study of __________
a. stippling; aquatints b. optical color; light theories c. Synthetism; prisms d. color-field painting; Venetian paintings e. Pointillism; color theories
What sounds or instruments does this group use?
a. Synthesizers, harp, and mandolin b. Big band instrumentation c. Wood flute, triangle, prepared piano, percussion, bass d. Trumpet, piano, bass, drums
Which of the following statements is not true?
A. Nonwestern music primarily employs the same major and minor scales as Western music. B. Singing is the most important way of making music in the vast majority of nonwestern cultures. C. Many nonwestern musical cultures do not have written notation. D. In some parts of the world, including India and the middle east, improvisation is a highly disciplined art that requires years of training.
Which movement of a symphony is normally characterized by a fast tempo, use of sonata-allegro form, and has a
serious and substantive mood?
a. first b. second c. third d. fourth e. second and third