Chapter 30

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

1920s

This original installation _____ from 1966 has been interpreted by many as both Kusama's self-promotion and her protest of their commercialization of art.

Ala and Amadoha

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

By simplifying the composition

Which artist is best known for his large scale portraits?

Chuck Close

A leader in performance art, John Cage brought to music the ideas of _____ and eastern philosophy.

Duchamp

To distinguish their performance from happenings, Fluxus artists named theirs ______.

Events

Which painter illustrates Clement Greenberg's insistence on "purity in art"?

Frank Stella

A good example of postmodernist architecture is

Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao

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 did Carolee Schneeman transform Performance art?

Introduced a feminist dimension

Who was the sculptor who gravitated toward motion sculpture?

Jean Tinguely

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

John Pollock

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

Life

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

Louise Nevelso

The NY artist whose paintings became compositionally simple and focused on color was

Mark Rothco

Cindy Sherman addressed the way that much Western Art presents female beauty for the ______.

Photography

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

Pop AART

How did Allan Kaprow view art?

art was the actual process of life

What is the evidence of a performance art event?

documentary photos at the time of the performance

Critics referred to Graves' Portland Building as ____.

enlarged jukebox.

Artists of the NY School of Abstract Expressionism produced paintings that are abstract but

expressed their state of mind

What was Joseph Beuys purpose for his art?

illuminating the condition of modern humanity

Performance Art can be described as movements, gestures, and sounds of persons communicating. What is the focus of Performance Art?

it replaces the physical object

how did the fluxus group see aesthetic potential?

nontraditional and commonplace

What term best describes happenings?

particapatory

Pollock's paintings technique highlights the most significant aspect of gestural abstraction-- the emphasis on

significant departure from conventional painting

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

social sculpture

How did museum commissions of performance events neutralize Performance Art?

the commissions neutralized the subversiveness

Post-painterly abstractionists different from Abstract Expressionists in their

their works should contain no reference to the world outside their own compositions

Which of the following was the purpose of Performance Art?

to challenge art's function as a commodity.


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