Art #4

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