1304 ART HISTORY EXAM 4 - Review

Picasso's radical painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon reveals his fascination with ancient Iberian sculpture as well as the artistic traditions of which continent?

Africa

What was the source of the images of women de Kooning used as the focus of his Woman series?

Advertising billboards

At the beginning of his long career, Philip Johnson was closely associated with which modernist architect?

Mies van der Rohe

Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space reveals the artist's concern with what?

Movement

Paul Klee thought of painting's ability to express feelings, through color, form, and line, as similar to what other type of art?

Music

This monochromatic sculpture, incorporating found objects in frames, by Louise Nevelson is meant to evoke what mood?

Mystery and magic

After World War I, German artists sought a clear-eyed and honest image of the modern world, and this artistic movement came to be called what?

Neue Sachlichkeit

What term was applied to Surrealist and other avant-garde art by Hitler and the Nazi regime in 1930s and 1940s Germany?

Degenerate

This group of German Expressionists were interested in building a bridge to the past and adopted working in a workshop environment that was very similar to Medieval guilds.

Die Brücke

Which photographer was hired by the US Resettlement Administration to document the deplorable living conditions of the rural poor?

Dorothea Lange

Audrey Flack's Marilyn is a meant as a reference to which earlier painting genre?

Dutch vanitas paintings

The human figure that appears in Ernst Barlach's War Monument in Güstrow Cathedral is meant to symbolize what?

Dying soul

Highly controlled still-life photographs exploring surface curves and characteristics were the specialty of which photographer?

Edward Weston

Vassily Kandinsky's move to abstraction rather than representation can be attributed to the scientific theories of which individual?

Einstein

Which of the following is not an aspect of Dada art?

Enlightenment ideals

What is the name of the early-20th-century movement that painted works of simplified design but shockingly bright coloration and whose name means "wild beasts?"

Fauvism

Who famously said of this artwork, "What you see is what you see"?

Frank Stella

Who is the Precisionist painter of New York, Night?

Georgia O'Keeffe

The work of which architect is considered the embodiment of de Stijl artists, especially Piet Mondrian?

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld

Which architect created "skin and bones" buildings on the basis of the motto "less is more"?

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Marcel Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even is a commentary on modern humans' similarity to what?

Machines

Which photographer sought to startle viewers with images of everyday objects with surprising elements added, such as this Cadeau (Gift)?

Man Ray

Which Dada artist modified mass-produced objects into "readymades" given the status of art in the eyes of viewers?

Marcel Duchamp

Which New York artist evolved in style to compositionally simple paintings in which color was the primary conveyor of meaning?

Mark Rothko

Which early 20th-century art collector appears in this photograph by Frank Gelett Burgess?

Pablo Picasso

Which two artists were the founders of Cubism, with its rejection of pictorial illusionism?

Picasso and Braque

Which de Stijl artist sought to create a universal means of expression by using only a palette of the three primary colors, gradations of black and white, and horizontal and vertical lines?

Piet Mondrian

Which element of Donald Judd's sculpture Untitled reflects his intention of banishing ambiguity from his work and using a visual vocabulary that does not deceive as illusionism would?

Plexiglas material

Which 20th-century art movement sought to harness the communicative power of art to reach a wide audience?

Pop Art

What uniquely American style combined Synthetic Cubism with a fascination with the presence of machinery in contemporary life?

Precisionism

Kazimir Malevich's Suprematism views what as the most important element of creative art?

Pure feeling

Giorgio de Chirico's The Song of Love is a precursor of which movement in painting?

Surrealism

Aaron Douglas's mural From Slavery through Reconstruction combines forms and motifs from African art with what European modernist style?

Synthetic Cubism

Which style of cubism was created by combing drawing and paintings with collaged pieces of paper and materials like caning and wallpaper?

Synthetic Cubism

What term do art historians use to describe the process Joan Miró employed to paint such works as Painting?

Automatism

At the turn of the 20th century, artists who were viewed as being ahead of their time and who transgressed the limits of established art forms are referred to by what term?

Avant-garde

Which phrase best characterizes the sculptural works of Louise Bourgeois such as Cumul I?

Biomorphic Surrealism

The image of the Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange was taken in which US state?

California

Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko are artists who worked in which style?

Chromatic abstractionism

Which art critic asserted the importance of strict formalism, in which the emphasis is on the elements rather than the subject of an artwork?

Clement Greenberg

What element of André Derain's The Turning Road, L'Estaque does he intend to reflect the energy of the landscape he was painting?

Color

Which element of a painting did Matisse view as the primary conveyor of meaning?

Color

Naum Gabo's Column, which he built up piece by piece with clear materials so the viewer could experience the volume of space it occupies, is an example of what sculptural style?

Constructivist

Jean Arp's Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance is an example of which style?

Dada

What term describes the modernist process Braque has applied to the form of the musician in his painting The Portuguese?

Deconstruction

Which of his art patrons did Picasso paint trying to capture the effect of seeing from two different angles at once?

Gertrude Stein

What was the intended function of Vladimir Tatlin's Monument to the Third International?

Government building

Which work by Picasso is meant as a condemnation of the Nazi bombing of the Basque capital in Spain?

Guernica

Which Dada artist is known as a master of photomontage?

Hannah Höch

In what US city is José Clemente Orozco's 24-panel series Epic of American Civilization located?

Hanover, NH

In Woman Combing Her Hair, which element of the human body does Aleksander Archipenko represent as a void rather than a solid volume?

Head

Which of the following artists was a color-field painter, who poured diluted paint onto unprimed canvas to emphasize that painting is simply pigment on a flat surface?

Helen Frankenthaler

The Villa Savoye embodies Le Corbusier's theories about which genre of architecture?

Houses

José Clemente Orozco's mural series painted shortly after the Mexican Revolution had which group as its central heroic focus?

Indigenous peoples

The work of which artist exemplifies gestural abstraction?

Jackson Pollock

Which female Abstract Expressionist artist painted this untitled work, with its asymmetrical composition?

Joan Mitchell

Which member of The Eight painted scenes from the lives of the underclass of New York City, such as Sixth Avenue and Thirtieth Street?

John Sloan

The theme of a grieving mother holding her dead child was explored in many works by which German Expressionist artist?

Käthe Kollwitz

The most derided work at the Armory Show, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, is by which artist?

Marcel Duchamp

Grant Wood's painting American Gothic is an example of which painting style?

Regionalism

Which artist painted this "image of concrete irrationality," entitled The Persistence of Memory?

Salvador Dalí

What subject was the focus of the work of the American movement known initially as The Eight and then as the Ash Can School?

The bleak and seedy aspects of city life

What is the intended message of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks?

The pervasive loneliness of modern humans

What did Minimalist sculptors such as Tony Smith choose to emphasize as the essential characteristic of their medium?

Three-dimensionality

Otto Dix's work Der Krieg is in what time-honored religious format?

Triptych

André Derain's Mountains at Collioure reflects his close study of which earlier painter?

Vincent van Gogh

What element does sculptor Barbara Hepworth make as important in abstract sculpture as its mass?

Void

In Matisse's painting Red Room, the color harmony he achieves with the color red merges which two elements of the scene?

Wall and table

What element of the landscape did Wright deliberately incorporate in his design for the Kaufmann House?

Waterfall

In Fate of the Animals, Franz Marc's use of colors that signify severity and brutality is a reference to which contemporary historical situation?

World War I