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Art Appreciation
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1. The three _______ made of serpentine at the Olmec site of La Venta are unusual; they were not meant to be seen as they were buried soon after completion.
sterile anonymity
he sculpted nude figures
Mannerism.
mosaics
2. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?
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.
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
Palenque
Thomas Jefferson
3. Chari Samba's Probla
Church's The Heart of the Andes
mosaics
Cindy Sherman
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
4. 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?
the Medici family.
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
blood
Surrealism
5. The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse is:
Paul Cazanne.
Minimalism
ironies of modern political life
Fauvism.
6. Which of the following is a unique function of Inca textiles?
for armor
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
Paul Cazanne
the moon
7. Mesoamerican cultures believed that humans first emerged from a hole in the ground now situated under the _______.
Surrealism
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Pyramid of the Sun
Inca
8. ______ - 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.
Teotihuacan
Neoclassical
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
Teddy Cruz
9. What sets northern European artists (p. 454) apart from most artists of the Italian Renaissance is their interest in:
rigid style.
Large stone temple complexes
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
10. This artist of The Large Bathers pushed toward an idea of painting that established for the work an independent existence:
eternal beauty or shock value
Large stone temple complexes
Paul Cazanne.
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.
11. The Realist movement (p. 489) was influenced by many ideas and worldviews including:
12. Romanticist artists - like Frederic Edwin Church - viewed nature as:
13. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?
objectivity of the camera.
mosaics
Neoclassical
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
14. The _______ included in panels of Maya relief carvings and ceramics decoration aide in their interpretation.
the symbolism of shape.
Greek and Roman sculpture.
glyphs
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
15. Using her work to struggle with the question of identity - this photographer's images are self-portraits.
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.
Minimalism
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
Cindy Sherman
16. Which of these is an example of Dada art?
17. This artist reflects on identity and cultural heritage in works such as Petroglyph Park.
Futurism
Large stone temple complexes
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
18. 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.
talud-tablero
the ancient caves at Ajanta
La Venta
15000 miles of roads
19. Diego Rivera - David Siquieros - and Jose Clemente Orozco formed a new school of _______ inspired by the intense nationalism following the _______.
humanities.
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
muralists - Mexican Revolution
Inca
20. The Post-Impressionists (p. 496) were united by their interest in:
21. Vik Muniz's Atlas (Carlao) was created by arranging_______ on his studio floor - photographing the arrangement - then painting from the photograph.
garbage
Minimalism
Fragonard's Bathers
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
22. Stylistic characteristics of Postmodern architecture include all of the following EXCEPT
individuality.
mosaics
Georges Braque.
utilitarianism
23. 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.
abstract
individuality.
Paul Cazanne.
La Venta
24. The artist who painted Houses at L'Estaque worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism. The artist's name is:
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
Dr. Strangelove
the Tree of Life
Georges Braque.
25. In his painting - Probla
Church's The Heart of the Andes
Dr. Strangelove
Gustave Courbet.
movement and speed
26. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.
Maya cosmology
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
Paul Cazanne.
Neoplatonism
27. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.
the Tree of Life
Large stone temple complexes
Valdivia
became
28. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.
garbage
abstract
cultural and personal identity
Lord Pakal
29. The Realist movement (p. 489) was influenced by many ideas and worldviews including:
30. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
Fauvism.
narration
talud-tablero
Maya cosmology
31. _______ 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.
'cast shadows'
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
Las Vegas
Cindy Sherman
32. As seen from the earth - _______ evokes a rabbit to some Native American cultures.
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
Neoclassical
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
the moon
33. 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:
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.
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
250.
the ancient caves at Ajanta
34. Fred Wilson's exhibit for the Maryland Historical Society made the point that the Historical Society:
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
the symbolism of shape.
military engineer and weapons-designer
Olmec
35. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Caravaggio
36. 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:
German Expressionism.
military engineer and weapons-designer
the ancient caves at Ajanta
Gustave Courbet.
37. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?
garbage
the notion of the sublime
Las Vegas
the symbolism of shape.
38. Which of these paintings is considered a Rococo painting?
39. Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of:
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
German Expressionism.
rigid style.
more of their African identity in their works
40. Yasumasu Morimura's Portrait (Twins) appropriates the imagery of _______ to illustrate Japanese culture as slave to the dominant (male) forces of Western society.
41. _______ - the Aztec goddess of life and death is recognizable in the culture's art by her necklace of human hearts - severed hands and skull.
Coatlicue
rigid style.
Frank Gehry
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
42. Which of these is an example of Baroque painting?
43. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
became
Neoplatonism
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
44. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:
individuality.
shield
Valdivia
the symbolism of shape.
45. Which of these is an example of Baroque painting?
46. Which of these paintings is an example of Romanticism?
47. Chari Samba's Probla
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
the Medici family.
Aztec
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
48. Fred Wilson's exhibit for the Maryland Historical Society made the point that the Historical Society:
utilitarianism
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Teotihuacan
49. The urge to rebel against the norm lost its impact when such rebellion _______ the norm in most Western cultures.
Autosacrifice
Spanish Civil War.
became
geoglyphs
50. 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:
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
narration
Mining the Museum