HUN- Exam 4 Review
Which of the following is NOT a difference between Performance Art and Theater, according to Abramović?
Abramović views Theater as a job or an occupation that the actor is paid to do, while a Performance Artist volunteers their time to their "calling."
__________ artists often created large works with no central image; they wanted to feel as though they were in the paintings and they wanted the composition to cover the entire canvas.
Abstract Expressionist
In American Scene Painting the works stress local and small-town themes are often called __________.
American Regionalism
Which of the following artists is best known for his large-scale portraits?
Chuck Close
Who photographed the rural poor displaced by the Great Depression in the 1930s?
Dorothea Lange
Which group of artists reject the idea that art can be contained by a gallery or museum context?
Earthwork artists
__________ is art that lasts for a very short period of time.
Ephemeral
Dutch vanitas paintings
Flack's Marilyn recalls __________.
Freud, Naked Portrait 1.jpg Who created this work?
Freud
Which artist aimed capture the emptiness and loneliness of average Americans in familiar settings?
Hanson
SELECT ALL THAT APPLY: Superrealism is also referred to as __________.
Hyperrealism Photorealism
The terms gestural abstraction and Action Painting are most appropriately applied to the work of __________.
Jackson Pollock
Ben-day dots were used by which artist?
Lichtenstein
Which of the following is NOT true of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?
Lin's polished marble memorial looks like two intersecting walls standing on top of a hill and is inscribed with the names of 58,000 service people killed during the Vietnam War.
Name the Abstract Expressionist whose paintings became compositionally simple and focused on color was ________.
Mark Rothko
Roy Lichtenstein's Rouen Cathedral Set V references paintings by which earlier artist?
Monet
__________ firmly grounded their art in the consumer culture and mass media of the postwar period.
Pop Artists
Spiral Jetty could also be considered _____ because it continues to change in response to its natural environment.
Process Art
site-specific ephemeral
SELECT ALL THAT APPLY: This work is best described as __________.
The use of industrial construction techniques and the role of many people to create __________ rejects the notion of a single artist-creator.
Smithson's Spiral Jetty
In American Scene Painting the works depicting urban scenes are many times called __________.
Social Realism
Byzantine art
The gold background of Warhol's Gold Marilyn recalls __________.
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.
Why does Christo say that he and Jeanne-Claude chose for their artworks to be temporary?
They believe it adds an additional aesthetic quality.
chromatic abstraction
This image is an example of __________.
hard-edge painting
This image is considered to be __________.
Superrealism
This piece is best described as __________.
Feminist Art
This work is best described as __________.
Which artist used silk screening?
Warhol
Chicago
Who created this piece?
Sherman
Who created this work?
What was Maya Lin's initial idea that led to her design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?
a cut in the earth
Spiral Jetty's monumental scale and natural form recall the earthworks of _____, which are still visible today.
ancient civilizations
Environmental Art, sometimes called __________, stands at the intersection of architecture and sculpture.
earthworks
What term did Schapiro coin that applied to some of her works?
femmage
What distinguishes Warhol's Pop Art from traditional fine art practices?
his use of everyday subject matter
Maya Lin's design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial differs from more traditional monuments in its _____.
intimacy
All of the following terms describe Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty EXCEPT _____.
memorial art
What is one strategy that Oldenburg uses to elevate his popular subject matter?
monumental scale
Cindy Sherman works in which medium representing the "male gaze"?
photography
Which of the following describes the work of Jackson Pollock?
significant departure from conventional painting
In understanding Abstract Expressionist paintings of the 1950s and 60s, the viewer should focus on __________.
the physical elements of the work
Thomas Hart Benton, a Regionalist artist, focused his attention on which of the following subjects?
the social history of Missouri
Maya Lin used black polished granite and _____ reflection in her memorial, creating another dimension to this work of art.
the viewer's
Barnett Newman used __________, which are vertical lines that connect the upper and lower edges of the painting.
zips
