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Art Appreciation

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






2. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.






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

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4. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.






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






6. In works such as Olympia - realist painter Edouard Manet was denying traditional painting style and drawing attention to:






7. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca






8. Marianne Nicholson's cliffside pictograph (a 'copper') represents a Northwest Native American tradition that had been suppressed through most of the 20th century - called:






9. The two major art movements of the 1960s were:






10. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:






11. Which of these paintings is an example of Neo-classical art?

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12. The Cubists freed painting from the necessity of representing the world in order to dwell on:






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

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14. 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:






15. This artist reflects on identity and cultural heritage in works such as Petroglyph Park.






16. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?






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






18. The Incas are well known for their __________ construction - as can be witnessed in Machu Picchu.






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






20. In The Green Stripe (Madame Matisse) - Henri Matisse dispensed with the use of _______ color in favor of _______ color to explore the expressive possibilities of color.






21. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca






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






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

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24. Rejecting the frenetic approach of Pollock and de Kooning - Mark Rotho's Abstract Expressionist pantings convey a _______ - not _______space.






25. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?






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

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

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28. The urge to rebel against the norm lost its impact when such rebellion _______ the norm in most Western cultures.






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






30. _______ - the Aztec goddess of life and death is recognizable in the culture's art by her necklace of human hearts - severed hands and skull.






31. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.






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






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






34. Mesoamerican cultures believed that humans first emerged from a hole in the ground now situated under the _______.






35. Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigae-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.






36. In his painting - Probla






37. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:






38. The _______ included in panels of Maya relief carvings and ceramics decoration aide in their interpretation.






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






40. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.






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






42. The artist Andra Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of 'resolution between these two states - dream and reality.' What was this movement?






43. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?






44. 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.






45. In The Green Stripe (Madame Matisse) - Henri Matisse dispensed with the use of _______ color in favor of _______ color to explore the expressive possibilities of color.






46. A key focus of much postmodern art is _______.






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






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






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






50. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca