Art Ren Final pt 2

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

naturalistic

​Cindy Sherman addressed the way that much Western art presents female beauty for the ____.

​"male gaze"

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

​Alexander Calder

​How does Faith Ringgold address issues of gender and racism in her work?

​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

​Which of the following statements about Dada is true?

​Dada aimed to undermine traditional notions about art.

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

​During the 1950s

​Which phrase best expresses the sculptural style of Boccioni?

​Dynamic movement

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

​The terms gestural abstraction and action painting are most appropriately applied to the work of ____.

​Jackson Pollock

​____ developed the theory of Neoplasticism.

​Mondrian

​Which of the following describes Happenings?

​Participatory

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

​Robert Mapplethorpe

​How did Carolee Schneeman transform Performance Art?

​She introduced a feminist dimension.

​What is the purpose of Shirin Neshat's art?

​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

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

​They challenge cultural attitudes.

​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

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

​a large continuous LED display spiraling the interior ramp

​Post-painterly Abstractionists differed from Abstract Expressionists in their ____.

​cool, detached rationality

​The goal of Dalí's "paranoiac-critical" method was to ____.

​create images of inner reality and irrationality as concrete as the world of physical reality

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

​flattening forms

​Elizabeth Murray is one of the artists who has experimented with ____.

​highly irregular format for paintings

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

​improvisational techniques

​The earth art of Christo and Jean-Claude did not alter the land, but rather ____.

​modified it with cloth

​The work of Ernst Kirchner shows ____.

​subjects drawn from the industrialized urban bourgeoisie

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

​the Virgin Mary


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