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Art Appreciation

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1. Marianne Nicholson's cliffside pictograph (a 'copper') represents a Northwest Native American tradition that had been suppressed through most of the 20th century - called:






2. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?






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






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

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5. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.






6. 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:






7. In his painting - Probla






8. 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






9. Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigae-LeBrun's The Duchess of Polignac (p. 480) combines all the compositional tools of the ______ sensibility.






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






11. Great Serpent Mound is an example of a(n) _______.






12. 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






13. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca






14. 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.






15. What sets northern European artists (p. 454) apart from most artists of the Italian Renaissance is their interest in:






16. In Mesoamerican cultures - sacrificial _______ was seen as nourishment of the earth in its capacity of creator of life.






17. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:






18. On the relief carving on the lid of his sarcophagus - Pakal is depicted falling off the Wacah Chan - _______.






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






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






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






22. Freed from the rigidity of modernism - architects such as _______ have liberated structural walls - using three-dimensional computer modeling to make these new shapes possible.






23. Thaodore Garicault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?






24. The urge to rebel against the norm lost its impact when such rebellion _______ the norm in most Western cultures.






25. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.






26. The artist Andra Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of 'resolution between these two states - dream and reality.' What was this movement?






27. Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?






28. Leonardo was as known in his time for his work as a(n) ____________ -as much for his work as an artist.






29. Which of the following is a unique function of Inca textiles?






30. In works such as Olympia - realist painter Edouard Manet was denying traditional painting style and drawing attention to:






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






32. In School of Athens - Raphael represents the two significant schools of philosophy - signified by the portrayal of _______ and ________ in the center of the composition.






33. As a reaction against Abstract Expressionism - Frank Stella's Empress of India exhibits the elegant - sparse content-less shape of _______.






34. Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to:






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






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






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

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38. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:






39. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?






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

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41. Vik Muniz's Atlas (Carlao) was created by arranging_______ on his studio floor - photographing the arrangement - then painting from the photograph.






42. What sets northern European artists (p. 454) apart from most artists of the Italian Renaissance is their interest in:






43. The sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini created Ecstasy of St. Theresa - a centerpiece of a chapel in Rome. It is typical of which style?






44. Known for their elaborate textiles used as status symbols - the Inca also used fiber in the construction of armor and _______.






45. In What aspect of the twentieth century were Umberto Boccioni and other Futurist artists most interested?






46. 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.






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






48. 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?






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






50. ______ - 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.







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