Unit 5

This group of Soviet artists created an entire art movement out of the process of assembling artworks.

a. Constructivists* b. Dadaists c. Fauves d. Social Realists e. Cubists

Donald Judd's Untitled (1967) is part of which movement?

a. Cubism b. Arte Povera c. Minimalism* d. Futurism e. Impressionism

This Spanish artist combined a bicycle seat and handlebars into a form that was reminiscent of a bull's head.

a. Marcel Duchamp b. Naum Gabo c. Georgia O'Keeffe d. Pablo Picasso* e. Lázló Moholy-Nagy

Piet Mondrian was a founder of which movement?

a. Minimalism b. Cubism c. Constructivism d. Suprematism e. De Stijl*

Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 was ________ the Armory Show in 1913.

a. well received by viewers at b. left out of c. seen as scandalous by viewers at* d. destroyed during e. none of the other answers

Roy Lichtenstein challenged traditional notions of the subject matter and appearance of fine art painting by embracing everyday subjects.

true

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) paid such artists as Aaron Douglas to make art.

true

The way that Jackson Pollock painted focused on the process of making art.

true

Grant Wood chose subjects that:

a. viewers could hardly recognize b. reflected his experience in Midwestern America* c. expressed the fun and feverish lifestyles of modern Europe d. were trained in non-Western sculptural practice e. could easily be confused with Gothic cathedrals

The work of Minimalist artists is generally made out of natural materials with an organic quality.

false

Donald Judd ordered the boxes for his Untitled artwork, made in 1967, from a factory.

true

Twentieth-century artists continued the explorations in representation started by the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists.

true

assemblage action painting visionary art readymade installation

- an artwork made out of three-dimensional found objects - a method of painting that uses the movement of the human body to apply paint to a surface - art by a self-taught artist following a personal vision - an everyday object presented as a work of art - a construction or arrangement of objects, which has been conceived to orchestrate a space

Aaron Douglas, the artist of Aspects of Negro American Life: From Slavery to Reconstruction, was particularly influenced by which of the following?

a. Minimalism, Polaroid cameras, and classical music b. Art Deco, Egyptian wall painting, African art, and Modernist abstraction* c. Italian Renaissance art, yo-yos, and gardening magazines d. Afro-Cuban dance, metal spatulas, and Where the Wild Things Are e. none of the other answers

Romare Bearden, the artist of Three Folk Musicians, was particularly influenced by which of the following?

a. Minimalism, Polaroid cameras, and classical music b. Cubism, African masks, and the Harlem Renaissance* c. the Italian Renaissance, yo-yos, and gardening magazines d. Afro-Cuban dance, metal spatulas, and Where the Wild Things Are e. none of the other answers

This American artist created a large earthwork titled Spiral Jetty in the Great Salt Lake in Utah in 1969-70.

a. Naum Gabo b. Susan Durant c. Damien Hirst d. Robert Smithson* e. Marcel Duchamp

The American Scene was:

a. a mural made in the heart of New Orleans b. a group of expatriates living in Paris c. America's first movement focused on abstraction d. a technique created by collaging US publications e. inspired by the harsh realities of the Great Depression*

Marcel Duchamp's Fountain is an example of ________.

a. a silkscreen print b. a collage c. a photomontage* d. an automatic drawing e. a readymade

What method of sculpture is the artist using when they assemble component parts in order to create an artwork?

a. bending b. repoussé c. construction* d. casting e. carving

How does Constantin Brancusi's Bird in Space distill the vital qualities of a bird?

a. by floating above the viewer b. by reminding us of bird or feather shapes or the soaring quality of flight* c. because it is accompanied by an audio recording of bird song d. by showing a flock of birds flying south for the winter e. because the artist covered its surface with feathers

What method of sculpture is the artist using when he or she gathers objects and fabricates them into an artwork?

a. casting b. assemblage* c. bending d. carving e. repoussé

This method of sculpture involves the construction of a space or the assembly of objects to create an environment, often encouraging a viewer to experience the work physically, using all of his or her senses

a. casting b. installation* c. carving d. conceptual e. modeling

Expressionism focuses on:

a. complexity, ambiguity, and external references b. what is felt rather than what is seen c. the subconscious mind and dream imagery d. stripping away emotions and underlying meaning* e. dynamic movement, progress, and modern technology

Joseph Kosuth's One and Three Chairs consists of ________.

a. copies of chairs from three famous artworks b. one chair reflected in a three-way mirror c. three chairs belonging to world leaders d. three things that a chair could never be e. three things that a chair could be*

Andy Warhol used commercial processes to create many of his works because ________.

a. his professor in art school told him to b. he wasn't an artist at all c. he wanted his work to have a depersonalized and mass-produced quality* d. he wanted to be able to hide his work in a grocery store for safe keeping e. all of the other answers

What is the medium of Romare Bearden's Three Folk Musicians?

a. photomontage b. assemblage c. readymade d. silkscreen e. collage*

Aaron Douglas's Aspects of Negro American Life: From Slavery to Reconstruction includes:

a. readymades b. silhouettes* c. collage d. jazz music e. none of the other answers

What innovation in art was Marcel Duchamp not responsible for?

a. readymades* b. conceptual art c. photomontage d. kinetic sculptures e. none of the other answers

This process involves taking over a pre-existing image or object and altering its appearance in a way that changes its original meaning or purpose.

a. repoussé b. pre-selection c. appropriation* d. felting e. exchanging

Artwork in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries can be ________.

a. representational b. abstract c. non-objective d. all of the previous answers* e. none of the previous answers

The technique used to make Andy Warhol's Thirty Are Better than One is ________.

a. silkscreen* b. photomontage c. readymade d. assemblage e. collage

Grant Wood's American Gothic is ________.

a. so big that the viewer has to walk around it to take it all in b. lifesize, to fool the viewer into thinking he or she is looking at reality c. intended to make fun of small-town America d. meant to reflect the American values of individuality, morality, and hard work* e. so small it has to be looked at with a microscope

The technique used by Roy Lichtenstein to show gradations in color in his Girl in Mirror was ________.

a. taught to him by Marcel Duchamp b. borrowed from newspaper printing and comics* c. very subtle and hard to see d. not at all what he intended in the first place e. none of the other answers

Piet Mondrian wanted to make artwork that appealed to ________.

a. the mind* b. the senses c. the masses d. the market e. all of the other answers

A dreamlike environment is created in Giorgio De Chirico's The Melancholy and Mystery of the Street by:

a. the unclear narrative* b. the looming shadow around the corner c. the gradations of colors in the sky d. the fact that the girl in the foreground is herself is a shadow e. all of the other answers

Conceptual art emphasizes ________.

a. the way the final artwork looks and exists in the world b. the ideas behind the artwork over its realization* c. how many theories an artwork can reference d. what is actually there over what we know to be there e. all of the other answers