Who found a lucrative market in the production of fruit and flower paintings?
Lilly Martin Spencer
100
What artist also practiced ventriloquism?
Raphaelle Peale
100
What images did Santeros depict in their art?
Saints and the Holy Family
100
What was the most common furniture item created in New Mexico?
Chests p. 206
100
What European technology made it possible to document important events in the Mexican war by making hundreds of prints with little expense using one stone?
The lithograph
200
Why was still life considered to be the bottom rung of the "aesthetic ladder"?
- It dealt with "low objects" and "dead things"
-Rejected the human form
200
What is one of the earliest references to deception paintings?
Ancient Greece
200
Who were two prominent santeros in the early 19th century?
Pedro Antonio Fresquis and Rafael Aragon p. 204
200
What was the typical pattern found on serapes?
Zig Zag stripes and diamonds p. 208
200
What classes are represented in Krimmel's painting Quilting Frolic?
peasant, merchant, artisinal
300
Who was the first "fine artist" in the U.S. to focus on the category of still life painting?
Raphaelle Peale
300
Why do some still lifes create feelings of anxiety and discomfort?
Elements in the painting (like tables/shelfs) separate the viewer from objects that they desire (like fruits and vegetables)
300
What were the wooden sculptures created by Aragon called?
Bultos p. 205
300
When was the class period of Navajo weaving?
1820s to 1860s
300
What was The Storming of the Teocalli by Cortez and his Troops patterned after?
William H. Prescott's History of the Conquest in Mexico. p. 198
400
When did fruit and vegetables dominate still-life paintings?
The First half of the 17th century.
400
What type of paintings were deceptions?
Tricked the eye into believing that what one saw was real, not a painting p. 187
400
How were death figures presented in the American Southwest?
Seated in simple wooden carts and dressed in women's clothing.
400
After Mexico gained independence from Spain what did the serape symbolize?
Mexican nationalism.
400
What do the two individuals represent in Woodville's painting Old 76 and Young 48?
The revolutionary war of 1776 and the war between the U.S. and Mexico.
500
What pair of relatives were prominent still-life painters in the 19th century?
James Peale, Raphaelle Peale
500
What insect is pictured in Raphaelle Peale's painting Fruit Piece with Peaches covered by a handkerchief?
A wasp
500
Who's arival marked the decline of the santero school?
Jean-Baptiste Lamy
500
What type of looms did the friars teach the Natives to use?
Treadle looms. p 207
500
What painting is known for its inclusion of a black man in the center foreground leading a white woman and child on a mule?
Westward the Course of Empire takes its Way (Westward Ho!)