Deck 20: Art Since 1945

Question 1

Which is the term for putting disparate elements together to construct a work of art?

A)collage
B)appropriation
C)femmage
D)assemblage

Answer 1

D

Question 2

According to Maya Ying Lin,what was an important point of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?

A)to see yourself reflected in the names
B)a monument to suffering humanity
C)the names would lose individuality and become a texture
D)the futility of war

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which was the art movement that used broad sweeping expanses of color to evoke transcendent contemplative states?

A)Minimalism
B)Color Field Painting
C)Action Painting
D)Gesturalism

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which of the following describes Roy Lichtenstein's work?

A)It satirizes American materialism.
B)It uses imagery found in cartoons and advertisements.
C)It celebrates middle-class social,and material values.
D)It uses precisely structured patterns of lines and colors.

Question 5

Which of the following describes the work of Claes Oldenburg?

A)polished steel inspired by the formalism of Analytic Cubism
B)a construction of discarded packing boxes,spindles,and other wooden refuse
C)a kinetic sculpture that destroys itself
D)monumentally scaled objects from popular culture

Question 6

Which of the following eliminated the art object itself?

A)Performance artists
B)Conceptual artists
C)Minimalists
D)Pop artists

Question 7

By design,the walls of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial are pointing toward

A)the White House and the Capitol.
B)the National Academy of Sciences and the National Gallery.
C)the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument.
D)the State Department and the Justice Department.

Question 8

What was the attitude of Aboriginal artists toward modern American and European mediums?

A)They rejected them.
B)They combined them with their traditional mediums.
C)They adopted them with Western subject matter.
D)They adopted them.

Question 9

Which of the following describes Richard Hamilton's work?

A)It satirizes American materialism.
B)It uses imagery found in cartoons and advertisements.
C)It celebrates middle-class social and material values.
D)It uses precisely structured patterns of lines and colors.

Question 10

Which movement was deeply affected by the ideas of Surrealism and the teaching of Hans Hofmann?

A)Action Painting
B)Pop art
C)Abstract Expressionism
D)Minimalism

Question 11

Which artist is best known for the photographs of herself in various assumed roles?

A)Judy Chicago
B)Betye Saar
C)Faith Ringgold
D)Cindy Sherman

Question 12

Largely because of Jasper Johns,which artist came to be thought of as important as Picasso?

A)Salvador Dali
B)Marcel Duchamp
C)Henri Matisse
D)Paul Cézanne

Question 13

Which of the following describes the work of Mark Rothko?

A)large rectangles of bleeding color
B)thinned oil paints that resemble watercolor
C)a chaotic mixture of painted and found elements
D)imagery from cartoons and advertisements

Question 14

Which of the following describes the work of Louise Nevelson?

A)polished steel inspired by the formalism of Analytic Cubism
B)a construction of discarded packing boxes,spindles,and other wooden refuse
C)kinetic sculpture that destroys itself
D)monumentally scaled objects from popular culture

Question 15

Which of the following describes a variety of artistic intentions and styles coexisting in the same social structure?

A)collage
B)kitsch
C)assemblage
D)pluralism

Question 16

According to Clement Greenberg,a work of art should be judged solely on

A)convincing narrative.
B)visual perception.
C)accurate representation.
D)spatial depth.

Question 17

Which of the following artists' works on irregularly shaped canvases with swelling shapes?

A)Elizabeth Murray
B)Anselm Kiefer
C)Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri
D)Faith Ringgold

Question 18

Which of the following describes Robert Rauschenberg's "combines"?

A)large rectangles that hint at a momentary resolution of our duality
B)thinned oil paints that resemble watercolor
C)a chaotic mixture of painted and found elements
D)imagery from cartoons and advertisements

Question 19

Which of the following describes the work of Jean Tinguely?

A)polished steel inspired by the formalism of Analytic Cubism
B)a construction of discarded packing boxes,spindles,and other wooden refuse
C)a kinetic sculpture that destroys itself
D)monumentally scaled objects from popular culture

Question 20

Which of the following determined that China painting and needlework are traditional women's media but should be considered "high" art forms?

A)Judy Chicago
B)Betye Saar
C)Faith Ringgold
D)Cindy Sherman

Question 21

Which describes the work of Martin Puryear?

A)torn,gouged,and pierced traditional ceramic forms
B)trompe l'oeil realism done in carved wood
C)wooden objects that may suggest biological forms or a musical instrument
D)closed form,nonfunctional ceramic forms with richly colored glazes

Question 22

According to Robert Venturi,what is wrong with the International Style of architecture?

A)It is too heterogeneous.
B)It is too complex.
C)It is too contradictory.
D)It is too inflexible.

Question 23

Contrast the painting of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.What is the emotional impact on the viewer and how does it differ between the two painters? What was the difference in the artists' approaches?

Question 24

Describe Marcel Duchamp's use of kitsch and its inclusion in Pop art.How did this confuse and upset ideas of "high" and "low" art?

Question 25

Which describes work by Peter Voulkos?

A)torn,gouged,and pierced traditional ceramic forms
B)trompe l'oeil realism done in carved wood
C)wooden objects that may suggest a sea creature or musical instrument
D)closed form,nonfunctional ceramic forms with richly colored glazes

Question 26

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a

A)Bauhaus architect.
B)De Stijl architect.
C)Purist architect.
D)Neo-Baroque architect.

Question 27

Discuss the controversies over public funding of the arts.Use Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary as an example.

Question 28

How does the work of Judy Chicago embody the feminist movement? Discuss the iconography of her work,The Dinner Party.

Question 29

Which is often the subject of Shirin Neshat's photographs?

A)Islamic history
B)Islamic landmarks
C)Islamic men
D)Islamic women

Question 30

Architecture that is complex,contradictory,and borrows from "high" and "low" architecture and from the past is which of the following styles?

A)International Style
B)Postmodern
C)Beaux-Arts
D)Chicago style

Question 31

Which of the following describes the most well-known work of Jenny Holzer?

A)It evoked images and information carried by electronic communication systems.
B)It included continuous looping signboards with disturbing commands and declarations.
C)It was made of mixed media painting with collage and fake Indian trinkets.
D)It was a combination of Japanese woodblock prints and American Pop art.

Question 32

Discuss the International Style of Architecture and its expression in the Seagram Building in New York.Include its use of materials and ideas of aesthetics.

Question 33

What does the writing suggest in Wenda Gu's United Nations-Babel of the Millennium?

A)the importance of all life on earth
B)electronic communication
C)uniting of cultures dlimitations of human knowledge

Question 34

The Seagram Building in New York is one of the finest examples of which style of architecture?

A)Postmodernism
B)Historicism
C)International Style
D)Beaux-Arts