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1. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.
virtue.
he sculpted nude figures
Navajo
Inca

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

3. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?

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4. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:
virtue.
shield
Donatello's.
individuality.

5. _______ 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.
humanities.
Las Vegas
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
glyphs

6. Mesoamerican cultures believed that humans first emerged from a hole in the ground now situated under the _______.
became
La Venta
Pyramid of the Sun
Surrealism

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

8. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.
sterile anonymity
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
quipu
the Baroque eroticized.

9. 'Postmodernism' has been defined in part as:
abstract
cultural and personal identity
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.

10. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?
Paul Cazanne
Valdivia
Aztec
quipu

11. Native American kachinas - like Buffalo Kachina (p. 494) - are:
Raphael's School of Athens
local - arbitrary
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden

12. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:
abstract
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
Neoclassical

13. In his painting - Probla
his modernity and break with the past.
narration
utilitarianism
Fragonard's Bathers

14. Rococo painting can best be characterized as:
Minimalism and Pop Art.
for armor
virtue.
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.

15. Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of:
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
German Expressionism.
Fragonard's Bathers
Spanish Civil War.

16. Romanticism can best be described as:

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17. The short-lived Nazca culture in present-day Peru is known primarily for its _______.
geoglyphs
Paul Cazanne.
for armor
Futurism

18. What is the subject matter of most Impressionist painting?
Inca
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
the sensuousness of light and color.
Coatlicue

19. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.
Mining the Museum
Quetzalcoatl
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar

20. Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for:
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
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.
Dada
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities

21. 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?
Greek and Roman sculpture.
German Expressionism.
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
Surrealism

22. Joan Mira
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.
local - arbitrary
abstract
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.

23. 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.
movement and speed
Bettye Saar
the symbolism of shape.
Aztec

24. Fred Wilson's exhibit for the Maryland Historical Society made the point that the Historical Society:
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
rigid style.
virtue.
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.

25. In Mesoamerican cultures - sacrificial _______ was seen as nourishment of the earth in its capacity of creator of life.
Church's The Heart of the Andes
Inca
Manet's Olympia
blood

26. Vernacular architecture - like that in Tijuana - with cast-off materials scavenged from dumpyards serving as walls - fences - structures - and roofs is important to this young architect.
Teddy Cruz
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
Inca
virtue.

27. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.
garbage
blood
250.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans

28. The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of Which movement?
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
Las Vegas
Futurism

29. The artist who painted Houses at L'Estaque worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism. The artist's name is:
Neoplatonism
Paul Gauguin.
narration
Georges Braque.

30. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
Spanish Civil War.
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.

31. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
the sensuousness of light and color.
Lord Pakal
virtue.

32. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:
ironies of modern political life
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
puma
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.

33. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.
1980s
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
rope bridges
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures

34. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?
sterile anonymity
Baroque
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
the notion of the sublime

35. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
it is not known which culture built it
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
Fragonard's Bathers

36. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
form.
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.
narration

37. As seen from the earth - _______ evokes a rabbit to some Native American cultures.
the moon
epicanthic fold
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
the symbolism of shape.

38. What is the subject matter of most Impressionist painting?
meditative - active
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
he sculpted nude figures
Teotihuacan

39. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:
Baroque
muralists - Mexican Revolution
talud-tablero
Spanish Civil War.

40. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?
he sculpted nude figures
Caravaggio
the personality of the sitter.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

41. Coatlicue (p. 465) is a major _______ deity.
epicanthic fold
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Aztec

42. 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.
abstract
Autosacrifice
shapes
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.

43. As seen from the earth - _______ evokes a rabbit to some Native American cultures.
became
the moon
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
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.

44. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?
Church's The Heart of the Andes
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
Mining the Museum
Palenque

45. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?
Manet's Olympia
'Wild Beasts'
Quetzalcoatl
Learning from Las Vegas

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

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47. In his painting - Probla
David's The Death of Marat
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
narration
Olmec

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

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49. Chari Samba's Probla
Minimalism
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
Navajo

50. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?
abstract
Learning from Las Vegas
Valdivia
Quetzalcoatl

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