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30 Cards in this Set
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In what Art Period did Cave Paintings allow the earliest artists to imitate the world around them and Marked the development od abstract thinking in human cognition.
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Paleolithic Period
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What four things are true of the Renaissance?
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1. Humanism placed more emphasis on the individual. 2.Science became regarded as a legitimate source of knowledge. 3.The Renaissance overlapped the Age of Discovery. 4.The Renaissance brought a move towards greater secularism.
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Which artist is categorized in Reformation Art?
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Albrecht Dürer is categorized as a Reformation artist.
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Stonehenge is an example of a:
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Megalith
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This Modernist style of art stressed the two-dimensionality of painting and converted subjects into geometric shapes.
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Geometric Abstraction
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Ancient Egyptian art and architecture focused on:
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Religion and life after death
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Pablo Picasso was the leading artist of ___________.
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Cubism
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This art style sought to produce accurate and objective portrayals of the ordinary, observable world.
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Realism
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The Romanesque style of art and architecture dominated Europe from:
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the 10th century to the middle of the 12th century
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This Modernist style of art emphasized spontaneous personal expression in large abstract paintings.
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Abstract Expressionism
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Roman art and architecture dealt primarily with:
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imperial themes and power
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This style of art, architecture and design favored sinuous lines, curves, and motifs of plants and flowers.
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Art Nouveau
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Which art forms were prevalent in Gothic art?
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Stained glass,Panel painting,Illuminated manuscripts
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Which artistic mediums were first introduced in the Renaissance.
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Linear Perspective, Aerial Perspective and Oil Paining
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_________________ was characteristic of Baroque art and architecture.
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Emotional and dramatic religiosity
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This nineteenth century style of art stressed passion, emotion, and exotic settings with dramatic action.
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Romanticism
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This art style was was lighter and more playful than earlier Baroque art, using ornate decoration, pastel colors, and asymmetrical arrangement of shell-like curves.
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Rococo
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Impressionism was named after a painting Impression, Sunrise by which French artist?
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Monet
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In their painting, Post-Impressionists stressed which of the following elements more than Impressionists?
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Emotional Response, Structure, and Form
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A well-known Pop Art painter was:
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Andy Warhol
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This Modernist style of art transformed ordinary subjects by placing them in distorted or fresh contexts based on dreams or the subconscious.
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Surrealism
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This movement looked to the Greek and Romans for models of harmony and reason in art and architecture.
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Neoclassicism
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Art historians categorize Mary Cassatt as a(n):
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Impressionist
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Historians see the development of abstract thinking as originating in which of the following periods?
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Paleolithic
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Which of the following artists is identified with Reformation Art?
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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this modern art school endeavored to shock with its irreverence and lack of artistic rules.
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Dada
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This art tradition featured heroic subject matters employing intense colors and loose brush strokes
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Romanticism
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Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is an example of _________________.
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German Expressionism
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Narrowly focusing on the artwork and only what we see and hear (excluding any external information) is called:
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Formal Criticism
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Considering the facts and information about the artist, the culture and history involved, response to the artwork, etc. is called:
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contextual criticism
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