Deck 34: Art, Illusion, and Transformation

Question 1

What was the painting called The Nightmare based on?

A) bad dreams the artist frequently had about creatures and damsels in distress
B) the legend of a male demon that has sex with people while they sleep
C) a fairy tale the artist heard every night before bed when he was a child
D) a fireworks display the artist saw when he was in London
E) none of the other answers

Answer 1

A

Question 2

The powerful heroines in Artemisia Gentileschi's paintings have a strong correlation to events in the artist's own life.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Jackson Pollock's Male and Female, according to interpretations based on Jungian analysis, shows ________.

A) people underwater
B) a balanced psyche
C) the imbalance between the masculine and the feminine
D) biblical heroines
E) all of the other answers

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Artemisia Gentileschi made ________ paintings of the biblical story of Judith and Holofernes.

A) cave
B) sloppy
C) counterfeit
D) bright
E) seven

Question 5

The collection of imagery in Julian Schnabel's The Exile represents ________.

A) the contents of the artist's studio on his forty-fifth birthday
B) the food sculptures the artist made for his first solo exhibition
C) all of the artist's favorite artists from his Introduction to Visual Arts class at college
D) art history and current events that reflected the artist's experience at the time
E) one piece of art collected from eBay for every letter of the alphabet

Question 6

The artist ORLAN was the first person ever to undergo plastic surgery.

Question 7

Who is the artist of Branded?

A) Cindy Sherman
B) Mary Cassatt
C) Barbara Kruger
D) Jenny Saville
E) ORLAN

Question 8

Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe conveys ________.

A) exactly what the artist saw when he looked in the mirror
B) a completely abstract interpretation of what the artist felt
C) the agitation of the artist's internal reality through its representation of his physical appearance
D) a close friend's view of what the artist looked like right after he left hospital
E) none of the other answers

Question 9

What is the medium of (Untitled) Baalbek Bird Cage?

A) sculptural installation
B) video projection
C) cibachrome print
D) oil on canvas
E) prison cell

Question 10

Why did Rembrandt make so many self-portraits?

A) he had access to his subject whenever he wanted it
B) he could show himself in many guises and character types
C) he had the opportunity to examine different facial expressions
D) all of the previous answers
E) none of the previous answers

Question 11

What is the medium of Julian Schnabel's The Exile?

A) oil paint, antlers, gold leaf, and mixed media
B) oil paint, plates, and auto-body filler on wood
C) oil on velvet
D) oil and gesso on linoleum
E) methylcellulose oil paint on automobile

Question 12

Which artwork did James Abbott McNeill Whistler make?

A) Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling 
Rocket
B) The Nightmare
C) (Untitled) Baalbek Bird Cage
D) Self-portrait with Saskia in the Scene of the Prodigal Son in the Tavern
E) The Exile

Question 13

Who is the artist of The Nightmare?

A) Rembrandt van Rijn
B) Vincent van Gogh
C) Duane Michals
D) Garry Winogrand
E) Henry Fuseli

Question 14

What kinds of themes is the artist of Untitled (Baalbek Bird Cage) dealing with?

A) reminders of the artist's loss of her childhood home
B) expressing disorientation or disconnection by transforming a familiar object
C) women's identification of domestic life with feeling like a caged bird
D) the artist's feelings of displacement and being unsettled by world events
E) all of the other answers

Question 15

Why did the artist make The Return of the Prodigal Son as a series?

A) to show through role reversal that the father takes some of the blame for the son's behaviour
B) to show the son getting taller in each frame
C) because the original piece was actually a flip book
D) to give the impression that a long time has passed
E) none of the other answers

Question 16

Why did the artist of The Scream make the painting the way he did?

A) because he had never made a painting before
B) because he had a vision one night of this exact figure
C) because he was focusing on his internal experience
D) because his wedding photographer did not show up
E) because he was about to be captured after escaping from prison

Question 17

Who is the artist of The Scream?

A) Edward Hopper
B) Édouard Manet
C) Edvard Munch
D) Ed Ruscha
E) Edward Scissorhands

Question 18

Who is the artist of The Return of the Prodigal Son?

A) Rembrandt van Rijn
B) Vincent van Gogh
C) Duane Michals
D) Garry Winogrand
E) Henry Fuseli

Question 19

When was Jackson Pollock's Male and Female made?

A) 1625
B) 1893
C) 1942
D) 1980
E) 2001

Question 20

The artist of Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket had no external subject in mind, and intentionally made the first non-objective artwork in the history of art.

Question 21

What is so revolutionary about Brillo Box?

A) the artist presented an actual object as an artwork
B) it precisely reproduces a commercial design in order to expand the boundaries of acceptable art practice
C) the materials used by the artist make the sculpture virtually indestructible
D) the artist was only able to make a single copy, so it is unique and very rare
E) all of the other answers

Question 22

What is the medium of Richard Prince's Untitled (Cowboys) (4.177)?

A) Ektacolor print
B) gelatin silver print
C) oil paint on celluloid
D) magazine pages
E) video projection

Question 23

Who is the artist of Brillo Box?

A) Jackson Pollock
B) Marcel Duchamp
C) Pablo Picasso
D) Andy Warhol
E) no one knows the artist's name

Question 24

Richard Prince's Untitled (Cowboys) (4.177) exactly copies Marlboro print ads but was considered sufficiently different from the source to have its own artistic merit.

Question 25

When was The Hip Hop Project (25) made?

A) 1917
B) 1964
C) 1980
D) 1991
E) 2001

Question 26

What was the artist of The Hip Hop Project (25) trying to do?

A) effectively become a part of a number of different communities
B) tell people that she is a famous artist in order to get their reaction
C) become black, white, or Hispanic
D) change her identity because she doesn't like being Korean
E) present snapshots that she collected from various flea markets as her own