Art 100 – Test 3 – Flashcards
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Early wall paintings have been found in Catalhoyuk in modern _________
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Turkey
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Which of the following cultures did not have a written language?
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Cycladic
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The Bull Leapers Fresco from Knossos is an _________ scene.
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acrobatic
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The Sumerian Standard of Ur shows scene of _________
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war and peace
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Which of these cultures was not part of Mesopotamian?
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all of these are Mesopotamian cultures
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The great sphinx is associated with which pharaoh's pyramid?
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Khafre
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An archaic Greek sculpture portraying a nude male is called a ___________
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kouros
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The Emperor Constantine I's triumphal arch ________
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proclaimed his place in history
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The earliest example of Christian art have been discovered in __________
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Catacombs
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The church at the San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy is formed during this period?
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Byzantine
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What is the medium used for the depiction on Theodora and attendants in the church of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy?
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Mosaic
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The structure of Romanesque churches recall architecture elements from ___________
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Ancient Rome
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Which two Gothic architectural innovations allowed cathedral wall to be built higher than before?
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Flying buttresses and rib vaults
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Which of the following terms means "rebirth" and is used to describe an artistic movement characterized by new interest in the Classical world of Greece and Rome?
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Renaissance
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Which of the following terms refers to the 17th and early 18th centuries in Western Europe, a period where there was a general increase in motion and emotion in artworks?
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Baroque
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Filippo Brunelleschi has been widely regarded as the first Renaissance __________
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architect
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Brunelleschi's design for the Florence was a triumph over adversity because ___________
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building such an enormous dome was a technological challenge
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Linear perspective is used to represent ___________.
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the illusion of the illusion of the three-dimensional space in two dimensions
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Leonardo da Vinci indicates that Christ is the most important figure in his painting The Last Supper ___________.
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by locating Christ at the center of the composition, creating a stable triangular form for Christ, framing Christ's head with light from the window from behind, arranging the vanishing point directly behind Christ's head
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neoclassical paintings such as those by Jacques-Louis David and Angelica Kauffman ___________.
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are inspired by ancient Greece and Rome, convey a moral message, place and emphasis on civic duty are serious in tone
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Jacques-Louis David's painting The Oath of the Horatti is about ____________.
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the sacrifices on an ancient Roman family
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In Eugene Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, Liberty ________.
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is a symbol of freedom
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The Hudson River School painted ________.
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American Landscapes
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What aspects of Eudouard Manet's Le Dejeuner sur I'Herbe (Luncheon on the grass) discomfited many viewers when it was first exhibited?
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the nude women sitting next to men in contemporary clothing
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Pierre-Augusta Renoir's Moulin de la Galette ____________.
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depicts a new, urban, middle class enjoying their leisure time
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what role did photography play for the artist Edgar Degas?
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he used it along with other mediums
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Vincent van gogh used thick swirls of paint in his work Starry Night. This technique is called?
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impasto
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Jackson Pollack made paintings by _________.
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dripping paint on to a canvas on the floor
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The formal element that Mark Rothko focused on is _________.
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color
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Andy Warhol used commercial processes to create many of his works ___________.
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because he wanted his work to have a depersonalize and mass-produced quality
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Donald Judd's Untitled (1967) is a part of which movement?
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Minimalism
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Michael Graves's Portland Public Services Building is and example of ___________ architecture.
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Postmodernist
