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Art Appreciation

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1. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.
Spanish Civil War.
Autosacrifice
Futurism
Olmec

2. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.
Fauvism.
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
Baroque
poets - calligraphers - and painters.

3. Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for:
Manet's Olympia
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
the potlatch.
Teotihuacan

4. Known for their elaborate textiles used as status symbols - the Inca also used fiber in the construction of armor and _______.
Gustave Courbet.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
rope bridges
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)

5. Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigae-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.
Baroque
quipu
the ancient caves at Ajanta
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.

6. Characteristics of postmodern photography include all of the following EXCEPT
glyphs
Thomas Jefferson
objectivity of the camera.
El Greco.

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

8. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?
Paul Cazanne
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.

9. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.
the moon
utilitarianism
Bettye Saar
glyphs

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

11. The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse is:
the notion of the sublime
Raphael's School of Athens
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
Fauvism.

12. The sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini created Ecstasy of St. Theresa - a centerpiece of a chapel in Rome. It is typical of which style?
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
Paul Cazanne
Baroque
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.

13. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.
Teddy Cruz
puma
became
mosaics

14. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:
the sensuousness of light and color.
Pyramid of the Sun
El Greco.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.

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

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

17. In works such as Olympia - realist painter Edouard Manet was denying traditional painting style and drawing attention to:
color
Mannerism.
his modernity and break with the past.
more of their African identity in their works

18. 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?
blood
Surrealism
he sculpted nude figures
Paul Gauguin.

19. The Rococo style (pp. 479-480) has been characterized as:
Donatello's.
Valdivia
the Baroque eroticized.
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.

20. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?
narration
Paul Cazanne
blood
art that is about the process of painting.

21. Thaodore Garicault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?
Fauvism.
Romanticism
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
more of their African identity in their works

22. What is the subject matter of most Impressionist painting?
masonry
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain

23. The short-lived Nazca culture in present-day Peru is known primarily for its _______.
Aztec
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
geoglyphs
humanities.

24. In works such as Olympia - realist painter Edouard Manet was denying traditional painting style and drawing attention to:
individuality.
Mining the Museum
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
his modernity and break with the past.

25. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.
Neoplatonism
blood
ironies of modern political life
masonry

26. _______ are characteristic of Maya architecture - suggesting priests/rulers had great power.
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
utilitarianism
Large stone temple complexes
La Venta

27. One of most important - best preserved and extensively studied Mayan cities is _______.
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
he sculpted nude figures
puma
Palenque

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

29. In What aspect of the twentieth century were Umberto Boccioni and other Futurist artists most interested?
individuality.
Aztec
movement and speed
Minimalism and Pop Art.

30. Which of these is an example of Baroque painting?

31. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?
muralists - Mexican Revolution
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Coatlicue
Minimalism and Pop Art.

32. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?

33. Mayan civilization (p. 464) reached its peak in Southern Mexico and Guatemala around:
250.
Frank Gehry
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
the Tree of Life

34. 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
Georges Braque.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
objectivity of the camera.

35. In Mesoamerican cultures - sacrificial _______ was seen as nourishment of the earth in its capacity of creator of life.
humanities.
blood
the sensuousness of light and color.
Paul Gauguin.

36. 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
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
domination
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.

37. Great Serpent Mound is an example of a(n) _______.
'cast shadows'
form.
the potlatch.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)

38. Angelica Kauffmann painted in the _______ style (p. 481) - which was based on Greek and Roman models.
Neoclassical
Baroque
Minimalism
Navajo

39. Vik Muniz's Atlas (Carlao) was created by arranging_______ on his studio floor - photographing the arrangement - then painting from the photograph.
garbage
the moon
250.
Church's The Heart of the Andes

40. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.
Paul Gauguin.
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Guernica

41. Which of the following is a unique function of Inca textiles?
ironies of modern political life
for armor
the Baroque eroticized.
Mining the Museum

42. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.
Inca
Dr. Strangelove
Maya cosmology
Autosacrifice

43. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT
Olmec
he sculpted nude figures
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
rigid style.

44. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?

45. Joan Mira
abstract
Palenque
narration
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden

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

47. Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to:
'cast shadows'
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
geoglyphs
the Medici family.

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

49. Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigae-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.
individuality.
Church's The Heart of the Andes
Baroque
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities

50. 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?
Surrealism
he sculpted nude figures
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
it is not known which culture built it