Art Appreciation

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1. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.
the moon
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
sterile anonymity
Learning from Las Vegas


2. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.
humanities.
Spanish Civil War.
Lord Pakal
Minimalism and Pop Art.


3. Which of these is an example of High Renaissance painting?

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4. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
garbage
Teotihuacan
Neoplatonism


5. Michelangelo's painting The Last Judgment (p. 468) - for the Sistine Chapel - typifies a style that came to be known as:
Greek and Roman sculpture.
Futurism
rigid style.
Mannerism.


6. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.
Lord Pakal
utilitarianism
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
Pyramid of the Sun


7. _______ are characteristic of Maya architecture - suggesting priests/rulers had great power.
Teotihuacan
Baroque
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
Large stone temple complexes


8. 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.
Minimalism and Pop Art.
glyphs
muralists - Mexican Revolution


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

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10. Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
movement and speed
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
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.


11. The urge to rebel against the norm lost its impact when such rebellion _______ the norm in most Western cultures.
Mannerism.
Valdivia
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
became


12. _______ 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.
'Wild Beasts'
Las Vegas
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle


13. 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?
the Chinese emperor.
humanities.
Surrealism
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.


14. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?
movement and speed
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.


15. The Post-Impressionists (p. 496) were united by their interest in:

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16. The Post-Impressionists (p. 496) were united by their interest in:

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17. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.
objectivity of the camera.
local - arbitrary
Autosacrifice
Dada


18. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?

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19. The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse is:
more of their African identity in their works
form.
Fauvism.
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.


20. Thaodore Garicault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?
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.
Romanticism
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
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.


21. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
Fragonard's Bathers
more of their African identity in their works


22. Rococo painting can best be characterized as:
'cast shadows'
he sculpted nude figures
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures


23. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Manet's Olympia
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
objectivity of the camera.


24. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
rigid style.
shield
Romanticism


25. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
talud-tablero
movement and speed
color
Surrealism


26. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?
Raphael's School of Athens
Quetzalcoatl
Paul Cazanne
Donatello's.


27. Which of these is an example of Baroque painting?

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28. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
he sculpted nude figures
Paul Cazanne
Caravaggio


29. Characteristics of postmodern photography include all of the following EXCEPT
objectivity of the camera.
Quetzalcoatl
geoglyphs
Thomas Jefferson


30. In his painting - Probla
became
Neoplatonism
form.
narration


31. 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?
'Wild Beasts'
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Surrealism
individuality.


32. 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.
local - arbitrary
Dr. Strangelove
blood
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)


33. Which of these is an example of Baroque painting?

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34. The style of Burial of Count Orgaz is highly eclectic and individual. The artist is:
Teddy Cruz
El Greco.
the symbolism of shape.
Pyramid of the Sun


35. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
for armor
Learning from Las Vegas


36. In his painting - Probla
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
Dr. Strangelove


37. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:
the personality of the sitter.
puma
virtue.
La Venta


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


39. The artist who painted Houses at L'Estaque worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism. The artist's name is:
Fauvism.
Georges Braque.
it is not known which culture built it
the sensuousness of light and color.


40. Marianne Nicholson's cliffside pictograph (a 'copper') represents a Northwest Native American tradition that had been suppressed through most of the 20th century - called:
Large stone temple complexes
the potlatch.
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette


41. 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.
Pyramid of the Sun
domination
Surrealism
shapes


42. What sets northern European artists (p. 454) apart from most artists of the Italian Renaissance is their interest in:
Raphael's School of Athens
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
Church's The Heart of the Andes
rigid style.


43. 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:
abstract
Raphael's School of Athens
Gustave Courbet.
geoglyphs


44. In School of Athens - Raphael represents the two significant schools of philosophy - signified by the portrayal of _______ and ________ in the center of the composition.
German Expressionism.
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Plato; Aristotle.


45. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:
meditative - active
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
more of their African identity in their works
mosaics


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

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47. Whose David was the first life-size nude sculpture since antiquity?

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48. Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigae-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.
Baroque
virtue.
Bettye Saar
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.


49. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:
more of their African identity in their works
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Spanish Civil War.
rigid style.


50. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:
virtue.
abstract
Maya cosmology
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.