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Art Appreciation

Subject : art
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1. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.






2. Which of these is an example of High Renaissance painting?

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3. The two major art movements of the 1960s were:






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






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






7. The short-lived Nazca culture in present-day Peru is known primarily for its _______.






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






9. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.






10. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.






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






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






13. Mesoamerican cultures believed that humans first emerged from a hole in the ground now situated under the _______.






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

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15. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:






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






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






18. This artist reflects on identity and cultural heritage in works such as Petroglyph Park.






19. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?






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






21. 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.






22. The style of Burial of Count Orgaz is highly eclectic and individual. The artist is:






23. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?






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






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






26. The style of Burial of Count Orgaz is highly eclectic and individual. The artist is:






27. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:






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






29. In his painting - Probla






30. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:






31. Vik Muniz's Atlas (Carlao) was created by arranging_______ on his studio floor - photographing the arrangement - then painting from the photograph.






32. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca






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






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






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






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






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






38. 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:






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






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






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






43. Fred Wilson's exhibit for the Maryland Historical Society made the point that the Historical Society:






44. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:






45. Rejecting the frenetic approach of Pollock and de Kooning - Mark Rotho's Abstract Expressionist pantings convey a _______ - not _______space.






46. Great Serpent Mound is an example of a(n) _______.






47. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:






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






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






50. 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.