What is minstrelsy?
A. A medieval practice wherein bards sang their
poems to a crowd while dancing and playing a flute
known as the Aulis.
B. A controversial form popular during the 19th
century in which white performers in black face
performed their impressions of slave music, dances,
and culture
C. Dances by actual slaves in America that became
very popular right before the American Civil War
D. A form popular beginning in the 18th century that
interpolated lyrics set to tunes of popular songs or
ballads into otherwise spoken drama
B.
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Diego Velázquez's Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor) is considered a complex painting, most notably because of
a. the number of figures in it. b. its focus on individual actions. c. the obscurity of its symbolism. d. its competing focal points.
Henri Matisse's Blue Nude tries to express the artist's feelings about the nude as an object of aesthetic interest
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Although associated with the Academy, Gustave Moreau's sensuous treatment of biblical themes served as a precursor to which art movement?
A. Neo-Impressionism B. Symbolism C. Impressionism D. the Pre-Raphaelites
In the early history of the Italian peninsula, which of the following peoples controlled modern-day Rome?
A. the Romans B. the Phoenicians C. the Latins D. the Etruscans