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Art Appreciation
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1. 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?
La Venta
Surrealism
Minimalism and Pop Art.
utilitarianism
2. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:
rigid style.
Cindy Sherman
the Chinese emperor.
Thomas Jefferson
3. Which of these is an example of Baroque painting?
4. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Greek and Roman sculpture.
Surrealism
Dr. Strangelove
5. Joan Mira
puma
abstract
Palenque
Pyramid of the Sun
6. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Learning from Las Vegas
Mining the Museum
Navajo
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.
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
Olmec
Aztec
Donatello's.
8. Native American kachinas - like Buffalo Kachina (p. 494) - are:
meditative - active
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
Manet's Olympia
9. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra
10. _______ 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.
the personality of the sitter.
Minimalism and Pop Art.
Las Vegas
Caravaggio
11. The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse is:
Bettye Saar
Fauvism.
Palenque
the Medici family.
12. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
Autosacrifice
Learning from Las Vegas
the Tree of Life
13. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.
Manet's Olympia
military engineer and weapons-designer
David's The Death of Marat
Autosacrifice
14. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?
Aztec
the notion of the sublime
Valdivia
geoglyphs
15. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.
Autosacrifice
Baroque
puma
Frank Gehry
16. Which of these is an example of Baroque painting?
17. In his painting - Probla
Dr. Strangelove
shield
Aztec
Palenque
18. What sets northern European artists (p. 454) apart from most artists of the Italian Renaissance is their interest in:
garbage
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
Dr. Strangelove
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
19. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.
quipu
David's The Death of Marat
garbage
Guernica
20. 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.
the sensuousness of light and color.
Dr. Strangelove
Guernica
military engineer and weapons-designer
21. The Post-Impressionists (p. 496) were united by their interest in:
22. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.
ironies of modern political life
Minimalism and Pop Art.
the sensuousness of light and color.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
23. The Cubists freed painting from the necessity of representing the world in order to dwell on:
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
ironies of modern political life
form.
Pyramid of the Sun
24. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?
the Tree of Life
Palenque
Thomas Jefferson
the Baroque eroticized.
25. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.
Neoplatonism
rigid style.
Cindy Sherman's
movement and speed
26. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
mosaics
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Maya cosmology
27. 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:
Spanish Civil War.
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
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.
became
28. In What aspect of the twentieth century were Umberto Boccioni and other Futurist artists most interested?
movement and speed
Mining the Museum
the notion of the sublime
glyphs
29. Great Serpent Mound is an example of a(n) _______.
the potlatch.
Mining the Museum
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
shield
30. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:
Baroque
Maya cosmology
the sensuousness of light and color.
masonry
31. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
Fragonard's Bathers
eternal beauty or shock value
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
32. 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.
his modernity and break with the past.
Raphael's School of Athens
shapes
15000 miles of roads
33. Native American kachinas - like Buffalo Kachina (p. 494) - are:
Bettye Saar
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Aztec
Olmec
34. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.
Inca
rigid style.
Dada
the Baroque eroticized.
35. Marianne Nicholson's cliffside pictograph (a 'copper') represents a Northwest Native American tradition that had been suppressed through most of the 20th century - called:
Palenque
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
the potlatch.
Manet's Olympia
36. One of most important - best preserved and extensively studied Mayan cities is _______.
Gustave Courbet.
talud-tablero
Palenque
Inca
37. Creating a work densely packed with information concerns most postmodern artists more than _______.
eternal beauty or shock value
Paul Gauguin.
abstract
Dr. Strangelove
38. These Hopewell figures are unusual because of their depiction of the _______ - a trait that may be found in people from many different parts of Asia as well as areas from which great migrations from this cradle of civilization occurred - including th
Cindy Sherman's
epicanthic fold
his modernity and break with the past.
Minimalism
39. In School of Athens - Raphael represents the two significant schools of philosophy - signified by the portrayal of _______ and ________ in the center of the composition.
for armor
Neoplatonism
Plato; Aristotle.
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
40. 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
Surrealism
Autosacrifice
his modernity and break with the past.
41. Yasumasu Morimura's Portrait (Twins) appropriates the imagery of _______ to illustrate Japanese culture as slave to the dominant (male) forces of Western society.
42. ______ - at its peak a cosmopolitan commercial center - remained a mythic center for Mesoamerican cultures for a thousand years after its decline - including an important pilgrimage site for Aztec rulers.
the personality of the sitter.
color
Surrealism
Teotihuacan
43. _______ 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.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Las Vegas
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
puma
44. Which of these paintings is considered a Rococo painting?
45. Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigae-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.
Spanish Civil War.
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
meditative - active
Baroque
46. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.
Lord Pakal
Maya cosmology
Bettye Saar
'cast shadows'
47. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:
narration
Greek and Roman sculpture.
virtue.
Guernica
48. Leonardo was as known in his time for his work as a(n) ____________ -as much for his work as an artist.
Fauvism.
military engineer and weapons-designer
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
garbage
49. The artist Andra Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of 'resolution between these two states - dream and reality.' What was this movement?
Baroque
Paul Cazanne
Surrealism
puma
50. Romanticism can best be described as: