Art Appreciation

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

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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 notion of the sublime
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
Plato; Aristotle.


3. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.
abstract
Teddy Cruz
Gustave Courbet.
Valdivia


4. In Mesoamerican cultures - sacrificial _______ was seen as nourishment of the earth in its capacity of creator of life.
Neoplatonism
blood
Romanticism
Gustave Courbet.


5. 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
1980s
the potlatch.
color


6. As a reaction against Abstract Expressionism - Frank Stella's Empress of India exhibits the elegant - sparse content-less shape of _______.
Cindy Sherman's
Minimalism
the personality of the sitter.
form.


7. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
Learning from Las Vegas
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
quipu


8. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
Fauvism.
Minimalism
more of their African identity in their works


9. 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.
Fragonard's Bathers
Dada
La Venta
Frank Gehry


10. 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.
rope bridges
Guernica
Neoclassical
Manet's Olympia


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

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12. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra

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13. Whose David was the first life-size nude sculpture since antiquity?

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14. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:
the Chinese emperor.
eternal beauty or shock value
Valdivia
Lord Pakal


15. Cubism can best be described as:
art that is about the process of painting.
it is not known which culture built it
Neoplatonism
Mining the Museum


16. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
the ancient caves at Ajanta
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
Surrealism


17. Rejecting the frenetic approach of Pollock and de Kooning - Mark Rotho's Abstract Expressionist pantings convey a _______ - not _______space.
Pyramid of the Sun
Surrealism
meditative - active
geoglyphs


18. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
glyphs
Bettye Saar
eternal beauty or shock value


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


20. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?
epicanthic fold
the notion of the sublime
Large stone temple complexes
David's The Death of Marat


21. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
domination


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

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23. The style of Burial of Count Orgaz is highly eclectic and individual. The artist is:
Raphael's School of Athens
virtue.
rope bridges
El Greco.


24. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
his modernity and break with the past.
the Baroque eroticized.
he sculpted nude figures
'cast shadows'


25. Like many contemporary sculptors - Kiki Smith - as seen in her Ice Man - seems to be asking questions about:
local - arbitrary
Minimalism and Pop Art.
the symbolism of shape.
color


26. 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.
German Expressionism.
the Chinese emperor.
'cast shadows'


27. The short-lived Nazca culture in present-day Peru is known primarily for its _______.
Raphael's School of Athens
geoglyphs
'cast shadows'
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.


28. The Incas are well known for their __________ construction - as can be witnessed in Machu Picchu.
masonry
Caravaggio
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
the Tree of Life


29. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.
Maya cosmology
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Quetzalcoatl
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.


30. 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:
German Expressionism.
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 Tree of Life
Paul Cazanne


31. Fred Wilson's exhibit for the Maryland Historical Society made the point that the Historical Society:
quipu
Autosacrifice
Caravaggio
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.


32. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?

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33. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.
Lord Pakal
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Inca
'Wild Beasts'


34. Mesoamerican cultures believed that humans first emerged from a hole in the ground now situated under the _______.
Pyramid of the Sun
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Fragonard's Bathers
Fauvism.


35. Rococo painting can best be characterized as:
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
Donatello's.
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.


36. _______ may be tasteless and tacky but the public revels in it - a point Robert Venturi stresses in his book which opened the door to postmodern architecture.
Teddy Cruz
shield
15000 miles of roads
Las Vegas


37. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:
virtue.
individuality.
Las Vegas
objectivity of the camera.


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

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39. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.
for armor
quipu
Navajo
Caravaggio


40. Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to:
Autosacrifice
Donatello's.
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
the Medici family.


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

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42. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:
Frank Gehry
Paul Cazanne.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans


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

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44. Rejecting the frenetic approach of Pollock and de Kooning - Mark Rotho's Abstract Expressionist pantings convey a _______ - not _______space.
Maya cosmology
meditative - active
Caravaggio
Aztec


45. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:
Navajo
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
epicanthic fold
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.


46. Which of these paintings is considered a Rococo painting?

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47. The _______ included in panels of Maya relief carvings and ceramics decoration aide in their interpretation.
Valdivia
Mining the Museum
glyphs
Neoplatonism


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.
Coatlicue
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
Inca
David's The Death of Marat


49. _______ photos quote satirically the stereotypes of women in popular film - recycling them as a uniquely pure form of postmodernism.

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50. In works such as Olympia - realist painter Edouard Manet was denying traditional painting style and drawing attention to:
masonry
his modernity and break with the past.
Paul Cazanne.
talud-tablero