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Art Appreciation

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


2. 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:






3. Thaodore Garicault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?






4. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.






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






6. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.






7. Rejecting the frenetic approach of Pollock and de Kooning - Mark Rotho's Abstract Expressionist pantings convey a _______ - not _______space.






8. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:






9. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:






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






11. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.






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






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






14. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?


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






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






17. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:






18. The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali illustrates how he looked to his subconscious (dreams - hypnosis - psychoanalysis) for his subject matter. What artistic movement is he associated with?






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


20. The archaeological site plan of _______ shows the site's slightly west-of-north alignment - a characteristic of several Mesoamerican that may be associated with ritual processions.






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






22. What is the subject matter of most Impressionist painting?






23. 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.






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






25. In The Green Stripe (Madame Matisse) - Henri Matisse dispensed with the use of _______ color in favor of _______ color to explore the expressive possibilities of color.






26. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.






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






28. The _______ included in panels of Maya relief carvings and ceramics decoration aide in their interpretation.






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






30. Diego Rivera - David Siquieros - and Jose Clemente Orozco formed a new school of _______ inspired by the intense nationalism following the _______.






31. The Incas are well known for their __________ construction - as can be witnessed in Machu Picchu.






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






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






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






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






36. Yasumasu Morimura's Portrait (Twins) appropriates the imagery of _______ to illustrate Japanese culture as slave to the dominant (male) forces of Western society.


37. Creating a work densely packed with information concerns most postmodern artists more than _______.






38. Cubism can best be described as:






39. Thaodore Garicault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?






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






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






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






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






44. What is the story behind Gericault's Raft of the Medusa?


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






46. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca






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






48. Diego Rivera - David Siquieros - and Jose Clemente Orozco formed a new school of _______ inspired by the intense nationalism following the _______.






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






50. Romanticist artists - like Frederic Edwin Church - viewed nature as: