Art Final

Dadaists

Along with their interest in psychoanalysis the Surrealists also incorporated some of the attitudes and techinique of the __ movements

crossing square

An architectural aspect of he church of St. Sernin is its use of the ___

the cabarets, cafes, and bordellos of paris

Henri de Toulse Lautrec's deformity led to an alienation from his family, so he instead found a home in __ as depicted in At the Moulin Range.

two-tower tripartite facade

The exterior of the Romanesque St. Etienne served as a model for Gothic architecture because its ____ appeared repeatedly in Gothic churches.

Period of Persecution

The first centuries after the death of Jesus, before Emperor Constantine proclaimed religious tolerance for Christians, were known as the ___

repentance through prayer

The iconography of the stylized, doll-like figures on the Weighing of Souls tympanum from the Cathedral of Autun was intened to convey pictorially ___

rib vault; clerestory

The interior of St. Ethenne has a sense of lightness because the development of the ___made it possible to pierce the walls above the tribune gallery with a series of windows called a ___

weight of the massive stone lintels

The interior of the Egyptain temple of Amen-Re at Karnak is filled by a virtual forest of colmns because of the___

contrapposto

The jamb figures of Mary and Elizabeth on the west portal of Reims Cathedral are placed in a naturalistic weight-shift stance also known as ___

light filtering through arched windows at its base

The massive dome of Hagia Sophia to be light and graceful due to___

were preoccupied with the science of optics

The modern Realist painters of the nineteenth century, including Honore Daumier and Edouard Manet, were bound by all of the following except they ___

drastic collapsing of space, forcing imagery to the picture plane

The movement away from a realistic representation of subject toward abstraction took many forms but Paul Cezanne led the way toward modernism with his ____ as see in his Still Life with Basket of Apples

have weight to the bodies, and the "hinged" treatment of the limbs is eliminated

Unlike Romanesque sculpture, Gothic sculptural figures ____

Mary Cassatt

___ was an American Expatriate painter who spent most of her life in France primarily painting scenes of women and children.

Wage Gongxin's Our Sky is Falling In!

AN everyday family scene that is suddenly disrupted when the ceiling begins to collapse describes which of the artworks below?

twelfth and thirteenth centuries

Academics generally agree that the Gothic style of architecture began in ____

continued painting classical imagery as done in the Renaissance

After Martin Luther's Reformation, Dutch artists painted scenes of daily life whereas FLemish artists ___

introspection and psycholgical situations

All of Rembrandt's paintings, drawings, and pringts seem to focus on ___.

junk

Appropriation artist Vik Muniz is known for using ___?

mythological themes

As evedenced in The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli loved, above all else, to paint ___

loose brushwork and dramatic white spotlighting

As seen in Tintoretto's The Last Supper, his ___anticipate(s) the Baroque style.

exterior walls appeared heavier

As the Gothic period progressed, all of the following architectural innovations occured except ___

a contemporary Flemish home

As was typical in Northern Renaissance paintings, the setting of Robert Campin's Merode Altarpiece is __

France

Before the Baroque period ended, ___ began to replace Rome as the center of the art world.

intense interest in native African and Iberian sculpture

Cubism was heavily influenced by Paul Cezanne in all but one of the following ways:

curving lines and full-bodied forms

During Akhenation's reign, the longstanding stylized formality of Egyptian art briefly gave way to ____ as seen in the very famous Bust of Queen Nefertitti.

Athens; Pericles

During the Classical period ___ became the center of Greek art and culture under the dynamic statesman ___

naturlistic depiction of the human figure

During the Old Kingdom period of Egyptian art, a new manner of representing the human figures developed that would last thousands of years. It was characterized by all of the following except ____.

spirituality and otherworldliness

During the Renaissance period, there was a revival of all of the following except ___.

archiac; cella

During the ____ period of Greek art, architectual format was developed that served as a model for all later Greek temples. The central room of the temple was known as a ____.

a loving mother

Elisabeth VIgee-Lebrun painted the portrait of Marie Antoinette and Her Children inan attempt to portray the queen as ___

individualized

Empire period Roman sculpture, as represented in Augustus of Primaporta, was often an interesting juxtapostion of ____ heads with idealized bodies.

shocked

Femist artist Ana Mendieta draped her body in muf for her performance piece Arbol de la Vida. In terms of its visual impact, most viewers who saw it were likely ____ by its extraordinary contrast of texture

ethnographic and childrens art

For his Twittering Machine Paul Klee was influenced in part by ___

A barley adolescent boy

For his bronze statue of David, the first life-size nude since classical times, Donatello chose ___ as a protoype.

maids of honor; Impressionism

For his mysterious Las Mentinas or the ___ Diego Velazquez dissolved his forms into small roughly textured brushstokes that would be the hallmark of ____ two centuries later.

painting with a bronze knife blade

For the Paleoithic Hall of Bulls cave painting, artists used all of the following techniques except ___

using a dark and psychologically distressing color palette

For works such as White Iris Georgia O'Keeffe captured the essence of her subject utilizing all of the following techniques except ___

San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

Francessco Borromini's ___ is an organic building that incorporates the Baroque elements of motion, space, and light.

graphic representation of man

Francisco Goya, who was neither Neoclassicist nor Romantic, is best known for his __one of the most famous of which is The Third of May 1808

Cuneiform

From the Latin word meaning "wedge", ____ was a system of writing developed by the Sumerians.

national flags

Haitian artist Jean-Ulrick Desert made ___into burqas for The Burqa Project

Armory Show; NUde Descending at a Staircase #2

In 1913, the groundbreaking ___ was held in New York City and dominated by avant-garde European artists who would heavily influence subsequent AMerican art. The most scandalous work at the exhibition was Marcel Duchamp's ___ which was dismissed as a "pile of kindling wood."

finding the simplest form that, aond with a title would fire recognition in the viewer

In Constanin Brancusi's sculptures such as Bird in Space, he reached for the essence of the subject by ___

a sense of quiet desperation

In Cuban artiest Alexandre Arrwchea's Elementos Arquitectronicos, his primary theme seems to relate to ___

cantilevered decks

In Frank Lloyd Wright's famous Fallingwater, he made use of reinforced concrete to produce ____

The Vase of lilies

In Jan van Eyck's strikingly detailed double portrait of Giovanni arnolfini and His Bide, which of the following is not a symbolic reference in the painting?

classically inspired facial features

In Jean-Honore Fragonard's Happy Accidents of the Swing, all of the following are characteristics of the Rococco and depicted in the painting except ___

fireproofing

In St. Serinin, the ceiling structure is a stone barrel vault which was neccessary for ____

inhumanity, injustice, and humankind's destruction of itself

In The Outbreak, Kathe Kollwitz tried to symbolize __ through her forecful depiction of the sixeteenth- century Peasants War

Futurist

In Umberto Boccioni's Dynamism of a soccer Player we see the ____obession with illustrating images in pertual motion.

top step of the platform is perfectly straight

In an effort to produce an integrated look to the Parthenon, all of the following construction variation are found except that the ___

tenebrism

In both of their paintings of Judith Decapitating Holofernes, Caravaggio and Artemisia Gentileschi utlized a harsh, theatrical "spotlight" effect known as ___

in combined frontal and profile view and larger than surrounding figures

In both the Akkadian Victory Stele of Naram Sin and the Egyptian Narmer Palette , the kings are depicted ___

dramatic negative space

In his Creation of Adam scene from the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Michelangelo created the most ___ in the history of art as God reached out to spark life into Adam.

Starry Night

In his ___ Vincent van Gogh's vibrant colors, characteristics long,thin stokes feverish application of paint create an emotionalism that turns a sleepy town into a cosmic display.

the Virgin Mary

In the Gothic period, ___ assumed a new primary role of importance in art and architecture.

magnificent draftsman

In the Grande Odalisque, the articulation of the heavy drapery contrasts with the crisp treatment of the linens and sensual lines of the harem mistress's body, revealing that, above all else, Ingres was a ___

respect and victory

In the Victory Stele of Naram Sin, the king and his men are represented in a conceptual manner, probably meant to indicate ____

Cathedra Petri

In the apse of St. Peter's Bernini combined architecture sculpture, and stained glass to produce the brilliant golden display known as the ___

spiritual, otherworldly style

In the late years of the Roman Empire, the realism and idealism that had characterized Roman figural scupture was replace by a___

kitchen utensils

Indian artist Subodh Gupta's Silk Route is composed entirely of ____

Gustave Courbet and Japenese prints

James Abbott Mcneil Whistler's Arrangement in Black and Gray: The Artist's Mother exhibits a combination of realism and abstraction that was strongly influenced by ___

a painter and a sculptress

Japanese artist Mariko Mori can be described as all of the following except ___

flags

Jean Desert's The Burqa Project represents the ____ of Western countries

hunting lodge

King Louis XIV's Palace at Versailles was originally the site of his ___.

fenestration

Lacy buttressing and ample _____ lend Gothic buildings an airy lightness that seems consonant with their mission of directing upward the focus of human awareness.

"from follows function"

Louis Sullivan's rigid horizontal and vertical processions of facade elements that suggest the regularity of the spaces within his Wainwright Building reinforce Sullivan's famous motto that ___.

immigration

Mexican artist Enrique Illegal Alien's Guide to Critical Theory is a satire of his own experience as an ____

a genre painting

Nertherlandish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder's The Peasant Wedding is an excellent example of ___

compostional triangle

Nicolas Poussin's Rape of the Sabine Women utilizes a(n) ___ thereby borrowing a Renaissance technique for structuring a balanced compostion

cast iron

Nineteenth-century industrialization led to the development of ___ as a building material, to allow the erection of tall buildings with relatively.

symbolism

Northern Renaissance artist tried to reconcile religion with scenes and objects from everyday life by using ___.

create pleasing pattern

Of works such as the Red Room Henri Matisse said it should be "a mental soother, like a good armchair in which to rest" This is because Matisse's primary concerns was to ____

Paintings

Some of the purest examples of Reinassance Classicism are to be found in the ___ of Leon Battista Alberti.

personal signature of the artist

One major tenet of Pop Art is that the work should be objective, commercialized and mundane that is elimates the ___

Pont du Guard; Compressive strength

One of the best-presereved ancient Romans aqueduct system is the ____ near Nimes, France. The ___ of the limestone blocks allowed for the weight of three tiers of arches.

Venus of Willendorf

One of the earliest and most famous "fertility" figurines from the Paleolithic period is the ___.

Castor and Pollux

Peter Paul Ruben's The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus depicts a scene from Greek mythology in which two mortal women are seized by _____, the twin sons of Zeus.

Titanium

Peter Testa believes we "need to rethink how we assemble buildings" and has designed a high-rise tower out of ___.

twentieth-century abstraction and expressionism

Realism is firmly rooted in a long, realistic tradition in the arts, but as a recognized artistic movement of the 1970s, it is also in part a reaction against ___

Central African Republic

Samuel Fosso began his career as a photographer and comes from ____

Archaic smile

Some of the earliest freestanding sculptures of the Archiac perios were kouros figures, or blocky statues of nude young men all with a conventionlized facial expression called the ______

clerestory

St. Etienne was one of the first cathedrals to use true ribbed vaulting allowing a(n) ___ to be pieced through the walls from which light could enter the nave of the church.

Alfred Stieglitz; 291 Gallery

The AMerican photographer ___ first supported the development of abstract art in AMerica by exhibiting works alongside American art in his ___

Rome; Reformation

The Baroque era was born in ____, at least in part as a reaction to the spread of Protestantism from the ___

amphitheaters; Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian

The Colosseum in Rome consists of two black-to-back _____ and combination of ____ columns that produce a sense of lightness proceeding from bottom to top tier.

metopes

The Doric frieze was divided vertically into compartments. The triglyphs contained vertical grooves, and the ____ were filled with scupted figures.

prefabricated

The Eiffel Tower's magnificent iron trusses were ___

black-figure; Archiac

The Francois Vase, with Black figures on a reddish background, is an example of the ____ painting technique and was produced during the ____ period of Greek art

Street Light

The Futurists belief that their subjects were less important than the portrayal of a "dynamic sensation" is very evident in Giacomo Ball's constantly "moving" painting known as _____

James Fenimore Cooper

The Hudson River School was a group of artists who painted the beauty of the natural American landscape with sense of romanticism that was embodied in the writing of ___

dry masonary

The Incan fortress of Machu Picchu is considered to be ____ construction, as it was built without any mortar.

Colonnades

The Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut was carved out living rok and is most impressive visually due to its three tiers of pillared ____.

cliff walls; apartments

The Native American dwellings at Mesa Verde, Colorado, used _____ as part of the back support for more than 100 rectangular ___

coffered

The Pantheon's dome is ___ to lessen the weight of it both physically and visually.

Pointillism; color theories

The Post-Impressionist Georges Seurat's painting technique is known as ___ which is a meticulous application of pigment that he derived from the study of ___

The Sacrifice of Isaac

The Reinaissance began in 1401 with a competition for the commission to sculpt bronze doors for the baptistery of Florence. The subject of the entry panels was ___

Constantine

The Roman equastrian of Marcus Aurelius still exist only because it was mistakenly believed to be a portrait of ____, the first emperor to recgnize Christianity.

ziggurat

The ___ was multilevel temple designed by the religion-oriented Sumerians but built by the later Babylonians and Assyrians.

catacombs

The ___ were a huge network of galleries and burial chambers beneath the city of Rome where Christians worshiped in secret and buried their dead.

humanism

The ancient Greeks considered themselves tobe the center of the universe or "the measure of all things" a concept known as ____

defense

The art and architecture of the Mycenaens civilization reflects a preoccupation with ___ because, unlike Crete, it lacked the natural defense of a surrounding sea.

affection for the colonizing country

The art produced by the people of the Caribean and Latin America tends to reflect all of the following themes except ___

they saw their movement as a bridging a number od disparate style

The artist who began the Die Brucke movement chose that name because ____

the disparate disciplines that will be housed in the structure

The assertive clashing of shapes in Frank Gehry's high-tech Ray and Maria Stata Center at MIT symbolizes ___

twin bell towers

The cathedral Florence features all of the charateristics below except___.

Geometric

The circles, squares, patterning, and rigid, wedge-shaped torsos depicted on the Dipylon Vase indicate that it is a fine example of the ___ period of Greek art.

Claude Monet's; Rouen Cathedral

The dissolution of surfaces and study of local color was central to ___art which is dramatically evident in a series of canvases depicting ___from a variety of angles during times of day and seasons

Christian churches

The emperor Maxentius ordered construction of a large basilica near the Roman forum. Little of it remains today, but its design set the precedent for many subsequent ___

post-and-lintel

The prehistoric Stonehenge is one of the earliest example of ____ construction, in which two stones were set vertically and a third stone laid across them, creating an opening beneath.

manuscript illumination

The realism, symbolism, and complicated imagery found in Northern Renaissnance painting orginated in and was influenced by ___

bordello of the Parisian demimonade

The setting of Edouard Manet's reclining nude figure of Olympia is a(n) ____

experience working with live model and dissecting corpses

The shocking realism depicted in Thmos Eakin's The Gross Clinic stems from his ___

rendered objects from multiple and radically different views

The term Cubism coined by a hostile critic, is limiting because it is an inadequate description that ignores the movement's most signgicant contribution; a new treatment of pictorial space that ___

Minotaur

The term labyrinthine well describes the huge, sprawling Palace at Knossos, and the term comes from the myth of the ___.

arch and concrete

The two most significant innovations in building design introduced by the Romans were the ____, which made construction of the Pantheon possible.

the papal apartments in the Vatican

The young artist Ralph painted numerous canvases of the Madonna and Child, but some of his most impressive composition, like The School of Athens were executed for ___

barrel vaulted with holy and common figures

Using the laws of perspective in his Holy Trinity fresco, Masaccio created the illusion of an extension of the architectural space of the church by painting a(n) ___

hybridity

Vik Muniz embraces the concept of ___

Der Blaue Reiter

Wassily Kandinsky, a major proponent of ____, is recognized as the first painter of ___

space; Neoclassicism

What was modern about the "new" art of the late 18th century in France was its concept of ___. The first period of modern art to use planar recession was ___

a single piece of almost unworkable marble

When Michelangelo was only 27, he carved the 13 1/2-foot statue of David form ___.

The colors are harsh and garnish

Which of the following does not describe Jan Vermeer's Young Woman with a Water Jug?

The Cyclades

Which of the following is considered one of the Bronze Age civilizations of pre-Hellenic Greece?

New York is the center of the art world.

Which of the following is not an example of globalization?

It can only span very short distance

Which of the following statement about steel cable construction, first used to build the Brooklyn Bridge, is not true?

Their subject matter centered on traditonal nudes, still life, and landscapes

Which of the following statements does not set the Fauves apart from their 19th-century predecessors?

The Sistine Chapel

Which of the following was not a Baroque addition to St. Peter's?

Groin vaults; bay

___ are constructed by placing barrel vaults angels to cover a square space known as a ___.

The Nazis

___ shut down the Bauhaus in 1933 forcing many of its faculty including Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe to flee to the United States

Abstract Expressionism

____ is characterized by spontaneous execution, large gestural brushstroke abstract or abstracted imagery and intense color fields all produced on large monumental canvases

Old St. Peter's; Latin Cross

____ was one of the first and most important churches erected during the Early Christian period. With its long nave and apse at one end, it was a ___ plan church.