Art History - Homework 4

Superrealism is firmly rooted in a long, realistic tradition in the arts but, as a recognized artistic movements of the 1970s, it is also in part a reaction against _____

A. 20th-century abstraction and expressionism

Which of the following painters illustrates Clement Greenburg's insistence "on purity in art"?

A. Frank Stella

The term gestural abstraction and Action Painting are most appropriately applied to the work of ____

A. Jackson Pollock

Beuys wanted "to shape our thoughts into words." Which of the following did he want to create?

A. Social sculptures

Which of the following was the purpose of Performance Art?

A. To challenge art's function as commodity

Barbra Kureger's work takes on the slick design of contemporary advertising. Which of the following is her principle aim?

A. To expose the deceptiveness of media messages

Francis Bacon's Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef is a raw and distorted reworking of

A. Velazquez's Pope Innocent X

How did Barnett Newman increase the capacity of color to communicate emotion?

A. by simplifying the composition

John Cage encouraged his students to link their art to which of the following?

A. life

Kara Walker's ___ have captured the attention of the art world and given voice to her comments on the brutal history of race relations in America.

A. life-size paper cutouts

Because of the spontaneous and informal nature of Performance Art, which of the following was the primary medium?

A. the human body

Pop Art, and art that utilized the techniques of advertising, industrial design, and Hollywood movies were at their height during which of the following decades?

B. 1960s

Which of the following artists is best known for his large scale portraits?

B. Chuck Close

Pablo Picasso's Guernica is difficult to classify because it exhibits stylistic traits of

B. Cubism, Surrealism, and Expressionism

The work of ___ deals with the issue of who "controls the body."

B. Kiki Smith

Which of the following movements had a great distrust if the Western ideas of progress and objective truth and viewed all cultures as equally valid?

B. Postmodernism

The work of Adrian Piper is provocative and confrontational. She announces in a video installation, "I'm black." What is her motivation with this pronouncement?

B. She wants views to examine their behaviors and values

Which of the following describes what artists working in the Post-Painterly Abstractionist style believed?

B. Their works should contain no reference to the world outside their own compositions

How does Faith Ringgold address issues of gender and racism in her work?

B. by using fabrics, traditionally associated with women and incisive narrative

What is the evidence of a Performance Art event?

B. documentary photos at the time of the performance

One major source of inspiration for Jean-Michael Basquiat's art work was ____

B. jazz music

Marcel Duchamp created a new art form in which the artist makes nothing, but merely labels and object as art.

B. ready-mades

The term Cubism, coined by a hostile critic, is limiting because it is an inadequate description that ignore the movement's most significant contribution: a new treatment of pictorial space that ______

B. rendered objects from multiple and radically different views

The incinerated appearance of Anslem Kierfer's Nigredo recalls ___

B. the holocaust

Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) is thought to depict prostitutes displaying themselves in the city of

C. Barcelona

Which of the following earlier art styles formed the characterizing spirit of Performance Art?

C. Dada

____, once called the "most ambitious piece of jewelry since the crown jewels," is a diamond encrusted skull by British artist Damien Hirst.

C. For the Love of God

Color field painting emphasized painting's basic properties. Color field painters poured dilutes paint onto unprimed canvas. Which of the following artist was a color field painter?

C. Helen Frankenthaler

Chris Ofili explores traditional themes and approaches with cross-cultural eyes. Which of the following describes his work?

C. It is expressionistic in nature

Performance Art can be described as movement, gestures, and sounds of persons communicating. Which of the following describes the focus of Performance Art?

C. It replaces physical objects

Which of the following describes Joseph Beuys purpose for his art?

C. It was illuminating the condition of modern humanity

Who was the sculptor who believed that "the only stable thing is movement"?

C. Jean Tinguely

The New York artist whose paintings became compositionally simple and focused on color was ____

C. Mark Rothko

What was Andy Goldsworthy's Cracked Rock Spiral tribute to?

C. Robert Smithson and Spiral Jetty

In her Holocaust Memorial, Rachel Whiteread depicted the shapes of identical books as ____

C. a reference to the Jews as "the people of the book"

Which of the following describes the Portland Building located in Portland, Oregon?

C. an enlarged jukebox

When did the center of the Western art world shift from Europe to the United States?

C. during the 1940s

In his use of bright, single-color figures outlined in black, Keith Haring took inspiration from ____

C. graffiti

Mark Rothko is renowned for his ___

C. large, hazy-edged color field rectangles

What was the main focus of the work of the postwar New York School?

C. the art of painting itself

The polish artist, Krzysztof Wodiczko developed artwork involving ___

C. the projection of slide images outdoors

Which artist stated that she wanted her pieces to be "non art, non connotative, non anthropomorphic, non geometric, non nothing, everything, but kind, vision, sort"?

D. Eva Hesse

Which of the following describes Kruger's photo-collages?

D. They challenge cultural attitudes

Jenny Holzer's installation at Guggenheim museum consisted of ____

D. a large continuous LED display spiraling the interior ramp

Which of the following describes Happenings?

D. participatory

Cindy Sherman works in which medium representing the "male gaze"?

D. photography

In Robert Rauschenberg's combine painting The Bed, he uses a(n) ____ as his canvas.

D. quilt and pillow

How did Carolee Schneeman transform Performance Art?

D. she introduced a feminist dimension

Which of the following describes the work of Jackson Pollock?

D. significant departure from conventional painting

A good example of Postmodernism architecture is ____

Guggenheim Museum, New York