World Arts and Ideas Final Exam
André Breton
" . . . I believe in the future resolution of the states of dream and reality, in appearance so contradictory, in a sort of absolute reality, or surreality." This definition of Surrealism was written by
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
A good example of Postmodernist architecture is
has no reference to the external appearance of the physical world
A nonobjective work refers to work that
Max Beckmann's Night
A painting that was done in reaction to World War I was
It is a free-form mass wrapped around a street corner
Antonio Gaudi longed to create an architectural style that was both modern and appropriate for his native country of Spain. How does Casa Milá represent his ability to conceive a building as a whole and mold it almost as a sculptor would create a figure from clay?
To expose the deceptiveness of media messages
Barbara Kruger's work takes on the slick design of contemporary advertising. Which of the following is her principal aim?
the human body
Because of the spontaneous and informal nature of Performance Art, which of the following was the primary medium?
domestic scenes
Berthe Morisot focused her work in the only area allowed her as a woman in upper-class French society. Which of the following was that area?
social sculptures
Beuys wanted "to shape our thoughts into words." Which of the following did he want to create?
Japanese prints
Cassatt's style of work owes much to which of the following?
It is expressionistic in nature.
Chris Ofili explores traditional themes and approaches with cross-cultural eyes. Which of the following describes his work?
photography
Cindy Sherman works in which medium representing the "male gaze"?
Helen Frankenthaler
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?
realistic scenes as he saw them
Courbet preferred to paint which of the following themes?
De Chirico
Empty piazzas depicting mysterious figures were often painted by which of the following artists?
Symbolists
Extreme subjectivity and the need to see through reality to a deeper reality was most typical of which of the following styles?
His disciplined and painstaking application of the color theories of men like Delacroix, Helmholtz, and Chevreul
Georges Seurat differed from the Impressionist painters in which of the following ways?
a pre-Columbian figure, the Chacmool
Henry Moore's great series of reclining nudes is said to have been inspired by
Frida Kahlo
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?
He viewed it as an intersection of art and life
How did Allan Kaprow view art?
by simplifying the composition
How did Barnett Newman increase the capacity of color to communicate emotion?
She introduced a feminist dimension
How did Carolee Schneeman transform Performance Art?
They sought innovative forms of expression.
How did avant-garde artists go about challenging artistic convention?
The commissions neutralized the subversiveness
How did museum commissions of performance events neutralize Performance Art?
in the nontraditional and commonplace
How did the Fluxus group see aesthetic potential?
by using fabrics, traditionally associated with women and incisive narrative
How does Faith Ringgold address issues of gender and racism in her work?
It avoids the suggestion of a clear, stable mass.
How does the architecture of Günter Behnisch express Deconstructivist architecture?
use of a palette of dirty browns and grays
In Courbet's The Stonebreakers it has been said that he reveals to the viewer the drudgery of manual labor. What technique did he use to convey this message?
It captured a decadence conveyed by opulent and sensuous image.
In Klimt's The Kiss, the artist has captured the flamboyance and decadence of the period. How was this painting a visual manifestation of the fin de siècle?
Through us of vivid hues whose juxtaposition augmented their intensity
In The Night Café, the artist has shown us a benign scene yet the scene has a sense of charged energy and oppressive atmosphere. How did the artist communicate this?
World War I
In the artist's eyes, the Fate of the Animals was almost a premonition of which historical event?
life
John Cage encouraged his students to link their art to which of the following?
different times of the day
Monet's Rouen Cathedral is a series that observed the same viewpoint during which of the following?
Matisse
Of the following, who is the best example of a twentieth-century artist who believed that art should delight, inspire, and enhance our lives as human beings?
It replaces physical objects.
Performance Art can be described as movements, gestures and sounds of persons communicating. Which of the following describes the focus of Performance Art?
1960s
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?
Marc Chagall
Symbolism and fantasy were joined to create works filled with visionary joy and despair by which of the following artists?
no traditional high base placed the monument eye-to-eye and closer to the viewers
The Burghers of Calais expresses the emotions of despair, defiance, and resignation. Rodin has captured these emotions in the roughly textured surfaces of the figures. He wanted the citizens of Calais to experience this heroic episode in their city's history. Which of the following was a device Rodin used to create the pathos of this heroism?
Eiffel Tower
The Champs de Mars or The Red Tower by Robert Delaunay depicts which of the following structures?
Art Deco
The Chrysler Building by William van Alen has elements from which of the following styles?
Mark Rothko
The New York artist whose paintings became compositionally simple and focused on color was
create images of inner reality and irrationality as concrete as the world of physical reality
The goal of Dalí's "paranoiac-critical" method was to
Ernst Barlach
The hovering figure that served as a memorial to those who died in World War I was created by
Jackson Pollock
The terms gestural abstraction and Action Painting are most appropriately applied to the work of
subjects drawn from the industrialized urban bourgeoisie
The work of Ernst Kirchner shows
lynching
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?
Kiki Smith
The work of ____ deals with the issue of who "controls the body".
the social history of Missouri
Thomas Hart Benton, a Regionalist artist, focused his attention on which of the following subjects?
Dorothea Lange
Throughout history, artists have regularly served political ends by using their art to make visual statements. Which of the following artists has created an overtly political statement with his/her work?
documentary photos at the time of the performance
What is the evidence of a Performance Art event?
the reflection of the subdivision of the interior spaces in the outer structure
What is the most important feature of Sullivan's Prudential Building that distinguishes it from earlier structures?
the pervasive loneliness of modern humans
What message is portrayed in Edward Hopper's Nighthawks?
Cubism
What style is described as compositions of shapes and forms abstracted from the conventionally conceived world?
the act of painting itself
What was the main focus of the work of the postwar New York School?
during the 1940s
When did the center of the Western art world shift from Europe to the United States?
Eva Hesse
Which artist stated that she wanted her pieces to be "non art, non connotative, non anthropomorphic, non geometric, non nothing, everything, but of another kind, vision, sort"?
Emile Nolde
Which artist, even though he was older than the Die Brücke artists, was invited to join them because he was pursuing similar ideas in his work?
Franz Marc
Which of the Blaue Reiter artists found animals superior in beauty, strength, innocence, and naturalness?
Antonio Gaudi
Which of the following architects conceived the building as a whole and molded it almost as a clay sculpture?
Stuart Davis
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?
Alexander Calder
Which of the following artists created large-scale, kinetic sculptures?
Mondrian
Which of the following artists developed the theory of neoplasticism or the new pure plastic art?
Matisse
Which of the following artists did not depict themes of war?
Cézanne
Which of the following artists explored the properties of light, plane, and color and their interrelationships?
Chuck Close
Which of the following artists is best known for his large-scale portraits?
Redon
Which of the following artists is categorized as a Symbolist?
Moreau
Which of the following artists presented a sumptuous and sensual image in Jupiter and Semele?
Edward Weston
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?
Hannah Höch
Which of the following artists was a Berlin Dadaist?
Courbet
Which of the following artists was most concerned with painting realistic scenes of poor and oppressed peoples?
participatory
Which of the following describes Happenings?
It was illuminating the condition of modern humanity
Which of the following describes Joseph Beuys purpose for his art?
They challenge cultural attitudes.
Which of the following describes Kruger's photo-collages?
an enlarged jukebox
Which of the following describes the Portland Building located in Portland, Oregon?
It focused on the bleak and seedy aspects of city life.
Which of the following describes the focus of the Ashcan School?
significant departure from conventional painting
Which of the following describes the work of Jackson Pollock.
Their works should contain no reference to the world outside their own compositions.
Which of the following describes what artists working in the Post-Painterly Abstractionist style believed?
Dada
Which of the following earlier art styles formed the characterizing spirit of Performance Art?
vastness of the universe
Which of the following ideas did Vincent van Gogh attempt to communicate in his Starry Night?
18th century Japanese woodblock prints
Which of the following influenced Degas in his technique of using spatial projections and off-center empty space to create illusion and direct the viewer's attention into the picture?
Still-Life with Chair-Caning
Which of the following is executed in the Synthetic Cubist style?
Postmodernism
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?
Frank Stella
Which of the following painters illustrates Clement Greenberg's insistence "on purity in art"?
Dada had no fixed ideas
Which of the following statements about Dada is true?
To challenge art's function as commodity
Which of the following was the purpose of Performance Art?
Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash
Which of the following works demonstrates the Futurists' interest in motion?
Surrealism ignored the ideas of psychoanalysis put forth by Jung and Freud.
Which one of the following statements is not true?
dynamic movement
Which phrase best expresses the sculptural style of Boccioni?
Salvador Dalí
Who is the Surrealist?
Grosz
Who is the artist who created a scathing visual commentary on the military with his Fit for Active Service?
Man Ray
Who is the artist who created a work of art that can be described as "a wickedly funny gift"?
Dorothea Lange
Who photographed the rural poor displaced by the Great Depression in the 1930s?
Henri Matisse
Who said: "...we rejected imitative colors, and that with pure colors we obtained stronger reactions..."?
Cézanne
Who said: "I want to make of Impressionism something solid and lasting like the art in the museums"?
van Gogh
Who said: "Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I have before my eyes, I use color more arbitrarily so as to express myself forcibly . . . I have tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green . . ."?
Toulouse-Lautrec
Who was a denizen of the night world of Paris, consorting with the tawdry population of entertainers, prostitutes and other social outcasts?
Jean Tinguely
Who was the sculptor who believed that "the only stable thing is movement"?
Brancusi
Who wrote, "All my life I have sought the essence of flight. Don't look for the mysteries. I give you pure joy. Look at the sculptures until you see them. Those nearest to God have seen them."
Louis Comfort Tiffany
William Morris helped to shape the Arts and Crafts movement through his support of high quality craftsmanship and design based on natural forms. Which of the following artists was also a member of the Arts and Crafts movement?
