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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"
Pop Art, and art that utilized the techniques of advertising, industrial design, and Hollywood movies were at their heights during which of the following decades?
1960s
Which of the following artists created large-scale, kinetic sculptures?
Alexander Calder
Which of the following architects conceived the building as a whole and molded it almost as a clay sculpture?
Antonio Gaudi
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
Which of the following artists is best known for his large-scale portraits?
Chuck Close
What style is 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
Who said: "I want to make of Impressionism something solid and lasting like the art in the museums"?
Cézanne
Which of the following earlier art styles formed the characterizing spirit of Performance Art?
Dada
What is the evidence of a Performance Art event?
Documentary photos at the time of the performance
Throughout history, artists have regularly served political ends by using their art to make visual statements. Which of the following artists has created an overtly political statement with his/her work?
Dorothea Lange
The Champs de Mars or The Red Tower by Robert Delaunay depicts which of the following structures?
Eiffel Tower
Which artist stated that she wanted her pieces to be "non art, non connotative, non anthropomorphic, non geometric, non nothing, everything, but of another kind, vision, sort"?
Eva Hesse
Which of the following painters illustrates Clement Greenberg's insistence "on purity in art"?
Frank Stella
A good example of Deconstructivist architecture is ____.
Guggenheim Museum, Bibao
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
Georges Seurat differed from the Impressionist painters in which of the following ways?
His disciplined and painstaking application of the color theories of men such as Delacroix, Helmholtz, and Chevreul
____ is an example of High-Tech architecture?
Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank
The influence of ____ is evident in Rodin's interest in the effect of light on the sculpted surface.
Impressionism
How did the Fluxus group see aesthetic potential?
In the nontraditional and commonplace
How does the architecture of Günter Behnisch express Deconstructivist architecture?
It denies the possibility of spacial enclosure.
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
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
Impressionist artists, including Degas, greatly admired the spatial organization and flat, unmodeled color areas of ____.
Japanese woodblock prints
Who was the sculptor who believed that "the only stable thing is movement"?
Jean Tinguely
The work of ____ deals with the issue of who "controls the body."
Kiki Smith
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
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
Which of the following artists developed the theory of neoplasticism or the new pure plastic art?
Mondrian
Which of the following describes Happenings?
Participatory
____ 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
The common denominator of ____ in architecture is the breaking down of national boundaries.
Postmodernism
____ is the gay artist whose show, The Perfect Moment, was cancelled for its openly gay character.
Robert Mapplethorpe
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
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.
Beuys wanted "to shape our thoughts into words." Which of the following did he want to create?
Social sculptures
Which of the following artists created a modern American art style combining Synthetic Cubism with jazz tempos and his perception of the fast-paced American culture?
Stuart Davis
Extreme subjectivity and the need to see through reality to a deeper reality were most typical of which of the following styles?
Symbolists
How did museum commissions of performance events neutralize Performance Art?
The commissions neutralized the subversiveness.
Which of the following describes what artists working in the Post-Painterly Abstractionist style believed?
Their works should contain no reference to the world outside their own compositions.
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
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
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
The architect ____ was greatly influenced by Kazimir Malevich and his Suprematist theories.
Zaha Hadid
In her Holocaust Memorial, Rachel Whiteread depicted the shapes of identical books as a ____.
a reference to the Jews as "the people of the book"
Which of the following describes the Portland Building located in Portland, Oregon?
an enlarged jukebox
Critics referrred to Graves's Portland Building as ____.
an enlarged jukebox
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 ____.
as a viewer of earlier artists
Many of Basquiat's paintings celebrate ____.
black heroes
How did Barnett Newman increase the capacity of color to communicate emotion?
by simplifying the composition
How does Faith Ringgold address issues of gender and racism in her work?
by using fabrics, traditionally associated with women and incisive narrative
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
When did the center of the Western art world shift from Europe to the United States?
during the 1940s
In The Apparition, Moreau portrayed a ____, a theme that appealed to the artist and many of his friends.
femme fatale
The harnessing of solar power is one of the central features of ____ architecture.
green
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
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
John Cage encouraged his students to link their art to which of the following?
life
The earth art of Christo and Jean-Claude did not alter the land, but rather ____.
modified it with a cloth
Cindy Sherman works in which medium representing the "male gaze"?
photography
Beuys wanted "to shape our thoughts into words." Which of the following did he want to create?
social sculptures
Chris Ofili represented ____ in a manner that departed radically from conventional representations.
the Virgin Mary
What was the main focus of the work of the postwar New York School?
the act of painting itself
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
The incinerated appearance of Anslem Kierfer's Nigredo alludes to ____.
the holocaust
Because of the spontaneous and informal nature of Performance Art, which of the following was the primary medium?
the human body
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
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
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
Who was the sculptor who gravitated toward motion sculpture?
Jean Tinguely
____ artists disdained Realism as trivial.
Symbolist
Artists of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism produced paintings that are abstract but ____.
express the artist's state of mind
Pollock's painting technique highlights the most significant aspect of gestural abstraction—the emphasis on ____.
the creative process