Art History 2 Quiz 9
Mark Tansey
A Short History of Modernist Painting
Many of Basquiat's paintings celebrate
Black Heros
Jenny Saville
Branded
Which of the following artist is best known for his large scale portraits?
Chuck Close
Sandow Birk
Death of Manuel
Francis Bacon
Figure with Meet
The terms gestural abstraction and action painting are most appropriately tied to the work of?
Jackson Pollock
Richard Hamilton
Just What It Is
The work of ______________ deals with the issue of who "controls the body"
Kiki Smith
_______ is known for her assembled sculptures of found wood objects and forms?
Lousie Nevelson
Cindy Sherman addressed the way that much Western art presents female beauty for the
Male Gaze
Andrey Flack
Marilyn
Andy Warhol
Marilyn Diptych
The New York artist whose paintings became compositionally simple and focused on the color was?
Mark Rothko
The earth art of Christo and Jean-Claude did not alter the land, but rather?
Modified it with cloth
Kehinde Wiley
Napoleon Leading the Army...
When did the center of Western art shift from Europe to the United States?
Postmodernism
________________ is the gay artist whose show "The Perfect Moment" was cancelled for its openly gay character
Robert Mapplethorpe
Robert Mapplethorpe
Self Portrait
Chris Ofili represented ___________ in a manner that departed radically from conventional repersentation
The Virgin Mary
In Willie Bester's Homage to Steve Biko, the numbers refer to?
The dehumanized life of Black Africans under apartheid
The Polish artist Krzysztof Wodiczko developed artworks involving______________
The projection of slide images outdoors
Which of the following was the purpose of performance art?
To challenge art's function as a commodity
Barbara Kruger's work takes on the slick design of contemporary advertising. Which of the following was her principal aim?
To expose the deceptiveness of media messages
William de Kooning
Woman 1