Chapter 30
When did the center of the Western art world shift from Europe to the United States?
1920s
This original installation _____ from 1966 has been interpreted by many as both Kusama's self-promotion and her protest of their commercialization of art.
Ala and Amadoha
How did Barnett Newman increase the capacity of color to communicate emotion?
By simplifying the composition
Which artist is best known for his large scale portraits?
Chuck Close
A leader in performance art, John Cage brought to music the ideas of _____ and eastern philosophy.
Duchamp
To distinguish their performance from happenings, Fluxus artists named theirs ______.
Events
Which painter illustrates Clement Greenberg's insistence on "purity in art"?
Frank Stella
A good example of postmodernist architecture is
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
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
How did Carolee Schneeman transform Performance art?
Introduced a feminist dimension
Who was the sculptor who gravitated toward motion sculpture?
Jean Tinguely
The terms gestural abstraction and action painting are most appropriately applied to the work of
John Pollock
John Cage encourage his students to link their art to which of the following?
Life
____ is known for her assembled sculptures of found wood objects and forms.
Louise Nevelso
The NY artist whose paintings became compositionally simple and focused on color was
Mark Rothco
Cindy Sherman addressed the way that much Western Art presents female beauty for the ______.
Photography
____ sought to harness the communicative power of art to reach a wide audience.
Pop AART
How did Allan Kaprow view art?
art was the actual process of life
What is the evidence of a performance art event?
documentary photos at the time of the performance
Critics referred to Graves' Portland Building as ____.
enlarged jukebox.
Artists of the NY School of Abstract Expressionism produced paintings that are abstract but
expressed their state of mind
What was Joseph Beuys purpose for his art?
illuminating the condition of modern humanity
Performance Art can be described as movements, gestures, and sounds of persons communicating. What is the focus of Performance Art?
it replaces the physical object
how did the fluxus group see aesthetic potential?
nontraditional and commonplace
What term best describes happenings?
particapatory
Pollock's paintings technique highlights the most significant aspect of gestural abstraction-- the emphasis on
significant departure from conventional painting
Beuys wanted to shape our thoughts into words. Which of the following did he want to create?
social sculpture
How did museum commissions of performance events neutralize Performance Art?
the commissions neutralized the subversiveness
Post-painterly abstractionists different from Abstract Expressionists in their
their works should contain no reference to the world outside their own compositions
Which of the following was the purpose of Performance Art?
to challenge art's function as a commodity.
