Art Appreciation

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1. _______ are characteristic of Maya architecture - suggesting priests/rulers had great power.
German Expressionism.
Large stone temple complexes
the symbolism of shape.
Romanticism


2. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
Cindy Sherman
Lord Pakal


3. Because of the diversity and plurality of postmodernism - many contemporary artists address the issues of _______ in their work.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
cultural and personal identity
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
the Baroque eroticized.


4. 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?
Surrealism
form.
Inca
Thomas Jefferson


5. 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:
quipu
humanities.
shield
Baroque


6. Thaodore Garicault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?
Romanticism
Raphael's School of Athens
Church's The Heart of the Andes
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans


7. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:
objectivity of the camera.
form.
El Greco.
more of their African identity in their works


8. Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to:
1980s
the moon
the Medici family.
Minimalism and Pop Art.


9. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:
El Greco.
it is not known which culture built it
virtue.
humanities.


10. This artist of The Large Bathers pushed toward an idea of painting that established for the work an independent existence:
Gustave Courbet.
Large stone temple complexes
Paul Cazanne.
Learning from Las Vegas


11. Like many contemporary sculptors - Kiki Smith - as seen in her Ice Man - seems to be asking questions about:
it is not known which culture built it
Autosacrifice
the symbolism of shape.
movement and speed


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

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13. _______ 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.
Neoplatonism
Teotihuacan
Las Vegas
Autosacrifice


14. Which of these paintings is considered an Abstract Expressionist painting?

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15. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:
became
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
domination
he sculpted nude figures


16. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
it is not known which culture built it
Greek and Roman sculpture.
Neoclassical
he sculpted nude figures


17. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.
Mining the Museum
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
Cindy Sherman
art that is about the process of painting.


18. Romanticism can best be described as:

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19. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:
muralists - Mexican Revolution
objectivity of the camera.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
the Chinese emperor.


20. Chari Samba's Probla
for armor
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
he sculpted nude figures
rendering believable space in realistic detail.


21. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:
Surrealism
Learning from Las Vegas
individuality.
sterile anonymity


22. Using her work to struggle with the question of identity - this photographer's images are self-portraits.
Cindy Sherman
talud-tablero
Surrealism
Paul Cazanne.


23. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?
Frank Gehry
meditative - active
the notion of the sublime
Manet's Olympia


24. 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.
Futurism
local - arbitrary
Maya cosmology
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.


25. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:
shapes
Bettye Saar
meditative - active
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.


26. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:
the personality of the sitter.
garbage
Fauvism.
Teotihuacan


27. The two major art movements of the 1960s were:
Inca
Large stone temple complexes
Minimalism and Pop Art.
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.


28. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?
Georges Braque.
the notion of the sublime
Aztec
the potlatch.


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

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30. Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for:
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
objectivity of the camera.
Church's The Heart of the Andes
for armor


31. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:
shield
Greek and Roman sculpture.
epicanthic fold
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith


32. Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of:
the sensuousness of light and color.
German Expressionism.
Plato; Aristotle.
his modernity and break with the past.


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

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

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35. The Rococo style (pp. 479-480) has been characterized as:
German Expressionism.
the Baroque eroticized.
Surrealism
he sculpted nude figures


36. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.
Dr. Strangelove
Raphael's School of Athens
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
Maya cosmology


37. The two major art movements of the 1960s were:
Minimalism and Pop Art.
Quetzalcoatl
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
individuality.


38. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.
Inca
the symbolism of shape.
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
the Chinese emperor.


39. The Cubists freed painting from the necessity of representing the world in order to dwell on:
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
Caravaggio
form.
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette


40. 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
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
domination
15000 miles of roads
Paul Gauguin.


41. _______ are characteristic of Maya architecture - suggesting priests/rulers had great power.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Large stone temple complexes
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
glyphs


42. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.
color
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
glyphs
Mining the Museum


43. This artist reflects on identity and cultural heritage in works such as Petroglyph Park.
abstract
blood
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Lord Pakal


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

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45. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.
quipu
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
Mining the Museum
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans


46. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?
cultural and personal identity
Caravaggio
Navajo
Pyramid of the Sun


47. The Rococo style (pp. 479-480) has been characterized as:
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
epicanthic fold
the Baroque eroticized.
virtue.


48. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:
the personality of the sitter.
1980s
muralists - Mexican Revolution
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.


49. 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.
mosaics
utilitarianism
rigid style.
humanities.


50. Which of these paintings is considered an Abstract Expressionist painting?

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