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Art Appreciation

Subject : art
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1. Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to:






2. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.






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






4. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.






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






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






7. 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






8. 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.






9. In works such as Olympia - realist painter Edouard Manet was denying traditional painting style and drawing attention to:






10. Characteristics of postmodern photography include all of the following EXCEPT






11. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.






12. 'Postmodernism' has been defined in part as:






13. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?






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






15. Known for their elaborate textiles used as status symbols - the Inca also used fiber in the construction of armor and _______.






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

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17. 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.






18. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.






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






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

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21. Michelangelo's painting The Last Judgment (p. 468) - for the Sistine Chapel - typifies a style that came to be known as:






22. The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of Which movement?






23. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.






24. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:






25. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:






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






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






28. In his painting - Probla






29. Joan Mira






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






31. 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.






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






33. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.






34. Chari Samba's Probla






35. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.






36. What is the subject matter of most Impressionist painting?






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






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






39. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:






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






41. The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse is:






42. Creating a work densely packed with information concerns most postmodern artists more than _______.






43. In What aspect of the twentieth century were Umberto Boccioni and other Futurist artists most interested?






44. 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






45. Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?






46. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?






47. _______ are characteristic of Maya architecture - suggesting priests/rulers had great power.






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

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49. Which of these is an example of Baroque painting?

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50. 'Postmodernism' has been defined in part as: