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Art Appreciation

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1. The short-lived Nazca culture in present-day Peru is known primarily for its _______.






2. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?






3. Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality - Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies the _______ movement.






4. Thaodore Garicault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?






5. In his painting - Probla






6. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.






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






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






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


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






11. Rejecting the frenetic approach of Pollock and de Kooning - Mark Rotho's Abstract Expressionist pantings convey a _______ - not _______space.






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






13. Joan Mira






14. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?






15. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:






16. Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigae-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.






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


18. Chari Samba's Probla






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






20. Henri Matisse was a leader of early 20th century artists who felt free to use color 'arbitrarily' and were labeled - derogatorily - 'Fauves' - which translates __________.


21. Vik Muniz's Atlas (Carlao) was created by arranging_______ on his studio floor - photographing the arrangement - then painting from the photograph.






22. In School of Athens - Raphael represents the two significant schools of philosophy - signified by the portrayal of _______ and ________ in the center of the composition.






23. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:






24. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:






25. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.






26. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.






27. The sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini created Ecstasy of St. Theresa - a centerpiece of a chapel in Rome. It is typical of which style?






28. The short-lived Nazca culture in present-day Peru is known primarily for its _______.






29. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?






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


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






32. _______ 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.






33. One of most important - best preserved and extensively studied Mayan cities is _______.






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






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


36. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?






37. 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.






38. Which of these is an example of Dada art?


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






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






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






42. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:






43. Fred Wilson's exhibit for the Maryland Historical Society made the point that the Historical Society:






44. 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






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






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






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


48. Because of the diversity and plurality of postmodernism - many contemporary artists address the issues of _______ in their work.






49. Native American kachinas - like Buffalo Kachina (p. 494) - are:






50. 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: