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Art Appreciation

Subject : art
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1. Which of these is an example of High Renaissance painting?

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2. Because of the diversity and plurality of postmodernism - many contemporary artists address the issues of _______ in their work.






3. The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of Which movement?






4. Angelica Kauffmann painted in the _______ style (p. 481) - which was based on Greek and Roman models.






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






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






7. Which of these paintings is considered an Abstract Expressionist painting?

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8. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:






9. Freed from the rigidity of modernism - architects such as _______ have liberated structural walls - using three-dimensional computer modeling to make these new shapes possible.






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






11. Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality - Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies the _______ movement.






12. Images such as View of Suzhou reveal the 18th century Chinese interest in__________.






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






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






15. Henri Matisse was a leader of early 20th century artists who felt free to use color 'arbitrarily' and were labeled - derogatorily - 'Fauves' - which translates __________.

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16. Vik Muniz's Atlas (Carlao) was created by arranging_______ on his studio floor - photographing the arrangement - then painting from the photograph.






17. Thaodore Garicault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?






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






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






20. 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






21. Consummate empire builders - the _______ arose from humble beginnings as a displaced tribe to commanding rulers of a vast network of luxury tributes from millions of people over a large geographic area in a 300-year period.






22. Fred Wilson's exhibit for the Maryland Historical Society made the point that the Historical Society:






23. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.






24. At La Venta - a(n) _______ site near present-day Villahermosa - Mexico - colossal heads were unearthed exhibiting what some scholars identify as fetal facial characteristics.






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






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






27. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:






28. Rococo painting can best be characterized as:






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

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






31. Which of these paintings is an example of Romanticism?

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






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






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






35. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:






36. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:






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






38. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca






39. The archaeological site plan of _______ shows the site's slightly west-of-north alignment - a characteristic of several Mesoamerican that may be associated with ritual processions.






40. Which of these paintings is an example of Romanticism?

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41. Her untitled photographic self-portraits - posed with props in scenes corresponding to female characters in popular culture - are performances that allow _______ to address the ways in which culture views women.






42. At La Venta - a(n) _______ site near present-day Villahermosa - Mexico - colossal heads were unearthed exhibiting what some scholars identify as fetal facial characteristics.






43. Romanticist artists - like Frederic Edwin Church - viewed nature as:

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






45. What is the story behind Gericault's Raft of the Medusa?

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46. Vernacular architecture - like that in Tijuana - with cast-off materials scavenged from dumpyards serving as walls - fences - structures - and roofs is important to this young architect.






47. 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.






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






49. Characteristics of postmodern photography include all of the following EXCEPT






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