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Art Appreciation

Subject : art
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1. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra


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






3. The artist Andra Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of 'resolution between these two states - dream and reality.' What was this movement?






4. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?






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






6. 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.






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






8. 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.






9. Cubism can best be described as:






10. Which of these is an example of Dada art?


11. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.






12. Consummate empire builders - the _______ arose from humble beginnings as a displaced tribe to commanding rulers of a vast network of luxury tributes from millions of people over a large geographic area in a 300-year period.






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






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


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






16. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:






17. Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigae-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.






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






19. ______ - 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.






20. 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






21. 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






22. Like many contemporary sculptors - Kiki Smith - as seen in her Ice Man - seems to be asking questions about:






23. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:






24. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?






25. Which of the following is a unique function of Inca textiles?






26. Creating a work densely packed with information concerns most postmodern artists more than _______.






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






28. 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.






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






30. Using her work to struggle with the question of identity - this photographer's images are self-portraits.






31. This artist reflects on identity and cultural heritage in works such as Petroglyph Park.






32. 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:






33. 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?






34. The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse is:






35. Mesoamerican cultures believed that humans first emerged from a hole in the ground now situated under the _______.






36. Cubism can best be described as:






37. ______ - 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.






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






39. 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:






40. Romanticism can best be described as:


41. In his painting - Probla






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






43. Romanticist artists - like Frederic Edwin Church - viewed nature as:


44. What is the story behind Gericault's Raft of the Medusa?


45. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.






46. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:






47. One of most important - best preserved and extensively studied Mayan cities is _______.






48. 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






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






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