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Art Appreciation
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1. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.
movement and speed
Inca
utilitarianism
Olmec
2. Using her work to struggle with the question of identity - this photographer's images are self-portraits.
Quetzalcoatl
Cindy Sherman
rope bridges
rigid style.
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.
Aztec
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
Minimalism
El Greco.
4. Coatlicue (p. 465) is a major _______ deity.
Church's The Heart of the Andes
'Wild Beasts'
for armor
Aztec
5. In Mesoamerican cultures - sacrificial _______ was seen as nourishment of the earth in its capacity of creator of life.
blood
Cindy Sherman
for armor
German Expressionism.
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:
'cast shadows'
Valdivia
Gustave Courbet.
Teotihuacan
7. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.
Fragonard's Bathers
puma
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
David's The Death of Marat
8. The Cubists freed painting from the necessity of representing the world in order to dwell on:
cultural and personal identity
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.
Mannerism.
form.
9. Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?
epicanthic fold
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
10. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.
color
meditative - active
Donatello's.
Palenque
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.
Thomas Jefferson
Valdivia
El Greco.
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
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.
glyphs
Teddy Cruz
250.
Paul Cazanne.
14. In works such as Olympia - realist painter Edouard Manet was denying traditional painting style and drawing attention to:
Bettye Saar
'Wild Beasts'
utilitarianism
his modernity and break with the past.
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.
the moon
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.
Las Vegas
Inca
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:
narration
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
shield
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
17. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.
quipu
Fragonard's Bathers
local - arbitrary
garbage
18. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:
Fauvism.
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
Navajo
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
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
epicanthic fold
Teddy Cruz
he sculpted nude figures
Teddy Cruz
21. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
virtue.
he sculpted nude figures
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
22. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:
Spanish Civil War.
Guernica
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
Fragonard's Bathers
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.
the symbolism of shape.
local - arbitrary
Navajo
Guernica
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:
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 Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
Romanticism
27. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.
the moon
Plato; Aristotle.
Lord Pakal
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
28. Joan Mira
abstract
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
Paul Cazanne
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
29. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.
Paul Cazanne
Maya cosmology
mosaics
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
30. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.
local - arbitrary
sterile anonymity
blood
Greek and Roman sculpture.
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.
Valdivia
Minimalism
Fauvism.
15000 miles of roads
32. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Thomas Jefferson
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
eternal beauty or shock value
33. 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
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
Pyramid of the Sun
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
34. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.
shield
1980s
Cindy Sherman
Fragonard's Bathers
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.
puma
250.
Frank Gehry
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
36. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.
Navajo
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Cindy Sherman's
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
37. 'Postmodernism' has been defined in part as:
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
Dada
narration
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
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
Maya cosmology
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
domination
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.
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:
it is not known which culture built it
the Baroque eroticized.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
military engineer and weapons-designer
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
epicanthic fold
Inca
Mining the Museum
cultural and personal identity
42. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.
Futurism
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
Inca
1980s
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?
15000 miles of roads
garbage
Surrealism
'cast shadows'
45. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?
became
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
Raphael's School of Athens
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?
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
meditative - active
Georges Braque.
Surrealism
47. Cubism can best be described as:
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
art that is about the process of painting.
the personality of the sitter.
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
48. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?
shapes
Navajo
Paul Cazanne
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
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.
250.
mosaics
Plato; Aristotle.
the potlatch.