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Art Appreciation

Subject : art
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1. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.






2. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca






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






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






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






6. Michelangelo's painting The Last Judgment (p. 468) - for the Sistine Chapel - typifies a style that came to be known as:






7. In School of Athens - Raphael represents the two significant schools of philosophy - signified by the portrayal of _______ and ________ in the center of the composition.






8. Henri Matisse was a leader of early 20th century artists who felt free to use color 'arbitrarily' and were labeled - derogatorily - 'Fauves' - which translates __________.

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






10. Native American kachinas - like Buffalo Kachina (p. 494) - are:






11. One of most important - best preserved and extensively studied Mayan cities is _______.






12. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.






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.






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






15. The artist who painted Houses at L'Estaque worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism. The artist's name is:






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






17. 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.






18. Her untitled photographic self-portraits - posed with props in scenes corresponding to female characters in popular culture - are performances that allow _______ to address the ways in which culture views women.






19. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?






20. In his painting - Probla






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






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






23. Images such as View of Suzhou reveal the 18th century Chinese interest in__________.






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






25. These Hopewell figures are unusual because of their depiction of the _______ - a trait that may be found in people from many different parts of Asia as well as areas from which great migrations from this cradle of civilization occurred - including th






26. Rejecting the frenetic approach of Pollock and de Kooning - Mark Rotho's Abstract Expressionist pantings convey a _______ - not _______space.






27. The Cubists freed painting from the necessity of representing the world in order to dwell on:






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






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

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30. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.






31. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.






32. Thaodore Garicault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?






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






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

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






36. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:






37. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra

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






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






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






41. 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.






42. 'Postmodernism' has been defined in part as:






43. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:






44. From 960 until 1279 - during the Song Dynasty - (p. 447) Taoists in China emphasized the importance of self-expression. Their most important state positions were held by:






45. Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?






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






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






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






49. Fred Wilson's exhibit for the Maryland Historical Society made the point that the Historical Society:






50. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is: