ART 2140 4-8

23 August 2022
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Théodore Géricault's painting Raft of the Medusa depicts:
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the results of a shipwreck off the coast of West Africa
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Amidst the death and despair in Théodore Géricault's Raft of the Medusa, the artist imbued his figures with a sense of nobility.
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true
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Which of the following did Géricault do to prepare for the making of Raft of the Medusa?
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French artist JR's Women are Heroes shows:
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the faces of poor women in Rio de Janeiro.
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In Women are Heroes, artist JR displays portraits of women on:
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homes and buildings
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What happened to the woman featured in Migrant Mother after Dorothea Lange photographed her?
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she was ashamed of the photograph
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The identity of Dorothea Lange's migrant mother has never been discovered
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false
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What medium is Kehinde Wiley's Portrait Bust of Cardinal Richelieu?
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painting
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In Portrait Bust of Cardinal Richelieu, Kehinde Wiley recasts a famous portrait bust from art history as a dark-skinned man
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true
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Chris Jordan's Gyre refers to:
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Chris Jordan used 2.4 million pieces of plastic in his artwork Gyre. These represent the number of:
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pounds of plastic trash that enters the world's oceans every hour
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Mary Richardson, the attacker of the Rokeby Venus in 1914, compared the physical beauty of the woman in the painting to the beautiful character of:
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Emmeline Pankhurst
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Mary Richardson, the attacker of the Rokeby Venus in 1914, did so because:
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she wanted more rights for women
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The artist of the sculpture Falling Woman is:
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Eric Fischl
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Critics of the sculpture Falling Woman said that it was irrelevant to the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, and did not capture any of the pain and emotion of that day.
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false
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What is true about Emil Nolde?
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Emil Nolde's Crucifixion was admired by Adolf Hitler
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false
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Velázquez's Rokeby Venus
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was attacked for its ideal beauty
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Fischl's Falling Woman
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was covered up for its shocking reality
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Lange's Migrant Mother
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raised awareness of the severity of the Great Depression
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Nolde's Crucifixion
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was mocked by the Nazis
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Jordan's Gyre
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environmentalism
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Lange's Migrant Mother
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the Great Depression
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Wiley's Portrait Bust of Cardinal Richelieu
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racism
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Fischl's Falling Woman
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the terror attacks of September 11, 2001
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Velázquez's Rokeby Venus
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the imprisonment of a suffragette leader