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Art Appreciation
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1. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:
he sculpted nude figures
Autosacrifice
Greek and Roman sculpture.
geoglyphs
2. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.
humanities.
quipu
Maya cosmology
Quetzalcoatl
3. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.
he sculpted nude figures
David's The Death of Marat
Lord Pakal
Maya cosmology
4. Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for:
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
Inca
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
5. The style of Burial of Count Orgaz is highly eclectic and individual. The artist is:
El Greco.
Church's The Heart of the Andes
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
the Chinese emperor.
6. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.
Futurism
it is not known which culture built it
15000 miles of roads
Plato; Aristotle.
7. Fred Wilson's exhibit for the Maryland Historical Society made the point that the Historical Society:
muralists - Mexican Revolution
Guernica
the Chinese emperor.
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
8. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.
Donatello's.
David's The Death of Marat
Maya cosmology
Large stone temple complexes
9. Which of these paintings is an example of Neo-classical art?
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10. 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.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Coatlicue
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
Teddy Cruz
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:
narration
talud-tablero
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.
Cindy Sherman
12. The sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini created Ecstasy of St. Theresa - a centerpiece of a chapel in Rome. It is typical of which style?
Baroque
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
puma
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
13. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?
ironies of modern political life
Caravaggio
geoglyphs
Aztec
14. Cubism can best be described as:
Aztec
art that is about the process of painting.
Church's The Heart of the Andes
the Baroque eroticized.
15. The Post-Impressionists (p. 496) were united by their interest in:
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16. The _______ included in panels of Maya relief carvings and ceramics decoration aide in their interpretation.
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
the Tree of Life
glyphs
Aztec
17. Joan Mira
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
Greek and Roman sculpture.
abstract
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
18. Leonardo was as known in his time for his work as a(n) ____________ -as much for his work as an artist.
Donatello's.
military engineer and weapons-designer
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
250.
19. The Post-Impressionists (p. 496) were united by their interest in:
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20. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca
art that is about the process of painting.
Fragonard's Bathers
Valdivia
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
21. 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.
Baroque
Frank Gehry
Olmec
La Venta
22. Which of these paintings is an example of Romanticism?
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23. On the relief carving on the lid of his sarcophagus - Pakal is depicted falling off the Wacah Chan - _______.
the Tree of Life
Teddy Cruz
the symbolism of shape.
'Wild Beasts'
24. 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:
Aztec
Gustave Courbet.
the ancient caves at Ajanta
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
25. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:
became
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
Spanish Civil War.
Quetzalcoatl
26. 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
Cindy Sherman's
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
27. The urge to rebel against the norm lost its impact when such rebellion _______ the norm in most Western cultures.
geoglyphs
became
Fauvism.
Navajo
28. On the relief carving on the lid of his sarcophagus - Pakal is depicted falling off the Wacah Chan - _______.
the Tree of Life
abstract
Autosacrifice
Inca
29. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.
15000 miles of roads
Pyramid of the Sun
El Greco.
Navajo
30. The artist who painted Houses at L'Estaque worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism. The artist's name is:
Coatlicue
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Valdivia
Georges Braque.
31. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT
rigid style.
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meditative - active
garbage
32. The short-lived Nazca culture in present-day Peru is known primarily for its _______.
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
geoglyphs
Valdivia
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
33. The Cubists freed painting from the necessity of representing the world in order to dwell on:
individuality.
garbage
form.
abstract
34. 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.
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
Neoplatonism
Aztec
El Greco.
35. Great Serpent Mound is an example of a(n) _______.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Gustave Courbet.
Inca
the notion of the sublime
36. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
for armor
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
talud-tablero
shield
37. The Post-Impressionists (p. 496) were united by their interest in:
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38. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.
Inca
geoglyphs
German Expressionism.
the sensuousness of light and color.
39. Like many contemporary sculptors - Kiki Smith - as seen in her Ice Man - seems to be asking questions about:
local - arbitrary
the symbolism of shape.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
Paul Cazanne.
40. The artist Andra Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of 'resolution between these two states - dream and reality.' What was this movement?
Aztec
talud-tablero
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
Surrealism
41. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:
the Chinese emperor.
Pyramid of the Sun
Thomas Jefferson
Minimalism
42. 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
Quetzalcoatl
it is not known which culture built it
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
Donatello's.
43. This artist of The Large Bathers pushed toward an idea of painting that established for the work an independent existence:
Paul Cazanne.
art that is about the process of painting.
the sensuousness of light and color.
Paul Gauguin.
44. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.
Mining the Museum
Manet's Olympia
Maya cosmology
became
45. As seen from the earth - _______ evokes a rabbit to some Native American cultures.
the symbolism of shape.
the Chinese emperor.
sterile anonymity
the moon
46. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?
Raphael's School of Athens
Thomas Jefferson
the symbolism of shape.
'cast shadows'
47. Characteristics of postmodern photography include all of the following EXCEPT
the ancient caves at Ajanta
objectivity of the camera.
Mining the Museum
virtue.
48. 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.
15000 miles of roads
utilitarianism
geoglyphs
military engineer and weapons-designer
49. Which of these is an example of Baroque painting?
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50. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?
individuality.
Teotihuacan
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
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.