Deck 11: Mid-Twentieth Century and Later

Question 1

__________ designed "Prairie Houses" early in his career, but his Guggenheim Museum is a model of clean, International style lines and materials.

A) I.M. Pei
B) Mark Rothko
C) Frank Lloyd Wright
D) Henry Moore
E) Sanford White

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Robert Rauschenberg called work like the Odalisk __________.

A) "action painting"
B) "combine painting"
C) "meldings"
D) "environmental art"
E) "pure information"

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Kouros by __________ is obviously related to the works of such Surrealists as Jan Arp and Joan Mirò.

A) Isamu Noguchi
B) Alexander Calder
C) Anthony Caro
D) Eduardo Chillida
E) Mark di Suvero

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Le Corbusier's Notre-Dame-du-Haut abandons the __________ of traditional religious architecture.

A) grid-like structure
B) bays
C) devotionality
D) concave and convex shapes
E) symmetry

Question 5

Simone de Beauvoir's most important contribution to the intellectual life of the mid twentieth-century is __________.

A) her study of men
B) her study of women
C) her study of the biological differences between men and women
D) her ideas on the complexity of choices between right and wrong
E) her development of the theory of relativity

Question 6

Charlie Chaplin was a master filmmaker and actor of the silent era who was famous for his "little tramp" figure.

Question 7

In 1975, after the __________ marched on and captured the city of Saigon they renamed it Ho Chi Minh City.

A) Laotians
B) Cambodians
C) Tibetans
D) Nepalese
E) North Vietnamese

Question 8

Robert Rauschenberg's Odalisk is a painting that depicts a woman in a Turkish harem.

Question 9

__________ introduced the philosophy of Existentialism.

A) Thomas Hobbes
B) René Descartes
C) Søren Kierkegaard
D) Jacques Derrida
E) John Locke

Question 10

Because there is no recognizable subject in Jackson Pollock's Autumn Rhythm: Number 30, the work is referred to as __________.

A) Pop Art
B) Minimal Art
C) Post-Impressionism
D) Abstract Expressionism
E) Pattern and Decoration

Question 11

__________ coined the term "Happening."

A) John Cage
B) Allan Kaprow
C) Andy Warhol
D) Roy Lichtenstein
E) Jean-Michel Basquiat

Question 12

The basis of Lichtenstein's style is __________.

A) pointillism
B) the ben-day dot
C) color field painting
D) abstract expressionist gesture
E) collage

Question 13

All of the following are architects of the International Style except __________.

A) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
B) Le Corbusier
C) Walter Gropius
D) Frank Lloyd Wright
E) Louis Sullivan

Question 14

__________ Flowering Limb gives visual expression to the physical energy of painting that is characteristic of the Abstract Expressionists.

A) Lee Krasner's
B) Jackson Pollock's
C) Arshile Gorky's
D) William de Kooning's
E) Mark Rothko's

Question 15

The painter __________ worked in a style known as "color field painting."

A) Mark Rothko
B) William de Kooning
C) Roy Lichtenstein
D) Jackson Pollock
E) Lee Krasner

Question 16

On December 7, 1941 __________.

A) Nixon resigned
B) John F. Kennedy was assassinated
C) Apollo 11 landed on the moon
D) Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor
E) none of the above

Question 17

The emperor of Japan during World War II was Hirohito.

Question 18

"Less is more," the motto of __________ is a sentiment that is typical of the architects of mid twentieth-century International style.

A) Frank Lloyd Wright
B) Walter Gropius
C) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
D) Gerritt Rietveld
E) Le Corbusier

Question 19

The work of __________ embodies the world of mass production.

A) Andy Warhol
B) Louise Nevelson
C) Robert Rauschenberg
D) Roy Lichtenstein
E) Tom Wesselmann

Question 20

__________ is not an Abstract Expressionist painter.

A) Mark Rothko
B) William de Kooning
C) Edward Hopper
D) Jackson Pollock
E) Helen Frankenthaler

Question 21

Leonard Bernstein was successful at popularizing not only classical music, but also at classicizing popular music.

Question 22

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett portrays two tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, and draws heavily on the farcical gestures of vaudeville performers and circus clowns.

Question 23

In Learning from Las Vegas, the architect Robert Venturi suggests that the eclectic rearrangement of a variety of styles, signs, and symbols composes a new kind of unity.

Question 24

Describe the variety of musical forms that were popularized after World War II.
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Question 25

What are the major principles of the Bauhaus?

Question 26

How do Jean-Paul Sartre's, Simone de Beauvoir's and Søren Kierkegaard's philosophical views of Existentialism differ?

Question 27

Compare and contrast the Guggenheim Museum to the Center National d'Art et Culture Georges Pompidou.

Question 28

Le Corbusier is the nickname of the sculptor Alexander Calder.

Question 29

What was the most significant effect of World War II and why?

Question 30

Mark Rothko was an Abstract Expressionist artist.

Question 31

Explain the importance of coffee to a variety of world cultures.

Question 32

Marisol Escobar's work is created in the Minimalist style.

Question 33

Examine the idea behind the "Theater of the Absurd."

Question 34

Sol LeWitt is classified as a Pop art sculptor.

Question 35

Who were the Gutai artists and what influenced their art production?

Question 36

Benton and DiYanni assert that "as consumerism increasingly preoccupied American life, artists and intellectuals turned their attention to the cycle of production, consumption, and waste that defined experience." Select at least three works of art, music, and literature to respond to this statement.

Question 37

Compare Jackson Pollock's Autumn Rhythm: Number 30 and Helen Frankenthaler's Mauve District to explain what unified the diverse works of the Abstract Expressionists.

Question 38

What was the impact of existentialist thought on twentieth-century art and literature in America
and Europe?

Question 39

What elements of society did the Beat generation of writers critique? Give an example of a Beat work.

Question 40

How should one define the International Style of architecture and which work serves as the paradigm of this style?