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Art Appreciation

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show Contour  
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show Implied lines  
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show hoping to catch the attention of a passing boat  
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______________ shapes are irregular, asymmetrical, and often found in nature.   show
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​Raphael uses a __________________ composition to create balance and stability in his painting, Madonna of the Meadow.   show
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show form  
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show overlapping  
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In The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci uses _______________ linear perspective to direct the viewer's eyes to the most important figure in the narrative composition.   show
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show texture  
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show value  
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​The purity of a color is its ______________, which is often described as a color's brightness.   show
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show complementary  
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show change  
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show unity  
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In the two paintings of shipwrecks by Turner and Gericault, the artists use the relationship of the waves to the boat or ________________ in order to carry their message.   show
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Whistler's Arrangement in Grey and Black, No.1, is a great example of this principle of design.   show
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show emphasizes  
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__________ is the visual beat or tempo within a work of art.   show
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The regular and planned repetition of an element of design is ______________.   show
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The term paleolithic means _________ stone age.   show
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The term neolithic means ___________ stone age.   show
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Cave art from the Paleolithic era provides us with some of our earliest examples of _______________ art.   show
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TURE or FALSE: Paleolithic artists included hand prints in their cave paintings.   show
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Paleolithic artists used many techniques and materials to create their representations on cave walls. To create the image of a handprint, it is theorized that the paleolithic artists ___________________________.   show
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TRUE or FALSE: Having been dated at 43,900, the cave paintings in Sulawesi, Indonesia are more than 13,000 years older than the oldest known cave paintings in Europe.   show
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show venus  
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TRUE or FALSE: In the 19th century and early 20th century, art historians chose the name Venus, the Roman goddess of beauty, to describe the small female figurines because they believed these stone carvings symbolized beauty and fertility.   show
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Cuneiform the earliest form of writing was created by the Ancient ________________________.   show
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The Ancient Sumerian text, __________________, tells the story of a hero in mourning who sets out to find eternal life in order to escape death.   show
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The Ancient Sumerians built elevated temples or ______________ . They believed these buildings could be bridges between earth and heaven.   show
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The tombs at the burial pits of Ur contained not just the remains of people but also included precious objects such as jewelry, gold, valuable minerals, and ____________.   show
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As a result of their belief in the eternal life of the soul, the ancient Egyptians built _________________________ to protect the remains of the dead.   show
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How many coffins were found inside the stone sarcophagus of King Tutankhamun?   show
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TRUE or FALSE: The potter's wheel was not available as a technology to the Ancient Greeks. Greek artists had to rely on hand-building techniques to construct amazingly symmetrical designs.   show
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show 1937  
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TRUE or FALSE: The Taj Mahal only took 21 years to build even though it is one of the most ornate and complex mausoleums in the world.   show
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TRUE or FALSE: The 4 minarets that flank the Taj Mahal are used in their traditional role as a tall tower where a man calls Muslims to prayer.   show
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Picasso used these symbols of Spanish culture to mythologize the destruction of Guernica.   show
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In what Greek city is the Parthenon located?   show
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In what French city is the Gothic Cathedral of our Lady located?   show
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In what Turkish city is the former Byzantine cathedral Hagia Sophia located?   show
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The Parthenon was built as a temple for the patron goddess of the city of Athens, Athena. In Greek mythology, Athena is the goddess of ________________.   show
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The Athenian sculptor _____________________ skillfully carved the hard marble in such a way that the stone resembled the soft folds of drapery that fell over the bodies of these lifelike figures.   show
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TRUE or FALSE: Since the oculus is the only direct light source of the rotunda, the architects of the Pantheon created glass doors to help further illuminate the cathedral.   show
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Who was the Roman Emperor who moved the capital of the Roman Empire to the Eastern city of Byzantium?   show
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show justinian  
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show light  
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show romanesque  
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Chartres became a major ____________ because it housed a piece of linen believed to have been worn by the Virgin Mary when she gave birth to Jesus.   show
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show high gothic  
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When King Louis IX acquired the crown of thorns worn by Christ, he built a glorious cathedral to house this holy relic. Because of this fact, the cathedral is often referred to as a ________________.   show
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show light  
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The Thorncrown Chapel designed by E. Fay Jones is located in ______________, Arkansas.   show
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TRUE or FALSE: The plans of Sainte-Chapelle and Thorncrown Chapel are similar in that they embody the cross shape of many Gothic cathedrals.   show
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The architect of Saint Nicholas Antiochan Orthodox Church in Springdale, Arkansas, is __________________.   show
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show byzantine  
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TRUE or FALSE: A satelite TV dish was used to create the dome for Saint Nicholas Antiochan Orthodox Church.   show
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The earliest camera was called a camera obscura which in Latin means ____________________.   show
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Historians have found written evidence for their use of a camera obscuras to assist painting and drawing as early as _____________.   show
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The American inventor, _______________________, is credited for making cameras and the photographic process commercially successful so that many people could use cameras to record images.   show
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The first photograph ever taken was made in the year ________________.   show
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In the _____________________ process you create a latent image or invisible image that does not appear when the plate is exposed to light. In this process, you don't see the image until you put it into a chemical bath that brings out the invisible image.   show
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At the same time Louis Daguerre was experimenting with creating a photographic image, ___________________ had succeeded in securing images to plain writing paper.   show
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show samuel morse  
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show photo-journalism  
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show the 291 gallery  
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Alfred Stieglitz was married to the important American painter, _____________________.   show
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The landscape photographer Ansel Adams was an environmentalist and served on the board of the __________________ for over 30 years.   show
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Gordon Parks was a versatile artist working as a photographer, film maker, and musician. He produced iconic images for widely published magazines such as ______________ and Vogue.   show
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The Burkinabe photographer Sanle Sory creates lively portraits of the people of his neighborhood at his studio, ________________________.   show
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show untitled film stills  
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show catherine opie  
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Drawing is a process that artists use as a tool _________________________.   show
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The architect of the Guggenheim Bilbao, ________________, makes quick gestural ink drawings to help him conceptualize what his designs could become.   show
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show nib  
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_______________________ is technique used to create light and dark areas by crossing and repeating thin lines of ink.   show
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One of the oldest methods of painting is ___________________.   show
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Like Diego Rivera, the Mexican artist, ________________________, revived interest in fresco painting.   show
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________________ is one of the notable artists from the Venetian School of painting.   show
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Acrylic painting is a new method of painting. It was developed during the ______________ by American artists Leonard Bocour and Sam Golden.   show
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To further refine a form, a sculptor may use a _____________, a tool with a row of little teeth, to carve away the material.   show
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show modeling  
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In the process of lost wax casting, a(n )_____________ provides the underlying support that allows the artist to model a larger form with clay.   show
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show the investment  
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show a foundry  
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show a football field  
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show glazing  
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What are the common techniques used to make sculptures?   show
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In the ___________ process, a sculptor often works with a soft material such as clay or wax.   show
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show subtractive  
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What are examples of carving/the subtractive process?   show
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TRUE or FALSE: One reason artists may choose bronze casting as a technique is the fact that the end result is a long-lasting and durable sculpture.   show
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show true  
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The American sculptor _______________ is well-known for his small intimate boxes or assemblages that are made from found materials such as fishing cork, maps, glasses, balls, and other mundane objects.   show
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show cardboard tubes covered in aluminum foil  
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________________________ is fired at a lower temperature. The end product is semi-porous to water.   show
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show stoneware  
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show terracotta  
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The geographic area of Ancient Mesopotamia covered a large area including modern day Turkey, Syria, and _______________.   show
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show stele  
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Naram-Sin is clearly the most important figure in carvings of the Akkadian ruler because he is visibly much larger than the other figures. This visual technique is called _________________ scale.   show
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show true  
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The ______________ pose is a conceptual pose which shows each body part from its most characteristic angle.   show
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show naturalistic  
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Numerous Greek Kouros figures identified as gods, warriors, and victorious athletes have been found marking graves and in sanctuaries. The Kouros figures represent ideal beauty in _____________.   show
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show life-like  
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Contrapposto, meaning “____________________”, is a pose in which a figure is engaging one leg while relaxing the other, allowing the hips to angle. The head also relaxes, glancing slightly to the side.   show
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Ancient Greek artists enhanced the naturalism of their bronze sculptures by adding glass eyes, copper lips, and ____________ teeth.   show
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show Greek High Classical Art  
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As Greek sculptors continued to seek ideal beauty in their figures, one accomplished sculptor developed a set of rules for constructing the ideal human figure. Who is this sculptor?   show
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During the Greek Late Classical period, from approximately 400 - 323 BCE, artists moved away from the ideals of perfect proportion and emotional detachment. Instead, the artists like ____________ shifted to follow a more dramatic style.   show
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show expressive, emotional, passionate  
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A unique style of portraiture emerged from the Roman Republic which was associated with _____________, or strict naturalism.   show
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The Roman statue of Augustus of Primaporta is an example of the change in ideals of beauty after the fall of the Roman Republic. This period of Roman history is known as the Roman ________________.   show
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show true  
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During the Renaissance, a period of Western Art from the early 1400s to the late 1500s, artists and scholars held a renewed interest in _______________________.   show
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show Jamb  
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The sculptures carved into the columns of the facade of the Gothic cathedral in Chartres differ from sculptures of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome because the bodies of the figures ________________________________.   show
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The 20th-century sculptor Alberto Giacometti created art works that are ____________________.   show
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show Florence  
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In Botticelli's Birth of Venus, the goddess is born from the sea as she is seen riding ______________ to shore.   show
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show Sleeping Venus  
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Both ___________ and Velazquez created paintings of Venus gazing into a mirror.   show
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show prostitute  
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show Nevermore  
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show Christian  
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show mosaic  
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__________________ means "image breaking" and is the banning and destruction of religious icons and images.   show
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The artist Giotto painted an image of the Virgin Mary and Child in c.1300-1305. The way Giotto painted the _________________ in this painting is an example of a change in how artists perceived and represented the human figure.   show
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show shadows  
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During the Renaissance, artists merged _______________ style and methods with Christian iconography.   show
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show mythology  
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Multiple versions of the biblical character, David, can be used to compare the style of key figures in the history of Western sculpture. The artists Bernini, Michelangelo, and ________________ all created remarkable sculptures of David.   show
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In the biblical story of David defeating the giant Goliath, David is portrayed as _______________________.   show
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TRUE or FALSE: Donatello's David is historically significant because it was the first free-standing nude sculpture since classical antiquity.   show
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show 1623  
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show Laocoon  
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show a poet  
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TRUE or FALSE: Even though he was not allowed to examine the bodies of the deceased, Leonardo made extremely accurate drawings of the internal organs of the human body.   show
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The drawing of the Vitruvian Man shows the ideal proportions of a man so that his standing figure can be bounded by __________________.   show
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In the Last Supper, _____________________ just behind the head of Christ.   show
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show restrained emotions  
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show sfumato  
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TRUE or FALSE: The Mona Lisa remains in Paris today because it became the property of the King of France after Leonardo's death who was working for the King at that time.   show
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show Raphael  
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show 500  
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show Germany  
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show Henry VIII  
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TRUE or FALSE: Hans Holbein the Younger painted 6 portraits of the King's wives.   show
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King Henry VIII was so pleased with Holbein's preparatory drawing of his future wife, Christina of Denmark, that he ______________ it.   show
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show true  
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The use of ___________________ in the painting, The Ambassadors, is characteristic of the art of the Northern Renaissance.   show
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The two men in The Ambassadors are only ______________ years old.   show
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show instruments used to measure time  
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The lower shelf of the still life in the painting The Ambassadors is filled with _________________ objects.   show
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show cosmic order  
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An _______________ image is a distorted image that appears corrected when viewed from the correct angle.   show
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show memento mori  
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In his painting, School of Beauty, School of Culture, the artist Kerry James Marshall __________________ Holbein's The Ambassadors.   show
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show absent  
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show Ofili  
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show a flash from his camera  
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The anamorphic image in School of Beauty, School of Culture resembles _______ princess.   show
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Paintings and other artworks in museums play a role in ___________________ perceptions of beauty at different times in history.   show
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TRUE or FALSE: Northern artists like Albrecht Durer were different from the Italian artists in the south because of their geographic isolation and inability to travel.   show
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Northern Renaissance art is characterized by ___________________ and clarity in highly symbolic works of art.   show
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Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait was created in ________________________________.   show
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TRUE or FALSE: The male figure in the Arnolfini Portrait is positioned near the window to emphasize that he is responsible for work outside the home in contrast to his wife who was responsible for domestic duties inside the home.   show
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show false  
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The ___________________ located on top of the dresser behind the male figure in the Arnolfini Portrait symbolize fruitfulness or the hope of childbirth for this young couple.   show
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show granting his wife authority to make business and legal decisions  
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The _________________ painted above the female figure's hand in the Arnolfini Portrait could be symbols of death.   show
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In the Arnolfini Portrait on the roundels along the side of the mirror, Jan van Eyck painted ____________________________.   show
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show Romanesque period  
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show Hieronymus Bosch  
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show alchemy  
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show on ceremonial days  
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show the globe  
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TRUE or FALSE: The Garden of Earthly Delights is a relatively small altarpiece measuring under 7 feet wide.   show
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show descendants of Adam and Eve  
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show fruits  
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show true  
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show musical instruments  
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show vanity  
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show pride  
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Bosch's peculiar ______________ seemingly reference images from medieval alchemical texts.   show
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show pastel colors  
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The Rococo painting ______________________ was created by the artist Fragonard.   show
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show frivolous lifestyle  
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show Queen Marie Antoinette  
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Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun painted a sympathetic portrait of the Queen of France as a ___________________ in order to earn sympathy for this unpopular monarch.   show
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show true  
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show History paintings  
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show Oath of the Horatii  
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The artist David switched sides during the French Revolution as opposition grew towards ________________ and his wife Marie-Antoinette.   show
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The painting ________________ serves as a work of powerful political propaganda. The dead hero was seen as martyr whose death further fueled support for the Revolution.   show
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show to have her likeness painted  
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show true  
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Neoclassical art emphasizes ______________.   show
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The Third of May, 1808 is by the Spanish artist _____________________.   show
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show Madrid  
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show false  
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show Eugene Delacroix  
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show Turner  
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show a contemporary woman  
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show Refuses  
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show created with loose brushwork  
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Manet and his peers produced works that addressed the experience of modern life, the dynamic nature of the modern city, and the constant change and renewal resulting from __________________________.   show
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show Victorine  
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show false  
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show nude  
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In the painting Luncheon on the Grass, Victorine confronts the viewer with _________________. She reverses the roles between the viewer and the painted female nude.   show
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show Olympia  
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Not only does the female figure of Olympia confront the viewer with her direct gaze, but her __________________ further emphasizes our intrusion on the intimate scene.   show
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show false  
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Modern Art is a result of artists becoming disinterested in the naturalism of 19th Century Art. The artists of the Modern Era were looking for new means to make use of the expressive qualities of _________________________.   show
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The Romantic poet, ________________________, also wrote influential essays about painting and art.   show
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show Post-impressionism  
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show impression, sunrise  
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The Impressionists were a closely knit group of artists who exhibited together. Some of these artists included Monet, Renoir, Degas, and the American painter, ________________.   show
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show Edouard Manet  
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Between 1892 and 1894, Claude Monet painted over 30 pictures of the Gothic cathedral in ______________, France.   show
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Monet's late works of waterlilies approach _______________________ as he merges sky and water in a mixture of painted marks that capture the light and color of his garden in Giverny, France.   show
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show Moulin de la Galette  
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show true  
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Mary Cassatt's paintings of ______________________ focus on the connection and relationship between the figures.   show
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show false  
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Degas was one of the first painters to use ___________________ as a tool to study composition and figures.   show
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show Munich  
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The Expressionists produced images of modern Germany as ____________ world of anxiety and isolation.   show
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show The Blue RIder  
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For Kandinsky, painting is __________________ endeavor in which he wished to compose with pure form and color.   show
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show Norway  
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TRUE or FALSE: It is possible that Edvard Munch painted the red skies in The Scream because he observed dramatic red skies in Oslo due to the recent eruption of a volcano in Indonesia.   show
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show 1889  
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show an impasto  
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show Japan  
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show when perceived at a distance  
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Paul Gauguin looked for inspiration in places far from the rapidly growing cities of Europe. He first located in the provincial area of Brittany and later moved to _____________________.   show
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show in rural France  
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Emphasizing the structure and __________________ of the picture plane, Cezanne's method of painting was to break the form apart into geometric planes.   show
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Henri Matisse completed his pastoral painting, The Joy of Life, in __________________ at the onset of the 20th Century.   show
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Henri Matisse was associated with the radical movement, ______________________, whose name was derived from the French word for wild beast.   show
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Picasso's early paintings from the ____________ and the Rose Period were based upon contemporary people that the artist encountered.   show
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In 1906, Picasso began his large multi-figure painting, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, in part as response to paintings of the same subject matter by _______________ and Henri Matisse.   show
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show African masks  
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In Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, the simplification of human forms into geometric shapes is a _______________ Cubism.   show
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Pablo Picasso along with _____________________ created the art movement Cubism.   show
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show Salvador Dali  
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show false  
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The first exhibition of Surrealist art took place in _______________.   show
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show Man Ray  
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show New York City  
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show Color Field  
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show and gestural  
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Like Pollock's work, the paintings of _________________ are gestural and spontaneous.   show
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show Mark Rothko  
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Mark Rothko's paintings are composed of _______________ color.   show
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Minimalism followed Abstract Expressionism. Minimalists included painters but was largely a movement led by _____________________.   show
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Minimalist artworks are made with the same types of materials found in ________________.   show
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TRUE or FALSE: Many artworks by female artists have been wrongly and unjustly attributed to other, male artists.   show
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show The Guerilla Girls  
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show Judy Chicago  
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show Triangular  
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show Wirginia Wolfe  
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On the frontispiece of her manuscript Scivias, Hildegard of Bingen paints herself with ______________ rising above her.   show
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show false  
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show New Mexico  
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Although O'Keeffe is particularly well known for her large scale _______________, she produced hundreds of pictures of the hills and canyons of the desert landscape of New Mexico.   show
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show Mexican  
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show alchemical devices  
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show serial fashion  
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show true  
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show repetitive nets  
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Who said, "I am for an art that imitates the human, that is comic, if necessary, or violent, or whatever is necessary.?"   show
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show Andy Warhol  
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Andy Warhol began his career as ____________________.   show
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show an art gallery  
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show consumerist  
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show true  
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_______________________________ allowed Warhol to copy his own images using the same method as that used for commercial package designs.   show
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Andy Warhol became a globally recognized brand. In fact, he named his studio, _______________,where he hired assistants to help complete his works of art in the style of the manufacturing that so fascinated him.   show
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show comic book panels  
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Lichtenstein uses paint and stencil to imitate the look of commercial printing mimicking the _________________ of a mechanical printing method used in pulp comics.   show
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The contemporary artist _______________________ has been deeply influenced by the Pop Art movement.   show
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show Unlike Andy Warhol who employed dozens of assistants to help him complete his works of art, Jeff Koons prefers to work with only one trusted assistant.  
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Paying tribute to the costume designed for her by Jeff Koons, the pop artist _______________ sings, “One second I'm a Koons, then suddenly the Koons is me.”   show
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show 1960's  
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Postmodernism heralded a deepened interest in ___________________ and the emergence of artists who proactively seek to diversify museums and the stories told by art history.   show
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show public spaces  
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The postmodern artist Cindy Sherman is known for her _______________________.   show
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show is left ambiguous  
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In the 1908s, how many times did the atrists Keith Haring make chalk drawings in New York City subway stations by drawing over black matte paper that was used to cover advertisements who's contracts had expired   show
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The land and light artist __________ is a pioneer in the use of natural light as a medium of expression. His Skyspaces are environments designed for the viewer to experience the passage of light at dawn and at dusk.   show
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Contemporary British artist ______________________ uses the bodies of animals in his works of art, such as his famous The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living.   show
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show father of Video art  
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show Amy Sherald  
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Kehinde Wiley copies historic paintings from the past and recasts his own take on these traditional subjects using ________________________ as subjects,   show
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Bruce Nauman uses neon lights as a material to create his sculptures that often include __________________.   show
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show the human form  
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show performance  
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In 2010, Marina Abramović staged a blockbuster performance at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City entitled The Artist is Present. During the performance, she invites the viewer to _____________________ the performance.   show
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___________________ represents the human body using common daily objects such as candies, clocks, and stacks of papers.   show
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Each of the clocks in Perfect Lovers by Felix Gonzalez-Torres represents a _________________.   show
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show Nick Cave  
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