Art Appreciation

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

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2. 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
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Neoclassical
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
domination


3. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?

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4. The short-lived Nazca culture in present-day Peru is known primarily for its _______.
Inca
geoglyphs
Cindy Sherman
Coatlicue


5. 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.
El Greco.
the ancient caves at Ajanta
meditative - active
La Venta


6. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.
quipu
Greek and Roman sculpture.
color
ironies of modern political life


7. 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.
Teddy Cruz
Frank Gehry
utilitarianism
epicanthic fold


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

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9. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.
military engineer and weapons-designer
Neoplatonism
Inca
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings


10. Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of:
it is not known which culture built it
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
German Expressionism.
the Tree of Life


11. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:
Maya cosmology
Fauvism.
art that is about the process of painting.
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.


12. Cubism can best be described as:
art that is about the process of painting.
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.
talud-tablero
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith


13. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:
quipu
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.


14. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.
garbage
for armor
color
more of their African identity in their works


15. The Rococo style (pp. 479-480) has been characterized as:
Mining the Museum
the Baroque eroticized.
Fragonard's Bathers
meditative - active


16. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
Navajo
'cast shadows'
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden


17. 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.
the Tree of Life
shapes
domination
El Greco.


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

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19. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.
rope bridges
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
Church's The Heart of the Andes
his modernity and break with the past.


20. The two major art movements of the 1960s were:
Mining the Museum
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Minimalism and Pop Art.
the personality of the sitter.


21. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.
David's The Death of Marat
it is not known which culture built it
masonry
Maya cosmology


22. ______ - 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
garbage
talud-tablero
Coatlicue


23. 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
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eternal beauty or shock value
epicanthic fold
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.


24. ______ - 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.
Church's The Heart of the Andes
Teotihuacan
virtue.
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures


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

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26. _______ - the Aztec goddess of life and death is recognizable in the culture's art by her necklace of human hearts - severed hands and skull.
250.
the symbolism of shape.
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
Coatlicue


27. The style of Burial of Count Orgaz is highly eclectic and individual. The artist is:
form.
Surrealism
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
El Greco.


28. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:
the personality of the sitter.
Caravaggio
mosaics
the Medici family.


29. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.
Autosacrifice
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
talud-tablero
Learning from Las Vegas


30. Joan Mira
meditative - active
abstract
Inca
Georges Braque.


31. Native American kachinas - like Buffalo Kachina (p. 494) - are:
for armor
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Mannerism.
more of their African identity in their works


32. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.
Navajo
humanities.
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.
Cindy Sherman


33. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?
Valdivia
Inca
blood
Paul Gauguin.


34. 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
for armor
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Lord Pakal


35. This artist reflects on identity and cultural heritage in works such as Petroglyph Park.
Aztec
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
local - arbitrary
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith


36. Images such as View of Suzhou reveal the 18th century Chinese interest in__________.
Inca
individuality.
abstract
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities


37. The Incas are well known for their __________ construction - as can be witnessed in Machu Picchu.
ironies of modern political life
virtue.
masonry
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans


38. Vik Muniz's Atlas (Carlao) was created by arranging_______ on his studio floor - photographing the arrangement - then painting from the photograph.
garbage
'Wild Beasts'
Minimalism
Aztec


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

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40. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.
the personality of the sitter.
puma
the potlatch.
Mining the Museum


41. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
garbage
he sculpted nude figures
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
talud-tablero


42. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?
Olmec
Fauvism.
the moon
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.


43. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:
Neoplatonism
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
Coatlicue
abstract


44. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.
Autosacrifice
shield
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
rope bridges


45. The artist who painted Houses at L'Estaque worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism. The artist's name is:
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
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.
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
Georges Braque.


46. Diego Rivera - David Siquieros - and Jose Clemente Orozco formed a new school of _______ inspired by the intense nationalism following the _______.
Autosacrifice
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
he sculpted nude figures
muralists - Mexican Revolution


47. 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.
15000 miles of roads
Caravaggio
Paul Cazanne.
Guernica


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

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49. Mayan civilization (p. 464) reached its peak in Southern Mexico and Guatemala around:
250.
movement and speed
for armor
Paul Cazanne.


50. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra

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