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1. 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.
15000 miles of roads
Minimalism
Aztec
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.


2. 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.
local - arbitrary
rope bridges
Fragonard's Bathers
the moon


3. Like many contemporary sculptors - Kiki Smith - as seen in her Ice Man - seems to be asking questions about:
shapes
Cindy Sherman's
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
the symbolism of shape.


4. Vernacular architecture - like that in Tijuana - with cast-off materials scavenged from dumpyards serving as walls - fences - structures - and roofs is important to this young architect.
Teddy Cruz
Paul Cazanne.
the Tree of Life
glyphs


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

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

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


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

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9. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
Surrealism


10. Like many contemporary sculptors - Kiki Smith - as seen in her Ice Man - seems to be asking questions about:
Plato; Aristotle.
Quetzalcoatl
the symbolism of shape.
rope bridges


11. 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
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
masonry
objectivity of the camera.


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

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13. As seen from the earth - _______ evokes a rabbit to some Native American cultures.
the moon
the personality of the sitter.
Baroque
Cindy Sherman


14. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Aztec
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith


15. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:
Georges Braque.
Large stone temple complexes
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.
more of their African identity in their works


16. 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.
Futurism
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Inca
Aztec


17. 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.
La Venta
Las Vegas
Fauvism.
Autosacrifice


18. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:
more of their African identity in their works
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
250.
Raphael's School of Athens


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

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20. Chari Samba's Probla
Neoclassical
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
Paul Cazanne
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.


21. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.
Bettye Saar
Lord Pakal
Maya cosmology
became


22. 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
Pyramid of the Sun
Autosacrifice
domination
Fragonard's Bathers


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

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24. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
color
Baroque
the Medici family.


25. 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
the Tree of Life
Aztec
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities


26. 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:
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
Minimalism
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
the ancient caves at Ajanta


27. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
Baroque
Surrealism
rigid style.


28. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?

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29. 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?
Spanish Civil War.
Paul Cazanne.
Surrealism
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)


30. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Neoplatonism
Cindy Sherman
eternal beauty or shock value


31. 'Postmodernism' has been defined in part as:
Thomas Jefferson
Bettye Saar
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
more of their African identity in their works


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.
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
La Venta
art that is about the process of painting.


33. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Paul Gauguin.
Learning from Las Vegas
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.


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

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35. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
Neoclassical
Cindy Sherman
Palenque


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

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37. The urge to rebel against the norm lost its impact when such rebellion _______ the norm in most Western cultures.
Las Vegas
Greek and Roman sculpture.
became
domination


38. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra

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39. Angelica Kauffmann painted in the _______ style (p. 481) - which was based on Greek and Roman models.
individuality.
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Neoclassical


40. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.
Donatello's.
1980s
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
shield


41. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:
Fragonard's Bathers
the symbolism of shape.
cultural and personal identity
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.


42. 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?
he sculpted nude figures
rigid style.
David's The Death of Marat
Surrealism


43. In What aspect of the twentieth century were Umberto Boccioni and other Futurist artists most interested?
Gustave Courbet.
movement and speed
Inca
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.


44. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:
narration
Neoclassical
Palenque
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.


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


46. 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:
meditative - active
muralists - Mexican Revolution
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
Gustave Courbet.


47. Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality - Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies the _______ movement.
Dada
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
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.
Manet's Olympia


48. As a reaction against Abstract Expressionism - Frank Stella's Empress of India exhibits the elegant - sparse content-less shape of _______.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
blood
Donatello's.
Minimalism


49. One of most important - best preserved and extensively studied Mayan cities is _______.
'cast shadows'
Spanish Civil War.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
Palenque


50. The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of Which movement?
Paul Gauguin.
15000 miles of roads
Futurism
it is not known which culture built it