APAH Unit 10 MCQ

One reason that the artist used a variety of patterned shapes and collage elements was to

camouflage the figure so it would blend into the background

With his installation A Book from the Sky, Xu Bing intended to elicit a response by confronting viewers with

characters that resemble real text but have no actual meaning

In their works Pisupa Lua Afe (Corned Beef 2000) and Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People), Michel Tuffery and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith incorporate everyday items primarily in order to

comment on the legacy of colonialism

Zaha Hadid's MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts is a contemporary building that references Roman architectural history through the use of

concrete, a material used by the ancient Romans to shape space

Emily Kame Kngwarreye's monumental painting Earth's Creation includes visual elements such as

dense gestural marks

For his installation En la Barberia no se Llora (No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop), Pepon Osorio combined a barbershop with various types of imagery primarily in order to

engage the audience in a reflection about cultural gender norms

Doris Salcedo's Shibboleth can be interpreted as relating the deep crack in the floor of the Tate Modern to

immigrant experience

A similarity between Jean-Michel Basquiat's Horn Players and Faith Ringgold's Dancing at the Louvre is that both works

include text elements

Which of the following statements accurately describes Mutu's Preying Mantra and Cindy Sherman's Untitled (#228) from the History Portraits series?

Both works use design and content to question traditional cultural assumptions.

Which of the following characteristics of Mariko Mori's Pure Land suggests that the artist is interested in Buddhism?

The lotus flower beneath the central figure

Which of the following features of Cindy Sherman's Untitled (#228) from the History Portraits series contributes the most to her comment on art historical models?

The use of photography in place of painting

In Jaune Quick-to-See Smith's Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People), the artist's choice to drip red paint over selected areas of the work's surface is intended to convey multiple meanings such as

anger and warfare

Despite the many unconventional elements of its design, Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, demonstrates continuity with earlier architectural traditions through its inclusion of

a central rotunda

In the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Maya Lin intended the monument's form to represent

a deep wound that will heal over time

In Lying with the Wolf, Kiki Smith reinterprets a well-known narrative by including visual references to

a fairy tale

Basquiat's Horn Players shows continuity with an artistic choice often associated with medieval religious works through the

adoption of the triptych format

In The Swing (after Fragonard), Yinka Shonibare recreates Fragonard's Rococo painting in order to

allude to the effects of European colonialism and question the morality of excess wealth

A common scholarly interpretation of Nam June Paik's work Electronic Superhighway is that the United States

is united more by electronic mass media than by roads

In Old Man's Cloth, the artist El Anatsui claims that one possible interpretation of his use of materials such as bottle caps to create meaning is that

liquor bottle caps represent the transatlantic trade for slaves and alcohol

Ai Weiwei's installation Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds) is made from

porcelain

The artist collages photographic imagery from across ethnographic and media sources in order to

produce a critique of how women's bodies are vulnerable to changing social norms

In order to express a connection with a medium that is typically linked to women, Faith Ringgold created Dancing at the Louvre as a mixed-media

story quilt

Shirin Neshat's Rebellious Silence, from the Women of Allah series, demonstrates the use of

symmetrical balance

Ai Weiwei's choice of material creates a link to much earlier Chinese works such as

the David Vases

A widely accepted interpretation of Ai Wei Wei's use of millions of sunflower seed sculptures in his installation Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds) is that

the combination of so many individual sunflower seed forms is meant to suggest a disregard by the Chinese government for individuality

Despite its visual links to Western abstract painting, Song Su-nam's Summer Trees demonstrates a clear connection with traditional Korean art through the artist's

use of brushes, rather than a pouring technique, to create the image