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25 Cards in this Set
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The word art encompasses many meanings, including process. Which of the following is considered an artistic process?
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sculpting
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Marc Chagall's self-portrait I and the Village can best be described as a depiction of ____.
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fantasy
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An anti-commercial movement begun in the 1960s in which works of art are conceived and executed in the mind of the artist is known as ____.
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Conceptual art
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Robert Barry wrote:
All of the things I know But of which I am not At the moment thinking -- 1:36PM; June 15, 1969 This is an example of a(n) ____ |
wordwork
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The 19th-century painter Jean-François Millet wrote, "I try not to have things look as if chance had brought them together, but as if they had a necessary bond between them." Here, the artist is expressing his quest for ____ in his art works.
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harmony
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Henri Matisse and Romare Bearden both utilize ____ to create order and harmony in their versions of the Piano Lesson.
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color and shape repetition
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In his famous 1907 photograph, Alfred Stieglitz captures the juxtaposition of the upper and lower classes on board the Kaiser Wilhelm II ship. This photograph is titled ____.
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The Steerage
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African-American artist Faith Ringgold records the story of her life and dreams on a Harlem rooftop. Her painted memories are depicted within the framework of a(n) ____.
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patchwork quilt
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In Nighthawks, Edward Hopper's desolate scene of late night diners in a city café, the scene seems to be set in the period of the ____.
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1940s
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Zaha Hadid's Sheikh Zayed Bridge, connecting Abu Dhabi to the mainland, was heavily influenced by Arabic calligraphy and arches that mimic Middle Eastern ____.
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sand dunes
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Picasso protested the horror and brutality of the Spanish civil war in his 1937 masterpiece painting known as ____.
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Guernica
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Examining a work of art in its historical, social, and political ____ enables you to better understand it.
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context
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In Betye Saar's The Liberation of Aunt Jemima, the artist is protesting the use of Aunt Jemima as a(n) ____.
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stereotype
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Marcel Duchamp's Fountain is a readymade, produced from an upside-down ____.
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urinal
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Images painted directly on a wall or intended to cover a wall completely, such as José Clemente Orozco's Epic of American Civilization: Hispano-American, are known as ____.
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murals
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Judy Chicago's triangular installation called The Dinner Party was constructed to honor and immortalize ____.
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history's notable women
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The use of space and atmosphere in Max Beckmann's The Dream could be best described as ____.
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claustrophobic and compressed
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In Laurie Simmons' photograph Red Library #2, the perfect room and robot-like woman are meant to symbolize ____.
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the dangers of too much order
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What civilization was obsessed with its idea of beauty, and developed mathematical formulas for sculpting the human body so it would achieve ideal perfection?
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Classical Greeks
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The 16th-century artist Leonardo da Vinci produced what is perhaps the most famous painting in the history of Western art. This painting is known as ____.
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Mona Lisa
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Glass sculptor Dale Chihuly's Fioridi Como is a 70-foot-long ceiling piece located in ____.
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the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas
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Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is best known for her extremely realistic and often anguished ____.
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self-portraits
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In Four Marilyns, Pop artist Andy Warhol participated in the cultural ____ of the film star and icon Marilyn Monroe.
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immortalization
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Until modern times, art works have been primarily devoted to ____ themes.
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religious
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Located in Istanbul, Turkey, the ____ was built as a Christian church in 532-537 CE but was converted to an Islamic mosque in 1453 and now serves as a museum. Its ____ is especially wondrous, appearing to float on light streaming through its row of windows.
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Hagia Sophia; dome
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