Exam 3 Art History
In Caillebotte's Paris: A Rainy Day, the setting is a junction of spacious boulevards, a result of the redesign of the city begun in ________ .
1852
The disturbing imagery of Night emphasizes the horrors of war. Who created this work?
Beckmann
________ is a building that required broad, open, well-illuminated display spaces.
Carson, Pirie, Scott Building
The American artist ________ painted principally women and children with a combination of objectivity and genuine sentiment.
Cassatt
Photographs of manufactured landscapes are the work of ________ .
Edward Burtynsky
Freud, Schiele, and ________ are among the leading figure painters of the contemporary art world.
Jenny Saville
Who encouraged his students both at the New School for Social Research in New York and Black Mountain College of North Carolina to link their art directly with life?
John Cage
________ strongly influenced by urban life and warfare.
Julian Schnabel
Otto Dix, George Grosz, and ________ were members of Neue Sachlichkeit.
Max Beckmann
Post-Painterly Abstraction was a postwar American movement that grew out of ________ .
Abstract Expressionism
The first major American avant-garde movement is called ________ .
Abstract Expressionism
Which of the following developed along two lines—gestural abstraction and chromatic abstraction?
Abstract Expressionism
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith's work sought to bridge native and ________ traditions.
African
Faith Ringgold, Carrie Mae Weems, and Lorna Simpson are all feminist artists who are also ________ .
African American Women
Jacob Lawrence used the history and culture of ________ for his subject matter.
African Americans
The gallery at 291 Fifth Avenue in New York was established by ________ .
Alfred Stieglitz
The repetition and redundancy of the Coke bottle reflects the omnipresence and dominance of this product on ________ society.
American
Who used her body as a component in her artworks?
Ana Mendieta
Whose large scale tableaus blur the line between photography and painting?
Andreas Gursky
Who conceived a building as a whole and molded it almost as a sculptor might shape a figure from clay?
Antonio Gaudi
The Chrysler Building, New York, is a masterpiece of ________ .
Art Deco
The ________ style was influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement, as well as Japanese print designs and the expressive patterns of post-Impressionist artists.
Art Nouveau
Members of the ________ movement dedicated themselves to producing functional objects with high aesthetic value for a wide public.
Arts & Crafts
Who presented huge word-and-photograph collages that challenged the cultural attitudes embedded in commercial advertising?
Barbara Kruger
Who said "the artist's problem . . . [is] the idea-complex that makes contact with mystery—of life, of men, of nature, of the hard black chaos that is death, or the grayer, softer chaos that is tragedy?"
Barnett Newman
Who addresses her work the way much of Western art has been constructed to present female beauty for the enjoyment of the "male gaze"?
Cindy Sherman
Who relied on his Maori heritage for inspiration?
Cliff Whiting
Art that was based on "artfulness" and maintained that the idea was more important than the final expression was known as ________ .
Conceptual Art
________ studied the photography of others, but also used the camera consistently to make preliminary studies for his own work.
Degas
________ produced both paintings and prints whose high emotional charge was a major source of inspiration for the German Expressionists in the early 20th century.
Edvard Munch
The ________ was built for the great exhibition in Paris in 1889 and was originally seen as a symbol of modern Paris.
Eiffel Tower
Henri Matisse used a ________ style in his work Woman with the Hat.
Fauve
________ created a building that appears as a mass of asymmetrical and imbalanced forms with a scaled-limestone and titanium-clad exterior.
Frank Gehry
________ created a building that was "organic" and inspired by the shape of a snail's shell.
Frank Lloyd Wright
________ was a leading practitioner of the pictorial style in photography.
Gertrude Kasebier
________ was the director of the Bauhaus in 1919.
Gropius
Louis Sullivan expressed the interior's subdivision on the exterior in his ________ .
Guaranty (Prudential) Building
Aaron Douglas was a member of the ________ .
Harlem Renaissance
________ attempted to depict the incidental, momentary, and passing aspects of reality.
Impressionists
Artworks that create an artistic environment in a room or gallery are known as ________ .
Installations
Who created paintings composed rhythmic drips, splatters, and dribbles of paint?
Jackson Pollock
Who owed a debt to diverse influences such as Picasso, Abstract Expressionism, and Jean Dubuffet?
Jean- Michel Basquiat
Who studied art history and looked only at photographs that would become a major influence on the art she produced?
Judy Chicago
Who wanted to educate viewers about women's role in history and the fine arts?
Judy Chicago
_______ was particularly interested in the physicality of objects, and by attaching broken crockery to The Walk Home, found an extension of what paint could do.
Julian Schnabel
The founding members of the der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) were ________ .
Kandinsky and Marc
Who used large-scale video projections to create his art?
Krzysztof Wodiczko
Frank Lloyd Wright worked in the firm headed by ________ .
Louis Sullivan
Jasper John's Three Flags has strong ties to the work of ________ , especially his work "This is not a pipe."
Magritte
Who believed animals were "more beautiful, more pure" than humanity?
Marc
________ was the central artist in New York Dada and active in Paris.
Marcel Duchamp
Who created one of the most expansive large-scale works that included drawings, photography, sculpture, and video and film that is a lengthy narrative?
Matthew Barney
In Impression: Sunrise by ________ , the brushstrokes are clearly evident.
Monet
2 .In Villa at the Seaside, ________ used the open brushwork and the plein air lighting characteristic of Impressionism.
Morisot
In 1933, the ________ closed the Bauhaus.
Nazis
________ was a postmodern movement that reexamined earlier art production and connected this art to German Expressionism and Abstract Expressionism.
Neo-Expressionism
Who declared he wanted to "make of Impressionism something solid and enduring"?
Paul Cezanne
The eclecticism and dialogue between traditional and contemporary elements found in postmodern architecture is seen in the ________ .
Piazza d'Italia, New Orleans
Who believed the masks he painted were magical and were mediators between humans and evil?
Picasso
In The Tub, Degas reveals his modernist exploration of the premises of painting by acknowledging the ________ .
Pictures Surface
The ________ is fully exposed rather like an updated version of the Crystal Palace or sophisticated factory.
Pompidou Centre, Paris
________ referred to the popular mass culture and familiar imagery of the contemporary urban environment.
Pop Art
. ________ had its roots in Impressionist precepts and methods, but it was not stylistically homogeneous.
Post- Impressionism
Who was commissioned to create the Viennese Holocaust Memorial?
Rachel Whiteread
Many contemporary artist have made ________ the focus of their artwork.
Renaissance art
.In British Pop Art, ________ was very interested in the way advertising shaped public attitudes, and he combined elements of popular and fine art in his work.
Richard Hamilton
Whose work led to a landmark court case on freedom of expression for artists?
Robert Mapplethorpe
Who set out to create works that would be open and indeterminate by making "combines" that interspersed painted passages with sculptural elements?
Robert Rauschenberg
The leading French sculptor of the late 19th century was ________ .
Rodin
Who would excerpt a page from a comic book, a form of entertainment meant to be read and discarded, and immortalize the image on a monumental scale?
Roy Lichtenstein
In recent decades ________ have been considered as a bridge between architecture and sculpture.
Site-specific artworks
The ________ used methods such as automatism to provoke reactions closely related to subconscious experience.
Surrealists
Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, and Henri Rousseau were the leading ________ .
Symbolists
One of the most controversial issues regarding public art was the removal of ________ from the Javits Federal Plaza in New York City.
Tilted Arc
Who explored the capabilities of colors and distorted forms to express his emotions as he confronted nature?
Vincent van Gogh
Matisse expected color to evoke ________ in viewers.
an emotional response
The ________ rejected the classical, academic, and traditional and explored the premises and formal qualities of art.
avant-garde
In Picasso's Guernica, the artist indicated the bull represented ________ .
brutality and darkness
Ernst Kirchner was a founder of ________ .
die Brucke (The Bridge)
De Stijl artists reduced their artistic vocabulary to simple ________ .
geometric elements
