Art Appreciation

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1. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra

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2. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca
sterile anonymity
art that is about the process of painting.
more of their African identity in their works
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar


3. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?
Neoplatonism
Palenque
Thomas Jefferson
art that is about the process of painting.


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

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

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6. The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of Which movement?
cultural and personal identity
Thomas Jefferson
Futurism
geoglyphs


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

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8. 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.
meditative - active
La Venta
Maya cosmology
Teddy Cruz


9. Diego Rivera - David Siquieros - and Jose Clemente Orozco formed a new school of _______ inspired by the intense nationalism following the _______.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Cindy Sherman
muralists - Mexican Revolution
Palenque


10. Marianne Nicholson's cliffside pictograph (a 'copper') represents a Northwest Native American tradition that had been suppressed through most of the 20th century - called:
the potlatch.
Romanticism
Quetzalcoatl
local - arbitrary


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.
color
Guernica
Dada
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.


12. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?
Navajo
puma
Paul Gauguin.
objectivity of the camera.


13. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.
the notion of the sublime
Palenque
Plato; Aristotle.
Inca


14. Anish Kapoor - the Indian-born British sculptor - explores the spiritual meanings of _______ - posing questions about the origination and persistence of those meanings when displaced from their traditional context.
Surrealism
shapes
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
Fragonard's Bathers


15. The two major art movements of the 1960s were:
muralists - Mexican Revolution
Palenque
Autosacrifice
Minimalism and Pop Art.


16. One of most important - best preserved and extensively studied Mayan cities is _______.
local - arbitrary
shapes
glyphs
Palenque


17. Leonardo was as known in his time for his work as a(n) ____________ -as much for his work as an artist.
military engineer and weapons-designer
Dr. Strangelove
Aztec
more of their African identity in their works


18. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.
Learning from Las Vegas
Mining the Museum
his modernity and break with the past.
250.


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

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20. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.
the ancient caves at Ajanta
Cindy Sherman's
puma
masonry


21. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Neoplatonism
the symbolism of shape.
meditative - active


22. Anish Kapoor - the Indian-born British sculptor - explores the spiritual meanings of _______ - posing questions about the origination and persistence of those meanings when displaced from their traditional context.
shapes
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Frank Gehry
puma


23. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
Minimalism and Pop Art.
he sculpted nude figures
the symbolism of shape.
Manet's Olympia


24. _______ are characteristic of Maya architecture - suggesting priests/rulers had great power.
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
more of their African identity in their works
Large stone temple complexes
Valdivia


25. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
Fragonard's Bathers


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


27. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.
Maya cosmology
cultural and personal identity
Teotihuacan
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.


28. Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for:
puma
his modernity and break with the past.
Teddy Cruz
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.


29. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.
military engineer and weapons-designer
the moon
1980s
Neoplatonism


30. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?
local - arbitrary
Minimalism and Pop Art.
The Medusa sunk off the coast of Africa due to the captain's incompetence and its poor survivors were adrift for days (most of them dying) while the captain and crew saved themselves.
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings


31. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.
Lord Pakal
15000 miles of roads
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
Mining the Museum


32. Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to:
Cindy Sherman
the Medici family.
sterile anonymity
Minimalism and Pop Art.


33. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.
the Baroque eroticized.
Inca
Minimalism and Pop Art.
utilitarianism


34. Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of:
color
Greek and Roman sculpture.
German Expressionism.
military engineer and weapons-designer


35. Michelangelo's painting The Last Judgment (p. 468) - for the Sistine Chapel - typifies a style that came to be known as:
Romanticism
Mannerism.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Coatlicue


36. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?
Raphael's School of Athens
Donatello's.
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
the notion of the sublime


37. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.
the symbolism of shape.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
the moon
Neoplatonism


38. Artists often find that the art they make has unintentional meaning. Georgia Papageorge's Africa Rifting: Lines of Fire: Namibia/Brazil is an example of this because:
one of their principal days of filming was 9/11/2001 and the banners came to signify the rifts separating humanity on a global scale.
masonry
individuality.
Mining the Museum


39. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.
Gustave Courbet.
it is not known which culture built it
muralists - Mexican Revolution
objectivity of the camera.


40. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?
'Wild Beasts'
Caravaggio
Palenque
Church's The Heart of the Andes


41. The color schemes and flat patterns illustrated in Amrita Sher-Gil's The Swing were directly influenced by the Post-Impressionism of Paul Gauguin and:
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
Learning from Las Vegas
Lord Pakal
the ancient caves at Ajanta


42. Vik Muniz's Atlas (Carlao) was created by arranging_______ on his studio floor - photographing the arrangement - then painting from the photograph.
garbage
sterile anonymity
Cindy Sherman
'cast shadows'


43. A key focus of much postmodern art is _______.
German Expressionism.
ironies of modern political life
utilitarianism
Neoplatonism


44. Chari Samba's Probla
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Neoclassical
Guernica
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.


45. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:
the personality of the sitter.
for armor
Gustave Courbet.
Neoclassical


46. Great Serpent Mound is an example of a(n) _______.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Minimalism and Pop Art.
Aztec
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.


47. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.
1980s
'cast shadows'
utilitarianism
Inca


48. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
garbage
German Expressionism.
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette


49. Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigae-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.
the personality of the sitter.
Church's The Heart of the Andes
ironies of modern political life
Baroque


50. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
quipu
rigid style.
Palenque