Ttle: The concept of the "
The concept of the "vanishing point" is the key to atmospheric perspective.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Futurism was an art
Futurism was an art movement of the early 20th century which emphasized motion and speed.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Mondrian-shape-paintings
The paintings of Piet Mondrian emphasize organic shapes.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Noguchi- sculptures
The sculptures of Isamu Noguchi nearly always incorporate actual motion.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Raphael
The Renaissance artist Raphael was not appreciated until after his death.
a. True
*b. False
Title: In B&W photography grays
In black-and-white photography, colors are translated into many different values of gray.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Define chiaroscuro
The term "chiaroscuro" refers to blurred, hazy background forms that can give a sense of
depth to a painting.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Raphael and Michelangelo- Vatican
Raphael and Michelangelo worked on paintings in the Vatican at the same time.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Oil painting not water-soluble
Oil painting is not an aqueous (water-soluble.
*a. True
b. False
medium.
Title: Fresco is not easy corrections
Fresco is a convenient medium for wall paintings because it allows for easy correction when
the artist makes a mistake.
a. True
*b. False
Title: The "picture plane"
The "picture plane" is the level at which paintings are hung on the wall.
a. True
*b. False
Title: In both linear and isometric perspective
In both linear and isometric perspective, forms meant to be understood as background are
made smaller than forms meant to be seen as foreground.
*a. True
b. False
Title: The School of Athens
The School of Athens was an important Greek center for teaching the art of fresco painting.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Restoration Leonardo-Last Supper
When Dr. Pinan Bramibilla Barcilon finishes restoring The Last Supper, it will look almost
exactly as Leonardo left it.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Oil paint is valued
Oil paint is valued for its luminous colors and quick drying.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Joan Mitchell's brushwork
Joan Mitchell's brushwork is similar to the brushwork of Andrew Wyeth.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Goya-art types
The Spanish artist Francisco de Goya is best known for his ________________________.
a. portraits of the nobility
b. sculptures
c. prints
d. collages
*e. a and c
Title: Synthetic paints are acrylics
Synthetic paints are often referred to as polymer or acrylic paints.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Winslow Homer used wc
Winslow Homer avoided the watercolor medium, because he did not think it sufficiently
"serious" for his paintings.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Kahlo- 3 Fridas
The artist Frida Kahlo used symmetrical balance in The Two Fridas to express her dual nature
as ____________:
a. male and female
b. upper and lower class
c. American and Spanish
*d. European and Mexican
e. schizophrenic
Title: Define non-repres- non-objectve
The terms non-representational, non-objective, and non-figurative refer to abstract art.
a. True
*b. False
Title: iconography
In works that contain iconography, it's usually the symbolism that offers the deepest level of
meaning.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Vermeer-17th -glazes
Jan Vermeer was a 17th-century artist known for his rich, glowing colors achieved through the
application of thin glazes of oil paint.
a. True*
b. False
Title: Rauschenberg
What artist created a lithograph from a collage of reproductions and commentary which
commemorated the centennial of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York?
a. Picasso
b. Kollwitz
c. Stella
*d. Rauschenberg
e. Kent
Title: What French artist c
What French artist created a series of color lithographs as posters that illustrate Parisian
nightclubs and entertainers?
*a. Toulouse-Lautrec
b. Picasso
c. Cassatt
d. Nolde
e. Raimondi
Title: Dürer is German
Albrecht Dürer was born in ____________________________.
*a. Germany
b. Romania
c. Switzerland
d. Norway
e. Denmark
Title: Goya left Spain worked in Paris
Like Picasso, Francisco de Goya left Spain, his birth country, to live and work in Paris most of
his life.
a. True
*b. False
Title: O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe was a famous painter of biblical subjects.
a. True
b. False*
Title: Gauguin NOT spent life painting in Europe
Gauguin spent all of his life painting in Europe.
a. True
b. False*
Title: van Gogh born Holland
Vincent van Gogh was born in _____________________________.
*a. Holland
b. France
c. Spain
d. Germany
e. Italy
Title: Shapiro-sculpt- rect wood blocks
This sculptor plays with our tendency to find images in rectangular units of wood or metal
assembled somewhat like children's blocks.
a. Schabel
b. van Gogh
c. Turrell
d. Matisse
*e. Shapiro
Title: van Gogh-Starry night
An artist who created a memorable image of a French village beneath a night sky of stars was:
a. Henri Matisse
b. Joel Shapiro
c. Herbert Vogel
d. Constantin Brancusi
*e. Vincent van Gogh
Title: van Gogh & Gauguin- Arles
Two artists who worked together in the French provincial city of Arles were:
a. Dorothy and Herbert Vogel
b. Matisse and Brancusi
*c. van Gogh and Gauguin
d. Schnabel and Weston
e. Hampton and Rath
Title: Rembrandt -The Polish Rider
The Polish Rider, once considered an extremely valuable work, may instead have been created
by Willem Drost, a pupil of this artist:
a. van Gogh
b. Picasso
c. Reynolds
*d. Rembrandt
e. van Eyck
Title: Goya-prints satirie-human vanity-eccentricity.
Many of Goya's prints satirized human vanity and eccentricity.
*a. True
b. False
Title: linear perspect-vp
In linear perspective, parallel lines receding into the distance seem to converge, until they
meet at the____________.
a. focal point.
b. epicenter.
c. picture plane
d. 10vanishing point
e. perspective line
Title: chiaroscuro
The term "chiaroscuro" means____________.
a. personal magnetism
b. clarity of colors
c. a hazy or misty effect
*d. light/dark
e. a fresco technique
Title: Rauschenberg- not engrav
Robert Rauschenberg is a German artist who works only in the technique of engraving.
a. True
*b. False
Title: linear persp-diminish size
In linear perspective, forms meant to be seen as farther away from the viewer
are____________.
a. larger
*b. smaller
c. higher
d. lower
e. lighter
Title: Guernica sketches
Extensive sketches and composition studies for the painting Guernica exist because of this
artist's decision to save his sketches as "glimpses" into the creative process.
a. Degas
b. Ingres
*c. Picasso
d. Daumier
e. Gehry
Title: Dürer travel Italy
Albrecht Dürer traveled and worked in Italy and was later appointed court painter to the Holy
Roman Emperor.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Rembrandt- print-paint
Rembrandt is famed as both a printmaker and a painter.
a. True*
b. False
Title: Toulouse-Lautrec litho
Toulouse-Lautrec's lithographs have complex subject matter and were meant to appeal
primarily to intellectuals.
a. True
b. False*
Title: Picasso –born Spain
Pablo Picasso was born in ______________________________.
a. Italy
b. France
c. Germany
d. Brazil
*e. Spain
Title: Theo van Gogh earned
Theo van Gogh earned his living as a(n) ____________________________.
a. painter
b. sculptor
*c. art dealer
d. psychiatrist
e. historian
Title: Ingres pencil drwg
The French artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was considered a great master of drawings,
especially portraits, done in ____________________________.
a. pen and ink
b. watercolor
*c. pencil
d. pen and wash
e. pastel
Title: iconography-story-symbol
The story and symbols in a work of art make up its\: ________________________
a. anthropomorphism
b. representation
*c. iconography
d. iconoclasm
e. synthesism
Title: Warhol - Pop
Andy Warhol is associated with the art movement known as _________________________.
*a. Pop Art
b. Abstract Expressionism
c. Neo-Expressionism
d. Post-Modernism
e. Renaissance Naturalism
Title: J Reynolds-romant Engl portrait
The artist Joshua Reynolds is associated with the romantic style of English portraiture in the
18th century.
*a. True
b. False
Title: prep drwg fresco cartoon
The preparatory drawing for a fresco is called a ____________.
a. sketch
b. mural
c. mockup
*d. cartoon
e. tempera
Title: Fresco define
Fresco can best be defined as____________.
a. a method of painting that employs hot wax
b. a watercolor
*c. a method of painting in wet plaster
d. a type of oil painting
e. a printmaking technique
Title: Kollwitz
In a time when most artists were men and mainly sculpture and painting were the media of
art, this Prussian-born female artist concentrated on prints and drawings in black and white.
Who was this artist?
a. Julian Schnabel
*b. Käthe Kollwitz
c. Dominique Ingres
d. Basho
e. Elise Engler
Title: Rembrandt drwg not crude
Because Rembrandt used a stiff reed pen for drawing, his style is rather crude and gives little
sense of form.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Picasso Guernica many sketches
Picasso made a great many preliminary drawings for his famous painting Guernica.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Leonardo advised drw nature
Leonardo da Vinci advised artists in his Treatise on Painting never to sketch from life or
nature.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Van Eyck Arnolfini iconography
Van Eyck's painting "The Arnolfini Wedding" contains iconography related to the era and
culture in which the work was created.
*a. True
b. False
Title: van Gogh – Gauguin-together
Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin worked in France at the same time, but they never met.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Rembrandt ques authorship
The Rembrandt Research Project has questioned the authorship of many paintings once
thought to be by Rembrandt.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Kollwitz Prep drwgs
Käthe Kollwitz was a famous German painter who seldom used preparatory drawings.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Abstract artists may draw well
Most artists who paint in an abstract or nonrepresentational style do so because they cannot
draw well.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Warhol-lees quality after shot
Andy Warhol's art seemed to many observers to lose its edge and excitement after a woman
shot and nearly killed him.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Felix Gonzalez' viewers take part of work
Felix Gonzalez' works are unusual because viewers are encouraged to take portions of the
works.
a. True*
b. False
Title: contrapposto-s curve
The word ____________ is used to describe sculptures in which the figure is portrayed in a
natural, relaxed, S-curve suggestive of motion.
a. frontality
b. sinuous
c. flexible
d. relief
*e. contrapposto
Title: Casting sculp method
The sculptural method that generally involves the use replacement of a non-permanent
material such as clay, wax, or plaster with molten (superheated. metal is
called____________.
a. modeling
b. carving
c. assembling
*d. casting
e. equestrian
Title: environmental sculpture
The term "environmental sculpture" refers to _______________________.
a. sculptures you can walk into and through
b. sculptures displayed outdoors
c. sculptures that are part of the natural landscape
*d. all of these
e. a and b only
Title: Moore-Engl-abstract figures
Which 20th-century English artist sculpts abstract human forms to explore the body's visual
harmonies with landscape?
a. Red Grooms
b. Christo
*c. Henry Moore
d. Jeff Koons
e. Alexander Calder
Title: patina
____________is the term used to describe the desirable surface color that metal sculptures
acquire over time when they are exposed to the weather.
a. rust
b. panache
c. gilding
*d. patina
e. glaze
Title: mobile has motion
A mobile is a sculpture that ___________________________.
a. can be exhibited outdoors
*b. incorporates motion
c. is made from metal
d. should best be viewed from all sides
e. deals with the family
Title: vp not key to atmos perspect
The concept of the "vanishing point" is the key to atmospheric perspective.
a. True
b. False*
Title: Casting
The sculptural method that generally involves the use of molten (superheated.
_________________.
a. modeling
metal is called
b. carving
c. assembling
*d. casting
e. equestrian
Title: Picasso many styles
Pablo Picasso worked in many styles, from the highly abstract to the naturalistic.
a. True*
b. False
Title: Fresco wet plaster
Fresco can best be defined as _________________________________.
a. a method of painting that employs hot wax
b. a watercolor
*c. a method of painting in wet plaster
d. a type of oil painting
e. a printmaking technique
Title: Quinten Massays- Grotesque Old Woman
Quinten Massays painted Grotesque Old Woman to satirize pride, vanity, and human folly.
*a. True
b. False
Title: "Pietà defined
"Pietà," a standard subject in Christian art, depicts the mother of Jesus holding her son's body.
*a. True
b. False
T
Title: Theo van Gogh
Theo van Gogh was Vincent van Gogh's father.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Picasso-Guernica
The painting called Guernica was made by _________________________.
a. Paul Cézanne
b. Jacob Lawrence
c. Robert Rauschenberg
*d. Pablo Picasso
e. Honore Daumier
Title: Abakanowicz Polish repeat bodies
The Polish sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz is best known for complex works featuring the
repetition of many __________________________.
a. boxes
b. curves
c. geometric shapes
*d. parts of human bodies
e. cast elements from the sea
Title: Cellini not life size Shakespeare
Cellini created a life-size sculpture that depicted the story of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Richard Hunt-Jacob's Ladder
Richard Hunt's large scale sculpture Jacob's Ladder is iconographically based on a theme from
the Koran.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Raphael Sch Athens fresco
Raphael's School of Athens was created in what medium?
a. gouache
b. mosaic
*c. fresco
d. watercolor
e. acrylic
Title: Michelangelo - carving
A marble sculpture by Michelangelo would be a good example of the carving method.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Marin Homer WC
Both John Marin and Winslow Homer were noted for major works in __________________.
a. fresco
b. egg tempera
c. impasto
*d. watercolor
e. Detroit
Title: Fresco
Fresco is ___________
a. Painting with hot colored wax
b. Water soluble colored plastic polymer paint
c. Egg and water emulsion
*d. Watercolor on fresh lime plaster
e. Utilization of tusche in serigraphy
Title: Tempera Egg water emulsion
Tempera is _______________.
a. Painting with hot colored wax
b. Water soluble colored plastic polymer paint
*c. Egg and water emulsion
d. Watercolor on fresh lime plaster
e. Utilization of tusche in serigraphy
Title: Frankenthaler stain
Helen Frankenthaler is often associated with diluted synthetic paints used as _____________.
a. impasto
*b. stain
c. fresco
d. background
e. self-portraits
Title: Cellini -lostwax
Cellini's recounting of his creation of Perseus and Medusa relates the difficulty of creating large
scale works using the lost-wax technique.
a. True*
b. False
Title: Diego Rivera Mex murals large
The Mexican artist Diego Rivera is noted for his ___________________________.
a. murals
b. frescoes
c. large-scale paintings
d. social commentary
*e. all of these
Title: Butterfield- Vermillion
Deborah Butterfield's Vermillion depicts a horse made entirely of flowers.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Wyeth Helga
Andrew Wyeth's "secret" paintings of the 1970s and 1980s depict a woman known only as
__________________.
*a. Helga
b. Christina
c. Olga
d. Helen
e. Madame X
Title: Serra Tilted Arc vote
The public viewers of Richard Serra's Tilted Arc overwhelmingly voted to keep the work in its
original setting.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Jacob Lawrence Harlem
Jacob Lawrence grew up and received his artistic training in ______________________.
a. England
b. California
c. Mississippi
d. Brooklyn
e. 10Harlem
Title: Malevich sumpremacy
This artist resisted the idea that art should serve religious purposes, instead calling for an art
which represented "the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art." The artist was
______________.
a. Picasso
b. Goya
*c. Malevich
d. Seurat
e. Bosch
Title: Picasso Braque collage
In the early 20th century both Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque experimented with the
technique of ___________________________.
a. fresco
*b. collage
c. mosaic
d. automatic writing
e. tempera
Title: Hockney-paper pulp
The artist who used pressed paper pulp to create images such as Diving Board with Shadow
was which of these artists?
*a. Hockney
b. Lin
c. Picasso
d. Pippin
e. LeWitt
Title: Kapoor At Hub of Things
At the Hub of Things, a minimalist sculpture which is associated with the dark power of the
goddess Kali, was created by this artist:
a. LeWitt
b. Pei
c. Noguchi
d. Rodin
*e. Kapoor
Title: Jacob Lawrence pted Harlem
Jacob Lawrence's paintings depict people he saw while living and working in Harlem.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Smithson Spiral Jetty
Smithson's Spiral Jetty, which was created from rock, salt crystals, algae, and earth in Great
Salt Lake, Utah, is now _______________________________.
a. in Utah's most famous museum
b. rebuilt in the Everglades
*c. submerged
d. copied in several other locations
e. extended to form a land bridge
Title: Cole-The Oxbow
The Oxbow (Connecticut River Near Northampton. presents a realistic view of nature seen by
which artist?
a. Georgia O'Keeffe
b. Kapoor
c. Maya Ying Lin
d. Schumann
*e. Cole
Title: Nevelson-white-wed chapel iv
What artist created the sculpture Wedding Chapel IV from found objects which were later
painted white?
a. Thomas Cole
*b. Louise Nevelson
c. Henri Rousseau
d. I.M. Pei
e. Maya Lin
Title: Lin Vietnam Memorial
The Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D. C. , designed by Maya Ying Lin, was at first
considered disrespectful of the war dead it was supposed to honor.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Sol LeWitt not AE
Sol LeWitt's Untitled Cube is an example of Abstract Expressionism.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Hockney print pulp
David Hockney worked with a master printer and experimented with using colored paper pulp
to paint images.
Burghers of Calais a. True
b. False
Title: Koons puppy not castl
Jeff Koons had his large sculpture Puppy cast in bronze to make it permanent.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Kiki Smith media Honeywax
Kiki Smith works primarily in wood, especially in the work entitled Honeywax.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Raphael Leo X portrait
Raphael painted a splendid portrait of Pope Leo X posed with his nephews, both cardinals of
the church.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Rodin- Burghers of Calais
Rodin's sculpture called The Burghers of Calais shows six men who have offered to give up
their lives to ransom their captured city.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Alice Aycock's sculp stencil words
Alice Aycock's sculptures sometimes have words stenciled onto them, as part of her own
personal symbolism.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Koon Puppy not in orig form
Jeff Koon's Puppy has remained in its original form in Germany since 1992.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Thomas Cole left Eng
Thomas Cole left England for France to become an Impressionist.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Daumier political criticism
Honoré Daumier was a 19th-century French artist famed for his harsh political criticism and
biting cartoons.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Bosch fantast lanscapes
Hieronymus Bosch was a 16th-century Netherlandish painter best known for his elaborate,
outlandish fantasy landscapes.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Cimabue not Indian artist
Cimabue was an Indian artist employed in the service of the great Mughal emperor Akbar.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Leonardo Last Supper lin persp
In The Last Supper Leonardo da Vinci used linear perspective to create a sense of
__________.
*a. deep space in the banquet hall
b. religious mystery
c. impending disaster
d. claustrophobia
e. resurrection
Title: Michelangelo was the
Michelangelo was the architect and sculptor of the Medici Chapel in Rome.
a. True
*b. False
Title: contrapposto Not mult events
The term “contrapposto” refers to the depiction of more than one event in time
in the same work of art.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Ren artist not Gothic inspirei
Artists of the Renaissance found their chief source of inspiration in the Gothic styles from
northern Europe.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Leonardo Mona Lisa
Leonardo delivered the Mona Lisa to her husband before he left Italy.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Donatello Gates Paradiser
Donatello was the principal sculptor of the famous bronze doors known as the “Gates of
Paradise.”
a. True
*b. False
Title: SAnguissola famous in own times
Sofonisba Anguissola was the first female artist known to have become famous among her
contemporaries.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Christo Wrap Reichstag was photed
Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Wrapped Reichstag is no longer visible in any form because the
artists refused to photograph it.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Masaccio no architect
Although Masaccio was primarily a painter and sculptor, he turned his hand to architecture in
old age.
a. True
*b. False
Title: H Moore sculpt display outdor
Many of Henry Moore's sculptures are displayed outdoors.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Gesso not a binder
Gesso is an Italian binder for oil paints.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Gesso 1st made from chalk-glue
When first introduced, gesso was made from chalk or plaster of Paris and glue.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Vasari of Raphael
Giorgio Vasari, the 16th-century biographer, referred to what artist as "an artist as talented as
he was gracious."
*a. Raphael
b. da Vinci
c. Michelangelo
d. Dürer
e. Grien
Title: Pfaff installations
What contemporary sculptor has created a number of installations that utilize lines that
emphasize the linear aspects of the areas in which they are viewed?
a. Renoir
b. Munch
c. Dürer
d. Bierstadt
*e. Pfaff
Title: Elis Vigée-Lebrun post antoinette
Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun never received another royal commission after Marie Antoinette died.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Roman myth Ceres
In Roman mythology, Ceres was the goddess of agriculture, and her name is the root of the
word “cereal”
*a. True
b. False
Title: Michelangelo not Cornaro Chapel
Michelangelo was the architect and sculptor of the Cornaro Chapel in Rome.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Hall Mirrors
The Hall of Mirrors is a small, intimate room in Louis XIV's palace, generally used for the king's
lever, or "getting up" ceremony.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Artemisia Gentilesch Baroque
Artemisia Gentileschi was a true Baroque artist in that she used pose, lighting, and gesture for
theatrical effect.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Donatello St Mark
________________was an early Renaissance sculptor who served as assistant to Lorenzo
Ghiberti. The young sculptor's freestanding statue of St. Mark in Florence contributes to his
reputation as the first modern sculptor.
a. Sluter
*b. Donatello
c. Michelangelo
d. Bernini
e. Leonardo
Title: 18th-c van Ruisdael no portraits
The 18th-century painter van Ruisdael made a fortune doing portraits of the nobility and the
clergy.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Sfumato – hazy
The term sfumato in a painting, as exemplified by the Mona Lisa, refers to
___________________.
a. the smile on the model's face
b. a type of linear perspective
c. the kind of oil paint used
d. the sitter's pose
*e. a hazy, cloudy atmosphere
Title: Michelangelo sculptor
Michelangelo considered himself always to be by nature a ____________________.
a. painter
b. architect
*c. sculptor
d. muralist
e. poet
Title: JL David- French rev
Jacques-Louis David was an artist closely associated with the French Revolution.
*a. True
b. False
Title:Leonardo-renais man
Besides being an artist, _______ was also an architect, engineer, inventor, scientist,
mathematician, and musician. Who is this artist who, perhaps more than any other, represents
the ideal Renaissance Man?
a. Michelangelo
b. Raphael
c. Titian
d. Giorgione
*e. Leonardo da Vinci
Title: Rococo class assoc
Rococo is a style of art primarily associated with the French middle and lower classes.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Renais humanism
The Renaissance belief that humankind was not worthless in the eyes of God as the Church
had taught during the Middle Ages has come to be known as which of the following?
a. Mannerism
b. Protestantism
c. Inquisition
d. patronage
*e. Humanism
Title: Michelangelo David Florentine
Michelangelo created a monumental statue of what religious figure to serve as a symbol of the
new Florentine republic?
a. Noah
b. Adam
c. Pope Julius II
*d. David
e. St. Paul
Title: Bernini not mostly sculptor
Gianlorenzo Bernini always considered himself above all to be a sculptor, and he resented
having patrons force him into other kinds of projects.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Delacroix Romantic
Eugène Delacroix was a leading French Neoclassical painter.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Vigee-Lebrun- cath great russia
While in exile from revolutionary France, Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun spent six years in what nation
where she almost had the chance to paint Catherine the Great?
a. England
b. the United States
c. Italy
*d. Russia
e. Turkey
Title: Berninis St. Teresa
Bernini's St. Teresa in Ecstasy portrays the saint being visited by a _________________.
*a. angel
b. devil
c. priest
d. servant
e. bishop
Title: Realism Impress NOT 20th c
Realism and Impressionism are two important 20th-century movements in art.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Manet- Déjeuner
Manet's painting "Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe" shows a kind of outdoor picnic.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Manet lacked commisions
Edouard Manet was a highly successful artist who never lacked for commissions.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Rococo- general
The ________________________ style in 18th-century European art is considered to be a
development of the Baroque. It was favored by the aristocracy, and it featured pastel colors,
small scale, and a playful quality.
a. Renaissance
b. Genre
*c. Rococo
d. Bourgeois
e. Romantic
Title: Gauguin stockbroker
Paul Gauguin's first important career was as a stockbroker.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Mondrian- geometric-primary
Mondrian's best-known paintings use primary colors and geometric shapes.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Léger NOT landscape
Ferdinand Léger was an important landscape painter of the late 19th and early 20th century.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Vigée-LeBrun pted Antoinette
Elisabeth Vigée-LeBrun painted a portrait of what monarch in an attempt to repair the
subject's image?
a. Louis XIV
b. Catherine the Great
c. Peter the Great
d. Philip IV
*e. Marie Antoinette
Title: Key PostImpress artists
Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin, and Seurat are the artists most often associated with
___________________.
a. Impressionism
*b. Post-Impressionism
c. Romanticism
d. Realism
e. Expressionism
Title: Cubism-general-20th
An early-20th-century painting style, explored by Picasso and Braque, in which forms were
flattened into planes and facets was called ____________________________.
a. Fauvism
*b. Cubism
c. Abstract Expressionism
d. Surrealism
e. Minimal Art
Title: Gauguin- Tahiti
The later works of Gauguin reflect his life in Tahiti.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Duchamp Bottle Dryer not Impress
Marcel Duchamp's "Bottle Dryer" is an excellent example of Impressionism.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Delacroix Liberty Lead
Eugène Delacroix painted "Liberty Leading the People" on a visit to the United States not long
after the Revolutionary War.
a. True
*b. False
Title: proto-Renaissance term
The term “proto-Renaissance” refers to the transitional period between the Classical Era and
the Renaissance.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Bauhaus school German
The Bauhaus was a school of art in Germany dedicated to building new guiding principles of
design compatible with 20th-century technology.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Surrealists unconscious
The Surrealists sought to ___________________________.
a. create multiple points of view
*b. probe the unconscious
c. create absurd art
d. capture the transitory effects of light
e. re-create the exact appearance of the natural world
Title: Dali Miró Surrealism
Although Dali's and Miró's works look very little alike, both artists are associated with
Surrealism.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Picasso born Spain
Pablo Picasso was born in ________________________________.
a. Italy
b. France
*c. Spain
d. the United States
e. Brazil
Title: Constructivism Tatlin Russia
Which artistic movement was begun in Russia by Tatlin?
a. Dada
b. Cubism
c. Futurism
*d. Constructivism
e. Surrealism
Title: Leger infl by Bauhaus and De Stijl
Which artist was influenced by the Bauhaus and De Stijl to create works that fostered
harmony between individual lives and modern industry and technology?
a. Picasso
b. Ingres
c. Morisot
*d. Léger
e. Renoir
Title: Ingres Delacroix NOT alike
Ingres and Delacroix were close friends who often worked together and whose styles are
sometimes difficult to tell apart.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Rauschenberg Factum combine
Robert Rauschenberg's "Factum II" is representative of what the artist called a "combine
painting".
*a. True
b. False
Title: NY School- action-AE
The "New York School" and "action painting" are terms often used to describe Abstract
Expressionism.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Duchamp ready-mades
What artist was famous for his ready-mades, objects purchased and then presented as
sculptures with virtually no alterations?
a. Picasso
*b. Duchamp
c. Klee
d. Gropius
e. Oppenheimer
Title: Laurie Anderson NOT words
Laurie Anderson is best known for works in which colorful electronic letters spell out such
messages as "Are We Having Fun Yet?"
a. True
*b. False
Title: Surrealism is Dada outgrowth
Which movement was formulated in the 1920s as an outgrowth of Dada?
*a. Surrealism
b. Fauvism
c. Cubism
d. Romanticism
e. Futurism
Title: Warhol NOT AE
Of the following artists, _____________________ is NOT associated with the Abstract
Expressionist movement.
a. Pollock
b. de Kooning
c. Franz Kline
*d. Warhol
e. Lee Krasner
Title: Basquiat graffiti artist
Which artist who began as a graffiti artist in the late 1970s is associated with a seemingly
primitive or naïve style?
a. Lucian Freud
b. Eric Fischl
c. Andy Warhol
*d. Jean-Michel Basquiat
e. Terry Winters
Title: 2 imp AE artists
Two of the most prominent Abstract Expressionist painters were _______________________.
*a. Pollock and de Kooning
b. de Kooning and Picasso
c. Johns and Lichtenstein
d. Kiefer and Chia
e. Albers and Pollock
Title: Rothenberg- 78 Whitney
Susan Rothenberg's paintings first came to public attention in a 1978 exhibition at the Whitney
Museum of American Art.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Pollock large ptgsl
Most of Jackson Pollock's paintings are quite small and should be studied from up close to
appreciate their intimate quality.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Matt Barney Cremaster gender
Matthew Barney in "Cremaster 5: Her Giant" uses a series of films to refer to the idea of
gender merging.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Eliz Murray remin surreal cubism
Elizabeth Murray's work is somewhat reminiscent of both Surrealism and Cubism.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Laurie Anderson – Gober-performance
Laurie Anderson and Robert Gober are generally known as what type of artists?
a. Abstract Expressionist painters married to each other
b. collectors of contemporary art
*c. performance artists
d. computer artists
e. Pop artists
Title: Pop Amer comm cult
Pop artists of the 1960s took their inspiration from:
a. Sigmund Freud
b. the camera
*c. American commercial culture
d. dreams
e. their fathers
Title: Kruger slogans
Contemporary artist Barbara Kruger is noted for applying slogans from popular jargon to
____________________________.
a. the walls of museum galleries
b. garage doors and fences
c. Plexiglas and Styrofoam
*d. blowups of magazine photos
e. reproductions of master paintings
Title: Neo-Ex german
The Neo-Expressionist movement of the mid-20th century began with European artists,
principally Germans and Italians, who came of age following World War II.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Lucien Freud nudes
While Alice Neel is most famous for her portraits, which of these artists is known for his nudes
and his grandfather's fame?
a. Jackson Pollock
b. Roy Lichtenstein
*c. Lucian Freud
d. Jean-Michel Basquiat
e. Willem de Kooning
Title: Jaune Quick to See S
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith in "House" created irony through reference to the famous Modernist
motto, "Form follows function".
*a. True
b. False
Title: Terry Winters linear information
Terry Winters uses a specialized linear visual language to create dense, layered paintings to
represent the central reality of our time. What is this central reality according to Winters?
a. love
b. war
c. commercialism
*d. information
e. television
Title: Guerilla Girls 1985 protest
What group was formed in 1985 to protest the under-representation of women artists in the
International Survey of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture?
a. the Abstract Expressionists
b. the Impressionists
c. the Post-Modernists
d. the Outsiders
*e. the Guerrilla Girls
Title: Leonardo-Mona Lisa
The Mona Lisa was painted by Michelangelo.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Baroque compared with Ren
The Baroque style was a great deal more intense than the Renaissance style.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Velasquez NOT Dutch barq
Velasquez was the most gifted artist of the Dutch Baroque.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Rococo light airy pastel
The Rococo style _____.
a. Used dark, dreary colors
b. Dealt with death and destruction
*c. Was light, airy, and pastel
d. Was very abstract
e. Used only animals as its subjects
Title: Rococo - Watteau
Watteau was one of the most well-known Rococo artists.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Neoclassicism NOT frivolus
Neoclassicism was a very frivolous, superficial style of art.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Neoclassicism/Romanticism general compare
The key word for Neoclassicism is "rational", while the key word for Romanticism is
"__________".
a. Frivolous
b. Silly
*c. Emotional
d. Abstract
e. Graeco-Roman
Title: Schnabel's crockery
The American "Bad" painter _______ used broken pottery in his paintings
a. Judy Chicago
b. George Segal
*c. Julian Schnabel
d. Eric Fischl
e. Delmas Howe
Title: Bernini/St. Teresa
The Baroque sculpture "St. Teresa in Ecstacy" was carved by the famous sculptor _____.
a. Michelangelo
b. Giacometti
c. Cornaro
*d. Bernini
e. Romano
Title: Baroque/Gentileschi- Judith
Baroque artists used light to plunge the figures in their paintings toward the viewer. We see
this in the painting "Judith and the Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes" by _____.
*a. Artemisia Gentileschi
b. Judy Chicago
c. Isabella Brandt
d. Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun
e. Laurie Anderson
Title: Baroque/Caravaggio-Entombment Christ
Caravaggio's dramatic Baroque painting showing Christ's body being lowered into the grave is
called"_____________".
a. The Raising of the Cross
*b. The Entombment of Christ
c. The Lamentation
d. The Savior
e. The Ecstacy
Title: Baroque/Rubens-Raising Cross
Using dramatic lighting and diagonal composition, the Baroque artist _____ painted "The
Raising of the Cross".
a. Caravaggio
b. Ingres
c. Delacroix
*d. Rubens
e. Marat
Title: AE international
Prior to the end of the 1940s, Abstract Expressionism was extremely well known
internationally.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Gorky-Armenia
Although part of the Abstract Expressionist movement in the US, Arshile Gorky was originally
from _____.
a. South America
b. Indonesia
*c. Armenia
d. France
e. Belgium
Title: Baroque/Velasquez- Las Meninas
The Spanish Baroque painter ___________ included himself at the easel in the famous
painting "Las Meninas".
a. Rembrandt
b. Picasso
*c. Velasquez
d. Leonardo
e. Bernini
Title: Gorky child memor subj matter
Arshile Gorky never used memories of his childhood as subjects in his paintings.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Baroque/Leyster -Genre
The Baroque painter Judith Leyster painted scenes of everyday life as her subject matter. This
is known as _____ painting.
a. Abstract
b. Noir
c. Grisaille
d. Realistic
*e. Genre
Title: Pollock and Benton
The Abstract Expressionist painter who studied with Thomas Hart Benton is _____.
a. Clyfford Still
b. Arshile Gorky
c. Wilfredo Lam
*d. Jackson Pollock
e. Robert Motherwell
Title: Romanticism general
The style of art known as Romanticism emphasized democratic attitudes and was created for
the people of the time.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Kahlo Rivera
The unique Mexican painter, Frida Kahlo, was married to the muralist _____.
a. Rufino Tamayo
b. Joaquin Torres-Garcia
*c. Diego Rivera
d. Wifredo Lam
e. David Siquieros
Title: Realism general colors
Realism used bright, cheerful colors to show everyday life.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Giacometti- skinny figs
Possibly symbolic of despair and hardship, the sculptor _____ is famous for his skeletal,
emaciated figures.
*a. Alberto Giacometti
b. Isamu Noguchi
c. Germaine Richier
d. Giacomo Manzu
e. Marino Marini
Title: Motherwell- Elegies
Painter of "Elegies to the Spanish Republic", this Abstract Expressionist painter was known as
the organizer and spokesman for the New York School
a. Mark Rothko
b. Arshile Gorky
c. Morris Lewis
d. Franz Kline
*e. Robert Motherwell
Title: Impressionism NOT Braque
Which artist was NOT an Impressionist?
*a. Braque
b. Manet
c. Monet
d. Renoir
e. Degas
Title: Impressionism general
The Impressionists painted with little daubs of color to create the impression of light striking
objects.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Impressionist subjectt
The Impressionists painted violent, negative subjects.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Giotto Lamentation
One of the important innovations in Giotto's work The Lamentation is _________.
*a. The grouping of figures as on a stage set
b. The shallowness of the space
c. The animal-style decoration
d. The development of mosaic techniques
e. The cheerfulness of the scene
Title: Sistine Chapel -michelangelo
The artist who is best known for painting the famous ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the
Vatican is ________.
a. Raphael
b. Tintoretto
c. Leonardo
*d. Michelangelo
e. Titian
Title: Frankenthaler- pour paint
Influenced by the Abstract Expressionists, this color field painter poured thinned paint onto
unsized cotton duck canvas.
a. Frida Kahlo
*b. Helen Frankenthaler
c. Joan Mitchell
d. Bridget Riley
e. Georgia O'Keeffe
Title: Barnett Newman zips
Barnett Newman, painting during the 1950s, created paintings consisting of large fields of flat
color bisected by vertical stripes called _____.
*a. Zips
b. Contours
c. Slashes
d. Lifelines
e. Geometrics
Title: Rauschenberg combines NOT Johns
Jasper Johns used non-traditional materials to create hybrid paintings called "combines".
*a. False
b. True
Title: Richard Hamilton- Pop
_____ was recognized as the innovator of Pop Art in Great Britain.
a. Andy Warhol
b. David Hockney
c. Roy Lichtenstein
d. Josef Albers
*e. Richard Hamilton
Title: Gauguin/van Gogh ear
The Post-Impressionist painter Gauguin cut off part of his ear.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Benday dots l
The Pop artist Andy Warhol used Benday dots, such as seen in comic strips, in his paintings.
*a. False
b. True
Title: Gauguin/van Gogh/Arles
Vincent van Gogh invited his fellow Post-Impressionist painter ________ to stay with him in
Arles.
a. Seurat
*b. Gauguin
c. Braque
d. Cezanne
e. Fragonard
Title: Chuck Close
Chuck Close, the _____ artist, made huge paintings of the faces of his friends and family
members based on snapshots.
a. Pop
b. Color Field
c. Minimalist
*d. Photorealist
e. Superrealist
Title: sfumato- Mona Lisa
The term "sfumato" in a painting, as exemplified by the Mona Lisa, refers to ________.
a. The smile on the model's face
b. A type of linear perspective
c. The kind of oil paint used
d. The sitter's pose
*e. A hazy, cloudy atmosphere
Title: Yves Klein
Believing color to be a manifestation of his spiritual quest, Yves Klein painted works entirely in
____.
a. Sand
b. Black
*c. Blue
d. Gold leaf
e. Felt
Title: Judd NOT Earth Art
Donald Judd is known primarily for his Earth Art.
*a. False
b. True
Title: Whistler/Sargent- American 19th c
Whistler and Sargent were _______ artists from the late 19th century.
a. German
b. French
c. British
d. Italian
*e. American
Title: Kosuth-conceptual 3 views
The Conceptual artist _____ questioned concepts of reality in his works representing an object
in three different ways.
a. Michael Heizer
*b. Joseph Kosuth
c. Richard Long
d. Dan Flavin
e. Robert Morris
Title: R Serra- Splatter lead wall
In an Anti-Form statement, Richard Serra splashed _____ against a wall to create his "cornerpieces".
a. Paint
b. Food
*c. Lead
d. Broken glass
e. Resin
Title: Fauvism
The Fauve artists painted in bright, non-realistic colors and used surface pattern.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Leonardo mirror writing
Besides being an artist _______ was also an architect, engineer, inventor, scientist,
mathematician, and musician. His notebooks, written in an eccentric "mirror" handwriting,
continue to fascinate scholars.
*a. Leonardo da Vinci
b. Michelangelo
c. Raphael
d. Titian
e. Giorgione
Title: Cubism-Picasso-Braque founders
The co-creators of Cubism were Picasso and ______.
a. Rembrandt
b. Velasquez
c. Leyster
d. Hals
*e. Braque
Title: Dada duchamp non art
Marcel Duchamp made works of non-art or anti-art along with his fellow _____ artists.
a. Post-Impressionist
*b. Dada
c. Fauve
d. Surrealist
e. Cubist
Title: Jenny Holzer truisms
Linked to the Feminist tradition, _______ created inscriptions called "Truisms" that were later
inscribed on installations.
a. Judy Chicago
b. Cheri Samba
*c. Jenny Holzer
d. Elizabeth Murray
e. Louise Bourgeois
Title: Martin Puryear Af Amer sculp
Martin Puryear is a contemporary _______ sculptor.
a. British
b. German
*c. African-American
d. Scottish
e. Swedish
Title: AE-NYC NOT Paris center Mod Art
After World War II, during the era of Abstract Expressionism, New York replaced Paris as the
center of Modernism in the art world.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Claes Oldenburg
The Pop sculptor _____ made everyday objects, such as hamburgers, on a giant scale.
*a. Claes Oldenburg
b. Eva Hesse
c. Andy Warhol
d. Marilyn Monroe
e. Edward Kienholz
Title: Kienholz haunting reconstruct
_____made life-sized reconstructions of bordellos, mental institutions, abortionists' offices and
other disturbing settings.
a. George Segal
b. Eva Hesse
*c. Edward Kienholz
d. Claes Oldenburg
e. Lygia Clark
Title: 1930-40 leftist Social Realism
From 1930 to 1941 the modern, abstract style was interrupted by a leftist, political movement
in art called _______.
a. Action Painting
b. Fauvism
*c. Social Realism
d. Dadaism
Title: Krasner married to Pollock
The painter Lee Krasner was married to Abstract Expressionist _______.
a. Willem de Kooning
b. David Smith
*c. Jackson Pollock
d. Mark Rothko
Title: Christo Gates
In 2005, Christo and his wife made the news by installing saffron-colored "gates" in Central
Park in New York.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Susan Rothenberg- Horses
Wanting to focus her paintings on a particular, strong image, Susan Rothenberg chose to paint
_____.
a. Fish
*b. Horses
c. Human figures
d. Dogs
e. Feet
Title: Theorists/critics AE Greenberg-Rosenberg
The two most influential theorists/critics to emerge during the Abstract Expressionist era were
Clement Greenberg and _______.
a. William Baziotes
b. Hans Hoffman
c. Arshile Gorky
*d. Harold Rosenberg
Title: Beuys Felt
Claiming to have been rescued by the Tatars, Joseph Beuys used the fabric ____ symbolically
in his "actions".
a. Cotton
b. Wool
c. Silk
d. Leather
*e. Felt
Title: Dali Persistence of Mem surreal
Probably the most famous ______ work is the painting "Persistence of Memory" by Salvador
Dali.
*a. Surrealist
b. Superrealist
c. Photorealist
d. Cubist
e. Realist
Title: Cedar Tavern AE mtg place
In order to discuss theories of Modernism, the New York Abstract Expressionist artists would
often meet at _______.
a. The Club
b. Subjects of the Artist School
*c. Cedar Tavern
d. All of the above
Title: Turrell-roden light
The creator of Roden Crater, the artist James Turrell uses _____ as his medium.
a. Paint
b. Clay
*c. Light
d. Glass
e. Earth
Title: AE NOT sell quickly
Abstract Expressionist paintings sold to the public quickly and well from the very beginning of
the movement.
a. True
*b. False
Title: Judy Chicago- dinner party help
The Feminist artist, Judy Chicago, conceived and executed "The Dinner Party" without
assistance.
*a. False
b. True
Title: Feminist art Chicago
Two of the most well-known Feminist artists of the 1970s are Miriam Schapiro and _____.
a. Alice Neel
b. Judith Leyster
c. Cathy Boston
*d. Judy Chicago
e. Sherrie Levine
Title: Comics Lichtenstein
The Pop artist _______ took his imagery from comic books.
a. Andy Warhol
*b. Roy Lichtenstein
c. Robert Rauschenberg
d. Jasper Johns
Title: Paik abnks of TVS
The artist _____ used banks of TV monitors in his installations.
a. Bill Viola
*b. Nam June Paik
c. Hans Haacke
d. James Turrell
e. Larry Bell
Title: Rothko floating rect
This Abstract Expressionist artist painted "floating rectangles".
a. Robert Motherwell
b. Jackson Pollock
*c. Mark Rothko
d. Willem de Kooning
e. Clifford Still
Title: Freud- figure- grandson
Lucien Freud, a contemporary figurative artist, is the grandson of the pioneer psychoanalyst
Sigmund Freud.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Rauschenberg NOT paint flags
Robert Rauschenberg was most well known for his paintings of flags.
*a. False
b. True
Title: Tom Wolfe term "le monde"
“Le monde” is a term Tom Wolfe uses to describe _______.
*a. The culturati
b. Artists
c. Bohemians
d. The middle class
Title: Stella- 1st shape canvas
The first artist to use “shaped canvasses” was _______.
a. Helen Frankenthaler
b. Jasper Johns
c. Morris Louis
*d. Frank Stella
Title: Conceptual-Lacks actual art object
Art which doesn’t require the making of an actual object is called _______.
*a. Conceptual Art
b. Minimalism
c. Earth Art
d. Nihilism
Title: Goldsworthy-sculp organic
Often the sculptures of _______ last only a short time since they are made of icicles, leaves,
lambswool, or some other fragile organic matter.
a. James Turrell
*b. Andy Goldsworthy
c. Martin Puryear
d. Robert Gober
e. Ilya Kabakov
Title: Op - Perceptual Abstraction
Op Art was referred to, by the artists who painted in that style, as _______.
a. Illusionism
b. Corneal Abstraction
*c. Perceptual Abstraction
d. Optical Abstraction
Title: Appropriation general
Art of the 1990s "which takes over or copies previously existing artworks, often for subversive
pruposes" is know as _______.
a. Minimalism
*b. Appropriation
c. Pop art
d. Funk art
e. Installation art
Title: Barbara Bloom Reign of Narcissism
Commenting on feminine vanity, _______ created a mixed-media installation entitled "The
Reign of Narcissism".
*a. Barbara Bloom
b. Judy Chicago
c. Louise Bourgeois
d. Kiki Smith
e. Cheri Samba
Title: Bill Viola
The video and sound installation "To Pray Without Ceasing" was created by the artist _____.
a. Nam June Paik
b. David Hockney
c. Jean Rustin
d. Robert Smithson
*e. Bill Viola
Title: Pollock and Benton
The Abstract Expressionist painter who studied with Thomas Hart Benton is _____.
a. Clyfford Still
b. Arshile Gorky
c. Wilfredo Lam
*d. Jackson Pollock
e. Robert Motherwell
Title: Damien Hirst-dead animals
Although inconsistent in his style, _______ is well-known for the sculptures he created by
preserving and floating dead creatures, such as sharks, in glass cases.
a. Bill Viola
b. Clifford Tjapaltjarri
*c. Damien Hirst
d. Delmas Howe
e. Jeff Koons
Title: Dara Birnbaum-news Tiananmen
The influence of the news media in shaping our perception of contemporary events is explored
in "Tiananmen Square\: Break in Transmission" by _______.
*a. Dara Birnbaum
b. Nam June Paik
c. Wenda Gu
d. Bill Viola
e. Karen Finley
Title: Mod art was Social chic in 1950s
In New York, Paris, London, and Berlin, Modern Art achieved social chic in the 1950s.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Elizabeth Murray - shaped, layered canvases
This artist's work contains abstracted domestic settings painted on layered, shaped canvases.
a. Paula Rego
b. Louise Bourgeois
c. Sandy Skoglund
d. Kiki Smith
*e. Elizabeth Murray
Title: Gilbert and George
The British "sculptors" Gilbert and _______ did both performance and photo pieces that are
autobiographical and socially critical.
a. Sullivan
*b. George
c. Geoffrey
d. Gene
e. Sandy
Title: Cubist 1st associated with Braque
The painter for whose work the word “Cubism” was coined was _______.
a. Frank Stella
b. James Rosenquist
*c. Georges Braque
d. Clement Greenberg
Title: Jeff Koons large toy sculp
The American sculptor, Jeff Koons, is recognized for his _______.
a. Tasteful and realistic figures
b. Large-scale airplane sculptures
c. Small-scale fish sculptures
*d. Large-scale toy sculptures
e. Classical ballet dancers
Title: Ellis Island is Europe Mod
Royal Cortissoz, a conservative critic of Modern Art in the 1920s, used the term “Ellis Island
Art” to refer to _______.
a. Social Realism
b. Abstract Expressionism
c. Surrealism
*d. European Modernism
Title: Greenberg’s destination in “clear[ing] the tracks of rubble
What was Clement Greenberg’s destination in “clear[ing] the tracks of all the remaining rubble
of the pre-Modern way of painting”?
a. Theory
b. Self-definition
*c. Flatness
Title: Jenny Saville body image
The prime motivation for Jenny Saville's paintings is the exploration of _______.
a. The feminine mystique
*b. Body image
c. Anorexia
d. Male dominance
e. Domesticity
Title: Barnett Newman's zips
Barnett Newman, painting during the 1950s, created paintings consisting of large fields of flat
color bisected by vertical stripes called _____.
*a. Zips
b. Contours
c. Slashes
d. Lifelines
e. Geometrics
Title: Bourgeois- Nest
This "lone wolf" sculptor is difficult to categorize because she has worked in so many media.
The steel sculpture "The Nest" is representative of only one of her artistic styles.
*a. Louise Bourgeois
b. Sadie Lee
c. Miriam Schapiro
d. Kiki Smith
e. Hung Liu
Title: Karen Finley
Sorrow and loss are themes in the work of _______, who has been inspired by the plight of
AIDS victims.
a. Yukinori Yanagi
*b. Karen Finley
c. Wenda Gu
d. Sadie Lee
e. Cheri Samba
Title: Robin Kakuhiwa
The painter _______ has been strongly influenced by the images of traditional Maori
woodcarvers.
a. Nam June Paik
b. Clifford Tjapaltjarri
*c. Robin Kakuhiwa
d. Cyprien Tokoudgba
e. Kos
Title: Haring subway grafitti
_______ gained fame as a New York subway grafitti artist.
*a. Keith Haring
b. Eric Fischl
c. Jean-Michel Basquiat
d. Joseph Beuys
e. Robert Motherwell
Title: Rachel Whiteread
_______ created an ambitious series of works consisting of casting the empty interior spaces
of houses, chairs, rooms, or the area under beds.
a. Louise Bourgeois
*b. Rachel Whiteread
c. Judy Chicago
d. Kiki Smith
e. Sndy Skoglund
Title: Painted Word, refers to ..
Tom Wolfe’s title, The Painted Word, refers to _______.
a. The literary nature of Modernist Art
b. The use of commercial imagery by Pop artists
*c. The influence of theorists on Modern Art
d. The use of explanatory notes next to Modern paintings in museums and galleries.
Title: Pre 1914 European styles
Modern styles of art, such as Fauvism, Cubism, and Suprematism, were invented by European
artists prior to 1914.
*a. True
b. False
Title: Orlan's plastic surgery
During a revival of "Body Art" in the 1990s, the performance artist, Orlan, _______.
a. Covered herself in chocolate
b. Had someone shoot her in the arm
*c. Reshaped her body through plastic surgery
d. Wrapped herself in felt and fat
e. Cast her hands in bronze
Title: Appropriation
Art of the 1990s "which takes over or copies previously existing artworks, often for subversive
pruposes" is know as _______.
a. Minimalism
*b. Appropriation
c. Pop art
d. Funk art
e. Installation art
Title: Said...Nothing is more bourgeois than to be afraid to look bourgeois”
The quote “Nothing is more bourgeois than to be afraid to look bourgeois” is attributed to
_______.
a. Jasper Johns
b. Tom Wolfe
c. Leo Steinberg
*d. Andy Warhol
Title: Rebecca Horn
The sculptor and filmmaker _______ was influenced by both Louise Bourgeois and Magdalena
Abakanovicz.
a. Kiki Smith
b. Bill Viola
c. Jenny Saville
*d. Rebecca Horn
e. Miriam Schapiro
Title: Stella-What you see is what you see
In referring to his paintings, _______said “What you see is what you see.”
a. Andy Warhol
b. James Turrell
*c. Frank Stella
d. Pablo Picasso
Title: Guggenheim Bilbao
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao was designed by\:
a. Giorgio Vasari
b. Pablo Picasso
c. Claes Oldenburg
*d. Frank Gehry
e. Isamu Noguchi
Title: Foreshortening
Foreshortening is the term for the effect produced by applying the logic of linear perspective to
every form that recedes into the distance.
*a. True
b. False