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Art Appreciation

Subject : art
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1. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:






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






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






4. In What aspect of the twentieth century were Umberto Boccioni and other Futurist artists most interested?






5. Cubism can best be described as:






6. 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:






7. Native American kachinas - like Buffalo Kachina (p. 494) - are:






8. Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to:






9. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.






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

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11. Marianne Nicholson's cliffside pictograph (a 'copper') represents a Northwest Native American tradition that had been suppressed through most of the 20th century - called:






12. Marianne Nicholson's cliffside pictograph (a 'copper') represents a Northwest Native American tradition that had been suppressed through most of the 20th century - called:






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

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






15. 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.






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






17. 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.






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






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






20. 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.






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






22. Rococo painting can best be characterized as:






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






24. A key focus of much postmodern art is _______.






25. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca






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






27. One of most important - best preserved and extensively studied Mayan cities is _______.






28. Rococo painting can best be characterized as:






29. The artist who painted Houses at L'Estaque worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism. The artist's name is:






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






31. Which of these paintings is considered a Rococo painting?

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32. The color schemes and flat patterns illustrated in Amrita Sher-Gil's The Swing were directly influenced by the Post-Impressionism of Paul Gauguin and:






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. 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






44. Creating a work densely packed with information concerns most postmodern artists more than _______.






45. Anish Kapoor - the Indian-born British sculptor - explores the spiritual meanings of _______ - posing questions about the origination and persistence of those meanings when displaced from their traditional context.






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






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






48. The Realist movement (p. 489) was influenced by many ideas and worldviews including:

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49. Which of these paintings is considered an Abstract Expressionist painting?

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