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Art Appreciation

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1. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT
Minimalism
rigid style.
masonry
utilitarianism

2. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
became
talud-tablero
rope bridges

3. Creating a work densely packed with information concerns most postmodern artists more than _______.
the Medici family.
eternal beauty or shock value
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
sterile anonymity

4. The sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini created Ecstasy of St. Theresa - a centerpiece of a chapel in Rome. It is typical of which style?
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
Baroque
abstract

5. In What aspect of the twentieth century were Umberto Boccioni and other Futurist artists most interested?
movement and speed
Greek and Roman sculpture.
Georges Braque.
Olmec

6. In works such as Olympia - realist painter Edouard Manet was denying traditional painting style and drawing attention to:
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
his modernity and break with the past.
rigid style.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)

7. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?
Cindy Sherman
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
Frank Gehry
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings

8. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?

9. Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?
mosaics
Raphael's School of Athens
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
Inca

10. Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigae-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.
cultural and personal identity
it is not known which culture built it
became
Baroque

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

12. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.
the symbolism of shape.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
Autosacrifice
quipu

13. What is the subject matter of most Impressionist painting?
German Expressionism.
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
Learning from Las Vegas
masonry

14. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
humanities.
the ancient caves at Ajanta

15. Great Serpent Mound is an example of a(n) _______.
the Chinese emperor.
eternal beauty or shock value
Donatello's.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)

16. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.
Large stone temple complexes
Donatello's.
Dada
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures

17. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.
muralists - Mexican Revolution
objectivity of the camera.
quipu
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.

18. The style of Burial of Count Orgaz is highly eclectic and individual. The artist is:
El Greco.
shield
Dada
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans

19. Using her work to struggle with the question of identity - this photographer's images are self-portraits.
the ancient caves at Ajanta
Autosacrifice
Cindy Sherman
the Baroque eroticized.

20. The Incas are well known for their __________ construction - as can be witnessed in Machu Picchu.
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.
masonry
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
German Expressionism.

21. Creating a work densely packed with information concerns most postmodern artists more than _______.
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
eternal beauty or shock value
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.

22. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:
Dada
Aztec
glyphs
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.

23. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
epicanthic fold
Valdivia

24. ______ - 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.
Teotihuacan
Baroque
Gustave Courbet.
Cindy Sherman

25. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
masonry
cultural and personal identity
quipu

26. 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
'Wild Beasts'
Teddy Cruz
individuality.
epicanthic fold

27. Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality - Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies the _______ movement.
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
Dada
Minimalism and Pop Art.
Futurism

28. In Mesoamerican cultures - sacrificial _______ was seen as nourishment of the earth in its capacity of creator of life.
Georges Braque.
Bettye Saar
German Expressionism.
blood

29. Chari Samba's Probla
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Olmec
domination

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

31. Rejecting the frenetic approach of Pollock and de Kooning - Mark Rotho's Abstract Expressionist pantings convey a _______ - not _______space.
Maya cosmology
Paul Cazanne.
it is not known which culture built it
meditative - active

32. Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of:
German Expressionism.
Quetzalcoatl
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)

33. 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.
Spanish Civil War.
form.
narration
Cindy Sherman

34. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
form.
he sculpted nude figures
individuality.
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.

35. 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
Learning from Las Vegas
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
epicanthic fold
meditative - active

36. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?
'cast shadows'
Fauvism.
Baroque
Paul Cazanne

37. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.
it is not known which culture built it
sterile anonymity
virtue.
for armor

38. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:
muralists - Mexican Revolution
Minimalism
Cindy Sherman
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.

39. Images such as View of Suzhou reveal the 18th century Chinese interest in__________.
epicanthic fold
Teotihuacan
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
abstract

40. 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
Quetzalcoatl
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
Learning from Las Vegas
Paul Cazanne.

41. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
250.
Fragonard's Bathers
Paul Gauguin.

42. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.
Lord Pakal
El Greco.
it is not known which culture built it
Paul Gauguin.

43. Thaodore Garicault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?
Donatello's.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
Romanticism
the Medici family.

44. In his painting - Probla
Dr. Strangelove
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
'cast shadows'
it is not known which culture built it

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

46. In his painting - Probla
Caravaggio
narration
Donatello's.
Paul Gauguin.

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

48. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.
shield
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.

49. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.
Autosacrifice
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
Gustave Courbet.

50. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:
the Baroque eroticized.
Paul Cazanne
individuality.
Spanish Civil War.