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Art Appreciation

Subject : art
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1. 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






2. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.






3. Joan Mira






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






5. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:






6. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:






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


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






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






10. In What aspect of the twentieth century were Umberto Boccioni and other Futurist artists most interested?






11. 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:






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






13. In his painting - Probla






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






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






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






17. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.






18. The archaeological site plan of _______ shows the site's slightly west-of-north alignment - a characteristic of several Mesoamerican that may be associated with ritual processions.






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






20. Cubism can best be described as:






21. This artist of The Large Bathers pushed toward an idea of painting that established for the work an independent existence:






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






23. Romanticism can best be described as:


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






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






26. In his painting - Probla






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






28. In works such as Olympia - realist painter Edouard Manet was denying traditional painting style and drawing attention to:






29. ______ - at its peak a cosmopolitan commercial center - remained a mythic center for Mesoamerican cultures for a thousand years after its decline - including an important pilgrimage site for Aztec rulers.






30. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.






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






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






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






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






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






36. Which of the following is a unique function of Inca textiles?






37. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.






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






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






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






41. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.






42. 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.






43. Chari Samba's Probla






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






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






46. Because of the diversity and plurality of postmodernism - many contemporary artists address the issues of _______ in their work.






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






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






49. Cubism can best be described as:






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