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Art Appreciation

Subject : art
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1. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?






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






3. 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.






4. 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?






5. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:






6. The artist Andra Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of 'resolution between these two states - dream and reality.' What was this movement?






7. At La Venta - a(n) _______ site near present-day Villahermosa - Mexico - colossal heads were unearthed exhibiting what some scholars identify as fetal facial characteristics.






8. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.






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






10. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.






11. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.






12. 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:






13. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:






14. Marianne Nicholson's cliffside pictograph (a 'copper') represents a Northwest Native American tradition that had been suppressed through most of the 20th century - called:






15. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca






16. Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality - Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies the _______ movement.






17. The short-lived Nazca culture in present-day Peru is known primarily for its _______.






18. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca






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


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






21. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.






22. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.






23. 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.






24. Vik Muniz's Atlas (Carlao) was created by arranging_______ on his studio floor - photographing the arrangement - then painting from the photograph.






25. Romanticism can best be described as:


26. As a reaction against Abstract Expressionism - Frank Stella's Empress of India exhibits the elegant - sparse content-less shape of _______.






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


28. In works such as Olympia - realist painter Edouard Manet was denying traditional painting style and drawing attention to:






29. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?






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


31. The _______ included in panels of Maya relief carvings and ceramics decoration aide in their interpretation.






32. In his painting - Probla






33. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.






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






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






36. Using her work to struggle with the question of identity - this photographer's images are self-portraits.






37. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.






38. In The Green Stripe (Madame Matisse) - Henri Matisse dispensed with the use of _______ color in favor of _______ color to explore the expressive possibilities of color.






39. In his painting - Probla






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






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






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






43. Stylistic characteristics of Postmodern architecture include all of the following EXCEPT






44. This artist of The Large Bathers pushed toward an idea of painting that established for the work an independent existence:






45. _______ - the Aztec goddess of life and death is recognizable in the culture's art by her necklace of human hearts - severed hands and skull.






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






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






48. Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for:






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


50. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for: