Final Exam Study Guide for Art 31: The Visual Experience
Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York, Fall 2011
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Format of the Departmental Final: 2 short essays based on artworks (30 pts) and
70 multiple choice questions (1 pt each = 70 pts)
Image List: This is the image list of specific art works to know for the exam. Questions about these
works may appear on the test. You are also expected to know the date, media and style for each of
these works.
Art: A Brief History: Chapters 1 through 10:
Artist
Iktinos and Kallikrates
Katsushika Hokusai
Title
Woman from Willendorf
Stele of Naram-Sin
Great Pyramids, Giza
Menkaure and Queen Khamerernebty
Great Stupa, Sanchi
Anavysos Kouros
Kritios Boy
The Parthenon
Augustus of Primaporta
The Pantheon
Wall with Torah Niche
Dome of the Rock
The Great Wave
Bayeaux Embroidery
Figure and Page Numbers
(4th Edition)
Fig. 1-4, p. 25
Fig. 2-1, p. 38
Fig. 3-5, p. 62
Fig. 3-9, p. 64
Fig. 4-4, p. 80
Fig. 5-16, p. 113
Fig. 5-22, p. 117
Fig. 5-26a, p. 121
Fig. 6-12, p.146
Fig. 6-27 and 6-28, p. 156-157
Fig. 7-3, p. 169
Fig. 8-2 and 8-3, p. 195
Fig. 9-27, p. 238
Fig. 10-29, p. 264
Art: A Brief History: Chapters 11 through 14:
Artist
Title
Duccio
Jan van Eyck
Limbourg Brothers
Donatello
Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Rose and lancet windows, Chartres
Cathedral
Maestà
Arnolfini Portrait
February Page, Très Riches Heurs
David
Pietà
The Sistine Ceiling
Properzia de’ Rossi
Bernini
Caravaggio
Velázquez
Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife
David
Calling of Saint Matthew
Las Meninas
Figure and Page Numbers
(4th Edition)
Fig. 11-10, p. 280
Fig. 11-28, p. 294
Fig. 12-1, p. 302
Fig. 12-2, p. 305
Fig. 12-20, p. 321
Fig. 13-8, p. 343
Fig. 13-10, 13-11, 13-12, p 345347
Fig. 13-15, p. 349
Fig. 14-4, p. 382
Fig. 14-9 and 14-10, p. 387-88
Fig. 14-13, p. 391
Art: A Brief History: Chapters 15 through 19:
Artist
Jefferson
Delacroix
Cole
Lewis
Whistler
Eakins
Picasso
Title
Machu Picchu, Peru
Head of a King from Ife, Nigeria
Power figure (nkisi nkonde)
Monticello
Liberty Leading the People: July 28, 1830
The Oxbow
Forever Free
Nocturne in Black and Gold (The Falling
Rocket)
The Gross Clinic
Japonisme (discussion box)
Ma Jolie
Figure and Page Numbers
(4th Edition)
Fig. 15-16, p. 429
Fig. 16-3, p. 445
Fig. 16-13, p. 453
Fig. 17-11, p. 470
Fig. 17-19, p. 478
Fig. 17-25, p. 483
Fig. 18-6, p. 499
Fig. 18-9, p. 502
Fig. 18-14, p. 505
p. 517
Fig. 19-9, p. 533
Final Exam Study Guide for Art 31: The Visual Experience
Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York, Fall 2011
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Vocabulary List: This is the vocabulary list of specific art works to know for the exam. Questions about
these vocabulary words may appear on the test.
Important Formal Terms to Know:
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Horizontal; vertical; orthogonal
Primary and secondary colors
Marble, Bronze, Terra cotta
Painting: Fresco, Tempera, Oil
Prints: Printing Press; Engraving; Etching; Woodcut; Lithography; Photography
Façade
Subject matter types: religious; historical; mythological; portraits (including self-portraits and group
portraits); genre; landscape; seascape; still-life
Composition; plane; balance; line; depth; space; shape; light and color; texture
The Ancient World to Early Christian Art, Chapters 1 through 10:
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General Characteristics of Ancient Near Eastern Art, Egyptian Art, Greek Art and Roman Art
Periods of Prehistoric Art: Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic
Hieratic scale
Black-figure and red-figure pottery painting
Kore and Kouros figures
Contrapposto pose
Classical Orders of Architecture (Doric, Ionic, Corinthian)
Aqueducts; domes; the oculus; triumphal arches and columns; concrete
Ziggurat
Lamassu; Sphinx
Hypostyle Hall
Amphoras and Kraters
Mosque, minaret, qibla, mihrab, minbar
Gothic through Rococo, Chapters 11 through 14:
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General Characteristics of Early Christian and Byzantine Art
Basilica
Abbot Suger
Mosaics; Tesserae
Church architecture: barrel vault; tympanum; portal; apse; nave; narthex; side aisles; chapels;
transept; ambulatories
Pointed Arches; Flying Buttresses; Stained glass windows (rose and lancet windows)
Linear Perspective and atmospheric perspective; Foreshortening; Chiaroscuro
Diptych, Triptych and Polyptych
Sfumato, Tenebrism, Caravaggisti
Protestant Reformation and Counter Reformation
Art of the Americas through Modern Art, Chapters 15 through 19:
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General Characteristics of Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism,
Neo-Impressionism and Cubism
Inca Masonry, irregular stone wall; smooth-surfaced wall
Lost-wax casting
Chinoiserie
Japonisme--its influence on the Impressionist styles
African art and its influences onto Modernism
Pointillism, Divisionism
Paris Salon Exhibitions
Collage
The sublime in art (especially in landscape painting)