Art Ren Final pt 2
In the ____ style of Surrealism, artists presented recognizable scenes that transformed into a dream or nightmare.
naturalistic
Cindy Sherman addressed the way that much Western art presents female beauty for the ____.
"male gaze"
Which of the following artists created large-scale, kinetic sculptures?
Alexander Calder
How does Faith Ringgold address issues of gender and racism in her work?
By using fabrics, traditionally associated with women and incisive narrative
Which of the following artists is best known for his large-scale portraits?
Chuck Close
Which of the following statements about Dada is true?
Dada aimed to undermine traditional notions about art.
When did the center of the Western art world shift from Europe to the United States?
During the 1950s
Which phrase best expresses the sculptural style of Boccioni?
Dynamic movement
How did Allan Kaprow view art?
He viewed it as an intersection of art and life.
Color field painting emphasized painting's basic properties. Color field painters poured diluted paint onto unprimed canvas. Which of the following artists was a color field painter?
Helen Frankenthaler
The dominant figure of the Fauves, ____, believed that color should play a role in conveying meaning.
Henri Matisse
The terms gestural abstraction and action painting are most appropriately applied to the work of ____.
Jackson Pollock
____ developed the theory of Neoplasticism.
Mondrian
Which of the following describes Happenings?
Participatory
____ is the gay artist whose show, The Perfect Moment, was cancelled for its openly gay character.
Robert Mapplethorpe
How did Carolee Schneeman transform Performance Art?
She introduced a feminist dimension.
What is the purpose of Shirin Neshat's art?
She wants to question the fundamentalist Islamic regime in Iran.
Beuys wanted "to shape our thoughts into words." Which of the following did he want to create?
Social sculptures
In Synthetic Cubist works, such as ____, artists constructed paintings and drawings from objects and shapes cut from paper or other materials.
Still-Life with Chair-Caning
Which of the following describes Barbara Kruger's photo-collages?
They challenge cultural attitudes.
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
Jenny Holzer's installation at the Guggenheim Museum consisted of ____.
a large continuous LED display spiraling the interior ramp
Post-painterly Abstractionists differed from Abstract Expressionists in their ____.
cool, detached rationality
The goal of Dalí's "paranoiac-critical" method was to ____.
create images of inner reality and irrationality as concrete as the world of physical reality
Matisse deviated from traditional representations of domestic interiors by ____ and simplifying them.
flattening forms
Elizabeth Murray is one of the artists who has experimented with ____.
highly irregular format for paintings
Surrealist artists used Dada's ____ to engage elements of fantasy and activate unconscious forces.
improvisational techniques
The earth art of Christo and Jean-Claude did not alter the land, but rather ____.
modified it with cloth
The work of Ernst Kirchner shows ____.
subjects drawn from the industrialized urban bourgeoisie
Chris Ofili represented ____ in a manner that departed radically from conventional representations.
the Virgin Mary