Deck 31: Contemporary Art Worldwide

Question 1

The work of Adrian Piper is provocative and confrontational. She announces in a video installation, "I'm black." What is her motivation with this pronouncement?

A) She is announcing her pride in her heritage.
B) She wants viewers to examine their behaviors and values.
C) She wants viewers to examine her in this context.
D) She wants acceptance and recognition as a Black artist.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Chris Ofili explores traditional themes and approaches with cross-cultural eyes. Which of the following describes his work?

A) It raises issues of social awareness.
B) It is de-constructing racist sentiment.
C) It is expressionistic in nature.
D) It is political in nature.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

By placing herself as a spectator of the Last Supper in her Self-Portrait Looking at the Last Supper, Marisol Escobar emphasized the artist as a creator and ____.

A) criticized works from earlier eras
B) as a viewer of earlier artists
C) downplayed traditional media
D) underscored the absence of female artists in history

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which artist revealed the racism embedded in received cultural heritage through his work selecting dynamic found objects and by encouraging viewer interaction?

A) Jeff Koons
B) Leon Golub
C) David Hammons
D) Paa Joe

Question 5

The architect, ____, was greatly influenced by Kazimir Malevich and his Suprematist theories.

A) Zaha Hadid
B) Andy Goldsworthy
C) Keith Haring
D) Norman Foster

Question 6

How does Faith Ringgold address issues of gender and racism in her work?

A) by creating clear and lucid oil paintings
B) by using fabrics, traditionally associated with women and incisive narrative
C) by using exotic subject matter to draw the viewer into her photo-collages
D) by using wood, traditionally associated with men and incisive narrative

Question 7

The harnessing of solar power is one of the central features of ____ architecture.

A) deconstructivism
B) green
C) International style
D) environmental

Question 8

____ is the gay artist whose show, The Perfect Moment, was cancelled for its openly gay character.

A) Willie Bester
B) Robert Mapplethorpe
C) Cliff Whiting
D) David Wojnarowicz

Question 9

Hans Haacke's work, ____, demonstrated the connection between art and political and economic interests.

A) MetroMobiltan
B) Perilous Order
C) Ta Tele
D) Homage to Steve Biko

Question 10

The work of Melvin Edwards is very evocative. He uses small found metal objects that he intertwines and welds together creating a haunting theme. Which of the following is that theme?

A) lynching
B) war
C) assassination
D) riots

Question 11

Barbara Kruger's work takes on the slick design of contemporary advertising. Which of the following is her principal aim?

A) To expose the deceptiveness of media messages
B) To expose bad design
C) To incorporate design and to sell her art
D) To incorporate myths about women and to reinforce the design issues related to the myths

Question 12

A good example of Postmodernist architecture is ____.

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

Question 13

The work of ____ deals with the issue of who "controls the body".

A) Judy Chicago
B) Kiki Smith
C) Jeff Koons
D) Faith Ringgold

Question 14

The polish artist, Krzysztof Wodiczko developed artworks involving ____.

A) found metal objects
B) paper and fabric
C) the projection of slide images outdoors
D) waste products

Question 15

The incinerated appearance of Anslem Kierfer's Nigredo recalls ____.

A) the Chicago fire
B) the holocaust
C) segregation
D) sexual deviance

Question 16

In her Holocaust Memorial, Rachel Whiteread depicted the shapes of identical books as ____.

A) a reminder of Hitler's book burning
B) a tribute to Christian Scripture
C) a reference to the Jews as "the people of the book"
D) reminder of a library that stood there

Question 17

Jenny Holzer's installation at the Guggenheim museum consisted of ____.

A) a television mounted in a corner
B) a combination of found objects and gestural painting
C) hundreds of prints suspended from the ceiling
D) a large continuous LED display spiraling the interior ramp

Question 18

Which of the following describes Kruger's photo-collages?

A) They inform the "preciousness" of good small photo-collage.
B) They challenge media markets to pursue good design.
C) The indiscriminate use of words and photos creates bad design and her work is deemed critically unacceptable.
D) They challenge cultural attitudes.

Question 19

Which of the following movements had a great distrust of the Western ideas of progress and objective truth and viewed all cultures as equally valid?

A) Constructivism
B) Postmodernism
C) Social Realism
D) the International style

Question 20

How does the architecture of Günter Behnisch express Deconstructivist architecture?

A) It is arranged to form a square.
B) It avoids the suggestion of a clear, stable mass.
C) It uses non-traditional materials.
D) It always has one door and one window obviously broken and non-functional.

Question 21

Explain the relationship between Postmodernism and commodity culture. How have the issues of culture and society shaped the art? Use examples to support your essay.

Question 22

How does Jenny Holzer respond to Post Modernism?

Question 23

Describe the influence and 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 24

What is Neo-Expressionism?

Question 25

How does the work of Wojnarowicz confront the viewer?

Question 26

What heritage does the work of Jeff Koons show?

Question 27

How did the public react to Richard Serra's Tilted Arc as public art?

Question 28

In his use of bright, single-color figures outlined in black, Keith Haring took inspiration from ____.

A) minimalism
B) collage
C) graffiti
D) Neo-expressionism

Question 29

What is Postmodernism?

Question 30

To which movement do Anselm Kiefer and Julian Schnabel belong? How is their work typical of that movement and which unique materials and art making approaches do each bring to their work?

Question 31

Describe the work of David Hammons. How does his work reflect the sociopolitical climate and fit into the Postmodern environment?

Question 32

A few of the artists in this chapter created memorials. How did their design reflect the nature and purpose of the memorial? What objections did they face?

Question 33

____ is an example of High-Tech architecture?

A) Guggenheim Bilbao Museo
B) Tijbaou Cultural Centre
C) Grand Louvre Pyramide
D) Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank

Question 34

How effectively does the work of David Wojnarowicz and Krzysztof Wodiczo inform and examine some of the current political issues? What artistic devices do these artists employ in their work? What precedents are they working from and how effective are their presentations?

Question 35

Describe the work of Faith Ringgold, Adrian Piper and Kiki Smith. How do these artists articulate their personal definitions in their work? Use examples to support your essay.

Question 36

Identify at least two types of architecture discussed in this chapter. Using examples, identify the aims of each type and how the image selected is representative of that type.

Question 37

How does Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum located in Bilbao, Spain conform to the Deconstructivist agenda?

Question 38

What did the Guerilla Girls commonly include in their art?

Question 39

How is the work of the figural artists in this chapter similar to or different than their predecessors? What issues do they address in their approach to presenting the figure?

Question 40

What was Andy Goldsworthy's Cracked Rock Spiral tribute to?

A) Green architecture
B) Christo's Surrounded Islands
C) Robert Smithson and Spiral Jetty
D) performance art

Question 41

How does this work resonate as a response to racism?

Question 42

In what way is this work a departure from typical examples of video art?

Question 43

How does Zaha Hadid's architecture conform to the theories of Suprematism?

Question 44

What does this work evoke?

Question 45

What do the forms refer to in this work?

Question 46

How does this building conform to Deconstructivism?

Question 47

Compare and contrast three different examples of art works that have incorporated text. Discuss the role of text in each of their works in terms of its aesthetic value and message to the viewer.

Question 48

What does this work explore?

Question 49

Compare and contrast the works of Kehinde Wiley and Marisol Escobar. How do each engage in a dialogue with art works from the past and what is their goal in doing so?