Deck 15: Modernism and Postmodernism in Europe and America, 1945 to 1980

Question 1

The New York artist whose paintings employed color as a doorway to another reality of emotional expression was ____.

A) Jackson Pollock
B) Francis Bacon
C) Mark Rothko
D) Willem De Kooning

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which of the following describes Performance Art?

A) It is a commentary on contemporary theater.
B) It is a commentary on contemporary film
C) It replaces physical objects with movements, gestures and sounds
D) It purposefully confuses the audience.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Conceptual art is best described as work that ____.

A) highlights formal solutions to difficult concepts
B) celebrates the artist's technical achievements
C) emphasizes formal concerns and inherent qualities of materials
D) privileges the idea over the execution of an object

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Frank Lloyd Wright described many of his buildings,such as the Guggenheim Museum,as ____.

A) inorganic
B) organic
C) minimalist
D) decadent

Question 5

Which artist is known for his/her environmental art?

A) Robert Rauschenberg
B) Robert Smithson
C) Richard Hamilton
D) Roy Lichtenstein

Question 6

Which of the following artists is best known for his superrealist portraits?

A) Willem de Kooning
B) Chuck Close
C) Jackson Pollock
D) Anselm Kiefer

Question 7

Which of the following artists was a color field painter?

A) Jasper Johns
B) Jackson Pollock
C) Helen Frankenthaler
D) Richard Hamilton

Question 8

Cindy Sherman works in which medium?

A) sculpture
B) acrylics
C) video
D) photography

Question 9

The subject of many of Diane Arbus' photographs is:

A) idealized images of children
B) urban landscapes
C) religious architecture
D) unidealized images of people

Question 10

Performance Art challenged art's function as ____.

A) commodity
B) art
C) creative effort
D) visual experience

Question 11

Art that produced illusions of motion and depth using only flat,geometric forms was called ____.

A) Optical Art
B) Psychedelic Art
C) Postmodern Art
D) Pop Art

Question 12

Pop Art originated in ____,but achieved its greatest popularity in ____.

A) The United States, England
B) England, the United States
C) France, the United States
D) The United States, Spain

Question 13

What two tools did Audrey Flack use to create her super-realistic paintings?

A) a paintbrush and a ruler
B) a projector and an airbrush
C) a grid and diluted acrylic paint
D) a silkscreen and a watercolor brush

Question 14

A good example of Postmodernist architecture is the ____.

A) The Portland Building, Oregon
B) Guggenheim Museum, New York
C) Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp
D) Seagram Building, New York

Question 15

British art critic Lawrence Alloway coined the term ____ to refer to artists who combined mass consumer culture with familiar imagery from everyday life.

A) Pop Art
B) Minimalist Art
C) Abstract Expressionism
D) Performance Art

Question 16

Like ____,Conceptual Art raised questions about the artist's role in executing the work of art.

A) German Expressionism
B) Cubism
C) Abstract Expressionism
D) Dada

Question 17

What was the main subject of the postwar New York School artists?

A) life on the streets
B) optical phenomena
C) the act of painting
D) appropriation

Question 18

Cindy Sherman's work interrogates the impact of ____.

A) the male gaze
B) women in the workforce
C) abstraction
D) Clement Greenberg's formalist principles

Question 19

The terms gestural abstraction and action painting are most appropriately applied to the work of ____.

A) Jackson Pollock
B) Willem De Kooning
C) Helen Frankenthaler
D) Mark Rothko

Question 20

Which answer describes the ideas of Post-Painterly Abstraction?

A) The work should reveal the artist's hand
B) Art should convey deep, psychological drama
C) The work should reveal the workings of the unconscious mind
D) The work should contain no reference to the world outside the object.

Question 21

What was the purpose of Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party?

Question 22

What does this work evoke?

Question 23

How does Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills relate to feminist concerns?

Question 24

Discuss the references made to craft in this work and what their significance is.

Question 25

Describe how Nam June Paik's background in music has influenced his video art.

Question 26

What is Performance Art?

Question 27

How is this work an example of Pop Art?

Question 28

Michael Graves's Portland Building displays Postmodernism's ____.

A) strict formalism
B) juxtapositions
C) structural honesty
D) "glass box" aesthetic

Question 29

What is the subject of this work?

Question 30

A sculptor whose work embodies the characteristics of Minimalism was ____.

A) Donald Judd
B) Christo
C) Kiki Smith
D) Duane Hanson

Question 31

Describe Carolee Schneemann's "kinetic theatre".

Question 32

Joseph Kosuth said,"Like everyone else I inherited the idea of art ...So I began to re-think my ideas of art ...it begins with the making process ...my idea of doing that was the real creative content." To what creative content is he referring?

Question 33

What is meant by Minimalist Art?

Question 34

Superrealism and Pop art both ____.

A) address themes from consumer culture
B) employ found objects
C) use abstract portraiture
D) employ benday dots

Question 35

How does this building reflect the ideas of postmodernism?

Question 36

What are the chief concerns of Environmental art,sometimes called Earth art or earthworks?

Question 37

Environmental art shares the avant-garde desire to ____.

A) take art beyond the gallery or museum setting
B) employ abstract forms
C) create "art for art's sake"
D) appropriate themes from the history of art

Question 38

The stylistic label that best describes Duane Hanson's Supermarket Shopper is ____.

A) Abstract Expressionist
B) Modernist
C) Superrealist
D) Minimalist

Question 39

Why did Andy Warhol use the silk screening technique in Green Coca-Cola Bottles?

Question 40

What artist used the technique of benday dots and why?

Question 41

Compare and contrast the work of the gestural abstractionist to the color field painters.Use examples to support your answer.

Question 42

Attribute the images on the screen to a culture and give an approximate date.Give the reasons for your attributions,using complete sentences and referring to specific works discussed in class.

Question 43

Summarize the principles of feminist art as exhibited in the art of Judy Chicago.

Question 44

Although most late twentieth-century art addresses serious formal or thematic issues,some works incorporate whimsy,humor,or irony.Select three examples that reveal the lighter side of late twentieth-century art.Explain your selections.

Question 45

How did the principles and the techniques of the Minimalists differ from those of the Abstract Expressionists? Use specific works to illustrate your discussion.

Question 46

Contrast Modern and Postmodern architecture.How do they differ and what are the philosophical underpinnings of each? Use examples to support your essay.

Question 47

Describe the ways in which artists began to circumvent museums and galleries in the late twentieth-century in order to encourage more direct interaction with the work of art.

Question 48

Contrast the style of Le Corbusier's Notre Dame du Haut to Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson's Seagram Building.

Question 49

How does this work address the role of women in society and as artists?

Question 50

Explain the Postmodern ideas found in the work of Jaune Quick-To-See Smith.How does this artist reflect the sociopolitical climate?

Question 51

Assess the use of modern technologies in the arts of the late twentieth-century.How have artists transformed these "tools" into viable art-making processes? Use examples to support your essay.

Question 52

Evaluate the position of commodity culture in art of the late twentieth-century.Use examples to support your essay.