Question 1

For the ________, the process was the content, not a means to a pre-determined end; the gestures the artist made in the work revealed their inner being which was the content.

Accepted Answer

Abstract Expressionists

Question 2

The first decade of 20th century American Art is similar to 19th century ________.

Accepted Answer

Realist Art

Question 3

Which of the following developed \"story quilts\" to send messages about both the feminist and civil rights movements?

Accepted Answer

Faith Ringgold

Question 4

_____ was mainly sculptural movement that responded to Clement Greenberg\'s call for purity of form.

Accepted Answer

Minimalism

Question 5

______ refers to a loose international collective of sculptors, painters, poets and performance artists known for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s.

Accepted Answer

Fluxus

Question 6

Which of the following artists is known for his comic strip-like paintings using Ben-Day dots?

Accepted Answer

Roy Lichtenstein

Question 7

\"The Eight\" refers to a group of artists rejected from the 1907 exhibition held by the:

Accepted Answer

National Academy

Question 8

Which of the following artists is best known for his large scale portraits?

Accepted Answer

Chuck Close

Question 9

Post-Painterly Abstraction emphasized paintings basic properties. Some of these painters poured diluted paint onto unprimed canvas. Which of the following artists was one of these painters?

Accepted Answer

Morris Louis

Question 10

When did the center of the Western art world shift from Europe to the United States?

Accepted Answer

during the 1920s

Question 11

What was the main focus of the work of the postwar New York School?

Accepted Answer

the act of painting itself

Question 12

Which of the following sculptors portrayed everyday common objects on an often massive scale?

Accepted Answer

Claes Oldenburg

Question 13

Which of the following is an offshoot of conceptual art which freed artists from the creation of physical objects?

Accepted Answer

Performance Art

Question 14

Two offshoots of this movement include \"scatter works\" and \"Earthworks.\"

Accepted Answer

Process Art

Question 15

Which of the following was an assemblage sculptor who made large scale pieces out of old car parts?

Accepted Answer

John Chamberlain

Question 16

The terms gestural abstraction and Action Painting are most appropriately applied to the work of

Accepted Answer

Jackson Pollock

Question 17

Which of the following was a Minimalist sculptor who used florescent lights to make his pieces?

Accepted Answer

Dan Flavin

Question 18

Which of the following emerged out of the ecology movement of the 1960s and 70s?

Accepted Answer

Earthworks

Question 19

\"countered the timelessness and structural ability of Minimal art with impermanence and variability.\"

Accepted Answer

Process Art

Question 20

Which of the following founded the influential 291 Gallery in NYC?

Accepted Answer

both a and b ( Stieglitz and Steichen)

Question 21

______ refers to a group of artists active between 1905 and 1913 who depicted commonplace subjects emphasizing the seedy aspects of daily urban life.

Accepted Answer

The Ashcan School

Question 22

Dorothea Lange was a _______ employed by the Federal Farm Security Administration.

Accepted Answer

Photographer

Question 23

Theories and techniques of __________ (such as the use of automatism) became central to the work of the New York School.

Accepted Answer

Surrealism

Question 24

The wife of Jackson Pollock, and successful artist in her own right, ____________ is often credited with promoting Jackson\'s work more forcefully than he did.

Accepted Answer

Lee Krasner

Question 25

Charles Sheeler and Charles Demuth were considered leading artists for which stylistic movement?

Accepted Answer

Precisionism

Question 26

Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro founded which of the following?

Accepted Answer

The Feminist Art Program

Question 27

A Post-Painterly Abstractionist Painter, __________ is credited with popularizing the technique of staining unprimed canvas.

Accepted Answer

Helen Frankenthaler

Question 28

___________ is a style of art which emerged in 1965 and \"... implied the presence of an illusion generated by the stimulation of the retina.\"

Accepted Answer

Op Art

Question 29

________ sought to reach a wider audience through images taken from consumer culture (mass media, mass production, and advertising).

Accepted Answer

Pop Art

Question 30

________ was an American Scene Painter whose images often convey a sense of loneliness and isolation.

Accepted Answer

Edward Hopper

Question 31

_______ is a movement which originated in the 1960s which asserted the belief that the idea is the work of art, rather than any object that is produced to express/demonstrate the idea.

Accepted Answer

Conceptual Art

Question 32

\"enabled artists to offer their work at any time, for any duration, at any kind of site, and in direct contact with their audience.\"

Accepted Answer

Performance Art

Question 33

________ refers to a group of American Painters, active in the 1920s and 1930s, whose work concentrated on portraying man-made environments in a clear and concise manner

Accepted Answer

Precisionism

Question 34

___________ originally emerged in Britain in the 1950s, but achieved greater success in the United States from the late 1950s through the 1960s

Accepted Answer

Pop Art

Question 35

__________ artworks often lack identifiable subjects, colors, surface textures, and narrative elements while rejecting illusionism and reducing sculpture to basic geometric forms.

Accepted Answer

Minimalist

Question 36

Which of the following resisted transformations of life into art, believing instead that the two were already inseparable?

Accepted Answer

Fluxus

Question 37

Feminist art frequently employed which of the following?

Accepted Answer

all of the above (Photography, Performance Art, Body Art)

Question 38

The term \"Action Painting\" was coined by which of the following art critics?

Accepted Answer

Harold Rosenberg

Question 39

Starting in the 1970s, some artists used ______ to explore the way visual artworks function as signs.

Accepted Answer

Semiotics

Question 40

Grant Wood\'s famous painting, \"American Gothic\" actually portrays:

Accepted Answer

The artists sister and his dentist

Question 41

Yoko Ono was a member of:

Accepted Answer

Fluxus

Question 42

________ was a Minimalist sculptor known for his series of repeating geometric forms

Accepted Answer

Donald Judd

Question 43

Which of the following had his friend shoot him in the arm for one of his performance pieces?

Accepted Answer

Chris Burden

Question 44

The famous \"Kaufmann House\" aka \"Falling Water\" is located in:

Accepted Answer

Pennsylvania

Question 45

\"I Saw the Figure Five in Gold\" is a painting based on a poem by:

Accepted Answer

William Carlos Williams

Question 46

The Bauhaus was a famous German _______

Accepted Answer

Art School

Question 47

Though usually categorized as a Pop artist, it is more appropriate to consider_______ as a transitional artist whose painterly style and popular subject matter evoke a sense of both Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art.

Accepted Answer

Robert Rauschenberg

Question 48

Though usually categorized as a Minimalist, the paintings of ________ are also sometimes considered examples of hard-edge Post-Painterly Abstraction.

Accepted Answer

Frank Stella

Question 49

The famous \"Spiral Jetty\" is located (though now submerged) in ______.

Accepted Answer

Great Salt Lake

Question 50

Which of the following is an Abstract Expressionist sculptor known for his large scale pieces made out of steel I-beams?

Accepted Answer

Mark di Suvero

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