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Pablo Picasso’s painting of Gertrude Stein became more abstract than originally intended. What does the painting of Stein reflect?

Picasso’s subjective interpretation.A lack of unity.Expressive use of color.Postmodern ideas.Picasso's dislike of Stein.

Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d´Avignon started out as a very different composition from the final painting. How was this discovered?

Outlines of the first painting were revealed during cleaning.It was discoverd from letters written to his brother.The underpainting is by another artist.A second painting was recently found.It was discoved from early sketches and X-rays.

Like Monet's Grainstack, Dürer's Large Turf is an example of the representation of what?

the abstractthe mindthe spiritualeveryday lifenature

We tend to view everyday objects made in African, Oceanic, Native American, or Asian cultures as "works of art," but they may actually be what?

definitions of family and community relationshipssacred toolsdocumentation of momentous events in the history of a peoplesimple utilitarian toolsAll of the above.

Which artist, nearly six-hundred years ago, created one of the most successful depictions of God in Western culture as part of an altarpiece?

Pieter SaenredamMatthias GrünewaldRené MagritteJan van EyckPedro Perez

Which artist's work could be described as surrealistic?

Joan MiróRobert MotherwellPablo PicassoSalvador DaliAll of the above.

Grünewald's Crucifixion shows how beauty can arise out of what?

naturethe human bodyeveryday lifeharmonyhorror

In Philippe de Champaigne's Still Life, the viewer is reminded that an aspect of the world is fleeting. What is this aspect?

the materiallightbeautytimeAll of the above.

The vanitas tradition of still life painting is specifically designed to induce what in the spectator?

a reminder of deatha higher order of thoughta sense of the beautifula sense of permanenceNone of the above.

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