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1. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
Paul Gauguin.
Georges Braque.
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.


2. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:
Spanish Civil War.
the Chinese emperor.
Maya cosmology
Cindy Sherman


3. The artist who painted Houses at L'Estaque worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism. The artist's name is:
Autosacrifice
Caravaggio
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
Georges Braque.


4. Stylistic characteristics of Postmodern architecture include all of the following EXCEPT
utilitarianism
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Bettye Saar
movement and speed


5. 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.
shield
muralists - Mexican Revolution
Futurism
Teddy Cruz


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

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7. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
puma
Thomas Jefferson
Minimalism and Pop Art.


8. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.
Baroque
Autosacrifice
Quetzalcoatl
Minimalism


9. Chari Samba's Probla
Paul Cazanne.
shield
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.


10. Thaodore Garicault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?
Frank Gehry
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
Romanticism
Las Vegas


11. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra

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12. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.
Inca
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
glyphs
narration


13. 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
15000 miles of roads
quipu
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
epicanthic fold


14. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
Mannerism.
Paul Cazanne
1980s


15. Rejecting the frenetic approach of Pollock and de Kooning - Mark Rotho's Abstract Expressionist pantings convey a _______ - not _______space.
Valdivia
meditative - active
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain


16. The Rococo style (pp. 479-480) has been characterized as:
Cindy Sherman's
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
Guernica
the Baroque eroticized.


17. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?
Cindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman
military engineer and weapons-designer
Caravaggio


18. Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality - Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies the _______ movement.
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
Navajo
Dada
form.


19. Joan Mira
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
abstract
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
Paul Cazanne.


20. Which of these is an example of High Renaissance painting?

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21. Diego Rivera - David Siquieros - and Jose Clemente Orozco formed a new school of _______ inspired by the intense nationalism following the _______.
Frank Gehry
muralists - Mexican Revolution
Dada
quipu


22. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.
local - arbitrary
Teddy Cruz
Bettye Saar
it is not known which culture built it


23. Like many contemporary sculptors - Kiki Smith - as seen in her Ice Man - seems to be asking questions about:
Olmec
Surrealism
the symbolism of shape.
Cindy Sherman's


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

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25. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
Valdivia
the Chinese emperor.
rigid style.


26. A key focus of much postmodern art is _______.
Surrealism
Church's The Heart of the Andes
ironies of modern political life
Church's The Heart of the Andes


27. Which of the following is a unique function of Inca textiles?
for armor
Plato; Aristotle.
Aztec
garbage


28. Cubism can best be described as:
Cindy Sherman
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
Valdivia
art that is about the process of painting.


29. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
eternal beauty or shock value
domination
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)


30. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.
Las Vegas
movement and speed
Lord Pakal
Large stone temple complexes


31. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?
local - arbitrary
talud-tablero
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
Inca


32. Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for:
Minimalism and Pop Art.
Neoclassical
'Wild Beasts'
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.


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

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34. Which of these paintings is considered a Rococo painting?

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35. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
garbage
Cindy Sherman


36. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
color
the Baroque eroticized.
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.


37. In works such as Olympia - realist painter Edouard Manet was denying traditional painting style and drawing attention to:
Quetzalcoatl
Dr. Strangelove
his modernity and break with the past.
quipu


38. Stylistic characteristics of Postmodern architecture include all of the following EXCEPT
utilitarianism
Autosacrifice
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
Maya cosmology


39. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.
Greek and Roman sculpture.
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
Large stone temple complexes
1980s


40. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
Mining the Museum
Lord Pakal
Teddy Cruz


41. In his painting - Probla
virtue.
Teotihuacan
more of their African identity in their works
narration


42. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT
Neoclassical
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
rigid style.


43. 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
his modernity and break with the past.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
Caravaggio


44. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.
shield
the Baroque eroticized.
ironies of modern political life
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures


45. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
cultural and personal identity
Dr. Strangelove
he sculpted nude figures
the potlatch.


46. Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to:
Inca
domination
the Medici family.
puma


47. 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.
Church's The Heart of the Andes
El Greco.
it is not known which culture built it
Guernica


48. ______ - 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.
Raphael's School of Athens
Teotihuacan
Surrealism
the Chinese emperor.


49. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
Aztec
Neoplatonism
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.


50. Native American kachinas - like Buffalo Kachina (p. 494) - are:
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
Guernica
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Romanticism