Art Appreciation

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1. In School of Athens - Raphael represents the two significant schools of philosophy - signified by the portrayal of _______ and ________ in the center of the composition.
Plato; Aristotle.
Lord Pakal
Dada
Learning from Las Vegas


2. Stylistic characteristics of Postmodern architecture include all of the following EXCEPT
1980s
La Venta
utilitarianism
sterile anonymity


3. Characteristics of postmodern photography include all of the following EXCEPT
objectivity of the camera.
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
the symbolism of shape.


4. Fred Wilson's exhibit for the Maryland Historical Society made the point that the Historical Society:
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
domination
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette


5. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
became
Aztec
Bettye Saar


6. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT
Autosacrifice
rigid style.
Teotihuacan
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.


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

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8. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
Guernica
Maya cosmology
Teotihuacan


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

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10. Characteristics of postmodern photography include all of the following EXCEPT
puma
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
Mannerism.
objectivity of the camera.


11. Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for:
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
Frank Gehry
ironies of modern political life


12. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
The Medusa sunk off the coast of Africa due to the captain's incompetence and its poor survivors were adrift for days (most of them dying) while the captain and crew saved themselves.
he sculpted nude figures
Guernica


13. Michelangelo's painting The Last Judgment (p. 468) - for the Sistine Chapel - typifies a style that came to be known as:
puma
shapes
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
Mannerism.


14. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.
color
Guernica
it is not known which culture built it
Greek and Roman sculpture.


15. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?
Paul Cazanne
Cindy Sherman
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
Surrealism


16. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra

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17. 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?
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
the moon
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Surrealism


18. Mesoamerican cultures believed that humans first emerged from a hole in the ground now situated under the _______.
Caravaggio
for armor
Pyramid of the Sun
Church's The Heart of the Andes


19. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Las Vegas
Bettye Saar


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

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21. 'Postmodernism' has been defined in part as:
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
glyphs
muralists - Mexican Revolution


22. One of most important - best preserved and extensively studied Mayan cities is _______.
geoglyphs
humanities.
the moon
Palenque


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


24. In the Aztec culture - sacrifices of prisoners-of-war from neighboring peoples were necessary to honor and re-create the sacrifice of _______ in ancient times (Teotihuaca
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
Quetzalcoatl


25. Which of the following is a unique function of Inca textiles?
ironies of modern political life
for armor
the Medici family.
Cindy Sherman's


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.
Las Vegas
art that is about the process of painting.
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
Romanticism


27. Freed from the rigidity of modernism - architects such as _______ have liberated structural walls - using three-dimensional computer modeling to make these new shapes possible.
Autosacrifice
Frank Gehry
Caravaggio
epicanthic fold


28. 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.
quipu
La Venta
Fauvism.
Inca


29. Romanticist artists - like Frederic Edwin Church - viewed nature as:

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30. Cubism can best be described as:
the Medici family.
art that is about the process of painting.
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
Thomas Jefferson


31. The style of Burial of Count Orgaz is highly eclectic and individual. The artist is:
El Greco.
Aztec
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
Lord Pakal


32. As a reaction against Abstract Expressionism - Frank Stella's Empress of India exhibits the elegant - sparse content-less shape of _______.
Minimalism
it is not known which culture built it
eternal beauty or shock value
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.


33. ______ - 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.
Minimalism
La Venta
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
Teotihuacan


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

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35. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:
Bettye Saar
his modernity and break with the past.
masonry
the Chinese emperor.


36. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?
Learning from Las Vegas
the symbolism of shape.
Paul Cazanne
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures


37. 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:
rigid style.
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
'cast shadows'
individuality.


38. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
Romanticism
abstract
sterile anonymity


39. Known for their elaborate textiles used as status symbols - the Inca also used fiber in the construction of armor and _______.
humanities.
rope bridges
he sculpted nude figures
Inca


40. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.
sterile anonymity
Quetzalcoatl
narration
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)


41. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?
Minimalism and Pop Art.
Caravaggio
blood
the notion of the sublime


42. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?
Donatello's.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Valdivia
Paul Gauguin.


43. Known for their elaborate textiles used as status symbols - the Inca also used fiber in the construction of armor and _______.
shapes
rope bridges
Bettye Saar
shield


44. Joan Mira
Dada
abstract
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
the Tree of Life


45. The Post-Impressionists (p. 496) were united by their interest in:

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46. Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of:
individuality.
Large stone temple complexes
German Expressionism.
Fauvism.


47. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.
humanities.
Mannerism.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Frank Gehry


48. _______ are characteristic of Maya architecture - suggesting priests/rulers had great power.
Large stone temple complexes
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
Fauvism.
ironies of modern political life


49. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
his modernity and break with the past.
glyphs
15000 miles of roads


50. 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
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
epicanthic fold
Thomas Jefferson
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.