Deck 20: Art Since 1945

Question 1

Valuing form over content is called __________.

A)avant-garde
B)assemblage
C)appropriation
D)formalism

Answer 1

D

Question 2

After World War II,which urban center became the locus of avant-garde innovations in art?

A)Berlin
B)New York
C)Paris
D)London

Answer 2

B

Question 3

How is Robert Rauschenberg's Canyon different from Louise Nevelson's Sky Cathedral?

A)It features nonrepresentational subject matter.
B)It combines Action Painting and Color Field Painting.
C)It blends features of avant-garde painting and sculpture.
D)It incorporates photography and new media,such as video.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

James Luna's The Artifact Piece and Kerry James Marshall's De Style both address issues related to __________.

A)gender inequality
B)political activism
C)racial identity
D)globalization

Question 5

The technique of combining disparate elements to construct a work of art is called __________.

A)new media
B)appropriation
C)encaustic
D)assemblage

Question 6

How is Carolee Schneemann's Meat Joy different from Allan Kaprow's Yard?

A)As an Environment,it invited viewers to interact with static installations.
B)As a Fluxus event,it focused on ordinary behaviors performed methodically.
C)As a Gutai performance,it involved acts of creation and destruction.
D)As a Happening,it was an immersive chance-based performance.

Question 7

Shozo Shimamoto's Hurling Colors demonstrates the Gutai collective's interest in __________.

A)assemblage
B)performance
C)appropriation
D)formalism

Question 8

Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych demonstrates Pop Art's critique of __________.

A)mass media
B)feminism
C)formalism
D)racial inequality

Question 9

Which of the following art movements was characterized as "the dematerialization of art"?

A)Performance art
B)Conceptual art
C)Minimalism
D)Pop art

Question 10

Donald Judd's Untitled exemplifies the purely formal and material qualities of __________.

A)Abstract Expressionism
B)Postmodernism
C)Minimalism
D)Conceptual art

Question 11

Which of the following best describes the work of Mark Rothko?

A)large rectangles of bleeding color
B)active brushwork and autobiographical references
C)a chaotic mixture of painted and found elements
D)imagery from cartoons and advertisements

Question 12

Because Sherrie Levine's After Walker Evans: 4 reproduces photography by Walker Evans,it can be characterized as __________.

A)an assemblage
B)an appropriation
C)minimalist
D)conceptual art

Question 13

Which of the following best characterizes Louise Nevelson's Sky Cathedral?

A)assemblage
B)new media
C)Minimalist
D)earthwork

Question 14

Which of the following can be characterized as a Fluxus event?

A)Carolee Schneemann's Meat Joy
B)Yoko Ono's Cut Piece
C)Allan Kaprow's Yard
D)Shozo Shimamoto's Hurling Colors

Question 15

David Smith's Cubi series demonstrates the characteristics of __________.

A)Postmodernism
B)Neo-Expressionism
C)Deconstructivism
D)Abstract Expressionism

Question 16

Both Guerilla Girls's The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist and Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Still #21 address issues related to __________.

A)female identity
B)racial inequality
C)political activism
D)globalization

Question 17

Gerhard Richter's Man Shot Down (1)demonstrates the characteristics of __________.

A)Minimalism
B)a Happening
C)Neo-Expressionism
D)Formalism

Question 18

Which of the following movements is recognized by its attempts to undermine art that is pure,autonomous,and universal?

A)Abstract Expressionism
B)Minimalism
C)Conceptual art
D)Postmodernism

Question 19

Judy Chicago's The Dinner and Miriam Schapiro's Personal Appearance #3 both share an interest in promoting as "high art"__________.

A)traditional women's crafts
B)objects created with new media
C)compositions with appropriated imagery
D)performance art and interactive exhibitions

Question 20

Action Painting and Color Field Painting are the two major approaches in __________.

A)Postmodernism
B)Pop art
C)Abstract Expressionism
D)Minimalism

Question 21

Which of the following artworks addresses the physical effects of AIDS?

A)Bill Viola's The Crossing
B)Jasper Johns's Target with Plaster Casts
C)Patricia Cronin's Shrine For Girls
D)David Wojnarowicz's Untitled (Sometimes I Come to Hate People)

Question 22

Julie Mehretu's Stadia II and Gu Wenda's China Monument: Temple of Heaven both share an interest in exploring the effects of __________.

A)the AIDS epidemic
B)gender inequality
C)social activism
D)globalization

Question 23

Jenova Chen's and Kellee Santiago's Flower can be characterized as new media art because it __________.

A)features robotics
B)is a multisensory experience
C)is a video game
D)includes video footage

Question 24

Patricia Cronin's Shrine For Girls raises public awareness for __________.

A)gender inequality
B)violence toward women
C)the AIDs epidemic
D)homelessness

Question 25

Krzysztof Wodiczko's Homeless Vehicle recalls __________.

A)Constructivist design
B)Fluxus events
C)Postmodern architecture
D)Conceptual art

Question 26

The Seagram Building in New York is one of the finest examples of __________.

A)Postmodernism
B)Deconstructivism
C)the International Style
D)Formalism

Question 27

Architecture that deliberately disturbs traditional architectural values of harmony,unity,and stability to create decentered and distorted designs is called __________.

A)Postmodern
B)International Style
C)Deconstructivist
D)Modernist

Question 28

Kiki Smith's Untitled conveys the physical effects of __________.

A)homelessness
B)AIDS
C)domestic violence
D)menstruation

Question 29

Architecture that is complex,contradictory,and borrows from "high" and "low" architecture and from the past is called __________.

A)International Style
B)Postmodern
C)Deconstructivist
D)Modernist

Question 30

Shirin Neshat's photographs often expose Western stereotypes of __________.

A)homelessness
B)racial inequality
C)Samoan couples
D)Muslim women

Question 31

In his treatise on Postmodernism,Robert Venturi encouraged new architecture to embrace __________.

A)new media
B)appropriation
C)simplicity
D)eclecticism

Question 32

Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project featured the illusion of a giant yellow sun within the Tate Modern to encourage viewers to __________.

A)think about globalization
B)embrace interactive technology
C)question their own experience
D)consider the struggles of homelessness

Question 33

The Vitra Fire Station demonstrates the characteristics of __________.

A)Deconstructivism
B)Postmodernism
C)International Style
D)Modernism