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Because fantastic creatures do not exist, they can serve as ____.

The ancient Greeks created woman-headed birds called ____.

Satyrs were men with ____ attributes and were prone to drunkenness and sexual excess.

The unicorn was supposed to be a horse with some ____ features.

The unicorn became a symbol for ____.

A shaman was believed to be ____ between humans, animals, and spirits.

____ are metaphors for humans in Thai, Hindu, and Buddhist art.

Chris Ofili, a British artist of Nigerian descent, often uses elephant ____ in his art.

Ashurbanipal II Killing Lions is an example of ____ relief carving.

Pear Blossoms is a lyric painting by Qian Xuan that is accompanied by ____.

Landscapes were popular in China and Japan because ____.

John Constable's works, while Romantic in essence, were the foundation for the ____.

In the later years of his life, Claude Monet's paintings approached abstraction, as ____ became more important than imagery.

Ansel Adams' photographs emphasized the beauty of nature as ____.

Gardens were very popular among the ruling class of ____.

Flowers were often symbols for the Christian religion in earlier times; for example, the iris represented ____.

Many Islamic gardens stood for ____.

Visitors to the Zen Garden of Contemplation in Japan are expected to ____.

Lightning Field is regarded as a(n) ____ piece, since most people have seen it through photographs rather than in person.

In areas of Peru and Bolivia, the ____ is highly regarded because it can signify weather changes and can predict rainfall.

Robert Smithson created earthworks because ____.

Popular in late medieval literature, the ____ is a horse with some goat features and a long, single horn projecting from its forehead.

Invented by the Greeks, ____ are man-headed horses known for their lustfulness.

A ____ is a person with supernatural powers, believed to be a bridge among the human, animal, and spirit worlds.

Inspiration for Chinese and Japanese ____ paintings often came from poetry or the beliefs of Daoism, which held nature in high esteem.

The Impressionist artist ____ was well known for his paintings of natural scenes such as water lilies and haystacks.

In Japan, flowers are viewed as a vehicle for greater understanding, and ____ is considered an important art form, on the level of painting, calligraphy, and pottery.

Contemporary ____ are large-scale environmental pieces in which the earth is an important component.

Popular in the United States and Europe in the 1960s, the ____ movement experimented with patterns to affect visual perception.

Animals appear in art in every culture.

Unicorns were first described in ancient Greece and Rome.

The narwhal was a Medieval beast with twisted features that represented degraded human nature.

In Assyrian culture, the king would kill lions in a public spectacle, called the royal lion hunt, to show his courage and illustrate his power.

The Incan civilization in Peru produced huge animal drawings by scraping the desert floor to reveal the lighter-colored sand beneath it.

The European painter John Constable painted his large landscapes outdoors from direct observation.

Ansel Adams' photographs helped raise public support for national parks and for the environmental movement in general.

The bouquets Dutch artist Jan Bruegel painted never existed in real life.

Due to technological advances in photography, medical books no longer contain drawn illustrations.