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1. 'Postmodernism' has been defined in part as:
Lord Pakal
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
German Expressionism.
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.


2. The artist who painted Houses at L'Estaque worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism. The artist's name is:
Georges Braque.
ironies of modern political life
German Expressionism.
domination


3. Leonardo was as known in his time for his work as a(n) ____________ -as much for his work as an artist.
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
individuality.
La Venta
military engineer and weapons-designer


4. 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.
rigid style.
Georges Braque.
Minimalism
Guernica


5. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
domination
individuality.
El Greco.


6. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
more of their African identity in their works


7. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:
shield
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
mosaics


8. Like many contemporary sculptors - Kiki Smith - as seen in her Ice Man - seems to be asking questions about:
humanities.
the symbolism of shape.
Donatello's.
mosaics


9. 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.
Georges Braque.
Teddy Cruz
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
the personality of the sitter.


10. The two major art movements of the 1960s were:
Minimalism and Pop Art.
the Chinese emperor.
Inca
15000 miles of roads


11. Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of:
German Expressionism.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Paul Cazanne.


12. Rejecting the frenetic approach of Pollock and de Kooning - Mark Rotho's Abstract Expressionist pantings convey a _______ - not _______space.
Greek and Roman sculpture.
Surrealism
meditative - active
blood


13. 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.
Frank Gehry
ironies of modern political life
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
shapes


14. Images such as View of Suzhou reveal the 18th century Chinese interest in__________.
muralists - Mexican Revolution
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
Lord Pakal
the personality of the sitter.


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

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16. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:
local - arbitrary
color
Baroque
the Chinese emperor.


17. 'Postmodernism' has been defined in part as:
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
Valdivia
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.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.


18. Vik Muniz's Atlas (Carlao) was created by arranging_______ on his studio floor - photographing the arrangement - then painting from the photograph.
the moon
garbage
Frank Gehry
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.


19. Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality - Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies the _______ movement.
movement and speed
Large stone temple complexes
Dada
the Chinese emperor.


20. ______ - at its peak a cosmopolitan commercial center - remained a mythic center for Mesoamerican cultures for a thousand years after its decline - including an important pilgrimage site for Aztec rulers.
250.
Cindy Sherman's
Inca
Teotihuacan


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

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22. The Realist movement (p. 489) was influenced by many ideas and worldviews including:

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23. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra

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24. In School of Athens - Raphael represents the two significant schools of philosophy - signified by the portrayal of _______ and ________ in the center of the composition.
Plato; Aristotle.
geoglyphs
Cindy Sherman
Guernica


25. 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:
Spanish Civil War.
the ancient caves at Ajanta
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
Plato; Aristotle.


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.
abstract
Olmec
movement and speed
Neoclassical


27. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:
individuality.
more of their African identity in their works
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
Valdivia


28. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.
eternal beauty or shock value
shapes
Surrealism
it is not known which culture built it


29. Because of the diversity and plurality of postmodernism - many contemporary artists address the issues of _______ in their work.
cultural and personal identity
the Medici family.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.


30. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
the personality of the sitter.
Cindy Sherman
shapes


31. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?
more of their African identity in their works
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
Thomas Jefferson
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.


32. This artist reflects on identity and cultural heritage in works such as Petroglyph Park.
Fauvism.
rigid style.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Mining the Museum


33. The sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini created Ecstasy of St. Theresa - a centerpiece of a chapel in Rome. It is typical of which style?
German Expressionism.
Thomas Jefferson
Baroque
Paul Cazanne


34. Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigae-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.
utilitarianism
meditative - active
Neoplatonism
Baroque


35. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.
the sensuousness of light and color.
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
'cast shadows'
Mining the Museum


36. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:
Spanish Civil War.
Cindy Sherman
Romanticism
Caravaggio


37. The Cubists freed painting from the necessity of representing the world in order to dwell on:
Cindy Sherman
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.
form.
Learning from Las Vegas


38. 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
cultural and personal identity
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
Quetzalcoatl
the moon


39. Creating a work densely packed with information concerns most postmodern artists more than _______.
Aztec
El Greco.
muralists - Mexican Revolution
eternal beauty or shock value


40. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.
color
Surrealism
Mining the Museum
Dr. Strangelove


41. Using her work to struggle with the question of identity - this photographer's images are self-portraits.
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Cindy Sherman
Neoclassical


42. Stylistic characteristics of Postmodern architecture include all of the following EXCEPT
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
abstract
utilitarianism
'cast shadows'


43. What sets northern European artists (p. 454) apart from most artists of the Italian Renaissance is their interest in:
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
humanities.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.


44. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?
utilitarianism
Pyramid of the Sun
blood
Paul Gauguin.


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

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46. In the 1330s - Petrarch (p. 452) conceived of a philosophy that emphasized the value of the individual and the pursuit and study of classical languages - literature - history - and philosophy. Today we call these disciplines the:
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
glyphs
humanities.
Greek and Roman sculpture.


47. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:
Large stone temple complexes
virtue.
15000 miles of roads
Bettye Saar


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

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49. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Cindy Sherman
muralists - Mexican Revolution
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.


50. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.
Spanish Civil War.
narration
Inca
Coatlicue