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Intro to Fine Arts
Fine Arts Final Exam Flash Cards
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Fine Art
Undergraduate 1
12/13/2009

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Art, in any age, is the expression of characteristic attitudes of the people of the age toward important aspects of life.

True or False?

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True
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Roman Empire & Early Christian
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100 BC-500 AD
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Medieval Gothic
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1100-1400
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Medieval Romanesque
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500-1100
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Renaissance
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1400-1600
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Baroque
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1600-1750
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Rococo
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1750-1775
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Classical
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1750-1800
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Romantic
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1800-1900
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Medium
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An artist's physical material
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Space
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Three-dimensional volume in visual art
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Primary colors
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Red, blue, and yellow
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Rhythm
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The element of music which deals with time and its division
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Pitch
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The frequency of vibrations of a sound
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Monophony, Homophony, Polyphony
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Three terms used to describe texture. Single melody; melody with accompaniment; multiple voices
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Melody
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A series of sinle tones sounded successively
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Relief Sculpture
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Sculpture carved into a flat surface
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Ethos
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The Greek belief that music possessed moral and ethical values
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The influence of Roman culture was spread throughout the Western world by the Greek conquerors.
True or False?
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False. Greek culture was spread by Romans
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The arched vault was first used extensively in the architecture of the:...
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Romans
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Latin Cross
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A cross that is taller than it is wide
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A.D. 313
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The Edict of Milan was signed by the Roman Emperor Constantine legalizing Christianity in this year
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Second Council of Nicea
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In the year of 787 AD, this group of church leaders established artistic guidelines to be followed by anyone creating religious artwork
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Characteristics of Romanesque architecture
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Thick walls, few windows, heavily vaulted ceilings, massive doors, dull colors
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Plainchant
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Monophonic vocal music used in the Medieval church in Rome
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Crusades
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Holy Wars
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Religious symbolism was used little by the Medival church.
True or False?
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False. There was much of it. Especially using the numbers three and seven.
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Flying buttresses were an architectural innovation of the Renaissance.
True or False?
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False. Medieval Gothic.
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Mosaic pictures gradually replaced stain glass windows during the Medieval Gothic.
True or Flase?
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False.
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Giotto
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The most famous painter of the Gothic age.
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Organum
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Polyphonic music which developed during the early Gothic age
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Troubadours, Trouveres, and Minnesingers
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South France, North France, and Germany. Minstrel singers of the Medieval period.
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Renaissance means:
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return to Greek culture
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Medici Family
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The most wealthy and powerful family of the Renaissance
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Characteristics of Renaissance painting:
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Secular, clear lines, geometric, polychromatic, closed, balanced
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The Birth of Venus painted by:
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Sandro Botticelli
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Mona Lisa painted by"
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Creation painted by:
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Michaelangelo Buanarroti
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The Last Supper by Da Vinci is considered to be a:
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Monument
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Motet or Mass
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A congregational song in the Renaissance Lutheran church
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Palestrina composed music for the:
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Catholic Church
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Lied
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A secular song in Renaissance Germany
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Madrigal
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A secular song in Renaissance France
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It was very common for instruments to play along with voices during the Renaissance.
True or False?
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True.
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The term Baroque was first used to describe:
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Art overladen with ornament
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Chiaroscuro
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The technique of using bright focused light surrounded by dark shadows
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Gianlorenzo Bernini
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The most famous sculptor of the Baroque
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The establishment of tonality in music tok place during which historical period?
Definition
Baroque
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Figured bass
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A system of musical shorthand invented during the Baroque
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Opera
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A new form of combining music and drama during the early seventeenth century
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St. Mark's Cathedral
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The cathedral for which Giovanni Gabrieli composed antiphonal music to be performed
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Suite
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An instrument composition made up of a number of short dances
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Vivaldi is known for his:
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Concertos
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Bach spent most of his career working for the:
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Church
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The Four Seasons is a set of four violin concertos composed by:
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Vivaldi
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The Messiah was composed by:
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Handel
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The Rococo style was characteristic of the courts of Louis XIV and Louis XV.
True or False?
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True.
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Rococo painting can be described as:
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Ornate, embellished, luxurious
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Neoclassicism represents:
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The return of Greek and Roman ideas
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David
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This artist was the leader of the Neoclassic movement in revolutionary France
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Oath of Haratii was painted by:
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Jacques-Louis David
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Sonata
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A three of four movement instrumental composition
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The three parts of sonata-allegro form are:
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Exposition, development, and recapitulation
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Haydn is known primarily for:
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Symphonies
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This composer is considered the most nearly perfect musical creator in the history of Western music.
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Mozart
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The Marriage of Figaro is an opera by this composer.
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Mozart
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Social Contract
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This treatise written by Jean Jacques Rousseau popularized the Romantic movement
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The raft of the Medusa was painted by:
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Gericault
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Liberty Leading the People is a painting about:
Definition
the 1830 French Revolution
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Liberty Leading the People was painted by:
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Delacroix
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The Third of May was painted by:
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Goya
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The Third of May is a painting about:
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the execution of revolutionists
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Francisco Goya was one of the first artists to portray:
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The horrors of war
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Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 was originally dedicated to:
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Napoleon
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Schubert is especially known for this type of composition:
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Lieder
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Erlkonig is a song about:
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A father, child, and death coming after the child.
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Erlkonig is a song composed by:
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Schubert
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Chopin is especially known for:
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Piano music, specifically nocturnes
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Program music is:
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music accompanying literary description, associated with something extra-musical through its title
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Symphonie Fantastique is about:
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a musician in love with an actress who rejects him, he takes opium and it depicts his hallucinations
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Symphonie Fantastique was composed by:
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Hector Berlioz
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Nationalism is best communicated through:
Definition
Music
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Impressionism got its name from this painting
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Monet's Impression: Sunrise
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Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte was painted by:
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Georges Pierre Seurat
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Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte uses this technique:
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Pointillism
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Starry Nigh is a painting by:
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Van Gogh
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Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun was composed by:
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Debussy
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The movement in which artists went beyond natural appearances to present the inner meaning of natural phenomena is called:
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Impressionism
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A style of 20th century art that reduced nature to basic geometric patterns is called:
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cubism
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The best-known painter of the twentieth century was:
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Picasso
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Les Demoselles d'Avignon is a painting by:
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Picasso
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A style of art that portrayed the reality and intensity of the subconscious mind was:
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Surrealism
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This artist was the best-known and most sensational of Surrealists.
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Dali
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Art that employs movement is called:
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Kinetic Art
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One of the best-known American architects of the twentieth century was:
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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Serialism or 12 tone system are labels for a style of music created by:
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Schoenberg
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The Rite of Spring is a ballet by:
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Stravinsky
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Rhapsody in Blue is a composition by:
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Gershwin
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A style of popular music including syncopation during the early 20th century was called:
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Ragtime
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A style of music typically based on twelve-measure patterns that allows for much improvisation is called:
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Blues
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Ragtime and blues combined to form this new type of popular music:
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Jazz
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Painting that involves colors splashed and dripped on the canvas is called:
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Action painting
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Green Coca-Cola Bottles is an artwork by:
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Andy Warhol
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2 and 3-D artworks that explore optical responses generated by color and line are called:
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Op (optical) Art
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Artwork that uses as little as possible to create the work is called:
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Minimal Art
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Threnody in Memory of the Victims of Hiroshima is a composition by:
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Pendericki
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