AH II Module 12

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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 artists is best known for his large-scale portraits?

Chuck Close

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

During the 1920s

Which of the following painters illustrates Clement Greenberg's insistence "on purity in art"?

Frank Stella

A good example of postmodernist architecture is ____.

Guggenheim Museum, New York

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

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.

The terms gestural abstraction and action painting are most appropriately applied to the work of ____.

Jackson Pollock

Who was the sculptor who gravitated toward motion sculpture?

Jean Tinguely

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

Life

____ is known for her assembled sculptures of found wood objects and forms.

Louise Nevelso

A leader in Performance Art, John Cage brought to music the ideas of ____ and eastern philosophy.

Marcel Duchamp

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

Mark Rothko

____ sought to harness the communicative power of art to reach a wide audience.

Pop ART

How did Carolee Schneeman transform Performance Art?

She introduced a feminist dimension.

Which of the following was the purpose of Performance Art?

To challenge art's function as commodity

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

by simplifying the composition

Post-painterly abstractionists differed from Abstract Expressionists in their ____.

cool, detached rationality

What is the evidence of a Performance Art event?

documentary photos at the time of the performance

Critics referrred to Graves's Portland Building as ____.

enlarged jukebox

How did the Fluxus group see aesthetic potential?

in the nontraditional and commonplace

Which of the following describes Happenings?

participatory

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

social sculptures

How did museum commissions of performance events neutralize Performance Art?

the commissions neutralized the subversiveness

Pollock's painting technique highlights the most significant aspect of gestural abstraction—the emphasis on ____.

the creative process

Artists of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism produced paintings that are abstract but ____.

​express the artist's state of mind


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