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Art Appreciation

Subject : art
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1. Noted for their agricultural system of terraces and irrigation - the Inca used bundles of knotted string called _______ for accounting and census purposes.






2. One of most important - best preserved and extensively studied Mayan cities is _______.






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






4. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra


5. Like many contemporary sculptors - Kiki Smith - as seen in her Ice Man - seems to be asking questions about:






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






7. 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.






8. Stylistic characteristics of Postmodern architecture include all of the following EXCEPT






9. The style of Burial of Count Orgaz is highly eclectic and individual. The artist is:






10. Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality - Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies the _______ movement.






11. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?






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






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






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






15. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:






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






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






18. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?






19. 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






20. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:






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






22. 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?






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






24. 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:






25. Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of:






26. _______ 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.






27. What is the story behind Gericault's Raft of the Medusa?


28. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?






29. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca






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






31. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.






32. The twentieth-century painting movement most often associated with Henri Matisse is:






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






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






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


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


37. 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:






38. 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:






39. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.






40. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.






41. Fred Wilson's exhibit for the Maryland Historical Society made the point that the Historical Society:






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






43. Fred Wilson's exhibit for the Maryland Historical Society made the point that the Historical Society:






44. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.






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






46. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.






47. _______ are characteristic of Maya architecture - suggesting priests/rulers had great power.






48. Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality - Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies the _______ movement.






49. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:






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