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1. The sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini created Ecstasy of St. Theresa - a centerpiece of a chapel in Rome. It is typical of which style?
glyphs
Dada
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Baroque


2. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
Maya cosmology
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.
geoglyphs


3. Rejecting the frenetic approach of Pollock and de Kooning - Mark Rotho's Abstract Expressionist pantings convey a _______ - not _______space.
meditative - active
'Wild Beasts'
Paul Cazanne.
sterile anonymity


4. 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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5. 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
Dada
250.
epicanthic fold
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.


6. Vik Muniz's Atlas (Carlao) was created by arranging_______ on his studio floor - photographing the arrangement - then painting from the photograph.
Raphael's School of Athens
rope bridges
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Learning from Las Vegas


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

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8. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca
Cindy Sherman
abstract
Fragonard's Bathers
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar


9. Chari Samba's Probla
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
Autosacrifice
Spanish Civil War.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans


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

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11. Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigae-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.
Fragonard's Bathers
Baroque
'cast shadows'
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain


12. The artist who painted Houses at L'Estaque worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism. The artist's name is:
individuality.
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
Georges Braque.
Coatlicue


13. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.
Manet's Olympia
the potlatch.
Autosacrifice
epicanthic fold


14. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.
Inca
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
muralists - Mexican Revolution


15. 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
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
Church's The Heart of the Andes
Futurism


16. What is the story behind Gericault's Raft of the Medusa?

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17. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
Quetzalcoatl
15000 miles of roads
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.


18. Coatlicue (p. 465) is a major _______ deity.
ironies of modern political life
Aztec
humanities.
the Chinese emperor.


19. The _______ included in panels of Maya relief carvings and ceramics decoration aide in their interpretation.
Teddy Cruz
masonry
glyphs
Caravaggio


20. 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
garbage
shield
'Wild Beasts'


21. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra

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22. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?
Paul Gauguin.
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abstract
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities


23. Characteristics of postmodern photography include all of the following EXCEPT
Las Vegas
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
for armor
objectivity of the camera.


24. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:
it is not known which culture built it
the potlatch.
the personality of the sitter.
local - arbitrary


25. In the Aztec culture - sacrifices of prisoners-of-war from neighboring peoples were necessary to honor and re-create the sacrifice of _______ in ancient times (Teotihuaca
the potlatch.
Dada
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
Quetzalcoatl


26. The artist who painted Houses at L'Estaque worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism. The artist's name is:
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
Quetzalcoatl
Georges Braque.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew


27. Leonardo was as known in his time for his work as a(n) ____________ -as much for his work as an artist.
Plato; Aristotle.
the Chinese emperor.
Teotihuacan
military engineer and weapons-designer


28. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT
Surrealism
the Tree of Life
movement and speed
rigid style.


29. 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.
quipu
Aztec
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
La Venta


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

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31. Which of these is an example of Dada art?

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32. Michelangelo's painting The Last Judgment (p. 468) - for the Sistine Chapel - typifies a style that came to be known as:
1980s
Mannerism.
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
objectivity of the camera.


33. At La Venta - a(n) _______ site near present-day Villahermosa - Mexico - colossal heads were unearthed exhibiting what some scholars identify as fetal facial characteristics.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Olmec
for armor
Fragonard's Bathers


34. The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse is:
Fauvism.
muralists - Mexican Revolution
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
Valdivia


35. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:
La Venta
individuality.
the Medici family.
garbage


36. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.
Inca
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
Teddy Cruz


37. Cubism can best be described as:
art that is about the process of painting.
Georges Braque.
abstract
David's The Death of Marat


38. Fred Wilson's exhibit for the Maryland Historical Society made the point that the Historical Society:
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
the Tree of Life
'Wild Beasts'


39. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.
became
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
Valdivia


40. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?
Coatlicue
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
Georges Braque.


41. A leading painter in the Realist movement - the artist of Burial at Ornans declared that 'painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the presentation of real and existing things.' The artist is:
Romanticism
Gustave Courbet.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
virtue.


42. Marianne Nicholson's cliffside pictograph (a 'copper') represents a Northwest Native American tradition that had been suppressed through most of the 20th century - called:
the potlatch.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
military engineer and weapons-designer


43. Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?
the sensuousness of light and color.
Guernica
the Tree of Life
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures


44. This artist reflects on identity and cultural heritage in works such as Petroglyph Park.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Spanish Civil War.
Mining the Museum
Thomas Jefferson


45. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?
domination
the notion of the sublime
shapes
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar


46. Thaodore Garicault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?
Quetzalcoatl
Romanticism
David's The Death of Marat
Frank Gehry


47. Freed from the rigidity of modernism - architects such as _______ have liberated structural walls - using three-dimensional computer modeling to make these new shapes possible.
Frank Gehry
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
masonry


48. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
talud-tablero


49. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.
shield
the ancient caves at Ajanta
glyphs
Lord Pakal


50. What is the subject matter of most Impressionist painting?
the notion of the sublime
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden