Deck 29: Postwar to Postmodern, 1945-1980

Question 1

Sigmar Polke was influenced by the pop art of Warhol and:

A) Lichtenstein
B) Pollock
C) Rothko
D) Johns

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which color-field painter is known for his huge hazy rectangles?

A) Judd
B) Warhol
C) Smithson
D) Rothko

Answer 2

D

Question 3

. Who is known for his "combines"?

A) Judd
B) Warhol
C) Smithson
D) Rauschenberg

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Allan Kaprow performed all of his happenings in isolation.

Question 5

Which Pop artist satirized middle-class values?

A) Lange
B) Lichtenstein
C) Kelly
D) Stella

Question 6

Who was the action painter who dripped and poured paint on his large canvases?

A) de Kooning
B) Pollock
C) Lichtenstein
D) Warhol

Question 7

German pop art came out of which city?

A) Düsseldorf
B) Berlin
C) Hamburg
D) Munich

Question 8

Scholars view what global event as a turning point for the art world, the time when its focus shifted from Paris to New York?

A) World War II
B) The Vietnam War
C) The Fall of the Berlin Wall
D) The French Revolution

Question 9

Who, with a background in commercial art, made art of pop culture, often silk-screening multiples of the same image in one work?

A) de Kooning
B) Pollock
C) Rothko
D) Warhol

Question 10

Romare Bearden, an African-American artist, made collages about his identity and became an active member of the Haarlem Renaissance.

Question 11

What material did Donald Judd use in his sculptures?

A) stone
B) bronze
C) steel
D) nature

Question 12

Jasper Johns became famous as a painter of flags in which medium?

A) Encaustic
B) Fresco
C) Tempera
D) Acrylic

Question 13

The geometric forms of post-minimalist art were loaded with powerful emotional issues.

Question 14

The two forms of Abstract Expressionism are Action Painting and:

A) Color-Field Painting
B) Static Painting
C) Nonobjective Painting
D) Synthetic Painting

Question 15

What material is Smithson best known for using?

A) wood
B) stone
C) bronze
D) nature

Question 16

Who is the artist known for creating huge images of simulated comics?

A) de Kooning
B) Pollock
C) Lichtenstein
D) Warhol

Question 17

Which Abstract Expressionist painting worked in the color field manner?

A) Mark Rothko
B) Jackson Pollock
C) Robert Rauschenberg
D) Allan Kaprow

Question 18

Joseph Beuys's propagated a myth that nomadic Tartars saved him from freezing to death by covering him in animal fat and layers of felt, materials that became a foundation for much of his work.

Question 19

Rauschenberg called his works "combines" because of the combination of abstract expressionism and pop art in these works.

Question 20

Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty was made in which large body of water ?

A) Great Salt Late
B) Lake Ontario
C) The Atlantic Ocean
D) The Mediterranean

Question 21

How did Minimalist sculpture relate to architecture of the period?

Question 22

What are the environmental, ontological, and political issues associated with Robert Smith's earthwork masterpiece, Spiral Jetty?

Question 23

What impact did World War II have on American art?

Question 24

How does Judy Chicago's Dinner Party function as a work of feminist art?

Question 25

What makes Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson's Seagram Building an important work of modern architecture?

Question 26

Discuss the relationship between Duchamp's Fountain and Joseph Kosuth's One and Three Chairs as examples of conceptual art.

Question 27

Describe the similarities and differences between the two variants of Abstract Expressionism: Action Painting and Color-Field Painting.

Question 28

In what ways does Pop Art engage with and comment on American culture?

Question 29

What was innovative about Rauschenberg's assemblages? How do they relate to the painting of the same period?