Deck 13: Art From 1950 to 1999

Question 1

In the late 1960s,the style that presented the work of art as an object of elemental form divorced from symbolic or personal content was:

A) Op Art.
B) Minimal Art.
C) Pop Art.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Pollack's method of painting is derived from:

A) Picasso's synthesis.
B) Surrealist automatism.
C) Cézanne.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

During the 1950s,Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg incorporated found objects and representational imagery into their artistic activity,a practice sometimes referred to as ____________.

Answer 3

Neo-Dada

Question 4

At exhibitions of the sculptural works of Duane Hanson,viewers sometimes:

A) damage the works in frustration.
B) leave the gallery in anger.
C) speak to the works.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.

Question 5

Robert Rauschenberg referred to works of his,such as Monogram,as:

A) "collage-sculptures."
B) performance pieces.
C) "combines."
D) all of these.
E) none of these.

Question 6

Komar and Melamid's America's Most Wanted was produced based on the aesthetic preferences of America's 100 most famous art critics.

Question 7

In his work titled One and Three Chairs,Joseph Kosuth presents:

A) the image.
B) the actuality.
C) the idea of a chair.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.

Question 8

Nancy Graves's Canoptic Legerdemain makes use of laser-cut steel produced by a computer program,plus cast and molded resins; it is thus an exemplary use of ____________ in art.

Question 9

Laurie Anderson's performance-concerts synthesize ____________ and ____________.

Question 10

Chen Zhen's Jue Chang invites viewers to actually beat the drums of the work.

Question 11

In each of the works in his series Homage to the Square,Albers sets square planes of color within larger ____________.

Question 12

Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial certainly fulfills the second competition criterion,which states that the monument should be "reflective and ____________ in nature."

Question 13

In his photographic essay The Americans,Robert Frank employed his "snapshot aesthetic" in producing many commercial glamour photos.

Question 14

Postmodernist art is defined by:

A) welcoming the artistic past into the present.
B) celebrating diversity.
C) acknowledgment of social, political, and historical issues.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.

Question 15

How do works in the style called Color Field Painting operate?

Question 16

The subject of Wandjuk Marika's The Birth of the Djang'kawu Children at Yalanghara is a creation and journey myth.

Question 17

Warhol's multiple images of Marilyn Monroe are born from the aesthetic numbness produced by the commercial environment.

Question 18

Of what is the AIDS Memorial Quilt an expression?

Question 19

In the style called Abstract Expressionism,the approach emphasizing a free,gestural expression of paint on the canvas was termed:

A) Action Painting.
B) Performance Art.
C) Spontaneism.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.

Question 20

Miriam Schapiro's multimedia Wonderland exemplifies a(n):

A) femmage.
B) Happening.
C) Ready-made.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.

Question 21

How are Bilbao's shipbuilding and port activities reflected in Frank Gehry's 1997 Guggenheim Museum building in that city?

Question 22

In order to understand it,Le Corbusier's Nôtre-Dame-du-Haut forces us to do what? How do the building's exterior,interior,and its site aesthetically work on a viewer?

Question 23

Many artists in the 1990s explored installation art,which fashions a complex temporary environment,but denies what?

Question 24

What is Audrey Flack's working method? How does the manner in which she produces her work affect the viewer?

Question 25

On what legend was Robert Smithson's design for Spiral Jetty based?