Art History 3 Exam 2 Questions

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Who wrote that abstraction, “shows that ‘art’ is not the expression of the appearances of reality such as we see it, nor of the life which we live, but that it is the expression of the true reality and true life… indefinable but realized in plastics [solid forms]. Thus we must carefully distinguish between the two kinds of reality, one which has an individual character, and one which has a universal appearance… ”?

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Mondrian

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Which anti-Tsarist movement was co-opted by the Bolsheviks and used for propaganda after the Revolution of 1917?

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Constructivism

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What tools were used by Photorealist to enhance the realism of their works and reduce the evidence of their touch?

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Airbrush and projection

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What world event precitpitatied the rise of Fascism, the relocation of European artists to New York City and the establishment of the WPA by the Roosevelt administration?

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The Great Depression.

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Dadaism was art movement that espoused ____.

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chaos, intuition and anti-art.

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What art movement is best described as employing non-traditional techniques, embracing the irrational and creating anti-art?

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Dada

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In which decade did the focus of the art world move from Europe to America?

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1940’s

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Who wrote the following: “I like elements that are hybrid rather than pure, compromising rather than clean, distorted rather than straightforward, ambiguous rather than articulated, perverse as well as impersonal, boring as well as interesting.”

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Robert Venturi

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The Empire State Building is an example of what architectural style?

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Art Deco

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Which late painting by Matisse shows his maturation into favoring flat pictorial arrangements that rely upon bold color juxtapositions and line work to reduce any sculpturesque qualities that were evident in his early pieces?

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Pink Nude

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Which term, that first showed up in the arts with Surrealism, is a technique using spontaneous writing, drawing or painting?

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Automatism

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Who wrote that his art was something between life and art?

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Rauschenberg

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International Abstraction is derived from the aesthetic theories of Cubism, De Stijl, and _______.

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Constructivism

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Who believed that the goal of art was to transcend illusionistic depictions by stylizing objects to the point of irrelevance compared to the elements used?

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French and German Expressionists

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How was the work of Joseph Beuys different for that of other Fluxus’?

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His performances were permeated with spiritual symbolism.

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Figurative sculpture during the early part of the 20th century focused upon__________.

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the gestalt of form searching for the essence of things rather than pure imitation of the exterior surface.

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The tenets of International Style Architecture can be seen in which building?

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Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye

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Which style used bold black lines and blocked areas of primary colors in all areas of art and design as a means to create “purely designed works of art”?

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De Stijl

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Itten, Kandinsky, Klee, Malevich, Moholy-Nagy, Mondrian, van Doesburg all taught during the 1920’s at what school in Germany?

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Bauhaus

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Which is the term for Duchamp's elevation of common manufactured products to the level of an art object?

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Readymades

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Which of the following is not a characteristic of High Modernism’s distinction from Early Modernism?

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Utopian Intentions.

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What show brought European avant-garde art work to America in 1913?

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Armory Show.

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Picasso’s works like Guernica and Minotaurmachy from the late 1930’s were speaking out about which of the following?

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The rule of Fascist dictator Franco II.

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What American school was primarily interested in subjects of the urban lower working class?

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Ash Can

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Best known for his instruction about the “push” and “pull” of color, this artist was an important educator of many New York artists during the 30’s and 40’s.

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Hans Hofmann

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Who’s gallery “291”, located in New York City, promoted European and American Early Modernist work?

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Alfred Stieglitz

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Which movement is characterized by artists depicting contemporary culture and history of African Americans?

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Harlem Renaissance

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What was the main content of the works by the Abstract Expressionists?

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e act of painting.

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Who wrote “in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality”

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Andre Breton

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Which of the following artist's imagry pre-figured Surrealism with personal fantasy spaces in clear and eerie light much like a compelling dreamscape?

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de Chirico

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The vast dreamscapes in the works of Dali and Tanguy were influenced by the earlier compositions of ______________________.

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de Chirico

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Which are the tenets of International Style Architecture?

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Reductive design, Removal of decoration, Removal of color, Elimination of walls, Curtain of glass.

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Which of the follow Surrealist is the Spanish painter who’s work can best be described as fanciful biomorphic arrangements?

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Dali

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Which painting by Picasso shows his ability to resolve aesthetic conflicts between formalism and Expressionism, classicism and Surrealism?

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Girl before a Mirror

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Amedeo Modigliani, Chaim Soutine and sometimes Marc Chagall are often associated with which figurative movement during the 1920’s

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The School of Paris

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The uniqueness of Chandigarh, India is that it represents _____________.

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Le Corbuiser’s vision and creation of the perfect modern city.

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What caused the Bauhaus School and its faculty to disbanded and eventually take up residence in America?

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The menace of the Nazi party.

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Verner Panton’s Chair from 1957 is first example of furniture using which new process?

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Injection-molded plastic with no joints.

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Which paintings by Miró were exhibited in New York City in the early 40’s and had a profound effect upon the genesis of Abstract Expressionism?

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The Constellation Series

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Pop art’s use of the everyday and premade images or objects has much of its origins in which artist?

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Duchamp

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Which series of Willem de Kooning best shows his Cubist background and his joy in the opulent painterliness of Rubens?

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Excavations

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Greenberg’s theory of image making that advocates for paintings to be about paint is referred to as ______________?

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Formalism

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At the end of his life, the bedridden Matisse choose to work in the medium of ____________?

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découpage

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Paolozzi’s collages from the 50’s represent an aesthetic shift away from what?

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Modernism

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The collaborative efforts between Merce Cunningham, John Cage and Robert Rauschenberg were some of the early forms of which art form in the 1960’s?

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Performance

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Brutalism is a form of High Modernist Architecture that is characterized by which of the following?

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Exposed concrete surfaces

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Which movement did Carl Jung’s ideas about the “collective unconscious” most directly affect?

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Surrealism

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Pop art and Minimalism were rejections of the heroic rhetoric of which previous movement?

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Abstract Expressionism

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Chris Marker’s film La Jeteé defies the conventions of cinema by with of the following?

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Using static frames rather than live action.

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Which of the following are NOT characteristic of postmodern aesthetics?

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Elitism

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Which series of works by Claus Oldenburg challenges our conception of banal objects and imbues them with overt references to saggy human flesh?

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soft sculptures

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Which British artist found a way to mearge Surrealist symbolism and Cinstructivist abstraction?

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Henry Moore

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Which movement was concerned with the decisions making process of the artist and viewed the art object as being a perfunctory action to express the mind of the artist?

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Conceptual Art

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The works of Jeff Koons are about which of the following contemporary issues in art?

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The commoditifcation of art.

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Which designer’s furniture exemplifies the optimism of the Space Age through his forms and use of materials?

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Eero Aarnio

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Which video artist’s work is known for the use of archetypal imagery by showing the human form interacting with elements of nature like water or fire?

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Bill Viola

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Which building best shows the aspect of Postmodernism that is about impurity and hybrid forms?

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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

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What art movement directly challenged the concept of art being portable and able to be housed in galleries or museums by it shear size and remote sites of creation?

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Earth Art