Deck 27: Abstract Expressionism

Question 1

The artist in this chapter who made furniture,playgrounds,and public sculpture gardens was

A) Smith
B) Nevelson
C) Kline
D) Noguchi
E) Bacon

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Match the artist with the correct country of birth.

A) de Kooning -- Germany
B) Stella -- Italy
C) Gorky -- Armenia
D) Rothko -- the United States
E) Noguchi -- China

Answer 2

C

Question 3

"Jack the Dripper" referred to

A) Frankenthaler
B) de Kooning
C) Gorky
D) Pollock
E) Hofmann

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which is not true of acrylic?

A) it is water-based
B) it can be used on paper but not canvas
C) it comes in bright colors
D) it dries quickly and does not fade
E) it can be poured, dripped, or splattered

Question 5

Hitler's exhibition of "degenerate art" consisted mainly of

A) Classical statues
B) avant-garde art
C) photography
D) lithography
E) Surrealism

Question 6

Who of the following is not a Color Field painter?

A) Mondrian
B) Rothko
C) Kelly
D) Reinhardt
E) Stella

Question 7

Which is true?

A) Albers taught at Black Mountain College in South Carolina
B) Hofmann taught at Yale
C) Hofmann taught at Black Mountain College in South Carolina
D) Albers taught at Yale
E) Albers taught at the Art Students' League and in North Carolina

Question 8

Navajo sand painting inspired which artist?

A) Rothko
B) Ernst
C) Pollock
D) Frankenthaler
E) Noguchi

Question 9

Who of the following predominately used acrylic?

A) Frankenthaler
B) Rothko
C) Gorky
D) Smith
E) Noguchi

Question 10

The term Abstract Expressionism was first used to define the style of

A) Pollock
B) Kandinsky
C) Albers
D) de Kooning
E) Frankenthaler

Question 11

Match the author with the correct work.

A) James Baldwin -- The Double Helix
B) Albert Camus -- Waiting for Godot
C) Graham Greene -- To the Finland Station
D) Jean-Paul Sartre -- Being and Nothingness
E) Ingmar Bergman -- Lolita

Question 12

"Homage to the Square" is

A) a series of paintings by Hofmann
B) a book by Albers
C) a manifesto written by Kelly
D) a series of paintings by Albers
E) a painting by Hofmann

Question 13

Which is least true of Dubuffet?

A) he collected non-Western art
B) he was a monochromatic painter
C) he liked textured surfaces
D) he was a figurative abstractionist
E) he was French

Question 14

Which artist most often depicted biomorphic shapes?

A) de Kooning
B) Noguchi
C) Gorky
D) Smith
E) Noguchi and Gorky

Question 15

Who of the following is not an action painter?

A) Albers
B) Gorky
C) Pollock
D) de Kooning

Question 16

Which artist is correctly matched with his or her work?

A) Diebenkorn -- The Artist and his Mother
B) Kelly -- Ocean Park No.129
C) Noguchi -- Kouros
D) Nevelson -- the Cubi Series
E) Gorky -- Homage to the Square

Question 17

The two leading art critics of Abstract Expressionism were

A) Bloomberg and Rosenberg
B) Steinberg and Bloomberg
C) Greenberg and Wölfflin
D) Worringer and Wölfflin
E) Greenberg and Rosenberg

Question 18

In 1942,Peggy Guggenheim opened

A) the Museum of Modern art in New York
B) the Paris Museum of Modern Art
C) the Art of This Century Gallery
D) the Venice Guggenheim