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1. In Mesoamerican cultures - sacrificial _______ was seen as nourishment of the earth in its capacity of creator of life.
glyphs
Palenque
blood
the ancient caves at Ajanta


2. Which of the following is a unique function of Inca textiles?
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Cindy Sherman
Minimalism and Pop Art.
for armor


3. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?

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4. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
Pyramid of the Sun
La Venta
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape


5. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:
became
domination
Navajo
Greek and Roman sculpture.


6. 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.
Manet's Olympia
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
movement and speed
Guernica


7. The short-lived Nazca culture in present-day Peru is known primarily for its _______.
his modernity and break with the past.
quipu
geoglyphs
Georges Braque.


8. 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.
rope bridges
Las Vegas
local - arbitrary
Paul Gauguin.


9. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
individuality.
Neoplatonism
Romanticism
talud-tablero


10. In his painting - Probla
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
Dr. Strangelove
virtue.
the Tree of Life


11. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
he sculpted nude figures
Neoclassical
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
poets - calligraphers - and painters.


12. The urge to rebel against the norm lost its impact when such rebellion _______ the norm in most Western cultures.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
rigid style.
became
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.


13. This artist of The Large Bathers pushed toward an idea of painting that established for the work an independent existence:
Minimalism
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
abstract
Paul Cazanne.


14. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.
Lord Pakal
Valdivia
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.


15. As a reaction against Abstract Expressionism - Frank Stella's Empress of India exhibits the elegant - sparse content-less shape of _______.
Dr. Strangelove
sterile anonymity
Minimalism
he sculpted nude figures


16. ______ - 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.
his modernity and break with the past.
quipu
Teotihuacan
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities


17. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
cultural and personal identity
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
Paul Gauguin.


18. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?
talud-tablero
Paul Cazanne
Quetzalcoatl
domination


19. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.
Minimalism
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 symbolism of shape.
sterile anonymity


20. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.
Spanish Civil War.
Bettye Saar
Inca
movement and speed


21. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:
narration
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
his modernity and break with the past.
Olmec


22. 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
individuality.
Lord Pakal
Bettye Saar


23. Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to:
Donatello's.
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
the Medici family.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans


24. 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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25. 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:
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.
the Baroque eroticized.
Aztec
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.


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

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27. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.
Neoplatonism
individuality.
his modernity and break with the past.
Guernica


28. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT
rigid style.
individuality.
it is not known which culture built it
Donatello's.


29. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:
movement and speed
individuality.
Donatello's.
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.


30. The urge to rebel against the norm lost its impact when such rebellion _______ the norm in most Western cultures.
the Medici family.
became
Teotihuacan
Plato; Aristotle.


31. 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.
Paul Cazanne
Spanish Civil War.
Cindy Sherman
became


32. Which of the following is a unique function of Inca textiles?
muralists - Mexican Revolution
the Medici family.
'Wild Beasts'
for armor


33. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.
Maya cosmology
blood
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
Minimalism


34. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
the sensuousness of light and color.
the Tree of Life
blood


35. Vernacular architecture - like that in Tijuana - with cast-off materials scavenged from dumpyards serving as walls - fences - structures - and roofs is important to this young architect.
El Greco.
utilitarianism
Teddy Cruz
he sculpted nude figures


36. Creating a work densely packed with information concerns most postmodern artists more than _______.
the personality of the sitter.
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
eternal beauty or shock value
Gustave Courbet.


37. The Realist movement (p. 489) was influenced by many ideas and worldviews including:

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

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39. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.
shield
Minimalism and Pop Art.
color
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)


40. 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
the personality of the sitter.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
Quetzalcoatl


41. _______ - the Aztec goddess of life and death is recognizable in the culture's art by her necklace of human hearts - severed hands and skull.
Coatlicue
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Maya cosmology
Caravaggio


42. On the relief carving on the lid of his sarcophagus - Pakal is depicted falling off the Wacah Chan - _______.
military engineer and weapons-designer
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
Palenque
the Tree of Life


43. The Incas are well known for their __________ construction - as can be witnessed in Machu Picchu.
250.
shield
masonry
Dada


44. What is the subject matter of most Impressionist painting?
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
art that is about the process of painting.
Olmec


45. Angelica Kauffmann painted in the _______ style (p. 481) - which was based on Greek and Roman models.
Neoclassical
narration
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.


46. Angelica Kauffmann painted in the _______ style (p. 481) - which was based on Greek and Roman models.
Cindy Sherman
Olmec
La Venta
Neoclassical


47. Thaodore Garicault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?
became
Surrealism
Romanticism
more of their African identity in their works


48. 'Postmodernism' has been defined in part as:
garbage
Minimalism
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
cultural and personal identity


49. Vik Muniz's Atlas (Carlao) was created by arranging_______ on his studio floor - photographing the arrangement - then painting from the photograph.
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
Mannerism.
garbage
250.


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

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