ART 12,13,14,15,16

Which of the following artists founded groups, arranged exhibitions and published journals striving to raise photography to the level of a "fine art"?

Alfred Stieglitz

Timothy O'Sullivan documented which of the following wars in his photography?

American Civil War

The goal of this style was to "create an art based on natural forms that could be mass-produced for a large audience."

Art Nouveau

The goal of Munch's paintings was to describe the conditions of _____________.

"modern psychic life"

Pop Art achieved the height of its popularity in the _________.

1960s

How does Faith Ringgold address issues of gender and racism in her work?

By using incisive commentary and fabrics.

The painter ___________________ explored the properties of light, plane, and color and their interrelationships, as seen in his Basket of Apples from 1895

Cezanne

This married couple is famous for wrapping buildings, draping Central Park in fabric "gates," and surrounding islands with millions of square feet of pink cloth

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Which of the following artists is best known for his Superrealist portraits?

Chuck Close

Matthew Barney created this complex multimedia installation, using drawings, photographs, sculptures, videos and film:

Cremaster cycle

Edward Hopper's Nighthawks communicates ___________________.

the pervasive loneliness of modern humans

The feature of Sullivan's Guaranty (Prudential) Building that distinguished it from earlier structure was _____________________.

the reflection of the subdivision of the interior spaces on the outer structure

Vincent van Gogh attempted to communicate __________________ in his Starry Night.

the vastness of the universe

Claude Monet's Impression: Sunrise displays the Impressionist interest in _______________.

the vibrating quality of light

Korean-born Nam June Paik was one of the first to use the medium of _________________ in his work.

video

Which of the following artists used lithographs to comment on political events and social customs?

Daumier

This type of architecture strives to disrupt conventional expectations and challenge the viewer's assumptions about architectural form as it relates to function

Deconstructivist Architecture

The great dialogue about color and form was carried on in the famous contest between the two leaders of the Romantics and the Neoclassicists: __________________________.

Delacroix and Ingres

The two major schools of German Expressionism were:

Die Brucke and Der Blaue Reiter

Which of the following is an example of Futurism?

Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash

Which artist painted unflinching autobiographical self-portraits?

Frida Kahlo

Who among the following artists liked to paint images of Romantic transcendental landscapes?

Friedrich

This building by Frank Gehry has been likened to a "metallic flower":

Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain

Which of the following was a Color-field painter?

Helen Frankenthaler

The Fauve use of color is particularly apparent in the works of ______________.

Henri Matisse

This work is a tribute to the South African Black Liberation Movement leader who was killed by authorities while in their custody:

Homage to Steve Biko

The Chinese-born Xu Bing created A Book from the Sky in 1987. This huge work creates an environment in the gallery and is known as this type of art:

Installation

Which of the following best describes Performance Art?

It replaces physical objects as art and challenges art's function as a commodity

The term action painting is most appropriately applied to the work of ___________________.

Jackson Pollock

Mary Cassatt's approach to composition owes much to her exposure to __________________.

Japanese prints

These two women artists use unflattering depictions of the human body to comment on social issues:

Jenny Saville and Kiki Smith

Which architect embraced glass, iron and prefabricated parts in his building?

Joseph Paxton

Which famous architect's motto was "Less is more"?

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The stylistic label that best describes Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial is ________________

Minimalist

A good example of Postmodern architecture is the ___________________________.

Pompidou National Center of Art and Culture, Paris

This artist's openly homosexual images were at the center of a huge controversy in the 1980's involving the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA):

Robert Mapplethorpe

Which of the following artists is categorized as a Symbolist?

Rousseau

Which of the following is an example of Synthetic Cubism?

Still Life with Chair-Caning

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

Surrealism rejected the ideas of psychoanalysis put forth by Jung and Freud.

Who was the artist associated with the night world of Paris, consorting with the tawdry population of entertainers, prostitutes, and other social outcasts?

Toulouse-Lautrec

The "sublime" inspired feelings of ___________________.

awe mixed with terror

Georges Seurat differed from the Impressionist painters in his __________________.

disciplined application of color theories

Dada artists exhibited ready-made sculptures, which were mass-produced common objects, called ________________

found objects

Pre-Raphaelite painters wanted to create _________________ art.

fresh and sincere

What did some viewers find offensive about Manet's Olympia?

her look of cool indifference and shamelessness

Conceptual Art is best described as work that ____________________.

privileges the idea over the execution of an object

Courbet preferred to paint ____________________.

realistic scenes as he saw them

Environmental Art shares the avant-garde desire to _____________________.

take art beyond the gallery or museum setting

Cindy Sherman's work interrogates the impact of ______________________.

the "male gaze"

Gericault's Raft of the Medusa represents ____________________

the aftermath of a 19th-century French shipwreck