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Undergraduate 1
07/01/2010

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1960's
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Minimalism and pop art were the two major art movements of the decade
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Surrealist
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Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents a tragic event in the spanish civil war and uses symbolic dream images typical of the style.
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anything the artist says it is
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Marcel duchamp redefined art as
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speed
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Futurist artist felt they had discovered the beauty of a new world-that of
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Cubism
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The style of art created by Picasso and Braque which reduced everything to geometric schemes
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primitive culture in the South Seas
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Post Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin critized the conditions of modern life and sought a new life painting
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the fleeting effects of light
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Impressionism is characterized by a way of seeing - by the attempt to capture
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individualism
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in the romantic view ______ reigned supreme
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the Greek orders embodied the democratic ideals
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Thomas Jefferson brought the Neoclassical architechtural style to the United States because
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Rococo
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Soon after the discoveries of Herculaneum and Pompeii, a new classical style reappeared and the ______ style began to be regarded as decadent.
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drama and theatricality
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The sculptor Bernini created the Ecstasy of St Theresa as the center peice of a chapel in rome; it is typical of the baroque style because of its
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stone
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the pre-columbian cultures of Mexico are distinguished by their architecture and their preference for working in which medium?
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military engineer
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Leonardo offered his services to the Duke of Milan only secondarily as an artist; his first role was as
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Raphael
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The three great artists of the high Renaissance are Leonardo, Michelangelo, and _________
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linear perspective
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The architect Filippo Brunalleschi is credited with having invented
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Gothic
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Chartres Cathedral with it's Rose windows is an excellent example of what style of architecture?
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sculpture
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Lost since the decline of Byzantium, the Romanesque period marked the return of the art of
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Celtic designs
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the christian manuscripts produced in Ireland incorporated the animal style which reflected native
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Holy Wisdom
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Hagia Sophia was Justinian's imperial place of worship in constantinople; the name means
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naturalism
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the mosaic artists of the byzantine period had little interest in ____, their intention was to create a symbolic, mystical effect.
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bronze casting
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in china this art technique reached a peak of excellence as advanced as any ever used
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human figure
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one of the most important subjects of greek art is the
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legend of the labarynth of the Minotaur
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the huge, intricate designs of the Minoan royal palaces probably gave rise to the
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stonehenge
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one of the most famous megalithic structures found in Salisbury plain, England.
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fertility figure
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the venus of willendorf is most likely a _______.
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Zephyr
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In 1934, streamlining was formally embodied in the form of a train called the
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machine
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in 1919 Walter Gropius founded a design school in germany known as the Bauhaus. Gropius saw the ______ as the salvation of humanity.
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Art Deco
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Decorative in 1920's style that was reffered to as Art Moderne and primarily used materials such as chrome, steel, and Bakelite plastic.
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curvilinear designs based on nature
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Qualities of Art Nouveau as found in the glass of Louis Comfort Tiffany
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all of these
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William Morris is considered the father of the arts and crafts movement in england, which emphasized
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the american "suburb"
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Frederick law olmsted, designer of new york's central park is also credited with conceiving the idea of
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lateral thrust of the interior
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Gothic architects used the flying buttresses to compensate for the
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the barrel vault
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the romans were able to create large, uninterrupted interior spaces in architecture because of the development of
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Corinthian
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The three Greek architectural orders are the Doric, Ionic and the
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available materials and methods
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the "look" of a culture's building and communities depends on the distinct landscape characteristics of the site, and the
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one of the most beautiful works of jewelery ever made
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The griffin bracelet from the oxus treasure horde is thought to be
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a fiber artist
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the terms woof, weft, and warp would be most commonly used by
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romans
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glassbowing has its origins in the first century B.C.E. and is thought to have been developed by the
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slab construction
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 some methods of creating ceramic objects include throwing on the potter's wheel, coiling, and
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the crafts
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originally, when an individual produced functional objects by expert handiwork, we would have said they worked in
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the african kingdom of benin
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by the late fourteenth century CE, Brass casting had reached a high level of refinement in
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Praxiteles
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the natural stance known as contrapposto, a favorite of renaissance artists, was first demonstrated by the greek sculptor
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medicine
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naturalism in greek sculpture was in part the result of investigations in the field of
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carving
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as examples of subtractive scuplture, wood and stone are the most common material for
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builds up the material
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when a sculpture is created in the additive process, the artist
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video installations
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as seen in tv buddha, nam june paik is best known for expanding the traditional limitations of artistic media by creating
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24/second
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early animated cartoons were made up of literally thousands of hand drawn "stills" which when run at the speed of ____ appear to the viewers eye to be seamless action.
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the standard vocabulary of filmmaking
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the first great master of film editing was D.W. Griffith who in "the birth of a nation" essentially invented
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underwent a rapid decline
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in the face of such a "miracle" as photography, the art of portrait painting
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the images could not be preserved
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the camera obscura was invented in the 16th century as a means of capturing images from the natural world. Its major drawback was that
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