Art History 106 Exam 3 Questions

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Dorothea Lange's photograph of a migrant worker caused people to ____.

rush food to hungry workers

The photographer ____ was hired to document the deplorable living conditions of the rural poor.

Dorothea Lange

What kind of veneration is quite common among African cultures?

Ancestor

What style is described as compositions of shapes and forms abstracted from the conventionally conceived world?

Cubism

Elaborate cyclical masquerades occur in which of the following societies?

Dogon

How does the sculpture of the Dogon differ from the sculpture of the Kongo?

Dogon sculpture is strongly stylized.

Which of the following can describe Kongo nkisi n'kondi figures

Each had its own role and particular medicines.

Her work is often described as autobiographical because of her unflinching self-portrait portrayals. She gives the viewer a personal glimpse into herself and suffering. Which of the following artists does this describe?

Frida Kahlo

Kongo nkisi n'kondi are believed to do which of the following?

Heal

In the myth of Coyolxauhqui, sister of Huitzilopochtli, her brother murders her. What is the significance of her murder?

Huitzilopochtli's triumph as the sun over the moon

Who were the supreme masters of shaping and fitting stones for architecture in South America?

Inka

Which of the following supports the necessity of animal sacrifice made by the Benin king?

It invokes the collective strength of his ancestor kings.

The placement of the relief of Coyolxauhqui was critical not only to Aztec religious observances but also to the political persona of the empire. Which of the following was the location of the relief?

It was placed at the bottom of Great Temple's stairs.

The relief of Coyolxauhqui discovered in 1979 had been hidden from the Spaniards as a result of which of the following?

It was placed in the outermost shell of the Great Temple, which concealed the relief.

Why is Machu Picchu of great archaeological importance?

It was undisturbed since the Inka time

The feathered serpent is one guise for which Mesoamerican deity?

Quetzalcoatl

____ explored ways to express in art the world of dreams and the unconscious.

Surrealism

Which site did the Aztec visit with a deep sense of reverence?

Teotihuacán

The royal ancestral shrine of the Benin represents both the kings and the enduring nature of kingship. Which of the following characteristics represents this notion?

The durability of the material reiterates the enduring nature of kingship.

Coatlicue is the mother of the gods according to Aztec mythology. She is at once savage and awful, and all her attributes symbolize sacrificial death. Which of the following would be one of those attributes?

The excised human hearts she wears as a necklace

What is the primary function of masks and masqueraders in traditional African culture?

To act as mediators

Which of the following masks would be used during the Kwakwaka'wakw winter ceremonial season?

Transformation masks

Many of the Spaniards who first saw Tenochtitlán likened it to which of the following European cities?

Venice

The goal of Dalí's "paranoiac-critical" method was to ____.

create images of inner reality and irrationality as concrete as the world of physical reality

A nonobjective work refers to work that ____.

has no reference to the external appearance of the physical world

​In the ____ style of Surrealism, artists presented recognizable scenes that transformed into a dream or nightmare.

naturalistic

The Inka were a relatively small highland group in the year 1000 but by the 1400s they ruled an empire that extended for more than 3000 miles. Which of the following would account for this rise to power?

skillful organizational and administrative control


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