Art History - Chapter 25
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
Which of the following painters illustrates Clement Greenberg's insistence "on purity in art"?
Frank Stella
A good example of Postmodernist 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
How does the architecture of Günter Behnisch express Deconstructivist architecture?
It avoids the suggestion of a clear, stable mass.
Chris Ofili explores traditional themes and approaches with cross-cultural eyes. Which of the following describes his work?
It is expressionistic in nature.
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 physical objects.
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
Who was the sculptor who believed that "the only stable thing is movement"?
Jean Tinguely
The work of _________ deals with the issue of who "controls the body".
Kiki Smith
The New York artist whose paintings became compositionally simple and focused on color was ________.
Mark Rothko
Cindy Sherman works in which medium representing the "male gaze"?
Photography
Which of the following movements had a great distrust of the Western ideas of progress and objective truth and viewed all cultures as equally valid?
Postmodernism
How did Carolee Schneeman transform Performance Art?
She introduced a feminist dimension.
The work of Adrian Piper is provocative and confrontational. She announces in a video installation, "I'm black" What is her motivation with this pronouncement?
She wants viewers to examine their behaviors and values.
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 describes Kruger's photo-collages?
They challenge cultural attitudes.
How did avant-garde artists go about challenging artistic convention?
They sought innovative forms of expression.
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
Which of the following describes the Portland Building located in Portland, Oregon?
an enlarged jukebox
How does Faith Ringgold address issues of gender and racism in her work?
by using fabrics, traditionally associated with women and incisive narrative
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
The work of Melvin Edwards is very evocative. He uses small found metal objects that he intertwines and welds together creating a haunting theme. Which of the following is that theme?
lynching
Which of the following describes Happenings?
participatory
Which of the following describes the work of Jackson Pollock.
significant departure from conventional painting
Beuys wanted "to shape our thoughts into words." Which of the following did he want to create?
social sculptures
Because of the spontaneous and informal nature of Performance Art, which of the following was the primary medium?
the human body
