Art Appreciation

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1. 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.
Aztec
Dr. Strangelove
Fauvism.
the Baroque eroticized.


2. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?
Fauvism.
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Romanticism


3. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?
Learning from Las Vegas
garbage
15000 miles of roads
rope bridges


4. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:
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.
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
'cast shadows'
the sensuousness of light and color.


5. Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of:
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
movement and speed
German Expressionism.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.


6. 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
Aztec
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
it is not known which culture built it


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

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8. 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:
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
Raphael's School of Athens
Maya cosmology
color


9. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Inca
mosaics
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.


10. Diego Rivera - David Siquieros - and Jose Clemente Orozco formed a new school of _______ inspired by the intense nationalism following the _______.
muralists - Mexican Revolution
it is not known which culture built it
German Expressionism.
virtue.


11. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
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.
rigid style.
the personality of the sitter.


12. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?
the notion of the sublime
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
mosaics
Inca


13. Characteristics of postmodern photography include all of the following EXCEPT
Mannerism.
Surrealism
Paul Cazanne
objectivity of the camera.


14. 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:
Autosacrifice
humanities.
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
the moon


15. In works such as Olympia - realist painter Edouard Manet was denying traditional painting style and drawing attention to:
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
his modernity and break with the past.
rope bridges
narration


16. Thaodore Garicault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?
Romanticism
Baroque
cultural and personal identity
meditative - active


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

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18. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.
Lord Pakal
glyphs
German Expressionism.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.


19. The two major art movements of the 1960s were:
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
the Chinese emperor.
Minimalism and Pop Art.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.


20. Images such as View of Suzhou reveal the 18th century Chinese interest in__________.
Georges Braque.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
Learning from Las Vegas
Paul Cazanne


21. 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 Chinese emperor.
the potlatch.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
'cast shadows'


22. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.
narration
abstract
1980s
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-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.
the Baroque eroticized.
Aztec
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.


24. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
Quetzalcoatl
color
Romanticism


25. This artist of The Large Bathers pushed toward an idea of painting that established for the work an independent existence:
Romanticism
shield
ironies of modern political life
Paul Cazanne.


26. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.
Baroque
La Venta
shield
the potlatch.


27. Angelica Kauffmann painted in the _______ style (p. 481) - which was based on Greek and Roman models.
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
Guernica
Neoclassical


28. ______ - 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.
geoglyphs
Teotihuacan
Cindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman's


29. Native American kachinas - like Buffalo Kachina (p. 494) - are:
Teddy Cruz
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Dada
Mining the Museum


30. Romanticist artists - like Frederic Edwin Church - viewed nature as:

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31. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.
Paul Cazanne.
it is not known which culture built it
Fauvism.
Coatlicue


32. Using her work to struggle with the question of identity - this photographer's images are self-portraits.
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
Quetzalcoatl
Cindy Sherman
Paul Gauguin.


33. 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.
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
individuality.
Caravaggio


34. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:
individuality.
Fragonard's Bathers
Mining the Museum
La Venta


35. Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to:
the Medici family.
Neoclassical
Dada
Surrealism


36. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
the notion of the sublime
Thomas Jefferson
Quetzalcoatl


37. The artist who painted Houses at L'Estaque worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism. The artist's name is:
Georges Braque.
Greek and Roman sculpture.
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's Violin and Palette


38. 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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39. Mayan civilization (p. 464) reached its peak in Southern Mexico and Guatemala around:
250.
narration
garbage
shield


40. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
Thomas Jefferson
epicanthic fold
Manet's Olympia


41. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.
Dada
Large stone temple complexes
Baroque
Autosacrifice


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

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43. The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse is:
Bettye Saar
Fauvism.
'cast shadows'
rendering believable space in realistic detail.


44. Rococo painting can best be characterized as:
eternal beauty or shock value
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
became
Baroque


45. The _______ included in panels of Maya relief carvings and ceramics decoration aide in their interpretation.
glyphs
rigid style.
El Greco.
domination


46. Characteristics of postmodern photography include all of the following EXCEPT
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
sterile anonymity
Coatlicue
objectivity of the camera.


47. Romanticist artists - like Frederic Edwin Church - viewed nature as:

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48. This artist reflects on identity and cultural heritage in works such as Petroglyph Park.
the sensuousness of light and color.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Dada


49. Freed from the rigidity of modernism - architects such as _______ have liberated structural walls - using three-dimensional computer modeling to make these new shapes possible.
the Medici family.
Frank Gehry
mosaics
objectivity of the camera.


50. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:
individuality.
Minimalism and Pop Art.
Spanish Civil War.
quipu