Art Appreciation

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1. Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality - Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies the _______ movement.
the symbolism of shape.
Dada
Surrealism
the Medici family.


2. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.
Cindy Sherman
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Paul Cazanne.
more of their African identity in their works


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

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4. Romanticist artists - like Frederic Edwin Church - viewed nature as:

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5. Chari Samba's Probla
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
rigid style.
mosaics
cultural and personal identity


6. The Post-Impressionists (p. 496) were united by their interest in:

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7. 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.
mosaics
Pyramid of the Sun
Cindy Sherman
form.


8. In his painting - Probla
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Navajo
narration
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.


9. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:
Teddy Cruz
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
Fragonard's Bathers


10. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca
Paul Gauguin.
Inca
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar


11. Considered one of the greatest artistic responses to political oppression - Picasso's _______ was painted as condemnation of the blitzkrieg that leveled the city center of a small Basque town in the Spanish Civil War.
Guernica
Donatello's.
Plato; Aristotle.
the Chinese emperor.


12. What sets northern European artists (p. 454) apart from most artists of the Italian Renaissance is their interest in:
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
Maya cosmology
ironies of modern political life
rendering believable space in realistic detail.


13. Joan Mira
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
abstract
Minimalism
Large stone temple complexes


14. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Baroque
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
Palenque


15. Which of these paintings is considered an Abstract Expressionist painting?

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16. Romanticism can best be described as:

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17. 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
domination
narration
blood
Mining the Museum


18. In addition to the sophisticated stone masonry that built Machu Picchu - the Inca also engineered over _______ through their mountainous empire - allowing messages to be transported throughout the empire in less than one week.
15000 miles of roads
narration
Fragonard's Bathers
250.


19. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.
Raphael's School of Athens
Teotihuacan
Navajo
color


20. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.
Neoplatonism
muralists - Mexican Revolution
Mannerism.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith


21. What is the story behind Gericault's Raft of the Medusa?

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22. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
Learning from Las Vegas
Spanish Civil War.
Fragonard's Bathers


23. Fred Wilson's exhibit for the Maryland Historical Society made the point that the Historical Society:
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Palenque
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.


24. The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali illustrates how he looked to his subconscious (dreams - hypnosis - psychoanalysis) for his subject matter. What artistic movement is he associated with?
15000 miles of roads
Surrealism
Paul Gauguin.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.


25. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.
Bettye Saar
it is not known which culture built it
Dada
Large stone temple complexes


26. Joan Mira
Baroque
Paul Cazanne
the Chinese emperor.
abstract


27. Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigae-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.
Bettye Saar
Baroque
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
domination


28. Mayan civilization (p. 464) reached its peak in Southern Mexico and Guatemala around:
Donatello's.
Raphael's School of Athens
Spanish Civil War.
250.


29. A leading painter in the Realist movement - the artist of Burial at Ornans declared that 'painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the presentation of real and existing things.' The artist is:
his modernity and break with the past.
abstract
Learning from Las Vegas
Gustave Courbet.


30. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.
cultural and personal identity
Navajo
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
the Medici family.


31. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.
German Expressionism.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Aztec
1980s


32. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.
Maya cosmology
the notion of the sublime
quipu
garbage


33. In works such as Olympia - realist painter Edouard Manet was denying traditional painting style and drawing attention to:
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
his modernity and break with the past.
Georges Braque.
Quetzalcoatl


34. As seen from the earth - _______ evokes a rabbit to some Native American cultures.
quipu
form.
Cindy Sherman's
the moon


35. 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.
Cindy Sherman
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
Donatello's.


36. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?
Caravaggio
Mannerism.
sterile anonymity
Maya cosmology


37. Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of:
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
Dr. Strangelove
German Expressionism.
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar


38. What is the subject matter of most Impressionist painting?
more of their African identity in their works
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Pyramid of the Sun


39. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.
muralists - Mexican Revolution
his modernity and break with the past.
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures


40. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.
Neoplatonism
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
Aztec
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape


41. Vik Muniz's Atlas (Carlao) was created by arranging_______ on his studio floor - photographing the arrangement - then painting from the photograph.
garbage
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
local - arbitrary
became


42. What is the subject matter of most Impressionist painting?
for armor
Raphael's School of Athens
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape


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

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44. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:
La Venta
Greek and Roman sculpture.
David's The Death of Marat
the personality of the sitter.


45. Because of the diversity and plurality of postmodernism - many contemporary artists address the issues of _______ in their work.
Fragonard's Bathers
Thomas Jefferson
cultural and personal identity
Donatello's.


46. Which of these is an example of High Renaissance painting?

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47. Like many contemporary sculptors - Kiki Smith - as seen in her Ice Man - seems to be asking questions about:
his modernity and break with the past.
the symbolism of shape.
Quetzalcoatl
masonry


48. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.
Maya cosmology
Teddy Cruz
Navajo
Romanticism


49. Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality - Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies the _______ movement.
Quetzalcoatl
Dada
rope bridges
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden


50. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:
Greek and Roman sculpture.
Minimalism and Pop Art.
narration
Church's The Heart of the Andes