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Art Appreciation

Subject : art
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1. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.






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






3. 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.






4. Coatlicue (p. 465) is a major _______ deity.






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






6. 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:






7. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.






8. The Cubists freed painting from the necessity of representing the world in order to dwell on:






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






10. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.






11. Which of these paintings is an example of Neo-classical art?

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12. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.






13. 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.






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






15. _______ 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.






16. 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:






17. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.






18. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:






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

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






22. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:






23. 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.






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

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25. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?

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26. 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:






27. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.






28. Joan Mira






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






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






31. 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.






32. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?






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






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






35. Freed from the rigidity of modernism - architects such as _______ have liberated structural walls - using three-dimensional computer modeling to make these new shapes possible.






36. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.






37. 'Postmodernism' has been defined in part as:






38. 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






39. Henri Matisse was a leader of early 20th century artists who felt free to use color 'arbitrarily' and were labeled - derogatorily - 'Fauves' - which translates __________.

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40. The Rococo style (pp. 479-480) has been characterized as:






41. 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






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






43. Romanticism can best be described as:

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44. 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?






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






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






47. Cubism can best be described as:






48. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?






49. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?

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50. In School of Athens - Raphael represents the two significant schools of philosophy - signified by the portrayal of _______ and ________ in the center of the composition.