Art history 2 final
Pop Art, and art that utilized the techniques of advertising, industrial design, and Hollywood movies were at their heights during which of the following decades?
1960s
Which of the following artists created large-scale, kinetic sculptures?
Alexander Calder
.... I believe in the future resolution of the states of dream and reality, in appearance so contradictory, in a sort of absolute reality, or surreality." This definition of Surrealism was written by ____.
André Breton
The Chrysler Building by William van Alen has elements from which of the following styles?
Art Deco
Who wrote, "All my life I have sought the essence of flight. Don't look for the mysteries. I give you pure joy. Look at the sculptures until you see them. Those nearest to God have seen them
Brancusi
Which of the following artists is best known for his large-scale portraits?
Chuck Close
What style is described as compositions of shapes and forms abstracted from the conventionally conceived world?
Cubism
Which of the following earlier art styles formed the characterizing spirit of Performance Art?
Dada
Which of the following statements about Dada is true?
Dada had no fixed ideas
Empty piazzas depicting mysterious figures were often painted by which of the following artists?
De Chirico
Throughout history, artists have regularly served political ends by using their art to make visual statements. Which of the following artists has created an overtly political statement with his/her work?
Dorothea Lange
Who photographed the rural poor displaced by the Great Depression in the 1930s?
Dorothea Lange
Throughout history, artists have regularly served political ends by using their art to make visual statements. Which of the following artists has created an overtly political statement with his/her work?
Dorthea Lange
Which of the following works demonstrates the Futurists' interest in motion?
Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash
Which of the following artists shared Stieglitz's concern to position photography as an art form with the same fine-art status as painting and sculpture
Edward Weston
The Champs de Mars or The Red Tower by Robert Delaunay depicts which of the following structures?
Eiffel Tower
Which artist, even though he was older than the Die Brücke artists, was invited to join them because he was pursuing similar ideas in his work
Emile Nolde
The hovering figure that served as a memorial to those who died in World War I was created by ____.
Ernst Barlach
Which artist stated that she wanted her pieces to be "non art, non connotative, non anthropomorphic, non geometric, non nothing, everything, but of another kind, vision, sort"?
Eva Hesse
Which of the following painters illustrates Clement Greenberg's insistence "on purity in art"?
Frank Stella
Which of the Blaue Reiter artists found animals superior in beauty, strength, innocence, and naturalness?
Franz Marc
Her work is often described as autobiographical because of her unflinching self-portrait portrayals. She gives the viewer a personal glimpse into herself and suffering. Which of the following artists does this describe?
Frida Kahlo
Who is the artist who created a scathing visual commentary on the military with his Fit for Active Service?
Grosz
A good example of Postmodernist architecture is ____.
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
Which of the following artists was a Berlin Dadaist?
Hannah Höch
How did Allan Kaprow view art?
He viewed it as an intersection of art and life.
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
Who said: "...we rejected imitative colors, and that with pure colors we obtained stronger reactions..."?
Henri Matisse
How does the architecture of Günter Behnisch express Deconstructivist architecture?
It avoids the suggestion of a clear, stable mass.
Which of the following describes the focus of the Ashcan School?
It focused on the bleak and seedy aspects of city life.
Chris Ofili explores traditional themes and approaches with cross-cultural eyes. Which of the following describes his work?
It is expressionistic in nature.
Performance Art can be described as movements, gestures and sounds of persons communicating. Which of the following describes the focus of Performance Art?
It replaces physical objects.
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
Who was the sculptor who believed that "the only stable thing is movement"?
Jean Tinguely
The work of ____ deals with the issue of who "controls the body".
Kiki Smith
Who is the artist who created a work of art that can be described as "a wickedly funny gift"?
Man Ray
Symbolism and fantasy were joined to create works filled with visionary joy and despair by which of the following artists?
Marc Chagall
The New York artist whose paintings became compositionally simple and focused on color was ____.
Mark Rothko
Of the following, who is the best example of a twentieth-century artist who believed that art should delight, inspire, and enhance our lives as human beings?
Matisse
Which of the following artists did not depict themes of war?
Matisse
A painting that was done in reaction to World War I was ____.
Max Beckmann's Night
Which of the following artists developed the theory of neoplasticism or the new pure plastic art?
Mondrian
Which of the following movements had a great distrust of the Western ideas of progress and objective truth and viewed all cultures as equally valid?
Postmodernism
Who is the Surrealist?
Salvador Dalí
What message did Vera Mukhina convey in her work entitled The Worker and the Collective Farm Worker?
She glorified the communal labor of the Soviet people
How did Carolee Schneeman transform Performance Art?
She introduced a feminist dimension.
The work of Adrian Piper is provocative and confrontational. She announces in a video installation, "I'm black" What is her motivation with this pronouncement?
She wants viewers to examine their behaviors and values.
Which of the following artists created a modern American art style combining Synthetic Cubism with jazz tempos and his perception of the fast-paced American culture?
Stuart Davis
Which one of the following statements is not true?
Surrealism ignored the ideas of psychoanalysis put forth by Jung and Freud.
How did museum commissions of performance events neutralize Performance Art
The commissions neutralized the subversiveness.
Which of the following describes what artists working in the Post-Painterly Abstractionist style believed?
Their works should contain no reference to the world outside their own compositions.
Which of the following describes Kruger's photo-collages?
They challenge cultural attitudes.
How did avant-garde artists go about challenging artistic convention?
They sought innovative forms of expression.
Which of the following was the purpose of Performance Art?
To challenge art's function as commodity
Barbara Kruger's work takes on the slick design of contemporary advertising. Which of the following is her principal aim?
To expose the deceptiveness of media messages
Which of the following works of art was melted down for ammunition by the Nazis in 1937?
War Monument
In the artist's eyes, the Fate of the Animals was almost a premonition of which historical event?
World War I
Henry Moore's great series of reclining nudes is said to have been inspired by ____.
a pre-Columbian figure, the Chacmool
Which of the following describes the Portland Building located in Portland, Oregon?
an enlarged jukebox
How did Barnett Newman increase the capacity of color to communicate emotion?
by simplifying the composition
How does Faith Ringgold address issues of gender and racism in her work?
by using fabrics, traditionally associated with women and incisive narrative
The goal of Dalí's "paranoiac-critical" method was to ____.
create images of inner reality and irrationality as concrete as the world of physical reality
What is the evidence of a Performance Art event?
documentary photos at the time of the performance
When did the center of the Western art world shift from Europe to the United States?
during the 1940s
Which phrase best expresses the sculptural style of Boccioni?
dynamic movement
A nonobjective work refers to work that ____.
has no reference to the external appearance of the physical world
How did the Fluxus group see aesthetic potential?
in the nontraditional and commonplace
John Cage encouraged his students to link their art to which of the following?
life
The work of Melvin Edwards is very evocative. He uses small found metal objects that he intertwines and welds together creating a haunting theme. Which of the following is that theme?
lynching
Which of the following describes Happenings?
participatory
Cindy Sherman works in which medium representing the "male gaze"?
photography
Which of the following describes the work of Jackson Pollock.
significant departure from conventional painting
Beuys wanted "to shape our thoughts into words." Which of the following did he want to create?
social sculptures
Which of the following is executed in the Synthetic Cubist style?
still life with chair-canning
The work of Ernst Kirchner shows ____.
subjects drawn from the industrialized urban bourgeoisie
What was the main focus of the work of the postwar New York School?
the act of painting itself
Because of the spontaneous and informal nature of Performance Art, which of the following was the primary medium?
the human body
What message is portrayed in Edward Hopper's Nighthawks?
the pervasive loneliness of modern humans
Thomas Hart Benton, a Regionalist artist, focused his attention on which of the following subjects?
the social history of Missouri
