APAH Unit 10 MCQ
One reason that the artist used a variety of patterned shapes and collage elements was to
camouflage the figure so it would blend into the background
With his installation A Book from the Sky, Xu Bing intended to elicit a response by confronting viewers with
characters that resemble real text but have no actual meaning
In their works Pisupa Lua Afe (Corned Beef 2000) and Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People), Michel Tuffery and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith incorporate everyday items primarily in order to
comment on the legacy of colonialism
Zaha Hadid's MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts is a contemporary building that references Roman architectural history through the use of
concrete, a material used by the ancient Romans to shape space
Emily Kame Kngwarreye's monumental painting Earth's Creation includes visual elements such as
dense gestural marks
For his installation En la Barberia no se Llora (No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop), Pepon Osorio combined a barbershop with various types of imagery primarily in order to
engage the audience in a reflection about cultural gender norms
Doris Salcedo's Shibboleth can be interpreted as relating the deep crack in the floor of the Tate Modern to
immigrant experience
A similarity between Jean-Michel Basquiat's Horn Players and Faith Ringgold's Dancing at the Louvre is that both works
include text elements
Which of the following statements accurately describes Mutu's Preying Mantra and Cindy Sherman's Untitled (#228) from the History Portraits series?
Both works use design and content to question traditional cultural assumptions.
Which of the following characteristics of Mariko Mori's Pure Land suggests that the artist is interested in Buddhism?
The lotus flower beneath the central figure
Which of the following features of Cindy Sherman's Untitled (#228) from the History Portraits series contributes the most to her comment on art historical models?
The use of photography in place of painting
In Jaune Quick-to-See Smith's Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People), the artist's choice to drip red paint over selected areas of the work's surface is intended to convey multiple meanings such as
anger and warfare
Despite the many unconventional elements of its design, Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, demonstrates continuity with earlier architectural traditions through its inclusion of
a central rotunda
In the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Maya Lin intended the monument's form to represent
a deep wound that will heal over time
In Lying with the Wolf, Kiki Smith reinterprets a well-known narrative by including visual references to
a fairy tale
Basquiat's Horn Players shows continuity with an artistic choice often associated with medieval religious works through the
adoption of the triptych format
In The Swing (after Fragonard), Yinka Shonibare recreates Fragonard's Rococo painting in order to
allude to the effects of European colonialism and question the morality of excess wealth
A common scholarly interpretation of Nam June Paik's work Electronic Superhighway is that the United States
is united more by electronic mass media than by roads
In Old Man's Cloth, the artist El Anatsui claims that one possible interpretation of his use of materials such as bottle caps to create meaning is that
liquor bottle caps represent the transatlantic trade for slaves and alcohol
Ai Weiwei's installation Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds) is made from
porcelain
The artist collages photographic imagery from across ethnographic and media sources in order to
produce a critique of how women's bodies are vulnerable to changing social norms
In order to express a connection with a medium that is typically linked to women, Faith Ringgold created Dancing at the Louvre as a mixed-media
story quilt
Shirin Neshat's Rebellious Silence, from the Women of Allah series, demonstrates the use of
symmetrical balance
Ai Weiwei's choice of material creates a link to much earlier Chinese works such as
the David Vases
A widely accepted interpretation of Ai Wei Wei's use of millions of sunflower seed sculptures in his installation Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds) is that
the combination of so many individual sunflower seed forms is meant to suggest a disregard by the Chinese government for individuality
Despite its visual links to Western abstract painting, Song Su-nam's Summer Trees demonstrates a clear connection with traditional Korean art through the artist's
use of brushes, rather than a pouring technique, to create the image