M10 Test
Which artwork did Catherine Opie make?
"Melissa & Lake, Durham, North Carolina"
What is the date of Frida Kahlo's The Two Fridas?
1939
What is the date of Spike Lee's movie Do the Right Thing?
1989
Which of the following nudes was made first and served as an influence on the others?
Titian, Venus of Urbino
In Portrait Bust of Cardinal Richelieu, Kehinde Wiley recasts a famous portrait bust from art history as a dark-skinned man.
True
Who is the artist of the Untitled Film Stills series?
Cindy Sherman
What movement influenced the Untitled Film Stills series?
Civil Rights
Nikki S. Lee made a self-portrait that suggests that identity is always clear-cut.
False
The identity of Dorothea Lange's migrant mother has never been discovered.
False
The decapitation of Holofernes, which is the subject of an oil painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, happened because:
Holofernes was cruel and violent to Judith's people
Ancient Greek notions of beauty were based upon the combination of an underlying canon of mathematical proportions with the finely honed physiques possessed by male athletes.
True
Which of the following did Géricault do to prepare for the making of Raft of the Medusa?
all of the other answers
What does the body of the figure represented in Alberto Giacometti's Man Pointing look like?
an abstraction based on the artist's creative choices
Why does the figure in Branded look like it does?
because it confronts, even exaggerates, the imperfections of reality
Why did the artist of The Two Fridas paint two of herself?
because she wanted to depict distinct aspects of her identity
What kind of artworks do the Guerrilla Girls make?
feminist posters and pamphlets
What is the medium of Henry Moore's Recumbent Figure?
green Horton stone
In Women are Heroes, artist JR displays portraits of women on:
homes and buildings
The Woman from Willendorf is made from which medium?
limestone
Mary Richardson, the attacker of the Rokeby Venus in 1914, did so because:
she wanted more rights for women
What happened to the woman featured in Migrant Mother after Dorothea Lange photographed her?
she was ashamed of the photograph
Which of the following movements influenced the filmmaker Spike Lee?
the Civil Rights movement
What is so revolutionary about Walking Man?
the artist presented a rough representation of a figure as a finished sculpture
French artist JR's Women are Heroes shows:
the faces of poor women in Rio de Janeiro.
To what does the title of Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get into the Met. Museum? refer?
the unfair treatment of women by art institutions