Art Appreciation

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1. As seen from the earth - _______ evokes a rabbit to some Native American cultures.
the moon
objectivity of the camera.
he sculpted nude figures
Surrealism


2. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?
Greek and Roman sculpture.
the potlatch.
Thomas Jefferson
art that is about the process of painting.


3. Like many contemporary sculptors - Kiki Smith - as seen in her Ice Man - seems to be asking questions about:
the symbolism of shape.
domination
objectivity of the camera.
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.


4. ______ - 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.
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
Teotihuacan
Caravaggio
the Chinese emperor.


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

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6. The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of Which movement?
the personality of the sitter.
talud-tablero
Caravaggio
Futurism


7. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
military engineer and weapons-designer
Georges Braque.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)


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

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9. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
Romanticism
Neoplatonism


10. The Rococo style (pp. 479-480) has been characterized as:
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
rigid style.
the Baroque eroticized.
Frank Gehry


11. Creating a work densely packed with information concerns most postmodern artists more than _______.
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
eternal beauty or shock value
Cindy Sherman
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.


12. 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
Mannerism.
the Chinese emperor.
epicanthic fold
Greek and Roman sculpture.


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

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14. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:
Guernica
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
Cindy Sherman
garbage


15. The artist who painted Houses at L'Estaque worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism. The artist's name is:
Georges Braque.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
Coatlicue
humanities.


16. 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.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Gustave Courbet.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Teddy Cruz


17. Chari Samba's Probla
Inca
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
domination
Donatello's.


18. 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
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
cultural and personal identity
Teddy Cruz


19. 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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20. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.
Inca
Large stone temple complexes
muralists - Mexican Revolution
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings


21. Considered one of the greatest artistic responses to political oppression - Picasso's _______ was painted as condemnation of the blitzkrieg that leveled the city center of a small Basque town in the Spanish Civil War.
Surrealism
Autosacrifice
Guernica
Cindy Sherman


22. What is the subject matter of most Impressionist painting?
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
garbage
Inca
Palenque


23. 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 painting of traditional Persian miniatures
form.
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.


24. Angelica Kauffmann painted in the _______ style (p. 481) - which was based on Greek and Roman models.
Valdivia
color
Paul Cazanne.
Neoclassical


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

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26. The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse is:
Fauvism.
Aztec
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Mannerism.


27. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:
ironies of modern political life
talud-tablero
the sensuousness of light and color.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)


28. _______ are characteristic of Maya architecture - suggesting priests/rulers had great power.
Large stone temple complexes
David's The Death of Marat
glyphs
the symbolism of shape.


29. Rococo painting can best be characterized as:
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
Cindy Sherman
Autosacrifice
Guernica


30. Great Serpent Mound is an example of a(n) _______.
Surrealism
became
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
poets - calligraphers - and painters.


31. What is the subject matter of most Impressionist painting?
Mannerism.
Valdivia
Pyramid of the Sun
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape


32. Leonardo was as known in his time for his work as a(n) ____________ -as much for his work as an artist.
talud-tablero
military engineer and weapons-designer
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
250.


33. 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.
geoglyphs
Gustave Courbet.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
local - arbitrary


34. In Mesoamerican cultures - sacrificial _______ was seen as nourishment of the earth in its capacity of creator of life.
shield
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
for armor
blood


35. This artist of The Large Bathers pushed toward an idea of painting that established for the work an independent existence:
Paul Cazanne.
Autosacrifice
blood
El Greco.


36. The _______ culture from modern-day Ecuador is one of the oldest settled cultures recorded in the Americas.
Valdivia
Mining the Museum
blood
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden


37. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca
rope bridges
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
Spanish Civil War.
Cindy Sherman's


38. The mid-to-late 19th century saw dramatic changes in non-Western cultures. Which of these best describes these changes?
shield
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
it is not known which culture built it


39. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:
more of their African identity in their works
Minimalism
puma
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.


40. Joan Mira
utilitarianism
abstract
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.


41. In School of Athens - Raphael represents the two significant schools of philosophy - signified by the portrayal of _______ and ________ in the center of the composition.
Plato; Aristotle.
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
more of their African identity in their works
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.


42. The three _______ made of serpentine at the Olmec site of La Venta are unusual; they were not meant to be seen as they were buried soon after completion.
mosaics
Fragonard's Bathers
1980s
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.


43. Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of:
Neoclassical
German Expressionism.
Teotihuacan
blood


44. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:
Church's The Heart of the Andes
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Romanticism
the personality of the sitter.


45. In his painting - Probla
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Dr. Strangelove
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.


46. The sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini created Ecstasy of St. Theresa - a centerpiece of a chapel in Rome. It is typical of which style?
masonry
La Venta
Baroque
puma


47. As seen from the earth - _______ evokes a rabbit to some Native American cultures.
David's The Death of Marat
objectivity of the camera.
Aztec
the moon


48. 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.
shapes
utilitarianism
military engineer and weapons-designer
Church's The Heart of the Andes


49. The Incas are well known for their __________ construction - as can be witnessed in Machu Picchu.
Mining the Museum
masonry
La Venta
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith


50. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
Neoplatonism
Cindy Sherman
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden