Art History Exam #4 29-32
In their immense scale and wealth of visual information, the photographs of Andreas Gursky, including Chicago Board of Trade II, rival what other type of art?
19th-century history paintings
The eclecticism and dialogue between traditional and contemporary elements found in postmodern architecture is seen in the which building?
AT&T Building, New York
Post-Painterly Abstraction was a postwar American movement that grew out of which style?
Abstract Expressionism
What was the first major American avant-garde movement of the 20th century?
Abstract Expressionism
Many early-20th-century sculptors such as Constantin Brancusi, Barbara Hepworth, and Henry Moore championed what quality as the modern sculptor's proper goal?
Abstraction
Which architect railed against the excesses of the Art Nouveau style and wrote a 1908 polemic entitled Ornament and Crime?
Adolf Loos
Faith Ringgold, Carrie Mae Weems, and Lorna Simpson are all feminist artists who also focus on what topic?
African American experience
What cultural group forms the primary subject matter for the artist Jacob Lawrence?
African Americans
Who established the gallery at 291 Fifth Avenue in New York, which exhibited the latest in both European and American art?
Alfred Stieglitz
What is the primary material employed in El Anatsui's works, such as Bleeding Takari II?
Aluminum bottle tops and cans
What description best characterizes the response American audiences had upon encountering European and American modernist art at the Armory Show in 1913?
An emotional response
Which feminist artist used her body as a component in her artworks, as in Flowers on Body, illustrated here?
Ana Mendieta
With its streamlined forms, dynamic rhythms, and alternating hard patterns, the Chrysler Building in New York is a masterpiece of what style?
Art Deco
What term is employed to describe the early-20th-century artists and movements that were ahead of their time and transgressed the limits of established art forms?
Avant-garde
According to Picasso, what does the bull that appears in his monumental 1937 painting Guernica represent?
Brutality and darkness
Which modern building is fully exposed, rather like an updated version of the Crystal Palace or sophisticated factory?
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Which materials and techniques employed in Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party explicitly relate to the work's feminist content?
China painting and needlework
Which artist employed photography to address the way Western art and media present the female for the enjoyment of the "male gaze"?
Cindy Sherman
Which artist relied on his Maori heritage for inspiration?
Cliff Whiting
To make works like Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face, the artist Barbara Kruger drew upon what previous career experience?
Commercial graphic designer
Which 20th-century art movement maintained that the "artfulness" of art lies in the artist's idea rather than in its final expression?
Conceptual Art
With its open plan, emphasis on intersecting lines and planes, and restricted color scheme, Gerrit Rietveld's Schröder House represents the architectural corollary to what modern movement?
De Stijl
Which avant-garde movement was cofounded by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner?
Die Brücke (The Bridge)
Which photographer rose to prominence for depictions of Depression-era migratory farm workers made for the Resettlement Administration?
Dorothea Lange
Which artist makes stunningly beautiful images of subjects normally considered ugly, such as industrial refuse and scrap metal?
Edward Burtynsky
Which artist painted Nighthawks, the work that captures the overwhelming loneliness and isolation of Depression-era life in the United States?
Edward Hopper
In his essay titled "Notes of a Painter," what did Henri Matisse describe as his primary goal as a painter in works such as Harmony in Red?
Expression
Which style is employed in Henri Matisse's intensely colored, shockingly bright painting titled Woman with the Hat?
Fauvism
British artist Jenny Saville addresses issues of body image and what one critic described as a "feminist aesthetics of disgust" using what artistic practice?
Figure painting
Organic architecture, Usonian houses, and the prairie style are architectural ideas associated with which architect?
Frank Lloyd Wright
Which architect created a building that represented organic architecture and was inspired by the shape of a snail's shell?
Frank Lloyd Wright
Which German Expressionist artist frequently employed animals in artwork, believing them to be more pure than humans, and thus more appropriate vehicles for expressing inner truth?
Franz Marc
Which term best describes Joan Mitchell's approach to Abstract Expressionism seen in this Untitled work from ca. 1955?
Gestural abstraction
Aaron Douglas was a leading figure of what literary and artistic movement in the early 20th century?
Harlem Renaissance
Who was responsible for mounting the Degenerate Art exhibition in 1937?
Hitler and the Nazis
Picasso completed his 1906-1907 portrait Gertrude Stein by incorporating features of what kind of sculpture?
Iberian
What is the term for artworks that create an artistic environment in a room or gallery?
Installations
In what way does Matthew Barney's Cremaster cycle represent a major trend in the art world today?
It breaks the boundaries of traditional media.
What aspect of James Stirling's Neue Staatsgalerie is quintessentially postmodern?
Its historical eclecticism
Which Abstract Expressionist artist famously created paintings composed rhythmic drips, splatters, and dribbles of paint?
Jackson Pollock
Which artist owed a debt to diverse influences such as Picasso, Abstract Expressionism, graffiti, and Jean Dubuffet?
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Who were the founding members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider)?
Kandinsky and Marc
Which artist uses large-scale slide and video projections to create public artworks with sociopolitical content, an example of which is shown in The Homeless Projection?
Krzysztof Wodiczko
Which work by Pablo Picasso incorporates radically abstracted bodies and heads in the form of African masks?
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Early in his career, Frank Lloyd Wright worked in the firm headed by which established architect?
Louis Sullivan
Which French artist played a significant role in American art history, exhibiting the controversial Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 in the Armory Show and figuring prominently in New York Dada?
Marcel Duchamp
Which influential French artist was active in Paris as well as a central figure in New York Dada?
Marcel Duchamp
Which Depression-era photographer made a reputation producing photographs and articles for popular illustrated magazines including Fortune and Life?
Margaret Bourke-White
The great diversity of individual parts, unified by monochrome paint, distinguishes the dynamic compositions of Louise Nevelson's sculpture from what comparatively restrained contemporary sculptural style of the 1960s?
Minimalism
The artists Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco are primarily known for works in which medium?
Mural painting
What subject do Jaune Quick-to-See Smith's works primarily seek to address?
Native American history and identity
Which style of painting represents a postmodern reexamination and revival of earlier styles of German Expressionism and Abstract Expressionism?
Neo-Expressionism
Otto Dix, George Grosz, and Max Beckmann were all associated with which artistic movement?
Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity)
What is the term for paintings that produce illusions of motion and depth using only geometric forms on two-dimensional surfaces, as in this work titled Fission by Bridget Riley?
Op Art
Which topic is the focus of a great many contemporary artworks?
Personal and group identity
Which art took as its subject the mass culture and familiar imagery of the contemporary urban environment?
Pop Art
Georgia O'Keeffe's skyscraper paintings in the 1920s, with their simplified planes, clean lines, and abstract rhythms, were associated with what style?
Precisionism
In the early 20th century, the cause of modernist art in the United States was largely carried forth by what group of supporters?
Prominent American women patrons of the arts
Which artist, known for making sculptural casts of negative spaces, was commissioned to create the Holocaust Memorial in Vienna, Austria?
Rachel Whiteread
John Sloan, a self-described "incorrigible window watcher," was associated with The Eight, a group of American painters who favored what style?
Realism
Grant Wood was the leader of what mid-20th-century art movement?
Regionalism
Jasper Johns's Three Flags has strong ties to what Surrealist artist who produced a work incorporating the words This is not a pipe?
René Magritte
Which early British Pop artist explored how advertising shaped public attitudes and combined elements of popular and fine art in his work?
Richard Hamilton
Which artwork's removal from the plaza in front of the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in New York City became one of the most controversial cases regarding public art in the 20th century?
Richard Serra's Tilted Arc
Whose work led to a landmark court case involving federal funding of the visual arts?
Robert Mapplethorpe
Which artist made works that he called combines, such as Canyon, illustrated here?
Robert Rauschenberg
Which Pop artist excerpted a page from a comic book, a form of entertainment meant to be read and discarded, and immortalized their images on a monumental scale?
Roy Lichtenstein
Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is best known for what kind of works?
Self-portraits
What types of works often function as a bridge between architecture and sculpture?
Site-specific artworks
Vera Mukhina's Worker and Collective Farm Woman (1937) conforms to what official Russian style of art, established in 1934?
Soviet Realism
The clarity and lack of photographic manipulation in Alfred Stieglitz's The Steerage demonstrates his commitment to what photographic approach?
Straight photography
The concrete tangibility of Meret Oppenheim's sculptural Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure) (Luncheon in Fur) makes it a particularly effective example of what style of art?
Surrealism
Though he shunned formal association with avant-garde groups, Paul Klee's interest in the unconscious, his employment of private symbols, and his desire to penetrate "the reality behind visible things" align him with what style?
Surrealism
Artists of which style used methods such as automatism to provoke reactions closely related to subconscious experience?
Surrealists
Aaron Douglas's style is a unique fusion of African art, the artist's own personal vision, and what European style?
Synthetic Cubism
What did Robert Frank's images in The Americans, such as Trolley, New Orleans, reveal about life in the United States in the 1950s?
The successful efforts of racial desegregationists in the country The continuing segregation among blacks and whites in the country
Expatriate Iranian artist Shirin Neshat combines images of rifles and veils with calligraphy to address what subject?
The treatment of women under the fundamentalist Islamic regime in Iran
What artistic tradition does the Superrealist artist Audrey Flack draw upon to make a poignant commentary in Marilyn?
The vanitas painting
Which Regionalist artist completed the murals titled A Social History of the State of Missouri in 1936 for the Missouri State Capitol?
Thomas Hart Benton
Who became the director of the Bauhaus in Germany in 1919?
Walter Gropius
