T4.3.1 Reasoned judgements about artists, architects and designers Quiz: KS3 Art & Design, Unit 4

The 20 questions

1. What is a reasoned judgement about an artist?

   • A comment on how much a painting would sell for at an auction house in London
   • A statement that an artist is famous and so must be important in the history of art
   • A personal feeling that a painting is nice, with no reasons given for the view
   • A view supported by evidence from the artist's work and its historical context

2. Which of these is an example of evidence for judging an architect's work?

   • The number of people who visited the architect's own home over the last year
   • The way the building uses materials and light to shape the space inside it
   • The price of the architect's car when it was sold to a private buyer recently
   • The architect's favourite colour as stated in a magazine interview last year

3. Why should a critic consider the context of an artist's work?

   • Context explains why the work was made and how it was received at the time
   • Context removes the need to look closely at the work itself in the gallery room
   • Context shows how much paint the artist used to make the work in the studio
   • Context shows the exact date the artist was born and nothing else about the work

4. What is the difference between a fact and an opinion in art criticism?

   • A fact can be checked against evidence, while an opinion is a personal view
   • A fact must be written in capital letters, while an opinion is written in lower case
   • A fact is only about money, while an opinion is only about the colour of the work
   • A fact is always a feeling, while an opinion is always a measured statement of data

5. How can an artist's influence on later artists be judged?

   • By counting how many paintings the artist sold in a single year at the gallery
   • By asking which artist's name is printed in the largest letters on the poster
   • By finding evidence that later artists used or adapted their ideas or methods
   • By measuring the height of the artist's studio in metres from floor to ceiling

6. Which statement shows a reasoned comparison of two artists?

   • Both use bold colour, but one builds form with pattern while the other uses tone
   • One artist is better because she uses more paint than her rival does in the studio
   • One artist is better because his paintings are older than the other artist's work
   • Both artists are equal because they both had many visitors to their shows last year

7. What should a judgement about an artwork's success be based on?

   • How expensive the materials were when they were bought in the art shop last term
   • How much the viewer enjoyed the frame, regardless of the image inside the frame
   • How well it achieves its purpose, supported by visual evidence from the work
   • How many days it took the artist to complete the piece from start to finish

8. Why is it important to avoid making judgements based only on personal taste?

   • Personal taste is only important for artists and not for critics or viewers at all
   • Personal taste alone does not show how well a work achieves its aims
   • Personal taste is always the most accurate guide to the quality of a work of art
   • Personal taste makes the judgement longer, so it is always better than other views

9. What is a key skill when judging an artist's work fairly?

   • Considering the artist's intentions and the historical context of the work
   • Judging all artists by the same modern standards, whatever their time or place
   • Ignoring any information about the artist so that the view is entirely unbiased
   • Choosing the work that uses the most gold paint or the most expensive materials

10. Which of these is an example of a reasoned critical view of a Renaissance painting?

    • The painting is old, so it must be better than any painting made in modern times
    • The painting is famous, so everyone must agree that it is an excellent work of art
    • The painting has a frame that is very heavy and difficult to lift off the wall
    • The use of linear perspective creates a convincing sense of depth in the scene

11. What is meant by 'critical understanding' of an artist?

    • Knowing the price of every painting sold at auction in a particular year
    • Being able to name every artist who lived in a particular century of history
    • Believing that the most recent artists are always the most important in history
    • Understanding how the artist's work is made, what it means and why it matters

12. How might a pupil use reasoned judgements to inform their own work?

    • By copying the exact style of one artist and never trying anything new at all
    • By learning from techniques and ideas that worked well in other artists' work
    • By looking only at artists who are alive today and ignoring the history of art
    • By avoiding all other artists so that their own work stays entirely original

13. Which of these is a reasoned judgement about a sculpture?

    • The sculpture is in a gallery, and therefore it must be valuable to everyone
    • The sculpture is very large, so it must be the best sculpture in the museum
    • The sculpture has a label on its base that says it was made in the year 1900
    • The sculpture's smooth surface and open form suggest movement and lightness

14. What should a pupil consider before judging a historical artwork?

    • Whether the artwork matches the pupil's own favourite colour exactly in every part
    • Only the colour of the frame, which is usually modern and not part of the history
    • Whether the artwork is easy to photograph with a phone camera in a dim room
    • The materials, techniques and purpose available to the artist at the time

15. Why do critics compare an artist's work at different points in their career?

    • To decide which year the artist was the tallest or the most popular with critics
    • To see how the artist's style and ideas developed or changed over time
    • To find out which year the artist earned the most money from their sales
    • To check whether the artist used the same frame for every painting in the series

16. What is the best way to support a judgement about an artist's use of colour?

    • Say that the colours were expensive and that the artist must have been very rich
    • Say that the colours are nice and move on to the next artist without any detail
    • Name specific colours and describe the effect they create in particular parts of the work
    • Say that the colours are the same as those in the artist's other paintings in general

17. Which of these is a reasoned judgement about a designer's furniture?

    • The chair's simple, sturdy frame shows the designer's focus on function and comfort
    • The chair is in a museum, so it must be valuable to everyone who sees it there
    • The chair is very old, so it must be better than any chair made in modern times
    • The chair has a label on its base, so it must be the best chair the designer made

18. Why is it useful to compare an artist's early work with their later work?

    • It shows which of the works has the higher price on the art market in the current year
    • It shows how their style, ideas and techniques changed or stayed consistent over time
    • It shows which of the works has been displayed in the most galleries around the world
    • It shows which of the works was painted first so that the dates can be written down

19. Which statement is a fact rather than an opinion about an artwork?

    • The painting was made using oil paint on a canvas support in the nineteenth century
    • The painting is a pleasing image that most people would enjoy looking at for hours
    • The painting is the most beautiful work of art that has ever been produced anywhere
    • The painting is far more interesting than any other work in the gallery on display

20. What is the purpose of considering the audience a work was made for?

    • It means the work can only ever be judged by people from the same country
    • It determines the price that the work will be sold for in the commercial market
    • It helps explain choices of style, subject and scale in the work
    • It removes the need to look at the materials or techniques used in the work

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