The Abbasids overthrew the Umayyad caliphs and established a new capital at ____

a. Damascus
b. Baghdad
c. Medina
d. Isfahan

b

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Aaron Douglas's style is a unique fusion of African art, the artist's own personal vision, and what European style?

A painting features overlapping, silhouetted figures rendered in washed out earth tones, behind cotton plants in the foreground. A central figure stands on a raised platform and points toward a domed building on a hill in the background. Other figures pick cotton, play the trumpet, and dance. Behind them, men in robes and tall, peaked hats ride horses and wave clubs. The painting is overlaid with faint concentric circular patterns.

a. Photomontage
b. Surrealism
c. Synthetic Cubism
d. Dada

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Garnier revived the __________ style in The Opéra (Fig. 31-2), that earlier period of French greatness

A. Gothic B. Byzantine C. Baroque D. Oriental

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