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Art Appreciation

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1. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.






2. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.






3. One of most important - best preserved and extensively studied Mayan cities is _______.






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

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5. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.






6. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.






7. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca






8. The two major art movements of the 1960s were:






9. 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:






10. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.






11. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.






12. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?






13. A key focus of much postmodern art is _______.






14. On the relief carving on the lid of his sarcophagus - Pakal is depicted falling off the Wacah Chan - _______.






15. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?






16. Michelangelo's painting The Last Judgment (p. 468) - for the Sistine Chapel - typifies a style that came to be known as:






17. 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.






18. 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






19. Stylistic characteristics of Postmodern architecture include all of the following EXCEPT






20. Michelangelo's painting The Last Judgment (p. 468) - for the Sistine Chapel - typifies a style that came to be known as:






21. The Rococo style (pp. 479-480) has been characterized as:






22. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.






23. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.






24. 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.






25. Mesoamerican cultures believed that humans first emerged from a hole in the ground now situated under the _______.






26. The _______ included in panels of Maya relief carvings and ceramics decoration aide in their interpretation.






27. As seen from the earth - _______ evokes a rabbit to some Native American cultures.






28. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca






29. One of most important - best preserved and extensively studied Mayan cities is _______.






30. Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality - Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies the _______ movement.






31. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?






32. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.






33. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?






34. 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.






35. The short-lived Nazca culture in present-day Peru is known primarily for its _______.






36. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.






37. 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:






38. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:






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?






40. The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse is:






41. Mayan civilization (p. 464) reached its peak in Southern Mexico and Guatemala around:






42. The color schemes and flat patterns illustrated in Amrita Sher-Gil's The Swing were directly influenced by the Post-Impressionism of Paul Gauguin and:






43. 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.






44. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?






45. 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.






46. What sets northern European artists (p. 454) apart from most artists of the Italian Renaissance is their interest in:






47. The sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini created Ecstasy of St. Theresa - a centerpiece of a chapel in Rome. It is typical of which style?






48. Chari Samba's Probla






49. _______ 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.






50. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:







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