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Art Appreciation

Subject : art
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1. Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for:






2. The _______ included in panels of Maya relief carvings and ceramics decoration aide in their interpretation.






3. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:






4. In Mesoamerican cultures - sacrificial _______ was seen as nourishment of the earth in its capacity of creator of life.






5. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.






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






7. Creating a work densely packed with information concerns most postmodern artists more than _______.






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






9. 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:






10. Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for:






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






12. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.






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






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






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.






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






17. 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:






18. 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.






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






20. Characteristics of postmodern photography include all of the following EXCEPT






21. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra


22. ______ - 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.






23. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:






24. Mayan civilization (p. 464) reached its peak in Southern Mexico and Guatemala around:






25. Romanticism can best be described as:


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






27. Which of these paintings is an example of Neo-classical art?


28. A key focus of much postmodern art is _______.






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






30. 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.






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 __________.


32. As a reaction against Abstract Expressionism - Frank Stella's Empress of India exhibits the elegant - sparse content-less shape of _______.






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






34. Cubism can best be described as:






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






36. Which of the following is a unique function of Inca textiles?






37. 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.






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






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






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


41. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.






42. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.






43. What is the story behind Gericault's Raft of the Medusa?


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


45. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.






46. In his painting - Probla






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






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


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






50. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca