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1. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?
Learning from Las Vegas
became
the Baroque eroticized.
Romanticism


2. The style of Burial of Count Orgaz is highly eclectic and individual. The artist is:
narration
blood
art that is about the process of painting.
El Greco.


3. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.
Raphael's School of Athens
Aztec
Bettye Saar
masonry


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

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5. As a reaction against Abstract Expressionism - Frank Stella's Empress of India exhibits the elegant - sparse content-less shape of _______.
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.
Donatello's.
La Venta
Minimalism


6. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
talud-tablero
military engineer and weapons-designer
Caravaggio
more of their African identity in their works


7. The two major art movements of the 1960s were:
Minimalism and Pop Art.
Frank Gehry
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette


8. The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse is:
the ancient caves at Ajanta
quipu
Fauvism.
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar


9. 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.
Aztec
Teotihuacan
form.
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.


10. Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigae-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
the symbolism of shape.
Baroque


11. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?
glyphs
color
Caravaggio
local - arbitrary


12. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:
local - arbitrary
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
Fauvism.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.


13. 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.
Cindy Sherman
shapes
Baroque
Navajo


14. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
quipu
puma
David's The Death of Marat


15. In his painting - Probla
Dr. Strangelove
Olmec
Inca
abstract


16. On the relief carving on the lid of his sarcophagus - Pakal is depicted falling off the Wacah Chan - _______.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
Palenque
the Tree of Life
movement and speed


17. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
the personality of the sitter.
Paul Cazanne
ironies of modern political life


18. 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:
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.
'Wild Beasts'
Las Vegas
talud-tablero


19. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.
Caravaggio
the sensuousness of light and color.
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
Inca


20. Chari Samba's Probla
individuality.
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.


21. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?
Teotihuacan
blood
Lord Pakal
the notion of the sublime


22. Using her work to struggle with the question of identity - this photographer's images are self-portraits.
color
local - arbitrary
the Tree of Life
Cindy Sherman


23. Whose David was the first life-size nude sculpture since antiquity?

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24. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
Georges Braque.
his modernity and break with the past.
Inca


25. Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of:
German Expressionism.
Minimalism and Pop Art.
Cindy Sherman's
rope bridges


26. Rococo painting can best be characterized as:
Fragonard's Bathers
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
Coatlicue
the Baroque eroticized.


27. Like many contemporary sculptors - Kiki Smith - as seen in her Ice Man - seems to be asking questions about:
the symbolism of shape.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
glyphs
Baroque


28. The artist Andra Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of 'resolution between these two states - dream and reality.' What was this movement?
Cindy Sherman
Surrealism
domination
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures


29. Which of these paintings is considered a Rococo painting?

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30. The style of Burial of Count Orgaz is highly eclectic and individual. The artist is:
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
for armor
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
El Greco.


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

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32. In addition to the sophisticated stone masonry that built Machu Picchu - the Inca also engineered over _______ through their mountainous empire - allowing messages to be transported throughout the empire in less than one week.
virtue.
garbage
became
15000 miles of roads


33. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
sterile anonymity
color
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.


34. _______ are characteristic of Maya architecture - suggesting priests/rulers had great power.
virtue.
Guernica
Large stone temple complexes
rope bridges


35. Fred Wilson's exhibit for the Maryland Historical Society made the point that the Historical Society:
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
individuality.
Raphael's School of Athens
Quetzalcoatl


36. 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:
Frank Gehry
more of their African identity in their works
meditative - active
the ancient caves at Ajanta


37. Coatlicue (p. 465) is a major _______ deity.
geoglyphs
Quetzalcoatl
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
Aztec


38. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Donatello's.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Thomas Jefferson


39. The short-lived Nazca culture in present-day Peru is known primarily for its _______.
movement and speed
German Expressionism.
became
geoglyphs


40. The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of Which movement?
'cast shadows'
Georges Braque.
utilitarianism
Futurism


41. Angelica Kauffmann painted in the _______ style (p. 481) - which was based on Greek and Roman models.
Neoclassical
Minimalism and Pop Art.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.


42. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.
puma
local - arbitrary
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
Dada


43. Romanticism can best be described as:

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44. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:
Minimalism and Pop Art.
the moon
more of their African identity in their works
Guernica


45. In his painting - Probla
narration
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Paul Cazanne
domination


46. Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
virtue.
form.


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

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48. What is the subject matter of most Impressionist painting?
the Chinese emperor.
Romanticism
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.


49. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.
meditative - active
Neoplatonism
Teotihuacan
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.


50. One of most important - best preserved and extensively studied Mayan cities is _______.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
the ancient caves at Ajanta
Palenque
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew