Art History Test 3 Study Guide

Which of the following influenced Degas in his technique of using spatial projections and off-center empty space to create illusion and direct the viewer's attention into the picture?

18th century Japanese woodblock prints

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

1960s

Which of the following artists created large-scale, kinetic sculptures?

Alexander Calder

"...I believe in the future resolution of the states of dream and reality, in appearance so contradictory, in a sort of absolute reality, or surreality." This definition of Surrealism was written by ____?

Andre Breton

Which of the following architects conceived the building as a whole and molded it almost as a clay sculpture?

Antonio Gaudi

The Chrysler Building by William van Alen has elements from which of the following styles?

Art Deco

Who wrote, "All my life I have sought the essence of flight. Don't look for the mysteries. I give you pure joy. Look at the sculptures until you see them. Those nearest to God have seen them."

Brancusi

Which of the following artists explored the properties of light, plane, and color and their interrelationships?

Cezanne

Who said: "I want to make of Impressionism something solid and lasting like the art in the museums"?

Cezanne

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

Chuck Close

Which of the following artist was most concerned with painting realistic scenes of poor and oppressed peoples?

Courbet

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

Dada

Which of the following statements about Dada is true?

Dada had no fixed ideas

Which artist revealed the racism embedded in received cultural heritage through his work selecting dynamic found objects and by encouraging viewer interaction?

David Hammons

Monet's Rouen Cathedral is a series that observed the same viewpoint during which of the following?

Different times of the day

Berthe Morisot focused her work in the only area allowed her as a woman in upper-class French society. Which of the following was that area?

Domestic Scenes

Who photographed the rural poor displaced by the Great Depression in the 1930s?

Dorothea Lange

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

During the 1940s

Which of the following works demonstrates the Futurists' interest in motion?

Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash

Which of the following artist shared Stieglitz's concern to position photography as an art form with the same fine-art status as painting and sculpture?

Edward Weston

The Camps de Mars or the Red Tower by Robert Delaunay depicts which of the following structures?

Eiffel Tower

Which artist, even though he was older than the Die Brucke artists, was invited to join them because he was pursuing similar ideas in his work?

Emile Nolde

The hovering figure that served as a memorial to those who died in WW1 was created by ____.

Ernst Barlach

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

Eva Hesse

Which of the Blaue Reiter artists found animals superior to humans as the subject for his art?

Franz Marc

Which artists criticized the greed and capitalism that served as the root of war in works such as The Eclipse of the Sun?

Grosz

A good example of Postmodernist architecture is ____.

Guggenheim Museum, Bibao

How did Allan Kaprow view art?

He viewed it as an intersection of art and life

Color Field painting emphasized basic properties. Color field painters poured diluted paint onto unprimed canvas. Which of the following artists was a color field painter?

Helen Frankenthaler

Who said: "...we rejected imitative colors, and that with pure colors we obtained stronger reactions..."?

Henri MatisseEmil

One aspect of Robin's work that ties him to Impressionism is ___.

His concern for light on sculpted surfaces

Georges Seurat differed from the Impressionist painters in which of the following ways?

His disciplined and painstaking application of the color theories of men like Delacroix, Helmholtz, and Chevreul

____ is an example of High-Tech architecture?

Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank

In Klimt's The Kiss, the artist has captured the flamboyance and decadence of the period. How was this painting a visual manifestation of the fin de siecle?

It captured a decadence conveyed by opulent and sensuous image

Antonio Gaudi longed to create an architectural style that was both modern and appropriate for his native country of Spain. How does Casa Mila represent his ability to conceive a building as a whole and mold it almost as a sculptor would create a figure from clay?

It is a free-form mass wrapped around a street corner

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

It was illuminating the condition of modern humanity

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

Jackson Pollock

Cassatt's style of work owes much to which of the following?

Japanese prints

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

Jean Tinguely

The work of ____ deals with the issue of who "controls the body"/

Kiki Smith

William Morris helped to shape the Arts and Crafts movement through his support of high quality craftsmanship and design based on natural forms. Which of the following artists was also a member of the Arts and Crafts movement?

Louis Comfort Tiffany

Who is the artist who created a work of art that can be described as "a wickedly funny gift"?

Man Ray

Symbolism and fantasy were joined to create works filled with visionary joy and despair by which of the following artists?

Marc Chagall

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

Mark Rothko

Hans Haacke's work, ___, demonstrated the connection between art and political and economic interests.

MetroMobiltan

A good example of Postmodernist architecture is ____.

Portland Building, Portland

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

Postmodernism

Which of the following artists is categorized as a Symbolist?

Redon

___ is gay artist whose show, The Perfect Moment, was cancelled for its openly gar character.

Robert Mapplethorpe

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

Robert Smithson and Spiral Jetty

Who is the Surrealist?

Salvador Dali

What message did Vera Mukhina convey in her work entitled the Worker and the Collective Farm Worker?

She glorified the communal labor of the Soviet people

How did Carolee Schneeman transform Performance Art?

She introduced a feminist dimension

Which of the following is executed in the Synthetic Cubist style?

Still-Life with Chair-Caning

Which of the following artists created a modern American art style combining Synthetic Cubism with jazz tempos and his perception of the fast-paced American culture?

Stuart Davis

Extreme subjectivity and the need to see through reality to a deeper reality was most typical of which of the following styles?

Symbolists

How did museum commissions of performance events neutralize Performance Art?

The commissions neutralize the subversiveness

What message is portrayed in Edward Hopper's Nighthawks?

The pervasive loneliness of modern humans

What is the most important feature of Sullivan's Prudential Building that distinguishes it from earlier structures?

The reflection of the subdivision of the interior spaces in the outer structure

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

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

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

They challenge cultural attitudes

In The Night Cafe, the artist has shown us a benign scene yet the scene has a sense of charged energy and oppressive atmosphere. How did the artist communicate this?

Through use of vivid hues whose juxtaposition augmented their intensity

Which of the following was the purpose of Performance Art?

To challenge art's function as commodity

Barbara Kruger's work takes on the slick design of contemporary advertising. Which of the following is her principal aim?

To expose the deceptiveness of media messages

Who was a denizen of the night world of Paris, consorting with the tawdry population of entertainers, prostitutes and other social outcasts?

Toulouse-Lautrec

Which of the following ideas did Vincent van Gogh attempt to communicate in his Starry Night?

Vastness of the universe

In the artist's eyes, the Fate of the Animals was almost a premonition of which historical event?

WW1

Which of the following works of art was melted down for ammunition by Nazis in 1937?

War Monument

Jenny Holzer's installation at Guggenheim museum consisted of ____.

a large continuous LED display spiraling the interior ramp

In her Holocaust Memorial, Rachel Whiteread depicts the shapes of identical books as ___.

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

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

an enlarged jukebox

By placing herself as a spectator of the Last Supper in her Self-Portrait Looking at the Last Supper, Marisol Escobar emphasized the artist as a creator and ___.

as a viewer of earlier artists

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

by simplifying the composition

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

by using fabrics, traditionally associated with women and incisive narrative

What is the evidence of a Performance Art event?

documentary photos at the time of the performance

The harnessing of solar power is one of the central features of ___ architecture.

green

A nonobjective work refers to work that ____.

has no reference to the external appearance of the physical world

How did the Fluxus group aesthetic potential?

in the nontraditional and commonplace

How does the architecture of Gunter Behnisch express Deconstructivist architecture?

it avoids the suggestion of a clear, stable mass

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

life

The work of Melvin Edwards is very evocative. He uses small found metal objects that he intertwines and welds together creating a haunting theme. Which of the following is that theme?

lynching

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

photography

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?

she wants viewers to examine their behaviors and values

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

social sculptures

The incinerated appearance of Anslem Kierfer's Nigredo recalls ___.

the Holocaust

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

the act of painting itself

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

the human body

The polish artist, Krzysztof Wodiczko developed artworks involving ____.

the projection of slide images outdoors

Thomas Hart Benton, a Regionalist artist, focused his attention on which of the following subjects?

the social history of Missouri

Who said: "Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I have before my eyes, I use color more arbitrarily so as to express myself forcibly...I have tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green..."?

van Gogh