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Art Appreciation

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






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






3. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.






4. 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.






5. Diego Rivera - David Siquieros - and Jose Clemente Orozco formed a new school of _______ inspired by the intense nationalism following the _______.






6. Freed from the rigidity of modernism - architects such as _______ have liberated structural walls - using three-dimensional computer modeling to make these new shapes possible.






7. Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for:






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






9. 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.






10. 'Postmodernism' has been defined in part as:






11. Rococo painting can best be characterized as:






12. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:






13. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:






14. _______ photos quote satirically the stereotypes of women in popular film - recycling them as a uniquely pure form of postmodernism.

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15. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:






16. Images such as View of Suzhou reveal the 18th century Chinese interest in__________.






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






18. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.






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






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






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






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






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






24. Like many contemporary sculptors - Kiki Smith - as seen in her Ice Man - seems to be asking questions about:






25. _______ 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.






26. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:






27. 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.






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

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29. Known for their elaborate textiles used as status symbols - the Inca also used fiber in the construction of armor and _______.






30. Which of these paintings is considered a Rococo painting?

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31. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.






32. In Mesoamerican cultures - sacrificial _______ was seen as nourishment of the earth in its capacity of creator of life.






33. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.






34. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:






35. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:






36. Leonardo was as known in his time for his work as a(n) ____________ -as much for his work as an artist.






37. Angelica Kauffmann painted in the _______ style (p. 481) - which was based on Greek and Roman models.






38. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.






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






40. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?






41. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:






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






43. The urge to rebel against the norm lost its impact when such rebellion _______ the norm in most Western cultures.






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






46. The Incas are well known for their __________ construction - as can be witnessed in Machu Picchu.






47. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:






48. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.






49. Marianne Nicholson's cliffside pictograph (a 'copper') represents a Northwest Native American tradition that had been suppressed through most of the 20th century - called:






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







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