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Art Appreciation
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1. Which of the following is a unique function of Inca textiles?
geoglyphs
for armor
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
Cindy Sherman
2. The Post-Impressionists (p. 496) were united by their interest in:
3. 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.
Cindy Sherman
sterile anonymity
La Venta
Fragonard's Bathers
4. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.
the Chinese emperor.
Inca
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
muralists - Mexican Revolution
5. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.
mosaics
the moon
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
Bettye Saar
6. Characteristics of postmodern photography include all of the following EXCEPT
Dada
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
Neoclassical
objectivity of the camera.
7. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.
Quetzalcoatl
the Medici family.
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
shield
8. Which of these is an example of High Renaissance painting?
9. Using her work to struggle with the question of identity - this photographer's images are self-portraits.
the symbolism of shape.
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
Cindy Sherman
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
10. Marianne Nicholson's cliffside pictograph (a 'copper') represents a Northwest Native American tradition that had been suppressed through most of the 20th century - called:
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Neoplatonism
the potlatch.
Romanticism
11. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:
Valdivia
the Chinese emperor.
Baroque
for armor
12. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
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.
garbage
Paul Cazanne
13. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:
Romanticism
ironies of modern political life
Pyramid of the Sun
the personality of the sitter.
14. Which of these is an example of Baroque painting?
15. The _______ included in panels of Maya relief carvings and ceramics decoration aide in their interpretation.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
glyphs
the potlatch.
Cindy Sherman's
16. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
he sculpted nude figures
blood
Greek and Roman sculpture.
17. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:
Pyramid of the Sun
individuality.
more of their African identity in their works
Fauvism.
18. Great Serpent Mound is an example of a(n) _______.
mosaics
Dr. Strangelove
the Medici family.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
19. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.
puma
sterile anonymity
Surrealism
Learning from Las Vegas
20. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:
epicanthic fold
the Chinese emperor.
Cindy Sherman
Inca
21. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.
Las Vegas
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
Lord Pakal
became
22. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:
El Greco.
1980s
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
military engineer and weapons-designer
23. 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.
'Wild Beasts'
for armor
the Tree of Life
24. The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of Which movement?
Futurism
blood
Georges Braque.
abstract
25. The artist Andra Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of 'resolution between these two states - dream and reality.' What was this movement?
Surrealism
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
Minimalism and Pop Art.
Palenque
26. 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
objectivity of the camera.
15000 miles of roads
Neoplatonism
27. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:
muralists - Mexican Revolution
Raphael's School of Athens
the sensuousness of light and color.
the notion of the sublime
28. 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.
Teddy Cruz
Frank Gehry
Inca
virtue.
29. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?
Paul Cazanne
Paul Gauguin.
Baroque
abstract
30. 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.
mosaics
rope bridges
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
31. Rejecting the frenetic approach of Pollock and de Kooning - Mark Rotho's Abstract Expressionist pantings convey a _______ - not _______space.
meditative - active
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
the notion of the sublime
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
32. The Post-Impressionists (p. 496) were united by their interest in:
33. In his painting - Probla
cultural and personal identity
shapes
narration
humanities.
34. Leonardo was as known in his time for his work as a(n) ____________ -as much for his work as an artist.
geoglyphs
'Wild Beasts'
Paul Cazanne
military engineer and weapons-designer
35. 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:
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
humanities.
form.
Caravaggio
36. 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
epicanthic fold
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
virtue.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
37. Romanticism can best be described as:
38. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:
individuality.
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
more of their African identity in their works
Teddy Cruz
39. 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?
Guernica
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
Surrealism
puma
40. Like many contemporary sculptors - Kiki Smith - as seen in her Ice Man - seems to be asking questions about:
Futurism
the symbolism of shape.
rigid style.
Neoplatonism
41. Mayan civilization (p. 464) reached its peak in Southern Mexico and Guatemala around:
Quetzalcoatl
250.
Raphael's School of Athens
cultural and personal identity
42. 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.
shapes
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
humanities.
his modernity and break with the past.
43. _______ photos quote satirically the stereotypes of women in popular film - recycling them as a uniquely pure form of postmodernism.
44. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
Bettye Saar
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
domination
45. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.
shield
Inca
the personality of the sitter.
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
46. 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.
1980s
for armor
15000 miles of roads
shapes
47. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.
color
Paul Cazanne.
Fauvism.
Inca
48. From the traditions of most cultures - leadership and shamanism went hand-in-hand. Successful leaders mediated between the spiritual and physical worlds to assure the survival of their peoples. This mediation characteristically involved rites all of
Maya cosmology
Pyramid of the Sun
domination
Mannerism.
49. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
Paul Gauguin.
talud-tablero
Inca
individuality.
50. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.
blood
Navajo
Large stone temple complexes
Minimalism