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Art Appreciation

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1. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.






2. The urge to rebel against the norm lost its impact when such rebellion _______ the norm in most Western cultures.






3. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:






4. Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to:






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






6. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?






7. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.






8. Artists often find that the art they make has unintentional meaning. Georgia Papageorge's Africa Rifting: Lines of Fire: Namibia/Brazil is an example of this because:






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


10. Considered one of the greatest artistic responses to political oppression - Picasso's _______ was painted as condemnation of the blitzkrieg that leveled the city center of a small Basque town in the Spanish Civil War.






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






12. The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of Which movement?






13. 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






14. Romanticism can best be described as:


15. 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.






16. Known for their elaborate textiles used as status symbols - the Inca also used fiber in the construction of armor and _______.






17. Cubism can best be described as:






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


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






20. What is the subject matter of most Impressionist painting?






21. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:






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


23. 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:






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






25. Creating a work densely packed with information concerns most postmodern artists more than _______.






26. Mesoamerican cultures believed that humans first emerged from a hole in the ground now situated under the _______.






27. 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:






28. The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of Which movement?






29. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.






30. 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.






31. 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:






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






33. The style of Burial of Count Orgaz is highly eclectic and individual. The artist is:






34. 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.






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?






36. In Mesoamerican cultures - sacrificial _______ was seen as nourishment of the earth in its capacity of creator of life.






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






38. Because of the diversity and plurality of postmodernism - many contemporary artists address the issues of _______ in their work.






39. Rococo painting can best be characterized as:






40. 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?






41. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.






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






43. _______ 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.






44. Yasumasu Morimura's Portrait (Twins) appropriates the imagery of _______ to illustrate Japanese culture as slave to the dominant (male) forces of Western society.


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






46. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.






47. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca






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






49. 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:






50. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?