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In Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Central Park, there is a central grouping of Diego Rivera, Jose Guadalupe Posada, La Catrina, and Frida Kahlo who holds a Yin and Yang object. The Chinese symbol becomes a metaphor for

Rivera and Kahlo's complex relationship

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All of the following are referenced in Jose Maria Velasco's painting EXCEPT

Gulf of Mexico

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Which painting is satirizing the stereotypes of women in advertisements?

Woman I

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All of the following support the idea of Smithson breaking barriers in the art world EXCEPT?

He was creating art that reflected the Abstract Expressionist movement

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What happened to Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series?

It was divided between the Phillips Collection and the Museum of Modern Art

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In The Bay, Helen Frankenthaler created a large-scale work that invites the viewer to

appreciate the relationships and interactions between colors, which are not intended to be representative

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According to Greek mythology, Narcissus

admired his own reflection so much he became a flower

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In The Valley of Mexico from the Hillside of Santa Isabel (El Valle de México desde el Cerro de Santa Isabel), José María Velasco uses landscape painting to

reflect themes of Mexican patriotism and national identity important to his audience

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Why did Kahlo often use graphic images of human anatomy in her art work?

She had polio and many surgeries resulting from a bus accident

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Differing from recent trends in architectural styles, postmodern architecture saw nothing wrong with

the use of ornamentation in the design

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All of the following are referenced in Jose Maria Velasco's painting EXCEPT

Gulf of Mexico

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Rivera, in his Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Central Park, reminds the viewer that the struggles and glory of four centuries of Mexican history are due to the participation of

all levels of society

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Which of the following was created as part of a protest against the Vietnam War?

Lipstick (Ascending)on Caterpillar Tracks

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Jose Guadalupe Posada created La Catrina in order to satirize the indigenous upper class women who dressed in European clothing.

true

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Why did Smithson purposely chose the Great Salt Lake for his art work?

The water was blood red because of bacteria and algae

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In The Jungle, Wifredo Lam’s depiction of enigmatic figures with mask-like faces in a surrealistic landscape has been interpreted as a reference to the

creation of an Afro-Cuban identity against the cultural background of slavery

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In her self portraits, Frida Kahlo challenges the conventions of

beauty and social expectations

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The Migration of the Negro, Panel no. 49 depicts the migration history of six million African Americans from the

rural south to northern industrial cities

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Why was Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz considered the first feminist of the Americas?

She became a nun in order to pursue her intellectual interests

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Warhol incorporates all of the following in creating the Marilyn Diptych EXCEPT

female nude

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Velasco, in The Valley of Mexico from the Hillside of Santa Isabel, was influenced by

German Romanticism

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What is being referenced in the title of The Jungle?

sugarcane

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All of the following influenced Wilfredo Lam EXCEPT

world war 1

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Kusama caused a disturbance at the 33rd Venice Biennale in 1966 when she sold mirror balls for two dollars with the sign,

“your narcissim for sale”

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Which artist poured acrylic paint onto an unprimed canvas and then tilted it to allow the paint to flow across the surface?

Helen Frankenthaler

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Which of the following people is not part of a Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Central Park?

Diego Velázquez

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After the migration from the rural south, African Americans did not face segregation.

false

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The different style of clothing depicted in The Two Fridas represent the clothing she wore before and the clothing she wore after her marriage to

Diego Rivera

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With his design for the House in New Castle County, Robert Venturi departed from the traditions of modernist architecture because he believed that architecture

could not meet human needs by being designed around pure functionality

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The rear facade of House in New Castle County contains a

flat, stubby, Doric colonnade

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What is the first American avant-garde movement that began after World War II and signaled the shift of the center from Paris to New York?

Abstract Expressionism

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Wilfredo Lam's The Jungle is about comparing the realities of hard labor the Cubans faced working for U.S. corporations versus

American tourism advertisements for Cuba

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Rivera, in his Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Central Park, reminds the viewer that the struggles and glory of four centuries of Mexican history are due to the participation of

all levels of society

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Helen Frankenthaler and Mark Rothko both painted in the style of

chromatic abstraction

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What is being referenced in the title of The Jungle?

sugarcane

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In Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Central Park, Diego Rivera was influenced by

surrealism

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Where has Kusama lived since 1977?

In a Tokyo mental health facility

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After the 1821 War of Independence from Spain, Mexico sought to establish its identity through artistic endeavors such as

national landscape paintings

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How does Cabrera's portrait of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz differ from other nun portraits? Mark all the below statements that are true.

Sor Juana looks directly toward the viewer She is surrounded by books that would have been in her library She is shown with quills and an inkwell which convey her intellectual status She is shown with her nun's badge.