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Art Appreciation

Subject : art
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1. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.






2. Angelica Kauffmann painted in the _______ style (p. 481) - which was based on Greek and Roman models.






3. 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?






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






5. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?






6. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.






7. What is the subject matter of most Impressionist painting?






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






9. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:






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






11. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.






12. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?






13. Romanticism can best be described as:

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14. Which of these paintings is an example of Romanticism?

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15. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:






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

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17. The Post-Impressionists (p. 496) were united by their interest in:

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18. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.






19. Chari Samba's Probla






20. Because of the diversity and plurality of postmodernism - many contemporary artists address the issues of _______ in their work.






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






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






23. In his painting - Probla






24. 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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25. 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:






26. Mayan civilization (p. 464) reached its peak in Southern Mexico and Guatemala around:






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

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28. 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.






29. In Mesoamerican cultures - sacrificial _______ was seen as nourishment of the earth in its capacity of creator of life.






30. Characteristics of postmodern photography include all of the following EXCEPT






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






32. Cubism can best be described as:






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






34. At La Venta - a(n) _______ site near present-day Villahermosa - Mexico - colossal heads were unearthed exhibiting what some scholars identify as fetal facial characteristics.






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






36. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.






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






38. What sets northern European artists (p. 454) apart from most artists of the Italian Renaissance is their interest in:






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






40. In his painting - Probla






41. Which of these paintings is an example of Romanticism?

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42. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:






43. The Incas are well known for their __________ construction - as can be witnessed in Machu Picchu.






44. On the relief carving on the lid of his sarcophagus - Pakal is depicted falling off the Wacah Chan - _______.






45. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?






46. Diego Rivera - David Siquieros - and Jose Clemente Orozco formed a new school of _______ inspired by the intense nationalism following the _______.






47. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:






48. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:






49. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?






50. _______ are characteristic of Maya architecture - suggesting priests/rulers had great power.