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Art Appreciation
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1. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
Romanticism
the moon
2. 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.
for armor
Cindy Sherman
utilitarianism
shapes
3. Leonardo was as known in his time for his work as a(n) ____________ -as much for his work as an artist.
eternal beauty or shock value
military engineer and weapons-designer
the notion of the sublime
the personality of the sitter.
4. Creating a work densely packed with information concerns most postmodern artists more than _______.
the moon
movement and speed
eternal beauty or shock value
Maya cosmology
5. Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality - Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies the _______ movement.
Dada
Surrealism
the sensuousness of light and color.
Georges Braque.
6. Because of the diversity and plurality of postmodernism - many contemporary artists address the issues of _______ in their work.
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
cultural and personal identity
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
Teotihuacan
7. The two major art movements of the 1960s were:
Minimalism and Pop Art.
Aztec
Raphael's School of Athens
glyphs
8. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:
narration
Surrealism
Paul Cazanne
the Chinese emperor.
9. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.
Navajo
more of their African identity in their works
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
Quetzalcoatl
10. 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?
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
Surrealism
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
Neoplatonism
11. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.
narration
Maya cosmology
Teotihuacan
Aztec
12. 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.
domination
local - arbitrary
Navajo
Inca
13. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:
El Greco.
'Wild Beasts'
Spanish Civil War.
Mannerism.
14. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?
rope bridges
Baroque
Caravaggio
the Tree of Life
15. Which of these is an example of Baroque painting?
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16. Great Serpent Mound is an example of a(n) _______.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Fragonard's Bathers
he sculpted nude figures
Paul Gauguin.
17. Stylistic characteristics of Postmodern architecture include all of the following EXCEPT
local - arbitrary
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
utilitarianism
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
18. Mayan civilization (p. 464) reached its peak in Southern Mexico and Guatemala around:
rigid style.
Donatello's.
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.
250.
19. 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.
Teddy Cruz
the notion of the sublime
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
Minimalism
20. 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:
masonry
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
Futurism
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
21. Like many contemporary sculptors - Kiki Smith - as seen in her Ice Man - seems to be asking questions about:
the symbolism of shape.
the ancient caves at Ajanta
Surrealism
1980s
22. A key focus of much postmodern art is _______.
Teotihuacan
shield
ironies of modern political life
the moon
23. Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigae-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
Baroque
Maya cosmology
Greek and Roman sculpture.
24. 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.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
La Venta
Paul Cazanne.
250.
25. These Hopewell figures are unusual because of their depiction of the _______ - a trait that may be found in people from many different parts of Asia as well as areas from which great migrations from this cradle of civilization occurred - including th
epicanthic fold
eternal beauty or shock value
Cindy Sherman's
the symbolism of shape.
26. Mesoamerican cultures believed that humans first emerged from a hole in the ground now situated under the _______.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Pyramid of the Sun
mosaics
Autosacrifice
27. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:
Valdivia
meditative - active
Greek and Roman sculpture.
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
28. Which of these is an example of High Renaissance painting?
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29. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?
garbage
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
Paul Gauguin.
Gustave Courbet.
30. The artist Andra Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of 'resolution between these two states - dream and reality.' What was this movement?
color
Teddy Cruz
250.
Surrealism
31. 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.
Guernica
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
Coatlicue
32. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
Neoplatonism
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
Large stone temple complexes
33. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
talud-tablero
Maya cosmology
David's The Death of Marat
Las Vegas
34. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
Surrealism
it is not known which culture built it
the Baroque eroticized.
35. 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 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 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.
Romanticism
36. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.
German Expressionism.
Teddy Cruz
Bettye Saar
mosaics
37. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.
the ancient caves at Ajanta
'Wild Beasts'
Maya cosmology
for armor
38. 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.
ironies of modern political life
local - arbitrary
La Venta
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
39. The short-lived Nazca culture in present-day Peru is known primarily for its _______.
El Greco.
geoglyphs
'cast shadows'
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
40. At La Venta - a(n) _______ site near present-day Villahermosa - Mexico - colossal heads were unearthed exhibiting what some scholars identify as fetal facial characteristics.
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
objectivity of the camera.
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
Olmec
41. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.
El Greco.
Paul Cazanne.
the moon
Mining the Museum
42. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:
Cindy Sherman's
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
German Expressionism.
Fauvism.
43. Marianne Nicholson's cliffside pictograph (a 'copper') represents a Northwest Native American tradition that had been suppressed through most of the 20th century - called:
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
the potlatch.
meditative - active
44. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.
ironies of modern political life
Gustave Courbet.
color
more of their African identity in their works
45. Rejecting the frenetic approach of Pollock and de Kooning - Mark Rotho's Abstract Expressionist pantings convey a _______ - not _______space.
Navajo
it is not known which culture built it
the Medici family.
meditative - active
46. Whose David was the first life-size nude sculpture since antiquity?
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47. Diego Rivera - David Siquieros - and Jose Clemente Orozco formed a new school of _______ inspired by the intense nationalism following the _______.
muralists - Mexican Revolution
objectivity of the camera.
Aztec
eternal beauty or shock value
48. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
the Baroque eroticized.
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
49. Known for their elaborate textiles used as status symbols - the Inca also used fiber in the construction of armor and _______.
geoglyphs
Dr. Strangelove
rope bridges
Gustave Courbet.
50. Which of these is an example of Baroque painting?
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