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1. 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
objectivity of the camera.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures


2. _______ photos quote satirically the stereotypes of women in popular film - recycling them as a uniquely pure form of postmodernism.

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3. Angelica Kauffmann painted in the _______ style (p. 481) - which was based on Greek and Roman models.
utilitarianism
shield
Neoclassical
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.


4. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?
Learning from Las Vegas
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
'cast shadows'


5. Joan Mira
abstract
Neoplatonism
the Tree of Life
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.


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

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7. _______ may be tasteless and tacky but the public revels in it - a point Robert Venturi stresses in his book which opened the door to postmodern architecture.
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
muralists - Mexican Revolution
Las Vegas


8. 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.
Plato; Aristotle.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
rope bridges
Cindy Sherman


9. Consummate empire builders - the _______ arose from humble beginnings as a displaced tribe to commanding rulers of a vast network of luxury tributes from millions of people over a large geographic area in a 300-year period.
'cast shadows'
Aztec
Pyramid of the Sun
the notion of the sublime


10. Known for their elaborate textiles used as status symbols - the Inca also used fiber in the construction of armor and _______.
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.
rope bridges
masonry
Teotihuacan


11. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:
Mannerism.
virtue.
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.


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

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13. Because of the diversity and plurality of postmodernism - many contemporary artists address the issues of _______ in their work.
cultural and personal identity
1980s
Palenque
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities


14. 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?
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Teotihuacan
Surrealism
his modernity and break with the past.


15. The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse is:
Mining the Museum
Cindy Sherman's
Fauvism.
Spanish Civil War.


16. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?
Paul Gauguin.
for armor
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
humanities.


17. At La Venta - a(n) _______ site near present-day Villahermosa - Mexico - colossal heads were unearthed exhibiting what some scholars identify as fetal facial characteristics.
Olmec
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
the notion of the sublime
El Greco.


18. In What aspect of the twentieth century were Umberto Boccioni and other Futurist artists most interested?
his modernity and break with the past.
military engineer and weapons-designer
movement and speed
rope bridges


19. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:
Lord Pakal
for armor
the personality of the sitter.
Minimalism


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

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21. Rejecting the frenetic approach of Pollock and de Kooning - Mark Rotho's Abstract Expressionist pantings convey a _______ - not _______space.
rope bridges
meditative - active
Donatello's.
epicanthic fold


22. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.
Fauvism.
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
Maya cosmology
David's The Death of Marat


23. The sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini created Ecstasy of St. Theresa - a centerpiece of a chapel in Rome. It is typical of which style?
epicanthic fold
Paul Cazanne.
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
Baroque


24. Creating a work densely packed with information concerns most postmodern artists more than _______.
eternal beauty or shock value
mosaics
puma
Surrealism


25. Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigae-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.
Romanticism
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
Baroque
muralists - Mexican Revolution


26. The urge to rebel against the norm lost its impact when such rebellion _______ the norm in most Western cultures.
became
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
shapes
Gustave Courbet.


27. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:
individuality.
Olmec
form.
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings


28. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
La Venta
Lord Pakal
Navajo


29. 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
Mannerism.
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
Palenque


30. The urge to rebel against the norm lost its impact when such rebellion _______ the norm in most Western cultures.
rope bridges
became
the Chinese emperor.
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.


31. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?
movement and speed
puma
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
the notion of the sublime


32. Fred Wilson's exhibit for the Maryland Historical Society made the point that the Historical Society:
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Church's The Heart of the Andes
Pyramid of the Sun
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.


33. The Rococo style (pp. 479-480) has been characterized as:
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
the Baroque eroticized.
Fauvism.
cultural and personal identity


34. In Mesoamerican cultures - sacrificial _______ was seen as nourishment of the earth in its capacity of creator of life.
geoglyphs
objectivity of the camera.
Guernica
blood


35. 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
the notion of the sublime
domination
talud-tablero
shapes


36. 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:
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Inca
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.
sterile anonymity


37. Great Serpent Mound is an example of a(n) _______.
Paul Cazanne
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
mosaics
15000 miles of roads


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

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39. Which of these paintings is an example of Romanticism?

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40. In The Green Stripe (Madame Matisse) - Henri Matisse dispensed with the use of _______ color in favor of _______ color to explore the expressive possibilities of color.
the Baroque eroticized.
Surrealism
art that is about the process of painting.
local - arbitrary


41. 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:
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
the Tree of Life


42. Joan Mira
Minimalism
abstract
Baroque
Coatlicue


43. 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.
the Baroque eroticized.
Paul Gauguin.
meditative - active
15000 miles of roads


44. 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:
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
the ancient caves at Ajanta
Thomas Jefferson


45. Thaodore Garicault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?
Pyramid of the Sun
Baroque
Romanticism
Spanish Civil War.


46. Leonardo was as known in his time for his work as a(n) ____________ -as much for his work as an artist.
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
military engineer and weapons-designer
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
Autosacrifice


47. 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 Baroque eroticized.
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
Spanish Civil War.


48. What sets northern European artists (p. 454) apart from most artists of the Italian Renaissance is their interest in:
cultural and personal identity
Paul Cazanne
Futurism
rendering believable space in realistic detail.


49. Romanticism can best be described as:

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50. The Cubists freed painting from the necessity of representing the world in order to dwell on:
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Autosacrifice
form.
Minimalism