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Art Appreciation

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1. Native American kachinas - like Buffalo Kachina (p. 494) - are:
David's The Death of Marat
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.

2. On the relief carving on the lid of his sarcophagus - Pakal is depicted falling off the Wacah Chan - _______.
the Tree of Life
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Baroque
Cindy Sherman's

3. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
mosaics
puma
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle

4. Rococo painting can best be characterized as:
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
1980s
Aztec
became

5. The urge to rebel against the norm lost its impact when such rebellion _______ the norm in most Western cultures.
cultural and personal identity
humanities.
became
Fragonard's Bathers

6. What sets northern European artists (p. 454) apart from most artists of the Italian Renaissance is their interest in:
the personality of the sitter.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Valdivia
rendering believable space in realistic detail.

7. The Rococo style (pp. 479-480) has been characterized as:
Cindy Sherman's
the Baroque eroticized.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
Plato; Aristotle.

8. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
Futurism
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.

9. The short-lived Nazca culture in present-day Peru is known primarily for its _______.
he sculpted nude figures
epicanthic fold
geoglyphs
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.

10. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
for armor
cultural and personal identity
Church's The Heart of the Andes

11. What is the subject matter of most Impressionist painting?
Baroque
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
rigid style.
cultural and personal identity

12. 'Postmodernism' has been defined in part as:
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
Inca
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.

13. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.
the ancient caves at Ajanta
Neoplatonism
rope bridges
military engineer and weapons-designer

14. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?
muralists - Mexican Revolution
the notion of the sublime
his modernity and break with the past.
meditative - active

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

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16. 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:
form.
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
Gustave Courbet.
he sculpted nude figures

17. The short-lived Nazca culture in present-day Peru is known primarily for its _______.
Learning from Las Vegas
geoglyphs
the sensuousness of light and color.
art that is about the process of painting.

18. The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of Which movement?
250.
Navajo
15000 miles of roads
Futurism

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

20. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
Futurism
objectivity of the camera.
Paul Cazanne.

21. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.
Neoplatonism
Learning from Las Vegas
Neoclassical
local - arbitrary

22. Images such as View of Suzhou reveal the 18th century Chinese interest in__________.
Las Vegas
Coatlicue
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
more of their African identity in their works

23. Diego Rivera - David Siquieros - and Jose Clemente Orozco formed a new school of _______ inspired by the intense nationalism following the _______.
Romanticism
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.
muralists - Mexican Revolution
Quetzalcoatl

24. The urge to rebel against the norm lost its impact when such rebellion _______ the norm in most Western cultures.
the Medici family.
it is not known which culture built it
became
El Greco.

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

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26. 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.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
Guernica
Minimalism
15000 miles of roads

27. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
Romanticism
talud-tablero
the symbolism of shape.
1980s

28. Thaodore Garicault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?
Large stone temple complexes
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
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.
Romanticism

29. 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
shield
Baroque
eternal beauty or shock value

30. This artist of The Large Bathers pushed toward an idea of painting that established for the work an independent existence:
'Wild Beasts'
Paul Cazanne.
Las Vegas
color

31. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
shield
shapes

32. Vik Muniz's Atlas (Carlao) was created by arranging_______ on his studio floor - photographing the arrangement - then painting from the photograph.
Church's The Heart of the Andes
El Greco.
garbage
Coatlicue

33. _______ 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.
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
movement and speed
masonry
Las Vegas

34. The style of Burial of Count Orgaz is highly eclectic and individual. The artist is:
Caravaggio
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
El Greco.
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.

35. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.
puma
Romanticism
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Lord Pakal

36. _______ are characteristic of Maya architecture - suggesting priests/rulers had great power.
individuality.
Romanticism
Large stone temple complexes
'Wild Beasts'

37. As seen from the earth - _______ evokes a rabbit to some Native American cultures.
the moon
art that is about the process of painting.
masonry
Minimalism

38. In What aspect of the twentieth century were Umberto Boccioni and other Futurist artists most interested?
talud-tablero
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.
movement and speed
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.

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

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40. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.
Autosacrifice
Raphael's School of Athens
'Wild Beasts'
individuality.

41. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
Fauvism.
meditative - active
rigid style.

42. Romanticism can best be described as:

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43. This artist of The Large Bathers pushed toward an idea of painting that established for the work an independent existence:
rigid style.
Coatlicue
became
Paul Cazanne.

44. 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.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
Cindy Sherman
Learning from Las Vegas

45. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Fragonard's Bathers
more of their African identity in their works
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.

46. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.
the Medici family.
masonry
Maya cosmology
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

47. Fred Wilson's exhibit for the Maryland Historical Society made the point that the Historical Society:
'cast shadows'
rigid style.
became
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.

48. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:
the Tree of Life
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
quipu
'cast shadows'

49. In the Aztec culture - sacrifices of prisoners-of-war from neighboring peoples were necessary to honor and re-create the sacrifice of _______ in ancient times (Teotihuaca
the symbolism of shape.
El Greco.
Autosacrifice
Quetzalcoatl

50. Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to:
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
the Medici family.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
Thomas Jefferson