Which artist depended upon his brother Theo for financial support, as he was unable to sell his artworks during his lifetime?
Van Gogh
Which artist famously cut off part of his own ear in a fit of jealous rage, then killed himself in 1890?
VAN Gogh
What is the central figure of Gaugin's Nevermore?
A Reclining Nude
The techniques of dream construction apply most obviously to which style?
Symbolism
Who painted The Yellow Christ?
Gauguin
Who painted Starry Night?
van Gogh
Which painter of Galatea was the leader of the French Symbolist movement?
Moreau
Whose best known painting The Scream shows elements of both Post-Impressionism and Symbolism?
Munch
A "naive" painter is one who
has no formal training
Due to his use of color, Seurat has been called both a
Pointillist and a Neo-Impressionist
Which is true of van Gogh's Self-Portrait featured in Chapter 25?
The brushstrokes form spirals
The painting Starry Night demonstrates all of the following features EXCEPT
Illusionistic Realism
Which is NOT a feature of Gauguin's Self-Portait with Halo?
a single-dimensional visage
The painting Starry Night shares which feature with Impressionist paintings?
a fondness for landscape
Van Gogh's Bedroom at Arles exhibits all the following characteristics EXCEPT
a plethora of pure colors
Which artist spent most of the last years of his life living in Tahiti?
Gauguin
Which of the following elements of the The Scream would be considered most in line with Post-Impressionism?
its expressive distortion of form
An important difference between Post-Impressionism and Impressionism is that Post-Impressionists
clearly defined the edges of forms
Toulouse-Lautrec's lithograph posters differed from his paintings primarily in their
texture
The paintings of Toulouse-Lautrec exhibit all the following characteristics EXCEPT
tight, precise brushworks
Which artist was famous for painting scenes of dance halls and nightclubs, such as Quadrille at the Moulin Rouge?
Toulouse-Lautrec
Whose Still Life with Apples fulfilled his desire to "astonish Paris with an apple"?
Cezanne
Cezanne's later work exhibits all the following characteristics EXCEPT
the complete abandonment of figuration
Whose Mont Sainte-Victoire convers his interest in faceted, crystalline forms?
Cezanne
Which artist's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte demonstrates his technique of divisionism?
Seurat
Seurat's interest in theories of color led him to
build up color through dots of pure color
Matisse's The Joy of Life exhibits all the following characteristics EXCEPT
biblical allegory
Who painted a famous portrait of his wife called Woman with the Hat?
Matisse
Who argued in Concerning the Spiritual in Art that music and art were intimately related?
Nolde
Which member of The Bridge painted Still Life with Masks?
Nolde
Who painted The Street, an exemplar of The Bridge?
Kirchner
An important element of Matisse's work throughout his career is
flat color
In which city was the Blue Rider group established?
Munich
The Blue Rider movement differed from The Bridge primarily in the Blue Rider movement's greater interest in
nonfigurative abstraction
Which of the following characteristics was LEAST important to Kandinsky's art?
Narrative
Which artist was among the first to eliminate recognizable objects from his paintings?
Kandinsky
Which is NOT a feature of Dance 1
flat, two-dimensional space and figures
Who experimented with creating a three-dimensional illusion from flat forms in works like the cutout Icarus?
Matisse
Prior to World War 2, which city served as the twentieth-century capital of the Western art world?
Paris
From 1901 to 1904, what color predominated in Picasso's paintings?
blue
Who painted The Old Guitarist?
Picasso
The painting Old Guitarist exhibits all the following characteristics EXCEPT
a widely varied chromatic scheme
Early twentieth-century artists were most heavily influenced by which form of African art?
sculpture
The early twentieth-century interest in the art of Africa, Oceania, and other cultures was
primitivism
African art appealed to early twentieth-century artists primarily because of its
abstract qualities
What is the meaning of the French word "fauve" from which the name Fauvism derives?
wild beast
Fauvism is associated with all the following qualities EXCEPT
restraint and harmony
in works like Broadway Boogie Woogie, Mondrian explored
the possibility of conveying vertical and horizontal motion with flat, colorful shapes.
Who explained his theory of Suprematism in The Non-Objective World?
Malevich
Whose Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 was the most controversial work at the Armory Show of 1913?
Duchamp
Which sculptor's Mademoiselle Pogany exhibits his interest in depicting the Platonic essence of nature?
Brancusi
Futurism exhibited all the following characteristics EXCEPT
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?
colorful and recognizable shapes
As an attempt to depict the psychological reality of its subject, Picasso's Girl before a Mirror exemplifies which style?
Surrealism
The first Cubist sculpture was the bronze Head of a Woman by
Picasso
In which country did Futurism originate?
Italy
Picasso's Guernica exhibits all the following characteristics EXCEPT
a kaleidoscope of vivid colors
Which artist's Lucky Strike shows the influence of Synthetic Cubism and serves as a forerunner of later Pop Art
Davis
The so-called "squatter", whose image represents an early example of the Cubist simultaneous view, appears in
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
The term Surrealism literally denotes
the existence of a higher reality
Whose Unique Forms of Continuity in Space exemplified the Futurist movement?
Boccioni
Collage exhibited all the following characteristics EXCEPT
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
Douglas
Which artist's Violin and Pitcher suggests how difficult it can be to distinguish his work from that of Picasso during the period known as Analytic Cubism?
Braque
Picasso's Three Musicians exemplifies which style?
Synthetic Cubism
Synthetic Cubism differed from Analytic Cubism in that Synthetic Cubism
marked a return to bright colors
What distinguishes a collage from an assemblage?
the mass and dimensionality of the constituent parts
Who created the assemblage Bull's Head from a bicycle seat and handlebars?
Picasso
Which of the following traits is characteristic of Analytic Cubism
the geometric exploration of three-dimensional space
The painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon exhibits all the following characteristics EXCEPT
the use of chiaroscuro instead of Fauvist bold strokes of color
Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein exhibits all the following characteristics EXCEPT
the predominance of the color blue
Which of the following factors had the LEAST impact on the development of Cubism?
American Art
The main European impetus for Cubism came from
Cezanne's new spatial organization
Which artist explored themes of racial inequality and social injustice in works such as Harriet Tubman Series, No. 7?
Lawrence
The tone of Hopper's paintings can best be described as being imbued with a sense of
psychological isolation and loneliness
Which artist's Gas depicts a single man at a gas station with a vast empty expanse in the background?
Hopper
A recurring theme in Kahlo's work was
physical and mental suffering
As revealed in his History of Mexico murals, Rivera was
a Marxist
Whose Cow's Skull with Calico Roses exhibits the influence of Surrealism and the Southwest landscape on the artist?
O'Keeffe
Whose American Gothic exemplified the Regionalists' interest in provincial America?
Wood
What is the most famous image from The Persistence of Memory?
melting clocks
Giacometti's Large Standing Woman 3 evidences his strong interest in the statuary of which culture?
Ancient Egypt
Which former Dadaist wedded Cubism and Surrealism in the 1944 sculpture The King Playing with the Queen?
Ernst
In works like Time Transfixed, Margritte created dreamlike imagery by
juxtaposing familiar objects in inexplicable ways.
As exemplified in his Spanish Dance, Miro's paintings exhibit all the following characteristics EXCEPT
illusionistic imagery
Which artist's Mask of Fear was influenced by a Zuni statue of a war god?
Klee
Whose reworked photograph Le Violon d'Ingres exhibits Surrealist imagery with Dada wordplay?
Man Ray
The defining characteristic of Surrealism is its
deliberate rejection of meaning.
Whose First Surrealist Manifesto of 1924 bridged the gap between Dada and Surrealism?
Brenton
Which of the following famous works of art is an example of a "ready-made"?
Fountain
How did Duchamp create his famous work L.H.O.O.Q?
by drawing a beard and moustache on a reproduction of Mona Lisa
All of the following traits characterized the Dada movement EXCEPT
a set of easily recognizable shared formal qualities.
The Dada movement began during World War 1 among artists who gathered at the Cabaret Volaire in what city?
Zurich
Which artist used the staining process in works such as The Bay after a visit to Pollock's studio in 1952?
Frankenthaler
Which element of the works of Gorky and Miro did Noguchi evoke in his Kouros?
Biomorphic Shapes
The staining process used by many Color Field artists involved
pouring paint directly onto a canvas.
Stella and Kelly were two prominent practitioners of what technique?
Hard-Edge painting
Which artist used a wide housepainter's brush to create dynamic imagery in works such as Mahoning?
Kline
An important distinction between the works of Pollock and Rothko is that Rothko's work
eliminated references to the creative process.
A significant difference between the works of Kelly and Mondrain is Kelly's
abandonment of the black frames in which Mondrian encased colors.
Mondrian's works, such as Trafalgar Square, show how he served as a bridge between Color Field painting and what earlier school?
Cubism
Who painted Tahkt-i-Sulayman 1 as part of the "Protractor Series"?
Stella
Which artist's canvases of rectangles hovering in fields of color, such as Number 15 represent a transition of sorts to Color Field painting?
Rothko
Gorky's most characteristic shapes are
biomorphs.
A characteristic of Stella's early work was the use of
canvases of different shapes.
Which would be most likely to have been found in Nevelson piece?
carpentry tools
Who of the following made "assemblages" such as Black Wall?
Louise Nevelson
How did the early works of de Kooning most differ from those of Pollock and Kline?
the inclusion of some recognizable subject matter
What process did Pollock use from 1947 onward to produce his most celebrated pictures?
drip technique
Who was the most famous gesture painter of the New York school?
Pollock
Which art critic penned the term "action painting" to describe works where "the canvas was not a picture but an event"?
Rosenberg
Which art critic traced the way in which, over time, artists' view of pictorial space had "lost its 'inside' and become all 'outside'"?
Greenberg
Gorky's The Artist and His Mother exhibits all the following characteristics EXCEPT
an absence of representational forms, suggesting late-period Expressionism.
Albers made a series of paintings in homage to which shape, which he regarded as being farthest removed from nature?
square
What city had become the center of the art world by 1940?
New York
Hofmann and Albers were two influential art teachers who originally hailed from
Germany
Whose abstracted representations in works such as Garden in Sochi represented an important step toward Abstract Expressionism?
Gorky
Which Armenian artist played the most influential role in transforming European Abstract Surrealism into American Abstract Expressionism?
Gorky
Almost all Abstract Expressionists had passed through a phase of what style, which inculcated in them an interest in myths and dreams?
Mannerism
Which artist performed the action sculpture Coyote, I like America and America Likes Me for one week with a live coyote?
Beuys
Who published the "manifesto" Paragraphs on Conceptual Art in 1967?
LeWitt
Who created Metronomic Irregularity 1, which consists of cotton-covered wires interlaced through the holes in two rectangles?
Hesse
Which element did Hesse add to Minimalism to create what some have called Post-Minimalism?
Autobiographic Content
The vertical blocks in Judd's Untitled exemplify Minimalists' preference for polyester
Industrial Materials
Minimalist sculpture conveys the message that a work of art
is a pure object.
Which artist's Aubade (Dawn) of 1975 exemplifies the Op Art movement?
Riley
Whose Just is what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? could be seen as a manifesto for the Pop Art movement?
Hamilton
Which artist pursued the question of what separates everyday objects from art in works such as Three Flags?
Johns
In his Painted Bronze (Ale Cans), Jasper Johns does all of the following EXECPT
efface the artist's presence and evidence of the artistic process.
Which sculptor made monumental statues of mundane objects, such as Clothespin in Philadelphia?
Oldenburg
In works like Torpedo...Los!, Roy Lichtenstein drew upon the aesthetic of
comic books.
Whose work is exemplified by his Campbell's Soup 1 (Tomato) of 1968?
Warhol
One of the defining characteristics of Warhol's work is
an obsession with mass production
Which artist was known for "combines" such as Black Market, which incorporated painting, photography, and sculpture?
Wesselmann
As demonstrated in pieces like Retroactive 1, the work of Rauschenberg could best be described as
collage-like and ambiguous