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Art Appreciation
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1. 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:
utilitarianism
the ancient caves at Ajanta
more of their African identity in their works
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
2. In School of Athens - Raphael represents the two significant schools of philosophy - signified by the portrayal of _______ and ________ in the center of the composition.
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
Plato; Aristotle.
Surrealism
Fragonard's Bathers
3. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
Lord Pakal
Learning from Las Vegas
Surrealism
4. A key focus of much postmodern art is _______.
it is not known which culture built it
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
ironies of modern political life
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
5. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.
Mining the Museum
Church's The Heart of the Andes
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
6. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?
Dr. Strangelove
Teddy Cruz
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Paul Gauguin.
7. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:
Guernica
the Chinese emperor.
more of their African identity in their works
'Wild Beasts'
8. The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of Which movement?
Paul Gauguin.
shield
the personality of the sitter.
Futurism
9. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:
Greek and Roman sculpture.
cultural and personal identity
movement and speed
Aztec
10. Which of these paintings is considered a Rococo painting?
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11. Known for their elaborate textiles used as status symbols - the Inca also used fiber in the construction of armor and _______.
cultural and personal identity
the sensuousness of light and color.
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.
rope bridges
12. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?
Georges Braque.
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
eternal beauty or shock value
Surrealism
13. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:
Baroque
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
Pyramid of the Sun
more of their African identity in their works
14. Thaodore Garicault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?
Romanticism
'Wild Beasts'
Paul Gauguin.
Fragonard's Bathers
15. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.
Manet's Olympia
15000 miles of roads
Maya cosmology
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
16. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:
he sculpted nude figures
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
masonry
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
17. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.
puma
shield
Teddy Cruz
Surrealism
18. The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of Which movement?
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Futurism
mosaics
the Tree of Life
19. Rococo painting can best be characterized as:
the Medici family.
David's The Death of Marat
humanities.
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
20. 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.
blood
15000 miles of roads
Olmec
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.
21. _______ photos quote satirically the stereotypes of women in popular film - recycling them as a uniquely pure form of postmodernism.
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22. Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?
cultural and personal identity
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
Neoplatonism
23. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
it is not known which culture built it
form.
24. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:
the sensuousness of light and color.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
Thomas Jefferson
the ancient caves at Ajanta
25. Which of these paintings is an example of Neo-classical art?
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26. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:
Valdivia
the personality of the sitter.
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.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
27. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?
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28. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.
Cindy Sherman
sterile anonymity
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Lord Pakal
29. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.
more of their African identity in their works
Coatlicue
Valdivia
Church's The Heart of the Andes
30. The Post-Impressionists (p. 496) were united by their interest in:
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31. Leonardo was as known in his time for his work as a(n) ____________ -as much for his work as an artist.
military engineer and weapons-designer
the Baroque eroticized.
Gustave Courbet.
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
32. The artist Andra Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of 'resolution between these two states - dream and reality.' What was this movement?
Surrealism
epicanthic fold
sterile anonymity
abstract
33. _______ - the Aztec goddess of life and death is recognizable in the culture's art by her necklace of human hearts - severed hands and skull.
Fauvism.
Coatlicue
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Aztec
34. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.
Valdivia
local - arbitrary
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.
1980s
35. Which of these paintings is an example of Neo-classical art?
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36. 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.
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
Aztec
Guernica
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
37. This artist of The Large Bathers pushed toward an idea of painting that established for the work an independent existence:
geoglyphs
Paul Cazanne.
for armor
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
38. Which of these paintings is considered an Abstract Expressionist painting?
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39. The artist who painted Houses at L'Estaque worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism. The artist's name is:
art that is about the process of painting.
Inca
color
Georges Braque.
40. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.
'Wild Beasts'
Navajo
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
humanities.
41. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.
Baroque
puma
shield
1980s
42. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.
Guernica
sterile anonymity
Las Vegas
'cast shadows'
43. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?
the notion of the sublime
Navajo
local - arbitrary
meditative - active
44. In his painting - Probla
abstract
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Baroque
narration
45. Anish Kapoor - the Indian-born British sculptor - explores the spiritual meanings of _______ - posing questions about the origination and persistence of those meanings when displaced from their traditional context.
Surrealism
eternal beauty or shock value
shapes
ironies of modern political life
46. Which of these paintings is an example of Romanticism?
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47. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.
Inca
blood
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
movement and speed
48. Chari Samba's Probla
Cindy Sherman
Coatlicue
the moon
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
49. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
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.
Thomas Jefferson
El Greco.
50. Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of:
blood
Valdivia
German Expressionism.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew