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1. Creating a work densely packed with information concerns most postmodern artists more than _______.
the Tree of Life
Aztec
eternal beauty or shock value
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.


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.
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
Guernica
puma
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings


3. Joan Mira
meditative - active
Pyramid of the Sun
abstract
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.


4. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:
Spanish Civil War.
sterile anonymity
meditative - active
virtue.


5. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
Lord Pakal
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individuality.


6. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?
Caravaggio
it is not known which culture built it
the symbolism of shape.
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.


7. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
the Medici family.
Teddy Cruz
rigid style.


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:
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.
Spanish Civil War.
Cindy Sherman
the ancient caves at Ajanta


9. The short-lived Nazca culture in present-day Peru is known primarily for its _______.
ironies of modern political life
muralists - Mexican Revolution
geoglyphs
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.


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.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Guernica
Teotihuacan
Minimalism and Pop Art.


11. In his painting - Probla
utilitarianism
narration
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Paul Cazanne.


12. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:
the personality of the sitter.
the Tree of Life
masonry
blood


13. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.
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.
the Tree of Life
Neoplatonism
Paul Cazanne


14. The Cubists freed painting from the necessity of representing the world in order to dwell on:
talud-tablero
shield
form.
Baroque


15. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?
Cindy Sherman's
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
Georges Braque.
Frank Gehry


16. Diego Rivera - David Siquieros - and Jose Clemente Orozco formed a new school of _______ inspired by the intense nationalism following the _______.
eternal beauty or shock value
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
the Baroque eroticized.
muralists - Mexican Revolution


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?
Inca
Surrealism
Autosacrifice
the personality of the sitter.


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:
virtue.
local - arbitrary
Frank Gehry
the Medici family.


20. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?
Palenque
the Chinese emperor.
15000 miles of roads
Paul Cazanne


21. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:
Spanish Civil War.
250.
virtue.
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.


22. The artist who painted Houses at L'Estaque worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism. The artist's name is:
Georges Braque.
blood
more of their African identity in their works
masonry


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


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
domination
Donatello's.
sterile anonymity
Bettye Saar


25. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
color
Paul Cazanne.
Gustave Courbet.


26. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.
for armor
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Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
quipu


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
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
El Greco.
utilitarianism
Las Vegas


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:
Palenque
the Medici family.
Donatello's.
puma


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.
more of their African identity in their works
puma
he sculpted nude figures
shapes


33. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.
art that is about the process of painting.
the Baroque eroticized.
Neoclassical
it is not known which culture built it


34. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.
the notion of the sublime
shapes
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden


35. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
Valdivia
he sculpted nude figures
mosaics
movement and speed


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:
he sculpted nude figures
Maya cosmology
the Chinese emperor.
poets - calligraphers - and painters.


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.
Teddy Cruz
Teotihuacan
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
Palenque


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.
abstract
Spanish Civil War.
domination
Las Vegas


40. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.
German Expressionism.
Neoplatonism
Valdivia
rendering believable space in realistic detail.


41. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.
Lord Pakal
the potlatch.
the Chinese emperor.
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.


42. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?

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43. A key focus of much postmodern art is _______.
domination
ironies of modern political life
Pyramid of the Sun
David's The Death of Marat


44. The urge to rebel against the norm lost its impact when such rebellion _______ the norm in most Western cultures.
Neoclassical
the notion of the sublime
became
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.


45. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
mosaics
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
narration


46. Chari Samba's Probla
Romanticism
Surrealism
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
15000 miles of roads


47. 'Postmodernism' has been defined in part as:
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
Guernica
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.


48. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.
the sensuousness of light and color.
the moon
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
shield


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?
250.
Surrealism
Palenque
Paul Cazanne


50. Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of:
garbage
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
German Expressionism.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew