Art Appreciation

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1. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.
masonry
sterile anonymity
domination
the Chinese emperor.


2. Angelica Kauffmann painted in the _______ style (p. 481) - which was based on Greek and Roman models.
form.
Las Vegas
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.
Neoclassical


3. 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?
Surrealism
utilitarianism
El Greco.
Olmec


4. Which of the following is a unique function of Inca textiles?
virtue.
objectivity of the camera.
military engineer and weapons-designer
for armor


5. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?
the ancient caves at Ajanta
military engineer and weapons-designer
cultural and personal identity
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden


6. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.
sterile anonymity
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Cindy Sherman's
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.


7. What is the subject matter of most Impressionist painting?
the ancient caves at Ajanta
became
Valdivia
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape


8. In works such as Olympia - realist painter Edouard Manet was denying traditional painting style and drawing attention to:
Cindy Sherman
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.
Maya cosmology
his modernity and break with the past.


9. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:
he sculpted nude figures
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
Mannerism.


10. Leonardo was as known in his time for his work as a(n) ____________ -as much for his work as an artist.
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
more of their African identity in their works
military engineer and weapons-designer
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.


11. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.
Inca
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
it is not known which culture built it
rope bridges


12. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?
Futurism
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
movement and speed
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.


13. Romanticism can best be described as:

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

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15. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:
virtue.
Surrealism
'Wild Beasts'
Coatlicue


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

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

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18. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.
Paul Gauguin.
Autosacrifice
Inca
form.


19. Chari Samba's Probla
'Wild Beasts'
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
Las Vegas
it is not known which culture built it


20. Because of the diversity and plurality of postmodernism - many contemporary artists address the issues of _______ in their work.
cultural and personal identity
David's The Death of Marat
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures


21. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.
Bettye Saar
1980s
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
art that is about the process of painting.


22. Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of:
Surrealism
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Baroque
German Expressionism.


23. In his painting - Probla
narration
Aztec
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith


24. Yasumasu Morimura's Portrait (Twins) appropriates the imagery of _______ to illustrate Japanese culture as slave to the dominant (male) forces of Western society.

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25. 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:
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
Inca
Las Vegas
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.


26. Mayan civilization (p. 464) reached its peak in Southern Mexico and Guatemala around:
geoglyphs
250.
Maya cosmology
his modernity and break with the past.


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

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28. 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.
masonry
rope bridges
rope bridges
Guernica


29. In Mesoamerican cultures - sacrificial _______ was seen as nourishment of the earth in its capacity of creator of life.
Thomas Jefferson
Donatello's.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
blood


30. Characteristics of postmodern photography include all of the following EXCEPT
objectivity of the camera.
the Medici family.
Cindy Sherman
Donatello's.


31. Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of:
Paul Cazanne
Surrealism
Teotihuacan
German Expressionism.


32. Cubism can best be described as:
art that is about the process of painting.
domination
form.
Minimalism


33. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:
Greek and Roman sculpture.
for armor
the Tree of Life
Autosacrifice


34. At La Venta - a(n) _______ site near present-day Villahermosa - Mexico - colossal heads were unearthed exhibiting what some scholars identify as fetal facial characteristics.
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
Spanish Civil War.
Olmec
garbage


35. As seen from the earth - _______ evokes a rabbit to some Native American cultures.
the moon
Mannerism.
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
color


36. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.
cultural and personal identity
250.
shield
ironies of modern political life


37. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
Palenque
shapes
Aztec


38. What sets northern European artists (p. 454) apart from most artists of the Italian Renaissance is their interest in:
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
epicanthic fold


39. Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigae-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
Greek and Roman sculpture.
Baroque
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.


40. In his painting - Probla
Dr. Strangelove
Mining the Museum
it is not known which culture built it
250.


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

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42. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
the sensuousness of light and color.
the Chinese emperor.
Mannerism.


43. The Incas are well known for their __________ construction - as can be witnessed in Machu Picchu.
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.
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
masonry
shapes


44. On the relief carving on the lid of his sarcophagus - Pakal is depicted falling off the Wacah Chan - _______.
the Tree of Life
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
Autosacrifice
Pyramid of the Sun


45. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?
puma
Dada
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
Paul Gauguin.


46. Diego Rivera - David Siquieros - and Jose Clemente Orozco formed a new school of _______ inspired by the intense nationalism following the _______.
epicanthic fold
Quetzalcoatl
muralists - Mexican Revolution
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith


47. 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.
Autosacrifice
Palenque
the notion of the sublime


48. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:
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 personality of the sitter.
the Chinese emperor.
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.


49. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?
Lord Pakal
Minimalism and Pop Art.
shapes
Learning from Las Vegas


50. _______ are characteristic of Maya architecture - suggesting priests/rulers had great power.
Teotihuacan
color
Large stone temple complexes
Surrealism