art hirstory sem 2 chapter 2
The American movement known initially as the Eight and then as the Ash Can School focused on the ____.
bleak and seedy aspects of city life
Artists of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism produced paintings that are abstract but ____.
express the artist's state of mind
Matisse deviated from traditional representations of domestic interiors by ____ and simplifying them.
flattening forms
A nonobjective work refers to work that ____.
has no reference to the external appearance of the physical world
Dorothea Lange's photograph of a migrant worker caused people to ____.
rush food to hungry workers
Although possessing the Realist passion for accuracy, Rosa Bonheur did not depict ____.
social and political themes
Géricault's Raft of the Medusa immortalized ____.
the aftermath of a French shipwreck
What about Goya's Third of May, 1808 epitomize Romanticism in art?
the contemporary subject matter the emotional drama of the scene the depiction of a martyr
Pollock's painting technique highlights the most significant aspect of gestural abstraction—the emphasis on ____.
the creative process
Who among the following artists did NOT paint images of the Romantic transcendental landscape?
Bonheur
A Romanian sculptor, the work of ____, emphasized natural and organic forms.
Brancusi
Which of the following artists is best known for his large-scale portraits?
Chuck Close
Which of the following artists was the most prominent member of the Hudson River School of landscape painting?
Cole
The leading figure of the Realist movement in France was ____.
Courbet
What style is described as compositions of shapes and forms abstracted from the conventionally conceived world?
Cubism
The photographer ____ was hired to document the deplorable living conditions of the rural poor.
Dorothea Lange
When did the center of the Western art world shift from Europe to the United States?
During the 1950s
Which of the following artists shared Stieglitz's concern to position photography as an art form with the same fine-art status as painting and sculpture?
Edward Weston
Which of the following painters illustrates Clement Greenberg's insistence "on purity in art"?
Frank Stella
Her work is often described as autobiographical because of her unflinching self-portrait portrayals. She gives the viewer a personal glimpse into herself and suffering. Which of the following artists does this describe?
Frida Kahlo
Color field painting emphasized painting's basic properties. Color field painters poured diluted paint onto unprimed canvas. Which of the following artists was a color field painter?
Helen Frankenthaler
The dominant figure of the Fauves, ____, believed that color should play a role in conveying meaning.
Henri Matisse
Which of the following artists was known for calling his work, Combines?
Robert Rauschenberg
Described as awe mixed with terror, the notion of the sublime influenced ____.
Romanticism
In Synthetic Cubist works, such as ____, artists constructed paintings and drawings from objects and shapes cut from paper or other materials.
Still-Life with Chair-Caning
____ explored ways to express in art the world of dreams and the unconscious.
Surrealism
Which of the following is NOT a social pressure on Impressionism?
The Civil War
What common feature do the Post Impressionists share?
They all came after Impressionism
What impact did Photography have on the Impressionists?
They painted the effect of light on mass
Which of the following statements best reflects works that were created by artists known as Pop Artists?
Works that drew inspiration from sources in popular and commercial culture.
Which of the following statements best describes Post-Modernism?
A reaction against Modernism, they used popular culture to undermine the notion of art as a original, precious work and that the viewer creates the meaning in art.
Cindy Sherman addressed the way that much Western art presents female beauty for the ____.
"male gaze"
The influence of ____ is evident in Rodin's interest in the effect of light on the sculpted surface.
Impressionism
Performance Art can be described as movements, gestures, and sounds of persons communicating. Which of the following describes the focus of Performance Art?
It replaces traditional stationary artworks.
Which of the following describes Joseph Beuys's purpose for his art?
It was illuminating the condition of modern humanity.
The terms gestural abstraction and action painting are most appropriately applied to the work of ____.
Jackson Pollock
Sargent's technique of applying paint in thin layers was influenced by ____.
Las Meninas
___ is known for her assembled sculptures of found wood objects and forms.
Louise Nevelson
The New York artist whose paintings became compositionally simple and focused on color was ____.
Mark Rothko
Eugéne Delacroix's, Liberty Leading the People demonstrates _______________ in Romantic history painting.
the depiction of a contemporary event the emphasis on emotion and drama the political potential of art
The French viewing public were greatly horrified by Manet's Olympia because of her ____.
unflinching, challenging gaze
Impressionist artists, including Degas, greatly admired the spatial organization and flat, unmodeled color areas of ____.
Although Morisot's interest in leisure activities aligned with the Impressionists, her paintings are inhabited by ____.
In Klimt's The Kiss, the patterning has clear ties to the ____ movement.
Art Nouveau
Which of the following artists explored the properties of light, plane, and color and their interrelationships?
Cézanne
Who said: "I want to make of Impressionism something solid and lasting like the art in the museums"?
Cézanne
What message is portrayed in Edward Hopper's Nighthawks?
Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash
____ was one of the first Romantic artists to depict the dark terrain of the subconscious.
Henry Fuseli
Cassatt's style of work owes much to which of the following?
Japanese prints
The ____ were the defenders of academism who insisted that line was superior to color.
Poussinistes
The American artist Thomas Eakins may have modeled the The Gross Clinic on ____.
Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
Which of the following ideas did Vincent van Gogh attempt to communicate in his Starry Night?
Vastness of the universe
Courbet's use of ____ in the The Stone Breakers further conveyed the dismal nature of manual labor?
a palette of dirty browns and grays
Constable's Haywain avoids the ____, which was a characteristic of the agrarian working class.
civil unrest
The goal of Dalí's "paranoiac-critical" method was to ____.
create images of inner reality and irrationality as concrete as the world of physical reality
Thomas Eakins believed that ____ and scientific knowledge were prerequisites for his art.
observation of Nature
In light of the 1848 revolution, Salon jurors considered Courbet's depiction of the rural poor in The Stone Breakers as ____.
socialistic
In contrast to artists of the French Academy, the Impressionists attempted to capture ____.
the fleeting aspects of reality
The real subject of Monet's Rouen Cathedral is ____.
the sunlight of the portal
Who said: "Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I have before my eyes, I use color more arbitrarily so as to express myself forcibly. . . . I have tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green. . . ."?
van Gogh
In Night Café the artist has communicated the "madness" of the place by selecting and juxtaposing ____.
vivid hues whose juxtaposition augmented their intensity
