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Art Appreciation

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1. 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:






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






3. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.






4. 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






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






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






7. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.






8. 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.






9. 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






10. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?






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






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






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






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






15. Chari Samba's Probla






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

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






18. 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






19. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca






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






21. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.






22. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.






23. 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.






24. As seen from the earth - _______ evokes a rabbit to some Native American cultures.






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






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






27. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.






28. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:






29. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:






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






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






32. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca






33. Images such as View of Suzhou reveal the 18th century Chinese interest in__________.






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






35. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?






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






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






38. Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of:






39. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.






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






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

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






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






44. Images such as View of Suzhou reveal the 18th century Chinese interest in__________.






45. 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:






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






47. ______ - 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.






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






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






50. _______ - the Aztec goddess of life and death is recognizable in the culture's art by her necklace of human hearts - severed hands and skull.







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