Deck 39: Identity, Race, and Gender in Art

Question 1

What is unconventional about Self-portrait Sideways No. 3?

A) the body it shows is that of an older individual
B) the person is trespassing in order to climb up a watertower
C) the artist is holding a chair over his head
D) the viewer has to look through special glasses to see it
E) none of the other answers

Answer 1

A

Question 2

What movement influenced the Untitled Film Stills series?

A) Renaissance
B) Civil Rights
C) Minimalism
Gateway to Art:
Lange, Migrant Mother: The Image of Motherhood
D) Cubism
E) Feminism

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which of the following is an important message in artworks that show gender as ambiguous?

A) that people can never choose how they want to be seen
B) that works of art cannot provide an arena for creative displays of identity
C) that gender is a construction and people do not all fit in predetermined categories
D) that it is always better to be first than it is to be green
E) none of the other answers

Answer 3

C

Question 4

How are the dual genders of the Hermaphrodite with a Dog made visible?

A) the subject wears a masculine costume and a feminine wrist watch
B) one side of the body is clean shaven while the other is hairy
C) the subject wears both pink and blue
D) because the person is shown in the nude
E) there is no way to tell this person is a hermaphrodite

Question 5

What does the text accompanying the image of the woman in You're Fine indicate?

A) that the woman is lying down for a medical inspection
B) that this picture is an acceptable example of a Classical reclining nude
C) that we clearly know the identity of the person depicted
D) that the artist has passed her entrance exams to graduate school
E) all of the other answers

Question 6

Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother shows ________.

A) a mother's strength and determination at a time of great need
B) a family devastated by the lack of food available
C) a mother's face reflecting the pressures placed on the family unit
D) the enduring quality of the bond between a mother and her children
E) all of the other answers

Question 7

Which artwork did Lorna Simpson make?

A) Migrant Mother
B) Hermaphrodite with a Dog
C) You're Fine
D) Colossal Sphinx of Hatshepsut
E) Melissa & Lake, Durham, North Carolina

Question 8

Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother shows the relationship between mother and children in an ideal way and gives no hint as to the actual concerns of daily life.

Question 9

Who is the artist of The Dinner Party?

A) Artemisia Gentileschi
B) Judy Chicago
C) Barbie Winter
D) Georgia O'Keeffe
E) Emily Dickinson

Question 10

The decapitation of Holofernes, which is the subject of an oil painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, happened because:

A) Holofernes was cruel and violent to Judith's people
B) Judith was jealous because he was her adulterous husband
C) Judith was vengeful because he had killed her son
D) Holofernes was a magician and Judith was his assistant for this trick
E) none of the other answers

Question 11

To what does the title of Do Women Have to be Naked to Get into the Met. Museum ? refer?

A) the practices of an exclusive swingers' club
B) a special offer for free tickets to a home baseball game
C) bootleg copies of a French movie shown on the subways
D) the unfair treatment of women by art institutions
E) none of the other answers

Question 12

Who is the artist of the Untitled Film Stills series?

A) Lewis Wickes Hine
B) John Coplans
C) Cindy Sherman
D) Dorothea Lange
E) Robert Mapplethorpe

Question 13

What is the subject of Catherine Opie's Domestic series?

A) staged depiction of radical performance artists
B) high school football games
C) a variety of landscapes the artist found interesting
D) lesbian couples in their everyday settings
E) all of the other answers

Question 14

What is the medium of the sphinx of Hatshepsut (4.157)?

A) mud brick
B) limestone
C) wood
D) granite
E) fur

Question 15

The sculpture of Chibinda Ilunga (4.148) was made by an artist from which culture?

A) Yoruba
B) Chokwe
C) Dogon
D) Egyptian
E) Greek

Question 16

In the Untitled Film Stills series the artist, Cindy Sherman, wanted to explore various aspects of her own personality.

Question 17

Robert Mapplethorpe made a self-portrait of himself that suggests the distinction between masculine and feminine is not clear-cut.

Question 18

The layout of The Dinner Party alludes to:

A) an ancient sign for woman
B) a coven of witches
C) the Last Supper
D) ancient religions that worshiped a mother goddess
E) all of the other answers

Question 19

What kind of artworks do the Guerrilla Girls make?

A) classically inspired sculptures
B) feminist posters and pamphlets
C) instrumental musical performances
D) dynamic multimedia installations
E) documentary photographs and films

Question 20

What was the inspiration for Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills series?

A) old records
B) old photographs
C) old movies
D) old clothes
E) none of the other answers