Art Appreciation

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1. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
Romanticism
Paul Gauguin.


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
Cindy Sherman's
the sensuousness of light and color.
mosaics
Quetzalcoatl


3. Which of these paintings is considered an Abstract Expressionist painting?

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4. The Cubists freed painting from the necessity of representing the world in order to dwell on:
form.
rigid style.
Large stone temple complexes
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape


5. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.
movement and speed
it is not known which culture built it
the potlatch.
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings


6. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.
Las Vegas
Thomas Jefferson
the symbolism of shape.
Mining the Museum


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
David's The Death of Marat
more of their African identity in their works
the Baroque eroticized.


8. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:
Inca
David's The Death of Marat
Inca
Greek and Roman sculpture.


9. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.
Gustave Courbet.
the potlatch.
it is not known which culture built it
rope bridges


10. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.
the sensuousness of light and color.
Paul Gauguin.
Aztec
Navajo


11. Stylistic characteristics of Postmodern architecture include all of the following EXCEPT
utilitarianism
for armor
Thomas Jefferson
Fragonard's Bathers


12. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:
the notion of the sublime
blood
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.


13. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?
Plato; Aristotle.
Caravaggio
Mining the Museum
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle


14. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
Aztec
it is not known which culture built it
Inca
talud-tablero


15. Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigae-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.
Dada
Aztec
Baroque
virtue.


16. Freed from the rigidity of modernism - architects such as _______ have liberated structural walls - using three-dimensional computer modeling to make these new shapes possible.
individuality.
Learning from Las Vegas
Baroque
Frank Gehry


17. In Mesoamerican cultures - sacrificial _______ was seen as nourishment of the earth in its capacity of creator of life.
utilitarianism
Coatlicue
Cindy Sherman
blood


18. Known for their elaborate textiles used as status symbols - the Inca also used fiber in the construction of armor and _______.
ironies of modern political life
Teotihuacan
rope bridges
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.


19. In What aspect of the twentieth century were Umberto Boccioni and other Futurist artists most interested?
Georges Braque.
movement and speed
talud-tablero
Minimalism and Pop Art.


20. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:
Valdivia
for armor
Paul Cazanne.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.


21. 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.
Fragonard's Bathers
mosaics
local - arbitrary
Baroque


22. Michelangelo's painting The Last Judgment (p. 468) - for the Sistine Chapel - typifies a style that came to be known as:
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
Mannerism.
shield
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings


23. Creating a work densely packed with information concerns most postmodern artists more than _______.
eternal beauty or shock value
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
Dada


24. ______ - 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.
Navajo
Teotihuacan
the notion of the sublime
cultural and personal identity


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

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26. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.
abstract
puma
Neoplatonism
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.


27. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?
more of their African identity in their works
Surrealism
Caravaggio
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.


28. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?
Lord Pakal
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
Plato; Aristotle.


29. Thaodore Garicault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?
the Chinese emperor.
Navajo
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
Romanticism


30. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.
geoglyphs
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
puma


31. 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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32. _______ - the Aztec goddess of life and death is recognizable in the culture's art by her necklace of human hearts - severed hands and skull.
the sensuousness of light and color.
Pyramid of the Sun
Coatlicue
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings


33. In Mesoamerican cultures - sacrificial _______ was seen as nourishment of the earth in its capacity of creator of life.
blood
15000 miles of roads
Futurism
Lord Pakal


34. Vik Muniz's Atlas (Carlao) was created by arranging_______ on his studio floor - photographing the arrangement - then painting from the photograph.
Navajo
Greek and Roman sculpture.
garbage
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures


35. 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
Mining the Museum
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
epicanthic fold
abstract


36. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:
Bettye Saar
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
became
Quetzalcoatl


37. The urge to rebel against the norm lost its impact when such rebellion _______ the norm in most Western cultures.
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.
became
Surrealism
movement and speed


38. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:
Spanish Civil War.
art that is about the process of painting.
the sensuousness of light and color.
Learning from Las Vegas


39. The artist Andra Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of 'resolution between these two states - dream and reality.' What was this movement?
cultural and personal identity
Greek and Roman sculpture.
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
Surrealism


40. Which of these is an example of Baroque painting?

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41. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.
color
Dr. Strangelove
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Donatello's.


42. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.
Mannerism.
he sculpted nude figures
shield
Baroque


43. _______ 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.
Las Vegas
humanities.
puma
talud-tablero


44. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:
Romanticism
individuality.
more of their African identity in their works
Manet's Olympia


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

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46. The two major art movements of the 1960s were:
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
Minimalism and Pop Art.
Baroque


47. A key focus of much postmodern art is _______.
the ancient caves at Ajanta
ironies of modern political life
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
the personality of the sitter.


48. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?
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.
Olmec
Learning from Las Vegas
the personality of the sitter.


49. Romanticism can best be described as:

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50. 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.
for armor
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
El Greco.