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Art Appreciation
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1. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?
the personality of the sitter.
art that is about the process of painting.
the notion of the sublime
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
2. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
blood
sterile anonymity
narration
3. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.
Fauvism.
the Tree of Life
color
Olmec
4. Whose David was the first life-size nude sculpture since antiquity?
5. Romanticism can best be described as:
6. Diego Rivera - David Siquieros - and Jose Clemente Orozco formed a new school of _______ inspired by the intense nationalism following the _______.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
muralists - Mexican Revolution
Valdivia
quipu
7. Like many contemporary sculptors - Kiki Smith - as seen in her Ice Man - seems to be asking questions about:
Mining the Museum
German Expressionism.
Surrealism
the symbolism of shape.
8. Because of the diversity and plurality of postmodernism - many contemporary artists address the issues of _______ in their work.
cultural and personal identity
art that is about the process of painting.
Aztec
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
9. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
Navajo
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Pyramid of the Sun
10. Mesoamerican cultures believed that humans first emerged from a hole in the ground now situated under the _______.
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
Pyramid of the Sun
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
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.
11. The style of Burial of Count Orgaz is highly eclectic and individual. The artist is:
Frank Gehry
El Greco.
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
Spanish Civil War.
12. The Incas are well known for their __________ construction - as can be witnessed in Machu Picchu.
meditative - active
masonry
Gustave Courbet.
Donatello's.
13. Vik Muniz's Atlas (Carlao) was created by arranging_______ on his studio floor - photographing the arrangement - then painting from the photograph.
Raphael's School of Athens
garbage
Aztec
blood
14. _______ are characteristic of Maya architecture - suggesting priests/rulers had great power.
the personality of the sitter.
Navajo
Large stone temple complexes
meditative - active
15. _______ are characteristic of Maya architecture - suggesting priests/rulers had great power.
Dr. Strangelove
Large stone temple complexes
Frank Gehry
Learning from Las Vegas
16. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.
Inca
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Autosacrifice
art that is about the process of painting.
17. What is the story behind Gericault's Raft of the Medusa?
18. The Incas are well known for their __________ construction - as can be witnessed in Machu Picchu.
masonry
Thomas Jefferson
the sensuousness of light and color.
Fragonard's Bathers
19. Romanticism can best be described as:
20. In the 1330s - Petrarch (p. 452) conceived of a philosophy that emphasized the value of the individual and the pursuit and study of classical languages - literature - history - and philosophy. Today we call these disciplines the:
Futurism
abstract
humanities.
muralists - Mexican Revolution
21. Which of these paintings is considered a Rococo painting?
22. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:
his modernity and break with the past.
Greek and Roman sculpture.
glyphs
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
23. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.
Inca
local - arbitrary
Minimalism and Pop Art.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
24. In his painting - Probla
Dr. Strangelove
he sculpted nude figures
art that is about the process of painting.
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
25. The Post-Impressionists (p. 496) were united by their interest in:
26. 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.
Thomas Jefferson
15000 miles of roads
he sculpted nude figures
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
27. Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for:
ironies of modern political life
250.
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.
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
28. 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.
humanities.
La Venta
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
abstract
29. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:
abstract
the potlatch.
Quetzalcoatl
more of their African identity in their works
30. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
Inca
the symbolism of shape.
Gustave Courbet.
31. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:
Cindy Sherman's
Navajo
Maya cosmology
Spanish Civil War.
32. 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:
Cindy Sherman
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
the Tree of Life
Gustave Courbet.
33. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
masonry
Frank Gehry
shield
34. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.
Aztec
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
Valdivia
muralists - Mexican Revolution
35. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.
Las Vegas
Autosacrifice
Dr. Strangelove
Greek and Roman sculpture.
36. What is the story behind Gericault's Raft of the Medusa?
37. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:
Mining the Museum
Raphael's School of Athens
the personality of the sitter.
Learning from Las Vegas
38. Stylistic characteristics of Postmodern architecture include all of the following EXCEPT
domination
utilitarianism
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
Spanish Civil War.
39. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
Palenque
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
Paul Cazanne.
40. Angelica Kauffmann painted in the _______ style (p. 481) - which was based on Greek and Roman models.
Cindy Sherman's
for armor
Neoclassical
military engineer and weapons-designer
41. One of most important - best preserved and extensively studied Mayan cities is _______.
Palenque
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
the potlatch.
military engineer and weapons-designer
42. 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:
Dr. Strangelove
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.
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
Manet's Olympia
43. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
Cindy Sherman
Las Vegas
44. Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?
Inca
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
David's The Death of Marat
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
45. 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.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Neoplatonism
La Venta
Baroque
46. The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse is:
the ancient caves at Ajanta
rope bridges
Fauvism.
form.
47. Which of these paintings is an example of Romanticism?
48. Great Serpent Mound is an example of a(n) _______.
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Aztec
Las Vegas
49. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.
it is not known which culture built it
military engineer and weapons-designer
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
50. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Raphael's School of Athens
Coatlicue
eternal beauty or shock value