Art Appreciation

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1. What sets northern European artists (p. 454) apart from most artists of the Italian Renaissance is their interest in:
Las Vegas
Baroque
became
rendering believable space in realistic detail.


2. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?
the Baroque eroticized.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.


3. In his painting - Probla
Dr. Strangelove
Palenque
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
the moon


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

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5. 'Postmodernism' has been defined in part as:
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Inca
the ancient caves at Ajanta
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.


6. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:
utilitarianism
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
his modernity and break with the past.


7. ______ - 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.
sterile anonymity
Baroque
Teotihuacan
Autosacrifice


8. Freed from the rigidity of modernism - architects such as _______ have liberated structural walls - using three-dimensional computer modeling to make these new shapes possible.
utilitarianism
Georges Braque.
Frank Gehry
Mannerism.


9. 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:
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
250.
Surrealism


10. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:
epicanthic fold
Spanish Civil War.
Navajo
narration


11. 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:
Caravaggio
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
humanities.
individuality.


12. The Rococo style (pp. 479-480) has been characterized as:
Church's The Heart of the Andes
the Baroque eroticized.
Palenque
the Medici family.


13. In What aspect of the twentieth century were Umberto Boccioni and other Futurist artists most interested?
shield
movement and speed
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
blood


14. In Mesoamerican cultures - sacrificial _______ was seen as nourishment of the earth in its capacity of creator of life.
blood
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
Manet's Olympia


15. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:
Church's The Heart of the Andes
Cindy Sherman's
the sensuousness of light and color.
250.


16. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?

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17. _______ - the Aztec goddess of life and death is recognizable in the culture's art by her necklace of human hearts - severed hands and skull.
Greek and Roman sculpture.
shapes
epicanthic fold
Coatlicue


18. Michelangelo's painting The Last Judgment (p. 468) - for the Sistine Chapel - typifies a style that came to be known as:
Cindy Sherman
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
Mannerism.
Pyramid of the Sun


19. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Palenque
the personality of the sitter.
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.


20. Artists often find that the art they make has unintentional meaning. Georgia Papageorge's Africa Rifting: Lines of Fire: Namibia/Brazil is an example of this because:
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.
250.
Guernica
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette


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

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22. Cuzco - the capital of Inca empire was laid out to resemble giant_______.
puma
abstract
epicanthic fold
Las Vegas


23. The artist Andra Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of 'resolution between these two states - dream and reality.' What was this movement?
Surrealism
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
ironies of modern political life
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden


24. Leonardo was as known in his time for his work as a(n) ____________ -as much for his work as an artist.
Manet's Olympia
military engineer and weapons-designer
Aztec
Greek and Roman sculpture.


25. The _______ included in panels of Maya relief carvings and ceramics decoration aide in their interpretation.
glyphs
movement and speed
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities


26. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?
Surrealism
Paul Cazanne
'cast shadows'
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.


27. 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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28. Stylistic characteristics of Neo-Expressionism include all of the following EXCEPT
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rigid style.
Guernica
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29. Joan Mira
abstract
Plato; Aristotle.
color
Gustave Courbet.


30. The cultures of the Pre-Columbian peoples (p. 463) are distinguished by their:
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
Church's The Heart of the Andes
Fauvism.
abstract


31. The two major art movements of the 1960s were:
Raphael's School of Athens
Minimalism and Pop Art.
Neoclassical
250.


32. The artist who painted Houses at L'Estaque worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism. The artist's name is:
Georges Braque.
Coatlicue
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
Minimalism and Pop Art.


33. Machu Picchu was a 'getaway' for a(n) __________ruler.
utilitarianism
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
Inca
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.


34. _______ are characteristic of Maya architecture - suggesting priests/rulers had great power.
Large stone temple complexes
Aztec
art that is about the process of painting.
Cindy Sherman


35. Mesoamerican cultures believed that humans first emerged from a hole in the ground now situated under the _______.
the personality of the sitter.
Coatlicue
Pyramid of the Sun
Palenque


36. 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?
Surrealism
Aztec
David's The Death of Marat
narration


37. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.
shield
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
rigid style.
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans


38. Thaodore Garicault's The Raft of the Medusa (p. 485) helped to fuel which style?
Gustave Courbet.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
Romanticism


39. Joan Mira
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
the Baroque eroticized.
abstract
military engineer and weapons-designer


40. The Incas are well known for their __________ construction - as can be witnessed in Machu Picchu.
the Baroque eroticized.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle
masonry


41. 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.
epicanthic fold
La Venta
Thomas Jefferson
Baroque


42. Romanticism can best be described as:

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

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44. Freed from the rigidity of modernism - architects such as _______ have liberated structural walls - using three-dimensional computer modeling to make these new shapes possible.
Mannerism.
Large stone temple complexes
Inca
Frank Gehry


45. Though weaving was already a tradition to their culture - the _______ adopted upright loom from Pueblo peoples.
virtue.
narration
Navajo
the Medici family.


46. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?
the Tree of Life
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introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
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.


47. Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for:
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
Gustave Courbet.


48. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.
blood
mosaics
Mining the Museum
local - arbitrary


49. Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?
Baroque
he sculpted nude figures
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
humanities.


50. Pakal is the Maya word for _______.
ironies of modern political life
humanities.
Valdivia
shield