Art Appreciation

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1. Mayan civilization (p. 464) reached its peak in Southern Mexico and Guatemala around:
geoglyphs
the ancient caves at Ajanta
250.
Fauvism.


2. Native American kachinas - like Buffalo Kachina (p. 494) - are:
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
shapes
individuality.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures


3. 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
the sensuousness of light and color.
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.
Coatlicue


4. 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.
Mannerism.
Navajo
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.
mosaics


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

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6. The urge to rebel against the norm lost its impact when such rebellion _______ the norm in most Western cultures.
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
The Medusa sunk off the coast of Africa due to the captain's incompetence and its poor survivors were adrift for days (most of them dying) while the captain and crew saved themselves.
became


7. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:
Valdivia
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
Spanish Civil War.
more of their African identity in their works


8. The Post-Impressionists (p. 496) were united by their interest in:

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9. The Incas are well known for their __________ construction - as can be witnessed in Machu Picchu.
masonry
color
virtue.
The Medusa sunk off the coast of Africa due to the captain's incompetence and its poor survivors were adrift for days (most of them dying) while the captain and crew saved themselves.


10. Images such as View of Suzhou reveal the 18th century Chinese interest in__________.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
shapes
narration
the sensuousness of light and color.


11. The Post-Impressionists (p. 496) were united by their interest in:

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12. Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?
Paul Cazanne.
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures


13. The Post-Impressionists (p. 496) were united by their interest in:

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14. 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
domination
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
muralists - Mexican Revolution


15. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?
narration
Spanish Civil War.
Baroque
Paul Gauguin.


16. 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.
Guernica
the personality of the sitter.
Gustave Courbet.
Autosacrifice


17. Which of these is an example of Dada art?

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18. Cubism can best be described as:
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
cultural and personal identity
art that is about the process of painting.


19. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.
objectivity of the camera.
military engineer and weapons-designer
'cast shadows'
Valdivia


20. Images such as View of Suzhou reveal the 18th century Chinese interest in__________.
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
shapes
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities


21. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:
virtue.
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
'Wild Beasts'
15000 miles of roads


22. Diego Rivera - David Siquieros - and Jose Clemente Orozco formed a new school of _______ inspired by the intense nationalism following the _______.
Minimalism
muralists - Mexican Revolution
narration
utilitarianism


23. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.
Maya cosmology
it is not known which culture built it
glyphs
puma


24. Fred Wilson's exhibit for the Maryland Historical Society made the point that the Historical Society:
military engineer and weapons-designer
Quetzalcoatl
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.


25. Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for:
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
Paul Cazanne
15000 miles of roads
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.


26. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
virtue.
Baroque
puma
he sculpted nude figures


27. Romanticist artists - like Frederic Edwin Church - viewed nature as:

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28. Which of the following is a unique function of Inca textiles?
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.
for armor
'Wild Beasts'
epicanthic fold


29. Yasumasu Morimura's Portrait (Twins) appropriates the imagery of _______ to illustrate Japanese culture as slave to the dominant (male) forces of Western society.

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30. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra

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31. In Mesoamerican cultures - sacrificial _______ was seen as nourishment of the earth in its capacity of creator of life.
blood
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
the Chinese emperor.
Mannerism.


32. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
he sculpted nude figures
The Medusa sunk off the coast of Africa due to the captain's incompetence and its poor survivors were adrift for days (most of them dying) while the captain and crew saved themselves.
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
Mining the Museum


33. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?

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34. Which of these paintings is considered an Abstract Expressionist painting?

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35. 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.
Olmec
shapes
became
Dr. Strangelove


36. 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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37. Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigae-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.
Greek and Roman sculpture.
Autosacrifice
Baroque
talud-tablero


38. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.
Mining the Museum
Coatlicue
Fragonard's Bathers
Paul Cazanne


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

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40. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:
Palenque
Paul Gauguin.
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
puma


41. The Realist movement (p. 489) was influenced by many ideas and worldviews including:

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42. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.
Fauvism.
form.
Valdivia
rendering believable space in realistic detail.


43. Because of the diversity and plurality of postmodernism - many contemporary artists address the issues of _______ in their work.
the potlatch.
Teddy Cruz
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
cultural and personal identity


44. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
it is not known which culture built it
quipu
objectivity of the camera.


45. In his painting - Probla
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
15000 miles of roads
masonry
Dr. Strangelove


46. Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality - Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies the _______ movement.
El Greco.
Dada
Mannerism.
the potlatch.


47. The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of Which movement?
Futurism
local - arbitrary
the notion of the sublime
meditative - active


48. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:
shapes
Plato; Aristotle.
more of their African identity in their works
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.


49. Known for their elaborate textiles used as status symbols - the Inca also used fiber in the construction of armor and _______.
rope bridges
Fragonard's Bathers
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
Navajo


50. What sets northern European artists (p. 454) apart from most artists of the Italian Renaissance is their interest in:
Palenque
glyphs
Inca
rendering believable space in realistic detail.