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Art Appreciation
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1. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.
Lord Pakal
Plato; Aristotle.
the ancient caves at Ajanta
1980s
2. Which of these is an example of High Renaissance painting?
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3. The two major art movements of the 1960s were:
Baroque
Minimalism and Pop Art.
form.
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
4. Henri Matisse was a leader of early 20th century artists who felt free to use color 'arbitrarily' and were labeled - derogatorily - 'Fauves' - which translates __________.
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5. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.
shield
Lord Pakal
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
Greek and Roman sculpture.
6. Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of:
German Expressionism.
El Greco.
Navajo
Surrealism
7. The short-lived Nazca culture in present-day Peru is known primarily for its _______.
geoglyphs
Neoclassical
muralists - Mexican Revolution
Teotihuacan
8. What sets northern European artists (p. 454) apart from most artists of the Italian Renaissance is their interest in:
talud-tablero
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
Spanish Civil War.
Fauvism.
9. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.
Romanticism
1980s
Cindy Sherman
Neoplatonism
10. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.
Spanish Civil War.
Autosacrifice
Pyramid of the Sun
Guernica
11. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.
Guernica
the symbolism of shape.
Bettye Saar
Dr. Strangelove
12. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.
Surrealism
quipu
Surrealism
La Venta
13. Mesoamerican cultures believed that humans first emerged from a hole in the ground now situated under the _______.
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
Pyramid of the Sun
Georges Braque.
Surrealism
14. _______ photos quote satirically the stereotypes of women in popular film - recycling them as a uniquely pure form of postmodernism.
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15. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Baroque
the potlatch.
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
16. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.
the symbolism of shape.
humanities.
color
Baroque
17. Because of the diversity and plurality of postmodernism - many contemporary artists address the issues of _______ in their work.
mosaics
meditative - active
cultural and personal identity
Inca
18. This artist reflects on identity and cultural heritage in works such as Petroglyph Park.
Cindy Sherman
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Cindy Sherman
the Baroque eroticized.
19. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?
Mannerism.
ironies of modern political life
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
Quetzalcoatl
20. At La Venta - a(n) _______ site near present-day Villahermosa - Mexico - colossal heads were unearthed exhibiting what some scholars identify as fetal facial characteristics.
became
color
the Medici family.
Olmec
21. 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.
Surrealism
garbage
Cindy Sherman
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
22. The style of Burial of Count Orgaz is highly eclectic and individual. The artist is:
Large stone temple complexes
El Greco.
Thomas Jefferson
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
23. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
he sculpted nude figures
the Baroque eroticized.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
24. Which of the following is a unique function of Inca textiles?
the Chinese emperor.
Inca
for armor
Palenque
25. Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality - Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies the _______ movement.
Dada
the Chinese emperor.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
rope bridges
26. The style of Burial of Count Orgaz is highly eclectic and individual. The artist is:
Lord Pakal
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Fauvism.
El Greco.
27. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:
Baroque
Gustave Courbet.
Dr. Strangelove
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
28. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
the sensuousness of light and color.
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
29. In his painting - Probla
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Dr. Strangelove
puma
Pyramid of the Sun
30. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:
David's The Death of Marat
for armor
the sensuousness of light and color.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
31. Vik Muniz's Atlas (Carlao) was created by arranging_______ on his studio floor - photographing the arrangement - then painting from the photograph.
the Medici family.
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
garbage
glyphs
32. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
Navajo
talud-tablero
Caravaggio
military engineer and weapons-designer
33. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
mosaics
Navajo
Greek and Roman sculpture.
34. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:
the ancient caves at Ajanta
virtue.
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
35. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:
muralists - Mexican Revolution
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
Spanish Civil War.
Aztec
36. As seen from the earth - _______ evokes a rabbit to some Native American cultures.
the moon
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
37. Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigae-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.
Baroque
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
Inca
38. From 960 until 1279 - during the Song Dynasty - (p. 447) Taoists in China emphasized the importance of self-expression. Their most important state positions were held by:
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
puma
epicanthic fold
39. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
Spanish Civil War.
humanities.
rigid style.
40. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:
Greek and Roman sculpture.
Donatello's.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
41. These Hopewell figures are unusual because of their depiction of the _______ - a trait that may be found in people from many different parts of Asia as well as areas from which great migrations from this cradle of civilization occurred - including th
the notion of the sublime
it is not known which culture built it
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.
epicanthic fold
42. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.
masonry
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Paul Cazanne
Navajo
43. Fred Wilson's exhibit for the Maryland Historical Society made the point that the Historical Society:
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Paul Cazanne
color
44. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:
Gustave Courbet.
Learning from Las Vegas
Surrealism
more of their African identity in their works
45. Rejecting the frenetic approach of Pollock and de Kooning - Mark Rotho's Abstract Expressionist pantings convey a _______ - not _______space.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Quetzalcoatl
Las Vegas
meditative - active
46. Great Serpent Mound is an example of a(n) _______.
objectivity of the camera.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
the Chinese emperor.
rigid style.
47. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:
the symbolism of shape.
Surrealism
individuality.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
48. The artist Andra Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of 'resolution between these two states - dream and reality.' What was this movement?
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
Surrealism
49. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
Church's The Heart of the Andes
puma
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
50. 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.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Caravaggio
narration
Guernica