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Art Appreciation
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Romanticist artists - like Frederic Edwin Church - viewed nature as:
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2. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:
Inca
talud-tablero
masonry
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
3. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
shield
narration
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
4. Thaodore Garicault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?
Romanticism
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
Neoplatonism
Guernica
5. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?
became
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
Quetzalcoatl
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
6. 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:
his modernity and break with the past.
Gustave Courbet.
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
local - arbitrary
7. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?
Paul Gauguin.
the Medici family.
Olmec
Fauvism.
8. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca
1980s
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
objectivity of the camera.
9. 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:
Baroque
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
rope bridges
10. Henri Matisse was a leader of early 20th century artists who felt free to use color 'arbitrarily' and were labeled - derogatorily - 'Fauves' - which translates __________.
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11. 'Postmodernism' has been defined in part as:
the notion of the sublime
Aztec
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
David's The Death of Marat
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.
Olmec
local - arbitrary
movement and speed
for armor
13. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
Paul Cazanne
Autosacrifice
Large stone temple complexes
14. This artist of The Large Bathers pushed toward an idea of painting that established for the work an independent existence:
Romanticism
Paul Cazanne.
cultural and personal identity
Learning from Las Vegas
15. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?
cultural and personal identity
Minimalism
Thomas Jefferson
Neoplatonism
16. The artist Andra Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of 'resolution between these two states - dream and reality.' What was this movement?
Coatlicue
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
the moon
Surrealism
17. Which of these paintings is an example of Romanticism?
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18. On the relief carving on the lid of his sarcophagus - Pakal is depicted falling off the Wacah Chan - _______.
epicanthic fold
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
the Tree of Life
the sensuousness of light and color.
19. Which of these paintings is an example of Romanticism?
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20. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
rigid style.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
abstract
21. Great Serpent Mound is an example of a(n) _______.
Palenque
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
1980s
22. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:
Aztec
more of their African identity in their works
Neoplatonism
Manet's Olympia
23. Which of these paintings is considered a Rococo painting?
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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. 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.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
virtue.
Guernica
his modernity and break with the past.
26. Which of these is an example of Baroque painting?
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27. Fred Wilson's exhibit for the Maryland Historical Society made the point that the Historical Society:
'cast shadows'
masonry
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Guernica
28. Romanticist artists - like Frederic Edwin Church - viewed nature as:
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29. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:
virtue.
Cindy Sherman's
utilitarianism
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.
30. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:
eternal beauty or shock value
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
Donatello's.
the sensuousness of light and color.
31. 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:
garbage
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
Aztec
15000 miles of roads
32. The short-lived Nazca culture in present-day Peru is known primarily for its _______.
geoglyphs
Mannerism.
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
Large stone temple complexes
33. 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:
ironies of modern political life
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
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.
34. Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to:
Neoplatonism
the Medici family.
1980s
Thomas Jefferson
35. The sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini created Ecstasy of St. Theresa - a centerpiece of a chapel in Rome. It is typical of which style?
Palenque
Surrealism
Fauvism.
Baroque
36. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.
Lord Pakal
shapes
Gustave Courbet.
Olmec
37. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
sterile anonymity
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
the moon
38. Like many contemporary sculptors - Kiki Smith - as seen in her Ice Man - seems to be asking questions about:
the symbolism of shape.
talud-tablero
garbage
muralists - Mexican Revolution
39. The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse is:
military engineer and weapons-designer
Fauvism.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
rigid style.
40. 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.
Aztec
muralists - Mexican Revolution
Las Vegas
garbage
41. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.
puma
Baroque
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
Plato; Aristotle.
42. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra
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43. 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?
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
Las Vegas
Surrealism
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
44. 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.
Cindy Sherman
Autosacrifice
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Romanticism
45. Freed from the rigidity of modernism - architects such as _______ have liberated structural walls - using three-dimensional computer modeling to make these new shapes possible.
for armor
the Tree of Life
Frank Gehry
epicanthic fold
46. In School of Athens - Raphael represents the two significant schools of philosophy - signified by the portrayal of _______ and ________ in the center of the composition.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
domination
Plato; Aristotle.
Teddy Cruz
47. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.
became
Minimalism and Pop Art.
Valdivia
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
48. The short-lived Nazca culture in present-day Peru is known primarily for its _______.
individuality.
geoglyphs
individuality.
it is not known which culture built it
49. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.
shield
abstract
1980s
the notion of the sublime
50. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:
the symbolism of shape.
Paul Cazanne
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
blood