Art exam

What technique does Chuck Close employ to help create his superrealistic, large-scale portraits?

A grid system

Which artist that we discussed in lecture was one of the leading painters of the Harlem Renaissance?

Aaron Douglas

What was the source of inspiration for the images of women de Kooning used as the focus of his Woman paintings?

Advertising billboards

Picasso's radical painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon reveals his fascination with ancient Iberian sculpture as well as the artistic traditions of which continent?

Africa

Which artist's thin, emaciated sculptures are seen as embodying the philosophical theory of existentialism, which asserts the absurdity of human existence?

Alberto Giacometti

Which of the following artists created large-scale, kinetic sculptures based on principles of engineering?

Alexander Calder

Which painter believed in the importance of practicing "straight photography" rather than using techniques that add effects to a photo?

Alfred Stieglitz

What event ended the relative isolation of the American art scene and inspired American artists to embrace the modern, abstract style of their European counterparts?

Armory Show

Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko are artists who worked in which style?

Chromatic abstractionism

Which of the following artists is best known for his large-scale portraits?

Chuck Close

Joseph Kosuth's One and Three Chairs is a great example of_________ art.

Conceptual

Which photographer was hired by the US Resettlement Administration to document the deplorable living conditions of the rural poor?

Dorothea Lange

Following World War II and the demise of Adolf Hitler, most of American and European society were hopeful about the future. True or false

False

Who is the artist of the work shown below?

Georgia O'Keefe

Which Dada artist is known as a master of photomontage?

Hannah Höch

Judy Chicago's Dinner Party was originally meant to honor 13 inspiring women from history. After tripling that number to 39 woman, Chicago still found too many women worthy of representation at her table. Where did she insert the names of 999 of these other women in the work?

In the floor

The work of which artist exemplifies gestural abstraction?

Jackson Pollock

The theme of a grieving mother holding her dead child was explored in many works by which German Expressionist artist?

Käthe Kollwitz

In her photograph series, Cindy Sherman addressed the tradition in Western art that presents female beauty from which perspective?

Male gaze

Which New York artist produced compositionally simple paintings in which color was the primary conveyor of meaning?

Mark Rothko

Thomas Hart Benton created a series of murals detailing the history of which US state?

Missouri

The central figure in Francis Bacon's Painting, as shown in lecture, is thought to be...

Neville Chamberlain

After World War I, German artists who served in the war wanted to depict the brutality and immorality they had witnessed, and this artistic movement came to be called what?

New Objectivity

By the early 1950s, the center of the art world shifted from Paris in France to...

New York City, USA

Superrealism is also known as ...

Photorealism

Which two artists were the founders of Cubism, with its rejection of pictorial illusionism?

Picasso and Braque

Which de Stijl artist sought to create a universal means of expression by using only a palette of the three primary colors, gradations of black and white, and horizontal and vertical lines?

Piet Mondrian

The work of this particular art movement often refers to the familiar imagery of contemporary life in in the 1950s.

Pop art

What did Dadaists believe led to the destruction and loss of life of World War I?

Reason and logic

Rauschenberg's piece Canyon was inspired by a work by which Old Master artist?

Rembrandt

Which of the following best describes the intended message of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks?

The pervasive loneliness of war-era Americans

How did viewers react to Dorothea Lange's photograph entitled Migrant Mother, Nipomo Valley?

They rushed to send food to hungry workers.

This artist's work can also be considered an excellent example of minimalism.

Tony Smith

By what term did Barnett Newman refer to the narrow lines that run vertically through the color fields of his paintings, as exemplified below?

Zips

At the turn of the 20th century, artists who were viewed as being ahead of their time and who transgressed the limits of established art forms are referred to by what term?

avant-garde

Rauschenberg termed his own assemblage-like works as...

combines

What term was applied to Surrealist and other avant-garde art by Hitler and the Nazi regime in 1930s and 1940s Germany?

degenerate

What sculptural form, developed by Alexander Calder, has its parts so carefully balanced that they move with the slightest current of air?

mobile

What printing method did Andy Warhol employ to create multiple images of the same object, such as a Coke bottle or a soup can?

silkscreen

In Matisse's painting Red Room, the color harmony he achieves with the color red merges which two elements of the scene?

wall table