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Art Appreciation

Subject : art
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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?






2. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:






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:






5. Joan Mira






6. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.






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.






8. Native American kachinas - like Buffalo Kachina (p. 494) - are:






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.






11. The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse is:






12. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.






13. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.






14. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?






15. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.






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


17. In his painting - Probla






18. What sets northern European artists (p. 454) apart from most artists of the Italian Renaissance is their interest in:






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






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.






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


22. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.






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






24. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?






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






26. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.






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:






28. In What aspect of the twentieth century were Umberto Boccioni and other Futurist artists most interested?






29. Great Serpent Mound is an example of a(n) _______.






30. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:






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






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. Native American kachinas - like Buffalo Kachina (p. 494) - are:






34. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.






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:






36. One of most important - best preserved and extensively studied Mayan cities is _______.






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






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






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.






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.






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.






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.






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.






46. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.






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






48. Leonardo was as known in his time for his work as a(n) ____________ -as much for his work as an artist.






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. Romanticism can best be described as: