Art History

which of the following artists raised photography to the level of "fine art"

Alfred Stieglitz

Willie Bester was a vocal critic of____.

Apartheid

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

Chuck Close

Which phrase best expresses the sculptural style of Boccioni?

Dynamic movement

An important U.S agency that distributes government funding of the arts is the:

NEA

Which answer describes the ideas of Post_painterly abstraction?

The work should contain no reference to the world outside of the object

Cindy Sherman's work interrogates the impact of

male gaze

Why did Barbara Kruger adopt the slick design of contemporary advertising?

to expose the deceptiveness of media messages

surrounded islands by Christo and Jeanne-Cluade was installed for a period of:

two weeks

The subject of many of Diane Arbus' photographs is:

unidealized images of people

Like____, Conceptual art raised questions about the artist's role in executing the work of art

Dada

A sculptor whose work embodies the charactersitics of Minimalism was____.

Donald Judd

Pop art originated in____, but achieved its great popularity in_____.

England, The United States

The photographs of andreas Gursky draw inspiration from:

Everyday life

A good example of Postmodernist architecture is the___.

Guggenheim museum, Bilbao

which of the following artists was a color field painter

Helen Frankenthaler

Who said: "I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation"

Henri Matisse

Which of the following describes Performance art

It replaces physical objects with movements, gestures and sounds

The terms gestural abstraction and action painting are most appropriately applied to the work of____.

Jackson Pollock

Deconstructivist architecture is associated with the writings of ____.

Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault

The New York artist whose paintings employed color as a doorway to another reality of emotional expression was___.

Mark Rothko

Juane Quick-To-See-Smith's work deals largely with her identity as an_____ artist.

Native American

Art that produced illusions of motion and depth using only flat, geometric forms was called____.

Optical art

Shanzia Sikander's work is often influenced by:

Persian miniatures

Robert Mapplethorpe is known primarily as an:

Photographer

Cindy Sherman works in which medium?

Photography

British art critic Lawrence Alloway coined the term____ to refer to artists who combined mass consumer culture with familiar imagery from everyday life

Pop art

A good example of Post modernist architecture is the_____.

Portland Building, Oregon

Which of the following movements distrusts ideas of progress and objective truth, and views all cultures as equally valid?

Postmodernism

_____deals with the erosion of boundaries between high and poular culture.

Postmodernism

Which artist's work led to an important court case in Cincinnati about freedom of expression for artists

Robert Mapplethorp

which artist is known for his/her environmental art?

Robert Smithson

Jenny Saville is best known for her large-scale, unidealized____.

Self-portraits

The stylistic label that best describes Duane Hanson's Supermarket shopper is_____.

Superrealist

What was the main subject of the postwar New York school artists

The act of painting

Shirin Neshat often poses in her photographs wearing a _____, which for her is a symbol of the repression of Muslim Women

Veil

What two tools did Audrey Flack use to create her super-realistic paintings?

a projector and an airbrush

Superrealism and pop art both____.

address themes from consumer culture

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

by using incisive narrative and fabrics

Performance art challenged art's function as

commodity

What highly unusual material did Chris Ofili use on his painting The Holy Virgin Mary

elephant dung

The harnessing of solar energy as a power source is a key, defining feature of ______.

green architecture

A Nonobjective work refers to work that

has no reference to external apperances in the physical world

Michael Grave's Portland building displays Postmodernism's

juxtapositions

The stylistic label that best describes Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans memorial is____.

minimalism

Frank Lloyd Wright described many of his buildings, such as the Guggenheim museum, as____.

organic

Jean-Michel Basquiat is often incorrectly described as an____.

primitive

Conceptual art is best described as work that____.

privileges the idea over the execution of an object

The work of Ernst Kirchner shows

subjects drawn from the industrialized urban setting

Environmental art shares the avant-garde desire to____.

take art beyond the gallery or museum setting

Maya Lin's Vietnam War memorial is inscribed with:

the names of the American casualities from the war