Art Midterm chapters 1-3 – Flashcards
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language
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No society that we know of has lived without some form of art. The impulse to make and respond to art appears to be as deeply ingrained as the ability to learn _________.
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Stonehenge
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The famous Neolithic structure in England, made of megaliths that once formed several concentric circles, is called ______.
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Paleolithic period
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Radiocarbon testing indicates that the earliest images made by humans date back to the ___________.
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Anthony Caro
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Who said, "All art is basically Paleolithic or Neolithic: either the urge to smear soot and grease on cave walls or pile stones on stone?"
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial
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The most famous of Maya Lin's work is the ______________.
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The Starry Night
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Although Vincent van Gogh suffered emotionally throughout his life, he was able to give his emotions tangible form in works such as ____________.
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simple, pure, and timeless
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The sculptor Constantin Brancusi spent his life searching for forms that were _____________.
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perception
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The nature of _______ suggests that the most important key to looking at art is to become aware of the process of loping itself.
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viewer
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According to the author, the most important meaning of an artwork is what it means to the ________.
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earthly life and happiness
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Vanitas paintings meditate of fleeting nature of _________________.
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Audrey Flack
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Wheel of Fortune was created by ___________.
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art; financial and emotional.
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Theo van Gogh was Vincent van Gogh's _____ dealer, brother and supporter; both ________________.
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letters
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We owe our access to Vincent van Gogh's thoughts and feelings about many of his paintings to the many ______ he wrote to friends and relatives.
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life like
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According to the author, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa dazzled his contemporaries because the portrait was almost miraculously _________.
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middle ages
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During the ______ the term "art" was used roughly in the same sense as "craft."
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Claude Monet
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Fisherman's Cottage on the Cliffs at Varengeville was painted by _________.
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iconography
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To discover why the sculptor of the Amida Nyorai depicted the subject with elongated earlobes, specific hand gestures, and a bun atop his head requires the use of _________.
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visual characteristics
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The term style is used to categorize a work of art by its ____________.
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artist; audience
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Our modern ideas about art carry with them ideas about the _________ and the ________.
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pleasure
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During the 18th century, beauty and art were discussed together because both were felt to provide _______.
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Pietá
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______ is the name for the standard subject in Christian art, that of Mary, the mother of Jesus, holding her son after he was taken down from the cross.
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naturalistic
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If a work of art is faithful to our visual experience, its style is __________.
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form
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When discussing the size, shape, material, color, and composition of a work of art, were are discussing its _________.
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painting, sculpting, and architecture
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During the renaissance in western Europe, _______________ came to be regarded as more elevated of the arts.
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iconography
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After much study o the Arnolfini Double Portrait, experts agree that they still debate the work's ___________.
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installation
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Ann Hamilton's Mantle is an example of _________.
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silkscreen
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Andy Warhol's images created from celebrities are portrayed through mass produced multiple ___________ images.
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theme
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According to the author, a work of art may fall into more than one ______.
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destruction
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Iconoclasm means the _______ of images based on religious beliefs.
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bodhisattvas
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Whereas the Christian image by cimabue depicts the central figure surrounded by angels, the Buddhist image in this chapter shows the central figure surrounded by ___________.
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tombs
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The pyramids at Giza were built as _______.
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life
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The subject matter of Edward Hopper's Gas depict aspects of everyday ______.
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The Garden of Earthly delights
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_________ is the best-known work of the bizarrely inventive Hieronymus Bosch.
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Romans
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The ______ often created equestrian statues of their emperors.
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Spanish Pavillion
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Pablo Picasso painted Guernica in 1937 for the ________________ of the Paris World's Fair.
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holocaust; Altar to the chases high school
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Christian Boltanski draws upon the ______ to create his work _________________.
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The Oxbow
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19th century american painters employed the american landscape as a subject. One such artist was Thomas Cole who focused on an area of the Connecticut River to create ____________.
