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Viola’s series titled The Passions is based on ____ paintings of figures in sorrow, ecstasy, or astonishment. |
Renaissance and Baroque |
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The Study for the Portrait of Okakura Tenshin showed the Japanese characteristics of ____. |
flat shapes and contour lines |
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In Pollock’s Lucifer, the style of painting called ____ involved the motion of the artist’s entire body. |
action painting |
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Van Gogh’s Portrait of Dr. Gachet featured ____ to show the artist’s state of mind. |
thick paint |
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Chuck Close uses ____ to convey importance in his portraits. |
scale |
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Nancy Burson’s Faces are portraits of children with ____. |
unusual faces |
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Lucian Freud’s Leigh under the Skylight is a portrait of ____. |
a unique man |
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Rembrandt’s portraits reveal that The Netherlands encouraged ____. |
individualism |
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Frida Kahlo’s many self-portraits show her face as ____. |
unemotional |
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A Yakshi is a representation of ____. |
fertility |
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According to Protagoras, man is the ____ of all things. |
measure |
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Doryphoros translates to ____. |
spear-bearer |
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The Doryphoros is idealized in several ways, including ____. |
its restrained emotions |
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Traditional African sculpture portrays the frontal view as ____. |
symemetrical |
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Many African sculptures considered the head and ____ as most important. |
neck |
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Laocoön and His Sons revealed ____ Greek attitudes about the body during the Hellenistic period. |
changing |
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Medieval Christians felt the ____ was more important than the ____. |
soul/body |
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Eadweard Muybridge’s photos of human bodies revealed his ____ attitude towards the human body. |
detached |
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The Egyptian ____ style was a new aesthetic, which rejected the rigid, abstract style of the past for a more flowing, elegant, naturalistic approach. |
Anarna |
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Vincent van Gogh’s Portrait of Dr. Gachet was a vehicle for commentary about ____. |
the suffering inherent in modern, urban life |
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A(n) ____ pose depicts a figure standing naturally, with one foot forward and one leg bearing most of the figure’s weight. |
contrapposto |
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____ is known for the use of stop motion photography to document the physical movement of humans and animals. |
Eadweard Muybridge |
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The publication of ____ theories of repression and neurosis influenced many artists of the late nineteenth century. |
Sigmund Freud’s |
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A successful portrait in art is usually considered someone’s likeness, not only in face but also in ____. |
character |
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The first attribute of a specific portrait is usually ____ features, rather than the broadly stylized features evident in generic figures. |
individualized |
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Double Mask from the Ejagham People of the Cross River area of Cameroon was worn during rituals that promoted ____. |
group cohesion |
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The Dutch artist, ____ made at least sixty-two self-portraits, often identifiable by the subject matter and his palette of earth tones, dull reds and luminous yellows. |
Rembrandt van Rijn |
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____ was known for using self portraits to comment on the factors shaping her life, including her ancestry and her chronic pain. |
Frida Kahlo |
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____ photographs reflect socially prescribed roles and explore the nature of stereotypes. |
Cindy Sherman’s |
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A(n) ____ figure, such as Doryphoros, is often used to represent ideas about the essence of humanity, rather than depicting a specific individual. |
idealized |
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In ____ Greece, figures were often depicted in theatrical poses as though they were on stage in front of an audience. |
Hellenistic |
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During the Renaissance, the ____ as an ideal form became popular again. |
nude |
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In the nineteenth century, new technologies such as ____ changed the understanding of the human body and the way art was made. |
photography |
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Chuck Close is a painter known for making highly idealized figurative paintings based on classical notions of ideal beauty. T/F |
False |
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Nancy Burson achieved a grainy, fuzzy look in her photographic series Faces by using a cheap plastic camera. T/F |
True |
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A full-body portrait is always a life-size depiction of an individual. T/F |
False |
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Polykleitos invented and applied a system of mathematical proportions called the Canon for the depiction of Greek figures. T/F |
True |
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In Medieval Europe, human nature was held in high esteem, and images of the body symbolized the purity of God’s divine realm. T/F |
False |
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Italian Renaissance artists were strongly influenced by Hellenistic and Roman sculptures that were being excavated in central Italy. T/F |
True |
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Many late nineteenth century European artists were strongly influenced by Japanese prints and paintings. T/F |
True |
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Ritual tattooing was often used on the eastern islands of the South Pacific as part of initiation rites that prepared an individual for adulthood. T/F |
True |
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