Type:P
Title: Postmod
1. What is the prevailing attitude of Postmodern critics toward "fine art"?
a.
Type:P
Title: Postmodern views of Greenberg
2. For what reason do Postmodernist critics denounce formalist critics like Clement Greenberg?
a.
Type:P
Title:Hard Edge- Ellsworth Kelly
11. Why was Ellsworth Kelly's work known as "Hard-Edge Abstraction"?
Type:P
Title: Assemblage
15. What is Assemblage?
a.
Type:P
Title: Louise Nevelson
16. What type of art did Louise Nevelson create?
a.
Type:P
Title: Post-Painterly Abstraction
20. In what way are the principles of Post-Painterly Abstraction related to Minimalist sculpture? a.
Type:P
Title:Post-Minimal-Hesse
22. How does Eva Hesse's Post-Minimalist work differ from the work of Judd and other artists of
the Minimalist school?
a.
Type:P
Title:Modernism vs. Postmodernism
31. How do the authors distinguish between Modernist and Postmodernist attitudes? a.
Type:P
Title:Superrealism-Duane Hanson
32. What type of art does Duane Hanson create?
a.
Type:P
Title: Barbara Kruger
41. To what issues does Barbara Kruger want her art to draw attention?
a.
Type:P
Title:
43. Who said "History for me is like the burning of coal, it is like a material. History is a warehouse
of energy"?
a.
Type:P
Title: Neo-Ex - Schnabel
44. Briefly characterize the style of Julian Schnabel:
a.
Type:P
Title:Martin Puryear
45. Describe the technique used by the sculptor Martin Puryear and the sources from which he
drew his inspiration:
a.
Type:P
Title:Postmodern Pictorialism
46. What do the authors mean by "Pictorialism" as it relates to Postmodernist art?
a.
Type:P
Title:Digital
47. In what way does digital imaging (computer manipulation of images) contribute to the
"dissolution of reality"?
a.
Type:P
Title: Postmodernist Pictorialism
48. How does Tansey's Innocent Eye Test illustrate the ambiguities and paradoxes of
Postmodernist Pictorialism?
a.
Type:P
Title:Digital
49. Name two artists who utilize computers in their work. a.
a.
Type:P
Title:Vietnam Memorial
51. Briefly describe the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C.:
a.
Type:MT
Matching:
Kline = Abstract Expressionism
Rothko = Abstract Expressionism
Pollock = Abstract Expressionism
Bridget Riley = Op Art
Oldenburg = Pop Art
= Abstract Expressionism
= Color Field Painting
= Minimal art
= Pop Art
= Assemblage
= Modern Art
= Abstract Expressionism
= Color Field Painting
b.
= Minimal art
= Pop Art
= Conceptual Art
= Earth and Site Art
= Superrealism
= Neo-Expressionism
= Assemblage
= Happenings
Type:MT
Title:
Matching:
= Merz
= Formalist abstraction
= Primary structures
= Expressionist figuration
= Post Modernism
= Deconstructionism
= Acrylic
= Automation
= Complementary after-image
= Complementary colors
= Space-time
Type:
Title:
Define: Superrealism
Define: Abstract Expressionism
Define: Color Field Painting
Define: Assemblage
Define: Modern Art
Define: Futurism
Define: International Style
Define: Abstract Expressionism
Define: Color Field Painting
Define: Merz
Define: Mies van der Rohe
Define: Phillip Johnson
Define: Formalist abstraction
Define: Minimal art
Define: Primary structures
Define: Expressionist figuration
Define: Pop Art
Define: Art & Technology
Define: Computer graphics /holography
Define: Conceptual; Art
Define: Post Modernism
Define: Deconstructionism
Define: Earth and Site Art
Define: Acrylic
Define: Assemblage
Define: Automation
Define: Complementary after-image
Define: Complementary colors
Define: Happenings
Define: Abstract Formalism (Minimalism, Structuralism,etc.
Define: Op Art
Define: Kinetic Art
Define: Technological art
Define: Activist & feminist art
Define: New Realism
Type:MT
Title:
1. Magdalena Abakanowicz = created large expressive pieces using fiber materials
2. Laurie Anderson = Post-modernist performance artist
3. Francis Bacon = creator of tortured expressionist figural paintings
4. Larry Bell = sculptor who worked with glass coated with various materials to create spatial
illusions
5. Judy Chicago = organized The Dinner Party, which used traditional craft techniques
6. Christo = interested in the relationship between art, the environment, and political action, he
created large temporary installations
7. Richard Diebenkorn = was a member of the Bay Area Figurative Painters
8. Helen Frankenthaler = artist who developed a technique called "soak-stain"
9. Jean-Luc Godard = creator of New Wave Films
10. Cement Greenberg = art critic who named "Post-Painterly Abstraction"
11. Richard Hamilton = British Pop artist
12. Allan Kaprow = famous for his "Happenings"
13. Kienholz = used found objects to create tableaus expressing empathy for ordinary people
14. Robert Motherwell = a founder of Abstract Expressionism
15. Manuel Neri = created and painted sculptures of nudes that combined classicism and
expressionism
16. Louise Nevelson = sculptor who assembled wooden forms into objects forming walls
17. Frei Otto = designed the roof of the Olympic Stadium, Munich
18. I.M.Pei = designed addition to National Gallery, Washington
19. Nam June Paik = experimental video artist
20. Jackson Pollock = = a founder of Abstract Expressionism
21. Robert Rauschenberg = combined art reproductions, newspaper clippings, and Abstract
Expressionist techniques in works called "combines"
22. Nicholas Schoffer = created the Spatio-dynamic Tower in Liege, Belgium
23. David Smith = sculptor who said "The equipment I use . . . duplicates as nearly as possible
the production equipment used in making a locomotive"
24. Robert Smithson = created giant earth works, including Spiral Jetty
25. Andy Warhol = American Pop artist who used subjects from mass media
26 = computer artist who combined images from electronic cameras with those created by hand
27. Frank Lloyd Wright = designed Guggenheim Museum
Eva Hesse=
Title: Tinguely
33. The sculptor who believed that "the only stable thing is movement" was
a. DonaldJudd
b. David Smith
*c. Jean Tinguely
d. Claes Oldenburg
Title: Postmoderrnism
34. A great distrust of the Western ideas of progress and objective truth, as well as the view that
all cultures are equally valid, is typical of the general movement known as
a. Constructivism
*b. Postmodemism
c. Social Realism
d. the International Style
Title:Op
35. The paintings and prints of Vasarely are characterized by
a. a deep sense of human tragedy
*b. three-dimensional illusions created by mathematical perspective patterns
c. post-modem iconographic riddles
d. the use of rich colors achieved by the soakstain method
Title:Post-Painterly Abstraction
36. Artists working in the Post-Painterly Abstractionist style
a. believed that the Abstract Expressionists had gone too far in removing social references from
works
*b. believed that their works should contain no reference to the world outside their own
compositions of art
c. wanted to express religious feelings through their simple forms
d. were deeply influenced by the work of African and pre-Columbian cultures
Title:Computer Art
43. Which of following was most deeply involved in the use of computer technology for the
creation of art?
a. Louise Bourgeois
b. Eva Hesse
*c. Sonia Sheridan
d. Marisol
Type:P
Title: General 20thc
57. Discuss the utilization of modern technologies in the arts of the twentieth century.
a.
Type:P
Title: Diebenkorn Slide id
62.
a. Sam Gilliam
*b. Richard Diebenkorn
c. Helen Frankenthaler
d. Willem de Kooning
Type:P
Title: David Smith (Stokstad-Figure 23-66)
63.
a. Donald Judd
b. Eva Hesse
*c. David Smith
d. Robert Smithson
Type:P
Title: Assemblage-Feminist-Louise Nevelson (Stokstad-Figure 23-11)
65.
a . Eduardo Paolozzi
*b. Louise Nevelson
c. LouiseBourgeois
d. Sonia Sheridan
Type:P
Title: Post-Minimal-Larry Bell (Stokstad-Figure 23-44)
68.
a. Claes Oldenburg
b. Jean Tinguely
c. JasperJohns
*d. Larry Bell
Type:P
Title: Neo-Expressionism- Kiefer
72. Who painted this work and to what do the forms refer?
a. Anselm Kiefer, Father Son and Holy Ghost (Figure 23-35). The chairs with the flames refer to
the Christian Trinity. For Kiefer "history is a warehouse of energy," and he sees the wooden walls,
the trees, and the chairs as potential sources of energy for the spirit
Type:P
Title: Louise Nevelson sculpture
77. Attribute the images on the screen to an artist and a stylistic grouping. Give the reasons for
your attributions, using complete sentences and referring to specific works that you know.
a.
Type:P
Title: portrait by Francis Bacon
80. Attribute the images on the screen to an artist and a stylistic grouping. Give the reasons for
your attributions, using complete sentences and referring to specific works that you know.
a.
Type:MT
6. The Dinner Party = Judy Chicago
8. Wrapped Island = Christo
10. Hand-Spring: A Flying Pigeon Interfering = Eadweard Muybridge
20. The Steerage = Alfred Steiglitz
23. Spiral Jetty = Robert Smithson
Title:
42. (Figure23-38)
a. Kasebier
b. Southworth and Hawes
c*. Rauschenburg
d. Gilbert and George
Title:
46. (Figure22-40)
a. Hesse
*b. Kahlo
c. Frankenthaler
d. Nevelson
Title:
49. (Figure 23-76)
a. Kaprow
b. Smithson
c. Shapiro
d. Hockney
Type:
Title:
4. Define / Identify Post-Modernism
6. Define / Identify neorationalism
7. Define / Identify pluralism
8. Define / Identify appropriation
9. Define / Identify multiculturalism
10. Define / Identify National Endowment for the Arts (NEA.
Type:
Title: David Smith
10. What art movement inspired David Smith's Cubi series?
Type:
Title: Superrealism +
17. Although Richard Estes is a Super Realist, his paintings can also be seen as representational
works of another movement. Name the movement.
Type:
Title:Craft
20. Why is there now a growing interest in high quality craft objects?
Type:
Type:
Title:Reduction-Stella-Judd
4. Both Frank Stella and Donald Judd attempt to purge art of inessentials. Compare and contrast
their methods discussing shape, material, color and composition. Why did Judd turn away from
painting to sculpture?
Type:
Title: End of Modernism
5. What events, art movements, and ideas contributed to the end of modernism?
Type:
Title: Appropriation
7. Discuss appropriation in art including both "collage appropriators" and "straight appropriators."
Who was the genesis of appropriation? What are some of the legal implications of appropriation?
Type:
Title:Neo-Expressionism?
8. How has art as a social tool been most effective? Discuss two examples exploring their
locations, style, compositional devices, etc.
Type:
Title:Neo-Expressionism
9. Compare Eric Fischl's (29-66) and Anselm Kiefer's (29-68) methods of evoking troubling
historical and social realities. How does each artist use past stylistic devices to effectively point
out presentday ills? Cite specific examples.
Title: Jean-Michal Basquiat
7. Jean-Michel Basquiat's Flexible recalls the so-called "x-ray" styles of
a. German Expressionism
*b. Australian Aborigines
c. Japanese woodblocks
d. Italian Futurism
Title: Photography - Censorship
9. The photographs of ____________ were the source of a 1990 lawsuit regarding federal
funding and the arts.
a. Keith Haring
b. Mark Tansey
c. Ana Mendieta
*d. Robert Mapplethorpe
Title: Memorials
10. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was designed by:
*a. Maya Lin
b. Richard Serra
c. Ann Hamilton
d. Duane Hanson
Type:
Title: Post-Painterly Abstraction
13. ____________________ is considered to be the legitimate heir of Abstract Expressionism.
*a. Post-Painterly Abstraction
b. Pop Art
c. Minimalism
d. Surrealism
:
Title:
23. The intensity of visual observation seen in the work of Audrey Flack typifies the movement.
*a. Superrealism
a.
b.
c.
d.
Type:
Title: Vietnam Memorial
35. What covers the granite walls of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Title:
38.
a.
Answer:
Type:
Title:
41. What are the art historical references found in Francis Bacon's Head Surrounded by Sides of
Beef? Why are these references used? What elements of the work are unique to the artist's style
and expression?
Answer:
Type:
Title:
43. Why did artists like Richard Diebenkorn return to figural subjects from Abstract
Expressionism? In what ways does his Girl on a Terrace reflect an influence of both action
painting and Color Field painting? How does this work compare to and differ from Philip
Pearlstein's Two Models?
Answer:
Type:
Title:
5. How is the "primitive real of the subsconscious" communicated by the pictographs of Adolph
Gottlieb?
Type:
Title: Gorky
6. How does the imagery of Arshile Gorky's paintings transform the biomorphic abstraction of
Surrealism and the color intensity of Kandinsky?
Type:
Title: Art Brut
8. Define l'art brut.
Type:
Title:Dubuffet
What sources influenced Jean Dubuffet in his work?
Type:
Title:Dubuffet
How does Dubuffet's work relate to his statement, "I would like people to look at my work as an
enterprise for the rehabilitation of scorned values, and ... a work of ardent celebration."
Type:
Title: Cobra
9. What was the COBRA group?
Type:
Title: Appel
How did Karel Appel synthesize contemporary European influences with American Action
Painting in his work?
Type:
Title: Francis Bacon
10. How does Francis Bacon utilize art historical imagery in his forceful and highly personal
expressionist style?
Type:
Title: Color Field
11. What techniques were advanced by Color Field painters?
Type:
Title: Color field
12. Define the contributions made to Color Field Painting by the following artists: Mark Rothko,
Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis
Type:
Title: Hard Edge
13. Define hard-edge painting.
Type:
Title: Hard edge
How does the work of Ellsworth Kelly exemplify hard edge painting?
Type:
Title: Hard edge
14. How do hard-edge paintings by Frank Stella break from usual pictorial conventions? In what
ways does Stella's composition reinforce an objective reality of the work of art?
Type:
Title:African
15. What three stylistic tendencies have been pursued by African-American artists since World
War 11:
a.
b.
c.
Type:
Title:African
What three stylistic tendencies have been pursued by African-American artists since World War
11How are these tendencies manifested in the works of: Romare Bearden, William T. Williams,
Raymond Saunders
Type:
Title: Op
16. Define "Op Art;" what are the formal characteristics of this style ?
Type:
Title: Op
How is Op Art reliant on science and technology?
Type:
Title: Op
Who are the major practioners of "Op Art?"
Type:
Title:Audrey Flack
21. The work of Audrey Flack exemplifies what style of painting?
Type:
Title:Audrey Flack
23. How is Flack's painting invested with autobiographical content as well as feminist values?
Type:
Title: Neo-Expressionism
25. What is the relationship of Neo-Expressionism to Late Modernism?
Type:
Title: Neo- Expressionism- Arte Povera
26. Define Arte Povera; how has the movement, and other earlier movements in art, informed the
paintings of Francesco Clemente?
Type:
Title: Neo- Expressionism
27. In what ways does Anselm Kiefer's To the Unknown Painter exemplify the utilization of
previous art styles?
Type:
Title: Title: Neo- Expressionism- Kiefer
How does the theme of Anselm Kiefer's To the Unknown Painter communicate a Late-Modern
perspective?
Type:
Title: Title: Neo- Expressionism- Susan Rothenberg- Jennifer Bartlett
28. Define the contributions made by Susan Rothenberg and Jennifer Bartlett Elizabeth Murray
to the varied an vibrant activity of Neo-Expressionism:
Type:
Title: Kay Walkingstick
29. Describe how Kay Walkingstick combines Neo-Expressionist and Neo-Abstract values in her
work.
Type:
Title: Noguchi
6. In what ways does the sculpture of Isamu Noguchi mediate Eastern and Western artistic
traditions?
Type:
Title: May Lin
7. How did Maya Lin transform the concept of the public monument?
Type:
Title: Minimal- Puryear
3. How has Minimalism influenced the works of these contemporary African-American artists:
Martin Puryear
Type:
Title: Nevelson
10. In what ways does Louise Nevelson, through her assemblage sculpture, affect a
transfiguration of commonplace objects?
Type:
Title: Barbara Chase
11. How has Barbara Chase utilized elements of African art to enforce the communicative power
of her sculpture?
Type:
Title: Eva Hesse
12. How would you justify the statement that in viewing Eva Hesse's sculpture we see "a central
mystery unveiled through its often paradoxical, mythic character"?
Type:
Title: Installations
13. How may "Environments" and "Installations" be considered unique approaches to art; how are
they distinct from traditional definitions of painting or sculpture?
Type:
Title: Keinholz
14. How do the following artists contribute to "Environments:" George Segal
Edward and Nancy Keinholz
The State Hospital, by Edward and Nancy Keinholz, (Janson, p. 840, ill. 1164) is emblematic, in
Janson's words, of "the unseen misery beneath the surface of modern life." How does this work
communicate this suffering with such an impact to us?
Type:
Title: Pfaff
15. In what ways may Judy Pfaff's ebullient "Environments" be compared to the energy of Action
Painting?
Type:
Title: Performance - Beuys
17. Define Performance Art; how has Joseph Beuys challenged the traditional boundaries of art
through his Performances?
Type:
Title: Post-Modernism
1. Define Post-Modernism; how does Post-Modernism reflect societal and philosophical currents
of our time?
Title: Post-Modernism
2. Define: Semiotics
Type:
Title: Post-Modernism
Define:Deconstruction
Type:
Title: Post-Modernism
Define:Post-Modern Art
Type:
Title: Post-Modernism
1. In what ways is the definition of post-modern art complex?
Type:
Title: Post-Modernism
2. Discuss the foundation of post-modern art.
Type:
Title: Post-Modernism
3. What is the "Achilles' heel" of Post-Modernism?
Type:
Title: Post-Modernism
1. Discuss the Post-Modernist critique of the International style.
Type:
Title: Post-Modernism
2. How is Michael Graves' Public Services Building in Portland exemplary of Post-Modernism?
Type:
Title: Post-Modernism
3. What elements of Post-Modernism are found in the architectural designs of: SITES Inc.
Type:
Title: Post-Modernism
4. What principles define Deconstructivism in architecture?
Type:
Title: Post-Modernism
4. What principles define Deconstructivism in Sculpture
Title: Post-Modernism - Fabro
1. What attitudes of post-modern art are found in works by: Luciano Fabro
Type:
Title: Post-Modernism - Paik
1. What attitudes of post-modern art are found in works by: Nam June Paik
Type:
Title: Post-Modernism - Longo
1. What attitudes of post-modern art are found in works by: Robert Longo
Type:
Title: Post-Modernism - installation
2. Why is installation art a particularly fertile field for post-modernism?
Type:
Title: Post-Modernism - installation
What artists are exemplary of post-modernism in their installations?
Type:
Title: Post-Modern Painting
1. What is the relationship of post-modern to late modern painting?
Type:
Title: Post-Modern Painting - Salle
2. Discuss post-modern approaches in paintings by: David Salle
Type:
Title: Post-Modern Painting - Penck
2. Discuss post-modern approaches in paintings by: A. R. Penck
Type:
Title: Post-Modern Painting - Mark Tansey
2. Discuss post-modern approaches in paintings by: Mark Tansey
Type:
Title: Post-Modern Photography
1. What is the importance of image and text in post-modern photography?
Type:
Title: Post-Modern Photography - Cindy Sherman
2. How may we consider the photographic art of Cindy Sherman to be "a paradigm of postmodernism"?
Type:
Title: Post-Modern Theory - Semiotics
1. Give a brief history of Semiotics
Type:
Title: Post-Modern Theory - Deconstruction
1. Give a brief history of Deconstruction
Type:
Title: Post-Modern Theory - semiotics and deconstructtion
1. How do the post-modern theories of semiotics and deconstructtion open new avenues of
understanding for us?
Type:
Title: Post-Modern Theory - semiotics and deconstructtion
7. Semiotics and Deconstruction are two theories within Post-Modernism.
*a. true
b. false
Type:
Title: Installation
10. The work of Judy Pfaff exemplifies contemporary ______ art.
a. hard-edge
b. Environmental
c. Conceptual
*d. Installation
Type:
Title: Rauschenberg
11. Robert Rauschenberg pioneered assemblage sculpture during Dada.
a. true
*b. false
Type:
Title:
14. How do the following artists contribute to "Environments:" George Segal, Edward and Nancy
Keinholz
Type:
Title:
15. The State Hospital, by Edward and Nancy Keinholz, (Janson, p. 840, ill. 1164) is emblematic,
in Janson's words, of "the unseen misery beneath the surface of modern life." How does this work
communicate this suffering with such an impact to us?
Type:
Title:
36. 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
Type:
Title:
37. Matthew Barney in Cremaster 5: Her Giant uses a series of films to refer to the idea of gender
merging.
*a. True
b. False
Type:
Title:
8. 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
Type:
Title:
14. 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
Type:
Title:
19. 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
Type:
Title:
30. 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
Type:
Title:
37. Susan Rothenberg's paintings first came to public attention in a 1978 exhibition at the
Whitney Museum of American Art.
a. True
*b. False
Type:
Title:
2. Although Oldenburg's Knife Ship is huge in its proportion, it falls into scale when displayed in a
large space.
a. True
*b. False
Type:
21. 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
Type:
25. The story and symbols in a work of art make up its ____________.
a. anthropomorphism
b. representation
*c. iconography
d. iconoclasm
e) synthesism
Type:
Title:
11. Art that looks very much like objects in the natural world is never expressive.
a. True
*b. False
Type:
Title:
38. Most artists who paint in an abstract or nonrepresentational style do so because they cannot
draw well.
a. True
*b. False
Type:
Title: David Hockney
48. David Hockney worked with a master printer and experimented with using colored paper pulp
to paint images.
*a. True
b. False
Type:
Title: David Hockney
6. 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