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
domination
it is not known which culture built it
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.


2. Known for their elaborate textiles used as status symbols - the Inca also used fiber in the construction of armor and _______.
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
rope bridges
shapes
epicanthic fold


3. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.
glyphs
Inca
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


4. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:
movement and speed
rope bridges
Greek and Roman sculpture.
Neoplatonism


5. Using her work to struggle with the question of identity - this photographer's images are self-portraits.
Paul Cazanne.
Caravaggio
Guernica
Cindy Sherman


6. Because of the diversity and plurality of postmodernism - many contemporary artists address the issues of _______ in their work.
cultural and personal identity
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
Quetzalcoatl
Manet's Olympia


7. Joan Mira
shield
Plato; Aristotle.
Autosacrifice
abstract


8. Romanticism can best be described as:

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9. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.
masonry
Paul Gauguin.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
Bettye Saar


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

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11. In What aspect of the twentieth century were Umberto Boccioni and other Futurist artists most interested?
the notion of the sublime
movement and speed
the symbolism of shape.
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.


12. Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
meditative - active
15000 miles of roads
Mining the Museum


13. On the relief carving on the lid of his sarcophagus - Pakal is depicted falling off the Wacah Chan - _______.
the Tree of Life
virtue.
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
the Chinese emperor.


14. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.
for armor
sterile anonymity
Frank Gehry
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings


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

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16. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
Thomas Jefferson
Autosacrifice
talud-tablero
Cindy Sherman


17. Great Serpent Mound is an example of a(n) _______.
geoglyphs
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar


18. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
quipu
Learning from Las Vegas


19. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?
Fauvism.
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
glyphs
quipu


20. 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:
Aztec
humanities.
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
glyphs


21. The _______ included in panels of Maya relief carvings and ceramics decoration aide in their interpretation.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
shapes
glyphs
blood


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

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23. Which of these paintings is an example of Romanticism?

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24. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.
Church's The Heart of the Andes
Autosacrifice
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain


25. _______ are characteristic of Maya architecture - suggesting priests/rulers had great power.
250.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
Teotihuacan
Large stone temple complexes


26. The Incas are well known for their __________ construction - as can be witnessed in Machu Picchu.
Georges Braque.
Learning from Las Vegas
Teddy Cruz
masonry


27. _______ 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.
Teddy Cruz
Las Vegas
Georges Braque.
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar


28. 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.
domination
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
Church's The Heart of the Andes


29. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:
quipu
15000 miles of roads
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.


30. Creating a work densely packed with information concerns most postmodern artists more than _______.
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
eternal beauty or shock value
Gustave Courbet.
utilitarianism


31. Cubism can best be described as:
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
Paul Cazanne
art that is about the process of painting.
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.


32. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
mosaics
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
Raphael's School of Athens
he sculpted nude figures


33. This artist of The Large Bathers pushed toward an idea of painting that established for the work an independent existence:
Paul Cazanne.
quipu
Gustave Courbet.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew


34. Native American kachinas - like Buffalo Kachina (p. 494) - are:
the Medici family.
Maya cosmology
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.


35. The artist Andra Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of 'resolution between these two states - dream and reality.' What was this movement?
Baroque
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
Surrealism
El Greco.


36. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:
for armor
the sensuousness of light and color.
'Wild Beasts'
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew


37. The Rococo style (pp. 479-480) has been characterized as:
Frank Gehry
the Baroque eroticized.
La Venta
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.


38. 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
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
Neoplatonism
movement and speed


39. Angelica Kauffmann painted in the _______ style (p. 481) - which was based on Greek and Roman models.
talud-tablero
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Neoclassical
Paul Cazanne


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


41. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:
for armor
individuality.
Aztec
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.


42. Michelangelo's painting The Last Judgment (p. 468) - for the Sistine Chapel - typifies a style that came to be known as:
15000 miles of roads
the Chinese emperor.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Mannerism.


43. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:
Futurism
Mannerism.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
Spanish Civil War.


44. Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?
narration
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
the Baroque eroticized.


45. Mayan civilization (p. 464) reached its peak in Southern Mexico and Guatemala around:
garbage
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Gustave Courbet.
250.


46. Known for their elaborate textiles used as status symbols - the Inca also used fiber in the construction of armor and _______.
Gustave Courbet.
rope bridges
Paul Gauguin.
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.


47. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.
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.
Maya cosmology
the Medici family.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden


48. One of most important - best preserved and extensively studied Mayan cities is _______.
Palenque
Fauvism.
Donatello's.
Bettye Saar


49. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
Teddy Cruz
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle


50. This artist reflects on identity and cultural heritage in works such as Petroglyph Park.
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
Guernica
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith