Exam 2 Study Guide Multiple Choice

What did Robert Frank's images in The Americans, such as Trolley, New Orleans, reveal about life in the United States in the 1950s? (black and white image of bus)

- The successful efforts of racial desegregationists in the country - The continuing segregation among blacks and whites in the country

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

Chuck Close

What served as the setting in each of the paintings in Leon Golub's series Mercenaries?

Featureless red background

Whose highly personal work is often described as autobiographical because of her unflinching self-portrait portrayals, which give the viewer a glimpse into her suffering?

Frida Kahlo

Which leading figure in the folk art movement of modern Japan created this work? (Bronze ball thing)

Hamada Shoji

Bloodline: Big Family No. 2 references the Chinese governmental policy of restricting married couples in regard to what?

Having only one child

The outdoor display of large-scale slide images to highlight the plight of the homeless in the United States is the trademark of which artist?

Krzysztof Wodiczko

Founded in 1954, the Gutai movement devoted itself to art that combined Japanese traditional practices such as Zen with a renewed appreciation for materials. What type of art did many Gutai artists engage in?

Performance Art

Which of the following was the purpose of Performance Art?

To challenge art's function as a commodity

What is the function of a rock garden at a Zen Buddhist monastery, such as the Karesansui garden at Ryoanji? (Rock garden with pink tree in back)

To facilitate meditation

Among the criticisms of Michael Graves's Portland Building was that it resembled what?

an enlarged jukebox

Which artist created Ashoka at Kalinga? (concrete statue of man + sword)

Meera Mukherjee

At the beginning of his long career, Philip Johnson was closely associated with which modernist architect?

Mies Van Der Rohe

Charles Moore's postmodernist Piazza d'Italia is located in which American city?

New Orleans

Which term best describes Joan Mitchell's approach to Abstract Expressionism seen in this Untitled work from ca. 1955? (abstract brush strokes with red accent)

gestural abstraction

India gained independence from the British in what year?

1947

The eclecticism and dialogue between traditional and contemporary elements found in postmodern architecture is seen in the which building?

AT&T Building, New York

In his writing on postmodern architecture, Venturi emphasized which two concepts?

Complexity and contradiction

As evident in Ellsworth Kelly's painting Red Green Blue, which of the following is NOT one of the elements he considered essential to painting?

Composition

Post-painterly Abstractionists most differed from Abstract Expressionists in which aspect of their work?

Cool, detached rationality

How did one enter a teahouse, such as the Taian teahouse of the Myokian temple in Kyoto? (small metal door)

Crawling on hands and knees

Trigo Piula's Ta Tele is a commentary on the influence of Western culture on which African nation?

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Which Marxist painter created a series of murals including Ancient Mexico and this detail of History of Mexico? (Painted image with many figures)

Diego Rivera

Which artist makes stunningly beautiful images of subjects normally considered ugly, such as industrial refuse and scrap metal?

Edward Burtynsky

What did Fluxus artists name their individual instances of Performance Art, to distinguish their performances from Kaprow's Happenings?

Events

What aspect of James Stirling's Neue Staatsgalerie is quintessentially postmodern? (tan stone curved wall)

Its historical eclecticism

Isamu Noguchi's Shodo Shima Stone Study weds the geometric abstraction of Western art with what other tradition?

Japanese Garden Design

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

Jean Dubuffet

Which artist owed a debt to diverse influences such as Picasso, Abstract Expressionism, graffiti, and Jean Dubuffet?

Jean-Michel Basquiat

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

Marcel Duchamp

Which art took as its subject the mass culture and familiar imagery of the contemporary urban environment?

Pop art

Which early British Pop artist explored how advertising shaped public attitudes and combined elements of popular and fine art in his work?

Richard Hamilton

What printing method did Andy Warhol employ to create multiple images of the same object, such as a Coke bottle or a soup can?

Silkscreen

What artistic tradition does the Superrealist artist Audrey Flack draw upon to make a poignant commentary in Marilyn? (painting of faces on newsprint with vibrant color)

The Vanitas Painting

In Willie Bester's mixed media Homage to Steve Biko, the numbers serve as a reference to what?

The dehumanized life of blacks under apartheid