Chapter 30 Quiz

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

A grid system

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

Advertising Billboards

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

Alberto Giacometti

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

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

Combines

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

Conceptual

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

Judy Chicago's Dinner Party was originally meant to honor 13 inspiring women from history. After tripling that number to 39 women, 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

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

Mark Rothko

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

Neville Chamberlain

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

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

Pop Art

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

Rembrandt

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

The male gaze

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?

Zips