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Art Appreciation

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

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2. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:
the personality of the sitter.
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
the sensuousness of light and color.
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.

3. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.
Lord Pakal
form.
El Greco.
Inca

4. _______ - the most powerful of Palenque Maya kings - ruled for 67 years - July 29 - 615 CE - August 31 - 683 CE.
Georges Braque.
Raphael's School of Athens
Lord Pakal
individuality.

5. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.
Valdivia
military engineer and weapons-designer
'Wild Beasts'
the notion of the sublime

6. As a reaction against Abstract Expressionism - Frank Stella's Empress of India exhibits the elegant - sparse content-less shape of _______.
geoglyphs
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
Minimalism
more of their African identity in their works

7. Like many contemporary sculptors - Kiki Smith - as seen in her Ice Man - seems to be asking questions about:
garbage
the sensuousness of light and color.
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
the symbolism of shape.

8. 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:
Manet's Olympia
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
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.
the Tree of Life

9. The Cubists freed painting from the necessity of representing the world in order to dwell on:
form.
Maya cosmology
the Tree of Life
individuality.

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

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11. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:
Minimalism and Pop Art.
the Tree of Life
Spanish Civil War.
color

12. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?
Paul Gauguin.
quipu
Maya cosmology
color

13. In works such as Olympia - realist painter Edouard Manet was denying traditional painting style and drawing attention to:
humanities.
Aztec
mosaics
his modernity and break with the past.

14. In Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks painting by Yin Hong - from the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century - the peacock symbolizes:
the sensuousness of light and color.
the Chinese emperor.
Aztec
Navajo

15. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.
Mining the Museum
the Chinese emperor.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Surrealism

16. Known for their elaborate textiles used as status symbols - the Inca also used fiber in the construction of armor and _______.
Aztec
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
rope bridges

17. The style of Burial of Count Orgaz is highly eclectic and individual. The artist is:
El Greco.
the Tree of Life
narration
it is not known which culture built it

18. Cubism can best be described as:
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
Olmec
art that is about the process of painting.

19. 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.
objectivity of the camera.
ironies of modern political life
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
shapes

20. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
Valdivia
the symbolism of shape.
the Medici family.

21. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
Dada
became
Paul Gauguin.

22. The two major art movements of the 1960s were:
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
Minimalism and Pop Art.
local - arbitrary
Learning from Las Vegas

23. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
virtue.
Olmec
Large stone temple complexes

24. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.
Aztec
color
puma
shapes

25. Stylistic characteristics of Postmodern architecture include all of the following EXCEPT
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
virtue.
utilitarianism

26. In What aspect of the twentieth century were Umberto Boccioni and other Futurist artists most interested?
eternal beauty or shock value
quipu
movement and speed
humanities.

27. _______ 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.
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
Las Vegas
Palenque
Raphael's School of Athens

28. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
he sculpted nude figures
his modernity and break with the past.
the Tree of Life
abstract

29. Chari Samba's Probla
Paul Cazanne
rigid style.
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
he sculpted nude figures

30. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?
he sculpted nude figures
sterile anonymity
Quetzalcoatl
Paul Cazanne

31. In his painting - Probla
narration
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Raphael's School of Athens
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette

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

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33. The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse is:
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
shapes
250.
Fauvism.

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

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35. Like many contemporary sculptors - Kiki Smith - as seen in her Ice Man - seems to be asking questions about:
1980s
15000 miles of roads
the symbolism of shape.
Aztec

36. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:
Learning from Las Vegas
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
more of their African identity in their works
Mannerism.

37. In the Aztec culture - sacrifices of prisoners-of-war from neighboring peoples were necessary to honor and re-create the sacrifice of _______ in ancient times (Teotihuaca
Quetzalcoatl
Fragonard's Bathers
Valdivia
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings

38. 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:
Dr. Strangelove
Gustave Courbet.
Quetzalcoatl
glyphs

39. 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
Aztec
Navajo
Romanticism

40. 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:
more of their African identity in their works
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
the potlatch.
Gustave Courbet.

41. The Rococo style (pp. 479-480) has been characterized as:
the Baroque eroticized.
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
Spanish Civil War.

42. 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
domination
became
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
Donatello's.

43. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
more of their African identity in their works
sterile anonymity
Cindy Sherman

44. The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse is:
Fauvism.
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
Greek and Roman sculpture.
Las Vegas

45. Marianne Nicholson's cliffside pictograph (a 'copper') represents a Northwest Native American tradition that had been suppressed through most of the 20th century - called:
muralists - Mexican Revolution
the potlatch.
Autosacrifice
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.

46. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?
Large stone temple complexes
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.

47. Characteristics of postmodern photography include all of the following EXCEPT
Olmec
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
objectivity of the camera.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.

48. Freed from the rigidity of modernism - architects such as _______ have liberated structural walls - using three-dimensional computer modeling to make these new shapes possible.
the potlatch.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Frank Gehry
the personality of the sitter.

49. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?
the notion of the sublime
quipu
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.

50. Michelangelo's painting The Last Judgment (p. 468) - for the Sistine Chapel - typifies a style that came to be known as:
Mannerism.
Caravaggio
mosaics
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.