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Art Appreciation
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1. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.
puma
Dada
utilitarianism
Neoplatonism
2. In Mesoamerican cultures - sacrificial _______ was seen as nourishment of the earth in its capacity of creator of life.
blood
La Venta
Romanticism
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
3. From 960 until 1279 - during the Song Dynasty - (p. 447) Taoists in China emphasized the importance of self-expression. Their most important state positions were held by:
color
Pyramid of the Sun
epicanthic fold
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
4. _______ are characteristic of Maya architecture - suggesting priests/rulers had great power.
Plato; Aristotle.
Caravaggio
Dr. Strangelove
Large stone temple complexes
5. 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.
movement and speed
Cindy Sherman
Guernica
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
6. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.
the symbolism of shape.
Large stone temple complexes
sterile anonymity
Minimalism
7. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.
for armor
Inca
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
8. 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.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
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.
Greek and Roman sculpture.
9. Yasumasu Morimura's Portrait (Twins) appropriates the imagery of _______ to illustrate Japanese culture as slave to the dominant (male) forces of Western society.
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10. Native American kachinas - like Buffalo Kachina (p. 494) - are:
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
David's The Death of Marat
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
the Medici family.
11. Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to:
the Medici family.
Aztec
Learning from Las Vegas
local - arbitrary
12. Which of these paintings is considered an Abstract Expressionist painting?
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13. 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
Aztec
his modernity and break with the past.
rope bridges
domination
14. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?
glyphs
Valdivia
the Baroque eroticized.
Paul Gauguin.
15. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.
Dr. Strangelove
muralists - Mexican Revolution
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
16. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?
David's The Death of Marat
Large stone temple complexes
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Greek and Roman sculpture.
17. _______ photos quote satirically the stereotypes of women in popular film - recycling them as a uniquely pure form of postmodernism.
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18. The short-lived Nazca culture in present-day Peru is known primarily for its _______.
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
Inca
shield
geoglyphs
19. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Bettye Saar
Baroque
Teddy Cruz
20. 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
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
Manet's Olympia
geoglyphs
domination
21. As seen from the earth - _______ evokes a rabbit to some Native American cultures.
the moon
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
Raphael's School of Athens
Inca
22. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
became
23. Cubism can best be described as:
art that is about the process of painting.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
glyphs
mosaics
24. The Post-Impressionists (p. 496) were united by their interest in:
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25. The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of Which movement?
Greek and Roman sculpture.
Romanticism
Futurism
abstract
26. _______ - the Aztec goddess of life and death is recognizable in the culture's art by her necklace of human hearts - severed hands and skull.
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.
Aztec
Coatlicue
it is not known which culture built it
27. 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.
Guernica
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
quipu
28. Great Serpent Mound is an example of a(n) _______.
narration
Maya cosmology
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
the notion of the sublime
29. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:
Cindy Sherman
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
geoglyphs
the Chinese emperor.
30. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.
Inca
epicanthic fold
Guernica
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
31. Mayan civilization (p. 464) reached its peak in Southern Mexico and Guatemala around:
250.
Fauvism.
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
Valdivia
32. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.
Surrealism
it is not known which culture built it
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
Pyramid of the Sun
33. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
meditative - active
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
talud-tablero
Thomas Jefferson
34. Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
Baroque
El Greco.
Teotihuacan
35. What sets northern European artists (p. 454) apart from most artists of the Italian Renaissance is their interest in:
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
Georges Braque.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
Teotihuacan
36. Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
military engineer and weapons-designer
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
narration
37. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?
the sensuousness of light and color.
Quetzalcoatl
quipu
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
38. The two major art movements of the 1960s were:
'cast shadows'
Minimalism and Pop Art.
Inca
Maya cosmology
39. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.
Maya cosmology
art that is about the process of painting.
Church's The Heart of the Andes
Manet's Olympia
40. Diego Rivera - David Siquieros - and Jose Clemente Orozco formed a new school of _______ inspired by the intense nationalism following the _______.
rigid style.
muralists - Mexican Revolution
Fragonard's Bathers
virtue.
41. Stylistic characteristics of Postmodern architecture include all of the following EXCEPT
utilitarianism
military engineer and weapons-designer
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
Navajo
42. Angelica Kauffmann painted in the _______ style (p. 481) - which was based on Greek and Roman models.
mosaics
Navajo
Minimalism and Pop Art.
Neoclassical
43. Which of the following is a unique function of Inca textiles?
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
masonry
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
for armor
44. Which of these paintings is considered a Rococo painting?
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45. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?
Aztec
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
virtue.
the notion of the sublime
46. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:
Inca
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
form.
the Chinese emperor.
47. The style of Burial of Count Orgaz is highly eclectic and individual. The artist is:
Pyramid of the Sun
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
meditative - active
El Greco.
48. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:
ironies of modern political life
individuality.
Learning from Las Vegas
Aztec
49. Thaodore Garicault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
Teddy Cruz
garbage
Romanticism
50. What is the story behind Gericault's Raft of the Medusa?
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