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Art Appreciation

Subject : art
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1. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:






2. Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigae-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.






3. Romanticism can best be described as:


4. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:






5. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.






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


7. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:






8. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.






9. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?






10. Freed from the rigidity of modernism - architects such as _______ have liberated structural walls - using three-dimensional computer modeling to make these new shapes possible.






11. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?






12. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?






13. Which of these paintings is an example of Neo-classical art?


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


15. Coatlicue (p. 465) is a major _______ deity.






16. The Incas are well known for their __________ construction - as can be witnessed in Machu Picchu.






17. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.






18. Henri Matisse was a leader of early 20th century artists who felt free to use color 'arbitrarily' and were labeled - derogatorily - 'Fauves' - which translates __________.


19. 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.






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


21. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.






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






23. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.






24. The two major art movements of the 1960s were:






25. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.






26. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.






27. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?






28. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:






29. Which of these paintings is an example of Neo-classical art?


30. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:






31. Consummate empire builders - the _______ arose from humble beginnings as a displaced tribe to commanding rulers of a vast network of luxury tributes from millions of people over a large geographic area in a 300-year period.






32. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:






33. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:






34. The artist Andra Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of 'resolution between these two states - dream and reality.' What was this movement?






35. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca






36. The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse is:






37. In his painting - Probla






38. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?






39. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:






40. 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:






41. Known for their elaborate textiles used as status symbols - the Inca also used fiber in the construction of armor and _______.






42. Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of:






43. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT






44. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.






45. 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:






46. 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?






47. The artist Andra Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of 'resolution between these two states - dream and reality.' What was this movement?






48. 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.






49. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.






50. Using her work to struggle with the question of identity - this photographer's images are self-portraits.