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Art Appreciation

Subject : art
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1. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.






2. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.






3. _______ - the Aztec goddess of life and death is recognizable in the culture's art by her necklace of human hearts - severed hands and skull.






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


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






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






7. Which of these paintings is an example of Neo-classical art?


8. 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.






9. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?






10. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:






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






12. Romanticism can best be described as:


13. As a reaction against Abstract Expressionism - Frank Stella's Empress of India exhibits the elegant - sparse content-less shape of _______.






14. In School of Athens - Raphael represents the two significant schools of philosophy - signified by the portrayal of _______ and ________ in the center of the composition.






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






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






17. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?






18. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?






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






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






21. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.






22. 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:






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






24. 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:






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






26. Romanticism can best be described as:


27. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca






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






29. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:






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






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






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






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






34. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?






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






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






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


38. Rococo painting can best be characterized as:






39. The Cubists freed painting from the necessity of representing the world in order to dwell on:






40. The artist Andra Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of 'resolution between these two states - dream and reality.' What was this movement?






41. Creating a work densely packed with information concerns most postmodern artists more than _______.






42. This artist reflects on identity and cultural heritage in works such as Petroglyph Park.






43. The Cubists freed painting from the necessity of representing the world in order to dwell on:






44. In his painting - Probla






45. 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?






46. Using her work to struggle with the question of identity - this photographer's images are self-portraits.






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






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






49. In his painting - Probla






50. 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.