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Art Appreciation

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1. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?






2. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:






3. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:






4. _______ - the Aztec goddess of life and death is recognizable in the culture's art by her necklace of human hearts - severed hands and skull.






5. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:






6. _______ photos quote satirically the stereotypes of women in popular film - recycling them as a uniquely pure form of postmodernism.

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7. This artist of The Large Bathers pushed toward an idea of painting that established for the work an independent existence:






8. 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?






9. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:






10. The style of Burial of Count Orgaz is highly eclectic and individual. The artist is:






11. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.






12. Rococo painting can best be characterized as:






13. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:






14. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:






15. Vik Muniz's Atlas (Carlao) was created by arranging_______ on his studio floor - photographing the arrangement - then painting from the photograph.






16. 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






17. Because of the diversity and plurality of postmodernism - many contemporary artists address the issues of _______ in their work.






18. In The Green Stripe (Madame Matisse) - Henri Matisse dispensed with the use of _______ color in favor of _______ color to explore the expressive possibilities of color.






19. 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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20. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.






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:






22. In works such as Olympia - realist painter Edouard Manet was denying traditional painting style and drawing attention to:






23. Joan Mira






24. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?






25. The short-lived Nazca culture in present-day Peru is known primarily for its _______.






26. _______ may be tasteless and tacky but the public revels in it - a point Robert Venturi stresses in his book which opened the door to postmodern architecture.






27. In School of Athens - Raphael represents the two significant schools of philosophy - signified by the portrayal of _______ and ________ in the center of the composition.






28. 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.






29. Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for:






30. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.






31. ______ - at its peak a cosmopolitan commercial center - remained a mythic center for Mesoamerican cultures for a thousand years after its decline - including an important pilgrimage site for Aztec rulers.






32. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT






33. The short-lived Nazca culture in present-day Peru is known primarily for its _______.






34. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?

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35. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:






36. Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of:






37. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?






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

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39. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.






40. In What aspect of the twentieth century were Umberto Boccioni and other Futurist artists most interested?






41. Native American kachinas - like Buffalo Kachina (p. 494) - are:






42. Joan Mira






43. 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.






44. Marianne Nicholson's cliffside pictograph (a 'copper') represents a Northwest Native American tradition that had been suppressed through most of the 20th century - called:






45. 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.






46. The Cubists freed painting from the necessity of representing the world in order to dwell on:






47. This artist reflects on identity and cultural heritage in works such as Petroglyph Park.






48. In his painting - Probla






49. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:






50. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?







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