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Art Appreciation
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Rococo painting can best be characterized as:
Greek and Roman sculpture.
La Venta
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
2. The Cubists freed painting from the necessity of representing the world in order to dwell on:
Paul Gauguin.
Olmec
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
form.
3. _______ 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.
Gustave Courbet.
Caravaggio
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
Las Vegas
4. Michelangelo's painting The Last Judgment (p. 468) - for the Sistine Chapel - typifies a style that came to be known as:
Mannerism.
Frank Gehry
Dada
Aztec
5. _______ - the Aztec goddess of life and death is recognizable in the culture's art by her necklace of human hearts - severed hands and skull.
Surrealism
Baroque
Coatlicue
Donatello's.
6. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
David's The Death of Marat
rope bridges
talud-tablero
cultural and personal identity
7. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Inca
Mining the Museum
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
8. In the Aztec culture - sacrifices of prisoners-of-war from neighboring peoples were necessary to honor and re-create the sacrifice of _______ in ancient times (Teotihuaca
Aztec
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
Quetzalcoatl
the Baroque eroticized.
9. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?
Minimalism
garbage
Thomas Jefferson
local - arbitrary
10. 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:
Spanish Civil War.
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
Raphael's School of Athens
Cindy Sherman
11. 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:
rope bridges
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.
Raphael's School of Athens
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
12. Leonardo was as known in his time for his work as a(n) ____________ -as much for his work as an artist.
military engineer and weapons-designer
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
quipu
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
13. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:
rope bridges
the moon
Dada
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
14. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.
shield
David's The Death of Marat
cultural and personal identity
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
15. The Realist movement (p. 489) was influenced by many ideas and worldviews including:
16. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.
shield
talud-tablero
Inca
Autosacrifice
17. 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.
geoglyphs
Baroque
the sensuousness of light and color.
Teddy Cruz
18. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.
abstract
quipu
the moon
more of their African identity in their works
19. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
meditative - active
geoglyphs
Manet's Olympia
20. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?
Cindy Sherman
Maya cosmology
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
Church's The Heart of the Andes
21. The Incas are well known for their __________ construction - as can be witnessed in Machu Picchu.
Mining the Museum
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
masonry
became
22. The Rococo style (pp. 479-480) has been characterized as:
for armor
Neoclassical
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
the Baroque eroticized.
23. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT
shield
Fauvism.
ironies of modern political life
rigid style.
24. Which of these paintings is an example of Romanticism?
25. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.
Inca
Manet's Olympia
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
Autosacrifice
26. Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality - Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies the _______ movement.
Dada
Aztec
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
27. The sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini created Ecstasy of St. Theresa - a centerpiece of a chapel in Rome. It is typical of which style?
Minimalism
the Tree of Life
'Wild Beasts'
Baroque
28. The style of Burial of Count Orgaz is highly eclectic and individual. The artist is:
El Greco.
masonry
narration
he sculpted nude figures
29. A key focus of much postmodern art is _______.
rigid style.
Teotihuacan
ironies of modern political life
more of their African identity in their works
30. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:
'Wild Beasts'
talud-tablero
the sensuousness of light and color.
talud-tablero
31. Rejecting the frenetic approach of Pollock and de Kooning - Mark Rotho's Abstract Expressionist pantings convey a _______ - not _______space.
meditative - active
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
military engineer and weapons-designer
Neoplatonism
32. Cubism can best be described as:
Inca
Large stone temple complexes
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
art that is about the process of painting.
33. Yasumasu Morimura's Portrait (Twins) appropriates the imagery of _______ to illustrate Japanese culture as slave to the dominant (male) forces of Western society.
34. Which of these paintings is an example of Romanticism?
35. 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.
mosaics
Learning from Las Vegas
the Tree of Life
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
36. Which of these paintings is considered a Rococo painting?
37. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.
Mining the Museum
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
Minimalism
Cindy Sherman
38. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
talud-tablero
the personality of the sitter.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
39. Thaodore Garicault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?
Cindy Sherman
Romanticism
it is not known which culture built it
15000 miles of roads
40. Fred Wilson's exhibit for the Maryland Historical Society made the point that the Historical Society:
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
the ancient caves at Ajanta
41. Which of these is an example of High Renaissance painting?
42. 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 potlatch.
Manet's Olympia
military engineer and weapons-designer
the ancient caves at Ajanta
43. Using her work to struggle with the question of identity - this photographer's images are self-portraits.
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
movement and speed
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Cindy Sherman
44. 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.
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.
Surrealism
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
La Venta
45. Mayan civilization (p. 464) reached its peak in Southern Mexico and Guatemala around:
Minimalism
250.
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
Dada
46. Vik Muniz's Atlas (Carlao) was created by arranging_______ on his studio floor - photographing the arrangement - then painting from the photograph.
color
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
garbage
it is not known which culture built it
47. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.
Maya cosmology
shapes
Inca
Aztec
48. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:
Surrealism
250.
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
Greek and Roman sculpture.
49. The artist who painted Houses at L'Estaque worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism. The artist's name is:
Georges Braque.
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
cultural and personal identity
50. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:
Dada
garbage
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
Surrealism