Quizzes 24(after futurism)-26
Cindy Sherman addressed the way that much Western art presents female beauty for the ____. importance of the subject wealthy sake of tradition "male gaze"
"male gaze"
Which of the following artists created large-scale, kinetic sculptures? Alexander Calder Umberto Boccioni Constantine Brancusi Henry Moore
Alexander Calder
Which of the following artists is best known for his large-scale portraits? Francis Bacon Chuck Close Jackson Pollock Willem de Kooning
Chuck Close
Which of the following statements about Dada is true? Dada revived the Renaissance pictorial tradition. Dada aimed to undermine traditional notions about art. Dada originated in Copenhagen. All Dada works were created in marble.
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 During the 1920s During the 1960s With the Armory Show of 1913
During the 1950s
Which phrase best expresses the sculptural style of Boccioni? Dynamic movement Sharply intersecting planes Sinuous organic curves Nervous agitation
Dynamic movement
The terms gestural abstraction and action painting are most appropriately applied to the work of ____. Robert Motherwell Jackson Pollock Barnett Newman Ellsworth Kelly
Jackson Pollock
____ developed the theory of Neoplasticism. Picasso Mondrian Chagall Marc
Mondrian
Which of the following describes Happenings? Participatory Individualized Controlled Planned
Participatory
How did Carolee Schneeman transform Performance Art? She introduced a political dimension. She introduced a feminist dimension. She introduced a racist dimension. She introduced a social dimension.
She introduced a feminist dimension.
What is the purpose of Shirin Neshat's art? She wants viewers to examine her in this context. She is announcing pride in her heritage. She wants to question the fundamentalist Islamic regime in Iran. She wants acceptance and recognition as a black artist.
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 Word sculptures Formless sculptures No sculpture
Social sculptures
Which of the following describes Barbara Kruger's photo-collages? The indiscriminate use of words and photos creates bad design, and her work is deemed critically unacceptable. They challenge media markets to pursue good design. They inform the "preciousness" of a good small photo-collage. They challenge cultural attitudes.
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 bad design To incorporate myths about women and to reinforce the design issues related to the myths To incorporate design and to sell her art To expose the deceptiveness of media messages
To expose the deceptiveness of media messages
Post-painterly Abstractionists differed from Abstract Expressionists in their ____. cool, detached rationality presence of the artist's emotion reliance on non-Western influences color-field exercises
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 pour his emotions directly onto the canvas, with no thought of technique portray the art of madmen illustrate the sado-masochistic theories of Krafft-Ebing
create images of inner reality and irrationality as concrete as the world of physical reality
Elizabeth Murray is one of the artists who has experimented with ____. Performance art highly irregular format for paintings digital media the construction of memorials
highly irregular format for paintings
The earth art of Christo and Jean-Claude did not alter the land, but rather ____. was placed underground painted it provided viewings of it modified it with cloth
modified it with cloth
In the ____ style of Surrealism, artists presented recognizable scenes that transformed into a dream or nightmare. collage Breton naturalistic biomorphic
naturalistic
The work of Ernst Kirchner shows ____. subjects drawn from the industrialized urban bourgeoisie the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites the influence of Analytical Cubism the influence of Italian Renaissance frescoes
subjects drawn from the industrialized urban bourgeoisie
Chris Ofili represented ____ in a manner that departed radically from conventional representations. refugees political figures the Virgin Mary film starts
the Virgin Mary
How does Faith Ringgold address issues of gender and racism in her work? By creating clear and lucid oil paintings By using exotic subject matter to draw the viewer into her photo-collages By using wood, traditionally associated with men and incisive narrative By using fabrics, traditionally associated with women and incisive narrative
By using fabrics, traditionally associated with women and incisive narrative
How did Allan Kaprow view art? He viewed it as an intersection of art and life. He viewed art as the zenith of his existence. He had no views whatsoever. He was interested in music as an art form.
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? Jackson Pollock Jasper Johns Helen Frankenthaler Barnett Newman
Helen Frankenthaler
The dominant figure of the Fauves, ____, believed that color should play a role in conveying meaning. Henri Matisse Pablo Picasso Otto Dix Max Beckmann
Henri Matisse
____ is the gay artist whose show, The Perfect Moment, was cancelled for its openly gay character. Willie Bester Robert Mapplethorpe David Wojnarowicz Cliff Whiting
Robert Mapplethorpe
In Synthetic Cubist works, such as ____, artists constructed paintings and drawings from objects and shapes cut from paper or other materials. Demoiselles d'Avignon Fate of the Animals Still-Life with Chair-Caning The Dance
Still-Life with Chair-Caning
Jenny Holzer's installation at the Guggenheim Museum consisted of ____. a television mounted in a corner a large continuous LED display spiraling the interior ramp hundreds of prints suspended from the ceiling a combination of found objects and gestural painting
a large continuous LED display spiraling the interior ramp
Matisse deviated from traditional representations of domestic interiors by ____ and simplifying them. imposing a machine aesthetic borrowing from Surrealism flattening forms exaggerating the scale of objects
flattening forms
Surrealist artists used Dada's ____ to engage elements of fantasy and activate unconscious forces. photographs Kandinsky's style improvisational techniques Cubism
improvisational techniques
