APAH 9

Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night is atypical of the artist's oeuvre as well as the work of the earlier Impressionists in that it was

A) created in a studio instead of outdoors

An advantage of the "daguerreotype" photograph over the early 19th-century "calotype" process is that the daguerreotype

A) exhibits greater detail

The influence of Japanese architecture in the design of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater can most clearly be demonstrated by the structure's (Learning Objective 2.3)

A) utilization of an open plan

The loss of the artist's right hand depicted in Self-Portrait as a Soldier by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner has been interpreted as a metaphor for the artist's loss of manhood; another interpretation, however, is that the missing hand represents (Learning Objective 3.3)

B) an inability to paint or create

In his photographic experimentation, Eadward Muybridge capitalized what was commonly described as a "persistence of vision" to

B) create the illusion of a moving figure or animal

3. The somewhat autobiographical content of Paul Gauguin's Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? fulfilled the artistic intention of

B) creating one last work before committing suicide

Instead of casting in plaster or bronze, the act of cutting away stone was a way for Constantin Brancusi to convey

B) immediacy and authenticity

Edvard Munch's The Scream suggests that the artist may have been influenced by the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche in that the painting reflects the (Learning Objective 1.3)

B) loneliness and alienation the artist experienced in modern society

The experimentation with abstraction demonstrated in Vassily Kandinsky's Improvisation 28 indicates the artist's principal engagement with

B) technological innovations

Which of the following works mostly demonstrates the influence of Japanese prints through its interest of flattened space and linear patterning?

C) Mary Cassatt's The Coiffure

Vassily Kandinsky's eventual move from the imagery in Improvisation 28 into purely nonobjective painting influenced the abstract art of

C) Piet Mondrian

One interpretation of the central figure in Paul Gauguin's Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, reaching for a piece of fruit, is that it alludes to western notions of sin associated with the biblical figure of Eve; however, another interpretation is that the figure represents in Tahitian culture (Learning Objective 3.3)

C) an androgynous figure associated with spiritual insight

2. In his painting The Kiss, Gustav Klimt demonstrates through his emphasis on design elements an affiliation with the Vienna Succession, a group that aimed to

D) elevate craft so that it would gain greater respect

Constantin Brancusi's reductivism exhibited by The Kiss reinforces his interest in

D) primal instincts

Which of the following artistic decisions was employed in the design of Louis Sullivan's Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building that allowed for a dramatic increase in the size of windows?

Designing an interior steel-frame structure.

Which of the following works was influenced by traditional Christian "Lamentation" scenes to connect with a viewer's emotions?

Kathe Kollwitz's Memorial Sheet for Karl Liebknecht

Which of the following works presents a subject as if he or she is unaware of the viewer, thereby placing the viewer uncomfortably in the role of a voyeur?

Mary Cassatt's The Coiffure

20. The formalist approach that Alfred Stieglitz spoke about in regard to his photograph The Steerage reveals a belief that photographs should

be taken straight without manipulation

The presence of Montmartre, a large hill in Paris's 18th arrondissement, in Honoré Daumier's Nadar Raising Photography to the Height of Art likely suggests that the photographer Nadar was seeking

challenge the relevance of painting in the age of the photographic medium

Georges Braque's The Portuguese represents a clear break with traditional modes of representation through its

fragmentation of form and flattening of space

Paul Cezanne's Mount Sainte-Victoire is most similar to Claude Monet's Gare St. Lazare in that both works were

part of a series exploring a subject through direct observation

One way that Auguste Rodin's Burghers of Calais breaks with traditional 19th-century sculpture is its

presentation on a low base

17. Vassily Kandinsky adopted abstraction in his Improvisation 28 so that viewers would

respond to the composition emotionally rather than rationally

Varvara Stepanova incorporated a portrait of Vladimir Lenin in her photomontage The Results of the First Five-Year Plan so that viewers would

support rapid industrialization as a method to improve economic conditions

Frank Lloyd Wright explores a relationship between man and nature in the design of Fallingwater in all of the following ways EXCEPT

utilizing large windows that provide views of a large waterfall