Art exam 3

Jacob Lawrence did a series of paintings describing the tribulations of

The Rent Collection Courtyard was first displayed in the courtyard of a landlord's mansion where the events depicted actually took place.

Leon Golub's Mercenaries I is particularly imposing because of its

Ester Hernandez uses ____ to make her artistic protests

Tomatsu Shomei's photographs are of victims of ____.

Yinka Shonibare's Mr. and Mrs. Andrews Without Their Heads is a parody of a work by

The ____ Codex Barbonicus is a religious calendar that was made during the period of the Spanish conquest.

Abrogio Lorenzetti's Allegory of Good Government was

Much of John Heartfield's art protested against ____.

Art protesting a particular war was first seen

Robert Motherwell believed that abstraction communicated best

Edward Kienholz's work is based on his experiences as ____.

Both Kathe Kollwitz and George Grosz

Most social protest works of art are designed to prescribe specific changes and actions.

The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti was done by

Polykleitos invented and applied a system of mathematical proportions called the Canon for the depiction of Greek figures.

A(n) ____ pose depicts a figure standing naturally, with one foot forward and one leg bearing most of the figure's weight.

The Egyptian ____ canon, begun by Amenhotep III, was a new aesthetic which rejected the rigid, abstract style of the past for a more flowing, elegant, naturalistic approach.

The publication of ____ theories of repression and neurosis influenced many artists of the late nineteenth century.

Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet featured ____ to show the artist's state of mind.

Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet was a vehicle for commentary about ____.

Yoko Ono was part of the ____ movement in New York, which sought to create art as an artist-initiated experience rather than an art object like a painting or a sculpture.

____ is known for the use of stop motion photography to document the physical movement of humans and animals.

In Pollock's Lucifer, the style of painting called ____ involved the motion of the artist's entire body.

Viola's series titled The Passions is based on ____ paintings of figures in sorrow, ecstasy, or astonishment.

Rembrandt's portraits reveal that The Netherlands encouraged

According to Protagoras, "man is the ____ of all things."

Italian Renaissance artists were strongly influenced by Hellenistic and Roman sculptures that were being excavated in central Italy.

Chuck Close uses ____ to convey importance in his portraits.

Jacques-Louis David's The Oath of the Horatii revealed that heroic actions were ____.

Shaughnessy's Interior House Post both physically supports the Raven House and symbolically represents the ____ of the John Scow clan.

Marc Chagall painted in bright colors, like the ____.

Art can forge racial identity and preserve the history and values of a(n) ____ group.

Painting from a Cult House done by the Tambaran cult of New Guinea ____ the cult teachings through a narrative

The ancient Greeks viewed Doric architecture a

The Northwest Coastal people believed that the thunderbird represented a ____.

In The Artifact Piece, Native American artist James Luna challenged the way contemporary American culture and museums have presented his race as essentially ____.

Ceremonies for a clan's living members took place in Zapotec ____.

James VanDerZee was a commercial studio photographer whose work was strongly influenced by depictions of female stereotypes in films from the 1950's and 1960's.

Ansel Adams photographs helped raise public support for national parks and for the environmental movement in general.

Lightning Field is regarded as a(n) ____ piece, since most people have seen it through photographs rather than in person.

Ansel Adams' photographs emphasized the beauty of nature as ____.

The Incan civilization in Peru produced huge animal drawings by scraping the desert floor to reveal the lighter-colored sand beneath it.

Ashurbanipal II Killing Lions is an example of ____ relief carving.

Robert Smithson created earthworks because ____.

Western theater began as a form of worship of the god ____.

The Japanese Bunraku translates to ____.

In ancient Greece, art galleries were frequently near temple complexes.

The Sydney Opera House owes a stylistic debt to the architecture of ____.

The opening ceremonies for the Olympic games is an example of ____ - a public exhibition on a grand scale.

In the Cycladic Islands off Greece, sculptures of ballplayers, musicians and acrobats were found buried in graves.

Frank Gehry's architectural works usually lack ____.

Visual culture is an area of academic study that deals with the totality of images and visual objects produced in ____, and the ways that those images are disseminated, received, and used.

The posters of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec were influenced by ____.

Matthew Barney's Cremaster I references Busby Berkley musical productions from 1930's Hollywood films.

The North American Sioux Hoop Dance celebrated ____.

In the ancient city of Ur, bearded bulls symbolized ____.