Quiz: 3.8 and 3.9

Piet Mondrian was a founder of which movement?

De Stijl

Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 was shocking because of the nudity it contained.

False

The art of the American Scene was divided into several branches, one of which was realistic and the other abstract.

False

The way that Jackson Pollock painted focused on the process of making art.

True

In his Untitled (1950), Mark Rothko wanted to emphasize ________.

a deep, almost religious experience

Grant Wood chose subjects that:

reflected his experience in Midwestern America

Artwork in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries can be ________.

all of the previous answers

Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 was ________ the Armory Show in 1913.

seen as scandalous by viewers at

The technique used to make Andy Warhol's Thirty Are Better than One is ________.

silkscreen

Jackson Pollock's Number 1A is ________.

so large that it dominates the viewer's field of vision

Andy Warhol used commercial processes to create many of his works because ________.

he wanted his work to have a depersonalized and mass-produced quality

Grant Wood's American Gothic is ________.

meant to reflect the American values of individuality, morality, and hard work

The artist of Unique Forms of Continuity in Space ________ the art movements and traditions of the past.

wanted to leave behind

Roy Lichtenstein challenged traditional notions of the subject matter and appearance of fine art painting by embracing everyday subjects.

True

The technique used by Roy Lichtenstein to show gradations in color in his Girl in Mirror was ________.

borrowed from newspaper printing and comics