History 4 Exam 2

What material is used to make kente cloth?

Cotton

According to traditional African gender roles in the arts, which of the following would be produced by a woman?

Decorated gourd

Which architect created a building that represented organic architecture and was inspired by the shape of a snail's shell?

Frank Lloyd Wright

Who famously said of this artwork, "What you see is what you see"?

Frank Stella

Which term best describes Joan Mitchell's approach to Abstract Expressionism seen in this Untitled work from ca. 1955?

Gestural abstraction

Which of the following artists was a color-field painter, who poured diluted paint onto unprimed canvas to emphasize that painting is simply pigment on a flat surface?

Helen Frankenthaler

Which painter revolutionized the preparation and use of the canvas?

Jackson Pollock

Who was the postwar Expressionist artist who theorized about art brut?

Jean Dubuffet

In Southwestern art, what is the Hopi name for spirits personifying ancestors and natural elements such as mountains and rivers?

Katsina

This gold-covered wooden staff was an emblem of which office?

King

Which artist uses large-scale slide and video projections to create public artworks with sociopolitical content, an example of which is shown in The Homeless Projection?

Krzysztof Wodiczko

A leader in Performance Art, John Cage brought to music the ideas of Eastern philosophy and which artist?

Marcel Duchamp

Francis Bacon's paintings detailing the horrors and brutality of war often feature which class of object?

Meat

Jasper Johns's Three Flags has strong ties to what Surrealist artist who produced a work incorporating the words This is not a pipe?

René Magritte

Which artist made works that he called combines, such as Canyon, illustrated here?

Robert Rauschenberg

This Dogon mask commemorating a creation legend is named Satimbe, which means what?

Sister on the head

Most figures and masks are visualizations of which of the following?

Supernatural forces

In creating his sculptures specifically for open-air settings, what element did David Smith prioritize?

Surface texture

On this Kuba mask of the character Ngady Amwaash, what is represented by the stripes beneath the eyes?

Tears of pain from childbirth

Expatriate Iranian artist Shirin Neshat combines images of rifles and veils with calligraphy to address what subject?

The treatment of women under the fundamentalist Islamic regime in Iran

What did Minimalist sculptors such as Tony Smith choose to emphasize as the essential characteristic of their medium?

Three-dimensionality

What is the primary function of masks and masqueraders in traditional African culture?

To act as mediators

Which of the following methods is used to produce kente cloth?

Woven on strips on a loom and then sewn together

How are the "beautiful lady" masks used among the Senufo?

hey are worn by men portraying female characters.

What was the source of the images of women de Kooning used as the focus of his Woman series?

Advertising billboards

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

Mark Rothko

Which Southwestern artist(s) revived ancient pottery techniques to create forms of striking shape, proportion, and texture?

María and Julian Martínez

Which of the following does NOT accurately describe how masks and maskers were perceived in African society before the Europeans arrived?

Masks were not allowed to serve as power sources or as oracles.

Over the course of much of its production, which group made Akan kente cloth?

Men

Which element of Donald Judd's sculpture Untitled reflects his intention of banishing ambiguity from his work and using a visual vocabulary that does not deceive as illusionism would?

Plexiglas material