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Art Appreciation
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1. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra
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2. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:
the moon
more of their African identity in their works
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
Teotihuacan
3. Consummate empire builders - the _______ arose from humble beginnings as a displaced tribe to commanding rulers of a vast network of luxury tributes from millions of people over a large geographic area in a 300-year period.
movement and speed
Cindy Sherman
Frank Gehry
Aztec
4. The _______ included in panels of Maya relief carvings and ceramics decoration aide in their interpretation.
ironies of modern political life
geoglyphs
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
glyphs
5. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
the ancient caves at Ajanta
individuality.
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
6. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?
narration
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Paul Gauguin.
the personality of the sitter.
7. At La Venta - a(n) _______ site near present-day Villahermosa - Mexico - colossal heads were unearthed exhibiting what some scholars identify as fetal facial characteristics.
the Chinese emperor.
El Greco.
Mining the Museum
Olmec
8. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
Paul Cazanne
Pyramid of the Sun
Autosacrifice
9. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?
garbage
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Baroque
10. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
11. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:
Dr. Strangelove
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
individuality.
the notion of the sublime
12. In What aspect of the twentieth century were Umberto Boccioni and other Futurist artists most interested?
movement and speed
Raphael's School of Athens
objectivity of the camera.
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
13. Joan Mira
1980s
Dada
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
abstract
14. 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:
it is not known which culture built it
Spanish Civil War.
Gustave Courbet.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
15. Creating a work densely packed with information concerns most postmodern artists more than _______.
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
narration
eternal beauty or shock value
16. Great Serpent Mound is an example of a(n) _______.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
local - arbitrary
individuality.
Surrealism
17. 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.
La Venta
Fauvism.
Surrealism
Teddy Cruz
18. In his painting - Probla
blood
Dr. Strangelove
Plato; Aristotle.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
19. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.
the Medici family.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Maya cosmology
Romanticism
20. Artists often find that the art they make has unintentional meaning. Georgia Papageorge's Africa Rifting: Lines of Fire: Namibia/Brazil is an example of this because:
Las Vegas
glyphs
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
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.
21. Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of:
German Expressionism.
his modernity and break with the past.
Cindy Sherman
Donatello's.
22. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:
for armor
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
the Chinese emperor.
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
23. In School of Athens - Raphael represents the two significant schools of philosophy - signified by the portrayal of _______ and ________ in the center of the composition.
abstract
shapes
Cindy Sherman
Plato; Aristotle.
24. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.
Romanticism
Valdivia
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
Manet's Olympia
25. Vernacular architecture - like that in Tijuana - with cast-off materials scavenged from dumpyards serving as walls - fences - structures - and roofs is important to this young architect.
Georges Braque.
Teddy Cruz
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
26. In works such as Olympia - realist painter Edouard Manet was denying traditional painting style and drawing attention to:
epicanthic fold
narration
his modernity and break with the past.
eternal beauty or shock value
27. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.
it is not known which culture built it
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
Romanticism
250.
28. 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:
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
15000 miles of roads
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
Baroque
29. Rococo painting can best be characterized as:
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
Plato; Aristotle.
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
30. In his painting - Probla
'Wild Beasts'
shield
the symbolism of shape.
Dr. Strangelove
31. Great Serpent Mound is an example of a(n) _______.
Valdivia
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Bettye Saar
Neoplatonism
32. What is the subject matter of most Impressionist painting?
Baroque
La Venta
Las Vegas
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
33. 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
'Wild Beasts'
epicanthic fold
Inca
sterile anonymity
34. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Cindy Sherman
Inca
Palenque
35. 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.
Minimalism
the moon
utilitarianism
36. Which of these paintings is considered a Rococo painting?
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37. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:
local - arbitrary
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
became
El Greco.
38. Which of these is an example of High Renaissance painting?
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39. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT
Lord Pakal
1980s
rigid style.
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
40. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
talud-tablero
mosaics
Aztec
the ancient caves at Ajanta
41. The sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini created Ecstasy of St. Theresa - a centerpiece of a chapel in Rome. It is typical of which style?
Georges Braque.
puma
Baroque
Teddy Cruz
42. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.
virtue.
Fragonard's Bathers
Las Vegas
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
43. This artist reflects on identity and cultural heritage in works such as Petroglyph Park.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Minimalism and Pop Art.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
individuality.
44. Stylistic characteristics of Postmodern architecture include all of the following EXCEPT
the Chinese emperor.
utilitarianism
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
Manet's Olympia
45. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:
Romanticism
the notion of the sublime
the personality of the sitter.
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
46. Cubism can best be described as:
form.
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
the Chinese emperor.
art that is about the process of painting.
47. What is the subject matter of most Impressionist painting?
Georges Braque.
rope bridges
Baroque
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
48. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.
geoglyphs
epicanthic fold
sterile anonymity
local - arbitrary
49. Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?
El Greco.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Quetzalcoatl
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
50. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
masonry
Lord Pakal
Inca