World Arts and Ideas Final Exam – Flashcards
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In Courbet's The Stonebreakers it has been said that he reveals to the viewer the drudgery of manual labor. What technique did he use to convey this message?
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use of a palette of dirty browns and grays
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Courbet preferred to paint which of the following themes?
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realistic scenes as he saw them
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Which of the following artists was most concerned with painting realistic scenes of poor and oppressed peoples?
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Courbet
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Throughout history, artists have regularly served political ends by using their art to make visual statements. Which of the following artists has created an overtly political statement with his/her work?
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Dorothea Lange
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Which of the following artists created large-scale, kinetic sculptures?
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Alexander Calder
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Which of the following artists developed the theory of neoplasticism or the new pure plastic art?
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Mondrian
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Which of the following artists created a modern American art style combining Synthetic Cubism with jazz tempos and his perception of the fast-paced American culture?
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Stuart Davis
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What style is described as compositions of shapes and forms abstracted from the conventionally conceived world?
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Cubism
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The Champs de Mars or The Red Tower by Robert Delaunay depicts which of the following structures?
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Eiffel Tower
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Which of the following is executed in the Synthetic Cubist style?
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Still-Life with Chair-Caning
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Which of the following describes the focus of the Ashcan School?
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It focused on the bleak and seedy aspects of city life.
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What message is portrayed in Edward Hopper's Nighthawks?
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the pervasive loneliness of modern humans
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Thomas Hart Benton, a Regionalist artist, focused his attention on which of the following subjects?
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the social history of Missouri
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Which of the following artists did not depict themes of war?
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Matisse
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Which of the following works demonstrates the Futurists' interest in motion?
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Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash
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Which of the following artists shared Stieglitz's concern to position photography as an art form with the same fine-art status as painting and sculpture?
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Edward Weston
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Her work is often described as autobiographical because of her unflinching self-portrait portrayals. She gives the viewer a personal glimpse into herself and suffering. Which of the following artists does this describe?
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Frida Kahlo
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Which of the Blaue Reiter artists found animals superior in beauty, strength, innocence, and naturalness?
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Franz Marc
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Henry Moore's great series of reclining nudes is said to have been inspired by
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a pre-Columbian figure, the Chacmool
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Who wrote, "All my life I have sought the essence of flight. Don't look for the mysteries. I give you pure joy. Look at the sculptures until you see them. Those nearest to God have seen them."
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Brancusi
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A nonobjective work refers to work that
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has no reference to the external appearance of the physical world
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Of the following, who is the best example of a twentieth-century artist who believed that art should delight, inspire, and enhance our lives as human beings?
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Matisse
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Symbolism and fantasy were joined to create works filled with visionary joy and despair by which of the following artists?
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Marc Chagall
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Who said: "...we rejected imitative colors, and that with pure colors we obtained stronger reactions..."?
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Henri Matisse
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Which artist, even though he was older than the Die Brücke artists, was invited to join them because he was pursuing similar ideas in his work?
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Emile Nolde
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The work of Ernst Kirchner shows
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subjects drawn from the industrialized urban bourgeoisie
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Who is the Surrealist?
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Salvador Dalí
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A painting that was done in reaction to World War I was
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Max Beckmann's Night
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Which of the following statements about Dada is true?
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Dada had no fixed ideas
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Who photographed the rural poor displaced by the Great Depression in the 1930s?
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Dorothea Lange
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Empty piazzas depicting mysterious figures were often painted by which of the following artists?
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De Chirico
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Which one of the following statements is not true?
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Surrealism ignored the ideas of psychoanalysis put forth by Jung and Freud.
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The goal of Dalí's "paranoiac-critical" method was to
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create images of inner reality and irrationality as concrete as the world of physical reality
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In The Night Café, the artist has shown us a benign scene yet the scene has a sense of charged energy and oppressive atmosphere. How did the artist communicate this?
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Through us of vivid hues whose juxtaposition augmented their intensity
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Antonio Gaudi longed to create an architectural style that was both modern and appropriate for his native country of Spain. How does Casa Milá represent his ability to conceive a building as a whole and mold it almost as a sculptor would create a figure from clay?
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It is a free-form mass wrapped around a street corner
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In Klimt's The Kiss, the artist has captured the flamboyance and decadence of the period. How was this painting a visual manifestation of the fin de siècle?
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It captured a decadence conveyed by opulent and sensuous image.
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Which of the following influenced Degas in his technique of using spatial projections and off-center empty space to create illusion and direct the viewer's attention into the picture?
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18th century Japanese woodblock prints
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William Morris helped to shape the Arts and Crafts movement through his support of high quality craftsmanship and design based on natural forms. Which of the following artists was also a member of the Arts and Crafts movement?
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Louis Comfort Tiffany
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The Burghers of Calais expresses the emotions of despair, defiance, and resignation. Rodin has captured these emotions in the roughly textured surfaces of the figures. He wanted the citizens of Calais to experience this heroic episode in their city's history. Which of the following was a device Rodin used to create the pathos of this heroism?
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no traditional high base placed the monument eye-to-eye and closer to the viewers
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Which of the following ideas did Vincent van Gogh attempt to communicate in his Starry Night?
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vastness of the universe
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Which of the following artists was most concerned with painting realistic scenes of poor and oppressed peoples?
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Courbet
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Monet's Rouen Cathedral is a series that observed the same viewpoint during which of the following?
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different times of the day
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Cassatt's style of work owes much to which of the following?
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Japanese prints
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Which of the following architects conceived the building as a whole and molded it almost as a clay sculpture?
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Antonio Gaudi
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Extreme subjectivity and the need to see through reality to a deeper reality was most typical of which of the following styles?
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Symbolists
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Which of the following artists is categorized as a Symbolist?
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Redon
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What is the most important feature of Sullivan's Prudential Building that distinguishes it from earlier structures?
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the reflection of the subdivision of the interior spaces in the outer structure
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Berthe Morisot focused her work in the only area allowed her as a woman in upper-class French society. Which of the following was that area?
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domestic scenes
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Which of the following artists explored the properties of light, plane, and color and their interrelationships?
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Cézanne
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Which of the following artists presented a sumptuous and sensual image in Jupiter and Semele?
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Moreau
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Who was a denizen of the night world of Paris, consorting with the tawdry population of entertainers, prostitutes and other social outcasts?
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Toulouse-Lautrec
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Who said: "Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I have before my eyes, I use color more arbitrarily so as to express myself forcibly . . . I have tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green . . ."?
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van Gogh
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Who said: "I want to make of Impressionism something solid and lasting like the art in the museums"?
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Cézanne
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Georges Seurat differed from the Impressionist painters in which of the following ways?
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His disciplined and painstaking application of the color theories of men like Delacroix, Helmholtz, and Chevreul
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In the artist's eyes, the Fate of the Animals was almost a premonition of which historical event?
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World War I
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Which of the following artists was a Berlin Dadaist?
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Hannah Höch
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Who is the artist who created a work of art that can be described as "a wickedly funny gift"?
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Man Ray
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Who is the artist who created a scathing visual commentary on the military with his Fit for Active Service?
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Grosz
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The Chrysler Building by William van Alen has elements from which of the following styles?
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Art Deco
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Which phrase best expresses the sculptural style of Boccioni?
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dynamic movement
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The hovering figure that served as a memorial to those who died in World War I was created by
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Ernst Barlach
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" . . . I believe in the future resolution of the states of dream and reality, in appearance so contradictory, in a sort of absolute reality, or surreality." This definition of Surrealism was written by
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André Breton
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How did avant-garde artists go about challenging artistic convention?
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They sought innovative forms of expression.
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Performance Art can be described as movements, gestures and sounds of persons communicating. Which of the following describes the focus of Performance Art?
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It replaces physical objects.
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What is the evidence of a Performance Art event?
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documentary photos at the time of the performance
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Because of the spontaneous and informal nature of Performance Art, which of the following was the primary medium?
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the human body
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Which of the following earlier art styles formed the characterizing spirit of Performance Art?
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Dada
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Which of the following was the purpose of Performance Art?
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To challenge art's function as commodity
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How did museum commissions of performance events neutralize Performance Art?
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The commissions neutralized the subversiveness
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How did Allan Kaprow view art?
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He viewed it as an intersection of art and life
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Which of the following describes Happenings?
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participatory
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How did the Fluxus group see aesthetic potential?
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in the nontraditional and commonplace
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How did Carolee Schneeman transform Performance Art?
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She introduced a feminist dimension
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Which of the following describes Joseph Beuys purpose for his art?
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It was illuminating the condition of modern humanity
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Beuys wanted "to shape our thoughts into words." Which of the following did he want to create?
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social sculptures
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Chris Ofili explores traditional themes and approaches with cross-cultural eyes. Which of the following describes his work?
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It is expressionistic in nature.
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Barbara Kruger's work takes on the slick design of contemporary advertising. Which of the following is her principal aim?
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To expose the deceptiveness of media messages
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Which of the following describes Kruger's photo-collages?
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They challenge cultural attitudes.
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Which of the following artists is best known for his large-scale portraits?
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Chuck Close
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Which of the following painters illustrates Clement Greenberg's insistence "on purity in art"?
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Frank Stella
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Color field painting emphasized painting's basic properties. Color field painters poured diluted paint onto unprimed canvas. Which of the following artists was a color field painter?
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Helen Frankenthaler
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When did the center of the Western art world shift from Europe to the United States?
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during the 1940s
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What was the main focus of the work of the postwar New York School?
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the act of painting itself
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The terms gestural abstraction and Action Painting are most appropriately applied to the work of
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Jackson Pollock
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The New York artist whose paintings became compositionally simple and focused on color was
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Mark Rothko
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How did Barnett Newman increase the capacity of color to communicate emotion?
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by simplifying the composition
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Which of the following describes the work of Jackson Pollock.
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significant departure from conventional painting
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How does Faith Ringgold address issues of gender and racism in her work?
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by using fabrics, traditionally associated with women and incisive narrative
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Who was the sculptor who believed that "the only stable thing is movement"?
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Jean Tinguely
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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?
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Postmodernism
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The work of ____ deals with the issue of who "controls the body".
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Kiki Smith
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Which of the following describes what artists working in the Post-Painterly Abstractionist style believed?
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Their works should contain no reference to the world outside their own compositions.
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A good example of Postmodernist architecture is
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Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
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Which artist stated that she wanted her pieces to be "non art, non connotative, non anthropomorphic, non geometric, non nothing, everything, but of another kind, vision, sort"?
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Eva Hesse
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Pop Art, and art that utilized the techniques of advertising, industrial design, and Hollywood movies were at their heights during which of the following decades?
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1960s
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John Cage encouraged his students to link their art to which of the following?
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life
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Cindy Sherman works in which medium representing the "male gaze"?
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photography
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How does the architecture of Günter Behnisch express Deconstructivist architecture?
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It avoids the suggestion of a clear, stable mass.
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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?
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lynching
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Which of the following describes the Portland Building located in Portland, Oregon?
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an enlarged jukebox
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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?
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She wants viewers to examine their behaviors and values
