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Art Appreciation

Subject : art
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1. 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:






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






3. On the relief carving on the lid of his sarcophagus - Pakal is depicted falling off the Wacah Chan - _______.






4. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.






5. Known for their elaborate textiles used as status symbols - the Inca also used fiber in the construction of armor and _______.






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






7. The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali illustrates how he looked to his subconscious (dreams - hypnosis - psychoanalysis) for his subject matter. What artistic movement is he associated with?






8. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.






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






10. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:






11. In the 1330s - Petrarch (p. 452) conceived of a philosophy that emphasized the value of the individual and the pursuit and study of classical languages - literature - history - and philosophy. Today we call these disciplines the:






12. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.






13. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca






14. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.






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


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






17. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.






18. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.






19. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:






20. As seen from the earth - _______ evokes a rabbit to some Native American cultures.






21. Leonardo was as known in his time for his work as a(n) ____________ -as much for his work as an artist.






22. As seen from the earth - _______ evokes a rabbit to some Native American cultures.






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






24. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra


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


26. Vik Muniz's Atlas (Carlao) was created by arranging_______ on his studio floor - photographing the arrangement - then painting from the photograph.






27. As a reaction against Abstract Expressionism - Frank Stella's Empress of India exhibits the elegant - sparse content-less shape of _______.






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






29. Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?






30. 'Postmodernism' has been defined in part as:






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






32. In his painting - Probla






33. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.






34. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?






35. Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of:






36. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.






37. Romanticism can best be described as:


38. 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.






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


40. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:






41. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.






42. 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.






43. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.






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






45. ______ - 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.






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






47. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.






48. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:






49. Vik Muniz's Atlas (Carlao) was created by arranging_______ on his studio floor - photographing the arrangement - then painting from the photograph.






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