Art Appreciation

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1. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
garbage
Georges Braque.
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape


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

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

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4. In his painting - Probla
Dr. Strangelove
his modernity and break with the past.
250.
'cast shadows'


5. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.
Spanish Civil War.
Gustave Courbet.
Navajo
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.


6. Coatlicue (p. 465) is a major _______ deity.
Aztec
Minimalism
art that is about the process of painting.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.


7. One of most important - best preserved and extensively studied Mayan cities is _______.
Bettye Saar
Coatlicue
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
Palenque


8. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.
Fauvism.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans


9. Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigae-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
narration
Baroque
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape


10. The _______ included in panels of Maya relief carvings and ceramics decoration aide in their interpretation.
the sensuousness of light and color.
eternal beauty or shock value
glyphs
Mining the Museum


11. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.
Mining the Museum
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
Cindy Sherman
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.


12. The short-lived Nazca culture in present-day Peru is known primarily for its _______.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Raphael's School of Athens
Romanticism
geoglyphs


13. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.
masonry
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Surrealism


14. The two major art movements of the 1960s were:
Aztec
epicanthic fold
sterile anonymity
Minimalism and Pop Art.


15. Rococo painting can best be characterized as:
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
Lord Pakal
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.


16. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:
virtue.
Mannerism.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
became


17. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
Paul Cazanne
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
he sculpted nude figures
Guernica


18. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?

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19. Marianne Nicholson's cliffside pictograph (a 'copper') represents a Northwest Native American tradition that had been suppressed through most of the 20th century - called:
movement and speed
the potlatch.
became
15000 miles of roads


20. Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for:
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Paul Gauguin.
the Tree of Life


21. 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?
Bettye Saar
Surrealism
eternal beauty or shock value
narration


22. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:
individuality.
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
objectivity of the camera.
epicanthic fold


23. Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the _____.
blood
1980s
Plato; Aristotle.
Autosacrifice


24. Native American kachinas - like Buffalo Kachina (p. 494) - are:
Teddy Cruz
Cindy Sherman
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
talud-tablero


25. In his painting - Probla
narration
form.
Futurism
Church's The Heart of the Andes


26. Great Serpent Mound is an example of a(n) _______.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
humanities.
Dada
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith


27. One of most important - best preserved and extensively studied Mayan cities is _______.
quipu
Learning from Las Vegas
Palenque
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain


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

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29. Which of these is an example of Dada art?

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30. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:
'cast shadows'
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
more of their African identity in their works
Large stone temple complexes


31. Angelica Kauffmann painted in the _______ style (p. 481) - which was based on Greek and Roman models.
Neoclassical
art that is about the process of painting.
'Wild Beasts'
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.


32. Fred Wilson's exhibit for the Maryland Historical Society made the point that the Historical Society:
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
Church's The Heart of the Andes
Palenque
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.


33. Creating a work densely packed with information concerns most postmodern artists more than _______.
eternal beauty or shock value
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
Fauvism.
Learning from Las Vegas


34. Which of these paintings is considered a Rococo painting?

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35. Romanticist artists - like Frederic Edwin Church - viewed nature as:

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36. 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
sterile anonymity
art that is about the process of painting.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden


37. Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to:
local - arbitrary
the Medici family.
eternal beauty or shock value
abstract


38. 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:
15000 miles of roads
art that is about the process of painting.
puma
poets - calligraphers - and painters.


39. Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to:
Valdivia
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
the Medici family.


40. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:
Greek and Roman sculpture.
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
Cindy Sherman's
the Medici family.


41. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra

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42. Who was the most influential painter of the Baroque period in Europe?
Caravaggio
Fragonard's Bathers
Guernica
Dr. Strangelove


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

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44. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
La Venta
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
talud-tablero
rigid style.


45. Romanticist artists - like Frederic Edwin Church - viewed nature as:

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46. Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
Mining the Museum


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

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48. Images such as View of Suzhou reveal the 18th century Chinese interest in__________.
Bettye Saar
'Wild Beasts'
talud-tablero
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities


49. The urge to rebel against the norm lost its impact when such rebellion _______ the norm in most Western cultures.
became
glyphs
sterile anonymity
the ancient caves at Ajanta


50. Stylistic characteristics of Postmodern architecture include all of the following EXCEPT
utilitarianism
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Baroque
masonry