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Art Appreciation
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1. Rococo painting can best be characterized as:
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
eternal beauty or shock value
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
2. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:
Cindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman's
Plato; Aristotle.
the personality of the sitter.
3. Images such as View of Suzhou reveal the 18th century Chinese interest in__________.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
color
Caravaggio
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
4. The three _______ made of serpentine at the Olmec site of La Venta are unusual; they were not meant to be seen as they were buried soon after completion.
David's The Death of Marat
local - arbitrary
mosaics
the moon
5. The sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini created Ecstasy of St. Theresa - a centerpiece of a chapel in Rome. It is typical of which style?
the symbolism of shape.
Baroque
abstract
utilitarianism
6. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:
Neoclassical
Greek and Roman sculpture.
Inca
the Chinese emperor.
7. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.
the notion of the sublime
the symbolism of shape.
Bettye Saar
meditative - active
8. Whose David was the first life-size nude sculpture since antiquity?
9. 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.
Neoclassical
Mannerism.
virtue.
Guernica
10. Which of these is an example of Dada art?
11. Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality - Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies the _______ movement.
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
Dada
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
more of their African identity in their works
12. At La Venta - a(n) _______ site near present-day Villahermosa - Mexico - colossal heads were unearthed exhibiting what some scholars identify as fetal facial characteristics.
Olmec
David's The Death of Marat
La Venta
Aztec
13. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?
Neoplatonism
Caravaggio
art that is about the process of painting.
David's The Death of Marat
14. 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.
Georges Braque.
Aztec
Fauvism.
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
15. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.
Cindy Sherman
Aztec
shapes
Lord Pakal
16. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.
shield
Coatlicue
250.
muralists - Mexican Revolution
17. These Hopewell figures are unusual because of their depiction of the _______ - a trait that may be found in people from many different parts of Asia as well as areas from which great migrations from this cradle of civilization occurred - including th
epicanthic fold
Raphael's School of Athens
the Medici family.
Autosacrifice
18. The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of Which movement?
the ancient caves at Ajanta
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
Manet's Olympia
Futurism
19. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
the Baroque eroticized.
Lord Pakal
Spanish Civil War.
20. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?
Paul Cazanne
utilitarianism
Valdivia
Maya cosmology
21. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.
quipu
1980s
Minimalism
military engineer and weapons-designer
22. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?
23. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:
individuality.
cultural and personal identity
Surrealism
Mining the Museum
24. Vik Muniz's Atlas (Carlao) was created by arranging_______ on his studio floor - photographing the arrangement - then painting from the photograph.
garbage
Dada
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
Inca
25. Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for:
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
narration
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Inca
26. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra
27. 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:
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
El Greco.
Gustave Courbet.
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.
28. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.
humanities.
individuality.
sterile anonymity
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
29. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca
Guernica
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
Thomas Jefferson
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
30. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?
quipu
talud-tablero
Paul Cazanne.
Thomas Jefferson
31. Mayan civilization (p. 464) reached its peak in Southern Mexico and Guatemala around:
El Greco.
250.
Large stone temple complexes
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
32. A key focus of much postmodern art is _______.
the potlatch.
Neoplatonism
more of their African identity in their works
ironies of modern political life
33. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?
Paul Cazanne
the ancient caves at Ajanta
15000 miles of roads
Quetzalcoatl
34. Diego Rivera - David Siquieros - and Jose Clemente Orozco formed a new school of _______ inspired by the intense nationalism following the _______.
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
muralists - Mexican Revolution
Bettye Saar
Cindy Sherman
35. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?
abstract
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Thomas Jefferson
mosaics
36. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?
mosaics
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
La Venta
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.
37. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?
Paul Gauguin.
movement and speed
the sensuousness of light and color.
geoglyphs
38. One of most important - best preserved and extensively studied Mayan cities is _______.
Lord Pakal
Teddy Cruz
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.
Palenque
39. 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.
Church's The Heart of the Andes
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Guernica
Neoplatonism
40. The Realist movement (p. 489) was influenced by many ideas and worldviews including:
41. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:
the Chinese emperor.
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
virtue.
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.
42. The Post-Impressionists (p. 496) were united by their interest in:
43. This artist reflects on identity and cultural heritage in works such as Petroglyph Park.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
44. 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
utilitarianism
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
Spanish Civil War.
domination
45. Which of these paintings is an example of Romanticism?
46. Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to:
the ancient caves at Ajanta
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
the Medici family.
Fauvism.
47. Mayan civilization (p. 464) reached its peak in Southern Mexico and Guatemala around:
Manet's Olympia
Olmec
250.
Palenque
48. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:
Olmec
Greek and Roman sculpture.
utilitarianism
Frank Gehry
49. Michelangelo's painting The Last Judgment (p. 468) - for the Sistine Chapel - typifies a style that came to be known as:
Cindy Sherman
the Medici family.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
Mannerism.
50. Which of these is an example of Baroque painting?