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Art Appreciation

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1. Fred Wilson's exhibit for the Maryland Historical Society made the point that the Historical Society:
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Dr. Strangelove
Raphael's School of Athens

2. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
Spanish Civil War.
Quetzalcoatl
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.

3. 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:
Frank Gehry
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 presence of diverse traditions in a single work.

4. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
Spanish Civil War.
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
Thomas Jefferson

5. 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.
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
La Venta
Dr. Strangelove

6. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
cultural and personal identity
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.

7. Which of these paintings is an example of Neo-classical art?

8. 'Postmodernism' has been defined in part as:
Church's The Heart of the Andes
Baroque
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.

9. What sets northern European artists (p. 454) apart from most artists of the Italian Renaissance is their interest in:
Neoclassical
humanities.
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
glyphs

10. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:
military engineer and weapons-designer
the sensuousness of light and color.
epicanthic fold
talud-tablero

11. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.
shield
quipu
Bettye Saar
Surrealism

12. 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.
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
it is not known which culture built it
Aztec
La Venta

13. 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.
Autosacrifice
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
Pyramid of the Sun
Cindy Sherman

14. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:
Neoplatonism
garbage
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
became

15. Which of the following is a unique function of Inca textiles?
Surrealism
for armor
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
domination

16. Mayan civilization (p. 464) reached its peak in Southern Mexico and Guatemala around:
form.
250.
the sensuousness of light and color.
Las Vegas

17. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:
El Greco.
the personality of the sitter.
1980s
objectivity of the camera.

18. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.
Greek and Roman sculpture.
Baroque
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
Lord Pakal

19. The _______ included in panels of Maya relief carvings and ceramics decoration aide in their interpretation.
glyphs
Dr. Strangelove
he sculpted nude figures
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.

20. 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:
Guernica
Gustave Courbet.
Lord Pakal
the Medici family.

21. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
eternal beauty or shock value
talud-tablero
Quetzalcoatl
Palenque

22. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
the notion of the sublime
Lord Pakal
Donatello's.

23. 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
Greek and Roman sculpture.
'cast shadows'
Neoclassical
domination

24. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.
Pyramid of the Sun
El Greco.
Autosacrifice
Paul Cazanne

25. Marianne Nicholson's cliffside pictograph (a 'copper') represents a Northwest Native American tradition that had been suppressed through most of the 20th century - called:
masonry
the potlatch.
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
Quetzalcoatl

26. 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.
Baroque
Cindy Sherman
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
Fragonard's Bathers

27. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.
more of their African identity in their works
Neoplatonism
Paul Cazanne
Greek and Roman sculpture.

28. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:
German Expressionism.
the notion of the sublime
the ancient caves at Ajanta
Greek and Roman sculpture.

29. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
puma
glyphs
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew

30. Chari Samba's Probla
his modernity and break with the past.
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
shapes
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.

31. The Incas are well known for their __________ construction - as can be witnessed in Machu Picchu.
movement and speed
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
Guernica
masonry

32. Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of:
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
the Chinese emperor.
German Expressionism.
Inca

33. The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse is:
became
became
Fauvism.
Inca

34. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra

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

36. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:
talud-tablero
Frank Gehry
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew

37. _______ - the Aztec goddess of life and death is recognizable in the culture's art by her necklace of human hearts - severed hands and skull.
Coatlicue
Inca
German Expressionism.
Greek and Roman sculpture.

38. Chari Samba's Probla
form.
domination
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
15000 miles of roads

39. The Rococo style (pp. 479-480) has been characterized as:
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
the Baroque eroticized.
Fragonard's Bathers
David's The Death of Marat

40. Henri Matisse was a leader of early 20th century artists who felt free to use color 'arbitrarily' and were labeled - derogatorily - 'Fauves' - which translates __________.

41. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Teddy Cruz
shapes
shield

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

43. The Cubists freed painting from the necessity of representing the world in order to dwell on:
Fauvism.
form.
Raphael's School of Athens
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew

44. In works such as Olympia - realist painter Edouard Manet was denying traditional painting style and drawing attention to:
his modernity and break with the past.
Romanticism
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
objectivity of the camera.

45. The Incas are well known for their __________ construction - as can be witnessed in Machu Picchu.
masonry
military engineer and weapons-designer
Raphael's School of Athens
the Chinese emperor.

46. In works such as Olympia - realist painter Edouard Manet was denying traditional painting style and drawing attention to:
his modernity and break with the past.
Navajo
Las Vegas
art that is about the process of painting.

47. The short-lived Nazca culture in present-day Peru is known primarily for its _______.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Spanish Civil War.
geoglyphs
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape

48. _______ - the Aztec goddess of life and death is recognizable in the culture's art by her necklace of human hearts - severed hands and skull.
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
Coatlicue
Cindy Sherman's
for armor

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

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