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1. In addition to the sophisticated stone masonry that built Machu Picchu - the Inca also engineered over _______ through their mountainous empire - allowing messages to be transported throughout the empire in less than one week.
form.
15000 miles of roads
shapes
it is not known which culture built it


2. The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of Which movement?
Paul Gauguin.
shield
Teotihuacan
Futurism


3. Rococo painting can best be characterized as:
utilitarianism
the Chinese emperor.
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.


4. 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.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
shapes
abstract
Large stone temple complexes


5. Images such as View of Suzhou reveal the 18th century Chinese interest in__________.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
talud-tablero
15000 miles of roads
Manet's Olympia


6. Mesoamerican cultures believed that humans first emerged from a hole in the ground now situated under the _______.
puma
Donatello's.
Pyramid of the Sun
masonry


7. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
Thomas Jefferson
Cindy Sherman
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures


8. _______ 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.
Mining the Museum
form.
Church's The Heart of the Andes
Las Vegas


9. Creating a work densely packed with information concerns most postmodern artists more than _______.
Lord Pakal
military engineer and weapons-designer
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.
eternal beauty or shock value


10. Known for their elaborate textiles used as status symbols - the Inca also used fiber in the construction of armor and _______.
rope bridges
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
domination
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.


11. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:
Lord Pakal
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
military engineer and weapons-designer


12. ______ - 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.
Baroque
movement and speed
Cindy Sherman's
Teotihuacan


13. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.
the notion of the sublime
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle


14. Native American kachinas - like Buffalo Kachina (p. 494) - are:
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
the potlatch.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.


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

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


17. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.
cultural and personal identity
local - arbitrary
shield
rope bridges


18. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
his modernity and break with the past.
David's The Death of Marat
rigid style.


19. Leonardo was as known in his time for his work as a(n) ____________ -as much for his work as an artist.
Guernica
Church's The Heart of the Andes
military engineer and weapons-designer
Greek and Roman sculpture.


20. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?
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.
mosaics
he sculpted nude figures
the notion of the sublime


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

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22. Cubism can best be described as:
the notion of the sublime
abstract
art that is about the process of painting.
Surrealism


23. 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.
Bettye Saar
Dada
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.


24. 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.
local - arbitrary
form.
the sensuousness of light and color.
the symbolism of shape.


25. 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.
the moon
mosaics
Autosacrifice
El Greco.


26. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?
muralists - Mexican Revolution
Learning from Las Vegas
garbage
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.


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:
Teddy Cruz
virtue.
Baroque
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. The Realist movement (p. 489) was influenced by many ideas and worldviews including:

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29. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra

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30. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra

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31. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:
color
Plato; Aristotle.
Palenque
the sensuousness of light and color.


32. 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.
Inca
Paul Gauguin.
Minimalism


33. 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 personality of the sitter.
epicanthic fold
the potlatch.
rope bridges


34. As seen from the earth - _______ evokes a rabbit to some Native American cultures.
Bettye Saar
the sensuousness of light and color.
the moon
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.


35. Michelangelo's painting The Last Judgment (p. 468) - for the Sistine Chapel - typifies a style that came to be known as:
Mannerism.
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
cultural and personal identity
Bettye Saar


36. 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:
rope bridges
La Venta
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
El Greco.


37. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:
muralists - Mexican Revolution
1980s
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.


38. Stylistic characteristics of Postmodern architecture include all of the following EXCEPT
muralists - Mexican Revolution
Quetzalcoatl
utilitarianism
Raphael's School of Athens


39. As seen from the earth - _______ evokes a rabbit to some Native American cultures.
the sensuousness of light and color.
the moon
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
Surrealism


40. In his painting - Probla
utilitarianism
individuality.
Dr. Strangelove
quipu


41. Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to:
the Medici family.
rigid style.
his modernity and break with the past.
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.


42. The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse is:
Fauvism.
Donatello's.
David's The Death of Marat
the sensuousness of light and color.


43. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.
the Baroque eroticized.
1980s
the ancient caves at Ajanta
Teddy Cruz


44. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
Manet's Olympia
talud-tablero
Surrealism
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans


45. 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
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
Neoplatonism
epicanthic fold
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures


46. The artist Andra Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of 'resolution between these two states - dream and reality.' What was this movement?
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
Autosacrifice
cultural and personal identity
Surrealism


47. Which of the following is a unique function of Inca textiles?
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
'cast shadows'
mosaics
for armor


48. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:
Dada
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
Cindy Sherman's
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.


49. 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.
local - arbitrary
La Venta
form.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.


50. In works such as Olympia - realist painter Edouard Manet was denying traditional painting style and drawing attention to:
'cast shadows'
his modernity and break with the past.
Pyramid of the Sun
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.