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1. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?
Thomas Jefferson
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Church's The Heart of the Andes
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures


2. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
Bettye Saar
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
more of their African identity in their works


3. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.
Cindy Sherman's
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
Maya cosmology


4. 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:
Gustave Courbet.
individuality.
Maya cosmology
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities


5. Angelica Kauffmann painted in the _______ style (p. 481) - which was based on Greek and Roman models.
masonry
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
Neoclassical
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures


6. 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
military engineer and weapons-designer
epicanthic fold
Mining the Museum
Quetzalcoatl


7. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:
color
the personality of the sitter.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
250.


8. Joan Mira
epicanthic fold
Quetzalcoatl
250.
abstract


9. 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.
Pyramid of the Sun
virtue.
15000 miles of roads
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.


10. 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.
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
15000 miles of roads
Coatlicue
local - arbitrary


11. Mesoamerican cultures believed that humans first emerged from a hole in the ground now situated under the _______.
the ancient caves at Ajanta
La Venta
Pyramid of the Sun
poets - calligraphers - and painters.


12. Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigae-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.
Autosacrifice
15000 miles of roads
Baroque
the Chinese emperor.


13. 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 ancient caves at Ajanta
domination
the notion of the sublime
Paul Gauguin.


14. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?
Palenque
'cast shadows'
Caravaggio
Fragonard's Bathers


15. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:
art that is about the process of painting.
rigid style.
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.


16. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?
Quetzalcoatl
eternal beauty or shock value
the notion of the sublime
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain


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

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

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19. Chari Samba's Probla
German Expressionism.
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
local - arbitrary


20. 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:
Maya cosmology
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
the notion of the sublime
poets - calligraphers - and painters.


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

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22. This artist reflects on identity and cultural heritage in works such as Petroglyph Park.
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
15000 miles of roads
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
objectivity of the camera.


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.
1980s
the Chinese emperor.
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.


24. The artist Andra Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of 'resolution between these two states - dream and reality.' What was this movement?
Surrealism
Maya cosmology
Inca
humanities.


25. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:
more of their African identity in their works
Pyramid of the Sun
Fragonard's Bathers
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.


26. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT
rigid style.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
glyphs


27. Mesoamerican cultures believed that humans first emerged from a hole in the ground now situated under the _______.
Teotihuacan
meditative - active
Valdivia
Pyramid of the Sun


28. Joan Mira
abstract
Quetzalcoatl
Pyramid of the Sun
Large stone temple complexes


29. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:
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individuality.
the sensuousness of light and color.
the moon


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

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31. 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.
Surrealism
Minimalism
El Greco.
La Venta


32. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:
individuality.
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
rigid style.
Cindy Sherman


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

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34. In School of Athens - Raphael represents the two significant schools of philosophy - signified by the portrayal of _______ and ________ in the center of the composition.
Plato; Aristotle.
Valdivia
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
El Greco.


35. The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of Which movement?
Fragonard's Bathers
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Futurism
blood


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

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37. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.
Navajo
Dada
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
military engineer and weapons-designer


38. 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.
'Wild Beasts'
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
domination
shapes


39. Known for their elaborate textiles used as status symbols - the Inca also used fiber in the construction of armor and _______.
rope bridges
Romanticism
shield
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.


40. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?
Paul Cazanne
talud-tablero
Paul Gauguin.
Caravaggio


41. Stylistic characteristics of Postmodern architecture include all of the following EXCEPT
Las Vegas
eternal beauty or shock value
utilitarianism
Mining the Museum


42. Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for:
Quetzalcoatl
glyphs
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans


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
epicanthic fold
Dada
utilitarianism
Spanish Civil War.


44. Yasumasu Morimura's Portrait (Twins) appropriates the imagery of _______ to illustrate Japanese culture as slave to the dominant (male) forces of Western society.

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45. 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:
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
Raphael's School of Athens
the potlatch.
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.


46. Thaodore Garicault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?
rigid style.
Romanticism
Cindy Sherman's
individuality.


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


48. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
Greek and Roman sculpture.
puma
Church's The Heart of the Andes


49. 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.
Maya cosmology
the personality of the sitter.
local - arbitrary
'Wild Beasts'


50. Which of the following is a unique function of Inca textiles?
for armor
Surrealism
German Expressionism.
rigid style.