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Art Apreciation 3
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Art History
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05/06/2013

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the new philosophical, literary and artistic movement introduced during the Middle Ages was called what?
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Renaissance
Term
What does Renaissance mean?
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Rebirth
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Who is considered the precursor of the Renaissance and the reinventor of naturalistic painting?
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Giotto
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Who became the first major painter of the Italian Renaissance?
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Masaccio
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Whose DAVID was the first life-size, freestanding nude statue since ancient Roman times?
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Donatello
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who were the three artists who epitomized the High Renaissance?
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Michaelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael
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Michelangelo became known as the greatest sculptor since the Greeks when he finished...
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David
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the Sistine Chapel ceiling is divided up into how many zones?
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3
Term
who was one of the firsts artists to use oil paint?
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Jan Van Eyck
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the dog in Arnolfini Portrait represents what?
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fedelity
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who's realism and dramatic use of light became leading influences on other Baroque painters?
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Caravaggio
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who depicted his David in the midst of his backswing as he prepares to fling the stone at Goliath?
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Bernini
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Define Genre Painting
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painting everyday objects
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the Palace of Versailles exemplifies what?
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french Baroque architecture and landscape design
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chinese civilization up to the modern period was characterized by the interaction of three traditions. what are they?
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confucianism, daoism, buddhism
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what is arabic for "one who submits to God?"
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muslim
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the basic plan of a mosque is based on the design of what?
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prophets house
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the modern age was launched by three revolutions. what are they?
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american, french, and industrial revolutions
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who was the Neoclassicist artist that gave revolutionary leaders an inspiring image of themselves rooted in history?
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Jacques-David
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which spanish artist was a ground breaking Romantic painter and printmaker?
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Goya
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Which movement generally stressed viewer involvement?
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Romantic
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What in the 1850's made possible reproduction of photographs?
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Glass plate negative
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Who made the first aerial photographs?
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Nadar
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what painting shows Courbet's rejection of Romantic and Neoclassical formulas?
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The Stone Breakers
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the invention of what made oil painting outside practical?
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oil paint in tubes
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why did Manet's Luncheon on the Grass shock viewers?
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the naked bitch
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Impressionist's artist sought to paint "impressions" of what?
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what the eye actually sees
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who became the first sculptor since Bernini to return sculpture to the status of a major art form?
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Rodin
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Post-Impressionist painters did not share what?
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a single style
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what was Seurat's method of painting called?
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pointalism
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what movement expanded on the innovations of the Post-Impressionists?
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Fauvism
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what is a general term for art that emphasizes inner feelings and emotions over objective depiction?
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expressionism
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Picasso and Braque pursued investigations that led to what?
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cubism
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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (Young ladies of Avignon) shows Picasso's admiration of what?
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african sculpture
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what is a collage?
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work by gluing paper glass, photos, etc
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who's photograph The Steerage is an example of an abstract composition?
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Steaglets
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Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase was inspired by what?
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strobe photography
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what did Marcel Duchamp call artwork made with mass-produced objects
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ready mades
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whose art dealt with his own nightmares?
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Dali
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what is an example of Picasso's quote
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Guernica
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whose work portrayed the loneliness of much of American life?
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Hopper
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whose inspiration for American Gothic came from a farmhouse built in a local carpenter's version of Gothic Style?
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Grant Wood
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Abstract Expressionism was a result of what?
Definition
WW II
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Who was the leading innovator of Abstract Expressionism?
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Polluck
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what is a term for painting that consists of large areas of color with no obvious structure?
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color field
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what uses media sources?
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pop art
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whose most common subjects were consumer products such as Coca-Colas and Campbells soup?
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Andy Warholl
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who used comic book images to comment on world obsessed with consumer goods and spectacles?
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Ray Lichtenstein
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Ellsworth Kelly's Blue, Green, Yellow, and Orange is an example of what?
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minimalist art
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which group of artists generally do not appear intent on perfecting form, creating beauty, or fine-tuning their sense of sight?
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Post modern
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Cindy Shermans photographs of the late 1970's were among the first to be called what?
Definition
post modern
Term
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is an example of what?
Definition
public art
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