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Art Appreciation

Subject : art
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1. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra

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2. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca






3. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?






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

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

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6. The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of Which movement?






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

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8. 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.






9. Diego Rivera - David Siquieros - and Jose Clemente Orozco formed a new school of _______ inspired by the intense nationalism following the _______.






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






11. 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.






12. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?






13. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.






14. 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.






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






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






17. Leonardo was as known in his time for his work as a(n) ____________ -as much for his work as an artist.






18. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.






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

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






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






22. 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.






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






24. _______ are characteristic of Maya architecture - suggesting priests/rulers had great power.






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






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






27. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.






28. Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for:






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






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






31. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.






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






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






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






35. Michelangelo's painting The Last Judgment (p. 468) - for the Sistine Chapel - typifies a style that came to be known as:






36. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?






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






38. 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:






39. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.






40. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?






41. 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:






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






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






44. Chari Samba's Probla






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






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






47. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.






48. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:






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






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