Art Appreciation

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1. Diego Rivera - David Siquieros - and Jose Clemente Orozco formed a new school of _______ inspired by the intense nationalism following the _______.
muralists - Mexican Revolution
Surrealism
form.
15000 miles of roads


2. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT
rope bridges
'cast shadows'
Dada
rigid style.


3. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
Lord Pakal
Baroque
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
talud-tablero


4. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
Cindy Sherman
he sculpted nude figures
mosaics
Greek and Roman sculpture.


5. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.
Valdivia
Donatello's.
for armor
the notion of the sublime


6. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?
Thomas Jefferson
'cast shadows'
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
'Wild Beasts'


7. In The Green Stripe (Madame Matisse) - Henri Matisse dispensed with the use of _______ color in favor of _______ color to explore the expressive possibilities of color.
individuality.
local - arbitrary
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
Las Vegas


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

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9. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.
talud-tablero
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Frank Gehry
Donatello's.


10. The short-lived Nazca culture in present-day Peru is known primarily for its _______.
individuality.
geoglyphs
epicanthic fold
he sculpted nude figures


11. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca
Frank Gehry
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
art that is about the process of painting.
Neoclassical


12. The artist Andra Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of 'resolution between these two states - dream and reality.' What was this movement?
Minimalism
narration
art that is about the process of painting.
Surrealism


13. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:
military engineer and weapons-designer
the personality of the sitter.
for armor
Greek and Roman sculpture.


14. 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
epicanthic fold
Gustave Courbet.
Mannerism.
domination


15. Which of the following is a unique function of Inca textiles?
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
for armor
narration
Georges Braque.


16. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra

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17. Joan Mira
mosaics
Teotihuacan
the Tree of Life
abstract


18. Chari Samba's Probla
Olmec
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
the ancient caves at Ajanta


19. Romanticism can best be described as:

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20. Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to:
muralists - Mexican Revolution
for armor
the Medici family.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans


21. The archaeological site plan of _______ shows the site's slightly west-of-north alignment - a characteristic of several Mesoamerican that may be associated with ritual processions.
local - arbitrary
La Venta
Plato; Aristotle.
Fauvism.


22. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?

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23. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:
rigid style.
Neoclassical
utilitarianism
the Chinese emperor.


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

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25. Chari Samba's Probla
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.
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
Romanticism
1980s


26. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?
250.
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
'cast shadows'
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.


27. 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:
Aztec
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.
humanities.
Fragonard's Bathers


28. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.
Navajo
Fauvism.
the notion of the sublime
Greek and Roman sculpture.


29. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?
Neoplatonism
quipu
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
masonry


30. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Frank Gehry
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
the notion of the sublime


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

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32. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:
cultural and personal identity
narration
the sensuousness of light and color.
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.


33. ______ - 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.
Teotihuacan
Plato; Aristotle.
became
his modernity and break with the past.


34. 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
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
domination
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
abstract


35. In works such as Olympia - realist painter Edouard Manet was denying traditional painting style and drawing attention to:
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
his modernity and break with the past.
the moon
Futurism


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

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37. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
Baroque
the Baroque eroticized.
rendering believable space in realistic detail.


38. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
he sculpted nude figures
Inca


39. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra

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40. In the Aztec culture - sacrifices of prisoners-of-war from neighboring peoples were necessary to honor and re-create the sacrifice of _______ in ancient times (Teotihuaca
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Quetzalcoatl
Surrealism
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.


41. Native American kachinas - like Buffalo Kachina (p. 494) - are:
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Donatello's.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.


42. 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:
blood
Manet's Olympia
Lord Pakal
poets - calligraphers - and painters.


43. 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.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
individuality.
Aztec
Dr. Strangelove


44. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?
the notion of the sublime
individuality.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.


45. 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
Learning from Las Vegas
humanities.
Las Vegas


46. The archaeological site plan of _______ shows the site's slightly west-of-north alignment - a characteristic of several Mesoamerican that may be associated with ritual processions.
Navajo
Greek and Roman sculpture.
La Venta
Navajo


47. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.
Greek and Roman sculpture.
form.
Valdivia
virtue.


48. In the Aztec culture - sacrifices of prisoners-of-war from neighboring peoples were necessary to honor and re-create the sacrifice of _______ in ancient times (Teotihuaca
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Cindy Sherman
Lord Pakal
Quetzalcoatl


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

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

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