Art appreciation 100
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The image \"woman of willendorf\" is thought to be associated with:
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The great mother goddess
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The mesopotamians built their temples, such as Ur-Nammu, on this type of structure called:
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Ziggurat
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The word \"neolithic\" means:
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new stone age
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During the neolithic period, art went from:
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naturalistic to abstract
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The ancient sumerians developed the world's first wheel, plow and_____
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writing system
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The sizing of figures as determined by social rank is called:
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hierarchic scale
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The parthenon was designed to honor:
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athena
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The first christian churches were patterned after roman basilicas used by the romans as:
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government buildings
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Early christian art was created in private homes and underground burial chambers called:
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catacombs
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One feature that set gothic architecture apart from romanesque was the extensive use of:
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stained glass
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The purse cover from the Sutton Hoo Ship Burial illustrates one distinguishing characteristic of the art of migrating people of the middle ages that is based on:
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animals
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_______ is an excellent example of gothic architecture.
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Chartres cathedral
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Leonardo daVinci's technique of blurred edges, called_______, can be seen in his Mona Lisa.
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sfumato or \" in the manner of smoke\"
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In Jan van Eyck's The marriage of giovanni arnolfini and giovanna cenami, the woman is wearing green because:
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it symbolizes fertility
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Carvaggio's dramatic portrayal of scenes at night, as seen in the conversion of Saint Paul, was called:
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foreshortening
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Many renaissance artists benefited from the patronage of the ______ family.
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Medici
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Many baroque characteristics developed as propaganda for the:
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counter-reformation
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Rococo paintings mainly showed:
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Life without troubles
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Luncheon on the grass, by _________, was considered scandalous because of its loose brushwork and depiction of ordinary subjects in juxtaposition.
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Edouard Manet
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Claude Monet's Impression: Sunrise began the movement known as:
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Impressionism
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In his search for spiritual truth, Paul Gauguin moved to_______, where he spent the rest of his life.
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Tahiti
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The post-impressionists felt the impressionists did not allow room for:
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Personal expression
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Edgar Degas' paintings revealed his interest in the candid attitudes found in street photography and the asymmetry of:
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Japanese prints
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Without the invention of________, impressionist art would not have occured.
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Metal tubes of oil paint
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The artist that painted Composition IV, Wassily Kandinsky, felt that art led to a new:
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spirituality
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A good example of synthetic cubism, Violin and Fruit by Picasso utilized papier colle, which became known as:
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collage
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The first photographer to show modern european paintings in America was:
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Stieglitz
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The 2 groups associated with german expressionism were:
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The blue rider and the bridge
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The term fauvism means________.
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wild beasts
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The country which futurism originated was:
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Italy
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Marcel Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q is an excellent example of:
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Dada
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The first world war led to the russian revolution, the rise of the nazi party, and fascism, resulting in artistic:
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censorship and repression
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________ universal elements were straight lines, primary colors and rectangle.
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Piet Mondrain's
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The flowering of the________ brought the works of many african-american artists to the fore, such as Barbecue, by Archibald Motley, Jr.
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Harlem Renaissance
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Surrealism attempted to combine dreams with reality states, even though recognizing the two were:
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contradictory
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The constructivists declared that the main element in their works was not mass but:
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space
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Jackson Pollack's \"Autumn Rhythm\" involves action painting and is an excellent example of:
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abstract expressionism
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Cooperative events in which viewers participate with principals in loosely scripted scenarios, are called:
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happenings
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As minimalism and hard-edge developed, paintings came to be seen as objects themselves, rather than as:
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representations of other things
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Site works differ from earthworks in that site works are designed to interact with the environment, whereas earthworks:
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merge with the landscape
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The large installation The Dinner Party, by artist Judy Chicago, illustrates the importance of__________ (in) art,which is considered. to be a vital force in the 1970's.
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feminism
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In his work called \"Monogram\", Robert Rauschenberg put everyday objects together with collage and expressionist paintings to form what is called:
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combine painting
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The style of Li Hua's \"Take Him In!\" is similar to western examples of:
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social realism
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The japanese group Gutal functioned from 1954 to 1972. In their manifesto, they proclaimed:
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the end of traditional art making
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In the late 1950's, a group of students in Nigeria formed the Zaria Art Society with the goal of expressing:
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more of their African identity in their works
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The color schemes and flat patterns illustrated in Amrita Sher-Gil's \"The Swing\" were directly influenced by the post-impressionism of Paul Gauguin and:
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The ancient caves at Ajanta
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The public services building by Michael Graves shows that architects began to synthesize the international style of architectural modernism with:
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postmodernism
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Most art critics and historians agree that the era of modern art ended in the:
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1980's
