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Art Appreciation

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

2. In works such as Olympia - realist painter Edouard Manet was denying traditional painting style and drawing attention to:
Paul Gauguin.
his modernity and break with the past.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Autosacrifice

3. Leonardo was as known in his time for his work as a(n) ____________ -as much for his work as an artist.
military engineer and weapons-designer
Caravaggio
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.

4. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
local - arbitrary
the notion of the sublime
the sensuousness of light and color.

5. A key focus of much postmodern art is _______.
humanities.
became
ironies of modern political life
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6. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.
it is not known which culture built it
Cindy Sherman's
the moon
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain

7. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?
Neoclassical
domination
Thomas Jefferson
Paul Gauguin.

8. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.
he sculpted nude figures
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
Pyramid of the Sun
La Venta

9. 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.
Baroque
local - arbitrary
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
the personality of the sitter.

10. Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?
the personality of the sitter.
Autosacrifice
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
Gustave Courbet.

11. Diego Rivera - David Siquieros - and Jose Clemente Orozco formed a new school of _______ inspired by the intense nationalism following the _______.
muralists - Mexican Revolution
Pyramid of the Sun
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)

12. Mayan civilization (p. 464) reached its peak in Southern Mexico and Guatemala around:
15000 miles of roads
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
mosaics
250.

13. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.
Maya cosmology
the symbolism of shape.
sterile anonymity
Inca

14. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:
rope bridges
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
more of their African identity in their works
Fauvism.

15. Which of these paintings is an example of Neo-classical art?

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

17. In School of Athens - Raphael represents the two significant schools of philosophy - signified by the portrayal of _______ and ________ in the center of the composition.
Dada
Plato; Aristotle.
humanities.
German Expressionism.

18. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?
David's The Death of Marat
ironies of modern political life
Paul Cazanne
quipu

19. Rejecting the frenetic approach of Pollock and de Kooning - Mark Rotho's Abstract Expressionist pantings convey a _______ - not _______space.
meditative - active
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
shapes
the personality of the sitter.

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

21. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.
Maya cosmology
color
cultural and personal identity
ironies of modern political life

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

23. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Thomas Jefferson
Romanticism
Fragonard's Bathers

24. 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.
shapes
domination
Greek and Roman sculpture.
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.

25. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.
Lord Pakal
Greek and Roman sculpture.
form.
individuality.

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

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

28. 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.
1980s
local - arbitrary
Gustave Courbet.
Frank Gehry

29. This artist reflects on identity and cultural heritage in works such as Petroglyph Park.
Palenque
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
the ancient caves at Ajanta
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.

30. Cubism can best be described as:
Navajo
blood
art that is about the process of painting.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.

31. The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse is:
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
Fauvism.
Guernica

32. _______ are characteristic of Maya architecture - suggesting priests/rulers had great power.
Large stone temple complexes
Gustave Courbet.
Greek and Roman sculpture.
rendering believable space in realistic detail.

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

34. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT
the Baroque eroticized.
'cast shadows'
utilitarianism
rigid style.

35. _______ are characteristic of Maya architecture - suggesting priests/rulers had great power.
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
Large stone temple complexes
puma
Coatlicue

36. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:
meditative - active
it is not known which culture built it
individuality.
Cindy Sherman

37. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.
Aztec
Futurism
Autosacrifice
the Chinese emperor.

38. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
Romanticism
utilitarianism
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.

39. Rococo painting can best be characterized as:
shapes
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
Baroque
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.

40. The artist Andra Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of 'resolution between these two states - dream and reality.' What was this movement?
Guernica
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
Surrealism
Large stone temple complexes

41. The sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini created Ecstasy of St. Theresa - a centerpiece of a chapel in Rome. It is typical of which style?
Baroque
sterile anonymity
virtue.
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.

42. As a reaction against Abstract Expressionism - Frank Stella's Empress of India exhibits the elegant - sparse content-less shape of _______.
Caravaggio
Minimalism
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geoglyphs

43. This artist of The Large Bathers pushed toward an idea of painting that established for the work an independent existence:
Donatello's.
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
movement and speed
Paul Cazanne.

44. Angelica Kauffmann painted in the _______ style (p. 481) - which was based on Greek and Roman models.
Surrealism
Neoclassical
his modernity and break with the past.
it is not known which culture built it

45. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.
Dada
Autosacrifice
Navajo
more of their African identity in their works

46. The Realist movement (p. 489) was influenced by many ideas and worldviews including:

47. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?
'Wild Beasts'
La Venta
garbage
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.

48. ______ - 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.
Dada
Gustave Courbet.
for armor
Teotihuacan

49. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?
Valdivia
Manet's Olympia
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
Donatello's.

50. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?
Coatlicue
the potlatch.
shield
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