Art Appreciation

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1. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.
Valdivia
puma
Neoplatonism
Raphael's School of Athens


2. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
he sculpted nude figures
250.
Surrealism


3. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.
Greek and Roman sculpture.
Inca
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
muralists - Mexican Revolution


4. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
his modernity and break with the past.
Pyramid of the Sun
El Greco.
talud-tablero


5. Native American kachinas - like Buffalo Kachina (p. 494) - are:
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
mosaics
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette


6. 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.
ironies of modern political life
Inca
shapes
Teddy Cruz


7. Known for their elaborate textiles used as status symbols - the Inca also used fiber in the construction of armor and _______.
talud-tablero
El Greco.
the moon
rope bridges


8. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca
'Wild Beasts'
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
Autosacrifice
Valdivia


9. On the relief carving on the lid of his sarcophagus - Pakal is depicted falling off the Wacah Chan - _______.
Autosacrifice
the Tree of Life
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
form.


10. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
Greek and Roman sculpture.
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew


11. Creating a work densely packed with information concerns most postmodern artists more than _______.
eternal beauty or shock value
Palenque
Donatello's.
El Greco.


12. The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of Which movement?
Futurism
shield
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.


13. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?

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14. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
shapes
the personality of the sitter.
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.


15. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
Raphael's School of Athens
Fragonard's Bathers
Bettye Saar


16. As seen from the earth - _______ evokes a rabbit to some Native American cultures.
the Baroque eroticized.
humanities.
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
the moon


17. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
Donatello's.
virtue.


18. 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
'Wild Beasts'
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
Caravaggio


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.
Thomas Jefferson
Neoclassical
shapes
Learning from Las Vegas


20. Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?
Aztec
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
geoglyphs


21. 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.
Autosacrifice
La Venta
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
Bettye Saar


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

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23. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:
the moon
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
local - arbitrary
Spanish Civil War.


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

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

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26. Thaodore Garicault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?
Thomas Jefferson
Inca
color
Romanticism


27. 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?
local - arbitrary
the Tree of Life
the potlatch.
Surrealism


28. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Pyramid of the Sun
German Expressionism.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.


29. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:
Spanish Civil War.
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
the personality of the sitter.
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar


30. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
eternal beauty or shock value
Minimalism
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden


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

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32. Known for their elaborate textiles used as status symbols - the Inca also used fiber in the construction of armor and _______.
Olmec
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
rope bridges
Surrealism


33. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?
military engineer and weapons-designer
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
Surrealism
Paul Cazanne


34. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.
became
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
Georges Braque.
eternal beauty or shock value


35. 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
Maya cosmology
1980s
the ancient caves at Ajanta


36. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Neoplatonism
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
Cindy Sherman's


37. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Bettye Saar
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
virtue.


38. Cubism can best be described as:
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
virtue.
art that is about the process of painting.
rigid style.


39. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT
Lord Pakal
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.
movement and speed


40. Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?
Learning from Las Vegas
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
more of their African identity in their works


41. Henri Matisse was a leader of early 20th century artists who felt free to use color 'arbitrarily' and were labeled - derogatorily - 'Fauves' - which translates __________.

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42. Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for:
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
Paul Cazanne
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.


43. Characteristics of postmodern photography include all of the following EXCEPT
Aztec
objectivity of the camera.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
Teotihuacan


44. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.
the Chinese emperor.
Maya cosmology
Palenque
Cindy Sherman's


45. One of most important - best preserved and extensively studied Mayan cities is _______.
Gustave Courbet.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
Paul Cazanne
Palenque


46. Native American kachinas - like Buffalo Kachina (p. 494) - are:
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
15000 miles of roads
movement and speed
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures


47. 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?
Guernica
Raphael's School of Athens
Surrealism
Coatlicue


48. Great Serpent Mound is an example of a(n) _______.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Church's The Heart of the Andes
Greek and Roman sculpture.
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures


49. A key focus of much postmodern art is _______.
Large stone temple complexes
his modernity and break with the past.
Dr. Strangelove
ironies of modern political life


50. 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.
La Venta
narration
the Baroque eroticized.
Cindy Sherman