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Art Appreciation
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1. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:
David's The Death of Marat
virtue.
epicanthic fold
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.
2. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
Romanticism
talud-tablero
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Fauvism.
3. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra
4. _______ are characteristic of Maya architecture - suggesting priests/rulers had great power.
250.
rigid style.
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.
Large stone temple complexes
5. Chari Samba's Probla
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
Maya cosmology
Fauvism.
narration
6. Native American kachinas - like Buffalo Kachina (p. 494) - are:
his modernity and break with the past.
Baroque
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
7. Because of the diversity and plurality of postmodernism - many contemporary artists address the issues of _______ in their work.
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
color
rope bridges
cultural and personal identity
8. Mesoamerican cultures believed that humans first emerged from a hole in the ground now situated under the _______.
Cindy Sherman
Pyramid of the Sun
Palenque
Gustave Courbet.
9. 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:
Las Vegas
Gustave Courbet.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
narration
10. One of most important - best preserved and extensively studied Mayan cities is _______.
Raphael's School of Athens
eternal beauty or shock value
Palenque
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
11. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?
Greek and Roman sculpture.
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
Learning from Las Vegas
Donatello's.
12. The Realist movement (p. 489) was influenced by many ideas and worldviews including:
13. Which of these paintings is considered an Abstract Expressionist painting?
14. Using her work to struggle with the question of identity - this photographer's images are self-portraits.
form.
Cindy Sherman
Pyramid of the Sun
El Greco.
15. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
Mannerism.
Teddy Cruz
1980s
16. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?
17. 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.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Aztec
epicanthic fold
Frank Gehry
18. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:
Palenque
Learning from Las Vegas
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
Gustave Courbet.
19. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
Baroque
Teotihuacan
he sculpted nude figures
the Baroque eroticized.
20. 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
Teddy Cruz
narration
Large stone temple complexes
21. 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.
Romanticism
La Venta
the Tree of Life
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
22. What sets northern European artists (p. 454) apart from most artists of the Italian Renaissance is their interest in:
art that is about the process of painting.
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
Fauvism.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
23. 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:
David's The Death of Marat
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
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 Chinese emperor.
24. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:
Surrealism
sterile anonymity
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
25. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT
Manet's Olympia
domination
rigid style.
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
26. Fred Wilson's exhibit for the Maryland Historical Society made the point that the Historical Society:
Autosacrifice
the Medici family.
Paul Gauguin.
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
27. Which of these paintings is an example of Romanticism?
28. Whose David was the first life-size nude sculpture since antiquity?
29. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.
utilitarianism
the sensuousness of light and color.
color
ironies of modern political life
30. Vik Muniz's Atlas (Carlao) was created by arranging_______ on his studio floor - photographing the arrangement - then painting from the photograph.
Georges Braque.
Cindy Sherman
Paul Cazanne.
garbage
31. _______ photos quote satirically the stereotypes of women in popular film - recycling them as a uniquely pure form of postmodernism.
32. Romanticist artists - like Frederic Edwin Church - viewed nature as:
33. This artist of The Large Bathers pushed toward an idea of painting that established for the work an independent existence:
Paul Gauguin.
Paul Cazanne.
Baroque
Raphael's School of Athens
34. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?
the Chinese emperor.
1980s
Thomas Jefferson
more of their African identity in their works
35. This artist of The Large Bathers pushed toward an idea of painting that established for the work an independent existence:
Cindy Sherman
puma
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
Paul Cazanne.
36. 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.
eternal beauty or shock value
cultural and personal identity
individuality.
37. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra
38. 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.
masonry
Surrealism
Manet's Olympia
mosaics
39. The Post-Impressionists (p. 496) were united by their interest in:
40. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.
shield
epicanthic fold
Donatello's.
Paul Cazanne.
41. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:
Quetzalcoatl
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
'Wild Beasts'
the sensuousness of light and color.
42. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.
virtue.
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
Navajo
Surrealism
43. Like many contemporary sculptors - Kiki Smith - as seen in her Ice Man - seems to be asking questions about:
Cindy Sherman's
the symbolism of shape.
El Greco.
Georges Braque.
44. 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:
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.
Manet's Olympia
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
objectivity of the camera.
45. In What aspect of the twentieth century were Umberto Boccioni and other Futurist artists most interested?
Minimalism
movement and speed
Neoplatonism
ironies of modern political life
46. In School of Athens - Raphael represents the two significant schools of philosophy - signified by the portrayal of _______ and ________ in the center of the composition.
Spanish Civil War.
Plato; Aristotle.
Romanticism
the Tree of Life
47. In Mesoamerican cultures - sacrificial _______ was seen as nourishment of the earth in its capacity of creator of life.
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
the moon
local - arbitrary
blood
48. Whose David was the first life-size nude sculpture since antiquity?
49. Which of these paintings is considered a Rococo painting?
50. Romanticist artists - like Frederic Edwin Church - viewed nature as: