Art 100 Ch. 22 From Modern to Postmodern
What are the common characteristics of Abstract Expressionist works?
A large scale, Nonrepresentatonal subjects, The technique of automation
By which other name were the artists of the New York School known?
Abstract Expressionists
During the 1960s and 1970s, artists were still concerned with jolting the American public out of its complacent, conformist society and into _____.
Awareness
The artist Mark Rothko is most closely associated with which artistic movement?
Color Field Painting
At the beginning of the 20th century, in works such as Still Life on Table :"Gillette" and The Emigrant, _____ artists began incorporating text into art
Cubist
What are common characteristics found in Minimalist sculptures?
Emphasis on simple geometric shapes, Use of industrial materials
True or false: Photorealism cannot exist without photography, and vice versa
False
How did Andy Warhol incorporate his Eastern Orthodox background into his art?
He turned celebrities into cultural icons
Which of the following artists continued to explore new expressions of color field painting, expanding on the innovations of the original New York school painters?
Helen Frankenthaler
Why is Georges Pompidou Netional Center of Art and Culture a famous piece of architecture?
It is turned inside out, with exposed duct work and an escalator going up the side
Walter de Maria's The Lightning Field is an example of _____ art.
Land
Pop artists dealt with which of the following types of subject matter?
Mass-produced images from advertising and the media
Conceptual art has a strong connection with which other movement?
Minimalism
Works such as Donald Judd's Untitled (Stack), with its simple repeating iron boxes, fits into which 20th-century art movement?
Minimalism
Using color and line to evoke emotion in painting like work Starry Night, the Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh inspired the Expressionists. The Expressionists' depth of emotion, in turn, influenced the
Neo-Expressionists
After World War II the focus of the art world shifted from Paris to what other city?
New York
Which era allowed for the birth of installation art?
Postmodern era
How is color separated in hard-edge painting?
Sharp, precise edges
Text, moving images, and _____ are all key components of digital information
Sound
Which of the following did Jasper Johns use as motifs for his paintings?
The American Flag and targets
In the early 1960s, what location was the center of Andy Warhol's artistic production?
The Factory
Developed out of Postmodern modes of thinking, what does pluralism recognize?
There is no central art movement
Even though the Abstract Expressionists developed different styles, all of their works had which element in common?
They were large-scale works.
Whereas Minimalism favors tough industrial materials, Process art tends to favor what kinds of materials?
Unconventional, ephemeral, and temporary materials
Appropriation acknowledges that because images move throughout history in such a great degree, anyone can
Use them
Video technology made it possible to further the discussion about whether artworks needed to be
actual objects or not
Robert Rauschenberg called his work _____ paintings, or assemblage, because they combined oil, cloth, pencil, newspaper, and other materials
combine
Judy Chicago is a feminist artist whose piece The Dinner Party is about
elevating the activities of women, such as sewing, weaving, and ceramics, to the level of art.
Conceptual art is art in which the _____ is the most important aspect, and the form is secondary
idea
Due to its ephemeral and nonphysical nature, art created on the Internet can
never be truly owned in the way a singular painting or sculpture can
Abstraction and Photorealism could both be categorized as
nonrepresentational art
The "happenings" of the Neo-Dada movement developed as a reaction to the
post-war complacency, conformity, and prosperity of American life
In the 1960s, the loose collective of trends known as _____ permananently changed our understanding of the kinds of materials, objects, and activities than can be considered art
postminimalism
The term action painting was coined in reference to the work of Jackson Pollock and other artists whose interest was in the
process or act of creation
An example of products overlapping both art and craft is
textiles and tapestries
A unifying factor between body art and performance art is
the presence of the artist within the work of art
The Guerrilla Girls wear gorilla masks at their public appearances but choose to use the spelling guerrilla because
they use the shock and awe technique of guerrilla warfare
