Art Appreciation

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1. 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.
Neoplatonism
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
mosaics
for armor


2. Great Serpent Mound is an example of a(n) _______.
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
Large stone temple complexes
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
German Expressionism.


3. The sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini created Ecstasy of St. Theresa - a centerpiece of a chapel in Rome. It is typical of which style?
Aztec
Baroque
objectivity of the camera.
Guernica


4. The style of Burial of Count Orgaz is highly eclectic and individual. The artist is:
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
geoglyphs
El Greco.
Dada


5. 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.
'cast shadows'
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
Spanish Civil War.


6. 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
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
the symbolism of shape.


7. Michelangelo's painting The Last Judgment (p. 468) - for the Sistine Chapel - typifies a style that came to be known as:
rigid style.
Fauvism.
Mannerism.
Paul Cazanne.


8. 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:
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
military engineer and weapons-designer
humanities.
Raphael's School of Athens


9. Which of the following is a unique function of Inca textiles?
the sensuousness of light and color.
virtue.
domination
for armor


10. In Mesoamerican cultures - sacrificial _______ was seen as nourishment of the earth in its capacity of creator of life.
Aztec
blood
Greek and Roman sculpture.
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.


11. 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.
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Donatello's.
his modernity and break with the past.
Guernica


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

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13. 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
domination
the potlatch.
mosaics
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar


14. Whose David was the first life-size nude sculpture since antiquity?

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15. The artist who painted Houses at L'Estaque worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism. The artist's name is:
Georges Braque.
Aztec
Baroque
Minimalism


16. Romanticism can best be described as:

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17. The urge to rebel against the norm lost its impact when such rebellion _______ the norm in most Western cultures.
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
Church's The Heart of the Andes
became
Baroque


18. Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality - Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies the _______ movement.
Dada
epicanthic fold
Thomas Jefferson
Maya cosmology


19. 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
epicanthic fold
became
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
the ancient caves at Ajanta


20. Coatlicue (p. 465) is a major _______ deity.
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
Aztec
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew


21. 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
form.
epicanthic fold
glyphs
Donatello's.


22. Which of these is an example of Dada art?

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23. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:
Greek and Roman sculpture.
Romanticism
art that is about the process of painting.
domination


24. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.
puma
shapes
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.


25. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.
the sensuousness of light and color.
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
Inca
Church's The Heart of the Andes


26. Which of these paintings is an example of Romanticism?

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27. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?
Aztec
Thomas Jefferson
Frank Gehry
Fauvism.


28. Which of these paintings is an example of Romanticism?

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29. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
Cindy Sherman
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
talud-tablero
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.


30. Marianne Nicholson's cliffside pictograph (a 'copper') represents a Northwest Native American tradition that had been suppressed through most of the 20th century - called:
Raphael's School of Athens
color
the potlatch.
Surrealism


31. Henri Matisse was a leader of early 20th century artists who felt free to use color 'arbitrarily' and were labeled - derogatorily - 'Fauves' - which translates __________.

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32. Chari Samba's Probla
Navajo
for armor
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
Fragonard's Bathers


33. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?
Aztec
puma
Thomas Jefferson
the potlatch.


34. 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.
art that is about the process of painting.
Futurism
Guernica
form.


35. In What aspect of the twentieth century were Umberto Boccioni and other Futurist artists most interested?
Dada
the personality of the sitter.
movement and speed
the Tree of Life


36. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT
narration
eternal beauty or shock value
rigid style.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.


37. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.
Valdivia
the sensuousness of light and color.
Pyramid of the Sun
Manet's Olympia


38. 'Postmodernism' has been defined in part as:
rigid style.
Dada
the moon
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.


39. Leonardo was as known in his time for his work as a(n) ____________ -as much for his work as an artist.
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
Romanticism
military engineer and weapons-designer


40. What is the subject matter of most Impressionist painting?
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
became
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans


41. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
objectivity of the camera.
quipu
shapes


42. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
shapes
masonry
the notion of the sublime


43. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
Mining the Museum
Maya cosmology


44. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.
Coatlicue
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
Inca
the Baroque eroticized.


45. Because of the diversity and plurality of postmodernism - many contemporary artists address the issues of _______ in their work.
cultural and personal identity
meditative - active
Paul Cazanne
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.


46. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?
Learning from Las Vegas
Surrealism
German Expressionism.
Spanish Civil War.


47. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
local - arbitrary
Fauvism.
the sensuousness of light and color.


48. The short-lived Nazca culture in present-day Peru is known primarily for its _______.
1980s
his modernity and break with the past.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
geoglyphs


49. Freed from the rigidity of modernism - architects such as _______ have liberated structural walls - using three-dimensional computer modeling to make these new shapes possible.
meditative - active
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Frank Gehry
military engineer and weapons-designer


50. Mesoamerican cultures believed that humans first emerged from a hole in the ground now situated under the _______.
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
Pyramid of the Sun
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
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