Chapters 29/30/31 Art History Quiz
The Chrysler Building by William van Alen has elements from which of the following styles?
Art Deco
How does Faith Ringgold address issues of gender and racism in her work?
By using fabrics, traditionally associated with women and incisive narrative
Who belonged to the Pittura Metafisica movement, which greatly influenced Surrealism?
De Chirico
The photographer ____ was hired to document the deplorable living conditions of the rural poor.
Dorothea Lange
Which phrase best expresses the sculptural style of Boccioni?
Dynamic movement
The German artist ____ deviated from traditional religious images by creating works that were highly activated and emotionally wrenching.
Emil Nolde
Which of the following painters illustrates Clement Greenberg's insistence "on purity in art"?
Frank Stella
The artist of the The Eclipse of the Sun, ____, criticized militarism and capitalism.
Grosz
The dominant figure of the Fauves, ____, believed that color should play a role in conveying meaning.
Henri Matisse
Who said: "We rejected imitative colors, and that with pure colors we obtained stronger reactions."?
Henri Matisse
____ is an example of High-Tech architecture?
Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank
Performance Art can be described as movements, gestures, and sounds of persons communicating. Which of the following describes the focus of Performance Art?
It replaces traditional stationary artworks.
Which of the following describes Joseph Beuys's purpose for his art?
It was illuminating the condition of modern humanity.
John Cage encouraged his students to link their art to which of the following?
Life
Who is the artist who created a work of art that can be described as "a wickedly funny gift"?
Man Ray
The New York artist whose paintings became compositionally simple and focused on color was ____.
Mark Rothko
Which of the following describes Happenings?
Participatory
____ sought to harness the communicative power of art to reach a wide audience.
Pop Art
The purpose of Shirin Neshat's art is ____.
She wants to question the fundamentalist Islamic regime in Iran.
In Synthetic Cubist works, such as ____, artists constructed paintings and drawings from objects and shapes cut from paper or other materials.
Still-Life with Chair-Caning
How did museum commissions of performance events neutralize Performance Art?
The commissions neutralized the subversiveness.
Which of the following was the purpose of Performance Art?
To challenge art's function as commodity
In the artist's eyes, Fate of the Animals was almost a premonition of which historical event?
World War I
By placing herself as a spectator of the Last Supper in her Self-Portrait Looking at the Last Supper, Marisol Escobar emphasized the artist as a creator and ____.
a viewer of earlier artists
Critics referred to Graves's Portland Building as ____.
an enlarged jukebox
Many of Basquiat's paintings celebrate ____.
black heroes
The American movement known initially as the Eight and then as the Ash Can School focused on the ____.
bleak and seedy aspects of city life
What is the evidence of a Performance Art event?
documentary photos at the time of the performance
The harnessing of solar power is one of the central features of ____ architecture.
green
A nonobjective work refers to work that ____.
has no reference to the external appearance of the physical world
Elizabeth Murray is one of the artists who has experimented with
highly irregular format for paintings
How did the Fluxus group see aesthetic potential?
in the nontraditional and commonplace
The earth art of Christo and Jean-Claude did not alter the land, but rather ____.
modified it with cloth
The Berlin version of collage, which consisted of "found" details, was called ____.
photomontage
In her Holocaust Memorial, Rachel Whiteread depicted the shapes of identical books as a ____.
reference to the Jews as "the people of the book"
The work of Ernst Kirchner shows
subjects drawn from the industrialized urban bourgeoisie
The artist Delaunay shared with Futurism a fascination with ____.
technological innovation
The incinerated appearance of Anslem Kierfer's Nigredo alludes to ____.
the Holocaust
In Willie Bester's Homage to Steve Biko, the numbers refer to ____.
the dehumanized life of blacks under apartheid
Color field painting emphasized painting's basic properties. Color field painters poured diluted paint onto unprimed canvas. Which of the following artists was a color field painter?
Helen Frankenthaler
Who was the sculptor who gravitated toward motion sculpture?
Jean Tinguely
Artists of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism produced paintings that are abstract but ____.
express the artist's state of mind
Pollock's painting technique highlights the most significant aspect of gestural abstraction—the emphasis on ____.
the creative process
To distinguish their performances from "happenings," Fluxus artists named theirs ____.
"events"
Cindy Sherman addressed the way that much Western art presents female beauty for the ____.
"male gaze"
Which of the following works demonstrates the Futurists' interest in motion?
Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash
Kirchner's stylistic qualities, including perspective distortions, disquieting figures, and color choices, reflect the influence of ____.
Edvard Munch
How did Allan Kaprow view art?
He viewed it as an intersection of art and life.
How does the architecture of Günter Behnisch express Deconstructivist architecture?
It denies the possibility of spatial enclosure.
The terms gestural abstraction and action painting are most appropriately applied to the work of ____.
Jackson Pollock
____ is known for her assembled sculptures of found wood objects and forms.
Louise Nevelson
A leader in Performance Art, John Cage brought to music the ideas of ____ and Eastern philosophy.
Marcel Duchamp
The common denominator of ____ in architecture is the breaking down of national boundaries.
Postmodernism
____ is the gay artist whose show, The Perfect Moment, was cancelled for its openly gay character.
Robert Mapplethorpe
How did Carolee Schneeman transform Performance Art?
She introduced a feminist dimension
Beuys wanted "to shape our thoughts into words." Which of the following did he want to create?
Social sculptures
Which of the following artists created a modern American art style combining Synthetic Cubism with jazz tempos and his perception of the fast-paced American culture?
Stuart Davis
Barbara Kruger's work takes on the slick design of contemporary advertising. Which of the following is her principal aim?
To expose the deceptiveness of media messages
Henry Moore's Reclining Figure is said to have been inspired by ____.
a pre-Columbian figure, the chacmool
Post-painterly Abstractionists differed from Abstract Expressionists in their ____.
cool, detached rationality
