Question 1

How is Carolee Schneemann's Meat Joy different from Allan Kaprow's Yard?

Accepted Answer

A) As an Environment,it invited viewers to interact with static installations. 
B) As a Fluxus event,it focused on ordinary behaviors performed methodically. 
C) As a Gutai performance,it involved acts of creation and destruction. 
D) As a Happening,it was an immersive chance-based performance. 
A) As an Environment,it invited viewers to interact with static installations. 
B) As a Fluxus event,it focused on ordinary behaviors performed methodically. 
C) As a Gutai performance,it involved acts of creation and destruction. 
D) As a Happening,it was an immersive chance-based performance. D

Question 2

Which of the following best characterizes Louise Nevelson's Sky Cathedral?

Accepted Answer

A) assemblage 
B) new media 
C) Minimalist 
D) earthwork 
A) assemblage 
B) new media 
C) Minimalist 
D) earthwork A

Question 3

Which of the following movements is recognized by its attempts to undermine art that is pure,autonomous,and universal?

Accepted Answer

A) Abstract Expressionism 
B) Minimalism 
C) Conceptual art 
D) Postmodernism 
A) Abstract Expressionism 
B) Minimalism 
C) Conceptual art 
D) Postmodernism D

Question 4

Which of the following best describes the work of Mark Rothko?

Accepted Answer

A) large rectangles of bleeding color 
B) active brushwork and autobiographical references 
C) a chaotic mixture of painted and found elements 
D) imagery from cartoons and advertisements 
A) large rectangles of bleeding color 
B) active brushwork and autobiographical references 
C) a chaotic mixture of painted and found elements 
D) imagery from cartoons and advertisements

Question 5

Patricia Cronin's Shrine For Girls raises public awareness for __________.

Accepted Answer

A) gender inequality 
B) violence toward women 
C) the AIDs epidemic 
D) homelessness 
A) gender inequality 
B) violence toward women 
C) the AIDs epidemic 
D) homelessness

Question 6

Donald Judd's Untitled exemplifies the purely formal and material qualities of __________.

Accepted Answer

A) Abstract Expressionism 
B) Postmodernism 
C) Minimalism 
D) Conceptual art 
A) Abstract Expressionism 
B) Postmodernism 
C) Minimalism 
D) Conceptual art

Question 7

Gerhard Richter's Man Shot Down (1)demonstrates the characteristics of __________.

Accepted Answer

A) Minimalism 
B) a Happening 
C) Neo-Expressionism 
D) Formalism 
A) Minimalism 
B) a Happening 
C) Neo-Expressionism 
D) Formalism

Question 8

Valuing form over content is called __________.

Accepted Answer

A) avant-garde 
B) assemblage 
C) appropriation 
D) formalism 
A) avant-garde 
B) assemblage 
C) appropriation 
D) formalism

Question 9

Jenova Chen's and Kellee Santiago's Flower can be characterized as new media art because it __________.

Accepted Answer

A) features robotics 
B) is a multisensory experience 
C) is a video game 
D) includes video footage 
A) features robotics 
B) is a multisensory experience 
C) is a video game 
D) includes video footage

Question 10

Shozo Shimamoto's Hurling Colors demonstrates the Gutai collective's interest in __________.

Accepted Answer

A) assemblage 
B) performance 
C) appropriation 
D) formalism 
A) assemblage 
B) performance 
C) appropriation 
D) formalism

Question 11

In his treatise on Postmodernism,Robert Venturi encouraged new architecture to embrace __________.

Accepted Answer

A) new media 
B) appropriation 
C) simplicity 
D) eclecticism 
A) new media 
B) appropriation 
C) simplicity 
D) eclecticism

Question 12

James Luna's The Artifact Piece and Kerry James Marshall's De Style both address issues related to __________.

Accepted Answer

A) gender inequality 
B) political activism 
C) racial identity 
D) globalization 
A) gender inequality 
B) political activism 
C) racial identity 
D) globalization

Question 13

Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych demonstrates Pop Art's critique of __________.

Accepted Answer

A) mass media 
B) feminism 
C) formalism 
D) racial inequality 
A) mass media 
B) feminism 
C) formalism 
D) racial inequality

Question 14

How is Robert Rauschenberg's Canyon different from Louise Nevelson's Sky Cathedral?

Accepted Answer

A) It features nonrepresentational subject matter. 
B) It combines Action Painting and Color Field Painting. 
C) It blends features of avant-garde painting and sculpture. 
D) It incorporates photography and new media,such as video. 
A) It features nonrepresentational subject matter. 
B) It combines Action Painting and Color Field Painting. 
C) It blends features of avant-garde painting and sculpture. 
D) It incorporates photography and new media,such as video.

Question 15

The Vitra Fire Station demonstrates the characteristics of __________.

Accepted Answer

A) Deconstructivism 
B) Postmodernism 
C) International Style 
D) Modernism 
A) Deconstructivism 
B) Postmodernism 
C) International Style 
D) Modernism

Question 16

David Smith's Cubi series demonstrates the characteristics of __________.

Accepted Answer

A) Postmodernism 
B) Neo-Expressionism 
C) Deconstructivism 
D) Abstract Expressionism 
A) Postmodernism 
B) Neo-Expressionism 
C) Deconstructivism 
D) Abstract Expressionism

Question 17

Which of the following artworks addresses the physical effects of AIDS?

Accepted Answer

A) Bill Viola's The Crossing 
B) Jasper Johns's Target with Plaster Casts 
C) Patricia Cronin's Shrine For Girls 
D) David Wojnarowicz's Untitled (Sometimes I Come to Hate People) 
A) Bill Viola's The Crossing 
B) Jasper Johns's Target with Plaster Casts 
C) Patricia Cronin's Shrine For Girls 
D) David Wojnarowicz's Untitled (Sometimes I Come to Hate People)

Question 18

Judy Chicago's The Dinner and Miriam Schapiro's Personal Appearance #3 both share an interest in promoting as "high art"__________.

Accepted Answer

A) traditional women's crafts 
B) objects created with new media 
C) compositions with appropriated imagery 
D) performance art and interactive exhibitions 
A) traditional women's crafts 
B) objects created with new media 
C) compositions with appropriated imagery 
D) performance art and interactive exhibitions

Question 19

The Seagram Building in New York is one of the finest examples of __________.

Accepted Answer

A) Postmodernism 
B) Deconstructivism 
C) the International Style 
D) Formalism 
A) Postmodernism 
B) Deconstructivism 
C) the International Style 
D) Formalism

Question 20

Action Painting and Color Field Painting are the two major approaches in __________.

Accepted Answer

A) Postmodernism 
B) Pop art 
C) Abstract Expressionism 
D) Minimalism 
A) Postmodernism 
B) Pop art 
C) Abstract Expressionism 
D) Minimalism

Exam 20: Art Since 1945

How is Carolee Schneemann's Meat Joy different from Allan Kaprow's Yard?

Which of the following best characterizes Louise Nevelson's Sky Cathedral?

Which of the following movements is recognized by its attempts to undermine art that is pure,autonomous,and universal?

Which of the following best describes the work of Mark Rothko?

Patricia Cronin's Shrine For Girls raises public awareness for __________.

Donald Judd's Untitled exemplifies the purely formal and material qualities of __________.

Gerhard Richter's Man Shot Down (1)demonstrates the characteristics of __________.

Valuing form over content is called __________.

Jenova Chen's and Kellee Santiago's Flower can be characterized as new media art because it __________.

Shozo Shimamoto's Hurling Colors demonstrates the Gutai collective's interest in __________.

In his treatise on Postmodernism,Robert Venturi encouraged new architecture to embrace __________.

James Luna's The Artifact Piece and Kerry James Marshall's De Style both address issues related to __________.

Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych demonstrates Pop Art's critique of __________.

How is Robert Rauschenberg's Canyon different from Louise Nevelson's Sky Cathedral?

The Vitra Fire Station demonstrates the characteristics of __________.

David Smith's Cubi series demonstrates the characteristics of __________.

Which of the following artworks addresses the physical effects of AIDS?

Judy Chicago's The Dinner and Miriam Schapiro's Personal Appearance #3 both share an interest in promoting as "high art"__________.

The Seagram Building in New York is one of the finest examples of __________.

Action Painting and Color Field Painting are the two major approaches in __________.

Prehistoric Art in Europe

Art of the Ancient Near East

Art of Ancient Egypt

Early Asian Art

Art of Ancient Greece and the Aegean World

Etruscan and Roman Art

Jewish,early Christian,and Byzantine Art

Islamic Art

Later Asian Art

Early Medieval and Romanesque Art

Gothic Art

Early Renaissance Art

Art of the High Renaissance and Reformation

Seventeenth-Century Art in Europe

Art of the Americas

Arts of Africa

European and American Art, 1715-1840

European and American Art, 1840-1910

Modern Art in Europe and the Americas, 1900-1945

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