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Art Appreciation

Subject : art
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1. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.






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


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


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






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


6. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.






7. Characteristics of postmodern photography include all of the following EXCEPT






8. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.






9. 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.






10. Native American kachinas - like Buffalo Kachina (p. 494) - are:






11. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.






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






13. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca






14. 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.






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


16. 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.






17. The three _______ made of serpentine at the Olmec site of La Venta are unusual; they were not meant to be seen as they were buried soon after completion.






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






19. 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:






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


21. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.






22. Characteristics of postmodern photography include all of the following EXCEPT






23. 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.






24. The three _______ made of serpentine at the Olmec site of La Venta are unusual; they were not meant to be seen as they were buried soon after completion.






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






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






27. The Rococo style (pp. 479-480) has been characterized as:






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






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






30. Cubism can best be described as:






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


32. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.






33. What is the subject matter of most Impressionist painting?






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






35. _______ 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.






36. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?






37. In What aspect of the twentieth century were Umberto Boccioni and other Futurist artists most interested?






38. In School of Athens - Raphael represents the two significant schools of philosophy - signified by the portrayal of _______ and ________ in the center of the composition.






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






40. The artist who painted Houses at L'Estaque worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism. The artist's name is:






41. 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:






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


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






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






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






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






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


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






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






50. _______ photos quote satirically the stereotypes of women in popular film - recycling them as a uniquely pure form of postmodernism.