art history 2 exam 3

Which of the following artists created large-scale, kinetic sculptures?

Alexander Calder

Which of the following architects conceived the building as a whole and molded it almost as a clay sculpture?

Antonio Gaudi

The Chrysler Building by William van Alen has elements from which of the following styles?

Art Deco

In Klimt's The Kiss, the patterning has clear ties to the ____ movement.

Art Nouveau

Members of the ____ movement dedicated themselves to making functional objects with a high aesthetic value.

Arts and Crafts

A Romanian sculptor, the work of ____, emphasized natural and organic forms.

Brancusi

How did Barnett Newman increase the capacity of color to communicate emotion? Question options:

By simplifying the composition

How does Faith Ringgold address issues of gender and racism in her work? Question options:

By using fabrics, traditionally associated with women and incisive narrative

Which of the following artists is best known for his large-scale portraits?

Chuck Close

What style is described as compositions of shapes and forms abstracted from the conventionally conceived world?

Cubism

Which of the following artists explored the properties of light, plane, and color and their interrelationships?

Cézanne

Who said: "I want to make of Impressionism something solid and lasting like the art in the museums"?

Cézanne

Which of the following statements about Dada is true?

Dada aimed to undermine traditional notions about art.

What is the evidence of a Performance Art event?

Documentary photos at the time of the performance

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

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

Which of the following artists shared Stieglitz's concern to position photography as an art form with the same fine-art status as painting and sculpture?

Edward Weston

The German artist ____ deviated from traditional religious images by creating works that were highly activated and emotionally wrenching.

Emile Nolde

The hovering figure that served as a memorial to those who died in World War I was created by ____.

Ernst Barlach

In The Apparition, Moreau portrayed a ____, a theme that appealed to the artist and many of his friends.

Femme fatale

Which of the following painters illustrates Clement Greenberg's insistence "on purity in art"?

Frank Stella

Which of the Blaue Reiter artists found animals superior to humans as the subject for his art?

Franz Marc

Her work is often described as autobiographical because of her unflinching self-portrait portrayals. She gives the viewer a personal glimpse into herself and suffering. Which of the following artists does this describe?

Frida Kahlo

The artist of the The Eclipse of the Sun, ____, criticized militarism and capitalism.

Grosz

A good example of Deconstructivist architecture is ____.

Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao

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

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

Georges Seurat differed from the Impressionist painters in which of the following ways?

His disciplined and painstaking application of the color theories of men like Delacroix, Helmholtz, and Chevreul

____ is an example of High-Tech architecture?

Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank

The influence of ____ is evident in Rodin's interest in the effect of light on the sculpted surface.

Impressionism

How did the Fluxus group see aesthetic potential?

In the nontraditional and commonplace

How does the architecture of Günter Behnisch express Deconstructivist architecture? Question options:

It denies the possibility of spatial enclosure.

Antonio Gaudi longed to create an architectural style that was both modern and appropriate for his native country of Spain. How does Casa Milá represent his ability to conceive a building as a whole and mold it almost as a sculptor would create a figure from clay?

It is a free-form mass wrapped around a street corner.

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 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

Cassatt's style of work owes much to which of the following?

Japanese prints

Impressionist artists, including Degas, greatly admired the spatial organization and flat, unmodeled color areas of ____.

Japanese woodblock prints

Who was the sculptor who gravitated toward motion sculpture?

Jean Tinguely

____ is sometimes described as the first modern architect.

Louis Henry Sullivan

____ is known for her assembled sculptures of found wood objects and forms. Question options:

Louise Nevelson

Who is the artist who created a work of art that can be described as "a wickedly funny gift"?

Man Ray

A leader in Performance Art, John Cage brought to music the ideas of ____ and eastern philosophy.

Marcel Duchamp

The New York artist whose paintings became compositionally simple and focused on color was ____.

Mark Rothko

Which of the following describes Happenings?

Participatory

A good example of postmodernist architecture is ____.

Portland Building, Portland

____ is the gay artist whose show, The Perfect Moment, was cancelled for its openly gay character.

Robert Mapplethorpe

What message did Vera Mukhina convey in her work entitled The Worker and the Collective Farmworker?

She glorified the communal labor of the Soviet people.

How did Carolee Schneeman transform Performance Art?

She introduced a feminist dimension.

The purpose of Shirin Neshat's art is ____.

She wants to question the fundamentalist Islamic regime in Iran

Beuys wanted "to shape our thoughts into words." Which of the following did he want to create?

Social sculptures

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

___ explored ways to express in art the world of dreams and the unconscious.

Surrealism

____ artists disdained Realism as trivial.

Symbolist

How did museum commissions of performance events neutralize Performance Art?

The commissions neutralized the subversiveness.

What message is portrayed in Edward Hopper's Nighthawks?

The pervasive loneliness of modern humans

Thomas Hart Benton, a Regionalist artist, focused his attention on which of the following subjects?

The social history of Missouri

Which of the following describes Barbara Kruger's photo-collages?

They challenge cultural attitudes.

Which of the following was the purpose of Performance Art?

To challenge art's function as commodity

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

Although ____ painted familiar Impressionist subjects, his exaggeration of each element created a new tone.

Toulouse-Lautrec

Although Morisot's interest in leisure activities aligned with the Impressionists, her paintings are inhabited by ____.

Women and children

In the artist's eyes, Fate of the Animals was almost a premonition of which historical event?

World War I

Jenny Holzer's installation at the Guggenheim Museum consisted of ____.

a large continuous LED display spiraling the interior ramp

Henry Moore's Reclining Figure is said to have been inspired by ____.

a pre-Columbian figure, the chacmool

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 referrred 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

Post-painterly abstractionists differed from Abstract Expressionists in their ____.

cool, detached rationality

When did the center of the Western art world shift from Europe to the United States?

during the 1950s

Artists of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism produced paintings that are abstract but ____.

express the artist's state of mind

Matisse deviated from traditional representations of domestic interiors by ____ and simplifying them.

flattening forms

A nonobjective work refers to work that ____.

has no reference to the external appearance of the physical world

Bloodline: Big Family No. 2 references the Chinese governmental policy of restricting married couples to ____.

have only one child

Surrealist artists used Dada's ____ to engage elements of fantasy and activate unconscious forces.

improvisational techniques

John Cage encouraged his students to link their art to which of the following?

life

In the ____ style of Surrealism, artists presented recognizable scenes that transformed into a dream or nightmare.

naturalistic

The Berlin version of collage, which consisted of "found" details, was called ____.

photomontage

____ sought to harness the communicative power of art to reach a wide audience.

pop art

In her Holocaust Memorial, Rachel Whiteread depicted the shapes of identical books as a ____.

reference to the Jews as "the people of the book"

Dorothea Lange's photograph of a migrant worker caused people to ____.

rush food to hungry workers

The work of Ernst Kirchner shows ____.

subjects drawn from the industrialized urban bourgeoisie

Extreme subjectivity and the need to see through reality to a deeper reality were most typical of which of the following styles?

symbolists

The incinerated appearance of Anslem Kierfer's Nigredo alludes to ____.

the Holocaust

Chris Ofili represented ____ in a manner that departed radically from conventional representations.

the Virgin Mary

Pollock's painting technique highlights the most significant aspect of gestural abstraction—the emphasis on ____.

the creative process

In Willie Bester's Homage to Steve Biko, the numbers refer to ____.

the dehumanized life of blacks under apartheid

In contrast to artists of the French Academy, the Impressionists attempted to capture ____.

the fleeting aspects of reality

The polish artist Krzysztof Wodiczko developed artworks involving ____.

the projection of slide images outdoors

The real subject of Monet's Rouen Cathedral is ____.

the sunlight of the portal

Who said: "Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I have before my eyes, I use color more arbitrarily so as to express myself forcibly. . . . I have tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green. . . ."?

van Gogh

Which of the following ideas did Vincent van Gogh attempt to communicate in his Starry Night?

vastness of the universe

In Night Café the artist has communicated the "madness" of the place by selecting and juxtaposing ____.

vivid hues whose juxtaposition augmented their intensity

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"