Deck 10: Social Protestaffirmation

Question 1

Which artist used photomontage for political commentary?

A)John Heartfield
B)David Alfaro Siqueiros
C)Francisco Goya
D)Lewis Hine

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which injustices did William Kentridge explore in his charcoal drawings and film animations?

A)Slavery
B)Misogyny
C)Apartheid
D)Homophobia

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which artist made a series of forty-one paintings on the life of François-Dominique Toussaint-L'Ouverture, a slave who led a revolt in Haiti that resulted in the abolition of slavery there in 1794?

A)Mona Hatoum
B)Jacob Lawrence
C)William Hogarth
D)Jenny Holzer

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Against what did much of John Heartfield's art protest?

A)Neo-Nazis in the United States
B)The Labour Party in the United Kingdom
C)Universal suffrage
D)Nazism

Question 5

Which group's tribulations did Jacob Lawrence describe in a series of paintings?

A)African Americans
B)Prisoners of war
C)Child laborers
D)Soldiers in the Civil War

Question 6

In Jacob Lawrence's tempera paintings, the use of space and color, as well as the bright patterns of handmade rugs, suggests the influence of which style of art?

A)Impressionism
B)Divisionism
C)Cubism
D)Fauvism

Question 7

What's a feature that the artists Kathe Kollwitz and George Grosz have in common?

A)They protested against corrupt leaders.
B)They protested against wars.
C)They celebrated the victorious.
D)They created war memorials.

Question 8

According to Robert Motherwell, what does abstraction communicate best?

A)The nature of the divine
B)The life of the spirit
C)Concepts of consciousness
D)The struggle between life and death

Question 9

When was art protesting a specific war first created?

A)About two hundred years ago
B)With the Spanish Civil War
C)During World War I
D)In ancient times

Question 10

Which does Ester Hernandez incorporate into her artistic protests?

A)Humor
B)Shocking details
C)Lurid colors
D)Sarcasm

Question 11

What is automatism, the concept beloved by Surrealists, based on?

A)Critical thinking
B)Extensive knowledge
C)Intuition
D)Automatons

Question 12

Which group uses Dreamtime symbols in its art?

A)Surrealists
B)Cubists
C)Australian Aboriginal culture
D)Impressionists

Question 13

Which twentieth-century artist used forms inspired by the human body to critique modern society's loss of individuality?

A)Magdalena Abakanowicz
B)Jenny Holzer
C)Kathe Kollwitz
D)George Grosz

Question 14

Which artwork deploying social critique is abstract?

A)William Hogarth's Breakfast Scene
B)Robert Arneson's Portrait of George
C)Mona Hatoum's Light Sentence
D)Francisco Goya's The Executions of May 3, 1808

Question 15

Which Surrealist concept, incorporating intuition, spontaneity, and the accidental when creating artwork, was Robert Motherwell influenced by?

A)Dystopia
B)Collage
C)Dreamtime
D)Automatism

Question 16

Who of the following is an African American artist known for creating life-size, cutout silhouette figures drawn from racist imagery of the slave era in the United States?

A)Robert Motherwell
B)George Grosz
C)Kara Walker
D)Jenny Holzer

Question 17

Which place was still a patchwork of city-states in constant turmoil, rather than a unified nation, when Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Allegory of Good Government was painted?

A)Spain
B)Mexico
C)Brazil
D)Italy

Question 18

What kind of work experience did Edward Kienholz draw upon for his art practice?

A)A prisoner of war
B)A mental hospital worker
C)A pilot
D)A doctor

Question 19

Which nineteenth-century French artist was known for his pointedly satirical, political caricatures?

A)Gustave Moreau
B)Jacques-Louis David
C)Honoré Daumier
D)Edouard Manet

Question 20

Which society created the Codex Borbonicus as a religious calendar during the time of the Spanish conquest?

A)Maya
B)Toltec
C)Inca
D)Aztec

Question 21

​ What political statement is made in Ambrogio Lorenzetti's fresco Allegory of Good Government: The Effects of Good Government in the City and in the Country?

A)The prosperity that comes from a stable government
B)The increase in agricultural output with carefully regulated production
C)The value of a strong central leader for regulating international trade
D)The uptick in Siena's economy after joining the papal states

Question 22

​ What kind of critique did William Hogarth's Breakfast Scene make?

A)The importance of consuming a healthy breakfast
B)The morally bankrupt status of the wealthy couple depicted in the image
C)The value of maintaining the status quo for society to prosper
D)The dangers of overreliance on French luxury goods

Question 23

Which of the following best describes Jacob Lawrence's artistic style?

A)Textured and complex
B)Flat, simplified forms
C)Realistic and compelling
D)Abstract with a muted range of colors

Question 24

Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People uses Abstract Expressionism to make those involved in the Paris Revolt of 1830 appear heroic.

Question 25

​ Which describes the subject of Hans Haacke's MetroMobiltan?

A)The discrimination experienced throughout the Metro's service
B)The need for mobilization of voter turnout
C)The problematic connection between exhibition funding and controversial corporate policy
D)The importance of supporting major art institutions, such as the Metropolitan Art Museum

Question 26

Edward Kienholz's The State Hospital uses ugliness as a tool to criticize the way society deals with people it deems incompetent.

Question 27

Hatoum's Light Sentence deals with personal identity, the body, surveillance, and control.

Question 28

Most social protest works of art are designed to prescribe specific changes and actions.

Question 29

Which artist is known for using LED signboard to create her social commentary?

A)Mona Hatoum
B)Doris Salcedo
C)Jenny Holzer
D)Kara Walker

Question 30

Which medium did Shomei Tomatsu use to express the suffering caused by the bombing of Nagasaki?

A)Photomontage
B)Oil painting
C)Installation
D)Documentary photography

Question 31

​ What was the goal of Lewis Hine's photograph Leo, 48 Inches High, 8 Years Old, Picks Up Bobbins at 15¢ a Day ?

A)To elect more Progressive Party candidates
B)To create images that accompany newspaper articles about factories and their workforce
C)To change public policy so that children no longer would work in factories
D)Unknown but useful to historians studying past labor conditions

Question 32

​ In The Ambassadors , how does Hans Holbein the Younger choose to portray Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve?

A)As musicians
B)As humanists
C)As scientists
D)As artists

Question 33

​ The Aboriginal Memorial commemorates all the native peoples of Australia who died as a result of which event?

A)U.S. Civil War
B)European settlement
C)Hundred Year War
D)Black Plague

Question 34

Glyphs indicating the calendar were used in which artwork?

A)Codex Borbonicus
B)The Aboriginal Memorial
C)Light Sentence
D)Coatlique

Question 35

Doris Salcedo's Shibboleth permanently transformed the Tate Modern in London.

Question 36

​ What kind of depiction did Eugene Delacroix use in Liberty Leading the People to make his portrayal of fighting seem thrilling, dangerous, and liberating?

A)Realistic
B)Romantic
C)Impressionist
D)Revolutionary

Question 37

Robert Motherwell's Elegy to the Spanish Republic XXXIV was made in response to the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918.

Question 38

​ Which group is given the most sympathetic depiction by Francisco Goya in The Executions of May 3, 1808?

A)The French
B)The English
C)The Spanish
D)The Ottomans

Question 39

​ What form of mixed-media work is Osorio's The Scene of the Crime (Whose Crime?), exploring mass media depictions?

A)Collage
B)Montage
C)Apotheosis
D)Installation

Question 40

​ What is The Outbreak ("Losbruch")by Kathe Kollwitz an example of?

A)Mortuary memorial
B)Autobiographical art
C)Social protest
D)Automatism