M10 Test

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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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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 identity of Dorothea Lange's migrant mother has never been discovered.
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False
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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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all of the other answers
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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 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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What is the medium of Henry Moore's Recumbent Figure?
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green Horton stone
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Ancient Greek notions of beauty were based upon the combination of an underlying canon of mathematical proportions with the finely honed physiques possessed by male athletes.
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True
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The Woman from Willendorf is made from which medium?
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limestone
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What is so revolutionary about Walking Man?
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the artist presented a rough representation of a figure as a finished sculpture
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What does the body of the figure represented in Alberto Giacometti's Man Pointing look like?
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an abstraction based on the artist's creative choices
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Which of the following nudes was made first and served as an influence on the others?
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Titian, Venus of Urbino
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Why does the figure in Branded look like it does?
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because it confronts, even exaggerates, the imperfections of reality
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To what does the title of Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get into the Met. Museum? refer?
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the unfair treatment of women by art institutions
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What is the date of Spike Lee's movie Do the Right Thing?
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1989
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Which of the following movements influenced the filmmaker Spike Lee?
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the Civil Rights movement
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What movement influenced the Untitled Film Stills series?
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Civil Rights
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What kind of artworks do the Guerrilla Girls make?
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feminist posters and pamphlets
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The decapitation of Holofernes, which is the subject of an oil painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, happened because:
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Holofernes was cruel and violent to Judith's people
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Why did the artist of The Two Fridas paint two of herself?
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because she wanted to depict distinct aspects of her identity
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Who is the artist of the Untitled Film Stills series?
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Cindy Sherman
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Which artwork did Catherine Opie make?
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"Melissa & Lake, Durham, North Carolina"
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Nikki S. Lee made a self-portrait that suggests that identity is always clear-cut.
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False
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What is the date of Frida Kahlo's The Two Fridas?
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1939