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Art Appreciation

Subject : art
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1. Romanticist artists - like Frederic Edwin Church - viewed nature as:

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2. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:






3. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.






4. Thaodore Garicault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?






5. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?






6. 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:






7. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?






8. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca






9. 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:






10. 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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11. 'Postmodernism' has been defined in part as:






12. At La Venta - a(n) _______ site near present-day Villahermosa - Mexico - colossal heads were unearthed exhibiting what some scholars identify as fetal facial characteristics.






13. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?






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






15. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?






16. The artist Andra Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of 'resolution between these two states - dream and reality.' What was this movement?






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

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18. On the relief carving on the lid of his sarcophagus - Pakal is depicted falling off the Wacah Chan - _______.






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

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20. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:






21. Great Serpent Mound is an example of a(n) _______.






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






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

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24. 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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25. 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.






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

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27. Fred Wilson's exhibit for the Maryland Historical Society made the point that the Historical Society:






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

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






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






31. 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:






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






33. 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:






34. Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to:






35. The sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini created Ecstasy of St. Theresa - a centerpiece of a chapel in Rome. It is typical of which style?






36. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.






37. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.






38. Like many contemporary sculptors - Kiki Smith - as seen in her Ice Man - seems to be asking questions about:






39. The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse is:






40. 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.






41. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.






42. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra

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43. 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?






44. 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.






45. Freed from the rigidity of modernism - architects such as _______ have liberated structural walls - using three-dimensional computer modeling to make these new shapes possible.






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.






47. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.






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






49. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.






50. The Baroque can be characterized as/by: