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Art Appreciation
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1. Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to:
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
Neoclassical
the Medici family.
Greek and Roman sculpture.
2. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.
sterile anonymity
the symbolism of shape.
Teddy Cruz
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
3. Marianne Nicholson's cliffside pictograph (a 'copper') represents a Northwest Native American tradition that had been suppressed through most of the 20th century - called:
Maya cosmology
Mannerism.
the potlatch.
color
4. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.
domination
Autosacrifice
Inca
it is not known which culture built it
5. At La Venta - a(n) _______ site near present-day Villahermosa - Mexico - colossal heads were unearthed exhibiting what some scholars identify as fetal facial characteristics.
Olmec
shield
Surrealism
shapes
6. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?
Las Vegas
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.
Caravaggio
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
7. 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
epicanthic fold
German Expressionism.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
8. 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.
German Expressionism.
Guernica
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
Gustave Courbet.
9. In works such as Olympia - realist painter Edouard Manet was denying traditional painting style and drawing attention to:
he sculpted nude figures
his modernity and break with the past.
Romanticism
Spanish Civil War.
10. Characteristics of postmodern photography include all of the following EXCEPT
250.
objectivity of the camera.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
Aztec
11. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.
1980s
the notion of the sublime
military engineer and weapons-designer
shapes
12. 'Postmodernism' has been defined in part as:
Surrealism
domination
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
13. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
Bettye Saar
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
he sculpted nude figures
14. Marianne Nicholson's cliffside pictograph (a 'copper') represents a Northwest Native American tradition that had been suppressed through most of the 20th century - called:
shield
the potlatch.
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
Valdivia
15. Known for their elaborate textiles used as status symbols - the Inca also used fiber in the construction of armor and _______.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
the moon
rope bridges
Quetzalcoatl
16. 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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17. 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.
Cindy Sherman
it is not known which culture built it
masonry
15000 miles of roads
18. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.
meditative - active
Learning from Las Vegas
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
Mining the Museum
19. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.
quipu
Surrealism
Gustave Courbet.
Inca
20. What is the story behind Gericault's Raft of the Medusa?
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21. Michelangelo's painting The Last Judgment (p. 468) - for the Sistine Chapel - typifies a style that came to be known as:
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
Mannerism.
Thomas Jefferson
22. The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of Which movement?
glyphs
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
Futurism
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
23. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
cultural and personal identity
puma
Plato; Aristotle.
24. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:
15000 miles of roads
the personality of the sitter.
Church's The Heart of the Andes
the potlatch.
25. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:
individuality.
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
Dr. Strangelove
rope bridges
26. This artist of The Large Bathers pushed toward an idea of painting that established for the work an independent existence:
Baroque
Paul Cazanne.
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.
Minimalism and Pop Art.
27. The two major art movements of the 1960s were:
Minimalism and Pop Art.
Coatlicue
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
masonry
28. In his painting - Probla
Teotihuacan
Dr. Strangelove
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Palenque
29. Joan Mira
abstract
the sensuousness of light and color.
the moon
domination
30. A key focus of much postmodern art is _______.
glyphs
ironies of modern political life
the Tree of Life
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
31. 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.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
mosaics
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
blood
32. Leonardo was as known in his time for his work as a(n) ____________ -as much for his work as an artist.
more of their African identity in their works
puma
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
military engineer and weapons-designer
33. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.
250.
Valdivia
Spanish Civil War.
Autosacrifice
34. Chari Samba's Probla
cultural and personal identity
Manet's Olympia
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
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.
35. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.
Neoplatonism
cultural and personal identity
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
36. What is the subject matter of most Impressionist painting?
Teddy Cruz
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
Minimalism
Paul Cazanne
37. What sets northern European artists (p. 454) apart from most artists of the Italian Renaissance is their interest in:
Aztec
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
the Baroque eroticized.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
38. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?
virtue.
Caravaggio
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
Fragonard's Bathers
39. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
eternal beauty or shock value
Mining the Museum
40. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.
cultural and personal identity
Navajo
Coatlicue
Thomas Jefferson
41. The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse is:
Paul Cazanne
Fauvism.
the potlatch.
the Baroque eroticized.
42. Creating a work densely packed with information concerns most postmodern artists more than _______.
Aztec
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
eternal beauty or shock value
Baroque
43. In What aspect of the twentieth century were Umberto Boccioni and other Futurist artists most interested?
Fragonard's Bathers
movement and speed
Pyramid of the Sun
art that is about the process of painting.
44. 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
Spanish Civil War.
Teddy Cruz
Las Vegas
domination
45. Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?
the notion of the sublime
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
Minimalism
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
46. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?
ironies of modern political life
Frank Gehry
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
objectivity of the camera.
47. _______ are characteristic of Maya architecture - suggesting priests/rulers had great power.
Olmec
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
the potlatch.
Large stone temple complexes
48. Which of these paintings is considered an Abstract Expressionist painting?
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49. Which of these is an example of Baroque painting?
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50. 'Postmodernism' has been defined in part as:
1980s
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
blood
he sculpted nude figures