Art Lecture Test 4
What is the meaning of the French word "fauve" from which the name Fauvism derives?
"wild beast"
Which artist's Violin and Pitcher (1909-10) suggests how difficult it can be to distinguish his work from that of Picasso during the period known as Analytic Cubism?
Barque
Woodblock printing began in the fourth century in which country?
China
Mondrian's works, such as Trafalgar Square, show how he served as a bridge between Color Field painting and what earlier school?
Cubism
Which artist's Lucky Strike (1921) shows the influence of Synthetic Cubism and serves as a forerunner of later Pop Art?
Davis
Which artist explored a range of motions through a series of ballet pictures that included Dancer with a Bouquet, Bowing?
Degas
Who painted a "slice of life" image of an intoxicated couple in Absinthe?
Degas
Which artist adopted elements of Synthetic Cubism to paint the four murals Aspects of Negro Life for the New York Public Library?
Douglas
In Renoir's Pont-Neuf and Pissarro's Place du Théâtre Français, the influence of photography can be seen in the
ELEVATED VIEWPOINT, maybe blurred forms and cropped view
Which artist spent most of the last years of his life living in Tahiti?
Gauguin
Who painted the Yellow Christ (1889)
Gauguin
Which Armenian artist played the most influential role in transforming European Abstract Surrealism into American Abstract Expressionism?
Gorky
Whose abstracted representations in works such as Garden in Sochi represented an important step toward Abstract Expressionism?
Gorky
Which art critic traced the way in which, over time, artists' view of pictorial space had "lost its 'inside' and become all 'outside'"?
Greenberg
Whose Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? could be seen as a manifesto for the Pop Art movement?
Hamilton
Who created Metronomic Irregularity I (1966), which consists of cotton-covered wires interlaced through the holes in two rectangles?
Hesse
Which artist visually recorded scenes from the U.S. Civil War for Harper's Weekly in works such as The Army of the Potomac—A Sharpshooter on Picket Duty?
Homer
Which artist's Gas (1940) depicts a single man at a gas station with a vast empty expanse in the background?
Hopper
In which country did Futurism originate?
Italy
Which artist pursued the question of what separates everyday objects from art in works such as Three Flags (1958)?
Johns
Which artist was among the first to eliminate recognizable objects from his paintings?
Kandinsky
Which artist's Mask of Fear (1932) was influenced by a Zuni statue of a war god?
Klee
Who published the "manifesto" Paragraphs on Conceptual Art in 1967?
LeWitt
Who painted Bassin des Nymphéas (or Water Lily Pond)?
Monet
Whose Impression: Sunrise (1872) lent Impressionism its name?
Monet
Which painter of Galatea (1880-1881) was the leader of the French Symbolist movement?
Moreau
Whose best known painting The Scream shows elements of both Post-Impressionism and Symbolism?
Munch
In which city was the Blue Rider group established?
Munich
Due to his use of color, Seurat has been called both a
Neo-Impressionist and a Pointillist
What city had become the center of the art world by 1940?
New York
Which member of The Bridge painted Still Life with Masks (1911)?
Nolde
Whose Cow's Skull with Calico Roses exhibits the influence of Surrealism and the Southwest landscape on the artist?
O'Keeffe
Which sculptor made monumental statues of mundane objects, such as Clothespin (1976) in Philadelphia?
Oldenburg
Impressionism first emerged in the 1860s in what city?
Paris
Prior to World War II, which city served as the twentieth-century capital of the Western art world?
Paris
The first Cubist sculpture was the bronze Head of a Woman by
Picasso
Who created the assemblage Bull's Head (1943) from a bicycle seat and handlebars?
Picasso
Who painted The Old Guitarist (1903)?
Picasso
Who was the most famous gesture painter of the New York school?
Pollock
Which artist was known for "combines" such as Black Market (1961), which incorporated painting, photography, and sculpture?
Rauschenberg
Whose characteristically soft brushstrokes can be seen in works such as Moulin de la Galette?
Renoir
Which artist's Aubade (Dawn) of 1975 exemplifies the Op Art movement?
Riley
Which art critic penned the term "action painting" to describe works where "the canvas was not a picture but an event"?
Rosenberg
Which artist's canvases of rectangles hovering in fields of color, such as Number 15 (1957) represent a transition of sorts to Color Field painting?
Rothko
Who painted Tahkt-i-Sulayman I (1967) as part of the "Protractor Series"?
Stella
Which artist's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte demonstrates his technique of divisionism?
Steurat
Almost all Abstract Expressionists had passed through a phase of what style, which inculcated in them an interest in myths and dreams?
Surrealism
As an attempt to depict the psychological reality of its subject, Picasso's Girl before a Mirror exemplifies which style?
Surrealism
Which best describes the paintings of Winslow Homer?
They have elements of both Realism and Impressionism.
Katsushika Hokusai's The Great Wave of Kanagawa was part of his series entitled
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.
Which artist's Night View, Saruwaka Street at Night, part of his One Hundred Views of Edo, demonstrates affinities with the cityscapes of Pissarro and Renoir?
Utagawa Hiroshige
Which artist famously cut off part of his own ear in a fit of jealous rage, then killed himself in 1890?
Van Gogh
Whose work is exemplified by his Campbell's Soup I (Tomato) of 1968?
Warhol
Gauguin's Self-Portrait with Halo features
a clearly divided picture plane, traditional motifs, symbolist colors
Picasso's Guernica exhibits all the following characteristics
a combination of analytic cubism, synthetic cubism, and surrealism. a triptych-like composition, the incorporation of traditional motifs
Collage exhibited all the following characteristics
a combination of drawing and cut-and-paste paper, an interest in the disassembling and reassembling of parts of the environment, elements of both analytic and synthetic cubism
The painting Starry Night (1889) shares which feature with Impressionist paintings?
a fondness for landscape
As seen in the works of Monet, over time, Impressionism developed in all the following ways
a growing preference for color form and light over iconography, a movement toward abstraction, a progressive dissolution of edges
What is the central figure of Gauguin's Nevermore
a reclining nude
All the following traits characterized the Dada movement
a sense of despair and a nihilist philosophy of negation, challenges to traditional assumptions about art, a taste for playfulness and experimentation
The painting Old Guitarist exhibits all the following characteristics
a somber tone, a human figure with long thin limbs, an emphasis on mood
Proponents of the International Style were primarily interested in developing
a universal style that would satisfy human needs through mass production
Gorky's The Artist and His Mother exhibits all the following characteristics
a use of geometric shapes inspired by Cubism, visible brushstrokes reminiscent of Fauvism, flattened planes of color reminiscent of Fauvism
A significant difference between the works of Kelly and Mondrian is Kelly's
abandonment of the black frames in which Mondrian encased colors.
The painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon exhibits all the following characteristics
adaptions of traditional poses from western art, faces influenced by african masks, the incorporation of multiple vantage points instead of a single one
Van Gogh's Bedroom at Arles exhibits all the following characteristics
an absence of human figures, except in portraits, autobiographical content, a plethora of pure colors
Futurism exhibits all of the following characteristics
an interest in speed, travel, and dynamism. a style inspired by the machine age, an attempt to appeal to a broad audience
One of the defining characteristics of Warhol's work is
an obsession with mass production
Giacometti's Large Standing Woman III evidences his strong interest in the statuary of which culture?
ancient egypt
Which element did Hesse add to Minimalism to create what some have called Post-Minimalism?
autobiographic content
Which artist performed the action sculpture Coyote, I like America and America Likes Me for one week with a live coyote?
beuys
From 1901 to 1904, what color predominated in Picasso's paintings?
blue
Whose Unique Forms of Continuity in Space exemplified the Futurist movement?
boccioni
Whose First Surrealist Manifesto of 1924 bridged the gap between Dada and Surrealism?
breton
Fauvism is associated with all the following qualities
brilliant colors, emotional exuberance, nonnaturalistic colors
What technique did Monet use to capture the appearance of reflections on water?
broken color
Homer's Breezing Up exhibits all the following characteristics
broken colors, an oblique viewpoint, cropped viewpoint
Seurat's interest in theories of color led him to
build up color through dots of pure color
How did Duchamp create his famous work L.H.O.O.Q.?
by drawing a beard and moustache on a reproduction of the Mona Lisa
A characteristic of Stella's early work was the use of
canvases of different shapes.
Which would be most likely to have been found in a Nevelson piece?
carpentry tools
Whose Mont Sainte-Victoire (c. 1900) conveys his interest in faceted, crystalline forms?
cezanne
Whose Still Life with Apples (1875-77) fulfilled his desire to "astonish Paris with an apple"?
cezanne
The main European impetus for Cubism came from
cezanne's new spatial organization
African art appealed to early twentieth-century artists primarily because of its
classical proportions
The paintings of Toulouse-Lautrec exhibit all the following characteristics
clearly defined color areas, partial oblique views, the influence of Japanese prints
An important difference between Post-Impressionism and Impressionism is that Post-Impressionists
clearly defined the edges of forms
As demonstrated in pieces like Retroactive I, the work of Rauschenberg could best be described as
collage-like and ambiguous.
n works like The City, Léger adopted elements of Analytic Cubism and added what new element?
colorful and recognizable shapes
In works like Torpedo...Los!, Roy Lichtenstein drew upon the aesthetic of
comic books
An important distinction between the works of Pollock and Rothko is that Rothko's work
consisted of primarily figurative imagery... or allowed light to move exuberantly across the picture plane
Matisse's The Joy of Life (1905-06) exhibits all the following characteristics
continually curving lines, non-realistic colors, Biblical allegory
Photographic influences on the impressionist style
cropped viewpoint, the silhouette, the blurring
In his Painted Bronze (Ale Cans), Jasper Johns does all of the following
draw upon the theme of commercialism, question the degree to which uniqueness is a necessary quality of art,render everyday objects into works of art.
What process did Pollock use from 1947 onward to produce his most celebrated pictures?
drip technique
Whose Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 was the most controversial work at the Armory Show of 1913?
duchamp
Which former Dadaist wedded Cubism and Surrealism in the 1944 sculpture The King Playing with the Queen?
ernst
An important element of Matisse's work throughout his career is
flat color maybe?
features of Dance I
flat colors, black outlines, rhythmic circular motions
Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein (1906) exhibits all the following characteristics
flattened imagery, a masklike visage, some organic shading and contouring
Which of the following famous works of art is an example of a "ready-made"?
fountain
Hofmann and Albers were two influential art teachers who originally hailed from
germany
Who was the first director of the Bauhaus?
gropius
A naive painter is one who
has no formal training
The vertical blocks in Judd's Untitled (1967) exemplify Minimalists' preference for
industrial materials
The painting Starry Night (1889) demonstrates all the following features
intense, expressive color, powerful imagery, a strong sense of line
The defining characteristic of Surrealism is its
interest in myths, dreams, and the subconscious
Minimalist sculpture conveys the message that a work of art
is a pure object
Which of the following elements of The Scream (1893) would be considered most in line with Post-Impressionism?
its depiction of a state of mind
In works like Time Transfixed (1938), Magritte created dreamlike imagery by
juxtaposing familiar objects in inexplicable ways.
Who argued in Concerning the Spiritual in Art that music and art were intimately related?
kandinsky
Who painted The Street (1907), an exemplar of The Bridge?
kirchner
Which artist explored themes of racial inequality and social injustice in works such as Harriet Tubman Series, No. 7?
lawrence
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret was the real name of what architect whose masterpiece was the Villa Savoye?
le corbusier
Impressionist paintings typically depicted all the following subjects
leisure activities, cityscapes, landscapes, and entertainment
The so-called "squatter," whose image represents an early example of the Cubist simultaneous view, appears in
les demosielles d'avignon
Who of the following made "assemblages" such as Black Wall (1959)?
louise nevelson
Who explained his theory of Suprematism in The Non-objective World?
malevich
Whose reworked photograph Le Violon d'Ingres exhibits Surrealist imagery with Dada wordplay?
man ray
Synthetic Cubism differed from Analytic Cubism in that Synthetic Cubism
marked a return to bright colors
As revealed in his History of Mexico murals, Rivera was
marxist
Who experimented with creating a three-dimensional illusion from flat forms in works like the cutout Icarus?
matisse
Who painted a famous portrait of his wife called Woman with the Hat (1905)?
matisse
What is the most famous image from The Persistence of Memory?
melting clocks
A defining characteristic of Impressionism is the interest in the
natural properties of light
The Blue Rider movement differed from The Bridge primarily in the Blue Rider movement's greater interest in
nonfigurative abstraction
Cézanne's later work exhibits all the following characteristics
patchworks of shifting colors, an interest in geometrical figures and paint daubs, experimentations in spatial representation
A recurring theme in Kahlo's work was
physical and mental suffering.
John Singer Sargent is best remembered for his
portraits
The early twentieth-century interest in the art of Africa, Oceania, and other cultures was known at the time as
primitivism
The tone of Hopper's paintings can best be described as being imbued with a sense of
psychological isolation and loneliness
Gorky's most characteristic shapes are
regular geometric shapes
Kandinsky's art followed these characteristics
rhythmic line, shape, and color
Early twentieth-century artists were most heavily influenced by which form of African art?
sculpture
As exemplified in his Spanish Dancer (1945), Miró's paintings exhibit all the following characteristics
sexually suggestive forms, primary colors, vigorous linear movement
Albers made a series of paintings in homage to which shape, which he regarded as being farthest removed from nature?
square
The techniques of dream construction apply most obviously to which style?
symbolism
Picasso's Three Musicians (1921) exemplifies which style?
synthetic cubism
Toulouse-Lautrec's lithograph posters differed from his paintings primarily in their
texture
Which is feature of Sargent's Impressionism
the "slice of life" view, the oblique view, the influence of japonisme
All the following qualities of Mary Cassatt's Boating Party reveal the influence of Japanese woodblocks
the bold planes of color, the sharp outlines, the compressed spaces
Which is true of van Gogh's Self-Portrait featured in Chapter 25?
the brushstrokes form spirals
The term Surrealism literally denotes
the existence of a higher reality.
Which of the following traits is characteristic of Analytic Cubism?
the geometric exploration of 3-dimensional space
How did the early works of de Kooning most differ from those of Pollock and Kline?
the inclusion of some recognizable subject matter
What distinguishes a collage from an assemblage?
the mass and dimensionality of the constituent parts
In works like Broadway Boogie Woogie, Mondrian explored
the possibility of conveying vertical and horizontal motion with flat, colorful shapes
The usual subject matter of the Ukiyo-e school of Japanese painting included all of the following
theater, dance, female services
Impressionists such as Monet were sometimes called plein air painters because of
their practice of a painting outdoors
Which artist was famous for painting scenes of dance halls and nightclubs, such as Quadrille at the Moulin Rouge (1892)?
toulouse-lautrec
Which of the following factors had an impact on the development of Cubism
tribal art, Iberian art, Post-impressionist art
Which artist depended upon his brother Theo for financial support, as he was unable to sell his artworks during his lifetime?
van gogh
Who painted Starry Night
van gogh
Whose American Gothic exemplified the Regionalists' interest in provincial America?
wood
Which architect developed the Prairie Style in buildings such as the Robie House and Fallingwater in an attempt to integrate buildings with their natural landscapes?
wright
The Dada movement began during World War I among artists who gathered at the Cabaret Voltaire in what city?
zurich