2014-2015 Academic Junior High Decathlon
Super Quiz Fine Arts Study Guide
Photography, Video & New Media Arts, Photo-Based Imagery, and Photo Realism
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Super Quiz Fine Arts: Photography - The Annotated Mona Lisa - Quotes
Quotes:
“A spirit in my feet said go, and I went.” – Matthew Brady (referring to the Civil War, pg. 93)
“When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards
them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The
photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer.”
– Julia Margaret Cameron (pg. 95)
“From this day, painting is dead!” – Delaroche (pg.95)
“We hate everything that has to do with the photograph.” – Vlaminck (pg. 95)
“Let a man of genius make use of the Daguerreotype as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a
height that we do not know.” – Delacroix (pg. 95)
“[Photography was] more than an art, it is a solar phenomenon, where the artist collaborates with the
sun.” – Lamartine (pg. 95)
“There is one moment at which the elements in motion are in balance. Photography must seize upon
this moment.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson (pg. 152)
“A picture of shapes and underlying that the feeling I had about life.”
– Alfred Stieglitz (referring to “The Steerage”, pg. 153)
“Photography is my passion, the search for truth my obsession.” – Alfred Stieglitz (pg. 153)
“[I try to get the quality of a subject] rendered with the utmost exactness: stone is hard, bark is rough,
flesh is alive.” – Edward Weston (pg. 153)
“Camped on the edge of a pea field where the crop had failed in a freeze. The tires had just been sold
from the car to buy food. She was 32 years old with seven children.”
– Dorothea Lange (referring to “Migrant Mother”, pg. 153)
Super Quiz Fine Arts: Photography - The Annotated Mona Lisa - Quotes
Quotes:
“This small, shy, insecure woman had a strong sense of justice which sparked a silent fury that came to
light in the strong emotion of her photographs. With a camera in her hand, she became a giant.”
- Robert J. Doherty (referring to Dorothea Lange, pg. 153)
“At the peak of her distinguished career, she was willing and eager as any beginner on a first
assignment. She would get up at daybreak to photograph a bread crumb, if necessary.”
– Alfred Eisenstaedt (referring to Margaret Bourke-White, pg. 184)
“Sometimes I could murder someone who gets in my way when I’m taking a picture. I become
irrational. There is only one moment when a picture is there, and an instant later it is gone – gone
forever.” – Margaret Bourke-White (pg. 184)
“Big country – space for heart and imagination.” – Ansel Adams (referring to Yosemite Valley, pg. 185)
“A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels.” – Ansel Adams (pg. 185)
“The mind knows more than the eye and camera can see.” – Jerry N. Uelsmann (pg. 186)
“[My goal is to reveal] that which was never really hidden, but rarely is noticed.”
– Philip-Lorca de Corcia (pg. 196)
Super Quiz Fine Arts: Photography – The Annotated Mona Lisa – Artists & Works
List of Artists & Art Work
Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)
“Pole Vaulter: Multiple Exposure Photograph of George Reynolds”, (1884-1885), MMA, NY
“The Agnew Clinic”, (1889), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
William Michael Harnett (1848-1892)
“Still Life – Violin and Music”, (1888), MMA, NY
Nicéphore Niépce (1765-1833)
“View from His Window at Gras”, (1826), Gernsheim Collection, University of Texas, Austin
Louis-J. –M. Daguerre (1789-1851)
“Still Life”, (1839)
“A Portrait of Charles L. Smith”, (1843), International Museum of Photography at
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877)
“Sailing Craft”, (c. 1844), Science Museum, London
Timothy O’Sullivan
“Canyon de Chelly, Arizona”, (1867), International Museum of Photography at
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Matthew Brady (1823-1896)
“Ambulance Wagons and Drivers at Harewood Hospital”, (1863) Library of Congress,
Washington, D.C.
Jacob Riis (1849-1914)
“Street Arabs in the Area of Mulberry Street”, (c. 1889), Jacob A. Riis Collection,
Museum of the City of New York
Nadar (1820-1910)
“Sarah Bernhardt”, (1859), International Museum of Photography at
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879)
“Call, I Follow: I Follow: Let Me Die”, (c.1867), Royal Photographic Society, Bath
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)
“Children Playing in Ruins”, (1933), Magnum, NY
Super Quiz Fine Arts: Photography – The Annotated Mona Lisa – Artists & Works
List of Artists & Art Work
Man Ray (1890-1977)
“Rayograph 1928”, (1928), MoMA, NY
Eugéne Atget (1857-1927)
“Luxembourg, Fontaine Corpeaux”, (1901-1902), MoMA, NY
Edward Weston (1886-1958)
“Leeks”, (1927), Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946)
“The Steerage”, (1907), MoMA, NY
Dorothea Lange (1895-1965)
“Migrant Mother, California”, (1936), Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Berenice Abbott (1898-1991)
“Nightview, NY”, (1932), Commerce Graphics Ltd., Inc.
Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971)
“At the Time of the Louisville Flood”, (1937), George Arents Research Library,
Syracuse University, NY
Ansel Adams (1902-1984)
“Sand Dunes, White Sands National Monument, N.M.”, (c. 1942), Ansel Adams Trust, NY
Helen Levitt
“New York (Broken Mirror)”, (1942), Laurence Miller Gallery, NY
Jerry N. Uelsmann (1934 -present)
“Navigation without Numbers”, (1971), personal collection, Uelsmann
John Baldessari
“The Story of One Who Set Out to Study Fear”, (1982), Sonnabend Collection, NY
Chuck Close (1940-present)
“Fanny / Fingerpainting”, (1985), Pace Gallery, NY
Bill Viola (1951-present)
“Nantes Triptych”, (1992), video/sound installation
Super Quiz Fine Arts: Photography – The Annotated Mona Lisa – Artists & Works
List of Artists & Art Work
Matthew Barney (1967-present)
“De Lama Lâmina”, (2004), Gladstone Gallery, production still
“Cremaster”, (1994-2002)
Andreas Gursky (1955-present)
“Bundestag (Parliament), (1998), Tate Gallery, London
Jeff Wall (1946-present)
“A Sudden Gust of Wind (After Hokusai), (1993), Tate Gallery, London
Additional artists:
Henry O. Tanner
Samuel F.B. Morse
Giorgio De Chirico
Marcel Duchamp
W. Eugene Smith
Robert Capa
Paul Strand
Joel Meyerowitz
Diane Arbus
Robert Frank
Bruce Davidson
Don Eddy
Richard Estes
Audrey Flack
Malcolm Morley
Lee Friedlander
Garry Winogrand
Gary Hill
Tony Oursler
Gillian Wearing
Doug Aitken
Shirin Neshat
Candida Höfer
Thomas Struth
Thomas Ruff
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Nan Goldin
Philip-Lorca deCorcia
Tina Barney
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Yasumasa Morimura
Sam Taylor-Wood
Gregory Crewdson
Lorna Simpson
Super Quiz Fine Arts: Photography - The Annotated Mona Lisa –
Artists & Works Matching Worksheet
Photographers & Their Works
Matching Sheet
Draw a line connecting each person
with their work:
“Canyon de Chelly, Arizona
Charles Louis
Darwin
J.M. Daguerre
“Leeks”
Timothy O’Sullivan
“Sailing Craft”
Edward Weston
“Migrant Mother, California”
Henri Cartier-Bresson
“A Portrait of Charles L. Smith”
Nadar
“Street Arabs in the Area of
Mulberry Street”
William Henry Fox Talbot
“Call, I follow; I follow; let me die”
Dorothea Lange
Eugène Atget
Julia Margaret Cameron
Jacob Riis
“Sarah Bernhardt”
“Children Playing in Ruins”
Luxembourg, Fontaine Corpeaux”
Super Quiz Fine Arts: Photography - The Annotated Mona Lisa –
Artists & Works Matching Worksheet
Photographers & Their Works
Matching Sheet Answer Key
Draw a line connecting each person
with their work:
“Nightview, NY”
Charles
Darwin Bourke-White
Margaret
“New York (Broken Mirror)”
Berenice Abbott
Helen Levitt
Alfred Stieglitz
Ansel Adams
Jerry Uelsmann
“At the Time of the Louisville
Flood”
“Fanny/Fingerpainting”
“Navigation without Numbers”
“Sand Dunes, White Sands
National Monument, N.M.”
“Bundestag (Parliament)”
Chuck Close
John Baldessari
Andreas Gursky
Jeff Wall
“A Sudden Gust of Wind (After
Hokusai)”
“The Steerage”
“The Story of One Who Set Out to
Study Fear”
Super Quiz Fine Arts: Photography - The Annotated Mona Lisa –
Artists & Works Matching Worksheet Answer Key
Photographers & Their Works
Matching Sheet Answer Key
Draw a line connecting each person
with their work:
“Canyon de Chelly, Arizona
Charles Louis
Darwin
J.M. Daguerre
“Leeks”
Timothy O’Sullivan
“Sailing Craft”
Edward Weston
“Migrant Mother, California”
Henri Cartier-Bresson
“A Portrait of Charles L. Smith”
Nadar
“Street Arabs in the Area of
Mulberry Street”
William Henry Fox Talbot
“Call, I follow; I follow; let me die”
Dorothea Lange
“Sarah Bernhardt”
Eugène Atget
Julia Margaret Cameron
“Children Playing in Ruins”
Jacob Riis
Luxembourg, Fontaine Corpeaux”
Super Quiz Fine Arts: Photography - The Annotated Mona Lisa –
Artists & Works Matching Worksheet Answer Key
Photographers & Their Works
Matching Sheet Answer Key
Draw a line connecting each person
with their work:
“Nightview, NY”
Charles
Darwin Bourke-White
Margaret
“New York (Broken Mirror)”
Berenice Abbott
Helen Levitt
“At the Time of the Louisville
Flood”
“Fanny/Fingerpainting”
Alfred Stieglitz
“Navigation without Numbers”
Ansel Adams
“Sand Dunes, White Sands
National Monument, N.M.”
Jerry Uelsmann
“Bundestag (Parliament)”
Chuck Close
John Baldessari
“A Sudden Gust of Wind (After
Hokusai)”
Andreas Gursky
“The Steerage”
Jeff Wall
“The Story of One Who Set Out to
Study Fear”
Super Quiz Fine Arts: Photography - The Annotated Mona Lisa - Review Questions
American Realism
Who was one of the pioneers in using rapid multiple exposure photography to develop a photo
sequences? ___________________________________________________________________________
Who used photo sequences to study the anatomy of movement? _______________________________
What is the meaning of trompe l’oeil? _____________________________________________________
What American artist was known for his microscopically accurate still life paintings of ordinary objects?
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Birth of Photography
In 1826, who produced the first surviving photographic image? _________________________________
What was used to produce the first photographic image? ______________________________________
Who collaborated with Nicéphore Niépce to invent a more practical process of photography?
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Who took the earliest known photograph of a human being? ___________________________________
Who invented the calotype or photo negative? ______________________________________________
What were the advantages of wet-plate photography over earlier forms of photography?
_____________________________________________________________________________________
What were the advantages of dry plate photography? _________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
During what time period were portable hand-held cameras and roll film invented? _________________
What is a shutterbug? __________________________________________________________________
What genre of photography convinced U.S. legislators to establish the first national park system?
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Who documented the horrors of the U.S. Civil War? __________________________________________
Who published a book of photos that detailed the shocking conditions of the squalid tenements located
on Manhattan’s Lower East Side? _________________________________________________________
What was the name of the book and when was it published? ___________________________________
What was Jacob Riis’s job? ______________________________________________________________
Super Quiz Fine Arts: Photography - The Annotated Mona Lisa - Review Questions
Birth of Photography
Jacob Riis’s graphic images of the squalid tenements in New York led to the first legislation to:
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Who photographed the leading artistic figures of Paris, beginning in 1853? _______________________
What is a caricaturist? __________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Who invented aerial photography? ________________________________________________________
What photographer was among the first to use of electric light for portrait photographs? ____________
What is an immobilizer? ________________________________________________________________
Who said, “When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty
toward them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man.
The photograph best taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer”? _______________________
Who was the first photographer to employ soft-focus effects in order to convey atmosphere in a
photograph? _________________________________________________________________________
With the invention of photography, who declared, “From this day, painting is dead!”? ______________
What type of artwork became obsolete with the invention of the daguerreotype?
_____________________________________________________________________________________
What artist used photographs as studies for hard to hold poses that he later incorporated into
paintings? ____________________________________________________________________________
What other artists used photographs to record images for paintings, including panoramic landscapes
and action shots? ______________________________________________________________________
What art genre in painting compositions became popular as a direct result of the invention of
photography? _________________________________________________________________________
Who described photography as, “More than arch, it is a solar phenomenon, where the artist
collaborates with the sun.”? _____________________________________________________________
Super Quiz Fine Arts: Photography - The Annotated Mona Lisa - Review Questions
Photography Comes of Age
What movements influenced avant-garde photographers to express their personal views of the world?
___________________________________________________________________________________
What French photographer began as a Cubist painter before turning to photography?
___________________________________________________________________________________
Cartier – Bresson contributed greatly to photojournalism with his ability to capture what he called the:
___________________________________________________________________________________
Who developed a method of photography called rayographs? ________________________________
Who is considered the father of modern art photography? ___________________________________
What photographer chronicled Paris street life in straightforward, uncluttered, clean photographic
style? ______________________________________________________________________________
Who revolutionized photography by stressing the use of unretouched photographs to exploit the direct
honesty of the art medium? ____________________________________________________________
What photograph is the first documentary photo to reach the level of conscious art in America?
____________________________________________________________________________________
Who said, “Photography is my passion, the search for truth my obsession”? ______________________
Edward Weston is best known for the sharp detail in photographs of objects such as:
____________________________________________________________________________________
What photographer captured the stark suffering of the Great Depression in her photographs of the
poor? ______________________________________________________________________________
Super Quiz Fine Arts: Photography - The Annotated Mona Lisa - Review Questions
Photography: What’s New
Who photographed moving portraits of Japanese children crippled by Mercury poisoning?
_____________________________________________________________________________________
What is the most important trait of contemporary photography? _______________________________
Berenice Abbott is best known for producing a series of photographs of: _________________________
What magazines did Margaret Bourke White work for as a photojournalist? ______________________
What is a photo essay? _________________________________________________________________
As a war photographer during World War II, what photographer recorded the faces of survivors when
Buchenwald was liberated? ______________________________________________________________
How old was Ansel Adams when he took his first picture of Yosemite Valley? ______________________
Who is considered the preeminent photographer of the American West? _________________________
Who used a large-format view camera to capture stunning landscapes with rich texture and infinite
tonal ranges? _________________________________________________________________________
What is the style of photography called “snapshot aesthetic”? _________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
What photographers were part of the street photography movement during the 1960s?
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Photographer is best known for her photographs of marginalized people, such as transvestites,
hermaphrodites, giants and dwarfs? _______________________________________________________
Who uses a series of superimposed negatives to produce a combined image that makes real objects
appear unreal? ________________________________________________________________________
Who said, “The mind knows more than the eye and camera can see.”? ___________________________
The layering of different negatives to produce one image is called a: _____________________________
What conceptual artist is considered a pioneer of Post-Modernism? _____________________________
John Baldessari is best known for combining narrative photo sequences with: ______________________
Super Quiz Fine Arts: Photography - The Annotated Mona Lisa - Review Questions
Photo-Realism
What is another name for Photo-Realism? __________________________________________________
During what period in the United States did Photo-Realism thrive? ______________________________
What is Photo-Realism? _________________________________________________________________
What type of tools are used by artists to achieve the near exact likenesses depicted in Photo-Realism?
_____________________________________________________________________________________
What Photo-Realist is known for his paintings of street scenes depicted as reflections from plate glass
windows? ____________________________________________________________________________
What artists specializes in Post-Modern still lifes that are allegories for women’s roles in modern
society? _____________________________________________________________________________
Who uses methods similar to pointillism to produce large-scale portraits of faces? _________________
Who uses thousands of Polaroid prints to compose images with a mosaic-like quality? ______________
Contemporary Art: Video and New-Media Art
When was video first used as an art form? __________________________________________________
What are different forms of multimedia that are used to create art? _____________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
What artist uses fresco-sized projections of immersive video loops simultaneously shown on four walls
of a darkened room to create “a walk-in movie”? ____________________________________________
Who created the multi-media installation entitled “Cremaster”? ________________________________
What contemporary artist explores the status of women in Islam with the use of evocative metaphors
and stunningly beautiful compositions? ____________________________________________________
Who used seven façades of the New York Museum of Modern Art as screens for his video narrative
“Sleepwalkers”? ______________________________________________________________________
Who said, “Art can go out through the whole world and link us together as human beings.”?
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Super Quiz Fine Arts: Photography - The Annotated Mona Lisa - Review Questions
Photo-Based Imagery
What are neo-Pictoralists? ______________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
Who photographed industrial structures, such as water towers, as “anonymous sculptures”?
____________________________________________________________________________________
Who taught as professors at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf? ___________________________
Who influence the work of a number of German artists, including Andres Gursky, Candida Hofer, and
Thomas Struth? ______________________________________________________________________
Andres Gursky produced large scale color photographs of: ____________________________________
What artist specializes in large scale color photos of visitors at art museums? ____________________
What artist uses a radio – activated flash trap to capture pictures of street scenes from a distance?
____________________________________________________________________________________
What is photographic stagecraft? ________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
Who are considered masters of photographic stagecraft? _____________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
What African-American artist creates elegant, high impact black and white photos of racial and gender
stereotypes? _________________________________________________________________________
What artist uses huge color transparencies mounted in light boxes to create cinematographic
photography? ________________________________________________________________________
Who organized an exhibition of art work called “Freeze” by a group of artists called the Young British
Artists? ______________________________________________________________________________
What group of artists is considered as the major art phenomenon of the 1990s?
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Super Quiz Fine Arts: Photography –The Annotated Mona Lisa - Review Questions Answer Key
American Realism
Who was one of the pioneers in using rapid multiple exposure photography to develop a photo
sequences? Thomas Eakins
Who used photo sequences to study the anatomy of movement? Thomas Eakins
What is the meaning of trompe l’oeil? Fooled the eye.
What American artist was known for his microscopically accurate still life paintings of ordinary objects?
William Michael Harnett
Birth of Photography
In 1826, who produced the first surviving photographic image? Nicéphore Niépce
What was used to produce the first photographic image? A polished pewter plate.
Who collaborated with Nicéphore Niépce to invent a more practical process of photography?
Louis J.M. Daguerre.
Who took the earliest known photograph of a human being? Louis J.M. Daguerre
Who invented the calotype or photo negative? William Henry Fox Talbot
What were the advantages of wet-plate photography over earlier forms of photography? It reduced
exposure times while retaining a precise image.
What were the advantages of dry plate photography? Images were able to be preserved for a longer
time before developing, the speed of exposure was faster, and photographers did not need a tripod.
During what time period were portable hand-held cameras and roll film invented? The 1880s.
What is a shutterbug? An amateur photographer.
What genre of photography convinced U.S. legislators to establish the first national park system? Travel
photography.
Who documented the horrors of the U.S. Civil War? Matthew Brady
Who published a book of photos that detailed the shocking conditions of the squalid tenements located
on Manhattan’s Lower East Side? Jacob Riis
What was the name of the book and when was it published? How the Other Half Lives, 1890.
What was Jacob Riis’s job? He was a New York police reporter.
Super Quiz Fine Arts: Photography –The Annotated Mona Lisa - Review Questions Answer Key
Birth of Photography
Jacob Riis’s graphic images of the squalid tenements in New York led to the first legislation to: Reform
housing codes and labor laws.
Who photographed the leading artistic figures of Paris, beginning in 1853? Nadar
What is a caricaturist? A person who draws people or animals with exaggerated features to make the
image look comical.
Who invented aerial photography? Nadar
What photographer was among the first to use of electric light for portrait photographs? Nadar
What is an immobilizer? A special chair with clamps that was used by early photographers to keep their
subjects still.
Who said, “When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty
toward them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man.
The photograph best taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer”? Julia Margaret Cameron
Who was the first photographer to employ soft-focus effects in order to convey atmosphere in a
photograph? Julia Margaret Cameron
With the invention of photography, who declared, “From this day, painting is dead!”? Delaroche
What type of artwork became obsolete with the invention of the daguerreotype? Painting of miniature
portraits.
What artist used photographs as studies for hard to hold poses that he later incorporated into
paintings? Delacroix
What other artists used photographs to record images for paintings, including panoramic landscapes
and action shots? Bierstadt, Courbet, Manet, and Degas.
What art genre in painting compositions became popular as a direct result of the invention of
photography? Abstraction.
Who described photography as, “more than arch, it is a solar phenomenon, where the artist
collaborates with the sun.”? Lamartine.
Super Quiz Fine Arts: Photography –The Annotated Mona Lisa - Review Questions Answer Key
Photography Comes of Age
What movements influenced avant-garde photographers to express their personal views of the world?
Modernism
What French photographer began as a Cubist painter before turning to photography?
Henri Cartier – Bresson
Cartier – Bresson contributed greatly to photojournalism with his ability to capture what he called the:
Decisive moment.
Who developed a method of photography called rayographs? Man Ray
Who is considered the father of modern art photography? Eugène Atget
What photographer chronicled Paris street life in straightforward, uncluttered, clean photographic
style? Eugène Atget
Who revolutionized photography by stressing the use of unretouched photographs to exploit the direct
honesty of the art medium? Alfred Stieglitz
What photograph is the first documentary photo to reach the level of conscious art in America?
“The Steerage” by Alfred’s Stieglitz
Who said, “Photography is my passion, the search for truth my obsession”? Alfred Stieglitz
Edward Weston is best known for the sharp detail in photographs of objects such as: Nudes, sand dunes,
and vegetables.
What photographer captured the stark suffering of the Great Depression in her photographs of the
poor? Dorothea Lange
Super Quiz Fine Arts: Photography –The Annotated Mona Lisa - Review Questions Answer Key
Photography: What’s New
Who photographed moving portraits of Japanese children crippled by Mercury poisoning?
W. Eugène Smith
What is the most important trait of contemporary photography? Diversity
Berenice Abbott is best known for producing a series of photographs of: New York street scenes.
What magazines did Margaret Bourke White work for as a photojournalist? Fortune and Life
What is a photo essay? A story told through photographs.
As a war photographer during World War II, what photographer recorded the faces of survivors when
Buchenwald was liberated? Margaret Bourke White
How old was Ansel Adams when he took his first picture of Yosemite Valley? 14
Who is considered the preeminent photographer of the American West? Ansel Adams
Who used a large-format view camera to capture stunning landscapes with rich texture and infinite
tonal ranges? Ansel Adams
What is the style of photography called “snapshot aesthetic”? Photographs that professionals
deliberately framed as casual and unposed street scenes.
What photographers were part of the street photography movement during the 1960s? Diane Arbus,
Robert Frank, Bruce Davidson, Garry Winogrand, Lee Friedlander, and Joel Meyerowitz.
What photographer is best known for her photographs of marginalized people, such as transvestites,
hermaphrodites, giants and dwarfs? Diane Arbus
Who uses a series of superimposed negatives to produce a combined image that makes real objects
appear unreal? Jerry N. Uelsmann
Who said, “The mind knows more than the eye and camera can see.”? Jerry N. Uelsmann
The layering of different negatives to produce one image is called a: photomontage.
What conceptual artist is considered a pioneer of Post-Modernism? John Baldessari
John Baldessari is best known for combining narrative photo sequences with: Text.
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Photo-Realism
What is another name for Photo-Realism? Hyper-Realism.
During what period in the United States did Photo-Realism thrive? The mid-1960s to mid-1970s.
What is Photo-Realism? The reproduction of photographs in paintings.
What type of tools are used by artists to achieve the near exact likenesses depicted in Photo-Realism?
Airbrushes, projectors, and photo slides.
What Photo-Realist is known for his paintings of street scenes depicted as reflections from plate glass
windows? Richard Estes.
What artists specializes in Post-Modern still lifes that are allegories for women’s roles in modern
society? Audrey Flack
Who uses methods similar to pointillism to produce large-scale portraits of faces? Chuck Close
Who uses thousands of Polaroid prints to compose images with a mosaic-like quality? Chuck Close
Contemporary Art: Video and New-Media Art
When was video first used as an art form? Around 1995.
What are different forms of multimedia that are used to create art? Computer-generated images,
digital video, film, animation, text, sound, and special effects.
What artist uses fresco-sized projections of immersive video loops simultaneously shown on four walls
of a darkened room to create “a walk-in movie”? Bill Viola
Who created the multi-media installation entitled “Cremaster”? Matthew Barney.
What contemporary artist explores the status of women in Islam with the use of evocative metaphors
and stunningly beautiful compositions? Shirin Neshat
Who used seven façades of the New York Museum of Modern Art as screens for his video narrative
“Sleepwalkers”? Doug Aitken
Who said, “Art can go out through the whole world and link us together as human beings.”? Bill Viola
Super Quiz Fine Arts: Photography –The Annotated Mona Lisa - Review Questions Answer Key
Photo-Based Imagery
What are neo-Pictoralists? Photographers who aspire to the art of painting, by creating an image
instead of documenting an image.
Who photographed industrial structures, such as water towers, as “anonymous sculptures”?
Bernd and Hilla Becher.
Who taught as professors at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf? Bernd and Hilla Becher
Who influence the work of a number of German artists, including Andres Gursky, Candida Hofer, and
Thomas Struth? Bernd and Hilla Becher
Andres Gursky produced large scale color photographs of: Images of late capitalism.
What artist specializes in large scale color photos of visitors at art museums? Thomas Struth
What artist uses a radio – activated flash trap to capture pictures of street scenes from a distance?
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
What is photographic stagecraft? The production of photographic artwork by adapting cinematic
techniques of light, set design, costumes, and acting to produce large-scale prints that depict fictional
worlds.
Who are considered masters of photographic stagecraft? Hiroshi Sugimoto, Yasumasa Marimura, Sam
Taylor-Wood, and Gregory Crewdson.
What African-American artist creates elegant, high impact black and white photos of racial and gender
stereotypes? Lorna Simpson
What artist uses huge color transparencies mounted in light boxes to create cinematographic
photography? Jeff Wall
Who organized an exhibition of art work called “Freeze” by a group of artists called the Young British
Artists? Damien Hirst
What group of artists is considered as the major art phenomenon of the 1990s? The Young British
Artists.