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Art Appreciation
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1. Diego Rivera - David Siquieros - and Jose Clemente Orozco formed a new school of _______ inspired by the intense nationalism following the _______.
Bettye Saar
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
Baroque
muralists - Mexican Revolution
2. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.
shield
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
quipu
quipu
3. The artist who painted Houses at L'Estaque worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism. The artist's name is:
'Wild Beasts'
epicanthic fold
Georges Braque.
15000 miles of roads
4. Images such as View of Suzhou reveal the 18th century Chinese interest in__________.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
blood
Futurism
humanities.
5. The _______ included in panels of Maya relief carvings and ceramics decoration aide in their interpretation.
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
Lord Pakal
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
glyphs
6. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.
masonry
Plato; Aristotle.
abstract
1980s
7. The Post-Impressionists (p. 496) were united by their interest in:
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8. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.
1980s
Autosacrifice
Teddy Cruz
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
9. The two major art movements of the 1960s were:
Paul Cazanne.
Mannerism.
Minimalism and Pop Art.
Surrealism
10. Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to:
the notion of the sublime
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
the Medici family.
11. In his painting - Probla
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
narration
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
12. The Post-Impressionists (p. 496) were united by their interest in:
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13. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra
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14. Like many contemporary sculptors - Kiki Smith - as seen in her Ice Man - seems to be asking questions about:
Dada
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
the symbolism of shape.
the personality of the sitter.
15. 'Postmodernism' has been defined in part as:
the Medici family.
rigid style.
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
Baroque
16. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?
his modernity and break with the past.
Caravaggio
rigid style.
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
17. The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse is:
Plato; Aristotle.
Minimalism and Pop Art.
Fauvism.
Romanticism
18. 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
Paul Gauguin.
Quetzalcoatl
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
he sculpted nude figures
19. In his painting - Probla
Dr. Strangelove
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
it is not known which culture built it
sterile anonymity
20. In works such as Olympia - realist painter Edouard Manet was denying traditional painting style and drawing attention to:
Quetzalcoatl
Quetzalcoatl
his modernity and break with the past.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
21. _______ - the Aztec goddess of life and death is recognizable in the culture's art by her necklace of human hearts - severed hands and skull.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
Coatlicue
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
22. The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of Which movement?
form.
geoglyphs
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
Futurism
23. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:
Fauvism.
German Expressionism.
color
the sensuousness of light and color.
24. _______ 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.
Fauvism.
ironies of modern political life
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
Las Vegas
25. Great Serpent Mound is an example of a(n) _______.
rope bridges
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
geoglyphs
1980s
26. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
shield
Neoplatonism
27. _______ photos quote satirically the stereotypes of women in popular film - recycling them as a uniquely pure form of postmodernism.
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28. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
shield
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
German Expressionism.
29. _______ - 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
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
virtue.
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
30. Like many contemporary sculptors - Kiki Smith - as seen in her Ice Man - seems to be asking questions about:
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Pyramid of the Sun
Mannerism.
the symbolism of shape.
31. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.
quipu
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
sterile anonymity
Minimalism
32. Vik Muniz's Atlas (Carlao) was created by arranging_______ on his studio floor - photographing the arrangement - then painting from the photograph.
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
Navajo
garbage
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
33. Cubism can best be described as:
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
art that is about the process of painting.
Maya cosmology
34. Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for:
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
the Chinese emperor.
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
Inca
35. Stylistic characteristics of Postmodern architecture include all of the following EXCEPT
the personality of the sitter.
Neoplatonism
utilitarianism
Dada
36. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:
Manet's Olympia
Paul Gauguin.
Cindy Sherman's
more of their African identity in their works
37. At La Venta - a(n) _______ site near present-day Villahermosa - Mexico - colossal heads were unearthed exhibiting what some scholars identify as fetal facial characteristics.
Olmec
garbage
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
Surrealism
38. 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.
mosaics
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
Cindy Sherman
39. Native American kachinas - like Buffalo Kachina (p. 494) - are:
humanities.
Aztec
the Medici family.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
40. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.
Olmec
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
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.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
41. As a reaction against Abstract Expressionism - Frank Stella's Empress of India exhibits the elegant - sparse content-less shape of _______.
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
glyphs
the Medici family.
Minimalism
42. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.
objectivity of the camera.
local - arbitrary
Autosacrifice
Mining the Museum
43. 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.
the moon
quipu
Manet's Olympia
mosaics
44. On the relief carving on the lid of his sarcophagus - Pakal is depicted falling off the Wacah Chan - _______.
the Tree of Life
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
ironies of modern political life
45. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.
glyphs
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
Lord Pakal
military engineer and weapons-designer
46. This artist reflects on identity and cultural heritage in works such as Petroglyph Park.
utilitarianism
shapes
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
47. As seen from the earth - _______ evokes a rabbit to some Native American cultures.
Bettye Saar
Raphael's School of Athens
the moon
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
48. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.
color
Baroque
Caravaggio
Inca
49. Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to:
the Medici family.
Caravaggio
it is not known which culture built it
German Expressionism.
50. Mesoamerican cultures believed that humans first emerged from a hole in the ground now situated under the _______.
meditative - active
for armor
Pyramid of the Sun
Baroque