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Art Appreciation

Subject : art
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1. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:






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






3. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT






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






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






6. 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.






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






8. _______ 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.






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






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






11. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?






12. 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.






13. _______ - the Aztec goddess of life and death is recognizable in the culture's art by her necklace of human hearts - severed hands and skull.






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






15. The _______ included in panels of Maya relief carvings and ceramics decoration aide in their interpretation.






16. 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.






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


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






19. _______ 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.






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






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






22. The _______ included in panels of Maya relief carvings and ceramics decoration aide in their interpretation.






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






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


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






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






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






28. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.






29. 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






30. On the relief carving on the lid of his sarcophagus - Pakal is depicted falling off the Wacah Chan - _______.






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






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


33. 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?






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






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






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


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






38. In Mesoamerican cultures - sacrificial _______ was seen as nourishment of the earth in its capacity of creator of life.






39. Freed from the rigidity of modernism - architects such as _______ have liberated structural walls - using three-dimensional computer modeling to make these new shapes possible.






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


41. In the Aztec culture - sacrifices of prisoners-of-war from neighboring peoples were necessary to honor and re-create the sacrifice of _______ in ancient times (Teotihuaca






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






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






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






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






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


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






48. 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:






49. 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.






50. 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.