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Art History
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Artist's whose work includes painting, sculputure, video, everyday object, and entire rooms.

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Instillation
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Wilsons exhibition titled, mining the museum was staged in this museum
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Baltimore Historical Society
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Wilsons exhibition was intended to make the viewer question this..
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The truth about history
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Wilson might be considered a revolutionary artist because he _____
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Showed images of social conditions that might outrage viewers.
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IN the portait of te pehi kupe by john henery selvester, the media for this artwork is best described as ____
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Watercolor
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te pehi kupe by john henery selvester: This image portrays a ____
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Maori cheif
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te pehi kupe by john henery selvester: The brightness or dullness of colors in this artwork might also be defined as___
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Intensity
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Morturary temple of hatshepsut:

The buliding features ____ constuction

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Post and Lintel
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Hatshepsut ruled egypt for____
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20 years
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A row of columns that are connected to beams is called
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Colonnade
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The application of chemicals and heat to create the desired color and finish to the sculputes creates a____
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Patina
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This term is used to describe the person who uses tools to repair imperfections in the wax model
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Wax chaser
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Bronze must be heated to around ____ degrees in the casting period
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2000
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Small figures like the Venus of Willendorf are thought to symbolize ____
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Fertility
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The Venus of Willendorf was found in___
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Austria
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The Venus of Willendorf is made out of____
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Limestone
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It is belived that Sumer was among one of the first cultures to establish
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Stuctured religions
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Standard Of Ur, War side

During this time in history,_____ is responsible for defense against attack

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The community
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Vietnam memorial:mya lins design is an example of ___art
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abstract
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Mya Lin used _____ to reinforce the idea of conflict in this work
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Void
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Architecual Design must attend to these three considerations
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Function, form, stucture
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The ___ or stepped pyrimid was first introduces as a place of worshi
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Ziggurat
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Egyption culture was ___in nature
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Theocratic
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Scale is important when creating art that ___
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exxagerates an idea
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For established social stucture to exist, this has to happen
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ALL OF THESE
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The first Pharaoh of egypt to unite upper and lower egypt was ___
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Narmur
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Abstract ideas confided in human form is:
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Personification
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The type of construction used for the pyrimids, where regualry shapped blocks of stone are piled in successive rows is:
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Ashlar Masonary
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Some prehistorians argue that the purpose of the earliet animal images was to:
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Ensure the survival of the heards
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Peplos Kore: You might describe this artwork this way:
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Closed form 3D
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According to the book, Peplos Kore is possibly an image of :
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Athena
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The Peplos Kore is an example of ____ greek art
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Archaic
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This stature in part represents the equality of woman enjoyed in Greek culture
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FALSE
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The influence of ____ culture is evident in the staue of Peplos Kore
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Egyptian
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The bayeux Tapestry is an example of a multicolored loom weaving
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FALSE
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The Bayeux Tapestry tells the story of:

 

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The battle of Hastings
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The Bayeux tapestry is unique becasue it illistrates a ___ event
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Contemporary
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The time of the creation of the Bayeux tapestry is noted for :
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The growth of craft gulilds
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The Bayuex Tapestry was designed to be housed in___
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a Cathederal
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Rose window lancets can be found in:
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gothic cathederal

 

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The interior of this church also featured:
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Pointed arches
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The colored light filtered through stained glass in know as 
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Lux Nova
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The exterior of a gothic cathederal  is distinctive becasue it feature:
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Flying buttresses
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Windows such as rose windows in gothic cathereals often served as:
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A major focal point of the church
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The Old market woman might best be described as 
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Realistic
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The Canon of Portotions was written by 
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Polyclitus
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The idea that the angels and body shift according to how the weight is balanced, or counterpoised, is also reffered to as:
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Countrapossto
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The Old Market Woman is an example of :
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Hellenistic Greek
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Art for the era of Saint Luke Drawing The virgin represents a paragrim shift becasue there is a
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Awakening intrest in the natural world
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It is belived that the painting od Saint Luke Drawing The Virgin was commisioned by:
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The artist guild in Brussels
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The image od Saint Luke Drawing The Virgin, is and exaple of 
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Linear Perspective
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The Image is Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin is an example of  the ____ style of art
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pre-Renaissance
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The tallest towers of The Great Mosque from which the call to prayer emanates is called the ___

 

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Minaret
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The wall NIche in a mosque that indicated the direction for prayer is called the
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Mihrab
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These are major influnces of islanic art
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Floral motifs
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The city of Pompeii was destroyed by a:
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Volcano
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The following could be used to help describe an early kouroi.
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ALL OF THESE
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Portrait painting reached a new level of respect during the renaissance 

True of False

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True
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The destruction of images is called:
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Iconoclasm
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Water of turpine used to clean brushes would be examples of ____ for paint

 

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Solvents
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The structure formed when two barrel vaults intersects  is a____
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Groin Vault
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Gothic structures featured uneven surfaces of colored glass bacause:
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The uneven surface caugth and reflected light.
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The illision of depth in The Netherlandish Proverbs is best described as___
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Deep
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The artist of the Netherlandish Poverbs became well known for eleving _____ paintings to a new level
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Genre
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The Netherlandish Proverbs if a fine example of the new media of oil on canvas.

True or False

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FALSE
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Art from the time period of 1700 or the Garden of Versailles is know as:
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Rococo
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Art from the time period of the garden of Versailles might best be described as:
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Pastel colors and intimate themes
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Many art historians fell tis art reflects social issues that lead to the____.
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French revolution
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This period of history was very narrow and features many paintings but no sculputes.

True of False

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False
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The interior of this palace, like other interiors created during this time period probably features:
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Plaster imbedded with shells
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Vermeer was one of the first artist who was able to support his family from the art he created.

True or False?

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False
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The media used in the painting allegroy of the art of painting is:
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Oil on canvas
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The type of art created during the time of allegory of the art of painting is distinctive becasue of the way it reflects:
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Regional style
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Vermeer is a ___ Artist.
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Baroque
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Gericault's Raft of Medusa helped launch the _____ movement.
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Romantic
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The painting,Raft of the Medussa illistrates a story of political scandal in which ____ died.
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Dozens of french colonist
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The Death of Murat is identified with the _____ style
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neo-classic
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The work of David, who created the death of Murat, became a symbol for the____
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French Revolution.
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David, The artist of The Death of Murat, wanted to paint in the ____ style.
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Classical Greek
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In the work, the figure of Marat is portrayed in the same way as:
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A saint similar to christ in Michaelagelos pieta
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Sofonisba Auguissola studied with this master artist for a short period of time:
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Michelangelo
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Anguissola joined the royal court as a ___
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Lady in Waiting
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Anguissola was a court painter to____
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Philip II
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Which of the following master artist is not featuredin Raphael's School of Athens?
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Donatello
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Raphael saw himself as a sculptor more than a painter.

True of False

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False
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Raphael is best know as a _____ artist
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Renaissance
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Which artistic breakthrough is evident in The School of Athens?
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Linear Perspective
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The color scheme that best descrides the painting of Paul Revere is:
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Monochrmatic
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The media used for the painitng of Paul Revere is:
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Oil on canvas
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American stress on _____ made paintings like this pupular

 

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Respect for the individual
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Many american painters began their careers as:
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Sign Painters
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Aftist elizabeth louis leburn had to flee europe during the spanish revolution becasue of her alliance with Thomas Jeferson and his revolutionary ideas.

True of False

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False
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Flowers and still life paintings were very popular in this style of art:
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Dutch Baroque
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The prining surfce is raised in a _____print
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Intaglio
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Engraving and etching are both variations of this type of printing:
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Intaglio
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Printing differs from painting becasue:
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it is a two step process
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This artist and collector started the first art gallery and art school in the american colonies.
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Charles Wilson Peale
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What are the components of the American Romantic Period?
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Nature and the Natural Man
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Inventor of the multiple exposure camera. Perfectionist with anatomy.
Definition
Thomas Eakins
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What were the benefits of the perfection of the camera?
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Allows artist to explore new forms of expression. 
Term
Where the first worlds fair was held. Material it was made out of:
Definition
The Crystal Palace- Cast Iron
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"Father of Modern Art"
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Manet
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Color is the most important aspect of this artistic movement:
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Fauvism
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Geometric shapes placed in a distinct pattern:
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Composition
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No Idea to placement of objects:
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Impovisation
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Form of cubism where artist uses visual fragments with a lack of color:
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Analytical Cubism
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Form of Cubism where artist uses a flat pattern and recognizable elements in nature:
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Synthetic Cubism
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The depiction of real objects in nature has been discarded:
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non-objective art
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Found art in a new whole:
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Assemblege
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work of a non geometric abstract art:
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Abstract expressionism
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Form of painting done with applying paint with a rapid, forceful, impulsive brush strokes
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Action Painting
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Objective of "the Scream":
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Trying to paint internal paintings
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The "red room" is an example of:
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Fauvism
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Saying that the artwork in the standard of Ur depict a battlefield victory is an example of ____.
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Content
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The polished granite walls of the vietnam memorial are intended to ____.
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Activly engage the viewer in a phycological dialouge 
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The final clay mold used when hollow-casting bronze is called the:
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investment
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This architectual element serves to lighten the weight of the lintel
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Reliveiving Triangle
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Building the great pyrimids took place during this kingdom in Egypt:
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Old Kingdom
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The most unreliable criteria art historians use when looking at art:
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Stylistic evidence
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The home featured a peristyle, or____ garden at the rear
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