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Art Appreciation Chapter 11

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