Art Appreciation

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1. This artist reflects on identity and cultural heritage in works such as Petroglyph Park.
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.
Teotihuacan
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.


2. Creating a work densely packed with information concerns most postmodern artists more than _______.
Guernica
eternal beauty or shock value
Baroque
his modernity and break with the past.


3. Characteristics of postmodern photography include all of the following EXCEPT
German Expressionism.
objectivity of the camera.
narration
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures


4. The archaeological site plan of _______ shows the site's slightly west-of-north alignment - a characteristic of several Mesoamerican that may be associated with ritual processions.
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.
La Venta
Cindy Sherman's
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith


5. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
he sculpted nude figures
talud-tablero
Dada
Greek and Roman sculpture.


6. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT
La Venta
became
Valdivia
rigid style.


7. Chari Samba's Probla
objectivity of the camera.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
1980s


8. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?
meditative - active
Thomas Jefferson
shapes
Futurism


9. Images such as View of Suzhou reveal the 18th century Chinese interest in__________.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Paul Cazanne
Baroque


10. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
the Chinese emperor.
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
Fragonard's Bathers


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

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

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13. Creating a work densely packed with information concerns most postmodern artists more than _______.
eternal beauty or shock value
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Neoplatonism


14. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.
military engineer and weapons-designer
the sensuousness of light and color.
Maya cosmology
shapes


15. Mayan civilization (p. 464) reached its peak in Southern Mexico and Guatemala around:
objectivity of the camera.
garbage
250.
Minimalism and Pop Art.


16. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.
Inca
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
Quetzalcoatl


17. 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
Guernica
domination
Baroque
Quetzalcoatl


18. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.
Minimalism and Pop Art.
the Medici family.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
puma


19. 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.
Cindy Sherman
local - arbitrary
Palenque
Surrealism


20. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.
Valdivia
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Autosacrifice
epicanthic fold


21. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?
narration
epicanthic fold
Lord Pakal
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden


22. Which of these is an example of High Renaissance painting?

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23. _______ - the Aztec goddess of life and death is recognizable in the culture's art by her necklace of human hearts - severed hands and skull.
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
Coatlicue
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures


24. _______ 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.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
Las Vegas
'Wild Beasts'


25. Which of these paintings is considered an Abstract Expressionist painting?

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26. The Incas are well known for their __________ construction - as can be witnessed in Machu Picchu.
Spanish Civil War.
masonry
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Dada


27. Anish Kapoor - the Indian-born British sculptor - explores the spiritual meanings of _______ - posing questions about the origination and persistence of those meanings when displaced from their traditional context.
Neoclassical
German Expressionism.
shapes
Minimalism


28. The artist who painted Houses at L'Estaque worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism. The artist's name is:
Paul Cazanne
Georges Braque.
Mannerism.
rigid style.


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

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30. 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:
Greek and Roman sculpture.
the ancient caves at Ajanta
the Baroque eroticized.
El Greco.


31. Mesoamerican cultures believed that humans first emerged from a hole in the ground now situated under the _______.
La Venta
Pyramid of the Sun
Romanticism
the Chinese emperor.


32. This artist of The Large Bathers pushed toward an idea of painting that established for the work an independent existence:
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
Paul Cazanne.
the Baroque eroticized.


33. In School of Athens - Raphael represents the two significant schools of philosophy - signified by the portrayal of _______ and ________ in the center of the composition.
Aztec
Neoplatonism
blood
Plato; Aristotle.


34. Joan Mira
Minimalism
abstract
Teddy Cruz
glyphs


35. On the relief carving on the lid of his sarcophagus - Pakal is depicted falling off the Wacah Chan - _______.
the Tree of Life
Large stone temple complexes
talud-tablero
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.


36. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.
Olmec
Greek and Roman sculpture.
the sensuousness of light and color.
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures


37. Diego Rivera - David Siquieros - and Jose Clemente Orozco formed a new school of _______ inspired by the intense nationalism following the _______.
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
Caravaggio
muralists - Mexican Revolution
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar


38. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.
he sculpted nude figures
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
Manet's Olympia
1980s


39. The archaeological site plan of _______ shows the site's slightly west-of-north alignment - a characteristic of several Mesoamerican that may be associated with ritual processions.
La Venta
David's The Death of Marat
Neoplatonism
German Expressionism.


40. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.
domination
military engineer and weapons-designer
Dada
Autosacrifice


41. One of most important - best preserved and extensively studied Mayan cities is _______.
Surrealism
the notion of the sublime
Palenque
Aztec


42. Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?
Inca
Frank Gehry
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
David's The Death of Marat


43. 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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44. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:
puma
Paul Gauguin.
domination
individuality.


45. Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality - Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies the _______ movement.
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
Dada
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith


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

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

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48. As seen from the earth - _______ evokes a rabbit to some Native American cultures.
the moon
meditative - active
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
Palenque


49. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
virtue.
utilitarianism
meditative - active


50. Vernacular architecture - like that in Tijuana - with cast-off materials scavenged from dumpyards serving as walls - fences - structures - and roofs is important to this young architect.
ironies of modern political life
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
Teddy Cruz
the moon