Exam 3 - Art History - Questions
Which of the following artists shared Stieglitz's concern to position photography as an art form with the same fine-art status as painting and sculpture?
Edward Weston
The hovering figure that served as a memorial to those who died in World War I was created by..
Ernst Barlach
Which of the following painters illustrates Clement Greenberg's insistence "on purity in art"?
Frank Stella
The dominant figure of the Fauves,_____believed that color should play a roll in conveying meaning.
Henri Matisse
Who said: "We rejected imitative colors, and that with pure colors we obtained stronger reactions."?
Henri Matisse
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.
Impressionist artists, including Degas, greatly admired the spatial organization and flat, unmodeled color areas of ____.
Japanese woodblock prints
Who was the sculptor who gravitated toward motion sculpture?
Jean Tinguely
The New York artist whose paintings became compositionally simple and focused on color was ____.
Mark Rothko
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
____ explored ways to express in art the world of dreams and the unconscious
Surrealism
____ artists disdained Realism as trivial.
Symbolist
How did museum commissions of performance events neutralize Performance Art?
The commissions neutralized the subversiveness.
Thomas Hart Benton, a Regionalist artist, focused his attention on which of the following subjects?
The social history of Missouri
Which of the following describes Barbara Kruger's photo-collages?
They challenge cultural attitudes.
Which of the following was the purpose of Performance Art?
To challenge art's function as commodity
Although ____ painted familiar Impressionist subjects, his exaggeration of each element created a new tone
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?
World War I
The architect ____ was greatly influenced by Kazimir Malevich and his Suprematist theories.
Zaha Hadid
Henry Moore's Reclining Figureis said to have been inspired by ____.
a pre-Columbian figure, the chacmool
Critics referrred to Graves's Portland Building as ____.
an enlarged jukebox
Many of Basquiat's painting celebrate ___.
black heroes
A nonobjective work refers to work that __________.
has no reference to the external appearance of the physical world
Bloodline: Big Family No. 2 references the Chinese governmental policy of restricting married couples to ____.
have only one child
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
How did the Fluxus group see aesthetic potential?
in the nontraditional and commonplace
Jenny Holzer's installation at the Guggenheim museum consisted of ____
large continuous LED display spiraling the interior ramp
The earth art of Christo and Jean-Claude did not alter the land, but rather ____.
modified it with cloth
In the ____ style of Surrealism, artists presented recognizable scenes that transformed into a dream or nightmare.
naturalistic
In her Holocaust Memorial, Rachel Whiteread depicted the shapes of identical books as a ____
reference to the Jews as "the people of the book"
Dorothea Lange's photograph of a migrant worker caused people to ____.
rush food to hungry workers
The work of Ernst Kirchner shows ____.
subjects drawn from the industrialized urban bourgeoisie
Chris Ofili represented ____ in a matter that departed radically from conventional representations.
the Virgin Mary
Pollock's painting technique highlights the most significant aspect of gestural abstraction—the emphasis on ____.
the creative process
In Willie Bester's Homage to Steve Biko, the numbers refer to ____.
the dehumanized life of blacks under apartheid
In contrast to artists of the French Academy, the Impressionists attempted to capture ____.
the fleeting aspects of reality
In Night Café the artist has communicated the "madness" of the place by selecting and juxtaposing ____.
vivid hues whose juxtaposition augmented their intensity
Although Morisot's interest in leisure activities aligned with the Impressionists, her paintings are inhabited by ____.
women and children
Artists of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism produced paintings that are abstract but ____
express the artist's state of mind
To distinguish their performances from "happenings," Fluxus artists named theirs ____.
"events"
Cindy Sherman addressed the way that much Western art presents female beauty for the ____.
"male gaze"
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
In Klimt's The Kiss, the patterning has clear ties to the ____ movement.
Art Nouveau
Members of the ____ movement dedicated themselves to making functional objects with a high aesthetic value.
Arts and Crafts
The American movement known initially as the Eight and then as the Ash Can School focused on the ____.
Bleak and seedy aspects of city life
A Romanian sculptor, the work of ____, emphasized natural and organic forms.
Brancusi
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 statements about Dada is true?
Dada aimed to undermine traditional notions about art.
What is the evidence of a Performance Art event?
Documentary photos at the time of the performance
The photographer ____ was hired to document the deplorable living conditions of the rural poor.
Dorothea Lange
Which of the following works demonstrates the Futurists'interest in motion?
Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash
Which of the Blaue Reiter artists found animals superior in beauty, strength, innocence, and naturalness?
Franz Marc
Her work is often described as autobiographical because of her unflinching self-portrait portrayals. She gives the viewer a personal glimpse into herself and suffering. Which of the following artists does this describe?
Frida Kahlo
The artist of The Eclipse of the Sun, ____, criticized militarism and capitalism
Grosz
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 influence of ____ is evident in Rodin's interest in the effect of light on the sculpted surface.
Impressionism
Antonio Gaudi longed to create an architectural style that was both modern and appropriate for his native country of Spain. How does Casa Milá 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.
Performance Art can be described as movements, gestures, and sounds of persons communicating. Which of the following describes the focus of Performance Art?
It replaces traditional stationary artworks.
Which of the following describes Joseph Beuys purpose for his art?
It was illuminating the condition of modern humanity.
Which of the following describes Joseph Beuys's 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
John Cage encouraged his students to link their art to which of the following?
Life
____ is sometimes described as the first modern architect.
Louis Henry Sullivan
____ is known for her assembled sculptures of found wood objects and forms.
Louise Nevelson
Who is the artist who created a work of art that can be described as "a wickedly funny gift"
Man Ray
A leader in Performance Art, John Cage brought to music the ideas of ____ and Eastern philosophy.
Marcel Duchamp
____ sought to harness the communicative power of art to reach a wide audience.
Pop Art
A good example of Postmodernist architecture is ____.
Portland Building, Portland
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
The purpose of Shirin Neshat's art is ____.
She wants to question the fundamentalist Islamic regime in Iran.
What message is portrayed in Edward Hopper's Nighthawks?
The pervasive loneliness of modern humans
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
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 ____.
a viewer of earlier artists
How did Barnett Newman increase the capacity of color to communicate emotion?
by simplifying the composition
The harnessing of solar power is one of the central features of ____ architecture.
green
The polish artist Krzysztof Wodiczko developed artworks involving ____.
the projection of slide images outdoors
The real subject of Monet's Rouen Cathedral is ____.
the sunlight of the portal
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
Which of the following artists created large-scale, kinetic sculptures?
Alexander Calder
What style described as compositions of shapes and forms abstracted from the conventionally conceived world.
Cubism
Which of the following artists explored the properties of light, plane, and color and their interrelationships?
Cézanne
Which phrase best expresses the sculptural style of Boccioni?
Dynamic movement
Kirchner's stylistic qualities, including perspective distortions, disquieting figures, and color choices, reflect the influence of ____.
Edvard Munch
The German artist ____ deviated from traditional religious images by creating works that were highly activated and emotionally wrenching.
Emile Nolde
How does the architecture of Günter Behnisch express Deconstructivist architecture?
It denies the possibility of spatial enclosure.
Which of the following describes Happenings?
Participatory
The Berlin version of collage, which consisted of "found" details.
Photomontage
Extreme subjectivity and the need to see through reality to a deeper reality were most typical of which of the following styles?
Symbolists
Post-painterly Abstractionists differed from Abstract Expressionists in their ____.
cool, detached rationality
When did the center of the Western art world shift from Europe to the United States?
during the 1950s
In The Apparition, Moreau portrayed a ____, a theme that appealed to the artist and many of his friends
femme fatale
Matisse deviated from traditional representations of domestic interiors by ____ and simplifying them.
flattening forms
