Question 1

What was the attitude of Aboriginal artists toward modern American and European mediums?

Accepted Answer

A) They rejected them. 
B) They combined them with their traditional mediums. 
C) They adopted them with Western subject matter. 
D) They adopted them. 
A) They rejected them. 
B) They combined them with their traditional mediums. 
C) They adopted them with Western subject matter. 
D) They adopted them. D

Question 2

How does the work of Judy Chicago embody the feminist movement? Discuss the iconography of her work,The Dinner Party.

Accepted Answer

Essay responses should include these points: 
•	The Dinner Party is composed of a large, triangular platform covered with more than 2,300 triangular porcelain tiles. She used the triangle to symbolize the feminine.
•	The porcelain “Heritage Floor” bears the names of 999 notable women from myth, legend, and history. Along each side of the table, 13 place settings each represent a famous woman.
•	Chicago emphasized china painting and needlework to celebrate craft media traditionally practiced by women.

Question 3

Which of the following artists' works on irregularly shaped canvases with swelling shapes?

Accepted Answer

A) Elizabeth Murray 
B) Anselm Kiefer 
C) Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri 
D) Faith Ringgold 
A) Elizabeth Murray 
B) Anselm Kiefer 
C) Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri 
D) Faith Ringgold A

Question 4

Which of the following determined that China painting and needlework are traditional women's media but should be considered "high" art forms?

Accepted Answer

A) Judy Chicago 
B) Betye Saar 
C) Faith Ringgold 
D) Cindy Sherman 
A) Judy Chicago 
B) Betye Saar 
C) Faith Ringgold 
D) Cindy Sherman

Question 5

Which describes work by Peter Voulkos?

Accepted Answer

A) torn,gouged,and pierced traditional ceramic forms 
B) trompe l'oeil realism done in carved wood 
C) wooden objects that may suggest a sea creature or musical instrument 
D) closed form,nonfunctional ceramic forms with richly colored glazes 
A) torn,gouged,and pierced traditional ceramic forms 
B) trompe l'oeil realism done in carved wood 
C) wooden objects that may suggest a sea creature or musical instrument 
D) closed form,nonfunctional ceramic forms with richly colored glazes

Question 6

Describe Marcel Duchamp's use of kitsch and its inclusion in Pop art.How did this confuse and upset ideas of "high" and "low" art?

Accepted Answer

Essay responses should include these poi

Question 7

The Seagram Building in New York is one of the finest examples of which style of architecture?

Accepted Answer

A) Postmodernism 
B) Historicism 
C) International Style 
D) Beaux-Arts 
A) Postmodernism 
B) Historicism 
C) International Style 
D) Beaux-Arts

Question 8

Which of the following describes Roy Lichtenstein's work?

Accepted Answer

A) It satirizes American materialism. 
B) It uses imagery found in cartoons and advertisements. 
C) It celebrates middle-class social,and material values. 
D) It uses precisely structured patterns of lines and colors. 
A) It satirizes American materialism. 
B) It uses imagery found in cartoons and advertisements. 
C) It celebrates middle-class social,and material values. 
D) It uses precisely structured patterns of lines and colors.

Question 9

Which of the following describes a variety of artistic intentions and styles coexisting in the same social structure?

Accepted Answer

A) collage 
B) kitsch 
C) assemblage 
D) pluralism 
A) collage 
B) kitsch 
C) assemblage 
D) pluralism

Question 10

According to Robert Venturi,what is wrong with the International Style of architecture?

Accepted Answer

A) It is too heterogeneous. 
B) It is too complex. 
C) It is too contradictory. 
D) It is too inflexible. 
A) It is too heterogeneous. 
B) It is too complex. 
C) It is too contradictory. 
D) It is too inflexible.

Question 11

According to Maya Ying Lin,what was an important point of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?

Accepted Answer

A) to see yourself reflected in the names 
B) a monument to suffering humanity 
C) the names would lose individuality and become a texture 
D) the futility of war 
A) to see yourself reflected in the names 
B) a monument to suffering humanity 
C) the names would lose individuality and become a texture 
D) the futility of war

Question 12

According to Clement Greenberg,a work of art should be judged solely on

Accepted Answer

A) convincing narrative. 
B) visual perception. 
C) accurate representation. 
D) spatial depth. 
A) convincing narrative. 
B) visual perception. 
C) accurate representation. 
D) spatial depth.

Question 13

Largely because of Jasper Johns,which artist came to be thought of as important as Picasso?

Accepted Answer

A) Salvador Dali 
B) Marcel Duchamp 
C) Henri Matisse 
D) Paul Cézanne 
A) Salvador Dali 
B) Marcel Duchamp 
C) Henri Matisse 
D) Paul Cézanne

Question 14

Which is often the subject of Shirin Neshat's photographs?

Accepted Answer

A) Islamic history 
B) Islamic landmarks 
C) Islamic men 
D) Islamic women 
A) Islamic history 
B) Islamic landmarks 
C) Islamic men 
D) Islamic women

Question 15

Which of the following describes the work of Louise Nevelson?

Accepted Answer

A) polished steel inspired by the formalism of Analytic Cubism 
B) a construction of discarded packing boxes,spindles,and other wooden refuse 
C) kinetic sculpture that destroys itself 
D) monumentally scaled objects from popular culture 
A) polished steel inspired by the formalism of Analytic Cubism 
B) a construction of discarded packing boxes,spindles,and other wooden refuse 
C) kinetic sculpture that destroys itself 
D) monumentally scaled objects from popular culture

Question 16

Which describes the work of Martin Puryear?

Accepted Answer

A) torn,gouged,and pierced traditional ceramic forms 
B) trompe l'oeil realism done in carved wood 
C) wooden objects that may suggest biological forms or a musical instrument 
D) closed form,nonfunctional ceramic forms with richly colored glazes 
A) torn,gouged,and pierced traditional ceramic forms 
B) trompe l'oeil realism done in carved wood 
C) wooden objects that may suggest biological forms or a musical instrument 
D) closed form,nonfunctional ceramic forms with richly colored glazes

Question 17

Which of the following eliminated the art object itself?

Accepted Answer

A) Performance artists 
B) Conceptual artists 
C) Minimalists 
D) Pop artists 
A) Performance artists 
B) Conceptual artists 
C) Minimalists 
D) Pop artists

Question 18

Which of the following describes Robert Rauschenberg's "combines"?

Accepted Answer

A) large rectangles that hint at a momentary resolution of our duality 
B) thinned oil paints that resemble watercolor 
C) a chaotic mixture of painted and found elements 
D) imagery from cartoons and advertisements 
A) large rectangles that hint at a momentary resolution of our duality 
B) thinned oil paints that resemble watercolor 
C) a chaotic mixture of painted and found elements 
D) imagery from cartoons and advertisements

Question 19

Which is the term for putting disparate elements together to construct a work of art?

Accepted Answer

A) collage 
B) appropriation 
C) femmage 
D) assemblage 
A) collage 
B) appropriation 
C) femmage 
D) assemblage

Question 20

Which was the art movement that used broad sweeping expanses of color to evoke transcendent contemplative states?

Accepted Answer

A) Minimalism 
B) Color Field Painting 
C) Action Painting 
D) Gesturalism 
A) Minimalism 
B) Color Field Painting 
C) Action Painting 
D) Gesturalism

Exam 20: Art Since 1945

What was the attitude of Aboriginal artists toward modern American and European mediums?

How does the work of Judy Chicago embody the feminist movement? Discuss the iconography of her work,The Dinner Party.

Which of the following artists' works on irregularly shaped canvases with swelling shapes?

Which of the following determined that China painting and needlework are traditional women's media but should be considered "high" art forms?

Which describes work by Peter Voulkos?

Describe Marcel Duchamp's use of kitsch and its inclusion in Pop art.How did this confuse and upset ideas of "high" and "low" art?

The Seagram Building in New York is one of the finest examples of which style of architecture?

Which of the following describes Roy Lichtenstein's work?

Which of the following describes a variety of artistic intentions and styles coexisting in the same social structure?

According to Robert Venturi,what is wrong with the International Style of architecture?

According to Maya Ying Lin,what was an important point of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?

According to Clement Greenberg,a work of art should be judged solely on

Largely because of Jasper Johns,which artist came to be thought of as important as Picasso?

Which is often the subject of Shirin Neshat's photographs?

Which of the following describes the work of Louise Nevelson?

Which describes the work of Martin Puryear?

Which of the following eliminated the art object itself?

Which of the following describes Robert Rauschenberg's "combines"?

Which is the term for putting disparate elements together to construct a work of art?

Which was the art movement that used broad sweeping expanses of color to evoke transcendent contemplative states?

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

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Early Medieval and Romanesque Art

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Early Renaissance Art

Art of the High Renaissance and Reformation

Seventeenth-Century Art in Europe

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