Chp 25 ARHS
Who was the sculptor who believed that "the only stable thing is movement"?
Jean Tinguely
How did Carolee Schneeman transform Performance Art?
She introduced a feminist dimension.
How did museum commissions of performance events neutralize Performance Art?
The commissions neutralized the subversiveness.
Pop Art, and art that utilized the techniques of advertising, industrial design, and Hollywood movies were at their heights during which of the following decades?
1960s
Which of the following artists is best known for his large-scale portraits?
Chuck Close
Which of the following earlier art styles formed the characterizing spirit of Performance Art?
Dada
Which artist stated that she wanted her pieces to be "non art, non connotative, non anthropomorphic, non geometric, non nothing, everything, but of another kind, vision, sort"?
Eva Hesse
A good example of Postmodernist architecture is ____.
Guggenheim Museum, New York
How did Allan Kaprow view art?
He viewed it as an intersection of art and life.
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
Which of the following describes Joseph Beuys purpose for his art?
It was illuminating the condition of modern humanity.
The terms gestural abstraction and Action Painting are most appropriately applied to the work of ____.
Jackson Pollock
The New York artist whose paintings became compositionally simple and focused on color was ____.
Mark Rothko
Which of the following describes what artists working in the Post-Painterly Abstractionist style believed?
Their works should contain no reference to the world outside their own compositions.
Which of the following was the purpose of Performance Art?
To challenge art's function as commodity
Which of the following describes the Portland Building located in Portland, Oregon?
an enlarged jukebox
How did Barnett Newman increase the capacity of color to communicate emotion?
by simplifying the composition
What is the evidence of a Performance Art event?
documentary photos at the time of the performance
When did the center of the Western art world shift from Europe to the United States?
during the 1940s
How did the Fluxus group see aesthetic potential?
in the nontraditional and commonplace
John Cage encouraged his students to link their art to which of the following?
life
Cindy Sherman works in which medium representing the "male gaze"?
photography
Beuys wanted "to shape our thoughts into words." Which of the following did he want to create?
social sculptures
What was the main focus of the work of the postwar New York School?
the act of painting itself
Because of the spontaneous and informal nature of Performance Art, which of the following was the primary medium?
the human body
