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Art Appreciation

Subject : art
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1. Vernacular architecture - like that in Tijuana - with cast-off materials scavenged from dumpyards serving as walls - fences - structures - and roofs is important to this young architect.






2. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?






3. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:






4. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:






5. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:






6. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.






7. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.






8. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?






9. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT






10. Chari Samba's Probla






11. A key focus of much postmodern art is _______.






12. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.






13. Mayan civilization (p. 464) reached its peak in Southern Mexico and Guatemala around:






14. This artist of The Large Bathers pushed toward an idea of painting that established for the work an independent existence:






15. The Cubists freed painting from the necessity of representing the world in order to dwell on:






16. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.






17. The sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini created Ecstasy of St. Theresa - a centerpiece of a chapel in Rome. It is typical of which style?






18. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.






19. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.






20. Native American kachinas - like Buffalo Kachina (p. 494) - are:






21. Angelica Kauffmann painted in the _______ style (p. 481) - which was based on Greek and Roman models.






22. _______ photos quote satirically the stereotypes of women in popular film - recycling them as a uniquely pure form of postmodernism.


23. The Incas are well known for their __________ construction - as can be witnessed in Machu Picchu.






24. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:






25. Romanticism can best be described as:


26. In The Green Stripe (Madame Matisse) - Henri Matisse dispensed with the use of _______ color in favor of _______ color to explore the expressive possibilities of color.






27. From the traditions of most cultures - leadership and shamanism went hand-in-hand. Successful leaders mediated between the spiritual and physical worlds to assure the survival of their peoples. This mediation characteristically involved rites all of






28. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?






29. Stylistic characteristics of Postmodern architecture include all of the following EXCEPT






30. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.






31. Rejecting the frenetic approach of Pollock and de Kooning - Mark Rotho's Abstract Expressionist pantings convey a _______ - not _______space.






32. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:






33. In the Aztec culture - sacrifices of prisoners-of-war from neighboring peoples were necessary to honor and re-create the sacrifice of _______ in ancient times (Teotihuaca






34. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.






35. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:






36. Diego Rivera - David Siquieros - and Jose Clemente Orozco formed a new school of _______ inspired by the intense nationalism following the _______.






37. What sets northern European artists (p. 454) apart from most artists of the Italian Renaissance is their interest in:






38. Which of these paintings is an example of Neo-classical art?


39. Leonardo was as known in his time for his work as a(n) ____________ -as much for his work as an artist.






40. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.






41. At La Venta - a(n) _______ site near present-day Villahermosa - Mexico - colossal heads were unearthed exhibiting what some scholars identify as fetal facial characteristics.






42. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:






43. Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigae-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.






44. Her untitled photographic self-portraits - posed with props in scenes corresponding to female characters in popular culture - are performances that allow _______ to address the ways in which culture views women.






45. Yasumasu Morimura's Portrait (Twins) appropriates the imagery of _______ to illustrate Japanese culture as slave to the dominant (male) forces of Western society.


46. The two major art movements of the 1960s were:






47. The three _______ made of serpentine at the Olmec site of La Venta are unusual; they were not meant to be seen as they were buried soon after completion.






48. Which of these paintings is considered a Rococo painting?


49. Freed from the rigidity of modernism - architects such as _______ have liberated structural walls - using three-dimensional computer modeling to make these new shapes possible.






50. Which of the following is a unique function of Inca textiles?