Exam 3
The Chrysler Building by William van Alen has elements from which of the following styles?
Art Deco
How does Faith Ringgold address issues of gender and racism in her work?
By using fabrics, traditionally associated with women and incisive narrative
What style is described as compositions of shapes and forms abstracted from the conventionally conceived world?
Cubism
Which of the following statements about Dada is true?
Dada aimed to undermine traditional notions about art.
Who belonged to the Pittura Metafisica movement, which greatly influenced Surrealism?
De Chirico
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 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
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
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.
How did the Fluxus group see aesthetic potential?
In the nontraditional and commonplace
How does the architecture of Günter Behnisch express Deconstructivist architecture?
It denies the possibility of spatial enclosure.
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's 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
____ is known for her assembled sculptures of found wood objects and forms.
Louise Nevelson
The common denominator of ____ in architecture is the breaking down of national boundaries.
Postmodernism
What is the purpose of Shirin Neshat's art?
She wants to question the fundamentalist Islamic regime in Iran.
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
What message is portrayed in Edward Hopper's Nighthawks?
The pervasive loneliness of modern humans
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
The floating figure in Barlach's ____ represents the dying soul before awakening to everlasting life.
War Monument
In the artist's eyes, Fate of the Animals was almost a premonition of which historical event?
World War I
The architect ____ was greatly influenced by Kazimir Malevich and his Suprematist theories.
Zaha Hadid
Henry Moore's Reclining Figure is said to have been inspired by ____.
a pre-Columbian figure, the chacmool
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
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
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
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
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
In her Holocaust Memorial, Rachel Whiteread depicted the shapes of identical books as a ____.
reference to the Jews as "the people of the book"
In Willie Bester's Homage to Steve Biko, the numbers refer to ____.
the dehumanized life of blacks under apartheid
The polish artist Krzysztof Wodiczko developed artworks involving ____.
the projection of slide images outdoors
Which of the following artists created large-scale, kinetic sculptures?
Alexander Calder
Who was the sculptor who gravitated toward motion sculpture?
Jean Tinguely
Who is the artist who created a work of art that can be described as "a wickedly funny gift"?
Man Ray
To distinguish their performances from "happenings," Fluxus artists named theirs ____.
"events"
____ developed the theory of Neoplasticism.
Mondrian
Which of the following describes Happenings?
Participatory
____ sought to harness the communicative power of art to reach a wide audience.
Pop Art
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
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
____ is the gay artist whose show, The Perfect Moment, was cancelled for its openly gay character.
Robert Mapplethorpe
Which of the following artists created a modern American art style combining Synthetic Cubism with jazz tempos and his perception of the fast-paced American culture?
Stuart Davis
Artists of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism produced paintings that are abstract but ____.
express the artist's state of mind
The incinerated appearance of Anslem Kierfer's Nigredo alludes to ____.
the Holocaust
Pollock's painting technique highlights the most significant aspect of gestural abstraction—the emphasis on ____.
the creative process
Cindy Sherman addressed the way that much Western art presents female beauty for the ____.
"male gaze"
Kirchner's stylistic qualities, including perspective distortions, disquieting figures, and color choices, reflect the influence of ____.
Edvard Munch
The German artist ____ deviated from traditional religious images by creating works that were highly activated and emotionally wrenching.
Emile Nolde
The dominant figure of the Fauves, ____, believed that color should play a role in conveying meaning.
Henri Matisse
The work of ____ deals with the issue of who "controls the body."
Kiki Smith
John Cage encouraged his students to link their art to which of the following?
Life
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
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
Beuys wanted "to shape our thoughts into words." Which of the following did he want to create?
Social sculptures
Chris Ofili represented ____ in a manner that departed radically from conventional representations.
The Virgin Mary
How did museum commissions of performance events neutralize Performance Art?
The commissions neutralized the subversiveness.
Thomas Hart Benton, a Regionalist artist, focused his attention on which of the following subjects?
The social history of Missouri
Which of the following works demonstrates the Futurists' interest in motion?
Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash
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