Which is not an example of photographic influence on the Impressionist style?
a. the cropped viewpoint
b. multiple viewpoints
c. the silhouette
d. blurring
b. multiple viewpoints
Whose Impression: Sunrise (1872) lent Impressionism its name?
a. Manet
b. Degas
c. Monet
d. Renoir
c. Monet
Which is NOT a feature of Sargent's Impressionism?
a. the dissolution of form
b. the "slice of life" view
c. the oblique view
d. the influence of japonisme
a. the dissolution of form
Impressionists such as Monet were sometimes called plein air painters because of
a. the blurred quality of their paintings
b. their indifference to human figures
c. their practice of painting outdoors
d. their fascination with cityscapes
c. their practice of painting outdoors
Homer's Breezing Up exhibits all of the following characteristics EXCEPT
a. broken colors
b. a cropped viewpoint
c. an oblique viewpoint
d. unpronounced and largely invisible brushstrokes
d. unpronounced and largely invisible brushstrokes
As seen in the works of Monet, over time, Impressionism developed in all of the following ways EXCEPT
a. a growing preference for color, form, and light iconography
b. a movement toward disguising the role of the painter in the painting
c. a progressive d
b. a movement toward disguising the role o the painter in the painting
John Singer Sargent is best remembered for his
a. portraits
b. landscapes
c. still-lifes
d. cityscapes
a. portraits
Which artist's Night View, Saruwaka Street at Night, part of his One Hundred Views of Edo, demonstrates affinities with the cityscapes of Pissaro and Renoir?
a. Keisei Eisen
b. Katsushika Hokusai
c. Utagawa Hiroshige
d. Ukiyo-e
c. Utagawa Hiroshige
Woodblock printing began in the fourth century in which country?
a. Japan
b. China
c. Germany
d. France
b. China
What technique did Monet use to capture the appearance of reflections on water?
a. pointillism
b. solid, irregular shapes
c. broken color
d. silhouette
c. broken color
Who painted Bassin des Nympheas (or Water Lily Pond)?
a. Monet
b. Degas
c. Cassatt
d. Renoir
a. Monet
Which artist visually recorded scenes from the U.S. Civil War for Harper's Weekly in works such as The Army of the Potomac- A Sharpshooter on Picket Duty?
a. Muybridge
b. Homer
c. Ruskin
d. Sargent
b. Homer
Katsushika Hokusai's The Great Wave of Kanagawa was part of his series entitled
a. Thirst-six views of a Fishing Boat
b. Thirty-six views of a Winter Day
c. Thirty-six views of the Ocean
d. Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji
d. Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji
The usual subject matter of the Ukiyo-e school of Japanese painting included all of the following EXCEPT
a. theater
b. dance
c. historical events
d. female services
c. historical events
In Renoir's Pont-Neuf and Pissaro's Place du Theatre Francais, the influence of photography can be seen in the
a. blurred forms
b. elevated viewpoint
c. cropped view
d. all of the above
d. all of the above
Whic best describes the paintings of Winslow Homer?
a. they have elements of both realism and impressionism
b. they are primarily impressionist
c. they are mainly portraits
d. they mainly depict European subjects
a. they have elements of both realism and impressionism
Impressionism first emerged in the 1860's in what city?
a. Rome
b. Berlin
c. Paris
d. London
c. Paris
Impressionist paintings typically depicted all of the following EXCEPT
a. landscapes
b. cityscapes
c. historical events
d. leisure activities
c. historical events
A defining characteristic of Impressionism is the interest in the
a. natural properties of light
b. daily lives of ordinary people
c. ideals of ordinary people
d. ability of abstract shapes to assume representational form
a. natural properties of light
Whose characteristically soft brushstrokes can be seen in works such as Moulin de la Galette?
a. Manet
b. Cassatt
c. Renoir
d. Degas
c. Renoir
Who painted a "slice of life" image of an intoxicated couple in Absinthe?
a. Monet
b. Cassatt
c. Renoir
d. Degas
d. Degas
Which artists explored a range of motions through a series of ballet pictures that included Dancer with a Banquet, Bowing?
a. Manet
b. Cassatt
c. Monet
d. Degas
d. Degas
All of the following qualities of Mary Cassatt's Boating Party reveal the influence of Japanese woodblocks EXCEPT
a. the bold planes of color
b. the blurred depiction of motion
c. the sharp outlines
d. the compressed space
the blurred depiction of motion
Which artist depended upon his brother Theo for financial support, as he was unable to sell his artwork during his lifetime?
a. Munch
b. Gauguin
c. Cezanne
d. van Gogh
d. van Gogh
Which artist famously cut off part of his own ear in a fit of jealous rage, then killed himself in 1890?
a. van Gogh
b. Cezanne
c. Gaugin
d. Seurat
a. van Gogh
What is the central figure of Gauguin's Nevermore?
a. the Crucifixion
b. a reclining nude
c. a tahitian landscape
d. Gauguin
b. a reclining nude
The techniques of dream construction apply most obviously to which style?
a. post-impressionism
b. symbolism
c. naive painting
d. impressionism
b. symbolism
Who painted the Yellow Christ (1889)?
a. Gauguin
b. Munch
c. Rousseau
d. Seurat
a. Gauguin
Who painted Starry Night (1889)?
a. Cezanne
b. van Gogh
c. Gauguin
d. Munch
b. van Gogh
Which painter of Galatea (1880-1881) was the leader of the French Symbolist movement?
a. Rousseau
b. Toulouse-Lautrec
c. Moreau
d. Cezanne
c. Moreau
Whose best known painting The Scream shows elements of both post-impressionism and symbolism?
a. Seurat
b. Munch
c. Rousseau
d. Moreau
b. Munch
A "naive" painter is one who
a. paints w/o a patron or a commission
b. has no formal training
c. paints scenes of childhood innocence
d. never sells a painting
b. has no formal training
Due to his use of color, Seurat has been called both a
a. pointilist and a neo-impressionist
b. symbolist and an impressionist
c. pointilist and a symbolist
d. symbolist and a post-impressionist
a. pointilist and a neo-impressionist
Which is true of van Gogh's Self-Portrait featured in Chapter 25?
a. the brushstrokes form zigzags
b. the background consists of a swirling array of multiple colors
c. his form dissolves into the background
d. the brushstrokes form spirals
d. the brushstrokes form spirals
The painting Starry Night (1889) demonstrates all of the following features EXCEPT
a. intense, expressive color
b. powerful imagery
c. illusionistic realism
d. a strong sense of line
c. illusionistic realism
Which is not a feature of a Gauguin's Self-Portrait with Halo?
a. a clearly divided picture plane
b. traditional motifs
c. symbolist colors
d. a single-dimensional visage
d. a single-dimensional visage
The painting Starry Night (1889) shares which feature with the Impressionist paintings?
a. an interest in social gatherings
b. a fondness for landscape
c. experiments with the effects of light on rippling water
d. experiments with the multiple vantage poi
b. a fondness for landscape
Van Gogh's Bedroom at Arles exhibits all of the following characteristics except
a. an absence of human figures, except in portraits
b. a coupling of images
c. autobiographical content
d. a plethora of pure colors
d. a plethora of pure colors
Which artist spent most of the last years of his life living in Tahiti?
a. Rousseau
b. Gauguin
c. Moreau
d. Munch
b. Gauguin
Which of the following elements of The Scream (1893) would be considered most in line with post-impressionism?
a. its depiction of a state of mind
b. its use of Christian allegory
c. its fidelity to observable reality
d. its expressive distortion of form
d. its expressive distortion of form
An iportant difference between post-impressionism and impressionism is that post-impressionists
a. made use of bright colors
b. made use of dull, flat colors
c. clearly defined the edges of forms
d. used distinctive brushstrokes
c. clearly defined the edges of forms
Toulouse-Lautrec's lithograph posters differed from his paintings primarily in their
a. texture
b. subject matter
c. tone
d. sense of energy
a. texture
The paintings of Toulouse-Lautrec exhibit all of the following characteristics EXCEPT
a. tight, precise brushwork
b. clearly defined color areas
c. partial, oblique views
d. the influence of Japanese prints
a. tight, precise brushwork
Which artist was famous for painting scenes of dance halls and nightclubs, such as Quadrille at the Moulin Rouge (1892)?
a. Seurat
b. Toulouse-Lautrec
c. Cezanne
d. Rousseau
b. Toulouse-Lautrec
Whose Still Life With Apples (1875-77) fulfilled his desire to "astonish Paris with an apple"?
a. Seurat
b. Toulouse-Lautrec
c. Cezanne
d. Gauguin
c. Cezanne
Cezanne's later work exhibits all of the following characteristics EXCEPT
a. the complete abandonment of figuration
b. patchworks of shifting colors
c. an interest in geometrical figures and paint daubs
d. experimentations on spatial representation
a. the complete abandonment of figuration
Whose Mont Sainte-Victorie (c. 1900) conveys his interest in faceted, crystalline forms?
a. Seurat
b. van Gogh
c. Cezanne
d. Moreau
c. Cezanne
Which artist's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte demonstrates his technique of divisionism?
a. Rousseau
b. Moreau
c. Gauguin
d. Seaurat
d. Seaurat
Seurat's interst in theories of color led him to
a. create forms from large blocks of color
b. build up color through dots of pure color
c. paint monochromatic canvases
d. paint the same scene repeatedly under numerous different lights
b. build up color through dots of pure color
Matisse's The Joy of Life (1905-06) exhbitis all of the following characteristics EXCEPT
a. continually curving lines
b. non-realistic colors
c. Classical imagery
d. biblical allegory
b. biblical allegory
Who painted a famous portrait of his wife called Woman with the Hat (1905)?
a. Kirchner
b. Matisse
c. Kandinsky
d. Picasso
b. Matisse
Who argued in Concerning the Spiritual in Art that music and art were intimately related?
a. Kandinsky
b. Marc
c. Nolde
d. Kollowitz
a. Kandinsky
Which member of The Bridge painted Still Life with Masks? (1911)?
a. Kandinsky
b. Nolde
c. Kirchner
d. Matisse
b. Nolde
Who painted The Street (1907), an exemplar of The Bridge?
a. Kollowitz
b. Kandinsky
c. Kirchner
d. Nolde
c. Kirchner
An important element of Matisse's work throughout his career is
a. flat color
b. nonfigurative abstraction
c. rigid lines
d. realistic depictions of objects
a. flat color
In which city was the Blue Rider group established?
a. Paris
b. Munich
c. Barcelona
d. Moscow
b. Munich
The Blue Rider movement differed from The Bridge primarily in the Blue Rider movement's greater interest in
a. mechanical forms
b. African and Oceanic art
c. vivid color
d. nonfigurative abstration
d. nonfigurative abstraction
Which of the following characteristics was LEAST important to Kandinsky's art?
a. rythmic line
b. narrative
c. shape
d. color
b. narrative
Which artist was among the first to eliminate recognizable objects from his paintings?
a. Picasso
b. Matisse
c. Marc
d. Kandinksy
d. Kandinsky
Which is NOT a feature of Dance 1?
a. flat colors
b. black outlines
c. rhythmic, circular motions
d. flat, two dimensional space and figures
d. flat, two dimensional space and figures
Who expermented with creating a three-dimensional illusion from flat forms in works like the cutout Icarus?
a. Kandinsky
b. Matisse
c. Picasoo
d. Nolde
b. Matisse
Prior to WWII, which city served as the twentieth-century capital of the Western art world?
a. Rome
b. London
c. Paris
d. New York City
c. Paris
From 1901 to 1904, what color predominated in Picasso's paintings?
a. red
b. yellow
c. orange
d. blue
d. blue
Who painted The Old Guitarist (1903)?
a. Picasso
b. Matisse
c. Marc
d. Kollwitz
a. Picasso
The painting Old Guitarist exhibits all of the following characteristics EXCEPT
a. a somber tone
b. a human figure w/ long, thin limbs
c. an emphasis on mood
d. a widely varied chromatic scheme
d. a widely varied chromatic scheme
Earlier twentieth-century artists were most heavily influenced by which form of African art?
a. cave paintings
b. architecture
c. sculpture
d. pottery
c. sculpture
The early twentieth-century interest in the art of Africa, Oceania, and other cultures was known at the time as
a. primitivism
b. savagism
c. heathenism
d. cosmopolitanism
a. primitivism
African art appealed to early twentieth-century artists primarily because of its
a. classical proportions
b. abstract qualities
c. bright, vibrant colors
d. organic naturalism
b. abstract qualities
What is the meaning of the French word "fauve" from which the name Fauvism derives?
a. "bright color"
b. "formless"
c. "wild beast"
d. "exuberant
c. "wild beast
Fauvism is associated with all of the following qualities EXCEPT
a. brilliant colors
b. restraint and harmony
c. emotional exuberance
d. nonnaturalistic colors
b. restraint and harmony
In works like Broadway Boogie Woogie, Mondrian explored
a. the possibilities of merging colors from across the spectrum
b. the possibility of conveying vertical and horizontal motion w/ flat,, colorful shapes
c. the possibility of painting to create an il
b. the possibility of conveying vertical and horizontal motion with flat, colorful shapes
Who explained his theory of Supermatism in The Non-objective World?
a. Malevich
b. Kandinsky
c. Mondrian
d. Duchamp
a. Malevich
Whose Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 was the most controverial work at the Armory
Show of 1913?
a. Mondrian
b. Davis
c. Duchamp
d. Brancusi
c. Duchamp
Which sculptor's Mademoiselle Pogany exhibits his interest in depicting the Platonic essence of nature?
a. Picasso
b. Brancusi
c. Duchamp
d. Malevich
b. Brancusi
Futurism exhibited all of the following characteristics EXCEPT
a. an attempt to appeal to a broad audience
b. a style inspired by the machine age
c. an effort to update, rather than abandon, old Academic traditions
d. an interest in speed, travel, and dyn
c. an effort to update, rather than abandon, old Academic traditions
In works like The City, Leger adopted elements of Analytic Cubism and added what new element?
a. multiple viewpoints
b. superimposed solid geometry
c. flat space
d. colorful and recognizable shapes
d. colorful and recognizable shapes
As an attempt to depict the psychological reality of its subject, Picasso's Girl before the Mirror exemplifies which style?
a. Surrealism
b. Suprematism
c. De Stijl
d. Analytic Cubism
a. Surrealism
The first Cubist sculpture was the bronze Head of a Woman by
a. Braque
b. Leger
c. Broccioni
d. Picasso
d. Picasso
In which country did Futurism originate?
a. Italy
b. Spain
c. France
d. Germany
a. Italy
Picasso's Guernica exhibits all of the following characteristics EXCEPT
a. a combo of Anayltic Cubism, Synthetic Cubism, and Surrealism
b. a triptych-like composition
c. the incorporation of traditional motifs
d. a kaleidoscope of vivid colors
d. a kaleidoscope of vivid colors
Which artist's Lucky Strike (1921) shows the influence of Synthetic Cubism and serves as a forerunner of later Pop Art?
a. Douglas
b. Davis
c. Brancusi
d. Duchamp
b. Davis
The so-called "squatter" whose image represents an early example of the Cubist simultaneous view appears in
a. Les Demoiselle's d'Avignon
b. Girl Before a Mirror
c. Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
d. Broadway Boogie Woogie
a. Les Demoiselle's d'Avignon
The term Surrealism literally denotes
a. the prevalence of strangeness and unfamiliararity
b. the absence of logic and order
c. the absence of any objective reality
d. the existence of a higher reality
d. the existence of a higher reality
Whose Unique Forms of Continuity in Space exemplified the Futurist movement?
a. Mondrian
b. Boccioni
c. Duchamp
d. Janis
b. Boccioni
Collage exhibited all of the following characteristics EXCEPT
a. an illusionistic sense of three-dimensionality
b. a combination of drawing and cut-and-paste paper
c. an interest in the disassembling and reassembling of parts of the environment
d. element
a. an illusionistic sense of three-dimensionality
Which artist adopted elements of Synthetic Cubism to paint the four murals Aspects of Negro Life for the New York Public Library?
a. Davis
b. Malevich
c. Douglas
d. Wright
c. Douglas
Which artist's Violin and Pitcher (1909-10) suggests how difficult it can be to distinguish his work from that of Picasso during the period known as Analytic Cubism?
a. Brancusi
b. Cezanne
c. Braque
d. Marinetti
c. Braque
Picasso's Three Musician's (1921) exemplifies which style?
a. Futurism
b. Suprematism
c. Analytic Cubism
d. Synthetic Cubism
d. Synthetic Cubism
Synthetic Cubism differed from Analytic Cubism in that Synthetic Cubism
a. fragmented objects into abstract geometric forms
b. restored a single vantage point
c. moved further away from traditional depictions of space
d. marked a return to bright colors
d. marked a return to bright colors
What distinguishes a collage from an assemblage?
a. the use of found objects versus created ones
b. whether the end product is representative or nonfigurative
c. the mass and dimensionality of the constituent parts
d. the political content of the finished
c. the mass and dimensionality of the constituent parts
Who created the assemblage Bull's Head (1943) from a bicycle seat and handlebars?a. Braque
b. Picasso
c. Marinetti
d. Duchamp
b. Picasso
Whcih of the following traits is characteristic of Analytic Cubism?
a. the geometric exploration of the three-dimensional space
b. an emphasis on the visual reproduction of natural space
c. edges of forms that dissolve into prominent brushstrokes
d. forms
a. the geometric exploration of three-dimensional space
The painting of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon exhibits all of the following characteristics EXCEPT
a. adaptations of traditional poses from Western art
b. faces influenced by African masks
c. the use of chiaroscuro instead of Fauvist bold strokes of color
d.
c. the use of chiaroscuro instead of Fauvist bold strokes of color
Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein (1906) exhibits all of the following characteristics EXCEPT
a. flattened imagery
b. a masklike visage
c. some organic shading and continuing
d. the predominance of the color blue
d. the predominance of the color blue
Which of the following factors had the LEAST impact on the development of Cubism?
a. tribal art
b. Iberian art
c. Post-Impressionst art
d. American art
c. Post-Impressionist art
The main European impetus for Cubism came from
a. Cezanne's new spatial organization
b. Matisse's nonnaturalistic colorism
c. Monet's experiments with light effects
d. Seurat's pointillist approach to color
a. Cezanne's new spatial organization
Which artist explored themes of racial inequality and social injustice in works such as Harriet Tubman Series, No. 7?
a. Lange
b. VanDerZee
c. Hopper
d. Lawrence
d. Lawrence
The tone of Hopper's paintings can best be described as being imbued with a sense of
a. indignation over racial inequality and social injustice
b. playful whimsy and artistic experimentation
c. psychological isolation and loneliness
d. pride in the quiet
c. psychological isolation and loneliness
Which artist's Gas (1940) depicts a single man at a gas station with a vast empty expanse in the background?
a. Hopper
b. Lawrence
c. Lange
d. Kahlo
a. Hopper
A recurring theme in Kahlo's work was
a. playful exuberence
b. social realism
c. physical ad mental suffering
d. opposition to leftist politics
c. physical and mental suffering
As revealed in his History of Mexico murals, Rivera was
a. a Dadaist
b. A Marxist
c. a fascist
d. an anarchist
b. a Marxist
Whose Cow'sSkull with Calico Roses exhibits the influence of Surrealism and the Southwest landscape of=n the artist?
a. O'Keefe
b. Kandinsky
c. Rivera
d. Hopper
a. O'Keefe
Whose American Gothic exemplified the Regionalists' interest in provincial America?
a. Lange
b. Wood
c. Lawrence
d. Hopper
b. Wood
What is the most famous image from The Persistence of Memory?
a. melting clocks
b. the Mona Lisa with a beard and mustahce
c. violin sound holes on a naked woman's back
d. a train exiting a fireplace
a. melting clocks
Giacometti's Large Standing Woman III evidences his strong interest in the statuary of which culture?
a. ancient Egypt
b. the Italian Renaissance
c. Oceania
d. Classical Greece
a. ancient Egypt
Which former Dadaist wedded Cubism and Surrealism in the 1944 sculpture The King Playing with the Queen?
a. Magritte
b. Arp
c. Ernst
d. Giacometti
c. Ernst
In works like Time Stransfixed (1938), Magritte created dreamlike imagery by
a. distorting the forms of familiar images
b. juxtaposing familiar objects in inexplicable ways
c. suggesting images through vibrant biomorphic shapes
d. rendering landscapes in
b. juxtaposing familiar objects in inexplicable ways
As exemplified in his Spanish Dancer (1945), Miro's paintings exhibit all of the following EXCEPT
a. illusionistic imagery
b. sexually sugggestive forms
c. primary colors
d. vigorous linear movement
a. illusionistic imagery
Which artist's Mask of Fear (1932) was influenced by a Zuni statue of a war god?
a. Miro
b. Klee
c. Dali
d. Man Ray
b. Klee
Whose reworked photograph Le Violon d'Ingres exhibits Surrealist imagery with Dada wordplay?
a. Miro
b. Dali
c. Arp
d. Man RAy
d. Man RAy
The defining characteristic of Surrealism is its
a. deliberate rejection of meaning
b. rejection of any concept of a higher reality than the material world
c. interest in myths, dreams, and the subconscious
d. abandonment of representational imagery
a. deliberate rejection of meaning
Whose First Surrealist Manifesto of 1924 bridged the gap between Dada and Surrealism?
a. Duchamp
b. Arp
c. Breton
d. Man Ray
c. Breton
Which of the following famous works of art is an example of a "ready made"?
a. Fountain
b. Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance
c. The Persistance of Memory
d. Thinking about Death
a. Fountain
How did Duchamp create his famous work L.H.O.O.Q.?
a. be signing his name to a urinal
b. by dropping colored rectangles onto a canvas
c. by drawing a beard and a moustache on a reproduction on the Mona Lisa
d. by placing random objects on light-sensitive
c. by drawing a beard and a moustache on a reproduction on the Mona Lisa
All of the following traits characterized the Dad movement EXCEPT
a. a set of easily recognizable shared formal qualities
b. a sense of despair and nihilist philosophy of negation
c. challenges to traditional assumptions about art
d. a taste for playfulne
a. a set of easily recognizable shared formal qualities
The Dada movement began during WWI among artists who gathered at the Cabaret Voltaire in what city?
a. London
b. Paris
c. Zurich
d. Munich
c. Zurich
Which artist used the staining process in works such as The Bay (1963) after a visit to Pollock's studio in 1952?
a. Frankenthaler
b. Rothko
c. Stella
d. Kelly
a. Frankenthaler
Which element of the works of Gorky and Miro did Noguchi evoke in his Kouros?
a. figurative imagery
b. rectangles and squares
c. flat colors
d. biomorphic shapes
d. biomorphic colors
The staining process used by many Color Field artists involved
a. pouring paint directly onto a canvas
b. allowing dust to settle on wet paint to give it a textured quality
c. dripping or splattering dots and streaks over a representational image
d. using
a. pouring paint directly onto a canvas
Stella and Kelly were two prominent practitioners of what techniques?
a. assemblages of found objects
b. drip technique
c. Hard-Edge painting
d. gesture painting
c. Hard-Edge painting
Which artist used a wide housepainter's brush to create dynamic imagery in works such as Mahoning?
a. Pollock
b. Frankenthaler
c. de Kooning
d. Kline
d. Kline
An important distinction between the works of Pollock and Rothko is that Rothko's work
a. consisted primarily of nonfigurative imagery
b. consisted primarily of figurative imagery
c. eliminated references to the creative process
d. allowed light to move e
c. eliminated references to the creative process
A significant difference between the works of Kelly and Mondrian is Kelly's
a. greater emphasis on white backgrounds
b. abandonment of the black frames in which Mondrian encased colors
c. embrace of figurative expression
d. use of isolated blocks of color
b. abandonment of the black frames in which Mondrian encased colors
Mondrian's works, such as Trafalgar Square, show how we served as a bridge between Color Field painting and what earlier school?
a. Surrealism
b. Impressionism
c. Fauvism
d. Cubism
d. Cubism
Who painted Tahkt-i-Sulayman I(1967) as a part of the "Protractor Series"?
a. Stella
b. Kelly
c. Pollock
d. de Kooning
a. Stella
What artist's canvases of recatngles hovering in fields of color, such as Number 15 (1957) represent a transition of sorts to Color Field painting?
a. de Kooning
b. Rothko
c. Kline
d. Albers
b. Rothko
Gorky's most characteristic shapes are
a. squares and triangles
b. regular geometric shapes
c. biomorphs
d. perfect circles
c. biomorphs
A characteristic of Stella's early work was the use of
a. indistinct and wiggling lines to delineate amophous shapes
b. everyday objects to apply paint instead of brushes
c. merging and overlaid colors
d. canvases of different shapes
d. canvases of different shapes
Which would be most likely to have been found in a Nevelson piece?
a. biomorphic forms
b. steel cylinders
c. carpentry tools
d. solid block colors
c. carpentry tools
Who of the following made "assemblages" such as Black Wall (1959)?
a. David Smith
b. Isamu noguchi
c. Franz Kline
d. Louise Nevelson
d. Louise Nevelson
How did the early works of de Kooning most differ from those of Pollock and Kline?
a. the inclusion of some recognizeable subject matter
b. the creation of a textural quality to the painting's surface
c. the use of thick, bold strokes
d. the adoption of a
a. the inclusion of some recognizeable subject matter
What process did Pollock use form 1947 onward to produce his most celebrated pictures?
a. sand painting
b. bold, slashing technique
c. drip technique
d. color field painting
c. drip technique
Who was the most famous gesture painter of the New York school?
a. de Kooning
b. Pollock
c. Rothko
d. Kelly
b. Pollock
Which art critic penned the term "action painting" to describe works where "the canvas was not a picture but an event"?
a. Greenberg
b. Barr, Jr.
c. Namuth
d. Rosenberg
d. Rosenberg
Which art critic traced the way in which, over time, artists' view of pictorial space ad "lost its 'inside' and become all 'outside' "?
a. Greenberg
b. rosenberg
c. Barr, Jr.
d. Namuth
a. Greenberg
Gorky's The Artist and His Mother exhibits all of the following characteristics EXCEPT
a. a use of geometric shapes inspired by Cubism
b. an absence of representational forms, suggesting late-period Expressionim
c. visible brushstrokes reminiscent of Fauv
b. an absence of representational forms, suggesting late-period Expressionim
Albers made a series of paintings in homage to which shape, which he regarded as being farthest removed from nature?
a. circle
b. triangle
c. square
d. rectangle
c. square
What city had become the center of the art world by 1940?
a. Berlin
b. London
c. Rome
d. New York
d. New York
Hofmann and Albers were two influential art teachers who originally hailed from
a. Germany
b. Netherlands
c. France
d. Denmark
a. Germany
Whose abstracted representations in works such as Garden in Sochi represented an important step toward Abstract Expressionism?
a. Rothko
b. Frankenthaler
c. Gorky
d. Kline
c. Gorky
Which Armenian artist played the most influential role in transforming European Abstract Surealism into American Abstract Expressionism?
a. Albers
b. Frankenthaler
c. Gorky
d. Stella
c. Gorky
Almost all Abstract Expressionists had passed through a phase of what style, which inculcated in them an interest in myths and dreams?
a. Surrealism
b. Cubism
c. Impressionism
d. Mannerim
a. Surrealism
Which artist performedthe action sculpture Coyote, I like America and America Likes Me for one week with a live coyote?
a. Hesse
b. Beuys
c. Martin
d. Judd
b. Beuys
Who published the "manifesto" Paragraphs on Conecptual Art in 1967?
a. Hesse
b. Segal
c. Escobar
d. LeWitt
d. LeWitt
Who created Metronomic Irregularity I (1966), which consists of cotton-covered wires interlaced through the holes in two rectangles?
a. Kosuth
b. Hesse
c. Lichtenstein
d. Martin
b. Hesse
Which element did Hesse add to Minimalism to create what some have called Post-Minimalism?
a. figurative imagery
b. three-dimensionality
c. autobiographic content
d. geomteric abstraction
c. autobiographic content
The vertical blocks in Judd's Untitled (1967) exemplify Minimalists' preference for
a. polyester
b. marble
c. industrial materials
d. plaster
c. industrial materials
Minimalist sculpture conveys the message that a work of art
a. consists solely of the artistic process that created it
b. cannot exist without a narrative
c. consists of nature stripped to its essence
d. its a pure object
d. its a pure object
Which artist's Aubade (Dawn) of 1975 exemplifies the Op Art movement?
a. Riley
b. Judd
c. Beuys
d. Segal
a. Riley
Whose Just what is it that makes today's homes so different , so appealing? could be seen as a manifesto for the Pop Art movement?
a. Hamilton
b. Warhol
c. Johns
d. Wesselmann
a. Hamilton
Which artist pursued the question of what separates everyday objects from art in works such as Three Flags (1958)?
a. Hamilton
b. Wesselmann
c. Johns
d. Marisol
c. Johns
In his Painted Bronze (Ale Cans), Jasper Johns does all of the following EXCEPT
a. draw upon the theme of commercialism
b. question the degree to which uniqueness is a necessary quality of art
c. efface the artist's presence and evidence of the artistic p
c. efface the artist's presence and evidence of the artistic process
Which sculptor made monumental statues of mundane objects, such as Clothespin (1976) in Philadelphia?
a. Segal
b. Oldenburg
c. Janis
d. Thiebaud
b. Oldenburg
In works like Torpedo...Los!, Roy Lichtenstein drew upon the aesthetic of
a. comic books
b. movie stills
c. wartime propoganda posters
d. processed food labels
a. comic books
Whose work is exemplified by his Campbell's Soup I (Tomato) of 1968?
a. Wesselmann
b. Warhol
c. Johns
d. Hamilton
b. Warhold
One of the defining characteristics of Warhol's work is
a. rejection of commercialism
b. a limited iconography
c. an embrace of individualism and individualization
d. an obsession with mass production
d. an obsession with mass production
Which artist was known for "combines" such as Black Market (1961), which incorporated painting, photography, and sculpture?
a. Rauschenberg
b. Riley
c. LeWitt
d. Wesselmann
a. Rauschenberg
As demonstrated in pieces like Retroactive I, the work of Rauschenberg could best be described as
a. streamlined
b. collage-like and ambiguous
c. built upon multiple reproductions of a single image
d. fixated on the artist's self-image
b. collage-like and ambiguous