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Art Appreciation

Subject : art
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1. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.






2. 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.






3. Coatlicue (p. 465) is a major _______ deity.






4. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?






5. 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.






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






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






8. The Post-Impressionists (p. 496) were united by their interest in:


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






10. Rejecting the frenetic approach of Pollock and de Kooning - Mark Rotho's Abstract Expressionist pantings convey a _______ - not _______space.






11. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca






12. Whose David was the first life-size nude sculpture since antiquity?


13. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:






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






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






16. Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to:






17. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.






18. The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of Which movement?






19. Henri Matisse was a leader of early 20th century artists who felt free to use color 'arbitrarily' and were labeled - derogatorily - 'Fauves' - which translates __________.


20. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca






21. Cubism can best be described as:






22. 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:






23. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.






24. Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of:






25. In the 1330s - Petrarch (p. 452) conceived of a philosophy that emphasized the value of the individual and the pursuit and study of classical languages - literature - history - and philosophy. Today we call these disciplines the:






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


27. One of most important - best preserved and extensively studied Mayan cities is _______.






28. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?






29. 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:






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






31. Michelangelo's painting The Last Judgment (p. 468) - for the Sistine Chapel - typifies a style that came to be known as:






32. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:






33. Chari Samba's Probla






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






35. Fred Wilson's exhibit for the Maryland Historical Society made the point that the Historical Society:






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






37. Diego Rivera - David Siquieros - and Jose Clemente Orozco formed a new school of _______ inspired by the intense nationalism following the _______.






38. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:






39. The _______ included in panels of Maya relief carvings and ceramics decoration aide in their interpretation.






40. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:






41. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.






42. The Incas are well known for their __________ construction - as can be witnessed in Machu Picchu.






43. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra


44. In his painting - Probla






45. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.






46. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.






47. 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.






48. 'Postmodernism' has been defined in part as:






49. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?






50. Freed from the rigidity of modernism - architects such as _______ have liberated structural walls - using three-dimensional computer modeling to make these new shapes possible.