Art Appreciation

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

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2. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.
German Expressionism.
Aztec
Mining the Museum
Raphael's School of Athens


3. Creating a work densely packed with information concerns most postmodern artists more than _______.
Mannerism.
cultural and personal identity
eternal beauty or shock value
he sculpted nude figures


4. In addition to the sophisticated stone masonry that built Machu Picchu - the Inca also engineered over _______ through their mountainous empire - allowing messages to be transported throughout the empire in less than one week.
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
meditative - active
15000 miles of roads
rigid style.


5. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?
eternal beauty or shock value
talud-tablero
'cast shadows'
the notion of the sublime


6. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Mannerism.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.


7. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
1980s
Romanticism
became


8. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.
Minimalism
Navajo
Paul Cazanne.
became


9. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:
narration
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
cultural and personal identity
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.


10. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
'cast shadows'
15000 miles of roads
the personality of the sitter.


11. The style of Burial of Count Orgaz is highly eclectic and individual. The artist is:
the Medici family.
German Expressionism.
El Greco.
Raphael's School of Athens


12. Because of the diversity and plurality of postmodernism - many contemporary artists address the issues of _______ in their work.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
cultural and personal identity
Inca
Navajo


13. One of most important - best preserved and extensively studied Mayan cities is _______.
Olmec
Palenque
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
objectivity of the camera.


14. Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality - Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies the _______ movement.
Georges Braque.
cultural and personal identity
Dada
local - arbitrary


15. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:
Aztec
Teddy Cruz
David's The Death of Marat
virtue.


16. 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:
humanities.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Dr. Strangelove
Cindy Sherman's


17. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
'cast shadows'
Lord Pakal


18. This artist reflects on identity and cultural heritage in works such as Petroglyph Park.
Aztec
rigid style.
the personality of the sitter.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith


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

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20. 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.
Church's The Heart of the Andes
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
Dr. Strangelove


21. Diego Rivera - David Siquieros - and Jose Clemente Orozco formed a new school of _______ inspired by the intense nationalism following the _______.
Learning from Las Vegas
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.
muralists - Mexican Revolution
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities


22. Creating a work densely packed with information concerns most postmodern artists more than _______.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
250.
eternal beauty or shock value
glyphs


23. As seen from the earth - _______ evokes a rabbit to some Native American cultures.
individuality.
the notion of the sublime
glyphs
the moon


24. Cubism can best be described as:
Fragonard's Bathers
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
art that is about the process of painting.
Inca


25. Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigae-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.
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.
Baroque
his modernity and break with the past.
Aztec


26. Joan Mira
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Gustave Courbet.
abstract
Large stone temple complexes


27. Which of these paintings is considered a Rococo painting?

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28. 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:
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.
Gustave Courbet.
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
Futurism


29. The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of Which movement?
Futurism
movement and speed
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
Surrealism


30. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?
Palenque
individuality.
Mannerism.
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings


31. Great Serpent Mound is an example of a(n) _______.
Surrealism
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Georges Braque.
El Greco.


32. 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.
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
Frank Gehry
Dada
La Venta


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

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34. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?
he sculpted nude figures
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
Georges Braque.
meditative - active


35. In his painting - Probla
Bettye Saar
military engineer and weapons-designer
Caravaggio
Dr. Strangelove


36. Whose David was the first life-size nude sculpture since antiquity?

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37. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:
Palenque
Neoplatonism
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
individuality.


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

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39. The urge to rebel against the norm lost its impact when such rebellion _______ the norm in most Western cultures.
Teddy Cruz
Learning from Las Vegas
became
Navajo


40. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:
250.
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures


41. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
Dada
color
Guernica


42. 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
Inca
mosaics
masonry


43. Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for:
Baroque
shapes
Fragonard's Bathers
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.


44. The Rococo style (pp. 479-480) has been characterized as:
became
the Baroque eroticized.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
blood


45. Which of these paintings is considered a Rococo painting?

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46. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
La Venta
Paul Gauguin.
talud-tablero
Palenque


47. Whose David was the first life-size nude sculpture since antiquity?

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48. 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:
Paul Cazanne.
the ancient caves at Ajanta
Romanticism
Raphael's School of Athens


49. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:
the sensuousness of light and color.
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
Maya cosmology
the Tree of Life


50. On the relief carving on the lid of his sarcophagus - Pakal is depicted falling off the Wacah Chan - _______.
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
shapes
the Tree of Life
the symbolism of shape.