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Art Appreciation
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Thaodore Garicault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
it is not known which culture built it
German Expressionism.
Romanticism
2. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.
virtue.
Mannerism.
Pyramid of the Sun
Mining the Museum
3. What is the story behind Gericault's Raft of the Medusa?
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4. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.
Cindy Sherman
'cast shadows'
the potlatch.
shield
5. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?
ironies of modern political life
geoglyphs
Paul Gauguin.
Caravaggio
6. In works such as Olympia - realist painter Edouard Manet was denying traditional painting style and drawing attention to:
Quetzalcoatl
'Wild Beasts'
his modernity and break with the past.
talud-tablero
7. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
Teotihuacan
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
Frank Gehry
8. Marianne Nicholson's cliffside pictograph (a 'copper') represents a Northwest Native American tradition that had been suppressed through most of the 20th century - called:
the potlatch.
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
Cindy Sherman
Olmec
9. The two major art movements of the 1960s were:
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.
Fauvism.
meditative - active
Minimalism and Pop Art.
10. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:
Surrealism
he sculpted nude figures
the Chinese emperor.
masonry
11. Which of these paintings is an example of Neo-classical art?
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12. The Cubists freed painting from the necessity of representing the world in order to dwell on:
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
geoglyphs
form.
13. Which of these paintings is considered a Rococo painting?
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14. 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:
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
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.
15. This artist reflects on identity and cultural heritage in works such as Petroglyph Park.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
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.
it is not known which culture built it
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
16. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?
Cindy Sherman
sterile anonymity
the notion of the sublime
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
17. Fred Wilson's exhibit for the Maryland Historical Society made the point that the Historical Society:
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
form.
the Medici family.
Neoclassical
18. The Incas are well known for their __________ construction - as can be witnessed in Machu Picchu.
Plato; Aristotle.
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
objectivity of the camera.
masonry
19. What sets northern European artists (p. 454) apart from most artists of the Italian Renaissance is their interest in:
quipu
Gustave Courbet.
the potlatch.
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
20. 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.
Baroque
local - arbitrary
ironies of modern political life
humanities.
21. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
talud-tablero
rope bridges
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
22. Great Serpent Mound is an example of a(n) _______.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
cultural and personal identity
Minimalism
the Chinese emperor.
23. Which of these is an example of Dada art?
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24. Rejecting the frenetic approach of Pollock and de Kooning - Mark Rotho's Abstract Expressionist pantings convey a _______ - not _______space.
Greek and Roman sculpture.
mosaics
meditative - active
Georges Braque.
25. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?
utilitarianism
talud-tablero
Paul Gauguin.
Learning from Las Vegas
26. The Post-Impressionists (p. 496) were united by their interest in:
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27. Romanticist artists - like Frederic Edwin Church - viewed nature as:
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28. The urge to rebel against the norm lost its impact when such rebellion _______ the norm in most Western cultures.
became
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
abstract
Quetzalcoatl
29. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
puma
domination
he sculpted nude figures
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
30. _______ - the Aztec goddess of life and death is recognizable in the culture's art by her necklace of human hearts - severed hands and skull.
shield
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Coatlicue
cultural and personal identity
31. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.
epicanthic fold
talud-tablero
Bettye Saar
Aztec
32. At La Venta - a(n) _______ site near present-day Villahermosa - Mexico - colossal heads were unearthed exhibiting what some scholars identify as fetal facial characteristics.
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.
Olmec
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
puma
33. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
he sculpted nude figures
the moon
34. Mesoamerican cultures believed that humans first emerged from a hole in the ground now situated under the _______.
Romanticism
'cast shadows'
Pyramid of the Sun
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
35. Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigae-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.
Manet's Olympia
Pyramid of the Sun
Teddy Cruz
Baroque
36. In his painting - Probla
quipu
narration
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
Gustave Courbet.
37. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:
Thomas Jefferson
more of their African identity in their works
domination
the notion of the sublime
38. The _______ included in panels of Maya relief carvings and ceramics decoration aide in their interpretation.
Aztec
glyphs
Frank Gehry
it is not known which culture built it
39. Characteristics of postmodern photography include all of the following EXCEPT
objectivity of the camera.
Romanticism
Bettye Saar
David's The Death of Marat
40. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.
Paul Cazanne.
Learning from Las Vegas
Caravaggio
Bettye Saar
41. Angelica Kauffmann painted in the _______ style (p. 481) - which was based on Greek and Roman models.
Palenque
Teotihuacan
humanities.
Neoclassical
42. The artist Andra Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of 'resolution between these two states - dream and reality.' What was this movement?
Bettye Saar
utilitarianism
Surrealism
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
43. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?
the personality of the sitter.
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
44. 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.
ironies of modern political life
Cindy Sherman
abstract
virtue.
45. 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.
quipu
Paul Cazanne
domination
local - arbitrary
46. A key focus of much postmodern art is _______.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
mosaics
ironies of modern political life
talud-tablero
47. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:
individuality.
German Expressionism.
Greek and Roman sculpture.
Dada
48. The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of Which movement?
the ancient caves at Ajanta
Futurism
the symbolism of shape.
Coatlicue
49. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?
puma
narration
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
'cast shadows'
50. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
Guernica
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
muralists - Mexican Revolution
talud-tablero