Art history Exam 3

Picasso's radical painting Les Demoiselles D'Avingnon reveals his fascination with ancient Iberian sculpture as well as the artistic traditions of which content?

Africa

Post-painterly abstractionists most differed from Abstract Expressionists in which aspect of their work?

Cool, detached rationality

What term was applied to Surrealist and other avant-garde art by Hitler and the Nazi regime in 1930s and 1940s Germany?

Degenerate

Which photographer was hired by the US Resettlement Administration to document the deplorable living conditions of the rural poor?

Dorothea Lange

Nude figure studies and self-portraits showing emancipated bodies were the primary output of which artist?

Egon Schiele

Vassily Kadinsky's move to abstraction rather than representation can be attributed to the scientific theories of which individual?

Einstein

What did Dadaists believe led to the destruction and loss of life of World War 1?

Enlightenment ideals

What is the primary material used by Faith Ringgold in her art?

Fabric

What us the name of the early-20th-century movement that painted works or simplified design but shockingly bright coloration?

Fauvism

The politically motivated artists who created large Mexican mural pictorial programs were promoted of which system of thought?

Marxism

Thomas Hart Benton created a series of murals detailing the history of which US state?

Missouri

Which two artists were the founders of Cubanism, with its rejection of pictorial illusionism?

Picasso and Braque

Which 20th-century art movement sought to harness the communication power of art to reach a wide audience?

Pop Art

What uniquely American style combined Synthetic Cubism with a fascination with the presence of machinery in contemporary life?

Precisionism

Grant Woods painting American Gothic is an example of which painting style?

Regionalism

What artist chose to employ the commercial printing technique of bendy dots on a large scale?

Roy Lichtenstein

Which artist painted The Persistence of Memory?

Salvador Dali

What event ended the relative isolation of the American art scene and inspired the development of American modernist art?

The Armory Show

What is the intended message of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks?

The pervasive loneliness of modern humans

Regionalist artist Thomas Hart Benton focused his attention on which of the following subjects?

The social history of Missouri

Andre Derain's Mountains at Collioure reflects his close study of which earlier painter?

Vincent van Gogh

the breaking down of national stylistic boundaries is most evident in which contemporary art form?

architecture

Which of the following best describes Barbara Kruger's photo-collages?

they are meant to challenge cultural attitudes around gender

Which of the following is Barbara Kruger's principal aim in taking on the slick design of contemporary advertising in her work?

to expose the deceptiveness of media messages

Who were the two leading the painter of the Harlem Renaissance?

Aaron Douglas and Jacob Lawrence

What do many Basquiat's paintings celebrate?

African American heroes

At the turn of the 20th century, artists who were viewed as being ahead of their time and who transgressed the limits of established art forms are referred to by what term?

Avant-garde

How does Faith Ringgold use her particular artistic medium to address issues of gender and racism?

by using fabrics, traditionally associated with women and incisive narrative

What art movement arose in the United States as a result of the emigration of European artists after WW2?

Abstract expressionism

The image of the Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange was taken in which US state?

California

What is Frida Kahlo referring to in her painting The Two Fridas?

Her ancestry

What painting technique did Jean Dubuffet employ in Vie Inquiete (uneasy life)?

Impasto

In what country did the early 20th century Futurist movement, with its revolutionary manifestos, arise?

Italy

The work of which artist exemplifies gestural abstraction?

Jackson Pollock

Which painter revolutionized the preparations and use of the canvas?

Jackson Pollock

Which artist painted a 60-panel series of paintings entilted The Migration of the Negro that was intended to document discrimination against African Americans?

Jacob Lawrence

How did viewers react to Dorothea Lange's photograph entitled Migrant Mother, Nipomo Valley?

They rushed to send food to hungry workers

Which of the following was NOT one of Judy Chicago's intentions in creating The Dinner Party?

To emphasize the feminine virtues of loyalty and subservience

Which element of a painting did Matisse view as the primary conveyor of meaning?

color

which of the following works is the product of its creators study of the way advertising shapes public attitudes?

hamilton, Just What is the product of its creator's study of the way advertising shapes public attitudes?

Which African American artist appears in all of the photographs in her Kitchen Table series?

Carrie Mae Weems

Whose highly personal work is often described as autobiographical because of her unflinching self-portrait portrayals which give the viewer a glimpse into her suffering?

Frida Kahlo

What tutle did Arshile Gorky give to this work?

Garden in Sochi

Which artist created this exploration of the contemporary situation of Native Americans in the United States?

Jaune Quick-to-see-smith

Who was the postwar Expressionist artist who theorized about art brut?

Jean Dubuffet

The work of which artist reflects the legacy of Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol?

Jeff Koons

The theme of grieving mother holding her dead child was explored in many works by which German Expressionist artist?

Kathe Kollwitz

Which artist reworks historically important portraits by setting an African American individual in a reproduces pose but against a wallpaper-like background?

Kehinde Wiley

In Grant Wood's iconic American Gothic, what feature in the image invokes religious piety?

Lancet window of house

Marcel Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even is a commentary on modern humans' similarity to what?

Machines

The most derided work at the Armory Show, Nude Descending a Staircase, No.2, is by which artist?

Marcel Duchamp

Which Dada artist modified mass-produced objects into "readymades" given the status of art in the eyes of viewers?

Marcel Duchamp

American Regionalist painters focused primarily on subjects located in which area of the the United States?

Midwest