Art Appreciation

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1. Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?
15000 miles of roads
the moon
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
'Wild Beasts'


2. On the relief carving on the lid of his sarcophagus - Pakal is depicted falling off the Wacah Chan - _______.
Coatlicue
the Tree of Life
Aztec
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.


3. In Mesoamerican cultures - sacrificial _______ was seen as nourishment of the earth in its capacity of creator of life.
Palenque
blood
quipu
Maya cosmology


4. 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.
La Venta
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
Large stone temple complexes
Fragonard's Bathers


5. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?
Baroque
'cast shadows'
the notion of the sublime
shapes


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

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7. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?
Paul Cazanne
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
the potlatch.
Paul Cazanne.


8. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?
sterile anonymity
Caravaggio
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
domination


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

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

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11. Which of the following is a unique function of Inca textiles?
shapes
15000 miles of roads
for armor
the sensuousness of light and color.


12. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?
Baroque
Learning from Las Vegas
shapes
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.


13. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:
the ancient caves at Ajanta
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
blood


14. 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:
Caravaggio
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
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.


15. Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigae-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.
Lord Pakal
Teotihuacan
Autosacrifice
Baroque


16. The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse is:
masonry
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
geoglyphs
Fauvism.


17. Cubism can best be described as:
art that is about the process of painting.
form.
Minimalism
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.


18. In the 1330s - Petrarch (p. 452) conceived of a philosophy that emphasized the value of the individual and the pursuit and study of classical languages - literature - history - and philosophy. Today we call these disciplines the:
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
humanities.
rigid style.
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.


19. The Rococo style (pp. 479-480) has been characterized as:
Valdivia
the Baroque eroticized.
the Tree of Life
blood


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

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21. The two major art movements of the 1960s were:
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
Minimalism and Pop Art.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden


22. 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
Large stone temple complexes
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
rigid style.


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

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24. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.
Valdivia
Fauvism.
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
epicanthic fold


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

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26. At La Venta - a(n) _______ site near present-day Villahermosa - Mexico - colossal heads were unearthed exhibiting what some scholars identify as fetal facial characteristics.
the Chinese emperor.
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
utilitarianism
Olmec


27. 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
epicanthic fold
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
the notion of the sublime


28. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
for armor
Fragonard's Bathers


29. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
shield


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

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31. The sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini created Ecstasy of St. Theresa - a centerpiece of a chapel in Rome. It is typical of which style?
Neoplatonism
Thomas Jefferson
Cindy Sherman
Baroque


32. Angelica Kauffmann painted in the _______ style (p. 481) - which was based on Greek and Roman models.
the sensuousness of light and color.
Neoclassical
Plato; Aristotle.
meditative - active


33. One of most important - best preserved and extensively studied Mayan cities is _______.
Minimalism and Pop Art.
German Expressionism.
Palenque
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.


34. Consummate empire builders - the _______ arose from humble beginnings as a displaced tribe to commanding rulers of a vast network of luxury tributes from millions of people over a large geographic area in a 300-year period.
Dr. Strangelove
Futurism
form.
Aztec


35. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
cultural and personal identity
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
color


36. _______ 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.
talud-tablero
Las Vegas
Paul Cazanne.
muralists - Mexican Revolution


37. 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:
Navajo
the ancient caves at Ajanta
sterile anonymity
Raphael's School of Athens


38. 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.
color
local - arbitrary
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
the Medici family.


39. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.
utilitarianism
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
Valdivia
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain


40. Mayan civilization (p. 464) reached its peak in Southern Mexico and Guatemala around:
more of their African identity in their works
250.
Learning from Las Vegas
color


41. As seen from the earth - _______ evokes a rabbit to some Native American cultures.
'cast shadows'
glyphs
the moon
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar


42. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
he sculpted nude figures
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
local - arbitrary
Romanticism


43. The Incas are well known for their __________ construction - as can be witnessed in Machu Picchu.
Learning from Las Vegas
masonry
15000 miles of roads
the Baroque eroticized.


44. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
the ancient caves at Ajanta
Thomas Jefferson
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.


45. A key focus of much postmodern art is _______.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
the Baroque eroticized.
ironies of modern political life
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.


46. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
the notion of the sublime
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans


47. What is the subject matter of most Impressionist painting?
the sensuousness of light and color.
the Medici family.
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.


48. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Paul Gauguin.
Caravaggio


49. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT
puma
virtue.
rigid style.
Plato; Aristotle.


50. Images such as View of Suzhou reveal the 18th century Chinese interest in__________.
Frank Gehry
ironies of modern political life
rigid style.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities