FINAL PREP

Composition

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?

Avant-garde

At the turn of the 20th century, artists who were viewed as being ahead of their time and who transgressed the limits of established art forms are referred to by what term?

Chromatic abstractionism

Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko are artists who worked in which style?

Wall and table

In Matisse's painting Red Room, the color harmony he achieves with the color red merges which two elements of the scene?

Pursuit of Wealth

In Money-Changer and His Wife by Quentin Massys, what is the viewer warneed against as being a distraction from religious life?

The male gaze

In her photograph series, Cindy Sherman addressed the tradition in Western art that present female beauty from which perspective?

Moralizing reminders of human vices

In northern Europe of this period, this expansion in genre painting-landscapes, portraits, still lifes-was accompanied by what new element?

Africa

Picasso's radical painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon reveals his fascination with ancient Iberian sculpture as well as the artistic traditions of which continent?

Synthetic Cubism

Picasso's work entitled Still Life with Chair-Caning is representative of which style?

Houses

The Villa Savoye embodies Le Corbusier's theories about which genre of architecture?

Jeff Koons

The work of which artist reflects the legacy of Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol?

Einstein

Vassily Kandinsky's move to abstraction rather than representation can be attributed to the scientific theories of which individual?

Abstract Expressionism

What art movement arose in the United States as a result of the emigration of European artists after World War II?

Roy Lichtenstein

What artist chose to employ the commercial printing technique of benday dots on a large scale?

Enlightenment ideas

What did Dadaists believe led to the destruction and loss of life of World War I?

Degenerate

What term was applied to Surrealist and other avant-garde art by Hitler and the Naze regime in 1930s and 1940s Germany?

Color

Which element of a painting did Matisse view as the primary conveyor of meaning?

Neue Sachlichkeit

After World War I, German artists sought a clear-eyed and honest image of the modern world, and this artistic movement came to be called what?

Portaiture

Amid the realism of the earthly realm in Burial of Count Orgaz, El Greco's careful delineation of individual features reveals his talent for what genre?

Viewer of the works of earlier artists

By placing herself as a spectator of the Last Supper in her Self-Portrait Looking at the Last Supper, Marisol Escobar emphasized herself in what role?

Zips

By what term did Barnett Newman refer to the narrow lines that run vertically through the color fields of his paintings?

Great Iconoclasm

During which conflict did bands of Calvinists destroy artworks in Catholic churches in the Netherlands?

Cool, detached rationally

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

Semiotics

The discrepancy between the image and the caption in Rene Magritte's The Treachery (or Perfidy) of Images shows the influence of which contemporary field of study?

The Holocaust

The incinerated appearance of Anselm Kiefer's Nigredo is mean to allude to what?

Neo-Expressionism

The work of Julian Schnabel, whose pieces revisit Abstract Expressionism but in a wider variety of materials and media, is part of which artistic movement?

Jackson Pollock

The work of which artist exemplifies gestural abstraction?

To challenge art's function as a commodity

Which of the following was the purpose of Performance Art?

Oyster and mussel shells

In pieter Aertsen's Butcher's Stall, which element is a reference to a degenerate life?

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld

The work of which architect is considered the embodiment of de Stijl artists, especially Piet Mondrain?

African American heros

What do many of Basquiat's paintings celebrate?

Great Salt Lake

What is the location of Robert Smithson's earthwork Spiral Jetty

Fauvism

What is the name of the early-20th-century movement that painted works of simplified design but shockingly brign coloration?

Documentary photos at the time of the performance

What is the permanent record of a Performance Art event?

Tilted Arc

What name did Richard Serra give to his project installed in the plaza of the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in New York?

Impasto

What painting technique did Jean Dubuffet employ in Vie Inquiete (Uneasy Life)?

Silkscreen

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

Featureless red background

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

Deconstructivist

What stylistic term applies to a building that consists of asymmetrical mass and imbalanced forms of random-seeming design that prompts a reaction fo disquiet from viewers?

Deconstruction

What term describes the modernist process Braque has applied to the form of the musician in his painting The Portuguese?

Advertising billboards

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

Pop Art

Which 20th-century art movement sought to harness the communicative powr of art to reach a wide audience?

Marcel Duchamp

Which Dada artist modified mass-production objects into "readymades" given the status of art in the eyes of viewers?

Mark Rothko

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

Clement Greenburg

Which art critic asserted the importance of strict formalism, in which the emphasis is on the elements rather than the subject of an artwork?

Duane Hanson

Which artist created Superrealist life-size painted plaster sculptures that create the loneliness of average Americans in familiar settings?

Collage

Which artist medium is represented by Cubist works such as Still Life with Chair-Caning and Bottle, Newspaper, Pipe, and Glass?

Kehinde Wiley

Which artist reworks historically important portraits by setting an African American individual in a reproduced pose but against a wallpaper-like background?

Piet Mondrain

Which de Stijl artist sought to create a universal means of expression by using only a palette of three primary colors, gradations of black and white, and horizontal and vertical lines?

Helen Frankenthaler

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?

They are meant to challenge cultural attitudea around gender

Which of the following best describes Barbara Kruger's photo-collages?

It replaces traditional stationary artworks

Which of the following best describes the function fo Performance Art?

To expose the deceptiveness of media messages

Which of the following is Barbara Kruger's principal aim in taking on the slick design of contemporary advertising in her work?

Guggenheim Muesum, Bilbao

Which of the following is an example of Deconstructivist architecture?

To emphasize the feminine virtues of loyalty and subservience

Which of the following was not one of Judy Chicago's intentions in creating The Dinner Party?

Hamilton, Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?

Which of the following works is the product of its creator's study of the way advertising shapes public attitudes?

Picasso and Braque

Which two artists were the founders of Cubism, with its rejection of pictorial illusionism?

Jean Dubuffet

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