Art Appreciation

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1. ______ - at its peak a cosmopolitan commercial center - remained a mythic center for Mesoamerican cultures for a thousand years after its decline - including an important pilgrimage site for Aztec rulers.
German Expressionism.
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
Teotihuacan


2. Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for:
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
Teddy Cruz


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

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4. Images such as View of Suzhou reveal the 18th century Chinese interest in__________.
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
250.
Teotihuacan
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities


5. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.
shapes
for armor
Valdivia
'cast shadows'


6. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:
Spanish Civil War.
became
his modernity and break with the past.
meditative - active


7. Rejecting the frenetic approach of Pollock and de Kooning - Mark Rotho's Abstract Expressionist pantings convey a _______ - not _______space.
the notion of the sublime
talud-tablero
became
meditative - active


8. Stylistic characteristics of Postmodern architecture include all of the following EXCEPT
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
Mining the Museum
utilitarianism
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.


9. In his painting - Probla
abstract
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
utilitarianism
narration


10. The two major art movements of the 1960s were:
Manet's Olympia
Dada
Minimalism and Pop Art.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.


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

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12. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?
mosaics
talud-tablero
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
Paul Cazanne


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.
Las Vegas
the personality of the sitter.
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
form.


14. The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of Which movement?
Futurism
Dada
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
Donatello's.


15. Rococo painting can best be characterized as:
the Medici family.
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
Greek and Roman sculpture.
Teddy Cruz


16. Images such as View of Suzhou reveal the 18th century Chinese interest in__________.
the Baroque eroticized.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities


17. This artist reflects on identity and cultural heritage in works such as Petroglyph Park.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
meditative - active


18. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
Pyramid of the Sun
Frank Gehry
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.


19. Rococo painting can best be characterized as:
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Fragonard's Bathers
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
Paul Gauguin.


20. 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:
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
the ancient caves at Ajanta
El Greco.
eternal beauty or shock value


21. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.
1980s
it is not known which culture built it
art that is about the process of painting.
shapes


22. Using her work to struggle with the question of identity - this photographer's images are self-portraits.
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
Minimalism
Neoclassical
Cindy Sherman


23. Which of the following is a unique function of Inca textiles?
15000 miles of roads
German Expressionism.
for armor
Greek and Roman sculpture.


24. Fred Wilson's exhibit for the Maryland Historical Society made the point that the Historical Society:
Donatello's.
narration
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
it is not known which culture built it


25. A key focus of much postmodern art is _______.
Baroque
puma
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
ironies of modern political life


26. The Incas are well known for their __________ construction - as can be witnessed in Machu Picchu.
Bettye Saar
masonry
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain


27. _______ 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.
Las Vegas
Pyramid of the Sun
Lord Pakal
the Tree of Life


28. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT
eternal beauty or shock value
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
rigid style.
his modernity and break with the past.


29. The Rococo style (pp. 479-480) has been characterized as:
Olmec
the Baroque eroticized.
became
Raphael's School of Athens


30. The _______ included in panels of Maya relief carvings and ceramics decoration aide in their interpretation.
form.
more of their African identity in their works
glyphs
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew


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

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32. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:
for armor
250.
Paul Gauguin.
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.


33. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.
the personality of the sitter.
Surrealism
Fauvism.
Mining the Museum


34. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:
Quetzalcoatl
Spanish Civil War.
Coatlicue
Donatello's.


35. Chari Samba's Probla
glyphs
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.


36. Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for:
abstract
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
rope bridges


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

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38. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.
Georges Braque.
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
Coatlicue
sterile anonymity


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

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

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41. Cubism can best be described as:
Baroque
Maya cosmology
art that is about the process of painting.
poets - calligraphers - and painters.


42. As seen from the earth - _______ evokes a rabbit to some Native American cultures.
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
the moon
objectivity of the camera.


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


44. Because of the diversity and plurality of postmodernism - many contemporary artists address the issues of _______ in their work.
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.
cultural and personal identity
Gustave Courbet.
poets - calligraphers - and painters.


45. 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.
Paul Cazanne
cultural and personal identity
Palenque
shapes


46. 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
Plato; Aristotle.
the moon
domination
rigid style.


47. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca
he sculpted nude figures
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
Futurism
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.


48. The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of Which movement?
Futurism
Large stone temple complexes
more of their African identity in their works
epicanthic fold


49. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?
Greek and Roman sculpture.
Learning from Las Vegas
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
meditative - active


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

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