AP Art History Chp. 30 Review
When did the center of the Western art world shift from Europe to the United States?
1950s (post World War II)
How did Allan Kaprow view art?
As an intersection of art and life; felt the act of creating art was more important than the finished product
How did Barnett Newman increase the capacity of color to communicate emotion?
By simplifying his compositions
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
Color field painting emphasized painting's basic properties. Color field painters poured diluted paint onto umprimed canvas. Which of the following artists was a color field painter?
Ellsworth Kelly, Helen Frakenthaer, Frank Stella, Morris Louis
To distinguish their performances from "happenings", Fluxus artists named theirs __.
Events
Which painter illustrates Clement Greenberg's insistence "on purity in art"?
Frank Stella
A good example of postmodern architecture is __.
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
Performance Art can be described as movements, gestures, and sounds of persons communicating. What is the focus of Performance Art?
Informality, spontaneity, pushing art away from commodity/the mainstream
How did Carolee Schneeman transform Performance Art?
Introduced a feminist dimension and challenged gender roles through the use of her body
The terms gestural abstraction and action painting are most appropriately applied to the work of
Jackson Polluck
Who was the sculptor who gravitated toward motion sculpture?
Jean Tinguely
__ is known for her assembled sculptures of found wood objects and form.
Louise Nevelson
The New York artist whose paintings became compositionally simple and focused on color was
Mark Rothko
The original installation __ from 1966 has been frequently interpreted by many as both Kusama's self-promotion and her protest of the commercialization of art
Narcissus Garden
What term best describes Happenings?
Participatory
__ sought to harness the communicative power of art to reach a wide audience.
Pop Artists
How did museum commissions of performance events neutralize Performance Art?
They neutralized the subversiveness characteristic of Performance Art
Beuys wanted "to shape our thoughts into words." Which of the following did he want to create?
Thinking Forms, Spoken Forms, Social Sculpture
Which of the following was the purpose of Performance Art?
To push mainstream art institutions; act as an antidote to pretentiousness; challenge art's function as commodity
Critics referred to Graves's Portland building as
an enlarged jukebox; oversized Christmas package; marzipan monstrosity; histrionic masquerade; pop surrealism
Post-painterly abstractionists differed from Abstract Expressionists in their __.
cool, detached reality emphasizing tighter pictorial control
John Cage encouraged his students to link their art to which of the following?
directly with life
What is the evidence of a Performance Art event?
documentary photographs taken during the event
Cindy Sherman addressed the way that much Western art presents female beauty for the __.
enjoyment of the male gaze
Artists of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism produced paintings that are abstract but
express the artist's state of mind
What was Joseph Beuys purpose for his art?
illuminating the condition of modern umanity
How did the Fluxus group see aesthetic potential?
nontraditional and commonplace
Pollock's painting techniques highlights the most significant aspect of gestural abstraction- the emphasis on __.
the creative process
