Art History Final

Carl Andre

"Floorpieces" Create direct interaction between the view and the artwork

Joseph Kosuth

"One and Three Chairs" systems of representation

Gerhard Richter

"Uncle Rudi" normalization of evil under the Nazi regime

The Harlem Renaissance took place in the

1920's

What is Precisionism?

A hard-edge painting style of focused on modern subjects

The basic formula for Newman's "zip" paintings is

A unified color field interrupted by a vertical line

ACT-UP was an important artist advocacy group for

AIDS activism

Pop art may be viewed, in part, as a rebellion against

Abstract Expressionism

What movement is considered the first American avant-garde?

Abstract Expressionism

In his text paintings, Glenn Ligon often uses phrases from

African American writers

Georgia O'Keeffe's subject matter included

Animal bones Desert landscapes Flowers

Jeff Koon's "commodity art" challenges traditional divisions between

Art and commodities Art collecting and consumerism High and Low culture

What is conceptual art?

Art that asserts the primacy use of the idea

Tom Wesselmann created paintings of the female nude

As a faceless American sex symbol

Felix Gonzales-Torres's candy splits are about

Audience participation The experience of loss Minimalist art practices

In his sculptures, John Chamberlain is known for his use of

Automobile parts

Julian Schnabel often added what material to his paintings?

Broken crockery

Felix Gonzales-Torres

Candy spills: Audience participation The experience of loss Minimalist art practices

Jeff Koons

Commodity art: Art and commodities Art collecting and consumerism High and Low culture

Kara Walker

Cut-paper silhouettes, addressing the history of racism in the US

Lucio Fontana's paintings are recognizable by his process of

Cutting

On Kawara

Date paintings: Seriality Use of text as image Primacy of the idea

Yasumasa Morimura's "Portrait (Futago)" appropriates which famous artists work?

Edouard Manet

Warhols adaption of the photo silk-screen process underscores his desire to

Eliminate the artists hand

Concrete art--in contrast to Art Informal-- advanced what?

Geometric Abstraction

Keith Haring

Graffiti art

Kerry James Marshall

History painting

Kerry James Marshall's painting "Better Homes Better Gardens" can be understood as revising what traditional genre in art history to address stereotypes of African American life?

History painting

Artwork that constructs an environment, rather than a single object, is termed

Installation Art

Land Art is described by

It takes the landscape itself as material It is site-specific It relies on photography and other forms of documentation

Claes Oldenburg's "The Store" is described as

It was a performance site It was an environment It sold art objects

Photorealism is defined by

Its direct copying of photographs, transforming them into paintings

Barbara Kruger's graphic compositions of image and text appropriate the look of

Magazine layouts

Damien Hirst

Minimalism

Damien Hirst's "the Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" adopts the formal language of

Minimalism

Eva Hesse

Minimalism

The seriality and organic quality of Eva Hesse's sculpture constitutes a response to, and in transformation of

Minimalism

Fred Wilson

Mining the Museum: exercise of cultural power

Minimalists rebelled against traditional sculpture by

Placing their works directly on the floor Using non traditional art materials like Plexiglas Eliminating the artists hand

Jasper Johns

Readymade images

Jo Baer's Minimalist paintings seek to

Reduce visual interest to test the limits of human perception

Grant Wood's "American Gothic" is an example of which of the following? a. Surrealism b. Realism c. Purism d. Regionalism

Regionalism

On Kawara's date paintings are examples of the following characteristics of Conceptual Art

Seriality Use of text as an image Primacy of the idea

The Tilted Arc controversy shows us that

Space is not simply a physical delineation but a social framework

Op Art seeks to

Stimulate the eye with color and patterns that seem to pulsate

All of the following were influences on Abstraction Expressionism

Surrealism Mexican Muralism European Abstraction

Joseph Kosuth's "One and Three Chairs" draws attention to

Systems of representation

Helen Frankenthaler

Technique: staining

Judy Chicago

The Dinner Party

In art, post colonial theory criticizes

The Eurocentric biases in modern art

What initiative was central to the survival of many American artists during the 1930's?

The Federal Art Project

In the late 1980's an early 1990's, the controversy over free speech and censorship in the arts led to the major defunding of which organization

The National Endowment for the Arts

Another term for Abstraction Expressionism is

The New York School

Sol Le Witt's wall drawings are emblematic of what Minimalist precept

The elimination of the artists hand

The Ashcan School was so named because its artists emphasized

The real and sometimes seedy aspects of urban daily life

Postmodern artists like Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince question Modernism's belief in

Truth Originality Authenticity

The creation of unlimited editions was one of the ways that the Fluxus artist sought to

Undermine the market

Minimalism is defined by

Use of industrial materials Use of simple geometric forms like the cube Use of repetition

Richard Long

Used "walking" as a primary intervention into the landscape

Jean Dubuffet

Used models of the mentally ill

Judy Chicago's "The Dinner Party" challenged the history of art by

Using craft mediums like needlepoint Honoring important women in history Referencing the Last Supper in a triangular configuration of tables with places set for women

Abstract Expressionist artists responded to which major historical event?

WWII

What constitutes Richard Long's primary intervention into the landscape

Walking

The Judy Baca's Mural "the Great Wall of Los Angeles" illustrates

a history of Los Angeles that includes diverse racial and ethnic groups

New Realist artist Arman's response to rampant consumerism was to create

accumulations of detritus and found objects

To create F-III, James Rosenquist utilized skills he acquired as a

billboard painter

Bridget Riley

compared to and provided the basis for textile design

Carl Andre's "floorpieces" are intended to

create direct interaction between the view and the artwork

Kara Walker appropriates what historical art form in addressing the history of racism in the US?

cut-paper silhouettes

Which of the following best describes the experience of a minimalist sculpture

embodied

Fred Wilson's "Mining the Museum" calls attention the the museum's

exercise of cultural power

According to Clement Greenberg, modernist painting is defined by its emphasis on

flatness

Dan Flavin's art is known for his use of

fluorescent light fixtures

Keith Haring practiced what type of art?

graffiti art

Robert Ryman's all-white paintings have allowed him to focus his attention on

his process and materials

Pollock broke with traditional easel paintings by

painting unstretched canvases on the floor dripping and splattering paint painting spontaneously

Lucio Fontana

process of "cutting"

Jasper John's flags and targets make use of

readymade images

The term "gestural painting" describes works that look

spontaneous

Helen Frankenthler's work was influential for her technique of

staining

Glenn Ligon

text paintings: uses phrases from African American writes

Bridget Riley's paintings were often compared to and even provided the basis for

textile designs

Although the Armory show was controversial, it provided the impetus for

the advancement of modernism in America

Body Art is distinctive for the artists primary use of

the body as material for their art

One of the ways Post-painterly Abstraction differs from Abstract Expressionism is in

the elimination of the individual brush game

The Harlem Renaissance was

the first overtly race-conscious cultural movement in the US

What makes Robert Rauschenberg's paintings "combines"?

the incorporation of objects from the world

Jean Dubuffet found powerful models in art of

the mentally ill

The implied subject of Gerhard Richter's "Uncle Rudi" is

the normalization of evil under the Nazi regime

The term "action painting" refers to art that privileges not only the final work, but also

the process

The artists of Arte Povera were so named because they

used everyday and non-art materials

Neo-Expressionist generally paint with

vigorous brushstrokes

The slashing strokes of Willem de Kooning's paintings of women equate intense aesthetic scrutiny with

violence

David Smith's chosen medium was

welded steel