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Art Appreciation

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1. Creating a work densely packed with information concerns most postmodern artists more than _______.






2. 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.






3. Joan Mira






4. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:






5. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:






6. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?






7. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT






8. 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:






9. The short-lived Nazca culture in present-day Peru is known primarily for its _______.






10. ______ - 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.






11. In his painting - Probla






12. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:






13. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.






14. The Cubists freed painting from the necessity of representing the world in order to dwell on:






15. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?






16. Diego Rivera - David Siquieros - and Jose Clemente Orozco formed a new school of _______ inspired by the intense nationalism following the _______.






17. 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?






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

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19. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:






20. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?






21. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:






22. The artist who painted Houses at L'Estaque worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism. The artist's name is:






23. Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigae-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.






24. 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






25. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?






26. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.






27. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?

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28. Stylistic characteristics of Postmodern architecture include all of the following EXCEPT






29. Which of these is an example of Dada art?

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30. Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to:






31. Which of these is an example of Dada art?

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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.






33. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.






34. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.






35. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?






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

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37. From 960 until 1279 - during the Song Dynasty - (p. 447) Taoists in China emphasized the importance of self-expression. Their most important state positions were held by:






38. ______ - 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.






39. _______ 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.






40. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.






41. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.






42. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?

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43. A key focus of much postmodern art is _______.






44. The urge to rebel against the norm lost its impact when such rebellion _______ the norm in most Western cultures.






45. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?






46. Chari Samba's Probla






47. 'Postmodernism' has been defined in part as:






48. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.






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?






50. Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of:







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