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Who wrote Cogito ergo sum, " I think, therefore I am."

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Rene Descartes, a French philosopher and mathematician.

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The portrait bust of Nefertiti was likely carved by __________ in 1350 BCE.

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Thutmose

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The portrait bust of Nefertiti is an example of the Amarna style.

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True

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Explain why Shimomura Kanzan's Study for the Portrait of Okakura Tenshin reflects the aesthetic controversies in Japan during the time it was created.

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This piece was made just after the end of Japan's isolation. This painting shows both Japanese and Western art styles. It was like much of what was going on during this type in Japan. People were looking outside for Western styles to bring in and incorporate with their own Japanese traditions.

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Explain how Vincent Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet reflects the artist's views and inner mental state.

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The thick paint over the entire surface with dashes and swirls model form, increase color saturation, and show van Gogh's agitation and intensity. The doctor 's face and pose does not look happy in the painting. This can relate to van Gogh disliking life in Paris and only wanting to be by himself, painting, in the country.

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Chuck Close creates generalized and idealized portraits.

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False

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Which artist creates situations for viewers to contemplate degrees of "normal"?

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Nancy Burson

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____________ uses excessive texture to repulse and fascinate in his life-size portraits.

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Lucian Freud

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Bill Viola's portrait, Dolorosa, always remains static.

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False

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Which artist made at least 62 self-portraits?

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Rembrandt van Rijn

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Explain how Rembrandt's portraits operate as emotional barometers.

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Rembrandt's portraits ranged from young to old age and had many different emotions and characteristics. Some were happiness, worry, sorrow, humor, resignation, strong, vulnerable, cloddish, and sophisticated.

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Explain the roles played by symbols in Frida Kahlo's self-portraits.

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Symbols were used to show different factors that shaped Frida herself. Such things that were shown were her culture, ancestry, physical body, nearly fatal accident, pain, Christian religion, relationship, and landscape. She used symbols such as hummingbirds, blood, hairstyles, and monkeys.

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Who models for Sherman's photographs?

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Cindy models for her own photographs. She just dresses up in costumes and edits the photos.

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What was the "Cindy Book"?

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It's family snapshots with her circled in each one. She writes "that's me" under each one.

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How did Sherman use the "Cindy Book" in college?

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She updated it in college and faked the handwriting to make it seem as if it was growing up along with the pictures.

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Sherman's interest in creating new characters with makeup let to a series of photographs focusing on _________.

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Clowns

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Sherman uses film to shoot her "Society Portraits".

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False

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List some of (well-organized) props that she uses to create new identities

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costumes, wigs, fake teeth, make-up, fake noses, eyeballs, jewelry, masks, etc.

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Describe Sherman's "Film Stills" series.

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She wanted to make something that was mass produced and that everyone would understand. It was just one shot to get the narrative over because she was always working alone. She wanted people to look at the picture and think that maybe they watched that movie.

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According to the artist, film was more influential to her development than the art world.

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True

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Why does Sherman resist giving her photographs titles?

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She didn't want people to have a notion of what they thought the person had to be. She wanted them to think of them by themselves.

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Later in Sherman's career, how does her physical presence in the artwork change?

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She started gradually taking herself out of the picture. She would be a reflection of something. Eventually she just started using dolls or mannequins.

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Why did Sherman decide to make large photographs?

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She wanted to since the beginning because many male artists make pictures that are as big as the wall. The male artists aren't even well known so it seems egotistical but she wants to do it anyways.

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Describe how the Doryphoros (Spear-bearer) sculpture by Polykleitos is idealized. Minimum response one paragraph.

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The Doryphoros is idealized in multiple ways. The first way is that the pose of the sculpture is simple, balanced, and understated. The internal proportions show one arm and one leg are straight while the other arm and leg are bent or flexed. The restrained emotions are shown with the minimal action going on. The last idealized characteristic is the roles that are depicted. These roles are youth, athlete, and warrior. These four characteristics all make the Doryphoros idealized.

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Define contrapposto.

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A standing position in which the body weight rests on one straight leg, with the other leg relaxed and bent, giving the torso an s-shaped curve.

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In some African Traditions, the ____ an ______ neck were considered the most important parts of the body.

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Head and Neck

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Some of the patterns seen on the Male Torso (Ancestor figure) from Africa (c. 19th-20th century) represent scarification.

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True

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Yakshi, who is exhibited on the East Gate of the Great Stupa at Sanchi, is a nature spirit who represents fertility.

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True

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Drama and emotional intensity are common characteristics of Hellenistic sculpture.

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True

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During the Middle Ages (including the Romanesque period) human bodies were celebrated in artworks.

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False

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Compare and contrast the attitudes that society held toward the human body in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Minimum Response one paragraph.

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During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the human body was not thought of in a good note. Human bodies were made to look small and scrawny. They were distorted to represent moral status. Angels were made to look large and healthy. Demons were like humans but had their ribs exposed, beat wounds, claw like feet, and a horrible face. All of these characteristics for each type was to show where humans stood on the scale from demons to angels.

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Explain how Michelangelo's David reflects Renaissance trends.

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The Renaissance trends during this time were that art was divine and interests in sciences such as anatomy. David shows this by being made as though he is just about to go into battle with Goliath. David also shows many different muscles, large hands showing he's growing, and the perfect anatomy.

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Consider the Persian Anatomical Illustration (anonymous) from the Tibb al-Akbar, by Muhammad Akbar. What internal organs can you identify?

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Heart, stomach, and uterus.

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f In the South Pacific, tattooing seen as a way of strengthening the individual.

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True

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Artist Hannah Wilke photographed herself in various stages of her pregnancy.

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False

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Andres Serrano shows viewers close-up details of the bodies of people in morgues.

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True

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In the case of the Double Mask (Ejagham People, Cross River, Cameroon), the double face looking forward and backward likely suggested heightened spiritual powers

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True

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Explain what devices communicate the gloominess in Giovanni Battista Piranesi's Prison (1745). How might the addition of a human figure change your reading?

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The hopelessness and lack of meaning along with an impossible exit make this prison's gloominess so unbearable. The addition of a human figure would help us to see how everything translates to the twisted, dark side of the mind.

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__________ created large paintings where blocks, or "veils" color seem to hover in space.

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Mark Rothko

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Explain the process that Ana Mendieta undertook to make Arbol de la Vida, No. 294.

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Ana covered herself with mud and straw. Then she posed against a tree in a representation of fertility. This left mud traces on a large tree just off of a creek bed.

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Describe Yoko Ono's performance Cut Piece. What issues did it force viewers to consider?

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Yoko Ono walked onto stage with a black dress and a pair of scissors. She knelt down and invited the audience to come up and cut pieces of the cloth away. When the cutting was done, she was almost nude and bare-chested. This forced the viewer to see the traditional male sexual interest over the female body, the display of the body for the consuming gaze, violation and control, and the herd mentality among humans.

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Define action painting.

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A process used in creating a non-objective painting whereby the artist makes gestural movements to produce expressive brush strokes.

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Describe Jackson Pollock's working process. How did he orient the canvas? How did he apply the paint?

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Jackson Pollock used action painting. He saw his canvas as a plane of action. Many people referred to his painting actions in quasi-combat terms. He applied the paint by pouring, dripping, and flinging paint on the canvas as he walked across the surface or stood at the edges. Jackson believed his subconscious mind took part in painting this.

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According to Antoni, a rope is an ____________

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umbilical cord

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Antoni dipped herself into a tub of ________ to make Eureka.

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Lard

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Why did Antoni take a bath in a cow trough?

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She wanted to see if the cows would still drink from the trough while she was in there. The relationship between her and the cow was turned around as it looked like the cow was actually nursing from her.

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According to Antoni, what are the only things that the Virgin Mary is allowed do (in artworks)?

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She's not allowed to do anything physical like sex or die. She's only allowed to nurse.

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Why is it important that the cow piece is completely hollow inside?

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She wanted the viewer to feel the absence of her and the absence of the cow.

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Out of what materials did Antoni make two self-portraits?

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She made them out of chocolate and soap. She made them by washing the soap one with herself and feeding herself by licking the chocolate one.

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What did Antoni realize by practicing to walk on a tightrope?

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She realized that instead of gaining her balance, she was becoming more okay with being out of balance.

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Why did Antoni spin hemp to make her own rope?

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She wanted to make the most traditional level of rope. This was the sort of beginning on a craft level. It was also a women's tradition.

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What kinds of imagery derive from Marc Chagall's personal experiences in Jewish villages in Russia?

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The imagery was a kind of personal, incoherent, reordering of bits and pieces of his experience. This included folktales, festivals, marriages, funeral practices, suffering, and death caused by anti-Semitism.

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Chagall's work merges aspects of Cubism and Fauvism.

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True

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During the early 1900s, how were African Americans usually portrayed? How does James VanDerZee's offer an alternate portrayal in his photographs?

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African Americans were typically portrayed in racial caricatures on postcards, comics, magazines, picture books, and greeting cards. They were also portrayed as helpless victims of racism and their situation was a problem to be solved. James VanDerZee's portrayal was having African Americans autonomous, healthy, and self-aware. They were usually middle class intellectuals, merchants, and writers.

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In African American history, how was the title "aunt" used?

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It was for subordination for African American domestic servants, nannies, and maids.

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Traditionally, Aunt Jemima was caricatured as jolly and fat.

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True

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What role did artist James Luna play in his work, The Artifact Piece (1986)?

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Luna installed himself in a case at the local museum to show visitors that Native Americans are not a lost culture. This was strong to the visitors because he showed many modern things in his case such as the Rolling Stones album, political pins, and scars from drunken fights.

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Recordings by the Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix were incorporated into Luna's The Artifact Piece (1986).

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True

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Luna's The Artifact Piece (1986) encourages viewers to consider living culture along with artifacts.

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True

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In Society Ladies and The Artifact Piece, the viewer is allowed to unselfconsciously gaze and consume the foreign or ethnic groups.

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False

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Nam June Paik takes on the gaze in relation to East and West.

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True

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Most of Walker's work is about past events.

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False

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What book did Walker find both engrossing and grotesque at the same time?

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Gone with the Wind.

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Why does Walker like to use the silhouette?

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The silhouette makes it so you can look at the subject directly. If it was a full person in color and flesh, you would have a harder time looking at the scenes she depicts.

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How did Walker feel about moving from California to Georgia?

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She was having nightmares of moving to the south. She knew of the reality of viciousness. She was the borderline of child and teenager and didn't want to go to a place where black children were being targeted.

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What is Stone Mountain, Georgia?

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The Mount Rushmore of the South with all of the Confederate heroes. It's where she did most of her drawing. It was a haven for the KKK.

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What is Insurrection based on?

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Slave revolts in the antebellum South. They went after their masters with their everyday tools.

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Thomas Eakins' work, which portrays surgical theaters, influenced how Walker created Insurrection.

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True

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What does Walker use to project images that merge fact and fiction?

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Overhead projectors

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What is Tambaran? How does the Painting from a Cult House, Slei, Middle Sepik Region, Papua New Guinea participate in Tambaran?

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Tambaran is a type of rituals that help in the passing of traits from one man to a young boy in early stages. Older men participated in the Painting from a Cult House by carving and painting to pass on spirits to the younger boys in the initiation process.

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What is the alternate title for the Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus (1617) by Peter Paul Rubens? What story does the painting narrate?

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Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus is the alternate title. It narrates the story of Pollux and Castor, two sons of Zeus, capturing a philosopher's two daughters as they were out horseback riding. With the aid of Cupids, they were able to carry away the two girls.

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Explain how Jacques-Louis David's painting Oath of the Horatii promotes gendered behavior. According to the painting, how are men supposed to act?

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This painting promotes gendered behavior by showing the men stepping up to fight while the women weep and are concerned with the children. Men are supposed to act with courage and patriotism.

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What Neoclassical features can be seen in the Oath of the Horatii? How is the style also gendered?

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Some Neoclassical features seen in this painting are the backgrounds of classical architecture and classical elements of art. The masculinity can be seen in the backgrounds, which were also used during the French Revolutionary Era.

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Define Rococo. Why was it sometimes considered a feminine style?

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The style of art, architecture, music, and decorative arts from the early eighteenth century Europe, made primarily for the upper class. It was considered feminine because of its emphasis on delicate, curving, colorful decoration.

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Describe the Rococo attitude toward ornament. Using Francois de Cuvilliès' Hall of Mirrors (1739) as an example, list some of the decorative features that Rococo interiors included.

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The Rococo attitude toward ornament was that of elegant and complex. Square walls and celings dissolved in curves which then dissolved under the abundance of nature-based decoration and the reflecting mirrors, crystal, and silver. The ceiling looks like an open sky, having birds fly from branch to branch. These features all showed aristocracy which is why the middle class stayed away from Rococo during the revolution.

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In Hung Liu's work, she explores _________ in Chinese Culture.

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Foot Binding

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In Chinese culture, feet were considered erotic and private.

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True

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Who are the Guerrilla Girls? What are their concerns?

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The Guerrilla Girls are collective women artists and art professionals. Their concerns are of the fewer exhibitions, fewer jobs, lower pay, and underexposure of women's works.

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Define clan.

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A group of people joined by blood or marriage ties.

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What are the (three) ways that art solidifies extended families?

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Art makes major ancestors available to the living clan members. Art depicts important events in the clan's history Art is an important element in rituals that bring the entire clan together.

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In Ancient Rome, ancestors were venerated.

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True

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Describe the process for making Roman ancestral portraits.

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First, Roman ancestral portraits were made from soft wax and called death masks. These deteriorated quickly so many had copies of the death masks made into marble.

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Roman portrait busts offer idealized representations of ancestors.

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False

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Where did the ancient Zapotecs of Oaxaca bury their ancestors?

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Tomb chambers under their houses.

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In ancient Oaxaca, lineage was traced both through the male and female sides.

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True

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What is the Raven House? Why is it important?

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The Raven House was a lineage house. These were built when a new lineage was made due to a marriage or a death. There would be a celebration for several days. After that, the house would be divided into many quarters so that families could live there.

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Explain hos Arthur Shaughnessy's Interior House Post, (c. 1907) assists in preserving clan history.

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The Interior House Post was carved to tell many stories, legends, and history of the clan.

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Describe formline design.

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Formline design is typical of much Northwest Coast art. The formline divides and merges, creating a continuous flowing grid that beautifully unifies the overall decoration.

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In Native art of Northwest America, thunderbirds are unimportant.

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False

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What are Bis (or Bisj) Poles? What do they look like, and how were they used?

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Bis Poles are large 16 foot poles used to represent past clansmen or ancestors. These poles have intricate carvings and paintings on them. There are large openwork projections at the top representing penises for fertility and power in warfare. Negative and positive shapes and grim faces speak of bristling war energy. Warriors stand in front of the poles to gain the strength of their ancestors for headhunting.

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Headhunting was practiced in Asmat culture until the 1950s.

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True

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The Epa Headdress called "Orangun" (1974) is light in weight, making easy for the youthful performer to move.

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False

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In ancient Egypt members of elite classes were shown with great naturalism.

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False

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In Las Meninas, (1656) by Diego Velasquez, how is the high status of the princess indicated?

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Her location at the center of the picture, the light that floods her, her glowing white dress, the presence of servants, and her royal parents are reflected in the background.

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What attributes signify that Las Meninas, (1656) by Diego Velasquez, is meant for viewers of an elite class.

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The large size of the painting. Owning, commissioning, or possessing such an artwork means you are of high class. Also, Diego Velasquez was known for doing royal commissions.

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What features of the Great Beaded Crown of the Orangun-Ila (20th century) communicate rank?

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The crown, robe, staff, shape of the clothing or headgear, materials used, and meaning of the decorative symbols.

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Jan Vermeer's portrayals of the working class make fun of their low status and menial labor.

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False

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Define genre painting.

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Paintings that containing subject matter of everyday life.

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Zhang Deduan's Spring Festival Along the River (detail) (late 11th-early 12 centuries) offers an ideal portrayal of middle-class life.

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True

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Define Pointillism.

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An art movement in Europe in the late nineteenth century in which artists applied daubs of pure pigment to a ground to create an image. The paint daubs appear to blend when viewed from a distance.

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George Seurat was interested in the science of color and optics.

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True

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What is documentary photography? What circumstances put Dorthea Lange in a position to photograph the mother and children shown in Migrant Mother, Nipomo, Valley (1936)?

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Documentary photography purports to record facts objectively and in a straightforward manner. Dorthea Lange was hired by California and federal agencies to document migrant farm worker during the Great Depression.

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Describe the class structure in Japan during the Tokugawa Shogunate (1573-1868).

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The classes were kept rigidly distinct. The ruling class consisted of the imperial family and the warriors, who divided the land and were its feudal rulers. The very poorest class was peasants who farmed the land that belonged to the warrior class. The middle class were urban dwellers who emerged in the 1600s. They were mainly merchants, manufacturers, and laborers.

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Warrior-rulers were known as _______.

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Samurai

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What subjects did ukiyo-e generally portray?

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Famous Kabuki actors, beautiful young women, and landscapes.

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Briefly describe the style and formal qualities of ukiyo-e prints.

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They had wistfulness, charming qualities. Human existence is fleeting and transitory. Colors are delicate. Line quality is elegant, fine, curing, and graceful in women pictures but vigorous and wild in actors pictures. Famous courtesans and geishas were depicted in popular prints.

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Simon Rodia studied art at UCLA.

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False

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Animals appear in the art of every culture.

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True

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What are fantastic creatures? List some that are discussed in the text.

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Fantastic creatures are the product of human imagination, fear, and desire. Some examples are: Harpies, Centaurs, Satyrs, mermaids, giant insects, vampires, and werewolves.

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Unicorns are a modern in invention.

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False

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What are two ways of interpreting the meaning of the unicorn shown in textile, The Unicorn in Captivity (1495-1505)?

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One way of interpreting this is that of Jesus, believed to be the source of spiritual life, who was hunted by men, was brutally killed, and then rose back to life. The second is that the image may represent the true love in the Age of Chivalry, with the unicorn (man) enduring terrible ordeals to win his beloved.

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In the cultural traditions of Thailand, ________ are metaphors for humans, who aspire to be gods.

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Monkeys

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In many Buddhist and Hindu stories, monkeys are models of elevated moral behavior.

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False

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How is the Mask of Hunuman used?

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Performers wear this mask when representing this fantastic creature. It is modeled to represent the white monkey-hero and loyal follower of the deity Rama in the Thai story Ramakien.

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What materials did Chris Ofili use to make Monkey Magic—Sex, Money, and Drugs (1999)? What meanings do the materials bring to the meaning of the work?

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Chris Ofili used elephant dung, shiny and colorful beads of paint, and glitter. He wanted people to see the sex, money and drugs represented as the dung. He then wanted them to see the glitter and colorful beads as something that is imagined rather than real.

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Lin Onus created a work featuring a ______ that has the ability to walk through fences.

answer

Dingo or Wild Dog

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In ancient Assyria, royals hunted ______ as part of large public spectacles.

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Lions

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Ancient Nazca drawings are so large that most can only be seen from the air.

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True

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What are some of the possible meanings and uses of the Nazca lines?

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Long and straight lines may have beenused for astronomical sightings. Others may have been paths that connected the plain's various shrines.

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How is sound incorporated into the Vessel in the Form of a Monkey, from Veracruz, Mexico (late Classic, 800-900 CE)?

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Small rocks are kept inside of the monkey so that when shaken, the monkey can mimic his own call.

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What is "British" about the painting?

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It shows what was intended to be a British countryside(Suffolk). Constable was known for painting beautiful British countrysides.

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Before this time, where were people looking to find idyllic scenes of nature?

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Italy or abroad to Arcadia for the beautiful Paradise.

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Where did Constable make the painting?

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His studio in London.

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To what does the speaker Pippa Couch attribute the nostalgic feeling of the painting?

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The Constable's father owned this land so he tried to capture his own fondness and feeling of this land.

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What is a hay wain?

answer

A carriage carrying hay.

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The painting portrays people working. In what ways is this a fiction?

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The painting is very still. Constable is of a higher class and would not be working like this.

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Constable's The Hay Wain was an instant success.

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False

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Define Impressionism.

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A late 19th century painting style, originating in Western Europe, that attempts to capture subtle light qualities or fleeting moments with small stroke of strong color.

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Claude Monet painted most of his works outdoors.

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True

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Explain the goals of Claude Monet? What was he interested in recording on canvas?

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Claude Monet's goal was to make his artwork as realistic as possible. He wanted to be able to record sunlight on water on day, and them abstracted paintings with big brush strokes the next day. He had an emphasis on observation that paralleled the ideas of scientists and philosophers.

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What is artificial about the subject shown in Jan Bruegel's painting, A Stoneware Vase of Flowers (c. 1607-08)?

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The flower arrangements never existed in real life.

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In Japan, arranging flowers is considered an important art form.

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True

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Describe the relationship between text and image in Ma Yuan's Apricot Blossoms (early 13th century).

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The text and the branch with flowers both seem to be suspended in air. The branch and flowers have elegant curves, twisting branches that bend, and and irregular composition that captures the unexpected forms in nature. The words flow together and explain how the branch seems to move in the wind.

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Describe the symbolic meanings of gardens and their arrangement in Bishndas (Portraits by Nanha), Babur Supervising the Layout of the Garden if Fidelity. C, 1590. How is Paradise suggested?

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Water is channeled in four directions, representing the rivers of paradise. The four resulting squares can be repeated or subdivided and yet maintain the integrity of the original layout. The proliferation of squares represents the abundance of Allah's creation. Outer wall provides privacy and protects the trees and birds from the surrounding desert.

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Who was Emperor Babur? How do gardens figure into his biography and philosophies?

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Emperor Babur was a botanist who took great interest in planning many gardens throughout the lands that he ruled. The gardens helped establish his identity and secure his power. The garden's symmetry is an indication of him creating order out of chaos.

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Visitors are encouraged to wonder through the Ryoanji Zen Garden of Contemplation, in Kyoto, Japan (c. 1488-1499).

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False

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Explain why Waltar de Maria's, The Lightning Field (1971-77) is considered a contextual piece.

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It exists primarily in the mind of the viewer who contemplates the contrast between constructed and natural elements, the slow passage of time in the desolate environment, and the imagined experience of the work as known through various photographs.

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Define earthworks.

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In art, the earth itself as a sculptural material.

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Why is Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty (1970) sometimes invisible?

answer

The lake level rises.

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What Native North American group inspired Robert Smithson?

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The mound builders.

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How does The Social Mirror (1983), by Mierle Laderman Ukeles, comment on the environment and labor?

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She shows the growing problem with waste as the population keeps growing. She showed this by putting mirrors on a clean NYC garbage truck. The mirrors reflected the faces of the people, making the aware that they make trash and are responsible for its impact.

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Andreas Vesalius of Brussels studied dissected human bodies in order to create his De Humani Corporis Fabrica of 1543.

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True

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De Humani Corporis Fabrica of 1543 was a collaborative project.

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True

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Why did John James Audubon eliminate the backgrounds in Birds of America?

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To emphasize the birds' defining silhouettes.

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Describe the x-ray style. What does it mean when employed in Aboriginal art of Australia?

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The x-ray style is when both the external silhouette and the internal organs are evident. This helped assist the hunter in the kill in the Aboriginal art of Australia.

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Explain how Bridge Riley's Current (1964) operates as Op Art.

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It is a precisely painted pattern of undulating lines that affect our visual perception. The work seems to pulsate and flicker which messes with our visual perception.

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Artists working within Surrealism were interested in the operations of the unconscious mind.

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True

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Dream imagery was important to the artist Salvador Dalí.

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True

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José Clemente Orozco believed that formal education was the only way to gain true knowledge

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False

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What's ironic about the location of José Clemente Orozco's mural Gods of the Modern World, Mexico (1932-34)?

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The painting is in a prestigious U.S. college where it is seen by all students and professors.

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Explain how Fernand Léger's The City (1919) communicates the industrial, fast-paced nature of urban life.

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He shows the newness and excitement of geometric industrial structures and the precision and efficiency of machines. The repetition of colors and shapes refers to the staccato of city sounds. Letterforms are billboard advertisements. Other shapes resemble a jumble of roofs, walls, bridge trestles, and factory smokestacks.

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David Smith favored cast bronze as a sculptural medium.

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False

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Explain why cannot see Jean Tinguely's Homage to New York: A Self-Constructing, Self-Destructing Work of Art (1969) if you visit the Museum of Modern Art today.

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The machine destroyed itself in the first evening it was shown.

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Describe the relationship between the scale of Nam June Paik's Megatron (1995) and the message that the work conveys.

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The large screen tries to overwhelm the viewer into silence so that they have to watch without speaking. This causes the people to see the images and place them into their lives as spreading diversity or connecting them with past experiences.

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