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Art Appreciation

Subject : art
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1. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:






2. Anish Kapoor - the Indian-born British sculptor - explores the spiritual meanings of _______ - posing questions about the origination and persistence of those meanings when displaced from their traditional context.






3. Leonardo was as known in his time for his work as a(n) ____________ -as much for his work as an artist.






4. Creating a work densely packed with information concerns most postmodern artists more than _______.






5. Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality - Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies the _______ movement.






6. Because of the diversity and plurality of postmodernism - many contemporary artists address the issues of _______ in their work.






7. The two major art movements of the 1960s were:






8. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:






9. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.






10. 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?






11. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.






12. 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.






13. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:






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






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

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16. Great Serpent Mound is an example of a(n) _______.






17. Stylistic characteristics of Postmodern architecture include all of the following EXCEPT






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






19. Vernacular architecture - like that in Tijuana - with cast-off materials scavenged from dumpyards serving as walls - fences - structures - and roofs is important to this young architect.






20. From 960 until 1279 - during the Song Dynasty - (p. 447) Taoists in China emphasized the importance of self-expression. Their most important state positions were held by:






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






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






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






24. 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.






25. 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






26. Mesoamerican cultures believed that humans first emerged from a hole in the ground now situated under the _______.






27. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:






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

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29. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?






30. The artist Andra Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of 'resolution between these two states - dream and reality.' What was this movement?






31. 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.






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






33. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca






34. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.






35. 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:






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






37. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.






38. 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.






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






40. At La Venta - a(n) _______ site near present-day Villahermosa - Mexico - colossal heads were unearthed exhibiting what some scholars identify as fetal facial characteristics.






41. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.






42. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:






43. Marianne Nicholson's cliffside pictograph (a 'copper') represents a Northwest Native American tradition that had been suppressed through most of the 20th century - called:






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






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






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

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






48. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca






49. Known for their elaborate textiles used as status symbols - the Inca also used fiber in the construction of armor and _______.






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

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