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Art Appreciation
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1. Using derogatory images of African-Americans from popular culture - _______ transformed the negative image of black servitude into an image of revolutionary heroism.
individuality.
Bettye Saar
shapes
the ancient caves at Ajanta
2. In addition to the sophisticated stone masonry that built Machu Picchu - the Inca also engineered over _______ through their mountainous empire - allowing messages to be transported throughout the empire in less than one week.
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
15000 miles of roads
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
Olmec
3. Coatlicue (p. 465) is a major _______ deity.
Aztec
Neoclassical
garbage
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
4. In the early nineteenth century - a recurrent and significant theme (p. 485) began to appear in Romantic painting. What was it?
German Expressionism.
the notion of the sublime
individuality.
the Chinese emperor.
5. 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.
rigid style.
La Venta
Donatello's.
Bettye Saar
6. Discontent with International Style's _______ compelled architects to look forward in new directions.
cultural and personal identity
Fragonard's Bathers
sterile anonymity
Baroque
7. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is thought to have had appeal to the Renaissance imagination in part because the portrait reveals:
his turbulent compositions and contorted - highly musculatured figures
the personality of the sitter.
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extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
8. The Post-Impressionists (p. 496) were united by their interest in:
9. What did the early-Renaissance sculptor Donatello do that hadn't been done since Classical Antiquity?
Teddy Cruz
he sculpted nude figures
Navajo
Romanticism
10. Rejecting the frenetic approach of Pollock and de Kooning - Mark Rotho's Abstract Expressionist pantings convey a _______ - not _______space.
rope bridges
meditative - active
utilitarianism
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
11. The Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuaca
Frank Gehry
Dr. Strangelove
puma
talud-tablero
12. Whose David was the first life-size nude sculpture since antiquity?
13. In Romanticism (p. 484) - regardless of the subject matter - paintings revealed the artist's:
the symbolism of shape.
Surrealism
introducing complex narrative into painting and indicating a single - fixed light source that increased the overall naturalism of his compositions.
individuality.
14. 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
'cast shadows'
utilitarianism
color
15. In Mesoamerican cultures - sacrificial _______ was seen as nourishment of the earth in its capacity of creator of life.
blood
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
Coatlicue
art that is about the process of painting.
16. Florence became a cultural center of the Renaissance (p. 452) in a large part due to:
Romanticism
the Medici family.
Valdivia
the potlatch.
17. Sandro Botticelli's paintings - such as The Birth of Venus - reflect his interest in a philosophy called _______.
Caravaggio
Neoplatonism
David's The Death of Marat
15000 miles of roads
18. The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of Which movement?
250.
Futurism
masonry
Inca
19. Henri Matisse was a leader of early 20th century artists who felt free to use color 'arbitrarily' and were labeled - derogatorily - 'Fauves' - which translates __________.
20. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuaca
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
Manet's Olympia
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21. Cubism can best be described as:
the personality of the sitter.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
250.
art that is about the process of painting.
22. 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.
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
Fauvism.
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
23. Shazia Sikander combines her training in _______ with her graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design in addressing the heterogeneity of her background.
1980s
Fragonard's Bathers
Large stone temple complexes
the painting of traditional Persian miniatures
24. Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of:
the personality of the sitter.
German Expressionism.
European depictions of perspective and aerial views of cities
Autosacrifice
25. 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:
Gustave Courbet.
Bettye Saar
humanities.
Las Vegas
26. What is the story behind Gericault's Raft of the Medusa?
27. One of most important - best preserved and extensively studied Mayan cities is _______.
utilitarianism
Palenque
250.
15000 miles of roads
28. Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-19th century refers to what?
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
La Venta
sterile anonymity
Coatlicue
29. 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:
Coatlicue
Neoplatonism
rigid style.
Gustave Courbet.
30. In the late 1950s - a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:
Aztec
Guernica
Maya cosmology
more of their African identity in their works
31. Michelangelo's painting The Last Judgment (p. 468) - for the Sistine Chapel - typifies a style that came to be known as:
Bettye Saar
'Wild Beasts'
Guernica
Mannerism.
32. The early Renaissance in Italy can be traced to:
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
Caravaggio
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
the Medici family who ruled Florence and were patrons of the arts.
33. Chari Samba's Probla
Dr. Strangelove
the US spending millions of dollars to look for water on Mars - while millions of people die for lack of water in Africa.
movement and speed
250.
34. The short-lived Nazca culture in present-day Peru is known primarily for its _______.
it is not known which culture built it
Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.
rigid style.
geoglyphs
35. Fred Wilson's exhibit for the Maryland Historical Society made the point that the Historical Society:
had ignored and caricatured African Americans and Native Americans.
Mannerism.
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.
Light itself - the way it plays across forms like architecture and landscape
36. A key focus of much postmodern art is _______.
ironies of modern political life
muralists - Mexican Revolution
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Large stone temple complexes
37. Diego Rivera - David Siquieros - and Jose Clemente Orozco formed a new school of _______ inspired by the intense nationalism following the _______.
earthwork of the Adena culture (Ohio)
Las Vegas
muralists - Mexican Revolution
poets - calligraphers - and painters.
38. Florentine Renaissance art prioritized disegno - drawing and delineation of forms - while Venetian Renaissance art prioritized:
250.
the sensuousness of light and color.
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more of their African identity in their works
39. The _______ included in panels of Maya relief carvings and ceramics decoration aide in their interpretation.
glyphs
Leonardo DaVinci - Michelangelo - and Raphael.
extending Impressionism's formal innovations.
abstract
40. The Baroque can be characterized as/by:
15000 miles of roads
17th century - theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
the sensuousness of light and color.
Western culture increasingly imposed itself upon other cultures whose values were often diametrically opposed to the sense of centeredness of these indigenous cultures.
41. The _______ were the largest civilization in pre-Columbian Americas.
shapes
the Chinese emperor.
Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
Inca
42. The Incas are well known for their __________ construction - as can be witnessed in Machu Picchu.
masonry
Cindy Sherman
the use of everyday people and activities in the paintings
15000 miles of roads
43. The Limbourg Brothers' manuscript Les Tra
44. In his painting - Probla
the Chinese emperor.
Inca
Dr. Strangelove
Olmec
45. Teotihuacan was an __________important commercial center in Mesoamerica.
La Venta
Cindy Sherman's
it is not known which culture built it
Pyramid of the Sun
46. _______ is the practice of self-induced bloodletting.
the beginning of time in the Maya calendar
monumental architecture and stone sculpture.
rendering believable space in realistic detail.
Autosacrifice
47. 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.
meditative - active
the ancient caves at Ajanta
250.
Cindy Sherman
48. 'Postmodernism' has been defined in part as:
the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew
a literal 'sign' for the divine spirit.
epicanthic fold
49. What individual chose the Neoclassical architectural style (p. 482) for his home in the United States?
'Wild Beasts'
talud-tablero
Thomas Jefferson
art that is about the process of painting.
50. 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 painting of traditional Persian miniatures
Cindy Sherman's
during a Plains Indian ritual meant to help transform the West back to what it had been before the settlement of Euro-Americans