Art 51 ch 30

Who was Clement Greenberg? (3 ideas)

1)He was an art critic of the 1940s through the 1970s. 2)He advocated "purity" in art. 3)Greenberg was a proponent of formalism in art.

What is Performance Art? (3 ideas)

1)It is a temporary work in which the artist communicates directly before an audience through gesture and speech. 2)The only evidence for the work after the event would be documentary photos taken at the time of the performance. 3)The art form emphasizes informed and spontaneous action.

What is meant by action painting? (3 ideas)

1)It was also called gestural abstraction, 2)It refers to the kind of Abstract Expressionism practiced by Jackson Pollock, 3)The emphasis was on the creation process, the artist's gesture in making art.

What artist used the technique of benday dots, and why? (2 ideas)

1)Roy Lichtenstein 2)He wanted to call attention to the mass-produced derivation of the image.

What is the artistic issue of Environmental Art—sometimes called earthworks? (3 ideas)

1)This art form developed during a period of concern for the American environment. 2)Artists wanted the viewer to consider the nature of sculpture and to reevaluate the relationship between sculpture and the viewer. 3)Many artists encouraged spectator interaction with the work.

How did Barnett Newman increase the capacity of color to communicate emotion?

By simplifying the composition

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

Chuck Close

What is the evidence of a Performance Art event?

Documentary photos at the time of the performance

Which of the following painters illustrates Clement Greenberg's insistence "on purity in art"?

Frank Stella

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

How did the Fluxus group see aesthetic potential?

In the nontraditional and commonplace

Which of the following describes Joseph Beuys 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

____ 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 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

How did Carolee Schneeman transform Performance Art?

She introduced a feminist dimension.

Beuys wanted "to shape our thoughts into words."Which of the following did he want to create?

Social sculptures

Which of the following was the purpose of Performance Art?

To challenge art's function as commodity

Post-painterly abstractionists differed from Abstract Expressionists in their ____.

cool, detached rationality

When did the center of the Western art world shift from Europe to the United States?

during the 1950s

Artists of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism produced paintings that are abstract but ____.

express the artist's state of mind

John Cage encouraged his students to link their art to which of the following?

life

Pollock's painting technique highlights the most significant aspect of gestural abstraction—the emphasis on ____.

the creative process

To distinguish their performances from "happenings, "Fluxus artists named theirs ____.

"events"