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A ____ is a person with supernatural powers, believed to be a bridge among the human, animal, and spirit worlds. |
Shaman |
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Satyrs were men with ____ attributes and were prone to drunkenness and sexual excess. |
Goat or horse |
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Gardens were very popular among the ruling class of ____. |
All of the above |
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The ancient Greeks created woman-headed birds called ____. |
Harpies |
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The bouquets Dutch artist Jan Bruegel painted never existed in real life. |
True |
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The unicorn became a symbol for ____. |
Christ |
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Robert Smithson created earthworks because ____. |
He was interested in moving his art outside the gallery system |
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Contemporary ____ are large-scale environmental pieces in which the earth is an important component. |
Earthworks |
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Chris Ofili, a British artist of Nigerian descent, often uses elephant ____ in his art. |
Dung |
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Animals appear in art in every culture. |
True |
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In Assyrian culture, the king would kill lions in a public spectacle, called the royal lion hunt, to show his courage and illustrate his power. |
True |
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The European painter John Constable painted his large landscapes outdoors from direct observation. |
False |
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____ are metaphors for humans in Thai, Hindu, and Buddhist art. |
Monkeys |
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Flowers were often symbols for the Christian religion in earlier times; for example, the iris represented ____. |
Jesus |
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Ashurbanipal II Killing Lions is an example of ____ relief carving. |
Assyrian |
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The Incan civilization in Peru produced huge animal drawings by scraping the desert floor to reveal the lighter-colored sand beneath it. |
False |
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Inspiration for Chinese and Japanese ____ paintings often came from poetry or the beliefs of Daoism, which held nature in high esteem. |
Landscape |
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Unicorns were first described in ancient Greece and Rome. |
True |
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Invented by the Greeks, ____ are man-headed horses known for their lustfulness. |
Centaurs |
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John Constable’s works, while Romantic in essence, were the foundation for the ____. |
Impressionists |
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Lightning Field is regarded as a(n) ____ piece, since most people have seen it through photographs rather than in person. |
Conceptual |
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The Impressionist artist ____ was well known for his paintings of natural scenes such as water lilies and haystacks. |
Claude Monet |
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Popular in late medieval literature, the ____ is a horse with some goat features and a long, single horn projecting from its forehead. |
Unicorn |
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Visitors to the Zen Garden of Contemplation in Japan are expected to ____. |
Sit still and meditate |
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Bull jumping was a popular sport in the ancient Minoan culture. |
True |
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The ultimate purpose of visual culture is to record the language of visual media so that images have a universal meaning regardless of nationality or culture. |
False |
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The Sydney Opera House owes a stylistic debt to the architecture of ____. |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
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____ culture refers to the production, use and dissemination of images and visual objects, particularly in industrial and postindustrial nations. |
Visual |
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Ancient Greek comedies and tragedies were originally part of ritual festivals dedicated to the deity Dionysos. |
True |
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Located in the middle of Manhattan in New York City and designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, ____ is considered to be an outstanding example of landscape architecture. |
Central Park |
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Rome’s Colosseum was built on the site of an artificial lake where a colossal statue of Emperor Nero once stood. |
True |
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The Mayan’s ritualistic ball sport has similarities to the contemporary game of ____. |
Soccer |
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The North American Sioux Open Circle Dance celebrated ____. |
Springtime |
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Western theater began as a form of worship of the god ____. |
Dionysos |
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Central Park was designed to be a(n) ____ from city life. |
Retreat |
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The cascading vaults of Joern Utzon’s Opera House in Sydney are intended to suggest ____. |
Sailboats |
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In ancient Greece, art galleries were frequently near temple complexes. |
True |
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A modern theatrical puppet performance on Broadway is ____. |
The Lion King |
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In the Cycladic Islands off Greece, sculptures of ballplayers, musicians, and acrobats were found buried in graves. |
False |
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The ultimate purpose of visual culture is to record the language of visual media so that images have a universal meaning regardless of nationality or culture. |
False |
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The posters of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec were influenced by ____. |
Japanese prints |
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Animation grew out of ____, in which a series of drawn images seem to move as book pages are flipped rapidly. |
Flip books |
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____ is the academic discipline that investigates visual media and its effect on entertainment, information, political power, and social structures. |
Visual culture |
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Frank Gehry’s architectural works usually lack ____. |
Symmetry |
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The opening ceremonies for the Olympic games is an example of ____ — a public exhibition on a grand scale. |
Spectacle |
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____ is a relatively early form of animation which uses clay sculptures that are moved and photographed in tiny increments. |
Claymation |
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In 1927, ____ was/were added to motion pictures. |
Sound |
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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. |
Industrial and postindustrial nations |
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____ art is a visual art form that incorporates live action and mixed media and is presented before a live audience. |
Performance |
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Matthew Barney’s Cremaster I references Busby Berkley musical productions from 1930s’ Hollywood films. |
True |
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In Japan, flowers are viewed as a vehicle for greater understanding, and ____ is considered an important art form, on the level of painting, calligraphy, and pottery. |
Flower arranging |
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Pear Blossoms is a lyric painting by Qian Xuan that is accompanied by ____. |
Lines of poetry |
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As seen in the Theater at Epidauros designed by Polykleitos, the Classical Greek ideal shape was the ____. |
Circle |
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Roman imperial baths, such as the ____, had libraries, art galleries, restaurants, bars, and gymnasiums and offered theater performances, public lectures, and athletic contests. |
Baths of Caracalla |
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York is architecturally engineered to display paintings and sculptures at their best. |
False |
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In areas of Peru and Bolivia, the ____ is highly regarded because it can signify weather changes and can predict rainfall. |
Spider |
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Landscapes were popular in China and Japan because ____. |
Cities were noisy, polluted, and crowded |
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Popular in the United States and Europe in the 1960s, the ____ movement experimented with patterns to affect visual perception. |
Op Art |
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