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Art Appreciation

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1. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT
rigid style.
Georges Braque.
Surrealism
Guernica

2. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.
color
Church's The Heart of the Andes
Bettye Saar
eternal beauty or shock value

3. Rejecting the frenetic approach of Pollock and de Kooning - Mark Rotho's Abstract Expressionist pantings convey a _______ - not _______space.
Cindy Sherman
meditative - active
Lord Pakal
virtue.

4. Chari Samba's Probla
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
Olmec
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
Dada

5. Characteristics of postmodern photography include all of the following EXCEPT
movement and speed
objectivity of the camera.
Raphael's School of Athens
the sensuousness of light and color.

6. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
Fragonard's Bathers
Bettye Saar
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.

7. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.
blood
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
Mining the Museum
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.

8. Mesoamerican cultures believed that humans first emerged from a hole in the ground now situated under the _______.
became
Pyramid of the Sun
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.
art that is about the process of painting.

9. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:
Coatlicue
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
individuality.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.

10. The Incas are well known for their __________ construction - as can be witnessed in Machu Picchu.
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
narration
masonry
Pyramid of the Sun

11. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?
David's The Death of Marat
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
Raphael's School of Athens
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.

12. _______ - the Aztec goddess of life and death is recognizable in the culture's art by her necklace of human hearts - severed hands and skull.
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
Aztec
Coatlicue
shield

13. In School of Athens - Raphael represents the two significant schools of philosophy - signified by the portrayal of _______ and ________ in the center of the composition.
Plato; Aristotle.
La Venta
individuality.
the moon

14. Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality - Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies the _______ movement.
puma
Quetzalcoatl
humanities.
Dada

15. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.
Palenque
Maya cosmology
became
'cast shadows'

16. Vik Muniz's Atlas (Carlao) was created by arranging_______ on his studio floor - photographing the arrangement - then painting from the photograph.
it is not known which culture built it
Plato; Aristotle.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
garbage

17. The sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini created Ecstasy of St. Theresa - a centerpiece of a chapel in Rome. It is typical of which style?
meditative - active
became
epicanthic fold
Baroque

18. In his painting - Probla
form.
El Greco.
narration
Learning from Las Vegas

19. Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to:
Frank Gehry
Inca
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
the Medici family.

20. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra

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21. Stylistic characteristics of Postmodern architecture include all of the following EXCEPT
mosaics
utilitarianism
narration
Bettye Saar

22. Angelica Kauffmann painted in the _______ style (p. 481) - which was based on Greek and Roman models.
abstract
Neoclassical
Guernica
Cindy Sherman's

23. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:
Minimalism and Pop Art.
virtue.
Mining the Museum
the Medici family.

24. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
1980s
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.

25. In Mesoamerican cultures - sacrificial _______ was seen as nourishment of the earth in its capacity of creator of life.
the personality of the sitter.
Baroque
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
blood

26. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:
blood
Valdivia
local - arbitrary
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.

27. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?
the personality of the sitter.
Paul Cazanne
Neoclassical
Raphael's School of Athens

28. What is the subject matter of most Impressionist painting?
Georges Braque.
Baroque
Surrealism
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape

29. Angelica Kauffmann painted in the _______ style (p. 481) - which was based on Greek and Roman models.
Neoclassical
Mining the Museum
Aztec
abstract

30. Marianne Nicholson's cliffside pictograph (a 'copper') represents a Northwest Native American tradition that had been suppressed through most of the 20th century - called:
garbage
military engineer and weapons-designer
Lord Pakal
the potlatch.

31. 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:
Caravaggio
Gustave Courbet.
Paul Cazanne.
humanities.

32. 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.
Guernica
shapes
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans

33. In his painting - Probla
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
Dr. Strangelove
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures

34. Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality - Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies the _______ movement.
Dada
glyphs
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
Paul Cazanne.

35. Rejecting the frenetic approach of Pollock and de Kooning - Mark Rotho's Abstract Expressionist pantings convey a _______ - not _______space.
meditative - active
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
La Venta
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle

36. Whose David was the first life-size nude sculpture since antiquity?

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37. Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for:
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
Paul Gauguin.
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
the moon

38. As a reaction against Abstract Expressionism - Frank Stella's Empress of India exhibits the elegant - sparse content-less shape of _______.
the symbolism of shape.
narration
Minimalism
the Baroque eroticized.

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:
humanities.
it is not known which culture built it
Cindy Sherman
individuality.

40. Vik Muniz's Atlas (Carlao) was created by arranging_______ on his studio floor - photographing the arrangement - then painting from the photograph.
Mining the Museum
garbage
Teddy Cruz
rope bridges

41. 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.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Guernica
Inca
Futurism

42. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:
epicanthic fold
Baroque
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
art that is about the process of painting.

43. _______ are characteristic of Maya architecture - suggesting priests/rulers had great power.
sterile anonymity
Pyramid of the Sun
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Large stone temple complexes

44. This artist reflects on identity and cultural heritage in works such as Petroglyph Park.
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape

45. The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of Which movement?
Lord Pakal
Futurism
Dada
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.

46. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.
Navajo
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.
Neoplatonism
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar

47. Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of:
the symbolism of shape.
German Expressionism.
puma
more of their African identity in their works

48. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:
Greek and Roman sculpture.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Paul Gauguin.
became

49. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
mosaics
he sculpted nude figures
Spanish Civil War.

50. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra

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