Art Appreciation

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


2. 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:
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.
Surrealism
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
El Greco.


3. As a reaction against Abstract Expressionism - Frank Stella's Empress of India exhibits the elegant - sparse content-less shape of _______.
Minimalism
David's The Death of Marat
15000 miles of roads
Caravaggio


4. Stylistic characteristics of Postmodern architecture include all of the following EXCEPT
Pyramid of the Sun
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
utilitarianism
the moon


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?
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
the symbolism of shape.
Dada
Surrealism


6. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:
virtue.
the notion of the sublime
Greek and Roman sculpture.
Maya cosmology


7. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.
Baroque
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Inca
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.


8. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?
Learning from Las Vegas
talud-tablero
Georges Braque.
Inca


9. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
objectivity of the camera.
Paul Gauguin.


10. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.
puma
the notion of the sublime
Inca
'Wild Beasts'


11. Angelica Kauffmann painted in the _______ style (p. 481) - which was based on Greek and Roman models.
Neoclassical
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
virtue.
rigid style.


12. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?
Paul Cazanne
his modernity and break with the past.
Paul Cazanne.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.


13. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.
Dr. Strangelove
shield
the Chinese emperor.
the Baroque eroticized.


14. The urge to rebel against the norm lost its impact when such rebellion _______ the norm in most Western cultures.
became
Church's The Heart of the Andes
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
cultural and personal identity


15. 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.
El Greco.
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Guernica


16. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.
Las Vegas
Pyramid of the Sun
Autosacrifice
Navajo


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

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18. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:
virtue.
Futurism
art that is about the process of painting.
became


19. Romanticism can best be described as:

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20. 'Postmodernism' has been defined in part as:
garbage
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
the Medici family.
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.


21. Vik Muniz's Atlas (Carlao) was created by arranging_______ on his studio floor - photographing the arrangement - then painting from the photograph.
art that is about the process of painting.
garbage
his modernity and break with the past.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.


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.
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
the Baroque eroticized.
shapes
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.


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

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24. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.
quipu
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
Surrealism
it is not known which culture built it


25. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Caravaggio
Bettye Saar


26. 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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27. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
talud-tablero
muralists - Mexican Revolution
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar


28. Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigae-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.
Pyramid of the Sun
Baroque
Caravaggio
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures


29. From the traditions of most cultures - leadership and shamanism went hand-in-hand. Successful leaders mediated between the spiritual and physical worlds to assure the survival of their peoples. This mediation characteristically involved rites all of
domination
geoglyphs
the Tree of Life
Church's The Heart of the Andes


30. 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.
15000 miles of roads
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Dada
Valdivia


31. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.
rope bridges
Minimalism
the moon
Neoplatonism


32. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra

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33. 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
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
Navajo
Teddy Cruz


34. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?
Aztec
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
his modernity and break with the past.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden


35. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:
the ancient caves at Ajanta
Aztec
the sensuousness of light and color.
German Expressionism.


36. Joan Mira
abstract
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Futurism
movement and speed


37. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.
color
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
mosaics
Aztec


38. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?
Paul Cazanne
Plato; Aristotle.
Maya cosmology
Dada


39. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?
Gustave Courbet.
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
Aztec


40. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca
Aztec
Cindy Sherman
meditative - active
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar


41. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.
narration
Inca
the ancient caves at Ajanta
El Greco.


42. What is the subject matter of most Impressionist painting?
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
garbage
El Greco.
for armor


43. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.
it is not known which culture built it
movement and speed
Teddy Cruz
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.


44. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.
it is not known which culture built it
rigid style.
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
the moon


45. 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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46. Fred Wilson's exhibit for the Maryland Historical Society made the point that the Historical Society:
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Guernica
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.


47. Thaodore Garicault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?
'cast shadows'
Lord Pakal
Romanticism
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette


48. Cubism can best be described as:
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
art that is about the process of painting.
Donatello's.
Maya cosmology


49. Like many contemporary sculptors - Kiki Smith - as seen in her Ice Man - seems to be asking questions about:
became
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
ironies of modern political life
the symbolism of shape.


50. Freed from the rigidity of modernism - architects such as _______ have liberated structural walls - using three-dimensional computer modeling to make these new shapes possible.
Frank Gehry
Coatlicue
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.