Deck 33: The International Scene Since 1950

Question 1

The works of Joseph Beuys and ____________ inspired Ana Mendieta.

A) minimalism
B) feminist artists
C) Kosuth
D) santíera

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Johns, Cage and Rauschenberg collaborated on theatrical events with the choreographer __________.

A) Yves Klein
B) Francis Bacon
C) Diane Arbus
D) Merce Cunningham

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The text explains that Minimalist art is best understood when considered ________________

A) in photographic reproductions
B) in a gallery or museum context
C) alongside the artists' written manifestoes
D) from a distance

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The art of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg questioned the influential ideas of ____________.

A) Clement Greenberg
B) John Cage
C) Willem de Kooning
D) Jasper Johns

Question 5

Critic Lawrence Alloway named Pop Art after __________.

A) movie popcorn
B) his father
C) a Tootsie Pop
D) a popping balloon

Question 6

Because her figures are all silhouettes, which does not identify race, the artist Kara Walker forces the viewer to read the narrative by ___________________.

A) recalling the novel from which the story was taken
B) comparing the scene to other artists
C) looking for other visual markers of race
D) reading the text panels accompanying each character

Question 7

Conceptual art's emphasis on "dematerialization" is implicitly critical of the art world because_____________.

A) it suggests that art is not important in society
B) it devalues past traditions of art
C) it leaves no precious object behind for purchase
D) it calls attention to art's spiritual qualities

Question 8

Conceptual artists wanted to __________ the art object.

A) emphasize
B) dematerialize
C) celebrate
D) reproduce

Question 9

How did Carolee Schneemann's performances challenge the traditional role of women as subjects in art?

A) She dictated the terms of the viewer's experience.
B) She refused to perform nude.
C) She used only male performers.
D) She assumed roles that challenged female stereotypes.

Question 10

Eva Hesse embraced __________ in her art, making works that used the vocabulary of Minimalism for emotional ends.

A) optical illusion
B) Earthworks
C) Pop Art
D) absurdity

Question 11

Christo and Jeanne-Claude are known for their temporary, __________ artworks.

A) projection
B) cantilevering
C) dripping
D) site-specific

Question 12

Claes Oldenburg created __________ of consumer culture in the form of sculptures.

A) ironic critiques
B) reproductions
C) religious parodies
D) aggressive confrontations

Question 13

Which art movement employed commercial techniques to produce slick, cool works of art?

A) Assemblage
B) Process-based art
C) Pop
D) Art Happenings

Question 14

Which of the following is NOT true of Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party ?

A) It was made collaboratively by hundreds of volunteers.
B) It includes art forms that have traditionally been the work of women.
C) It is meant to commemorate the accomplishments of women artists from the past.
D) Abstracted designs based on female genitalia symbolize women from all times and ethnicities.

Question 15

What was the aim of Richard Hamilton's Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing ?

A) To draw upon popular culture's craze for celebrities like Marilyn Monroe
B) To create a visual expression of the disharmonious world of consumption
C) To inspire later Pop artists to use collage as their primary medium.
D) To introduce American Pop Art to British audiences.

Question 16

In the 1950s and 1960s several artists argued that ______________was just as important as a finished art object.

A) the readymade
B) the artist's idea
C) the creative process
D) reproductions of art

Question 17

How does Jackie Winsor's Burnt Piece subvert the practices of Minimalist sculptors?

A) It relies on natural materials.
B) It references the artist's autobiography.
C) The artist's working process is visible.
D) All of the above.

Question 18

What commercial technique did Roy Lichtenstein imitate in his paintings?

A) silkscreening
B) benday dots
C) photography
D) digital imaging

Question 19

As an alternative to traditional images in art, feminist artists in the early 1970's emphasized a(n) ____________view of women by focusing on women's bodies and defining gender in biological terms.

A) feminine
B) essentialist
C) naturalist
D) scientific

Question 20

Allan Kaprow and Yves Klein were both associated with __________.

A) Happenings
B) Postwar photography
C) Neo-Expressionism
D) Arte Minimalism

Question 21

__________ heralded a post-industrial, advanced capitalist society.

A) Op Art
B) Surrealist art
C) Postmodern art
D) Art Informel

Question 22

Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party is a large sculptural installation, celebrating women's __________.

A) altars
B) history
C) libraries
D) cuisine

Question 23

____________________ architecture rejected the purity, uniformity, and abstraction of the International Style.

A) Pop Art
B) Postmodern
C) Deconstructivist
D) Corporate

Question 24

Jean-Michel Basquiat's Neo-Expressionist paintings of the early 1980s developed out of his work as a___________________.

A) musician
B) professional athlete
C) graffiti artist
D) poet

Question 25

Neo-Expressionist artists returned to large-scale figural paintings that recovered ________________.

A) intimacy with the viewer
B) visual effects of photography
C) collage techniques
D) the painted surface

Question 26

Faith Ringgold combines African-American _________ with painting and storytelling to address issues of race and female identity in her work.

A) beaded jewelry
B) fertility sculptures
C) masks
D) quiltmaking

Question 27

A major aim of first-generation feminist artists was _______________.

A) increasing recognition for women's artistic accomplishments and practices
B) deconstructing the art historical canon by exposing patriarchal biases in society
C) challenging traditional gender divisions through postmodern strategies
D) all of the above

Question 28

Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain is an example of Deconstructivist __________.

A) architecture
B) furniture
C) telephone
D) language

Question 29

Joseph Beuys developed a ______________ in performances to explain the inexplicable.

A) shamanistic personality
B) theatrical setting
C) complete environment
D) light show with silhouettes

Question 30

Which controversial work of art resulted in its removal from its original location?

A) Andres Serrano's Piss Christ
B) Richard Serra's Tilted Arc
C) Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary
D) Damien Hirst's Mother and Child Divided

Question 31

Kerry James Marshall uses Postmodern strategies in his paintings to draw attention to ________ issues.

A) race, class and poverty
B) feminist
C) post-colonial
D) environmental

Question 32

What long-established practice does Gerhard Richter reject?

A) the signing of art
B) working in a singular style
C) exhibiting art in public
D) providing titles to art

Question 33

What term is related to the wide range of artistic styles, interests, and cultural meanings that developed during the Postmodern period in art?

A) appropriation
B) post-colonialism
C) pluralism
D) historicism

Question 34

Many feminist artists embraced craft media because _________________.

A) these techniques required less demanding physical skills
B) its marginalization by the art establishment had suppressed women's accomplishments.
C) of the domestic function of most craft objects
D) all of the above

Question 35

How are Christo and Jeanne-Claude's site-specific works of art funded?

A) They are funded through grants from the National Endowment of the Arts and other funding agencies
B) They are commissioned by museums, individuals, and local governments.
C) They sell models, drawings, and other preliminary materials from the preceding project.
D) Admission fees for those who want to see the final work.

Question 36

Cindy Sherman's "Untitled Film Stills" exemplifies Postmodern strategies of ___________.

A) looking
B) appropriation
C) essentialism
D) patriarchy

Question 37

In 1982, critic Craig Owens argued that __________ and photographers were best able to represent Postmodernism's challenge to Modernist tradition and authority.

A) Neo-Expressionist painters
B) sculptors
C) feminists
D) young British artists

Question 38

_______________ was the logical extension of the Minimalist move away from the handcrafted object.

A) Graffiti art
B) Conceptual art
C) Earth art
D) Traditional forms of art

Question 39

The conceptual art of Josef Kosuth examined the conceptual relationships between visual images and ________.

A) music
B) language
C) physical experience
D) national identity

Question 40

Chris Ofili's painting The Holy Virgin Mary was at the center of a controversy about public __________ in the arts.

A) history
B) funding
C) access
D) communication

Question 41

The artist Shirin Neshat' "Women of Allah" series of photographs explores how Iranian women are ______________.

A) stereotyped in the West
B) treated in Iran
C) violent
D) devoutly religious

Question 42

How did Happenings differ from conventional theatrical performances?

A) It invades the viewer's space,
B) The viewer must frequently participate,
C) Its structure allows for the occurrence of chance and spontaneous events.
D) All of the above.

Question 43

Although initially a revolutionary style, _____________ architecture came to stand for corporate wealth and power.

A) International Style
B) Deconstructivist
C) High Tech
D) Postmodern

Question 44

Jeff Wall creates his ________________ like a movie director by carefully designing the sets and posing his actors.

A) videos
B) posters
C) femmages
D) photographs

Question 45

What traditional folk art form does Kara Walker use in her provocative installations exploring historical issues of race?

A) glassblowing
B) cut-paper silhouettes
C) quiltmaking
D) dollmaking

Question 46

In her works addressing contemporary gender issues, Vanessa Beecroft uses the medium of ____________ to subvert the normal relationship between viewer and object of art.

A) photography
B) video
C) performance
D) all of the above

Question 47

Deconstructivist architecture deliberately departed from traditional architecture by creating _____________.

A) open spaces in the design
B) drawings in space
C) symmetrical components
D) "decentered" designs

Question 48

_____________ made a series of objects combining painting and sculpture called combines.

A) Allan Kaprow
B) Robert Rauschenberg
C) Andy Warhol
D) Nam June Paik

Question 49

What term did Miriam Schapiro use to describe her work that combined acrylic paint with colorful pieces of fabric?

A) Pattern and Decoration
B) femmage
C) bricolage
D) herstory paintings

Question 50

According to the text, which of the following developments in contemporary art has resulted from the rise of globalism in the twenty-first century?

A) international exhibitions provide opportunities for diverse artistic exchange
B) studio craft arts have taken a more prominent place in the art world
C) artists have shifted toward digital formats of film and video
D) artists engage with a broad range of social, political, economic, and environmental concerns

Question 51

Robert Venturi claimed "Less is a bore," in a parody of _________ famous phrase.

A) Frank Geahry's
B) Mies van der Rohe's
C) Philip Johnson's
D) Eero Saarinen

Question 52

High Tech architecture is frequently characterized by ___________________.

A) the elimination of almost all applied decoration
B) the visible display of service systems such as heating and power
C) distorted designs that challenge traditional assumptions about stability
D) the simultaneous mixing of styles from different architectural periods

Question 53

Which media was NOT used by Conceptualist artists of the 1960s?

A) performance
B) painting
C) written and spoken words
D) photography

Question 54

Dale Chihuly's ________ sculptures demonstrate the use of traditional craft media in contemporary art.

A) video
B) trash
C) glass
D) plastic

Question 55

What traditional institution does Fred Wilson critique in his interventionist installations?

A) universities
B) museum exhibitions
C) courts of law
D) banks

Question 56

The Guerrilla Girls raise awareness of race and gender discrimination by appropriating strategies of ____________.

A) first-wave feminist artists
B) Modernism
C) guerilla warfare
D) Postcolonial discourse

Question 57

What social issue motivated David Wojnarowicz's Untitled (Hands) ?

A) the Vietnam War
B) the AIDS crisis
C) housing for the urban poor
D) funding for the arts

Question 58

Kiki Smith is a Postmodern sculptor interested in the __________.

A) body
B) religious images
C) race
D) geometric forms

Question 59

Judy Baca was influenced by the Mexican __________ in making her large-scale socially relevant paintings.

A) folk artists
B) muralists
C) weaving
D) religious art

Question 60

Saarinen wanted to evoke the excitement of air travel in his expressive and swooping design for a/an __________.

A) art museum
B) skyscraper
C) airport terminal
D) house

Question 61

What are Earthworks?

Question 62

____________ involves combining disparate elements to construct a work of art.

A) Neo-Expressionism
B) Happenings
C) Process art
D) Assemblage

Question 63

How are Assemblages and Happenings related?

Question 64

How has audience interaction changed in Postmodern art?

Question 65

Mendieta's Tree of Life celebrates the notion that women ___________.

A) have a deeper identification with nature than men
B) reproduce life
C) are more intellectual than men
D) have great physical strength

Question 66

What is Performance Art?

Question 67

What is Postmodern art?

Question 68

Barbara Kruger's signature style combines black and white photographic images with _______________.

A) traditional folk crafts
B) the red used in cheap advertising
C) calligraphy
D) provocative images of women

Question 69

Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty is a permanent _______________, which is intended to reflect the "ongoing dialectic" of constructive and destructive forces in nature.

A) happening
B) wrap
C) earthwork
D) installation

Question 70

What is Postmodern architecture?

Question 71

______________ is one of the best-known works of public art in the United States.

A) Tilted Arc
B) House
C) The Division of the Barrios
D) Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Question 72

________________ is the term for artists' use of actions, movements, and gestures of their own bodies.

A) Process art
B) Pop art
C) Feminist art
D) Happenings

Question 73

How did the Conceptual artists eliminate the art object?

Question 74

Critics of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial were especially outraged by the use of ____________.

A) the color black
B) the setting
C) the minimalist treatment
D) the listing of names

Question 75

How did Feminists impact the art world?

Question 76

What are the origins of Pop Art?

Question 77

The ______________ led informally by Damian Hirst were among the most sensational of modern artists.

A) Neo-Expressionists
B) Young British Artists
C) Third Text
D) Womanhouse

Question 78

Why did the Minimal artists eliminate personal feeling and social references from their work?

Question 79

Louise Nevelson arrives at works such as Sky Cathedral after _____________.

A) piecing together different shapes of glass
B) experimenting with combines
C) stacking boxes of discarded objects together
D) collaging photographs

Question 80

Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro collaborated with their students on the creation of __________, a collaborative art environment.

A) Women of Allah
B) Third Text
C) Cremaster
D) Womanhouse