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Art Appreciation

Subject : art
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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:






2. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?






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






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






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






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.






7. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?






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






9. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:






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


11. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca






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






13. The Cubists freed painting from the necessity of representing the world in order to dwell on:






14. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:






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






16. The artist who painted Houses at L'Estaque worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism. The artist's name is:






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






18. _______ are characteristic of Maya architecture - suggesting priests/rulers had great power.






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






20. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.






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.






23. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:






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


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






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






27. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:






28. Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?






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?






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






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.






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






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






36. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.






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.






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:






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






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.






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






43. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?






44. Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for:






45. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?






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.






47. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?


48. Images such as View of Suzhou reveal the 18th century Chinese interest in__________.






49. Chari Samba's Probla






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: