Answers:
1. D. Palette. We refer to someone having an educated palette
when tasting food as if to suggest our sense of taste can distinguish
subtle blends of flavor in the way the artist mixes subtle blends of
color. However, one would never eat paint.
2. B. Pastels, the favorite crayon of kids and other finger-smudgers.
3. D. Michelangelo. Leonardo Da Vinci also performed autopsies
when he wasn't inventing the heliocoptor or designing models of the
solar system. The drawing shown is one of his sketches. (Trick question.)
4. B. Ferrule. The best quality should be seamless and cupro-plated
nickel.
5. A. True. Paintings were to be made according to the lessons
of the acedemies using time-honored techniques. "Impressions" were mere
lazy, formless renderings made, it was felt, without skill.
6. C. Post-modernism. All of the other three were modern movements.
Post-modernism never quite reached a complete definition but was loosely
based on the idea of combining modern forms with classical elements.
Time will tell.
7. B. Rene Magritte in 1928.
8. A. The Laocoon is one of the most prized of the survivng Greek
sculptures. It is dated 175- 50BC and was discovered in 1506. It stands
95.5 inches (242cm) high in the Museo Pio Clementino at the Vatican.
9. C. Though innovations in the use of these other elements in
painting were no doubt underway in 1425, it was then that the artchitect
Brunelleschi used the mathematical laws of applied geometry to create
"perspective." Perspective determines the difference in size between
objects close to the foreground and those in the background.
10. B. Masacio (1401-1428), also know as "Clumsy Thomas" painted
this fresco in the church of Sta Maria Novella, Florence.
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