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Art Appreciation
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1. This artist of The Large Bathers pushed toward an idea of painting that established for the work an independent existence:
Learning from Las Vegas
Spanish Civil War.
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
Paul Cazanne.
2. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?
form.
Inca
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
objectivity of the camera.
3. A key focus of much postmodern art is _______.
the Chinese emperor.
Neoclassical
ironies of modern political life
Mining the Museum
4. The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse is:
garbage
Bettye Saar
David's The Death of Marat
Fauvism.
5. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
became
rigid style.
Paul Cazanne
6. In School of Athens - Raphael represents the two significant schools of philosophy - signified by the portrayal of _______ and ________ in the center of the composition.
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
German Expressionism.
Bettye Saar
Plato; Aristotle.
7. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?
rope bridges
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Teddy Cruz
Neoclassical
8. Like many contemporary sculptors - Kiki Smith - as seen in her Ice Man - seems to be asking questions about:
Valdivia
the symbolism of shape.
his modernity and break with the past.
color
9. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:
more of their African identity in their works
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
the Baroque eroticized.
10. What is the story behind Gericault's Raft of the Medusa?
11. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
the Medici family.
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
the Baroque eroticized.
talud-tablero
12. The short-lived Nazca culture in present-day Peru is known primarily for its _______.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
geoglyphs
Olmec
13. The Cubists freed painting from the necessity of representing the world in order to dwell on:
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
form.
Surrealism
14. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
Fauvism.
the moon
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
15. Mayan civilization (p. 464) reached its peak in Southern Mexico and Guatemala around:
250.
Coatlicue
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
16. The artist who painted Houses at L'Estaque worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism. The artist's name is:
Quetzalcoatl
Georges Braque.
Fragonard's Bathers
the potlatch.
17. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.
color
ironies of modern political life
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Olmec
18. _______ are characteristic of Maya architecture - suggesting priests/rulers had great power.
Aztec
form.
Large stone temple complexes
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
19. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
epicanthic fold
domination
he sculpted nude figures
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
20. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.
it is not known which culture built it
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Dada
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
21. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra
22. 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.
Guernica
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
domination
Coatlicue
23. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:
blood
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
Minimalism
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
24. Romanticist artists - like Frederic Edwin Church - viewed nature as:
25. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.
the Chinese emperor.
became
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
sterile anonymity
26. In Mesoamerican cultures - sacrificial _______ was seen as nourishment of the earth in its capacity of creator of life.
Thomas Jefferson
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
blood
ironies of modern political life
27. 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.
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
Georges Braque.
28. Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?
became
virtue.
cultural and personal identity
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
29. Which of these paintings is considered an Abstract Expressionist painting?
30. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?
Las Vegas
glyphs
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
15000 miles of roads
31. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:
Neoplatonism
more of their African identity in their works
the Baroque eroticized.
Paul Cazanne
32. The Realist movement (p. 489) was influenced by many ideas and worldviews including:
33. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.
quipu
form.
Fragonard's Bathers
puma
34. A key focus of much postmodern art is _______.
ironies of modern political life
Aztec
Lord Pakal
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
35. On the relief carving on the lid of his sarcophagus - Pakal is depicted falling off the Wacah Chan - _______.
the Tree of Life
utilitarianism
Dada
Neoplatonism
36. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.
Surrealism
Neoclassical
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Cindy Sherman's
37. Freed from the rigidity of modernism - architects such as _______ have liberated structural walls - using three-dimensional computer modeling to make these new shapes possible.
Raphael's School of Athens
German Expressionism.
Inca
Frank Gehry
38. 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:
talud-tablero
the personality of the sitter.
Gustave Courbet.
geoglyphs
39. As a reaction against Abstract Expressionism - Frank Stella's Empress of India exhibits the elegant - sparse content-less shape of _______.
more of their African identity in their works
La Venta
Inca
Minimalism
40. The Realist movement (p. 489) was influenced by many ideas and worldviews including:
41. 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.
La Venta
narration
Guernica
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
42. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.
'Wild Beasts'
sterile anonymity
the Chinese emperor.
Valdivia
43. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?
Caravaggio
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
became
Baroque
44. Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for:
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
'Wild Beasts'
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
45. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?
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.
Fauvism.
Learning from Las Vegas
Large stone temple complexes
46. In The Green Stripe (Madame Matisse) - Henri Matisse dispensed with the use of _______ color in favor of _______ color to explore the expressive possibilities of color.
local - arbitrary
shapes
the Chinese emperor.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
47. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?
48. Images such as View of Suzhou reveal the 18th century Chinese interest in__________.
utilitarianism
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
geoglyphs
he sculpted nude figures
49. Chari Samba's Probla
Autosacrifice
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
the Medici family.
glyphs
50. 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:
Gustave Courbet.
the notion of the sublime
the Tree of Life
rendering believable space in realistic detail.