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Art Appreciation
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1. 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.
Baroque
Pyramid of the Sun
Teddy Cruz
abstract
2. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?
Gustave Courbet.
puma
mosaics
Paul Gauguin.
3. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
Baroque
Donatello's.
Mannerism.
4. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:
Navajo
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
quipu
puma
5. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:
Manet's Olympia
David's The Death of Marat
more of their African identity in their works
Paul Cazanne
6. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.
quipu
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
humanities.
7. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.
Raphael's School of Athens
Bettye Saar
form.
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
8. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Pyramid of the Sun
the personality of the sitter.
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
9. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT
domination
Manet's Olympia
rigid style.
virtue.
10. Chari Samba's Probla
local - arbitrary
Learning from Las Vegas
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
talud-tablero
11. A key focus of much postmodern art is _______.
humanities.
masonry
ironies of modern political life
Frank Gehry
12. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.
Maya cosmology
Baroque
the Baroque eroticized.
David's The Death of Marat
13. Mayan civilization (p. 464) reached its peak in Southern Mexico and Guatemala around:
250.
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
the Baroque eroticized.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
14. This artist of The Large Bathers pushed toward an idea of painting that established for the work an independent existence:
Paul Cazanne.
the Medici family.
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
narration
15. The Cubists freed painting from the necessity of representing the world in order to dwell on:
form.
Minimalism
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
the notion of the sublime
16. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.
shield
blood
abstract
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
17. The sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini created Ecstasy of St. Theresa - a centerpiece of a chapel in Rome. It is typical of which style?
Inca
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
250.
Baroque
18. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.
color
mosaics
the Tree of Life
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
19. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.
Olmec
meditative - active
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
Inca
20. Native American kachinas - like Buffalo Kachina (p. 494) - are:
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
form.
21. Angelica Kauffmann painted in the _______ style (p. 481) - which was based on Greek and Roman models.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
sterile anonymity
Neoclassical
22. _______ photos quote satirically the stereotypes of women in popular film - recycling them as a uniquely pure form of postmodernism.
23. The Incas are well known for their __________ construction - as can be witnessed in Machu Picchu.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
color
masonry
1980s
24. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:
Georges Braque.
for armor
Las Vegas
the Chinese emperor.
25. Romanticism can best be described as:
26. 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.
Inca
Futurism
local - arbitrary
Dr. Strangelove
27. 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
Cindy Sherman
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
'cast shadows'
28. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?
Caravaggio
Raphael's School of Athens
utilitarianism
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
29. Stylistic characteristics of Postmodern architecture include all of the following EXCEPT
Pyramid of the Sun
Neoclassical
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
utilitarianism
30. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.
the potlatch.
Greek and Roman sculpture.
the notion of the sublime
Lord Pakal
31. Rejecting the frenetic approach of Pollock and de Kooning - Mark Rotho's Abstract Expressionist pantings convey a _______ - not _______space.
military engineer and weapons-designer
Autosacrifice
geoglyphs
meditative - active
32. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:
Cindy Sherman
Romanticism
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
Pyramid of the Sun
33. In the Aztec culture - sacrifices of prisoners-of-war from neighboring peoples were necessary to honor and re-create the sacrifice of _______ in ancient times (Teotihuaca
1980s
Thomas Jefferson
Quetzalcoatl
glyphs
34. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
Pyramid of the Sun
'cast shadows'
Inca
35. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:
glyphs
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
Dada
virtue.
36. Diego Rivera - David Siquieros - and Jose Clemente Orozco formed a new school of _______ inspired by the intense nationalism following the _______.
muralists - Mexican Revolution
Cindy Sherman
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
250.
37. What sets northern European artists (p. 454) apart from most artists of the Italian Renaissance is their interest in:
Manet's Olympia
'cast shadows'
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
38. Which of these paintings is an example of Neo-classical art?
39. Leonardo was as known in his time for his work as a(n) ____________ -as much for his work as an artist.
Surrealism
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
ironies of modern political life
military engineer and weapons-designer
40. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.
'Wild Beasts'
Cindy Sherman
Baroque
Navajo
41. 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.
sterile anonymity
Olmec
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
42. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:
Paul Cazanne
David's The Death of Marat
rope bridges
Greek and Roman sculpture.
43. Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigae-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.
Baroque
Thomas Jefferson
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
German Expressionism.
44. Her untitled photographic self-portraits - posed with props in scenes corresponding to female characters in popular culture - are performances that allow _______ to address the ways in which culture views women.
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
meditative - active
Cindy Sherman
45. Yasumasu Morimura's Portrait (Twins) appropriates the imagery of _______ to illustrate Japanese culture as slave to the dominant (male) forces of Western society.
46. The two major art movements of the 1960s were:
Minimalism and Pop Art.
250.
Pyramid of the Sun
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
47. The three _______ made of serpentine at the Olmec site of La Venta are unusual; they were not meant to be seen as they were buried soon after completion.
mosaics
Paul Gauguin.
talud-tablero
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
48. Which of these paintings is considered a Rococo painting?
49. Freed from the rigidity of modernism - architects such as _______ have liberated structural walls - using three-dimensional computer modeling to make these new shapes possible.
'Wild Beasts'
Frank Gehry
German Expressionism.
Lord Pakal
50. Which of the following is a unique function of Inca textiles?
color
for armor
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
Frank Gehry