Late 20th Century
Pop Art, and art that utilized the techniques of advertising, industrial design, and Hollywood movies were at their heights during which of the following decades?
1960's
Which of the following artists is best known for his large-scale portraits?
Chuck Close
Which of the following earlier art styles formed the characterizing spirit of Performance Art?
Dada
What is the evidence of a Performance Art event?
Documentary photos at the time of the perfomance
Which artist state that she wanted her pieces to be "non art, non connotative, non anthropomorphic, non geometeric, non nothing, everything, but of another kind, vision, sort"?
Eva Hesse
Which of the following painters illustrates Clement Greenburg's insistence "on purity in art"?
Frank Stella
A good example of Postmodernist architecture is
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
Color field painting emphasized basic properties. Color field painters poured diluted paint onto unprimed canvas. Which of the following artists was a color field painter?
Helen Frankenthaler
the terms gestural attraction and Action Painting are most appropriately applied to the work of
Jackson Pollock
Who was the sculptor who believed that "the only stable thing is movement"?
Jean Tinguely
The work of _____ deals with the issue of who "controls the body".
Kiki Smith
The work of Melvin Edwards is very evocative. He uses small found metal objects that he intertwines and welds together creating a haunting theme. Which of the following is that theme?
Lynching
The New York artist whose paintings became compositionally simple and focused on color was
Mark Rothko
Which of the following movements had a great distrust of the Western ideas of progress and objective truth and viewed all cultures as equally valid?
Postodernism
How did museum commissions of performance events neutralize Performance Art?
The commissions neutralized the subversiveness
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 compostitions
Which of the following describes Kruger's photo-collages?
They challenge cultural attitude
How did avant-grade artist go about challenging artistic convention?
They sought innovative forms of expression.
Which of the following describes the Portland Building located in Portland, Oregon?
an enlarged jukebox
How did Barnett Newman increase the capacity of color to communicate emotion?
by simplifying the compostition
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 describes Happenings?
controlled
When did the center of the Western art world shift from Europe to the United States?
during the 1940's
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 Gunter Behnisch express Deconstructionist architecture?
it avoids the suggestion of a clear, stable mass
Chris Ofili explores traditional themes and approaches with cross-cultural eyes. Which of the following describes his work?
it is expressionistic in nature
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 physical objects
Which of the following describes Joseph Beuys purpose for his art?
it was illuminating the condition of modern humanity
John Cage encouraged his students to link their art to which of the following?
life
Cindy Sherman works in which medium representing the "male gaze"?
photography
How did Carolee Schneeman transform Performance Art?
she introduced a feminist dimension
The work of Adrian Piper is provocative and confrontational. She announces in a video installation, "I'm black". What is her motivation of this pronouncement?
she wants viewers to exam their behavior and values.
Which of the following describes the work of Jackson Pollock?
significant departure from conventional painting
Buys wanted "to shape our thoughts into words." Which of the following did he want to create?
social sculptures
What was the main focus of the work of the postwar New York School?
the act of painting itself
Because of the spontaneous and informal nature of Performance Art, which of the following was the primary medium?
the human body
Which of the following was the purpose of Performance Art?
to challenge art's function as commodity
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
