Art Appreciation

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1. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:
the sensuousness of light and color.
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
geoglyphs
form.


2. 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.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
Caravaggio
La Venta
David's The Death of Marat


3. The artist who painted Houses at L'Estaque worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism. The artist's name is:
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Georges Braque.
Aztec
Navajo


4. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.
Cindy Sherman
shield
color
Caravaggio


5. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:
Dada
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 use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
the personality of the sitter.


6. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.
shapes
glyphs
Surrealism
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans


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

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8. Thaodore Garicault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?
La Venta
Romanticism
individuality.
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.


9. 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:
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
Olmec
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.
abstract


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

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11. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
movement and speed
Maya cosmology
rendering believable space in realistic detail.


12. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
Autosacrifice
La Venta
talud-tablero


13. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
La Venta
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
he sculpted nude figures
Cindy Sherman


14. In School of Athens - Raphael represents the two significant schools of philosophy - signified by the portrayal of _______ and ________ in the center of the composition.
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.
Plato; Aristotle.
objectivity of the camera.
Futurism


15. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
Baroque
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.


16. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
Lord Pakal
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
Dr. Strangelove


17. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?
El Greco.
form.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
the notion of the sublime


18. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.
it is not known which culture built it
individuality.
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
puma


19. Rococo painting can best be characterized as:
the symbolism of shape.
the personality of the sitter.
the ancient caves at Ajanta
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.


20. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?
Neoplatonism
meditative - active
his modernity and break with the past.
Paul Cazanne


21. Freed from the rigidity of modernism - architects such as _______ have liberated structural walls - using three-dimensional computer modeling to make these new shapes possible.
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Frank Gehry
rigid style.
Romanticism


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


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

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24. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.
the symbolism of shape.
more of their African identity in their works
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
Inca


25. Native American kachinas - like Buffalo Kachina (p. 494) - are:
Minimalism and Pop Art.
epicanthic fold
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Baroque


26. ______ - 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.
Cindy Sherman
glyphs
German Expressionism.
Teotihuacan


27. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.
the sensuousness of light and color.
muralists - Mexican Revolution
Large stone temple complexes
1980s


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

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

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

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31. _______ are characteristic of Maya architecture - suggesting priests/rulers had great power.
Guernica
Large stone temple complexes
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Thomas Jefferson


32. Michelangelo's painting The Last Judgment (p. 468) - for the Sistine Chapel - typifies a style that came to be known as:
Palenque
Mannerism.
objectivity of the camera.
Maya cosmology


33. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
individuality.
talud-tablero
Neoclassical
more of their African identity in their works


34. This artist of The Large Bathers pushed toward an idea of painting that established for the work an independent existence:
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
Paul Cazanne.
the sensuousness of light and color.
Fragonard's Bathers


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

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36. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.
puma
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
Romanticism
Dada


37. One of most important - best preserved and extensively studied Mayan cities is _______.
Palenque
for armor
Dr. Strangelove
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden


38. Known for their elaborate textiles used as status symbols - the Inca also used fiber in the construction of armor and _______.
utilitarianism
rope bridges
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.


39. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.
Autosacrifice
Maya cosmology
Dr. Strangelove
talud-tablero


40. The urge to rebel against the norm lost its impact when such rebellion _______ the norm in most Western cultures.
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
became
mosaics
local - arbitrary


41. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:
abstract
Greek and Roman sculpture.
the potlatch.
Minimalism


42. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:
Aztec
Palenque
virtue.
the potlatch.


43. Angelica Kauffmann painted in the _______ style (p. 481) - which was based on Greek and Roman models.
Learning from Las Vegas
epicanthic fold
virtue.
Neoclassical


44. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT
rigid style.
became
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.


45. 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 Chinese emperor.
Pyramid of the Sun
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
domination


46. The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse is:
Greek and Roman sculpture.
Fauvism.
humanities.
Baroque


47. In his painting - Probla
shapes
Dr. Strangelove
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
Gustave Courbet.


48. Diego Rivera - David Siquieros - and Jose Clemente Orozco formed a new school of _______ inspired by the intense nationalism following the _______.
muralists - Mexican Revolution
'cast shadows'
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
sterile anonymity


49. Using her work to struggle with the question of identity - this photographer's images are self-portraits.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
Cindy Sherman
Maya cosmology


50. As a reaction against Abstract Expressionism - Frank Stella's Empress of India exhibits the elegant - sparse content-less shape of _______.
Minimalism
color
Large stone temple complexes
1980s