Art Appreciation Ch 12 – Flashcards
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Art can forge racial identity and preserve the history and values of a(n) ____ group.
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ethnic
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In Las Meninas, Velazquez places Infanta Margarita at the center of the painting and surrounds her with dwarfs, chaperones, and ladies in waiting to reveal her ____.
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upper class status
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Marc Chagall's works reflected his heritage, which was ____.
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Jewish
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Marc Chagall painted in bright colors, like the ____.
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Fauves
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The photographs of James VanDerZee reflect the ____
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Black Renaissance of Harlem
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Aunt Jemima is considered a ____
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characterature
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Betye Saar's The Liberation of Aunt Jemima is a ____ piece
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mixed media
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In The Artifact Piece, Native American artist James Luna challenged the way contemporary American culture and museums have presented his race as essentially____.
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extinct and vanished
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Shaughnessy's Interior House Post both physically supports the Raven House and symbolically represents the ____ of the John Scow clan
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spiritual and mythical foundation
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Painting from a Cult House done by the Tambaran cult of New Guinea ____ the cult teachings through a narrative
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does not illustrate
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Peter Paul Rubens' Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus revealed that the women of that time were expected to be ____
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helpless
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Jacques-Louis David's The Oath of the Horatii revealed that heroic actions were ____.
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a mark of masculinity
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Artists such as Jacques-Lois David not only reflected the "reality" of gender roles, they ____ such "reality."
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created
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French people saw Rococo architecture as ____
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female
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The ancient Greeks viewed Doric architecture as ____
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masculine
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Hung Liu examined the Chinese practice of ____
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foot binding
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The Guerrilla Girls are a group of artists that ____.
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worked towards redefining feminism and forcing the art world to be more inclusive of women; formed in 1987
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Ancient Romans believed that their ancestry ____
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was to be documented in writing
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The Northwest Coastal people believed that the thunderbird represented a ____.
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a chief
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The painting Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus by Peter Paul Rubens is an example of ____ as subject matter
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sexual erotica
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A ____ is a group of people joined by blood or marriage ties.
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clan
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Artists often illustrate social rank through dress, leisure activities, and ____.
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scale
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Kabuki theater was enjoyed by the ____ in Japanese society.
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townspeople
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The ____ art movement originated in Paris in the early twentieth century and emphasized exaggerated color in paintings for greater expression.
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Fauvism
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In his paintings, Marc Chagall sometimes used the ____ device of fracturing space to represent instability
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Cubist
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The title "____" was a commonly used term of subordination for African American female domestic servants, nannies, and maids
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Aunt
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Sepik men performed ____, called "Tambaran," which took place in large, decorated cult houses
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rituals
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Unlike the Western belief that an individual exists at birth, many South Pacific peoples believe that a person's being is built through a lifetime of ____
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ritual experiences
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The voluptuous, fleshy women of Peter Paul Ruben's Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus represent ____ body types for their time
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ideal
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Eighteenth-century Rococo architecture was seen as ____, with its emphasis on delicacy, curves, and colo
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feminine
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A revival of Greek and Roman aesthetics inspired a style called ____, which emphasized the use of classical elements in art and architecture.
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neoclassicism
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The subject matter of ukiyo-e prints were usually famous kabuki actors, beautiful young women, and ____.
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landscapes
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The ____is a collective of anonymous women artists and arts professionals protesting racial and gender discrimination in the art
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Guerilla Girls
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____ paintings are paintings of ordinary scenes from everyday life.
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