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Art Appreciation

Subject : art
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1. Whose David was the first life-size nude sculpture since antiquity?


2. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:






3. _______ 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.






4. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.






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






6. Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality - Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies the _______ movement.






7. Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality - Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies the _______ movement.






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






9. Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?






10. Vik Muniz's Atlas (Carlao) was created by arranging_______ on his studio floor - photographing the arrangement - then painting from the photograph.






11. 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:






12. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?


13. Angelica Kauffmann painted in the _______ style (p. 481) - which was based on Greek and Roman models.






14. Great Serpent Mound is an example of a(n) _______.






15. Fred Wilson's exhibit for the Maryland Historical Society made the point that the Historical Society:






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






17. Which of these is an example of Dada art?


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


19. Mesoamerican cultures believed that humans first emerged from a hole in the ground now situated under the _______.






20. ______ - 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.






21. ______ - 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.






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






23. 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.






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






25. 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






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






27. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:






28. Mayan civilization (p. 464) reached its peak in Southern Mexico and Guatemala around:






29. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:






30. The short-lived Nazca culture in present-day Peru is known primarily for its _______.






31. Joan Mira






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


33. The artist who painted Houses at L'Estaque worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism. The artist's name is:






34. Leonardo was as known in his time for his work as a(n) ____________ -as much for his work as an artist.






35. In Mesoamerican cultures - sacrificial _______ was seen as nourishment of the earth in its capacity of creator of life.






36. In his painting - Probla






37. This artist of The Large Bathers pushed toward an idea of painting that established for the work an independent existence:






38. In Mesoamerican cultures - sacrificial _______ was seen as nourishment of the earth in its capacity of creator of life.






39. This artist reflects on identity and cultural heritage in works such as Petroglyph Park.






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


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






42. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:






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


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






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






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


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






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






49. In addition to the sophisticated stone masonry that built Machu Picchu - the Inca also engineered over _______ through their mountainous empire - allowing messages to be transported throughout the empire in less than one week.






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