quiz 11 ch 2.10

The traditional, and narrow, definition of "fine art" includes ______.

Paintings on canvas and sculptures on pedestals

The kinds of artworks made using alternative media are ______.

Performance art, conceptual art, installations, and environments

Artworks made using alternative media are best accessed by ________ but often exist only in the form of ________.

a direct, personal experience . . . visual documentation or personal accounts

An artwork that consists exclusively of drawings, designs, and plans would best be described as ________.

conceptual art

In Mining the Museum Fred Wilson reorganized objects from the collection of the Maryland Historical Society, essentially taking on the role of a ________ in addition to that of an artist.

curator

Barbara Kruger's Untitled (Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face):

employs her background as a graphic designer in its use of text and image

An artwork can fit into only one of the following categories: performance art, conceptual art, installation art.

false

Both Fred Wilson's Mining the Museum and Kara Walker's Insurrection! (Our Tools were Rudimentary, Yet we Pressed On) combine ______.

historical occurrences and contemporary viewpoints

Yoko Ono often utilizes ________ to complete her artworks, such as Wish Tree.

instructions for viewers to perform or imagine

An important difference between Coyote, I Like America and America Likes Me and Following Piece is that Following Piece took place ______.

on the streets of New York

Edward Kienholz's The Beanery includes sculptural replicas of ________.

people

Abramavic's The Artist is Present would best be described as ________.

performance art

Mel Chin's Fundred Dollar Bill Project is designed to:

raise awareness about and campaign for the treatment of lead-toxic soil

Kara Walker's installation Insurrection! (Our Tools were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On) combines:

silhouette drawings and projections

Jackson Pollock is known for:

splashing, pouring, and dripping paint onto a canvas as he walked around it on the floor

Performance art differs from theater because ______.

the actions take place in an art contect

The most important aspect of a piece of conceptual art is ______.

the idea behind the artwork

In Joseph Beuys's Coyote, I Like America and America Likes Me, the artist:

wrapped himself in felt and lived for five days alone in an art gallery with a coyote

Match the alternative medium or process with its definition: 1. Action paintings 2. Conceptual art 3. Happenings 4. installation 5. performance art

1. Artwork that track the movements and gestures the arts makes during their production 2. a general tendency, as well as an art movement originating in the 1960s, that emphasizes the ideas behind an artwork over any material production to represent those ideas 3. impromptu art actions, initiated and planned by an artist, the outcome of which is not known in advance 4. artworks that transform the surrounding space in order to become environmental artworks 5. an art action or event that incorporates elements of music, dance, poetry, video, and multimedia technology

Artworks made using alternative media and processes ________.

All of the precious answers: break down categories of traditional artworks, break down the traditional boundaries between art and life, focus our attention on objects, actions, and events we might otherwise overlook

What do Yoko Ono's Wish Trees and Mel Chin's Fundred Dollar Bill Project have in common?

They rely on the participants for their completion.

Barbara Kruger's Untitled (Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face) makes the viewer consider which of the following issues?

all of the above: stereotypes that are commonly presented in graphic design powerful institutions, such as museums the problematic ways in which some institutions treat women the fact that gazing at beauty is a form of voyeurism

Installations are designed to ______.

all of the answers: consider more than an individual work of art transform the traditional space of an exhibition immerse viewers in the artwork design an entire exhibition space as an artwork

Which of the following artists were influential for artists who employed alternative use of media and processes?

all of these artists: Marcel Duchamp, Jackson Pollock, John Cage, Jean Tinguely

An artwork that consists of a re-created bedroom with videos projected onto the walls would best be described as ________.

an installation