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Art Appreciation
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1. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?
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Inca
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
'Wild Beasts'
2. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
the sensuousness of light and color.
domination
Minimalism
3. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Olmec
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
4. _______ - the Aztec goddess of life and death is recognizable in the culture's art by her necklace of human hearts - severed hands and skull.
Coatlicue
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
talud-tablero
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
5. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:
Cindy Sherman
more of their African identity in their works
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
Minimalism and Pop Art.
6. _______ photos quote satirically the stereotypes of women in popular film - recycling them as a uniquely pure form of postmodernism.
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7. This artist of The Large Bathers pushed toward an idea of painting that established for the work an independent existence:
Minimalism
ironies of modern political life
Paul Cazanne.
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
8. 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?
La Venta
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
Las Vegas
Surrealism
9. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:
he sculpted nude figures
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
Greek and Roman sculpture.
became
10. The style of Burial of Count Orgaz is highly eclectic and individual. The artist is:
Donatello's.
masonry
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El Greco.
11. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.
Inca
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.
Dada
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
12. Rococo painting can best be characterized as:
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.
Gustave Courbet.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
13. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
Spanish Civil War.
Futurism
Minimalism and Pop Art.
14. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:
Large stone temple complexes
virtue.
15000 miles of roads
rigid style.
15. Vik Muniz's Atlas (Carlao) was created by arranging_______ on his studio floor - photographing the arrangement - then painting from the photograph.
Olmec
garbage
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
16. 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
domination
the sensuousness of light and color.
15000 miles of roads
Greek and Roman sculpture.
17. Because of the diversity and plurality of postmodernism - many contemporary artists address the issues of _______ in their work.
cultural and personal identity
David's The Death of Marat
Large stone temple complexes
Thomas Jefferson
18. 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
masonry
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
Spanish Civil War.
19. Yasumasu Morimura's Portrait (Twins) appropriates the imagery of _______ to illustrate Japanese culture as slave to the dominant (male) forces of Western society.
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20. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.
movement and speed
became
Mining the Museum
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
21. A leading painter in the Realist movement - the artist of Burial at Ornans declared that 'painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the presentation of real and existing things.' The artist is:
Gustave Courbet.
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
Cindy Sherman
art that is about the process of painting.
22. In works such as Olympia - realist painter Edouard Manet was denying traditional painting style and drawing attention to:
Paul Gauguin.
his modernity and break with the past.
puma
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
23. Joan Mira
Dr. Strangelove
abstract
Inca
Aztec
24. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?
250.
Quetzalcoatl
military engineer and weapons-designer
Caravaggio
25. The short-lived Nazca culture in present-day Peru is known primarily for its _______.
Fragonard's Bathers
Cindy Sherman
geoglyphs
Baroque
26. _______ 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.
shapes
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dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
Valdivia
27. In School of Athens - Raphael represents the two significant schools of philosophy - signified by the portrayal of _______ and ________ in the center of the composition.
Quetzalcoatl
rope bridges
Plato; Aristotle.
250.
28. 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.
Teddy Cruz
Paul Gauguin.
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
the moon
29. Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for:
Navajo
Cindy Sherman
Dada
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
30. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
ironies of modern political life
31. ______ - 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.
Raphael's School of Athens
mosaics
sterile anonymity
Teotihuacan
32. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT
rigid style.
talud-tablero
Coatlicue
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
33. The short-lived Nazca culture in present-day Peru is known primarily for its _______.
form.
Caravaggio
geoglyphs
individuality.
34. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?
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35. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:
the moon
1980s
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
more of their African identity in their works
36. Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of:
Romanticism
German Expressionism.
meditative - active
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
37. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
he sculpted nude figures
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
Dada
38. Which of these paintings is an example of Romanticism?
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39. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.
Donatello's.
meditative - active
Bettye Saar
Minimalism
40. In What aspect of the twentieth century were Umberto Boccioni and other Futurist artists most interested?
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
movement and speed
his modernity and break with the past.
Paul Cazanne.
41. Native American kachinas - like Buffalo Kachina (p. 494) - are:
virtue.
Neoplatonism
Paul Gauguin.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
42. Joan Mira
the sensuousness of light and color.
abstract
mosaics
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
43. 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.
became
Georges Braque.
mosaics
the Medici family.
44. Marianne Nicholson's cliffside pictograph (a 'copper') represents a Northwest Native American tradition that had been suppressed through most of the 20th century - called:
'Wild Beasts'
the potlatch.
the Tree of Life
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
45. 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.
more of their African identity in their works
Cindy Sherman
the Medici family.
Paul Cazanne.
46. The Cubists freed painting from the necessity of representing the world in order to dwell on:
Autosacrifice
'Wild Beasts'
quipu
form.
47. This artist reflects on identity and cultural heritage in works such as Petroglyph Park.
shield
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
form.
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
48. In his painting - Probla
narration
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Surrealism
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
49. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
Manet's Olympia
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Mining the Museum
50. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?
Dada
objectivity of the camera.
Fragonard's Bathers
Caravaggio
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