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Art Appreciation
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1. Like many contemporary sculptors - Kiki Smith - as seen in her Ice Man - seems to be asking questions about:
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
Aztec
eternal beauty or shock value
the symbolism of shape.
2. Yasumasu Morimura's Portrait (Twins) appropriates the imagery of _______ to illustrate Japanese culture as slave to the dominant (male) forces of Western society.
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3. 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:
Manet's Olympia
talud-tablero
Cindy Sherman's
humanities.
4. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.
Inca
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.
Autosacrifice
15000 miles of roads
5. 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.
Lord Pakal
movement and speed
Aztec
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6. 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:
he sculpted nude figures
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
more of their African identity in their works
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.
7. The artist Andra Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of 'resolution between these two states - dream and reality.' What was this movement?
the potlatch.
Surrealism
Manet's Olympia
Frank Gehry
8. Rejecting the frenetic approach of Pollock and de Kooning - Mark Rotho's Abstract Expressionist pantings convey a _______ - not _______space.
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meditative - active
Paul Gauguin.
the potlatch.
9. Images such as View of Suzhou reveal the 18th century Chinese interest in__________.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
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rigid style.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
10. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:
shield
Mannerism.
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
Paul Cazanne
11. Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to:
puma
the Medici family.
Bettye Saar
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
12. Freed from the rigidity of modernism - architects such as _______ have liberated structural walls - using three-dimensional computer modeling to make these new shapes possible.
David's The Death of Marat
virtue.
Frank Gehry
talud-tablero
13. 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
250.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
Cindy Sherman
14. In his painting - Probla
'Wild Beasts'
Dr. Strangelove
the Tree of Life
shapes
15. 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.
'cast shadows'
blood
Lord Pakal
15000 miles of roads
16. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?
his modernity and break with the past.
rigid style.
the notion of the sublime
rigid style.
17. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Raphael's School of Athens
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
the Chinese emperor.
18. The artist who painted Houses at L'Estaque worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism. The artist's name is:
Georges Braque.
sterile anonymity
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
19. The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of Which movement?
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
utilitarianism
the moon
Futurism
20. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?
Romanticism
Paul Cazanne
Valdivia
Baroque
21. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
Neoclassical
military engineer and weapons-designer
the Baroque eroticized.
22. Which of these paintings is considered a Rococo painting?
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23. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.
Palenque
Inca
Minimalism and Pop Art.
Baroque
24. The Cubists freed painting from the necessity of representing the world in order to dwell on:
form.
250.
Navajo
Raphael's School of Athens
25. Characteristics of postmodern photography include all of the following EXCEPT
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
objectivity of the camera.
the moon
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
26. Which of these is an example of Dada art?
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27. What is the subject matter of most Impressionist painting?
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
shapes
Bettye Saar
Spanish Civil War.
28. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:
Paul Gauguin.
movement and speed
Greek and Roman sculpture.
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
29. The Realist movement (p. 489) was influenced by many ideas and worldviews including:
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30. The _______ included in panels of Maya relief carvings and ceramics decoration aide in their interpretation.
Mannerism.
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
Church's The Heart of the Andes
glyphs
31. A key focus of much postmodern art is _______.
Large stone temple complexes
utilitarianism
Cindy Sherman
ironies of modern political life
32. Which of these paintings is an example of Neo-classical art?
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33. Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigae-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.
Cindy Sherman
muralists - Mexican Revolution
Baroque
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
34. One of most important - best preserved and extensively studied Mayan cities is _______.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
epicanthic fold
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
Palenque
35. 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:
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
Minimalism
Cindy Sherman's
36. Thaodore Garicault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?
Romanticism
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Paul Cazanne
Olmec
37. In his painting - Probla
narration
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
Caravaggio
movement and speed
38. Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?
Cindy Sherman
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
color
the personality of the sitter.
39. As a reaction against Abstract Expressionism - Frank Stella's Empress of India exhibits the elegant - sparse content-less shape of _______.
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Minimalism
1980s
40. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
shapes
he sculpted nude figures
for armor
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.
41. 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.
Teddy Cruz
talud-tablero
blood
shapes
42. Which of these paintings is considered an Abstract Expressionist painting?
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43. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
Olmec
Plato; Aristotle.
Autosacrifice
he sculpted nude figures
44. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Navajo
he sculpted nude figures
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
45. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.
local - arbitrary
shapes
the notion of the sublime
color
46. In School of Athens - Raphael represents the two significant schools of philosophy - signified by the portrayal of _______ and ________ in the center of the composition.
David's The Death of Marat
Plato; Aristotle.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
47. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.
sterile anonymity
Maya cosmology
Mining the Museum
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
48. Which of the following is a unique function of Inca textiles?
local - arbitrary
Palenque
for armor
the Tree of Life
49. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
Surrealism
Caravaggio
Paul Cazanne.
talud-tablero
50. Whose David was the first life-size nude sculpture since antiquity?
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