Art Appreciation - ART 1309, TTU - Flashcards

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Which of the following is not a characteristic of "community art"?

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It tends to be very small, remote, and private.

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The word vomitoria was used to describe the entryways at the Colosseum because

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it conveys the spilling throngs of people leaving the building.

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Manmade mountains is another term for

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Pyramids.

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Frank lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum in New York

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Is highly geometric.

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Archaeologist Mark Lehner and Roger Hopkins discovered that it takes how many men to tumble a stone weighing less than 1 ton?

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4-5

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Qin Shi Huangdi's army of terracotta soldiers

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was found in 1974

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What common characteristic do the Sumerian bull lyre, Navajo sand painting, and Gèlèdé masquerade share?

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We have to imagine important parts of their original presentation.

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Artwork in public spaces

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can excite strong emotions in a community.

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Which of the following artworks no longer physically exists?

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All of the other answers.

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Diego Rivera and Susan Cervantes have both worked in the traditional Mexican medium of

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mural painting.

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This chapter examines spirituality expresses in art through

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all of the other answers.

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Whether pagan, Christian, or Buddhist, artworks depicting deities are generally intended to

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tell the stories of the key religious figures

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In the relief sculpture from the west pediment of the temple of Zeus, the figures of the Lapith people are

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Idealized.

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Figure 4.23 depicts episodes from the life of buddha

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sculpted as separate scenes all on one block of sandstone.

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In African art, such as that of the senufo people, spirit figures are often shown as:

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abstract with exaggerated body parts.

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Contemporary artist Betye Saar was referring to what aspect of traditional African art in her Ancestral Spirit Chair?

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Personal and communal identity.

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Artworks that show interaction between humans and deities

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None of the other answers.

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What characteristics do the Stela of Naram-Sin, Virgin of Vladamir, and The Ecstasy of St. Teresa share?

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An emphasis on light in the form of rays or golden tones

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What shared aspects of the caves aspects of the caves at Lascaux and the catacombs in Rome indicate that these places were sacred to those who used them?

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Both sites feature paintings connected to the christian religion.

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Such sacred places as mosques, temples, shrines, and chapels

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are often used for quiet contemplation.

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Artworks that engage the theme of the cycle life

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examine the mysteries of life.

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Which of the following is true of Julie, Den Haag, The Netherlands, February 29, 1994?

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The mother and baby are photographed shortly after birth.

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How do bis poles represent the cyclical nature of human life?

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By showing the deceased individual along with ancestors.

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The sculpture showing Shiva's dance indicates that he brings to life

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the cycle of death and rebirth.

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The Kongo kneeling female figure with bowl and child and the artifacts accompanying the Inca mummy of a boy are associated with sacrifice. These artworks ________.

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all of the other answers.

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In which of the following artworks is the identity of the person shown not important?

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The Morgue (Gun Murder)

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Artistic depictions of death are more prevalent now than during the Renaissance.

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False

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How does the Hopi kachina doll relate to nature?

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It uses symbols that we learn relate to nature.

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The Great Pyramids at Giza were designed to mimic part of the constellation Orion in order to

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connect the pyramids with the stars the pharaohs would inhabit in the afterlife.

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Why is the act of judgment important in such works as the Egyptian Book of the Dead, Gislebertus's Last Judgment, and Johannes Vermeer's Woman Holding a Balance?

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To emphasize that a person's actions in the present life determine his or her destiny in the afterlife

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The calendar stone made by the Aztecs reveals how they used astronomical and mathematical knowledge to count

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time

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What item was useful to Muslims, who used it to find the direction in which to pray to Mecca and to calculate the time of day?

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Astrolabe

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In Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump the bird is shown

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being deprived of oxygen.

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Who worked in a calm state, between heartbeats, and through the night, while creating works of art?

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Willard Wigan

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Gunther von Hagens, a German artist who combined anatomy and science, developed this art technique that uses preserved bodies after death:

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Plastination

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Applying tiny dots of color to a canvas to create optical effects is referred to as ________.

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pointillism.

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What instrument does Marcia Smilack hear when she turns her work Cello Music upside down?

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Violin

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Which artist coined the term Art Brut, describing art influenced by children and the mentally ill?

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Jean Dubuffet

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Jean Dubuffet's artworks often contain which technique?

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Impasto

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Art inspired by dreams and the subconscious describes what movement?

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Surrealism

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What term did Dalí invent that describes the foundation for his paintings?

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Paranoiac-critical

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Martín Ramírez, whose works of art included iconic images of the Madonna, spent thirty-three years in Californian mental hospitals because he suffered from ________.

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schizophrenia

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When restorers began work on cleaning the Sistine ceiling in 1980, what did they discover had affected the original appearance of the frescoes?

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all of the other answers.

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Which ancient Greek artist won a contest to create the most convincing painted illusion?

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Parrhaius

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• The School of Athens, an architectural illusion created by Raphael, was painted for the library of ________.

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Pope Julius II

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Which two philosophers, included in the center of The School of Athens, highlight the development of learning in the ancient world?

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Plato and Aristole

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What was William M. Harnett investigated for due to the trickery and illusion created in his paintings?

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counterfeiting

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Which artwork features a silhouette of a piano and pianist that transforms into a violinist when viewed from a different angle?

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Encore

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What term describes the optical trick of swelling columns at midpoint, which was used in the design of the Parthenon?

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Entasis

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Giulio Romano was trained by this artist, who influenced his painting Fall of the Giants:

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Raphael

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Chuck Close painted with ________ to create portraits of friends and family.

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fingerprints.

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What elements does Hogarth depict with accurate perspective in his engraving published in 1754, based on the teaching of such methods?

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None of these are depicted accurately using the techniques of perspective.

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Which artist, in his painting The Human Condition, challenged the Renaissance notion of the "illusionistic window"?

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René Magritte

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Artists can emphasize the importance of a ruler by portraying him or her

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all of the other answers

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As seen in the Justinian mosaic from San Vitale, purple robes represent

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imperial power.

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Which of the following is not true of the Colossal Heads of the Olmec?

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They decorated the tomb of the king.

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Which of the following statements about absolute power is true?

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All of the other answers

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The empty cradle depicted in Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun's portrait of Marie Antoinette represents

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the death of the queen's youngest daughter.

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The most important element in the sunken relief of Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and their three daughters is

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the sun.

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The Palette of Narmer emphasizes

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the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt.

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From whom did the first emperor of Rome, depicted in the statue Augustus of Primaporta, claim he was descended?

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Aeneas

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The artist of the Benin plaque used ________ to signify the central figure's importance.

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hierarchical scale

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The most distributed image in China in the 1960s was of

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Mao Zedong.

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Timothy O'Sullivan's Harvest of Death is a

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photograph.

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The French government removed Ernest Meissonier's Remembrance of Civil War from an important art exhibition in 1850 because

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it reminded them of the past.

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Francisco Goya's The Second of May and The Third of May

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depict two consecutive days of violence.

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Nick Ut's Vietnamese Girl Kim Phuc Running after Napalm Attack can be interpreted as the artist's disapproval of ________.

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war

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The Tula warrior columns tell us that the ancient Mexican Toltec people were

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in frequent battles.

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The Bayeux Tapestry was embroidered by

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women.

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Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace gives us a strong sense of the weaponry favored by the Japanese samurai, which includes:

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lengthy bows and arching swords.

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The figure carrying another figure on the right-hand wing of Otto Dix's triptych The War is

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the artist.

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Which of these artists did not experience war as a soldier?

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Anselm Kiefer

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Wafaa Bilal is

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an Iraqi artist living in the U.S.

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Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa focuses on

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the survivors at sea.

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Joseph Mallord William Turner's Slave Ship condemned

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slavery in general.

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Pablo Picasso's Guernica was created in black and white in order to:

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resemble newspaper photographs.

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Pablo Picasso's Guernica, 1937, can be interpreted as:

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outrage against violence.

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The film Hotel Rwanda, directed by Terry George, increased America's public awareness of ________ in Rwanda.

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genocide

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Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother is a well-known symbol for the plight of

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the impoverished.

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In 1914, Diego Velázquez's The Toilet of Venus (Rokeby Venus) was

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slashed.

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Eric Fischl's Falling Woman deals with the subject of

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9/11.

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The sixth-century icon Virgin and Child Surrounded by Saints is an object of worship that

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was intended to create a state of meditation.

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Jacques-Louis David's Death of Marat is about Jean-Paul Marat's:

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murder.

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Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial is located in:

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Washington, D.C.

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Wenda Gu's sculpture United Nations—China Monument: Temple of Heaven is made mostly from

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human hair.

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The colors of Henri Matisse's Joy of Life were intended to:

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express emotion.

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The forms in Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon are simplified into:

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abstract planes.

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The artist Vasily Kandinsky wanted to ______ in artworks like Improvisation #30.

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express inner spiritual qualities

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Marcel Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel was constructed using:

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found objects.

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What common characteristic does the artwork influenced by the movement of Cubism share?

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It has many abstract shapes.

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Mark Rothko's Untitled is intentionally without a specific title so that viewers will:

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respond individually.

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Although it looks like a comic-book illustration, parts of Roy Lichtenstein's Girl With Mirror recall a Post-Impressionist technique. The use of ______ is seen both in this painting and also in the technique called ______.

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dots ... pointillism

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The commercially produced items in Dan Flavin's Untitled were intended to:

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allow us to see them in new ways.

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When comparing Ana Mendieta's Imagen de Yagul and Pipilotti Rist's Ever is Over All an important difference between the two pieces is that ______.

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Ever is Over All is a video installation

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Multicultural considerations are included in which of the following artworks?

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All of the other answers

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How do the Woman from Willendorf and Willem de Kooning's Woman I convey the power of women?

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Using abstraction to suggest general ideas of powerful women

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What did the use of a canon of proportions allow ancient Egyptian artists to do?

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Make artworks that did not change much over time

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Notions of beauty as seen in artworks

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are culturally determined and change over time.

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Ideas about beauty during the Italian Renaissance, as seen in Botticelli's Birth of Venus, actively revive the concepts of beauty found in ________.

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ancient Greece

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In the Ife head (possibly a king) and Kaigetsudo Dohan's Beautiful Woman, what aspects of the individuals are emphasized?

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Composure, dignity, and maturity

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An artistic representation of the human figure without clothes is called:

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a nude.

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Yves Klein's Anthropométries de l'époque bleue, March 9, 1960, used "living brushes" in its creation. These brushes were actually:

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women's bodies dipped in paint.

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The total number of nude people in Spencer Tunick's Installation at Zócalo, Mexico City, Mexico, May 6, 2007 was approximately:

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18,000.

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The artists Auguste Rodin, Henry Moore, and Alberto Giacometti show human figures in what way?

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With their anatomy distorted or fragmented

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On which of the following formal elements does Henri Matisse concentrate in Blue Nude II?

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The color blue

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Artworks that deal with gender ________.

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often encourage us to think beyond the binaries of male and female

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Artworks depicting men have historically referred to their powerful bodies or depicted them in leadership roles. In contrast, women have tended to be shown in artworks as:

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passive or erotic.

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There are no artworks that consciously counter the stereotypical representations by showing men as vulnerable and women as powerful.

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False

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The self-portraits by John Coplans and Cindy Sherman ________.

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none of the other answers

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Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother, 1936, can best be described as:

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a depiction of a mother's strength.

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Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Still #35 was intended to comment on the

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limited roles available to women in the 1950s.

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How did the Feminist artists Judy Chicago and the Guerrilla Girls expand the opportunities and subject matter of art to include women and issues relevant to them?

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By bringing attention to women who had been left out of the history of art

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How did being a woman affect the paintings that Artemisia Gentileschi made?

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She often depicted female figures and heroines from the Bible.

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The sculpture of the Sphinx of Hatshepsut depicts:

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a female depicted as a male king.

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In Robert Mapplethorpe's Self-Portrait (#385) and Catherine Opie's Melissa & Lake, Durham, North Carolina the depiction of gender is made ambiguous for what reason?

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To challenge assumptions based on appearances

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Self-portraits by Vincent van Gogh and Frida Kahlo express which of the following?

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What the artists looked like and experienced on a personal level

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Which story did both Rembrandt and Duane Michals depict using self-portraits?

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The Return of the Prodigal Son

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Artists Jenny Saville and ORLAN both concentrate on ________ in their self-portraits.

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distortion and manipulation of the way they look

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Which artist distorted and manipulated her body to an extreme degree using plastic surgery?

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ORLAN

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Which of the following artworks was inspired by a dream the artist had?

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None of the other answers

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Although it may not look like the case, both Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket and The Scream

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represent actual events.

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The shape and dimensions of Mona Hatoum's Untitled (Baalbek Bird Cage) were based on the size of what?

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The artist's childhood bedroom

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Julian Schnabel combines which of the following in his painting The Exile?

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All of the other answers

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What kinds of things can be appropriated in an artwork?

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All of the other answers

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Which of the following inventions inspired the artistic practice known as appropriation?

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Marcel Duchamp's readymades

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canon of proportions

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a set of ideal mathematical ratios in art, used to measure the various parts of the human body in relation to one another

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contrapposto

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"counter-balance" pose; upper body twists in one direction and the lower body twists in another

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isometric perspective

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a system using diagonal parallel lines to communicate depth

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triptych

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a three part painting, normally joined together and sharing a common theme

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predella

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an artwork designed as a companion piece to a more important work

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Kristallnacht

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(Night of the Broken Glass), series of coordinated deadly attacks by the Nazis in 1938, refers to the shattered glass after Jewish-owned stores, businesses, and synagogues had their windows smashed

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tenebrism

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dramatic use of intense darkness and light to heighten the impact of a painting

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muqarnas

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"stalactite" decoration commonly found in domes and vaults within Islamic architecture

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minaret

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a tall sender tower on a mosque from which the faithful are called to prayer

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stupa

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a burial mound containing Buddha's remains

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bodhisattva

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In Buddhism, beings who could have reached nirvana but who choose instead to sacrifice themselves and help others work toward Enlightement

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Shinto

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traditional Japanese religion, emphasizes the ways natural elements (sun, water, trees) are connected to personal well-being, reveres nature itself as a deity

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Exit Through The Gift Shop Video - Know basic facts and artist.

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Bansky - Director, street artist, identity unknown. Thierry - AKA Mr. Brainwash.

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