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Art Appreciation
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1. Freed from the rigidity of modernism - architects such as _______ have liberated structural walls - using three-dimensional computer modeling to make these new shapes possible.
Las Vegas
the Baroque eroticized.
Learning from Las Vegas
Frank Gehry
2. The Rococo style (pp. 479-480) has been characterized as:
the Baroque eroticized.
Surrealism
Spanish Civil War.
sterile anonymity
3. In his painting - Probla
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Baroque
narration
4. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
ironies of modern political life
he sculpted nude figures
individuality.
5. On the relief carving on the lid of his sarcophagus - Pakal is depicted falling off the Wacah Chan - _______.
the Tree of Life
geoglyphs
Teddy Cruz
Fragonard's Bathers
6. 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:
'cast shadows'
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.
Gustave Courbet.
color
7. Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of:
the moon
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
the ancient caves at Ajanta
German Expressionism.
8. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:
German Expressionism.
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
La Venta
Paul Cazanne
9. 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.
La Venta
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
sterile anonymity
10. Which of these paintings is an example of Neo-classical art?
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11. 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.
Minimalism and Pop Art.
Lord Pakal
shapes
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12. Rejecting the frenetic approach of Pollock and de Kooning - Mark Rotho's Abstract Expressionist pantings convey a _______ - not _______space.
Fauvism.
meditative - active
he sculpted nude figures
he sculpted nude figures
13. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.
Neoclassical
Palenque
Georges Braque.
Autosacrifice
14. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?
rigid style.
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
the Baroque - eroticized - and depictions of the wealthy aristocracy at play.
Thomas Jefferson
15. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes. What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?
Coatlicue
German Expressionism.
the notion of the sublime
Paul Cazanne
16. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
talud-tablero
the Baroque eroticized.
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
17. _______ is Fred Wilson's response to common practices of museum display that contribute to racism and class bias.
rope bridges
individuality.
Mining the Museum
Bettye Saar
18. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.
Raphael's School of Athens
Cindy Sherman
sterile anonymity
the symbolism of shape.
19. The _______ included in panels of Maya relief carvings and ceramics decoration aide in their interpretation.
glyphs
Paul Cazanne.
talud-tablero
Neoclassical
20. Like many contemporary sculptors - Kiki Smith - as seen in her Ice Man - seems to be asking questions about:
the sensuousness of light and color.
1980s
Pyramid of the Sun
the symbolism of shape.
21. The urge to rebel against the norm lost its impact when such rebellion _______ the norm in most Western cultures.
Cindy Sherman's
Minimalism
became
Teddy Cruz
22. Images such as View of Suzhou reveal the 18th century Chinese interest in__________.
Cindy Sherman
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
Dr. Strangelove
23. Early Renaissance architect Brunelleschi is best known for:
developing linear perspective and designing the dome over the huge crossing in Florence Cathedral.
Neoplatonism
the notion of the sublime
local - arbitrary
24. In works such as Olympia - realist painter Edouard Manet was denying traditional painting style and drawing attention to:
his modernity and break with the past.
German Expressionism.
Las Vegas
narration
25. One of most important - best preserved and extensively studied Mayan cities is _______.
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
Palenque
26. Fred Wilson's exhibit for the Maryland Historical Society made the point that the Historical Society:
Plato; Aristotle.
Quetzalcoatl
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Dada
27. Images such as View of Suzhou reveal the 18th century Chinese interest in__________.
Frank Gehry
color
Coatlicue
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
28. The Cubists freed painting from the necessity of representing the world in order to dwell on:
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
Donatello's.
form.
masonry
29. 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?
Paul Cazanne
Surrealism
1980s
cultural and personal identity
30. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?
Learning from Las Vegas
virtue.
ironies of modern political life
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
31. The two major art movements of the 1960s were:
mosaics
Minimalism and Pop Art.
masonry
German Expressionism.
32. The _______ included in panels of Maya relief carvings and ceramics decoration aide in their interpretation.
the Medici family.
glyphs
Lord Pakal
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
33. Michelangelo's painting The Last Judgment (p. 468) - for the Sistine Chapel - typifies a style that came to be known as:
Aztec
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
his modernity and break with the past.
Mannerism.
34. Which of these is an example of High Renaissance painting?
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35. In Mesoamerican cultures - sacrificial _______ was seen as nourishment of the earth in its capacity of creator of life.
blood
he sculpted nude figures
virtue.
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
36. Donatello's sense of naturalism in figurative sculpture (p. 453) was in part inspired by:
Surrealism
Greek and Roman sculpture.
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
color
37. Native American kachinas - like Buffalo Kachina (p. 494) - are:
muralists - Mexican Revolution
likenesses of supernatural characters endowed with powers that can be evoked when the figure is danced.
Las Vegas
the notion of the sublime
38. What is Kerry James Marshall saying about the public housing projects in his work Many Mansions?
the sensuousness of light and color.
the impossibility of transforming the concrete urban environment into a garden
the sensuousness of light and color.
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
39. 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:
the moon
German Expressionism.
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
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.
40. Her untitled photographic self-portraits - posed with props in scenes corresponding to female characters in popular culture - are performances that allow _______ to address the ways in which culture views women.
Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
he sculpted nude figures
Cindy Sherman
his modernity and break with the past.
41. Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to:
15000 miles of roads
Large stone temple complexes
the Medici family.
1980s
42. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?
objectivity of the camera.
abstract
abstract
the notion of the sublime
43. What was the name of Robert Venturi's seminal text regarding Postmodern architecture?
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
Learning from Las Vegas
Baroque
talud-tablero
44. What is the story behind Gericault's Raft of the Medusa?
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45. Angelica Kauffmann painted in the _______ style (p. 481) - which was based on Greek and Roman models.
Olmec
Neoclassical
shapes
epicanthic fold
46. In the Aztec culture - sacrifices of prisoners-of-war from neighboring peoples were necessary to honor and re-create the sacrifice of _______ in ancient times (Teotihuaca
Gustave Courbet.
Quetzalcoatl
Cindy Sherman's
military engineer and weapons-designer
47. What is the subject matter of most Impressionist painting?
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
Georges Braque.
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
48. Romanticism can best be described as:
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49. The Arapaho Ghost Dance dress would have been worn _____________.
Dada
Mining the Museum
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
Caravaggio
50. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans
movement and speed
Lord Pakal
the personality of the sitter.