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Art Appreciation

Subject : art
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1. 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.






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






3. The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse is:






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






5. The artist Andra Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of 'resolution between these two states - dream and reality.' What was this movement?






6. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?






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






8. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.






9. In addition to the sophisticated stone masonry that built Machu Picchu - the Inca also engineered over _______ through their mountainous empire - allowing messages to be transported throughout the empire in less than one week.






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






11. Romanticism can best be described as:


12. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.






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






14. Creating a work densely packed with information concerns most postmodern artists more than _______.






15. Diego Rivera - David Siquieros - and Jose Clemente Orozco formed a new school of _______ inspired by the intense nationalism following the _______.






16. Coatlicue (p. 465) is a major _______ deity.






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






18. Great Serpent Mound is an example of a(n) _______.






19. Angelica Kauffmann painted in the _______ style (p. 481) - which was based on Greek and Roman models.






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






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


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






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






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


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






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






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






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






29. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:






30. 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.






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






32. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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


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






40. In the 1330s - Petrarch (p. 452) conceived of a philosophy that emphasized the value of the individual and the pursuit and study of classical languages - literature - history - and philosophy. Today we call these disciplines the:






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






42. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.






43. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?






44. Like many contemporary sculptors - Kiki Smith - as seen in her Ice Man - seems to be asking questions about:






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






46. 'Postmodernism' has been defined in part as:






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


48. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.






49. This artist reflects on identity and cultural heritage in works such as Petroglyph Park.






50. 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.