AP Art History Content Are 4 Exam Review

In its posture and expression, Jean-Antoine Houdon's statue of George Washington references

Classical Greek statues, such as the Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)

Claes Oldenburg's references to popular culture to comment on contemporary American society is most similar to that found in works by

Andy Warhol

The work shown can be attributed to which of the following artists?

Andy Warhol

The painting shown can be attributed to which of the following artists?

Edvard Munch

On the basis of subject matter, expressionistic style, and composition, the self-portrait shown can be attributed to

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Which of the following is a characteristic of Wifredo Lam's The Jungle that suggests that Lam was influenced by works such as Georges Braque's The Portuguese ?

Figurative images that are broken into fragments

In Liberty Leading the People, Eugène Delacroix included which of the following compositional elements to elicit the idea that freedom comes at a great cost?

Graphic depictions of the fallen and the wounded

The painting shown was created by

Jacob Lawrence

The abstracted nature and dynamic qualities of the work shown, as well as other works by the same artist, had a significant impact on the work of later artists such as

Julie Mehretu

The patron of Jacques-Louis David's The Oath of the Horatii was

King Louis XVI

On the basis of subject, style, and composition, the work shown can be attributed to

Käthe Kollwitz

Marcel Duchamp displayed a urinal upside down on a pedestal

Marcel Duchamp displayed a urinal upside down on a pedestal

Claes Oldenburg's choice of imagery in this work reflects which contemporary concern of the 1960s?

Protests against the Vietnam War on college campuses

The art-historical movement of the work shown is

Realism

In The Valley of Mexico from the Hillside of Santa Isabel, Jose María Velasco's panoramic composition includes tiny human figures dwarfed by the landscape's monumental scale, conveying an approach toward nature that reflects the influence of European

Romanticism

The work shown can be attributed to which of the following art-historical movements?

Romanticism

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre's early photograph Still Life in Studio shows the influence of works such as

Ruysch's Fruit and Insects, with its deliberate arrangement of purposefully chosen objects

In contrast to how Rodin composed the sculpture, his patrons had which of the following expectations?

The burghers would be represented in a glorified manner.

The painting is from the series The Migration, which was a response to which of the following historic events?

The mass movement of African Americans out of the rural southern United States

Which of the following interpretations of Gustave Courbet's The Stone Breakers accurately represents the general intent of the painting?

The painting gives prominence to content that was traditionally excluded from serious consideration.

Which of the following is the reason that the English government agreed to the use of the style shown for the Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament) ?

The style evoked nationalist feelings through association with earlier buildings.

Which of the following statements is true about both paintings?

They reflect a transcendental vision of nature

Based on its stylistic features, the building shown can be attributed to

Thomas Jefferson

The work shown was created by which of the following artists?

Vassily Kandinsky

Thomas Jefferson introduced Neoclassical elements in the facade of Monticello by adding

a Doric portico with triglyphs and metopes

The artist used all of the following features in the work EXCEPT

a clear relationship between figure and ground

The style and iconographic details of the eighteenth-century work shown suggest that its content is most likely

a representation of love in the context of aristocratic culture

Although the patron intended for the painting to promote loyalty to the state, the contemporary political climate caused viewers to interpret the work as

a revolutionary call to arms for those who opposed the monarchy

At Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, the construction materials stone and glass were chosen for their

ability to harmonize with the surrounding natural environment

Robert Venturi's House in New Castle County is most similar to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello in its

adaptation of classical design elements

In the mural Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Park, Diego Rivera included figures that spanned four centuries most probably to convey the idea that

all Mexicans are a part of the country's rich, ongoing history

In The Bay, Helen Frankenthaler created a large-scale work that invites the viewer to

appreciate the relationships and interactions between colors, which are not intended to be representative

The painting shown can be described as Impressionist because of its

capturing of a transitory moment

The artist included abstracted references to apocalyptic events so that viewers would reflect on the

changes brought on by new developments in the arts

Jean-Honoré Fragonard's painting The Swing reflects Rococo style in its

choice of lighthearted and playful subject matter, depicted with pastel colors and soft lighting

In the commission for the Burghers of Calais, Auguste Rodin was asked to depict

city elders who offered themselves as hostages in the Hundred Years' War

In Thomas Jefferson's design of Monticello, the influence of the ancient Roman Pantheon is evident in the

combination of a domed central plan and a porticoed entrance

In creating the work shown, Claes Oldenburg intended to encourage thoughtful reflection by

combining contrasting references to objects traditionally connected with gender stereotypes

In Nadar Raising Photography to the Height of Art, Honoré Daumier used lithography not only to reach a wide audience but also to

comment on the rising status of photography as an art form

In The Oath of the Horatii, Jacques-Louis David drew on Classical Roman style and subject matter in order to

communicate a moral message to his audience by referencing ancient civic values

David's formal and thematic choices in The Oath of the Horatii demonstrate the principles of Neoclassicism, evident in the painting's

compositional clarity and use of ancient texts to teach a moral lesson

In this particular painting from the series, the artist intended to convey the

conditions of discrimination that African Americans found in the United States

When Robert Smithson created Spiral Jetty in 1970, he demonstrated the postwar challenge to traditional art making by

constructing a work of art to display outside of a museum or gallery context

With his design for the House in New Castle County, Robert Venturi departed from the traditions of modernist architecture because he believed that architecture

could not meet human needs by being designed around pure functionality

In The Jungle, Wifredo Lam's depiction of enigmatic figures with mask-like faces in a surrealistic landscape has been interpreted as a reference to the

creation of an Afro-Cuban identity against the cultural background of slavery

In Olympia, Manet challenges the standards of academic art through his use of

details that identify the nude figure as a real person existing in a contemporary setting

Constantin Brancusi recommended the Kiss be displayed without a base because a pedestal would have

detracted from the nature of the limestone

The print shown can be attributed to Mary Cassatt because of its

domestic subject and reference to Japanese prints

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre's Still Life in Studio makes use of an arrangement of objects reminiscent of traditional still-life painting in an attempt to

elevate the artistic status of a new medium

The patrons responded to Rodin's mode of representation by

elevating the sculpture on a raised platform

Rodin's representation of the figures was influential on later artists mainly because of the

emotional impact and lack of idealization

Joseph Mallord William Turner's Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On) exemplifies the Romantic era through its

emphasis on color as a means of eliciting intense emotion

The work shown by Henri Matisse demonstrates an interest in the

flattening of pictorial space with unblended brushstrokes of vibrant colors

Constantin Brancusi's The Kiss reflects artistic trends in early-twentieth-century Modern sculpture by

focusing on abstraction as a way to explore the inner nature of things

Gustav Klimt's painting The Kiss is similar to Byzantine mosaics such as the Justinian and Theodora panels from San Vitale in its use of

gold to suggest a spiritual dimension

In Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Pablo Picasso used jagged planes and contorted poses in order to

heighten perceived tensions between viewers and the subjects of the painting

The painting on the right focuses on

idea of Manifest Destiny

Although Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's La Grande Odalisque contains many Neoclassical elements, it also breaks classical conventions by

including orientalizing accessories

In the work shown, the use of overlapping vertical and diagonal lines suggests

movement and rhythmic energy

One interpretation of Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych asserts that the artist intended to elevate the status of his subject to that of a religious icon by the use of a diptych format; another interpretation argues that the artist no longer viewed painting as a fine art distinct from popular culture because of the work's

multiple references to mechanical forms of reproduction

The work departs from earlier Western painting traditions because it was inspired in part by

musical composition

both paintings are concerned with themes of

nature

Some scholars believe that Francisco de Goya did not publish his series Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War) during his lifetime because he believed that the response would have been

persecution because he depicted atrocities committed by individuals on both sides of the conflict

The work shown was intended to elicit a humorous response from viewers by

placing a common object in an unexpected context

Eugène Delacroix took inspiration for his painting Liberty Leading the People from a

political uprising against a ruling king

The architect Augustus W. N. Pugin advocated the use of Gothic elements in the Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament) because he believed the Gothic elements would

promote Christian values associated with the style

In Édouard Manet's Olympia, the influence of Titian's Venus of Urbino on the work is most evident in the

reclining pose of the nude female figure

The use of the steel-frame construction method in his Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building enabled Louis Sullivan to

reduce the number of load-bearing walls and significantly increase the size of the windows

In the work shown, The Valley of Mexico from the Hillside of Santa Isabel (El Valle de México desde el Cerro de Santa Isabel), José María Velasco uses landscape painting to

reflect themes of Mexican patriotism and national identity important to his audience

In Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright's decision to include dramatically cantilevered terraces that extend over the flowing water was made possible by the use of

reinforced ferroconcrete

Monet's The Saint-Lazare Station exemplifies a central interest of Impressionist artists by

rendering an everyday moment to highlight the effects of light on surfaces

Robert Smithson chose the motif of the spiral for his earthwork Spiral Jetty because its shape

symbolized to him the natural cycle of creation and decay

The work shown, by Joseph Mallord William Turner, can be understood in the context of the artist's

sympathies for the abolitionist movement

Both paintings address

the Sublime

While Caravaggio uses light in The Calling of Saint Matthew to suggest a divine presence within a religious narrative, Joseph Wright of Derby uses light in A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery to emphasize

the act of learning and education

The merging of Gothic with Classical elements in the building's design reflects

the contributions of two different artists who were each interested in different revivalist styles

As shown in the image of the Central Lobby, the architects visually structured the windows of the Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament) through the use of traditional Gothic

tracery

The design of the Seagram Building by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson reflects a similar underlying philosophy to Louis Sullivan's Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building in that both

use a tripartite division to structure the building along visual and functional lines

Fallingwater and Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye represent similarities in the artists' approach to domestic architecture in that both buildings

were designed to incorporate the structures' natural surroundings

In The Oxbow (View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm), Thomas Cole contrasts a stormy mountain wilderness on the left with sunny cultivated farmland on the right, capturing his possible views regarding the (A) westward expansion of American

westward expansion of American settlement

The theme of the painting is most strongly related to the

writings of Karl Marx

The application of paint is most similar to that of

Édouard Manet's Olympia