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Which theory has a major influence in Latin American art?

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Marx

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according to the book, what is one of the strengths of Latin American art?

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hybridizAtion

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True or False, Latin American art relate more closely to their social and political context than American or European art.

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true

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According to the author, which countries make up Latin America?

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North America, South America, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic,and Brazil

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define Latin American Modernism

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it is rejection of the classical or traditional forms of art and got its start during the Semana de los Artes in São Paulo

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Argetina, Chile, and Uruguay, and Venezuela are considered to be what type of country?

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Open

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what defines an open country?

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open to foreign influence, particularly European influence

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What countries are considered more closed countries?

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Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay and Ecuador.

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What characteristic do the closed countries have in common?

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They were either land locked or facing the Pacific

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Define indigenismo

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search for Latin American roots through art

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define neo-classical art

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art that relfects the style of the ancient greeks and romans

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define Arielismo

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search for national essences

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who was the founder of the Mexican muralist movement?

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Vasconcelos

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who is the Argentine hero?

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gaucho

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What type of art became associated with Italian Fascism?

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Novocento art

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What was Latin American sculpture focused on?

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commemoration of significant national events and the personification of civic virtues and national heroes and military leaders

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what was one of the most significant differences between Latin American art and European art during the first half of the 20th century?

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large-scale mural paintings

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Andres de Santa Maria

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he made the Anunciacion painting

did many small portrait paintings

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define portaretrato

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portrait

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Julio Ruelas

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used Greek mythology
metamorphosis
utilized many skulls
Symbolismo

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Saturnino Herran

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trataba temas indigenas

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Dr. Atl

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liked to draw paisajes of mexico

loved volcanoes because the reflected his demeanor

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Francisco Goita

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liked to draw pictures of the dead

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what are the pigmentaciones of Latin America?

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Europeans
Criollo
Mestizos
Nativos
Africanos
Zambos
Mulatos
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define mulato

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someone of Native American and african descent

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define zambos

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mixture of african and amerindian

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Cubist devices are used for what end?

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decoration

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what was distinct characteristic of Latin American modernism?

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tendency to combine apparently incompatible European styles

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What percentage of whites made up Buenos Aires in the early 20th century?

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90 percent

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define impresionismo

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libertad en cuanto a la tecnica del pintor

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what are three famous impresionistas?

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Monet, Manet, and Degas

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What types of paintings did Monet do?

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paisajes, puentes, lirios, luz baja, colores delicados

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What did Manet paint?

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arte figurativo y gente humilde

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What did Degas paint?

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bailarinas, arte figurativo, colores delicados, blanco y rosado

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Who are four famous post-impressionism artists?

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Matisse, Van Gogh, Gauguin

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How did Matisse paint?

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colores brillantes

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how did Paul Cezanne paint?

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bodegon, colores brillantes

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how did Van Gogh paint?

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la noche, depresion

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Define el cubismo analitico

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muchas facetas, formas geometricas, dar la ilusion de tres dimensiones y de movimiento

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who is a famous analytic cubism artist?

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Duchamp

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define el cubismo sintetico

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codigo, realidad paralela

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who are two famous synthetic cubism artists?

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Picaso,Juan Gris

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define Dada art

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viola las obras clasicas, collage, arte de basura

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define Art Deco

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great gatsby, modern

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When did the Mexican revolution occur?

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1910-1920

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Who were some of the main actors in the Mexican Revolution?

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Porfirio Diaz
Pancho Villa
Emiliano Zapata
Alvaro Obregon

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Who is Porfirio Diaz?

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Dictator before the Revolution

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Who is Pancho Villa?

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Leader of the North and Governor of Chihuaha

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Who is Emiliano Zapata?

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Leader of the South during the Mexican Revolution-followers known as Zapatistas

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Who is Alvaro Obregon?

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He became the President after the Mexican Revolution (1920-24)

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Who is Diego Rivera?

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Mexican painter and husband of Frida Kahlo

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What type of work was Diego Rivera famous for?

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Fresco

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What movement did Diego Rivera start?

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Mexican Muralist movement

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What Italian painters had influence on Diego Rivera?

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Giotto
Uccello
Pierro della Francesca
Mantegna
Michelangelo
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Why is Jose Vasconcelos significant in the life of Diego Rivera?

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Minister of Culture in Mexico who commissioned Rivera to do public murals

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What are some of Diego Rivera’s most well-known pieces?

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Marinero Almorzando
Creacion
La Ofrenda

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What were some of Diego Rivera’s earlier influences?

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Dr. Atl

Pre-Columbian art

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What European influences had the greatest effect on Diego Rivera?

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Cubismo
Flora y fauna de Gauguin
Frescos italianos

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Where did Diego Rivera make murals in the United States?

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San Francisco Stock Exchange
Detroit Institute of Art
Rockefeller Center ( had to leave because it was of Lenin)
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What type of ideology did Diego Rivera possess?

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Socialist

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60
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Who did Diego Rivera hide in his house?

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Leon Trotsky

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What is Soviet Realism?

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Socialist realism (acronym soc-real) is a style of realistic art which was developed in the Soviet Union and became a dominant style in other socialist countries. Socialist realism is a teleologically-oriented style having as its purpose the furtherance of the goals of socialism and communism

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What is European Vanguardism?

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socialist revolutionaries

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Did Diego Rivera have a problem with Soviet communism?

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Yes

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How did Diego Rivera appeal to the Mexican populus?

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He abandoned the fragmentation of the image
abandoned metaphors and parallel realities
accepted the narrative
used Frescos Italianos

65
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How does Jose Clemente Orozco compare to Diego Rivera?

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less sophisticated
mas commovedor
did not study in Europe

66
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What are some things that influenced Jose Clemente Orozco?

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Jose Guadalupe Posada, Calavera Catrina
Arte pre-colombiano
el simbolista Julio Ruelas
Dr. Atl

67
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What are some characteristics of Jose Clemente Orosco’s work?

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Daring
Symbolic images
Caricatures

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What are some of Orosco’s most famous works?

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La hora de gigolo
La destruccion del viejo orden
La mesa de la hermandad

69
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What European influences had effect on Jose Clemente Orosco?

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Michelangelo

Domenikos Theotokopoulos, the Greek

70
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How was Orozco’s art received?

A

He was more popular in the United States

He was as popular as Diego Rivera in Latin America

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What are some of the influences of David Alfaro Siqueiros?

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Masaccio and other Italian fresco painters
Jackson Pollock
The Frenchman, Jean Charlot

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What type of art was done by Siqueiros?

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Futurism

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What are some of the works of Siqeuiros?

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Cabeza de una mujer indigena
Retrato de la burguesia
Marcha de la humanidad

74
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Who was Juan o’gorman?

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Disciple of Le Corbusier

Made mosaics and is famous for the mosaic on the UNAM library in Mexico City

75
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True or false-Andres de Santa Maria spent no time in Europe

A

FALSE!

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Define modernism

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Modern art includes artistic works produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the style and philosophy of the art produced during that era.[1] The term is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of experimentation.

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How would the work of Andres de Santa Maria be characterized by some?

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Impressionist

78
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Where was Andres de Santa Maria born?

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Colombia

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What type of art did Julio Ruelas do?

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Symbolism

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Define symbolism

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Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts.

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True or False Ruelas used many skulls and skeletons in his work

A

true

82
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What is the painting by Saturnino Herran in the book?

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Woman from Tehuantepec

83
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What was the focus of Saturnino Herran’s art?

A

Native Mexicans in heroic poses

84
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What was Herran’s last work?

A

Our Gods

85
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Did Dr. Atl study in Europe?

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yes

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Who was Dr. Atl’s inspiration?

A

Jose Maria Velasco

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define realist art

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realism in the arts may be generally defined as the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, implausible, exotic and supernatural elements.

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What is considered Dr. Atl’s weakness?

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repetitiveness

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What was the focus of Goita’s work?

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Death in War

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What is Goita’s painting in the book?

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Landscape at Zacatecas

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True or False Goita painted Man on Trash Heap

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True

92
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What did Goita do to understand his subjects better?

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he lived poorly among them

93
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Where was Armando Reveron from?

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Venezuela

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What type of art did Armando Reveron do?

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French Impressionism

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What was the focus of Armando Reveorn’s paintings?

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Landscapes and female nudes

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Define impressionism

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often Impressionism A theory or style of painting originating and developed in France during the 1870s, characterized by concentration on the immediate visual impression produced by a scene and by the use of unmixed primary colors and small strokes to simulate actual reflected light.

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define post-impressionism

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Post-Impressionists extended Impressionism while rejecting its limitations: they continued using vivid colours, often thick application of paint, and real-life subject matter, but they were more inclined to emphasize geometric forms, to distort form for expressive effect, and to use unnatural or arbitrary colour.

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define Cubism

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objects are analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context.

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Who are the three most important painters in Brazilian art?

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Anita Malfatti, Emiliano Cavalcanti, Vicente do Rego Monteiro

100
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Malfatti came from what type of circumstances?

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wealthy

101
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Did Malfatti study in Europe?

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yes she did

102
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What type of art did Malfatti dabble in before being ridiculed out of it?

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Cubism

103
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What was Malfatti’s most famous work?

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La Idiota

104
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Did Di Cavalcanti go to Europe?

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yes

105
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What technique did Calvancanti use?

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Cubism

106
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What is the painting by Cavalcanti called in the book?

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Mulatta with parrot

107
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What did Cavalcanti paint?

A

many street scenes

108
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Did Monteiro study in Europe?

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yes

109
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What type of figures did Monteiro paint?

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primitives in shallow relief

110
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what is Tarsila do Amaral’s most famous painting?

A

Abaporu

111
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define Anthropophagy

A

Brazilian artists must devour outside influences and turn them into something new

112
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what type of painting did Tarsila do?

A

surrealism

113
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who was the dictator in Mexico when Diego Rivera was born?

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Porfirio Diaz

114
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define Art Deco

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It is an eclectic style that combines traditional craft motifs with Machine Age imagery and materials. The style is often characterized by rich colors, bold geometric shapes, and lavish ornamentation.

115
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who are the tres grandes of Mexico?

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Orozco, Siqueiros, Rivera

116
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What was Orozco’s professional job?

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Map maker

117
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Latin Americans look to who instead of their political leaders for guidance?

A

artists

118
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True or false, Indigenismo originated in Latin America

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false, it originated in Europe

119
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What text did Jose Vasconcelos read that inspired him?

A

Rodo’s text on Arielismo

120
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What areas or countries is indigenismo most commonly found?

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Peru, Guatemala, and Mexico

121
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What prevented the development of the visual arts in Peru?

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fissure between Indian and European culture

122
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How do Latin American artists view modernism?

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liberating and anti-authoritarian

123
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When did formalism start to take place in Latin America?

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around 1920

124
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Diego Rivera did not start the Mexican Muralist movement true or false

A

false he started it

125
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Define constrictivist art

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The movement was in favour of art as a practice for social purposes.

126
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Define Expressionist art

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The term refers to an “artistic style in which the artist seeks to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse within a person.

127
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Expressionism occurs in which famous Mexican artists?

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Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros

128
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What was the main difference between Latin American art and European art at the beginning of the 20th century?

A

Latin American art focused more on murals

129
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What are the ancestors of Latin American muralism?

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italian frescos

130
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What is the goal of Muralism?

A

activates the search for national and cultural identity and convey political ideology

131
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Where was Andres de Santa Maria from?

A

Colombia

132
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Where did Andres de Santa Maria spend the majority of his life?

A

Europe

133
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What famous painting by Julio Ruelas is found in the book?

A

The Initiation of Don Jesus into the Revista Moderna

134
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What is commonly found in Mexican symbolism?

A

skulls and other symbols of death

135
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What type of art did Dr. Atl study while in Europe?

A

Italian Frescos

136
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Did Goita study in Europe?

A

yes

137
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What was Goita’s job?

A

He was the staff artist in Pancho Villa’s army

138
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What does Tarsila’s Abaporu painting mean?

A

Man who eats

139
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What union did Diego Rivera start?

A

Union of Technical workers

140
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What was the purpose of Diego Rivera’s union?

A

to make art less intellectual and more accessible to the general public

141
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What happened to Orozco’s hand?

A

it was blown off in an explosion

142
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In which wars did Siqueiros fight?

A

Mexican civil war and Spanish civil war

143
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What characteristic was common among those countries which had strong muralistic arts?

A

Those that retained a strong Indian element

144
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Who was the first muralist in Ecuador?

A

Eduardo Riofrio Kingman

145
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Which artist strongly influenced Kingman?

A

Diego Rivera

146
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What is the famous painting by Kingman which is featured in the book?

A

Nino con flauta

147
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Did Oswaldo Guayasimin study in Europe?

A

no

148
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What did Oswaldo Guayasimin focus on in his art?

A

Realism, social justice

149
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Did Kingman study art formally?

A

no

150
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What was the focus of Kingman’s art?

A

Indigenous people and social justice

151
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How did Candido Porinaria die?

A

Inhaling poisonous fumes from his paint

152
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What other forms of art did Acuna practice?

A

sculpture and mosaics

153
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What was the focus of Acuna’s art?

A

Indian myths and legends

154
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What is the famous mural by Alandia Pantoja mentioned in the book?

A

Medicina Boliviana

155
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Where did Alandia Pantoja come from?

A

Bolivia

156
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Where was Jose Sabogal from?

A

Peru

157
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What is the criticism of Jose Sabogal?

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His connection with indian culture was superficial as represented in his art

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