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Art Appreciation
Chapter 1
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Art/Design
Undergraduate 1
06/28/2011

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CHAPTER 1
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CHAPTER 1
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 The Gates is a typical artwork by the collaborative team...
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude
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Jasper Johns chose to paint his image of the American flag to express...
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His proclivity for things seen but not examined
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The imagery in Faith Ringgold's God Bless of America was inspired by the...
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Civil rights movements in the 1960's
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According to Sayre what are three steps in the process of seeing?
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reception, extraction, inference
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Where did Chriso and Jean-Claude locate their temporary installation, The Gates?
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New York's Central Park
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Objects that are intended to stimulate a sense of beauty in the viewer are thought to be ______ rather than funcional.
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Aesthetic
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Where did Picasso draw inspiration for the faces of the female figures on teh right side of the composition of Les Demoiselles Avignon?
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African ritual masks
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What is the function of the nsiki nkonde figure?
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It pursued wrongdoers at night and punished them when nails were driven into it
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In America, Yukinori Yanagi directly addresses...
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The traditional view that Japan is a distinct and an isolated culture
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We can clearly see the artistics impulse to give form to the immaterial, to represent hidden or universal truths, spiritual forces, and personal feelings
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Religious Art
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