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1. 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.
masonry
Neoplatonism
Dada


2. 'Postmodernism' has been defined in part as:
muralists - Mexican Revolution
David's The Death of Marat
Surrealism
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.


3. 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?
Surrealism
El Greco.
Guernica
Romanticism


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

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5. Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality - Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies the _______ movement.
the Tree of Life
Dada
Surrealism
objectivity of the camera.


6. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?

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7. On the relief carving on the lid of his sarcophagus - Pakal is depicted falling off the Wacah Chan - _______.
garbage
the Chinese emperor.
the Tree of Life
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew


8. 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:
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
Spanish Civil War.


9. The Rococo style (pp. 479-480) has been characterized as:
the Baroque eroticized.
glyphs
Cindy Sherman's
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle


10. A leading painter in the Realist movement - the artist of Burial at Ornans declared that 'painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the presentation of real and existing things.' The artist is:
the notion of the sublime
Baroque
Gustave Courbet.
Palenque


11. The archaeological site plan of _______ shows the site's slightly west-of-north alignment - a characteristic of several Mesoamerican that may be associated with ritual processions.
meditative - active
La Venta
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.


12. Mayan civilization (p. 464) reached its peak in Southern Mexico and Guatemala around:
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
Neoplatonism
the Medici family.
250.


13. As a reaction against Abstract Expressionism - Frank Stella's Empress of India exhibits the elegant - sparse content-less shape of _______.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
Minimalism
meditative - active
cultural and personal identity


14. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.
Fauvism.
eternal beauty or shock value
color
the Medici family.


15. This artist of The Large Bathers pushed toward an idea of painting that established for the work an independent existence:
Paul Cazanne.
narration
Valdivia
Pyramid of the Sun


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

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17. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Raphael's School of Athens
Thomas Jefferson
narration


18. Whose David was the first life-size nude sculpture since antiquity?

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19. 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.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
Neoclassical
humanities.


20. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.
El Greco.
muralists - Mexican Revolution
Mining the Museum
Valdivia


21. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
the sensuousness of light and color.
Thomas Jefferson
Palenque


22. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:
Olmec
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
Maya cosmology


23. A leading painter in the Realist movement - the artist of Burial at Ornans declared that 'painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the presentation of real and existing things.' The artist is:
art that is about the process of painting.
rope bridges
Gustave Courbet.
cultural and personal identity


24. 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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25. Which of these is an example of Baroque painting?

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26. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?
narration
15000 miles of roads
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings


27. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
Georges Braque.
Donatello's.
the personality of the sitter.


28. In Mesoamerican cultures - sacrificial _______ was seen as nourishment of the earth in its capacity of creator of life.
La Venta
Donatello's.
he sculpted nude figures
blood


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

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30. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.
Neoplatonism
form.
individuality.
Cindy Sherman


31. Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of:
humanities.
German Expressionism.
the potlatch.
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.


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

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33. Romanticism can best be described as:

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34. This artist reflects on identity and cultural heritage in works such as Petroglyph Park.
Bettye Saar
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
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.
Surrealism


35. This artist reflects on identity and cultural heritage in works such as Petroglyph Park.
Maya cosmology
art that is about the process of painting.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
poets - calligraphers - and painters.


36. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:
Spanish Civil War.
objectivity of the camera.
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
art that is about the process of painting.


37. Cubism can best be described as:
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
'Wild Beasts'
utilitarianism
art that is about the process of painting.


38. 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?
Valdivia
Surrealism
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
the sensuousness of light and color.


39. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
domination
the Medici family.


40. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.
rigid style.
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
Mining the Museum
Bettye Saar


41. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.
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.
art that is about the process of painting.
Maya cosmology
Futurism


42. 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.
Cindy Sherman
puma
shapes
Large stone temple complexes


43. 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.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Paul Gauguin.
local - arbitrary
Raphael's School of Athens


44. ______ - 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.
Mining the Museum
Teotihuacan
virtue.
narration


45. The artist Andra Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of 'resolution between these two states - dream and reality.' What was this movement?
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
Surrealism
Fauvism.
the notion of the sublime


46. Because of the diversity and plurality of postmodernism - many contemporary artists address the issues of _______ in their work.
Mannerism.
cultural and personal identity
the moon
quipu


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

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49. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
250.
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain


50. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:
the ancient caves at Ajanta
epicanthic fold
the sensuousness of light and color.
Teddy Cruz