Question 1

Which of the following was the purpose of Performance Art?

Accepted Answer

A)  To challenge art's function as art 
B)  To challenge art's function as a commodity 
C)  To challenge art's function as permanent 
D)  To challenge art's function in the postmodern period 
A)  To challenge art's function as art 
B)  To challenge art's function as a commodity 
C)  To challenge art's function as permanent 
D)  To challenge art's function in the postmodern period

Question 2

Piano and Rogers designed the Centre Georges Pompidou, meant as a cultural arts center, to imitate which building type?

Accepted Answer

A)  A cathedral 
B)  A theater 
C)  A factory 
D)  A stadium 
A)  A cathedral 
B)  A theater 
C)  A factory 
D)  A stadium

Question 3

Which 20th-century art movement sought to harness the communicative power of art to reach a wide audience?

Accepted Answer

A)  Op Art 
B)  Pop Art 
C)  Post-Painterly Abstraction 
D)  Minimalism 
A)  Op Art 
B)  Pop Art 
C)  Post-Painterly Abstraction 
D)  Minimalism

Question 4

What was the source of the images of women de Kooning used as the focus of his Woman series?

Accepted Answer

A)  Medieval manuscripts 
B)  Advertising billboards 
C)  Greek sculpture 
D)  Japanese woodcuts 
A)  Medieval manuscripts 
B)  Advertising billboards 
C)  Greek sculpture 
D)  Japanese woodcuts

Question 5

What did Minimalist sculptors such as Tony Smith choose to emphasize as the essential characteristic of their medium?

Accepted Answer

A)  Texture 
B)  Flatness 
C)  Three-dimensionality 
D)  Color 
A)  Texture 
B)  Flatness 
C)  Three-dimensionality 
D)  Color

Question 6

In creating his sculptures specifically for open-air settings, what element did David Smith prioritize?

Accepted Answer

A)  Surface volume 
B)  Light and dark 
C)  Voids and masses 
D)  Surface texture 
A)  Surface volume 
B)  Light and dark 
C)  Voids and masses 
D)  Surface texture

Question 7

Which of the following works is the product of its creator's study of the way advertising shapes public attitudes?

Accepted Answer

A)  Johns, Hopeless 
B)  Hamilton, Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing? 
C)  Rosenquist, F-111 
D)  Oldenburg, Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks 
A)  Johns, Hopeless 
B)  Hamilton, Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing? 
C)  Rosenquist, F-111 
D)  Oldenburg, Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks

Question 8

Which of the following artists was a color-field painter, who poured diluted paint onto unprimed canvas to emphasize that painting is simply pigment on a flat surface?

Accepted Answer

A)  Jasper Johns 
B)  Helen Frankenthaler 
C)  Frank Stella 
D)  Henri Matisse 
A)  Jasper Johns 
B)  Helen Frankenthaler 
C)  Frank Stella 
D)  Henri Matisse

Question 9

Which of the following was NOT one of Judy Chicago's intentions in creating The Dinner Party ?

Accepted Answer

A)  To herself employ traditionally female craft techniques 
B)  To show the role of women in history and the fine arts 
C)  To emphasize the feminine virtues of loyalty and subservience 
D)  To honor women who had worked anonymously as artists 
A)  To herself employ traditionally female craft techniques 
B)  To show the role of women in history and the fine arts 
C)  To emphasize the feminine virtues of loyalty and subservience 
D)  To honor women who had worked anonymously as artists

Question 10

What is the permanent record of a Performance Art event?

Accepted Answer

A)  Documentary photos of a rehearsed performance 
B)  Documentary photos at the time of the performance 
C)  A script used for a repeat performance 
D)  A script and direction transformed into video 
A)  Documentary photos of a rehearsed performance 
B)  Documentary photos at the time of the performance 
C)  A script used for a repeat performance 
D)  A script and direction transformed into video

Question 11

What artist chose to employ the commercial printing technique of benday dots on a large scale?

Accepted Answer

A)  Jasper Johns 
B)  Roy Lichtenstein 
C)  Richard Hamilton 
D)  Andy Warhol 
A)  Jasper Johns 
B)  Roy Lichtenstein 
C)  Richard Hamilton 
D)  Andy Warhol

Question 12

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Which element of Donald Judd's sculpture Untitled reflects his intention of banishing ambiguity from his work and using a visual vocabulary that does not deceive as illusionism would?

Accepted Answer

A)  Geometric shape 
B)  Brass material 
C)  Steel brackets 
D)  Plexiglas material 
A)  Geometric shape 
B)  Brass material 
C)  Steel brackets 
D)  Plexiglas material

Question 13

Which of the following artists is best known for his large-scale portraits?

Accepted Answer

A)  Jackson Pollock 
B)  Francis Bacon 
C)  Lucian Freud 
D)  Chuck Close 
A)  Jackson Pollock 
B)  Francis Bacon 
C)  Lucian Freud 
D)  Chuck Close

Question 14

What printing method did Andy Warhol employ to create multiple images of the same object, such as a Coke bottle or a soup can?

Accepted Answer

A)  Etching 
B)  Engraving 
C)  Lithograph 
D)  Silkscreen 
A)  Etching 
B)  Engraving 
C)  Lithograph 
D)  Silkscreen

Question 15

The work of which artist exemplifies gestural abstraction?

Accepted Answer

A)  Vassily Kandinsky 
B)  Barnett Newman 
C)  Robert Motherwell 
D)  Jackson Pollock 
A)  Vassily Kandinsky 
B)  Barnett Newman 
C)  Robert Motherwell 
D)  Jackson Pollock

Question 16

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Robert Frank's photograph illustrating the realities of segregation was taken in which American city?

Accepted Answer

A)  Selma 
B)  Chicago 
C)  New Orleans 
D)  Houston 
A)  Selma 
B)  Chicago 
C)  New Orleans 
D)  Houston

Question 17

The iconic Sydney Opera House was designed by which architect?

Accepted Answer

A)  Eero Saarinen 
B)  Frank Lloyd Wright 
C)  Michael Graves 
D)  Joern Utson 
A)  Eero Saarinen 
B)  Frank Lloyd Wright 
C)  Michael Graves 
D)  Joern Utson

Question 18

What art movement arose in the United States as a result of the emigration of European artists after World War II?

Accepted Answer

A)  Brutalism 
B)  Regionalism 
C)  Abstract Expressionism 
D)  Synthetic Cubism 
A)  Brutalism 
B)  Regionalism 
C)  Abstract Expressionism 
D)  Synthetic Cubism

Question 19

Which New York artist evolved in style to compositionally simple paintings in which color was the primary conveyor of meaning?

Accepted Answer

A)  Jackson Pollock 
B)  Willem de Kooning 
C)  Arshile Gorky 
D)  Mark Rothko 
A)  Jackson Pollock 
B)  Willem de Kooning 
C)  Arshile Gorky 
D)  Mark Rothko

Question 20

Which phrase best characterizes the sculptural works of Louise Bourgeois such as Cumul I ?

Accepted Answer

A)  Architectural Abstractionism 
B)  Synthetic Cubism 
C)  Volumetric Fauvism 
D)  Biomorphic Surrealism 
A)  Architectural Abstractionism 
B)  Synthetic Cubism 
C)  Volumetric Fauvism 
D)  Biomorphic Surrealism

Exam 31: Modernism and Postmodernism in Europe and America, 1945 to 1980

Which of the following was the purpose of Performance Art?

Piano and Rogers designed the Centre Georges Pompidou, meant as a cultural arts center, to imitate which building type?

Which 20th-century art movement sought to harness the communicative power of art to reach a wide audience?

What was the source of the images of women de Kooning used as the focus of his Woman series?

What did Minimalist sculptors such as Tony Smith choose to emphasize as the essential characteristic of their medium?

In creating his sculptures specifically for open-air settings, what element did David Smith prioritize?

Which of the following works is the product of its creator's study of the way advertising shapes public attitudes?

Which of the following artists was a color-field painter, who poured diluted paint onto unprimed canvas to emphasize that painting is simply pigment on a flat surface?

Which of the following was NOT one of Judy Chicago's intentions in creating The Dinner Party ?

What is the permanent record of a Performance Art event?

What artist chose to employ the commercial printing technique of benday dots on a large scale?

​ Which element of Donald Judd's sculpture Untitled reflects his intention of banishing ambiguity from his work and using a visual vocabulary that does not deceive as illusionism would?

Which of the following artists is best known for his large-scale portraits?

What printing method did Andy Warhol employ to create multiple images of the same object, such as a Coke bottle or a soup can?

The work of which artist exemplifies gestural abstraction?

​ Robert Frank's photograph illustrating the realities of segregation was taken in which American city?

The iconic Sydney Opera House was designed by which architect?

What art movement arose in the United States as a result of the emigration of European artists after World War II?

Which New York artist evolved in style to compositionally simple paintings in which color was the primary conveyor of meaning?

Which phrase best characterizes the sculptural works of Louise Bourgeois such as Cumul I ?

Art in the Stone Age

Ancient Mesopotamia and Persia

Egypt From Narmer to Cleopatra

The Prehistoric Aegean

Ancient Greece

The Etruscans

The Roman Empire

Late Antiquity

Byzantium

The Islamic World

Early Medieval Europe

Romanesque Europe

Gothic Europe North of the Alps

Late Medieval Italy

South and Southeast Asia Before 1200

China and Korea to 1279

Japan Before 1333

Native American Cultures Before 1300

Africa Before 1800

Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Northern Europe

The Renaissance in Quattrocento Italy

Renaissance and Mannerism in Cinquecento Italy

High Renaissance and Mannerism in Northern Europe and Spain

The Baroque in Italy and Spain

The Baroque in Northern Europe

Rococo to Neoclassicism: the 18th Century in Europe and America

Romanticism, Realism, Photography: Europe and America, 1800 to 1870

Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism: Europe and America, 1870 to 1900

Modernism in Europe, 1900 to 1945

Modernism in the United States and Mexico, 1900 to 1945

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China and Korea, 1279 to 1980

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Which element of Donald Judd's sculpture Untitled reflects his intention of banishing ambiguity from his work and using a visual vocabulary that does not deceive as illusionism would?

Robert Frank's photograph illustrating the realities of segregation was taken in which American city?