Art Appreciation

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1. Which of these paintings is considered a Rococo painting?

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2. In the Aztec culture - sacrifices of prisoners-of-war from neighboring peoples were necessary to honor and re-create the sacrifice of _______ in ancient times (Teotihuaca
Quetzalcoatl
Church's The Heart of the Andes
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
Cindy Sherman


3. Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality - Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies the _______ movement.
Mining the Museum
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
Dada
Paul Cazanne.


4. This artist reflects on identity and cultural heritage in works such as Petroglyph Park.
for armor
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
military engineer and weapons-designer
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.


5. Rejecting the frenetic approach of Pollock and de Kooning - Mark Rotho's Abstract Expressionist pantings convey a _______ - not _______space.
meditative - active
Baroque
garbage
rope bridges


6. 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.
Mining the Museum
rope bridges
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
Guernica


7. 'Postmodernism' has been defined in part as:
talud-tablero
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities


8. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.
Autosacrifice
250.
Donatello's.
narration


9. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:
Neoplatonism
250.
Dr. Strangelove
virtue.


10. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?
utilitarianism
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
15000 miles of roads
Paul Gauguin.


11. 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:
La Venta
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.
Dr. Strangelove
meditative - active


12. Which of these paintings is an example of Romanticism?

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13. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
Mining the Museum
form.
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar


14. _______ may be tasteless and tacky but the public revels in it - a point Robert Venturi stresses in his book which opened the door to postmodern architecture.
the personality of the sitter.
Futurism
quipu
Las Vegas


15. Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigae-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
'cast shadows'
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
Baroque


16. The style of Burial of Count Orgaz is highly eclectic and individual. The artist is:
Gustave Courbet.
the symbolism of shape.
El Greco.
Paul Gauguin.


17. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.
the moon
puma
quipu
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape


18. On the relief carving on the lid of his sarcophagus - Pakal is depicted falling off the Wacah Chan - _______.
the Tree of Life
Paul Gauguin.
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.


19. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:
the symbolism of shape.
objectivity of the camera.
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.


20. 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.
Learning from Las Vegas
humanities.
blood


21. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?
the Baroque eroticized.
Mining the Museum
Paul Cazanne
military engineer and weapons-designer


22. The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali illustrates how he looked to his subconscious (dreams - hypnosis - psychoanalysis) for his subject matter. What artistic movement is he associated with?
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Teotihuacan
Surrealism
for armor


23. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.
Maya cosmology
individuality.
Valdivia
Greek and Roman sculpture.


24. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:
utilitarianism
El Greco.
German Expressionism.
individuality.


25. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
his modernity and break with the past.
meditative - active
Mining the Museum


26. 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.
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
local - arbitrary
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.


27. Which of these paintings is considered a Rococo painting?

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28. 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:
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
Neoclassical
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.


29. Like many contemporary sculptors - Kiki Smith - as seen in her Ice Man - seems to be asking questions about:
the ancient caves at Ajanta
Neoclassical
the symbolism of shape.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.


30. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.
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.
humanities.
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
masonry


31. In works such as Olympia - realist painter Edouard Manet was denying traditional painting style and drawing attention to:
his modernity and break with the past.
Neoplatonism
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
Learning from Las Vegas


32. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT
local - arbitrary
Thomas Jefferson
rigid style.
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.


33. Which of these is an example of High Renaissance painting?

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34. Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigae-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.
Baroque
Spanish Civil War.
Lord Pakal
humanities.


35. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?
Paul Gauguin.
Cindy Sherman's
rope bridges
objectivity of the camera.


36. 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:
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
Surrealism
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Gustave Courbet.


37. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.
1980s
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
Manet's Olympia


38. The Realist movement (p. 489) was influenced by many ideas and worldviews including:

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39. 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.
El Greco.
La Venta
Baroque
for armor


40. Michelangelo's painting The Last Judgment (p. 468) - for the Sistine Chapel - typifies a style that came to be known as:
El Greco.
military engineer and weapons-designer
the Baroque eroticized.
Mannerism.


41. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:
Olmec
virtue.
cultural and personal identity
the moon


42. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?

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43. Creating a work densely packed with information concerns most postmodern artists more than _______.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
eternal beauty or shock value


44. This artist reflects on identity and cultural heritage in works such as Petroglyph Park.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
the symbolism of shape.


45. The two major art movements of the 1960s were:
Surrealism
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
Minimalism and Pop Art.
Bettye Saar


46. 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.
masonry
Dada
Minimalism and Pop Art.


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

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48. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Bettye Saar
form.
mosaics


49. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
glyphs
blood
he sculpted nude figures
Church's The Heart of the Andes


50. Her untitled photographic self-portraits - posed with props in scenes corresponding to female characters in popular culture - are performances that allow _______ to address the ways in which culture views women.
Cindy Sherman
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
humanities.
Spanish Civil War.