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No society that we know of has lived without some form of art. The impulse to make and respond to art appears to be as deeply ingrained as the ability to
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the Paleolithic Period.
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Radiocarbon testing indicates that the earliest images made by humans date back to
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Anthony Caro.
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"All art is basically Paleolithic or Neolithic: either the urge to smear soot and grease on cave walls or pile stone on stone" was said by
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Shiva.
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The 10th-century copper sculpture illustrated in this chapter is the work of an artist performing the role of "giving tangible form to the unknown." The unknown, in this case, is the physical form of the deity
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The Starry Night.
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Although Vincent van Gogh suffered emotionally throughout his life, he was able to give his emotions tangible form in works such as
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all of these: simple, pure, and timeless.
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The sculptor Constantin Brancusi spent his life searching for forms that were
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what it means to the viewer.
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According to the author, the most important meaning of an artwork is
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Audrey Flack.
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Wheel of Fortune was created by
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Theo van Gogh was Vincent van Gogh's
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used natural pigments and charcoal.
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The oldest drawings and paintings found the Chavet cave:
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Van Gogh's paintings are of high value because
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Renaissance
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During the ________ the term "art" was used roughly in the same sense as "craft."
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The field of philosophy called aesthetics asks the question
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Claude Monet.
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Fisherman's Cottage on the Cliffs at Varengeville was painted by
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What term describes work done by nonprofessionals?
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iconography.
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To discover why the sculptor of the Amida Nyorai depicted the subject with elongated earlobes, specific hand gestures, and a bun atop his head requires the use of
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visual characteristics.
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The term style is used to categorize a work of art by its
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the artist and the audience.
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Our modern ideas about art carry with them ideas about
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were felt to provide pleasure.
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During the 18th century, beauty and art were discussed together because both
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Pietà
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________ is the name for a standard subject in Christian art, that of Mary, the mother of Jesus, holding her son after he was taken down from the cross.
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naturalistic
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If a work of art is faithful to our visual experience, its style is
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form
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When discussing the size, shape, material, color, and composition of a work of art, we are discussing its
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painting, sculpture, and architecture
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During the Renaissance in Western Europe, ________ came to be regarded as the more elevated of the arts.
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they still debate the work's iconography.
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After much study of the Arnolfini Double Portrait, experts agree that
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Context is a factor of ties that bind a work of art to the
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installation
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Ann Hamilton's Mantle is an example of
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multiple silkscreen images.
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Andy Warhol's images created from celebrities are portrayed through mass produced:
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The artist intended the work to be viewed by everyone as a message of redemption.
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Which statement is NOT true regarding James Hamilton's Throne of the Third Heaven... body of work?
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Representational art with an approach to naturalism covers:
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a work of art may fall into more than one theme.
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According to the author,
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all of these: Sainte-Chapelle, the Great Mosque at Córdoba, and the Buddhas in Bamiyan, Afghanistan
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Which of the following was designed as a place of worship or meditation?
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they share the same iconography.
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Cimabue's Madonna Enthroned and Rathnasambhava, the Transcendent Buddha of the South are similar in all these ways EXCEPT
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bodhisattvas
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Whereas the Christian image by Cimabue depicts the central figure surrounded by angels, the Buddhist image in this chapter shows the central figure surrounded by
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tombs
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The pyramids at Giza in Egypt were built as
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depict aspects of everyday life.
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The subject matter of Edward Hopper's Gas
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The Garden of Earthly Delights
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________ is the best-known work of the bizarrely inventive Hieronymus Bosch.
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Romans
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The ________ often created equestrian statues of their emperors.
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the Spanish Pavilion of the Paris World's Fair.
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Pablo Picasso painted Guernica in 1937 for
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Holocaust; Altar to the Chases High School
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Christian Boltanski draws upon the _______ to create his work _______.
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The Oxbow.
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Nineteenth-century American painters employed the American landscape as a subject. One such artist was Thomas Cole who focused on an area of the Connecticut River to create
