Art Appreciation

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1. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.
Fauvism.
Paul Cazanne
sterile anonymity
became


2. The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse is:
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Fauvism.
Lord Pakal
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle


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

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4. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
Minimalism and Pop Art.
he sculpted nude figures
La Venta
Plato; Aristotle.


5. Mayan civilization (p. 464) reached its peak in Southern Mexico and Guatemala around:
'Wild Beasts'
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
Minimalism and Pop Art.
250.


6. Michelangelo's painting The Last Judgment (p. 468) - for the Sistine Chapel - typifies a style that came to be known as:
meditative - active
for armor
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
Mannerism.


7. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.
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.
Thomas Jefferson
Lord Pakal
for armor


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

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9. In School of Athens - Raphael represents the two significant schools of philosophy - signified by the portrayal of _______ and ________ in the center of the composition.
Dr. Strangelove
Cindy Sherman
glyphs
Plato; Aristotle.


10. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.
Neoplatonism
shield
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
the symbolism of shape.


11. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:
individuality.
ironies of modern political life
for armor
military engineer and weapons-designer


12. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?
Olmec
the notion of the sublime
meditative - active
mosaics


13. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra

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14. What sets northern European artists (p. 454) apart from most artists of the Italian Renaissance is their interest in:
Romanticism
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
muralists - Mexican Revolution
Mining the Museum


15. 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.
ironies of modern political life
Plato; Aristotle.
local - arbitrary
Navajo


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.
the notion of the sublime
Quetzalcoatl
Teotihuacan
Neoclassical


17. This artist reflects on identity and cultural heritage in works such as Petroglyph Park.
'cast shadows'
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Neoplatonism
Paul Cazanne


18. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.
color
'cast shadows'
Valdivia
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.


19. Freed from the rigidity of modernism - architects such as _______ have liberated structural walls - using three-dimensional computer modeling to make these new shapes possible.
'cast shadows'
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
Frank Gehry
for armor


20. Thaodore Garicault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?
1980s
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Romanticism
talud-tablero


21. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
Learning from Las Vegas
garbage
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden


22. 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
shapes
domination
military engineer and weapons-designer
German Expressionism.


23. Mayan civilization (p. 464) reached its peak in Southern Mexico and Guatemala around:
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
250.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith


24. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
puma
Manet's Olympia
Lord Pakal


25. One of most important - best preserved and extensively studied Mayan cities is _______.
Palenque
talud-tablero
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
the Chinese emperor.


26. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.
Donatello's.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
narration
it is not known which culture built it


27. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?
more of their African identity in their works
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
objectivity of the camera.


28. The urge to rebel against the norm lost its impact when such rebellion _______ the norm in most Western cultures.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
became
Navajo
Thomas Jefferson


29. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:
masonry
Bettye Saar
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.


30. At La Venta - a(n) _______ site near present-day Villahermosa - Mexico - colossal heads were unearthed exhibiting what some scholars identify as fetal facial characteristics.
the Tree of Life
virtue.
Cindy Sherman
Olmec


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:
the personality of the sitter.
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
1980s
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.


32. Characteristics of postmodern photography include all of the following EXCEPT
Greek and Roman sculpture.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
objectivity of the camera.


33. The color schemes and flat patterns illustrated in Amrita Sher-Gil's The Swing were directly influenced by the Post-Impressionism of Paul Gauguin and:
the ancient caves at Ajanta
shapes
Fragonard's Bathers
the symbolism of shape.


34. Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality - Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies the _______ movement.
1980s
Dada
talud-tablero
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.


35. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca
blood
German Expressionism.
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar


36. Known for their elaborate textiles used as status symbols - the Inca also used fiber in the construction of armor and _______.
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
rope bridges
Fauvism.
garbage


37. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:
Quetzalcoatl
the Baroque eroticized.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
Inca


38. Which of these paintings is an example of Romanticism?

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39. Stylistic characteristics of Postmodern architecture include all of the following EXCEPT
Gustave Courbet.
utilitarianism
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.


40. Which of the following is a unique function of Inca textiles?
Coatlicue
Romanticism
virtue.
for armor


41. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.
the sensuousness of light and color.
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
quipu
it is not known which culture built it


42. Whose David was the first life-size nude sculpture since antiquity?

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43. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.
'Wild Beasts'
ironies of modern political life
puma
epicanthic fold


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

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45. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
Olmec
250.


46. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:
quipu
Spanish Civil War.
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


47. Marianne Nicholson's cliffside pictograph (a 'copper') represents a Northwest Native American tradition that had been suppressed through most of the 20th century - called:
the Tree of Life
the potlatch.
abstract
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.


48. Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of:
Autosacrifice
German Expressionism.
Cindy Sherman
Navajo


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

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50. As a reaction against Abstract Expressionism - Frank Stella's Empress of India exhibits the elegant - sparse content-less shape of _______.
ironies of modern political life
Minimalism
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Fauvism.