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1. 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.
Olmec
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
Aztec
Paul Cazanne


2. In the 1330s - Petrarch (p. 452) conceived of a philosophy that emphasized the value of the individual and the pursuit and study of classical languages - literature - history - and philosophy. Today we call these disciplines the:
humanities.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
it is not known which culture built it
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings


3. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
Quetzalcoatl
Lord Pakal


4. The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse is:
the Baroque eroticized.
Fauvism.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
Autosacrifice


5. Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality - Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies the _______ movement.
objectivity of the camera.
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
Dada
Fauvism.


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

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7. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.
Aztec
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Maya cosmology
Raphael's School of Athens


8. In What aspect of the twentieth century were Umberto Boccioni and other Futurist artists most interested?
Donatello's.
movement and speed
the potlatch.
Spanish Civil War.


9. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.
rope bridges
La Venta
more of their African identity in their works
Neoplatonism


10. Marianne Nicholson's cliffside pictograph (a 'copper') represents a Northwest Native American tradition that had been suppressed through most of the 20th century - called:
the potlatch.
Coatlicue
Las Vegas
ironies of modern political life


11. _______ are characteristic of Maya architecture - suggesting priests/rulers had great power.
Mannerism.
Navajo
Church's The Heart of the Andes
Large stone temple complexes


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

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13. _______ 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.
Frank Gehry
Las Vegas
more of their African identity in their works
Cindy Sherman's


14. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT
Paul Cazanne.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
rigid style.
for armor


15. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?
Greek and Roman sculpture.
Las Vegas
David's The Death of Marat
the notion of the sublime


16. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
humanities.
for armor
talud-tablero
Church's The Heart of the Andes


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

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18. The artist Andra Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of 'resolution between these two states - dream and reality.' What was this movement?
Dada
Baroque
Surrealism
rendering believable space in realistic detail.


19. Michelangelo's painting The Last Judgment (p. 468) - for the Sistine Chapel - typifies a style that came to be known as:
blood
Bettye Saar
Mannerism.
the Medici family.


20. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
the Chinese emperor.
Navajo
color


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

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22. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Surrealism


23. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:
Autosacrifice
Neoclassical
Fragonard's Bathers
the personality of the sitter.


24. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?
Thomas Jefferson
geoglyphs
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.


25. On the relief carving on the lid of his sarcophagus - Pakal is depicted falling off the Wacah Chan - _______.
the Tree of Life
Aztec
Autosacrifice
Plato; Aristotle.


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

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27. Rejecting the frenetic approach of Pollock and de Kooning - Mark Rotho's Abstract Expressionist pantings convey a _______ - not _______space.
meditative - active
ironies of modern political life
German Expressionism.
Las Vegas


28. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
Paul Cazanne.
shapes
the sensuousness of light and color.


29. Chari Samba's Probla
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
1980s
Dada
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.


30. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:
individuality.
Coatlicue
virtue.
form.


31. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.
1980s
the personality of the sitter.
the Baroque eroticized.
Dr. Strangelove


32. 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
the notion of the sublime
became
Church's The Heart of the Andes


33. Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to:
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
Greek and Roman sculpture.
the Medici family.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.


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

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

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36. The Cubists freed painting from the necessity of representing the world in order to dwell on:
more of their African identity in their works
form.
Baroque
'Wild Beasts'


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:
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
the Chinese emperor.
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
El Greco.


38. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?
talud-tablero
Paul Gauguin.
Manet's Olympia
Paul Cazanne


39. Because of the diversity and plurality of postmodernism - many contemporary artists address the issues of _______ in their work.
1980s
Valdivia
utilitarianism
cultural and personal identity


40. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
the potlatch.
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
muralists - Mexican Revolution


41. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.
the ancient caves at Ajanta
Surrealism
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
it is not known which culture built it


42. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.
Navajo
ironies of modern political life
Paul Cazanne
the personality of the sitter.


43. In What aspect of the twentieth century were Umberto Boccioni and other Futurist artists most interested?
movement and speed
epicanthic fold
the Tree of Life
the Chinese emperor.


44. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
rigid style.
Maya cosmology
he sculpted nude figures
Paul Gauguin.


45. What sets northern European artists (p. 454) apart from most artists of the Italian Renaissance is their interest in:
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
cultural and personal identity
Neoclassical
Surrealism


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

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47. Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of:
Bettye Saar
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
German Expressionism.


48. This artist of The Large Bathers pushed toward an idea of painting that established for the work an independent existence:
eternal beauty or shock value
individuality.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Paul Cazanne.


49. Chari Samba's Probla
shapes
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
masonry
Paul Cazanne


50. Thaodore Garicault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?
art that is about the process of painting.
Romanticism
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.