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1. 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.
Paul Cazanne
muralists - Mexican Revolution
Guernica
Dr. Strangelove


2. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca
rope bridges
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
Plato; Aristotle.
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain


3. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
shield
rigid style.
Baroque


4. The artist who painted Houses at L'Estaque worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism. The artist's name is:
Georges Braque.
the moon
Inca
Minimalism and Pop Art.


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

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6. Michelangelo's painting The Last Judgment (p. 468) - for the Sistine Chapel - typifies a style that came to be known as:
Georges Braque.
Mannerism.
Dada
Inca


7. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.
German Expressionism.
rope bridges
Teddy Cruz
Maya cosmology


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

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9. The style of Burial of Count Orgaz is highly eclectic and individual. The artist is:
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
El Greco.
military engineer and weapons-designer
Lord Pakal


10. Chari Samba's Probla
Paul Cazanne.
Dada
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
the moon


11. Mayan civilization (p. 464) reached its peak in Southern Mexico and Guatemala around:
Plato; Aristotle.
Palenque
Aztec
250.


12. Her untitled photographic self-portraits - posed with props in scenes corresponding to female characters in popular culture - are performances that allow _______ to address the ways in which culture views women.
Cindy Sherman
Learning from Las Vegas
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Learning from Las Vegas


13. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT
Fauvism.
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.
rigid style.
Minimalism and Pop Art.


14. Fred Wilson's exhibit for the Maryland Historical Society made the point that the Historical Society:
virtue.
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Neoplatonism
Bettye Saar


15. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:
Fragonard's Bathers
Donatello's.
individuality.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures


16. Thaodore Garicault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?
Raphael's School of Athens
form.
Minimalism and Pop Art.
Romanticism


17. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?
Caravaggio
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
Inca
the notion of the sublime


18. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.


19. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:
Mining the Museum
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.
individuality.
Maya cosmology


20. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
Neoclassical
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Cindy Sherman


21. 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:
the symbolism of shape.
rope bridges
Gustave Courbet.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures


22. Which of the following is a unique function of Inca textiles?
color
El Greco.
for armor
shield


23. The Incas are well known for their __________ construction - as can be witnessed in Machu Picchu.
masonry
Georges Braque.
the Tree of Life
Teddy Cruz


24. Her untitled photographic self-portraits - posed with props in scenes corresponding to female characters in popular culture - are performances that allow _______ to address the ways in which culture views women.
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
Cindy Sherman
humanities.
Coatlicue


25. Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to:
the Medici family.
narration
mosaics
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.


26. The artist Andra Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of 'resolution between these two states - dream and reality.' What was this movement?
Valdivia
Surrealism
epicanthic fold
Thomas Jefferson


27. The two major art movements of the 1960s were:
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
Minimalism and Pop Art.
muralists - Mexican Revolution
Quetzalcoatl


28. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?
Learning from Las Vegas
Cindy Sherman
1980s
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.


29. The sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini created Ecstasy of St. Theresa - a centerpiece of a chapel in Rome. It is typical of which style?
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
Baroque
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
Aztec


30. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.
Large stone temple complexes
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
Navajo
the Baroque eroticized.


31. The short-lived Nazca culture in present-day Peru is known primarily for its _______.
Palenque
geoglyphs
narration
the moon


32. Using her work to struggle with the question of identity - this photographer's images are self-portraits.
Cindy Sherman
cultural and personal identity
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
Minimalism


33. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.
muralists - Mexican Revolution
Bettye Saar
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.


34. 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.
mosaics
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.


35. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.
shield
Mining the Museum
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
David's The Death of Marat


36. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra

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37. 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.
meditative - active
15000 miles of roads
Bettye Saar
'Wild Beasts'


38. 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:
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
Bettye Saar
more of their African identity in their works
Minimalism


39. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.
Church's The Heart of the Andes
glyphs
Maya cosmology
form.


40. Cubism can best be described as:
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
garbage
art that is about the process of painting.


41. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
individuality.
Inca
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.


42. 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?
Mannerism.
Surrealism
the potlatch.
the notion of the sublime


43. Leonardo was as known in his time for his work as a(n) ____________ -as much for his work as an artist.
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
his modernity and break with the past.
Autosacrifice
military engineer and weapons-designer


44. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.
Greek and Roman sculpture.
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
Church's The Heart of the Andes
quipu


45. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?
Church's The Heart of the Andes
Teotihuacan
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
Caravaggio


46. Chari Samba's Probla
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
the potlatch.
Church's The Heart of the Andes
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.


47. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?
shield
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
quipu


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

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49. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.
form.
Neoplatonism
he sculpted nude figures
Autosacrifice


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

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