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Art Appreciation
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1. What sets northern European artists (p. 454) apart from most artists of the Italian Renaissance is their interest in:
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
the Baroque eroticized.
Cindy Sherman's
Frank Gehry
2. In What aspect of the twentieth century were Umberto Boccioni and other Futurist artists most interested?
movement and speed
Cindy Sherman
Futurism
Learning from Las Vegas
3. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:
the personality of the sitter.
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
Navajo
Dada
4. Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality - Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies the _______ movement.
Navajo
more of their African identity in their works
Dada
one of their principal days of filming was 9/11/2001 and the banners came to signify the rifts separating humanity on a global scale.
5. 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.
cultural and personal identity
sterile anonymity
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
mosaics
6. What is the subject matter of most Impressionist painting?
quipu
15000 miles of roads
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
7. ______ - 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.
Teotihuacan
ironies of modern political life
the moon
Frank Gehry
8. A key focus of much postmodern art is _______.
objectivity of the camera.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Mining the Museum
ironies of modern political life
9. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
Minimalism
rigid style.
ironies of modern political life
10. As a reaction against Abstract Expressionism - Frank Stella's Empress of India exhibits the elegant - sparse content-less shape of _______.
Minimalism
Teddy Cruz
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
11. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:
Caravaggio
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
12. Romanticism can best be described as:
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13. Because of the diversity and plurality of postmodernism - many contemporary artists address the issues of _______ in their work.
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.
narration
cultural and personal identity
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
14. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?
Church's The Heart of the Andes
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
Paul Cazanne
the symbolism of shape.
15. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
Las Vegas
Bettye Saar
color
16. Romanticist artists - like Frederic Edwin Church - viewed nature as:
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17. 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:
virtue.
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
one of their principal days of filming was 9/11/2001 and the banners came to signify the rifts separating humanity on a global scale.
18. The color schemes and flat patterns illustrated in Amrita Sher-Gil's The Swing were directly influenced by the Post-Impressionism of Paul Gauguin and:
Teddy Cruz
El Greco.
the ancient caves at Ajanta
Las Vegas
19. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra
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20. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.
1980s
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
Valdivia
21. Thaodore Garicault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?
puma
Autosacrifice
Romanticism
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
22. 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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23. Leonardo was as known in his time for his work as a(n) ____________ -as much for his work as an artist.
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
Paul Cazanne.
Raphael's School of Athens
military engineer and weapons-designer
24. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Baroque
individuality.
25. The artist Andra Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of 'resolution between these two states - dream and reality.' What was this movement?
Surrealism
for armor
Guernica
masonry
26. Which of these is an example of Baroque painting?
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27. On the relief carving on the lid of his sarcophagus - Pakal is depicted falling off the Wacah Chan - _______.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
the Tree of Life
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
28. Great Serpent Mound is an example of a(n) _______.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Aztec
Plato; Aristotle.
29. Chari Samba's Probla
glyphs
15000 miles of roads
virtue.
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
30. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:
the Chinese emperor.
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.
Lord Pakal
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
31. 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.
Large stone temple complexes
meditative - active
Autosacrifice
Teddy Cruz
32. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.
Minimalism and Pop Art.
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
Fragonard's Bathers
shield
33. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?
Dada
Baroque
Thomas Jefferson
Pyramid of the Sun
34. The Post-Impressionists (p. 496) were united by their interest in:
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35. Stylistic characteristics of Postmodern architecture include all of the following EXCEPT
utilitarianism
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
Neoplatonism
epicanthic fold
36. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
virtue.
37. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
he sculpted nude figures
Olmec
epicanthic fold
Valdivia
38. The Rococo style (pp. 479-480) has been characterized as:
color
the Baroque eroticized.
geoglyphs
blood
39. 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:
mosaics
one of their principal days of filming was 9/11/2001 and the banners came to signify the rifts separating humanity on a global scale.
Quetzalcoatl
Minimalism and Pop Art.
40. 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.
'cast shadows'
Teotihuacan
muralists - Mexican Revolution
La Venta
41. Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?
one of their principal days of filming was 9/11/2001 and the banners came to signify the rifts separating humanity on a global scale.
ironies of modern political life
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
Learning from Las Vegas
42. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.
puma
individuality.
geoglyphs
Dada
43. The urge to rebel against the norm lost its impact when such rebellion _______ the norm in most Western cultures.
Dada
became
it is not known which culture built it
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
44. Which of these paintings is considered a Rococo painting?
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45. 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.
puma
La Venta
Manet's Olympia
Frank Gehry
46. Michelangelo's painting The Last Judgment (p. 468) - for the Sistine Chapel - typifies a style that came to be known as:
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
narration
Mannerism.
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
47. Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
German Expressionism.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
Cindy Sherman
48. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:
Coatlicue
Neoplatonism
sterile anonymity
virtue.
49. Which of these paintings is an example of Neo-classical art?
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50. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
Fragonard's Bathers
meditative - active
he sculpted nude figures
became