practice test visual art and design CultX 2020

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Practice test Visual art and Design

CultX 2020

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Q1-1p Explain what abstract art is.

Q2-1p A complementary colour contrast occurs when two opposite colours in the colour wheel are combined.
Name two colours that are complementary.

colour wheel

Q3-2p Which kind of forms do you see depicted in the picture to the right? Explain your answer.

Q4-1p This painting was made by Alfred Sisley in:

1. 1850
2. 1875
3. 1900
4. 1920

Q5-2p The painting to the right is an impressionistic work of art.
Why? Give two arguments.

Q6-1p What does 'appropriation' mean?

1. To copy existing images and make them your own
2. To make an image more suitable for the audience
3. To put money aside to buy an expensive work of art
4. To make a collage out of existing images

Q7-1p Name the kind of composition for the painting
on the left.

1. all-over
2. a-symmetrical
3. diagonal
4. triangular

Q8-1p Name the kind of composition for the painting on the left. There's more than one correct answer.

1. all-over
2. a-symmetrical
3. diagonal
4. triangular

Q9-1p Imagine that you are going to make a painting with a lot of movement. In that case, will you choose composition A, B, C or D?

1. all-over
2. symmetrical
3. diagonal
4. triangular

Q10-2p Look at the picture to the right and explain whether there is linear and/or atmospheric perspective used. Describe where you can see that in the painting.

Q11 - 1p What's the main difference between autonomous art and design?

Q12-1p What is the name of the design school established in Germany that wants to make good design accessible to a wide audience?

Q13-4p Which design movement does this brooche belong to? Explain your answer. Say something about at least 3 out of 4 key features: 'form', 'material', 'technique' and 'function'.

Q14-2p Look at the image. You see a dance floor which can generate electricity, designed by Studio Daan Roosegaarde. The more people are dancing on it, the more electricity is being generated.
Explain how vision and technique come together in this example.

Q15-2p This 'Mycoshoe', designed by Kristel Peters, is made of fungus, it grows. To which of the 5 movements of design mentioned in the book, does this design belong and why?

Drag the art movement to the timeline.

Expressionism

Postmodernism

Popart

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