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Art Appreciation

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1. The Cubists freed painting from the necessity of representing the world in order to dwell on:
became
Inca
puma
form.

2. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:
abstract
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Cindy Sherman
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.

3. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:
Coatlicue
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
the personality of the sitter.
his modernity and break with the past.

4. This artist reflects on identity and cultural heritage in works such as Petroglyph Park.
Dada
epicanthic fold
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Mining the Museum

5. Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?
Learning from Las Vegas
Palenque
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
individuality.

6. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.
quipu
epicanthic fold
Cindy Sherman's
Fragonard's Bathers

7. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:
blood
Paul Cazanne.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.

8. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT
individuality.
Paul Cazanne.
Quetzalcoatl
rigid style.

9. Stylistic characteristics of Postmodern architecture include all of the following EXCEPT
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
Dada
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
utilitarianism

10. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.
puma
Thomas Jefferson
Caravaggio
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.

11. 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.
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
Coatlicue
Cindy Sherman

12. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?
Teotihuacan
Paul Cazanne
became
Cindy Sherman's

13. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?
the sensuousness of light and color.
ironies of modern political life
Minimalism and Pop Art.
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.

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

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15. Consummate empire builders - the _______ arose from humble beginnings as a displaced tribe to commanding rulers of a vast network of luxury tributes from millions of people over a large geographic area in a 300-year period.
Aztec
quipu
Fauvism.
Paul Gauguin.

16. Great Serpent Mound is an example of a(n) _______.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Neoplatonism
muralists - Mexican Revolution
Large stone temple complexes

17. The sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini created Ecstasy of St. Theresa - a centerpiece of a chapel in Rome. It is typical of which style?
Baroque
quipu
the Medici family.
the symbolism of shape.

18. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?
Autosacrifice
Mannerism.
15000 miles of roads
Caravaggio

19. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
individuality.
Romanticism

20. Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality - Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies the _______ movement.
Pyramid of the Sun
1980s
Dada
Neoclassical

21. Rejecting the frenetic approach of Pollock and de Kooning - Mark Rotho's Abstract Expressionist pantings convey a _______ - not _______space.
the Tree of Life
sterile anonymity
Autosacrifice
meditative - active

22. The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of Which movement?
Futurism
art that is about the process of painting.
the symbolism of shape.
Surrealism

23. Chari Samba's Probla
15000 miles of roads
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
Guernica
muralists - Mexican Revolution

24. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra

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25. Stylistic characteristics of Postmodern architecture include all of the following EXCEPT
the ancient caves at Ajanta
utilitarianism
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
humanities.

26. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.
utilitarianism
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
Inca
David's The Death of Marat

27. In works such as Olympia - realist painter Edouard Manet was denying traditional painting style and drawing attention to:
meditative - active
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
his modernity and break with the past.
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape

28. The two major art movements of the 1960s were:
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
Bettye Saar
Minimalism and Pop Art.
meditative - active

29. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.
Palenque
Valdivia
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.

30. _______ - the Aztec goddess of life and death is recognizable in the culture's art by her necklace of human hearts - severed hands and skull.
Coatlicue
Mannerism.
Lord Pakal
El Greco.

31. 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:
talud-tablero
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.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden

32. Mesoamerican cultures believed that humans first emerged from a hole in the ground now situated under the _______.
masonry
Pyramid of the Sun
talud-tablero
Surrealism

33. Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to:
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
Fragonard's Bathers
the Medici family.
Las Vegas

34. The urge to rebel against the norm lost its impact when such rebellion _______ the norm in most Western cultures.
the Baroque eroticized.
became
Aztec
Paul Cazanne.

35. 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:
Gustave Courbet.
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
the Tree of Life
Guernica

36. Chari Samba's Probla
Romanticism
El Greco.
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar

37. 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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38. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
quipu
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Georges Braque's Violin and Palette

39. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?

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40. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.
objectivity of the camera.
it is not known which culture built it
German Expressionism.
Surrealism

41. A key focus of much postmodern art is _______.
German Expressionism.
ironies of modern political life
Thomas Jefferson
meditative - active

42. Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigae-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.
Valdivia
Baroque
movement and speed
Teotihuacan

43. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.
Donatello's.
his modernity and break with the past.
it is not known which culture built it
Raphael's School of Athens

44. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
Surrealism
Learning from Las Vegas
mosaics

45. The urge to rebel against the norm lost its impact when such rebellion _______ the norm in most Western cultures.
meditative - active
Raphael's School of Athens
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
became

46. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.
Mining the Museum
meditative - active
the personality of the sitter.
Greek and Roman sculpture.

47. The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of Which movement?
the personality of the sitter.
El Greco.
Futurism
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.

48. Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for:
250.
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans

49. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?
meditative - active
Thomas Jefferson
Las Vegas
Surrealism

50. 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
Minimalism
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
'Wild Beasts'
Quetzalcoatl