Art Appreciation

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

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2. 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
military engineer and weapons-designer
Surrealism
movement and speed
domination


3. 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.
Paul Cazanne.
abstract


4. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?
Thomas Jefferson
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Paul Cazanne.
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings


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

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6. Known for their elaborate textiles used as status symbols - the Inca also used fiber in the construction of armor and _______.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
rope bridges
the personality of the sitter.
Cindy Sherman


7. Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was ________.
color
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
objectivity of the camera.


8. Which of the following is a unique function of Inca textiles?
for armor
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Las Vegas
Quetzalcoatl


9. The urge to rebel against the norm lost its impact when such rebellion _______ the norm in most Western cultures.
Valdivia
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
for armor
became


10. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
Greek and Roman sculpture.
the Tree of Life
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
talud-tablero


11. Cubism can best be described as:
art that is about the process of painting.
individuality.
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
the sensuousness of light and color.


12. Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?

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13. 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
Autosacrifice
German Expressionism.
garbage


14. Characteristics of postmodern photography include all of the following EXCEPT
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
La Venta
Donatello's.
objectivity of the camera.


15. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?
Learning from Las Vegas
David's The Death of Marat
more of their African identity in their works
Valdivia


16. Creating a work densely packed with information concerns most postmodern artists more than _______.
Caravaggio
eternal beauty or shock value
Minimalism and Pop Art.
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.


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

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19. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
abstract
cultural and personal identity
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith


20. Early Renaissance painter Masaccio is best known for:
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
1980s
shield
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.


21. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
masonry
utilitarianism
eternal beauty or shock value


22. This artist reflects on identity and cultural heritage in works such as Petroglyph Park.
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
Minimalism
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.


23. Freed from the rigidity of modernism - architects such as _______ have liberated structural walls - using three-dimensional computer modeling to make these new shapes possible.
Frank Gehry
the Baroque eroticized.
he sculpted nude figures
David's The Death of Marat


24. Because of the diversity and plurality of postmodernism - many contemporary artists address the issues of _______ in their work.
Learning from Las Vegas
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
Inca
cultural and personal identity


25. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.
Teotihuacan
dramatic - emotional - and subjective art reflecting the artist's personal style.
sterile anonymity
Romanticism


26. Great Serpent Mound is an example of a(n) _______.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
eternal beauty or shock value
puma
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.


27. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.
Bettye Saar
the Baroque eroticized.
Large stone temple complexes
Cindy Sherman


28. Angelica Kauffmann painted in the _______ style (p. 481) - which was based on Greek and Roman models.
his modernity and break with the past.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Neoclassical
Cindy Sherman


29. The 'Big 3' of the Italian High Renaissance - based in Florence - and later in Rome - and then Milan were:
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
Frank Gehry
German Expressionism.
Teddy Cruz


30. One of the primary subjects of Neoclassical art (p. 481) is:
virtue.
quipu
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
cultural and personal identity


31. What is the subject matter of most Impressionist painting?
Cindy Sherman
cultural and personal identity
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
Caravaggio


32. Rejecting the frenetic approach of Pollock and de Kooning - Mark Rotho's Abstract Expressionist pantings convey a _______ - not _______space.
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
meditative - active
Valdivia
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.


33. The relief carving of Pakal on his sarcophagus represents him connecting the Upperworld - Middleworld and Underworld of _______.
Paul Cazanne.
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
Maya cosmology
Raphael's School of Athens


34. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
for armor
it is not known which culture built it


35. Cubism can best be described as:
Coatlicue
art that is about the process of painting.
domination
Cindy Sherman


36. The artist who painted Houses at L'Estaque worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism. The artist's name is:
Georges Braque.
mosaics
glyphs
Plato; Aristotle.


37. 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.
the Baroque eroticized.
local - arbitrary
Cindy Sherman's
Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle


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

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

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40. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?
local - arbitrary
Coatlicue
Paul Gauguin.
the potlatch.


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

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42. On the relief carving on the lid of his sarcophagus - Pakal is depicted falling off the Wacah Chan - _______.
quipu
rope bridges
abstract
the Tree of Life


43. 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
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
the Tree of Life
meditative - active


44. Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the:
Aztec
Spanish Civil War.
virtue.
Teddy Cruz


45. In his painting - Probla
Dr. Strangelove
garbage
Baroque
the notion of the sublime


46. Which artist rejected modern society and painted images of 'primitive' island culture such as in The Day of the Gods?
Paul Gauguin.
Palenque
Neoclassical
Maya cosmology


47. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
Gustave Courbet.
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.


48. One of most important - best preserved and extensively studied Mayan cities is _______.
Teotihuacan
Palenque
Paul Cazanne.
form.


49. What sets northern European artists (p. 454) apart from most artists of the Italian Renaissance is their interest in:
narration
Quetzalcoatl
Cindy Sherman
rendering believable space in realistic detail.


50. 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:
Lord Pakal
the Baroque eroticized.
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
Gustave Courbet.