Video Quizzes 4-6

1) Who founded the Bauhaus school? A. Walter Gropius B. Josef Albers C. Ludwig Mies Vander Rohe.

A

1. The most common characteristics of the Eight or Ashcan School were: A) To present the varied facets of city life through a documentary or journalistic approach; B) Use of abstraction to portray the inadequacies of living within the urban environment; C) The belief that the most typical American art form must include Westward expansion; D) All of the above.

A

10) The founding aim or goal of the Bauhaus school was to: A) Unify the instruction of arts and crafts to create a new type of industrial design; B) Apply ornamental approaches to architectural design through mass production; C) Combine German design and American industrial methods.

A

11) Which of the following specific courses were taught at the Bauhaus: A) All of these; B) Electrical appliances and furniture for the home; C) Stagecraft and dance.

A

2. Identify the style which maintains that art, if it is to relate to the masses of America, must present typical Genes from rural life in a documentary manner: A) Regionalism; B) Precisionism; C) Social Realism.

A

4. "In the Name of the Holocaust" 1942 A) A prepared piano composition B) Book of essays by John Cage C) The first "happening" or multimedia event D) Lecture on Nothing given at the Club E) Compositional score by which the pianist does nothing as a performer F) A collaboration of dance, sound, and set design G) Mycological Society H) A tool of chance operations used as a discipline

A

4. The artwork of the Gilded Age reflected: A) A desire to maintain the official art of cultural refinement; B) An avant-garde spirit as seen in their investigations of abstract form; C) An honest appreciation for all classes of society; D) All of the above.

A

20. Robert Henri did all but one of the following: A) Leader of the Ashcan School who moved to Greenwich Village to paint street scenes; B) Championed the values of the Genteel tradition in America; C) He believed the artist had a moral obligation to provide society with a new expression of contemporary life.

B

3. "Silence: Lectures and Writings", 1961 A) A prepared piano composition B) Book of essays by John Cage C) The first "happening" or multimedia event D) Lecture on Nothing given at the Club E) Compositional score by which the pianist does nothing as a performer F) A collaboration of dance, sound, and set design G) Mycological Society H) A tool of chance operations used as a discipline

B

4) Why did the school close in 1933? A) There was not enough money for continued support; B) The National Socialist Party (Nazis) came to power; C) The student enrollment shrank due to a lack of interest in the Bauhaus aesthetic.

B

6) The central focus of the Bauhaus design aesthetic was what? A) Detailed ornamentation; B) Sleek, highly functional design; C) Expensive handmade products and pieces.

B

6. Which of the following is not true about Alfred Stieglitz: A) Stieglitz supported many artists by exhibiting their work and providing travel assistance; B) Stieglitz made great strides as an abstract painter; C) Stieglitz founded the pioneering gallery, 291'.

B

8) Which of these aphorisms, originally stated by the American architect Louis Sullivan in 1896, has often been applied to the Bauhaus school? A) Form and function are separate concepts and must be designed as such; B) Form follows function; C) The function follows form.

B

8. Related to the Stieglitz Circle, this artist was a pioneer of American Modernism who emphasized the essential beauty of the subjects by magnifying shapes and simplifying details: A) George Bellows; B) Georgia O'Keeffe; C) Edward Hopper.

B

10. The practice of John Cage is most likely aligned with which of the following artists: A) Jackson Pollock, Willem DeKooning and Mark Rothko Jackson B) Pollock, Marcel Duchamp, and Hugo Ball C) Marcel Duchamp, Jean Arp, and Merce Cunningham.

C

11. Which of the following statements is farthest from the attitude held by John Cage: A) "To use art, not as self-expression but self-alteration". B) "The material of music is sound and silence, integrating this is composing" C) "I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions—tragedy, ecstasy, doom and so on. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I communicate those basic human emotions... "

C

2. To which German city did the Bauhaus school moved from its original location of Weimar? A) Dresden; B) Berlin; C) Dessau.

C

3) Which of the following statements of the Bauhaus design school is correct? A) The principle of transparency was significant in order to judge the quality craftsmanship; B) The quest for cleanliness, clarity, and liberality was reflected in the architectural detail; C) Both of these.

C

5. Artists such as Joseph Stella and Stuart Davis did not believe: A) That skyscrapers were symbolic of a new age of Modernism in America; B) That abstraction was the appropriate language to translate the new world of steel and electricity; C) That abstraction was most aligned with nature and the Great American Landscape.

C

5. Theater Piece #1 (Black Mountain Piece), 1952 A) A prepared piano composition B) Book of essays by John Cage C) The first "happening" or multimedia event D) Lecture on Nothing given at the Club E) Compositional score by which the pianist does nothing as a performer F) A collaboration of dance, sound, and set design G) Mycological Society H) A tool of chance operations used as a discipline

C

7) Bauhaus style architecture would most likely feature what material emphasis? A) Handcrafted woodwork; B) Ornate marble columns; C) Glass and steel.

C

7. A form of naturalistic realism focusing specifically' on social problems and the hardships of everyday life: A) Precisionism; B) Regionalism; C) Social Realism.

C

9) Which one of the famous Bauhaus designers coined the aphorism less is more? A) Oskar Schlemmer; B) Walter Gropius; C) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

C

9. Precisionism is best defined by which of the following statements: A) It borrowed its simplistic style from Cubism but presented the inner scape of pure forms; B) It reconnected America to its core value of hard work as expressed by the rural landscape; C) It celebrated the new potential of the machine, skyscraper, and the urban landscape of America.

C

3. Which of the following exhibitions were held at the '291' Gallery: A) An exhibition of children's art; B) An exhibition of European abstract art; C) An exhibition of photographs as an art form; D) All of the above.

D

5) Which of the following disciplines were taught at the Bauhaus? A) Weaving and textiles; B) Ceramics and pottery; C) Metalworking and woodworking; D) All of these.

D

7. "I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It", 1959 A) A prepared piano composition B) Book of essays by John Cage C) The first "happening" or multimedia event D) Lecture on Nothing given at the Club E) Compositional score by which the pianist does nothing as a performer F) A collaboration of dance, sound, and set design G) Mycological Society H) A tool of chance operations used as a discipline

D

8. Which of the following statements is NOT attributed to John Cage: A) "The function of art is not to communicate ones' personal ideas or feelings, but rather to imitate nature in her manner of operation"' B) "I always use the I-Ching or chance operations, I use it as a discipline in order to free my work from my memory and from my likes and dislikes". C) "One of the things that have been noticed is the many coughs that take place during a concert... Coughing is a kind of interruption or a flaw, whereas if we have an interest in sound, a cough is as audible and finally as interesting as any other sound..." D) "Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered?"

D

9. With which of the following artists and composers did John Cage NOT collaborate: A) Merce Cunningham B) Robert Rauschenberg C) Marcel Duchamp D) Jean Arp

D

2. 4' 33", 1950 A) A prepared piano composition B) Book of essays by John Cage C) The first "happening" or multimedia event D) Lecture on Nothing given at the Club E) Compositional score by which the pianist does nothing as a performer F) A collaboration of dance, sound, and set design G) Mycological Society H) A tool of chance operations used as a discipline

E

1. Minutiae, 1954 A) A prepared piano composition B) Book of essays by John Cage C) The first "happening" or multimedia event D) Lecture on Nothing given at the Club E) Compositional score by which the pianist does nothing as a performer F) A collaboration of dance, sound, and set design G) Mycological Society H) A tool of chance operations used as a discipline

F

6. I-Ching A) A prepared piano composition B) Book of essays by John Cage C) The first "happening" or multimedia event D) Lecture on Nothing given at the Club E) Compositional score by which the pianist does nothing as a performer F) A collaboration of dance, sound, and set design G) Mycological Society H) A tool of chance operations used as a discipline

H