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Art Appreciation

Subject : art
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1. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.






2. The style of Burial of Count Orgaz is highly eclectic and individual. The artist is:






3. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.






4. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:






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

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6. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.






7. In his painting - Probla






8. The Cubists freed painting from the necessity of representing the world in order to dwell on:






9. Coatlicue (p. 465) is a major _______ deity.






10. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.






11. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.






12. The _______ included in panels of Maya relief carvings and ceramics decoration aide in their interpretation.






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

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14. 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.






15. Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for:






16. 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:






17. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?






18. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:






19. Mesoamerican cultures believed that humans first emerged from a hole in the ground now situated under the _______.






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

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21. Using her work to struggle with the question of identity - this photographer's images are self-portraits.






22. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:






23. ______ - 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.






24. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:






25. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.






26. As seen from the earth - _______ evokes a rabbit to some Native American cultures.






27. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca






28. The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse is:






29. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.






30. Because of the diversity and plurality of postmodernism - many contemporary artists address the issues of _______ in their work.






31. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?






32. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.






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

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34. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?






35. A key focus of much postmodern art is _______.






36. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?






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

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38. Diego Rivera - David Siquieros - and Jose Clemente Orozco formed a new school of _______ inspired by the intense nationalism following the _______.






39. This artist of The Large Bathers pushed toward an idea of painting that established for the work an independent existence:






40. 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.






41. The Rococo style (pp. 479-480) has been characterized as:






42. Creating a work densely packed with information concerns most postmodern artists more than _______.






43. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.






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

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45. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:






46. 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






47. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.






48. Her untitled photographic self-portraits - posed with props in scenes corresponding to female characters in popular culture - are performances that allow _______ to address the ways in which culture views women.






49. 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






50. Fred Wilson's exhibit for the Maryland Historical Society made the point that the Historical Society: