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1. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?
humanities.
virtue.
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
Surrealism


2. Which of these is an example of Dada art?

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3. 'Postmodernism' has been defined in part as:
Church's The Heart of the Andes
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
Fragonard's Bathers
Teddy Cruz


4. 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?
he sculpted nude figures
the personality of the sitter.
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
Surrealism


5. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:
250.
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
eternal beauty or shock value


6. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.
Inca
domination
1980s
rigid style.


7. Rejecting the frenetic approach of Pollock and de Kooning - Mark Rotho's Abstract Expressionist pantings convey a _______ - not _______space.
Inca
Las Vegas
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
meditative - active


8. Which of these is an example of Baroque painting?

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9. Leonardo was as known in his time for his work as a(n) ____________ -as much for his work as an artist.
epicanthic fold
Mannerism.
military engineer and weapons-designer
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.


10. As a reaction against Abstract Expressionism - Frank Stella's Empress of India exhibits the elegant - sparse content-less shape of _______.
Minimalism
ironies of modern political life
Thomas Jefferson
shapes


11. Native American kachinas - like Buffalo Kachina (p. 494) - are:
the symbolism of shape.
'Wild Beasts'
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Greek and Roman sculpture.


12. The artist who painted Houses at L'Estaque worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism. The artist's name is:
the Chinese emperor.
Georges Braque.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
the symbolism of shape.


13. ______ - at its peak a cosmopolitan commercial center - remained a mythic center for Mesoamerican cultures for a thousand years after its decline - including an important pilgrimage site for Aztec rulers.
puma
Teotihuacan
more of their African identity in their works
Donatello's.


14. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:
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.
talud-tablero
individuality.
shield


15. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:
Autosacrifice
Plato; Aristotle.
the Chinese emperor.
meditative - active


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

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17. Freed from the rigidity of modernism - architects such as _______ have liberated structural walls - using three-dimensional computer modeling to make these new shapes possible.
Frank Gehry
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
Las Vegas
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.


18. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?
Greek and Roman sculpture.
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.
1980s
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.


19. Joan Mira
Thomas Jefferson
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
abstract
Manet's Olympia


20. Michelangelo's painting The Last Judgment (p. 468) - for the Sistine Chapel - typifies a style that came to be known as:
Mannerism.
Baroque
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.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures


21. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
humanities.


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


23. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
he sculpted nude figures
Cindy Sherman
virtue.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew


24. At La Venta - a(n) _______ site near present-day Villahermosa - Mexico - colossal heads were unearthed exhibiting what some scholars identify as fetal facial characteristics.
Bettye Saar
Olmec
Baroque
'cast shadows'


25. Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Frank Gehry


26. Characteristics of postmodern photography include all of the following EXCEPT
he sculpted nude figures
objectivity of the camera.
his modernity and break with the past.
epicanthic fold


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

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28. On the relief carving on the lid of his sarcophagus - Pakal is depicted falling off the Wacah Chan - _______.
movement and speed
puma
Autosacrifice
the Tree of Life


29. Rococo painting can best be characterized as:
Spanish Civil War.
objectivity of the camera.
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
humanities.


30. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:
the Baroque eroticized.
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
mosaics
Surrealism


31. Because of the diversity and plurality of postmodernism - many contemporary artists address the issues of _______ in their work.
cultural and personal identity
eternal beauty or shock value
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.


32. Stylistic characteristics of Postmodern architecture include all of the following EXCEPT
Inca
became
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
utilitarianism


33. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
Spanish Civil War.
1980s
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.


34. Coatlicue (p. 465) is a major _______ deity.
Aztec
for armor
Mannerism.
Neoplatonism


35. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?

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36. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.
Paul Gauguin.
Neoclassical
Inca
Maya cosmology


37. The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse is:
Teddy Cruz
eternal beauty or shock value
the Tree of Life
Fauvism.


38. Images such as View of Suzhou reveal the 18th century Chinese interest in__________.
Neoclassical
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.


39. What is the story behind Gericault's Raft of the Medusa?

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40. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.
Aztec
Bettye Saar
250.
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.


41. 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:
Neoclassical
humanities.
Neoclassical
rope bridges


42. Which of the following is a unique function of Inca textiles?
glyphs
for armor
meditative - active
Bettye Saar


43. Cubism can best be described as:
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
art that is about the process of painting.
Palenque
Baroque


44. Thaodore Garicault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
Romanticism
Las Vegas
Pyramid of the Sun


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


46. Joan Mira
abstract
Navajo
Lord Pakal
epicanthic fold


47. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.
puma
the Chinese emperor.
Dada
Neoplatonism


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

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49. Using her work to struggle with the question of identity - this photographer's images are self-portraits.
15000 miles of roads
the ancient caves at Ajanta
Palenque
Cindy Sherman


50. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Teddy Cruz
Navajo
shield