Art History 106 Exam 3 Questions
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
