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Art Appreciation

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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
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
Thomas Jefferson
domination
cultural and personal identity

2. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.
Autosacrifice
rope bridges
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
Las Vegas

3. Joan Mira
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
Cindy Sherman's
Manet's Olympia
abstract

4. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.
epicanthic fold
Inca
Aztec
Raphael's School of Athens

5. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:
movement and speed
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
Navajo
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.

6. 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.
movement and speed
Minimalism and Pop Art.
Neoplatonism

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?
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
the sensuousness of light and color.
Caravaggio

9. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
Surrealism
narration
1980s

10. In What aspect of the twentieth century were Umberto Boccioni and other Futurist artists most interested?
movement and speed
the notion of the sublime
Fauvism.
Maya cosmology

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:
the ancient caves at Ajanta
Greek and Roman sculpture.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
objectivity of the camera.

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

13. In his painting - Probla
narration
Coatlicue
the sensuousness of light and color.
Manet's Olympia

14. The _______ included in panels of Maya relief carvings and ceramics decoration aide in their interpretation.
objectivity of the camera.
glyphs
Caravaggio
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.

15. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?
art that is about the process of painting.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Paul Cazanne
Fragonard's Bathers

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.
Fauvism.
Spanish Civil War.
Frank Gehry
Learning from Las Vegas

17. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Surrealism
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
it is not known which culture built it

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.
La Venta
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
Raphael's School of Athens
quipu

19. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.
Cindy Sherman
Manet's Olympia
Inca
blood

20. Cubism can best be described as:
art that is about the process of painting.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
Frank Gehry
the notion of the sublime

21. This artist of The Large Bathers pushed toward an idea of painting that established for the work an independent existence:
Paul Cazanne.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Inca
Cindy Sherman's

22. Mayan civilization (p. 464) reached its peak in Southern Mexico and Guatemala around:
Autosacrifice
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
for armor
250.

23. Romanticism can best be described as:

24. The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse is:
Surrealism
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
Fauvism.
'cast shadows'

25. Using her work to struggle with the question of identity - this photographer's images are self-portraits.
Dada
Cindy Sherman
Spanish Civil War.
15000 miles of roads

26. In his painting - Probla
Teotihuacan
rope bridges
Dr. Strangelove
Learning from Las Vegas

27. Diego Rivera - David Siquieros - and Jose Clemente Orozco formed a new school of _______ inspired by the intense nationalism following the _______.
the moon
quipu
muralists - Mexican Revolution
Autosacrifice

28. In works such as Olympia - realist painter Edouard Manet was denying traditional painting style and drawing attention to:
form.
his modernity and break with the past.
local - arbitrary
Surrealism

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.
Teotihuacan
Fragonard's Bathers
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Pyramid of the Sun

30. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Surrealism
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
the potlatch.

31. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
La Venta
puma

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:
puma
the potlatch.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Pyramid of the Sun

33. Like many contemporary sculptors - Kiki Smith - as seen in her Ice Man - seems to be asking questions about:
Baroque
250.
domination
the symbolism of shape.

34. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.
more of their African identity in their works
talud-tablero
color
narration

35. As seen from the earth - _______ evokes a rabbit to some Native American cultures.
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
Raphael's School of Athens
the moon
Paul Cazanne.

36. Which of the following is a unique function of Inca textiles?
Maya cosmology
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
Maya cosmology
for armor

37. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
shield
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.

38. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
Neoplatonism
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.

39. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:
Minimalism and Pop Art.
the notion of the sublime
Georges Braque.
Greek and Roman sculpture.

40. The Rococo style (pp. 479-480) has been characterized as:
Bettye Saar
Minimalism and Pop Art.
the Baroque eroticized.
cultural and personal identity

41. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.
Bettye Saar
Olmec
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
quipu

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.
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
rope bridges
narration
local - arbitrary

43. Chari Samba's Probla
El Greco.
became
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.

44. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:
the moon
Maya cosmology
more of their African identity in their works
objectivity of the camera.

45. On the relief carving on the lid of his sarcophagus - Pakal is depicted falling off the Wacah Chan - _______.
muralists - Mexican Revolution
the Tree of Life
'Wild Beasts'
Teddy Cruz

46. Because of the diversity and plurality of postmodernism - many contemporary artists address the issues of _______ in their work.
the personality of the sitter.
Fauvism.
cultural and personal identity
for armor

47. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.
Olmec
Donatello's.
Futurism
Navajo

48. What sets northern European artists (p. 454) apart from most artists of the Italian Renaissance is their interest in:
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
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.
objectivity of the camera.

49. Cubism can best be described as:
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
masonry
art that is about the process of painting.
muralists - Mexican Revolution

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