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Art Appreciation

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

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






3. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.






4. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.






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






6. As a reaction against Abstract Expressionism - Frank Stella's Empress of India exhibits the elegant - sparse content-less shape of _______.






7. Like many contemporary sculptors - Kiki Smith - as seen in her Ice Man - seems to be asking questions about:






8. 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:






9. The Cubists freed painting from the necessity of representing the world in order to dwell on:






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

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






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






13. In works such as Olympia - realist painter Edouard Manet was denying traditional painting style and drawing attention to:






14. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:






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






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






17. The style of Burial of Count Orgaz is highly eclectic and individual. The artist is:






18. Cubism can best be described as:






19. 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.






20. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?






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






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






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






24. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.






25. Stylistic characteristics of Postmodern architecture include all of the following EXCEPT






26. In What aspect of the twentieth century were Umberto Boccioni and other Futurist artists most interested?






27. _______ may be tasteless and tacky but the public revels in it - a point Robert Venturi stresses in his book which opened the door to postmodern architecture.






28. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?






29. Chari Samba's Probla






30. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?






31. In his painting - Probla






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

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






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

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35. Like many contemporary sculptors - Kiki Smith - as seen in her Ice Man - seems to be asking questions about:






36. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:






37. 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






38. A leading painter in the Realist movement - the artist of Burial at Ornans declared that 'painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the presentation of real and existing things.' The artist is:






39. 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.






40. A leading painter in the Realist movement - the artist of Burial at Ornans declared that 'painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the presentation of real and existing things.' The artist is:






41. The Rococo style (pp. 479-480) has been characterized as:






42. 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






43. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:






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






45. Marianne Nicholson's cliffside pictograph (a 'copper') represents a Northwest Native American tradition that had been suppressed through most of the 20th century - called:






46. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?






47. Characteristics of postmodern photography include all of the following EXCEPT






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






49. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?






50. Michelangelo's painting The Last Judgment (p. 468) - for the Sistine Chapel - typifies a style that came to be known as: