Art Appreciation

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1. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?

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2. 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.
ironies of modern political life
Inca
Cindy Sherman
humanities.


3. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.
Fragonard's Bathers
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
sterile anonymity
Teddy Cruz


4. Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to:
he sculpted nude figures
1980s
Fragonard's Bathers
the Medici family.


5. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:
Olmec
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
cultural and personal identity
sterile anonymity


6. What is the subject matter of most Impressionist painting?
Teddy Cruz
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
Plato; Aristotle.


7. 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
epicanthic fold
Mannerism.
the ancient caves at Ajanta


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

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9. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.
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.
Neoplatonism
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
color


10. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
talud-tablero
Gustave Courbet.
narration


11. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Mining the Museum
Lord Pakal
glyphs


12. 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.
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
Las Vegas
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
mosaics


13. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.
objectivity of the camera.
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
Inca
Church's The Heart of the Andes


14. 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.
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
15000 miles of roads
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
shapes


15. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
the Chinese emperor.
poets - calligraphers - and painters.


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

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17. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.
the potlatch.
Bettye Saar
shapes
Cindy Sherman's


18. In Mesoamerican cultures - sacrificial _______ was seen as nourishment of the earth in its capacity of creator of life.
blood
El Greco.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
the symbolism of shape.


19. In School of Athens - Raphael represents the two significant schools of philosophy - signified by the portrayal of _______ and ________ in the center of the composition.
Bettye Saar
puma
'Wild Beasts'
Plato; Aristotle.


20. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?
'Wild Beasts'
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
humanities.
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings


21. Stylistic characteristics of Postmodern architecture include all of the following EXCEPT
military engineer and weapons-designer
Raphael's School of Athens
objectivity of the camera.
utilitarianism


22. The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of Which movement?
the Chinese emperor.
Futurism
objectivity of the camera.
epicanthic fold


23. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?
Frank Gehry
muralists - Mexican Revolution
quipu
Learning from Las Vegas


24. Chari Samba's Probla
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
Cindy Sherman
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.


25. Great Serpent Mound is an example of a(n) _______.
Georges Braque.
Teddy Cruz
Navajo
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)


26. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.
cultural and personal identity
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
epicanthic fold
Aztec


27. Vik Muniz's Atlas (Carlao) was created by arranging_______ on his studio floor - photographing the arrangement - then painting from the photograph.
Valdivia
1980s
garbage
Greek and Roman sculpture.


28. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?
Donatello's.
Fragonard's Bathers
Thomas Jefferson
his modernity and break with the past.


29. Chari Samba's Probla
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
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.
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
virtue.


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.
it is not known which culture built it
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
mosaics
the potlatch.


31. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
Las Vegas
talud-tablero


32. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.
masonry
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
Pyramid of the Sun
Neoplatonism


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.
Olmec
the moon
Aztec
Palenque


34. 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.
Teotihuacan
Autosacrifice
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.


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

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36. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.
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.
puma
Olmec
Minimalism


37. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:
Mannerism.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
masonry
more of their African identity in their works


38. Images such as View of Suzhou reveal the 18th century Chinese interest in__________.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
shapes
Minimalism
shapes


39. Mayan civilization (p. 464) reached its peak in Southern Mexico and Guatemala around:
250.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
talud-tablero
poets - calligraphers - and painters.


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

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

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42. Rococo painting can best be characterized as:
Gustave Courbet.
Caravaggio
epicanthic fold
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.


43. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT
Neoclassical
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
rigid style.
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.


44. 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 Baroque eroticized.
Bettye Saar
the moon
La Venta


45. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
1980s
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
military engineer and weapons-designer


46. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
Surrealism
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
Valdivia


47. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.
the Medici family.
Neoplatonism
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
quipu


48. What is the subject matter of most Impressionist painting?
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
he sculpted nude figures
Navajo
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape


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.
Frank Gehry
Greek and Roman sculpture.
German Expressionism.
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar


50. The Rococo style (pp. 479-480) has been characterized as:
250.
the Baroque eroticized.
Futurism
more of their African identity in their works