Question 1

The formal element that Mark Rothko focused on is ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   color
B)   line
C)   texture
D)   time
E)   motion A

Question 2

Gertrude Stein held informal meetings in her apartment for artists and writers. These were known as ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   salons
B)   coffee mornings
C)   gossip groups
D)   Artists' Anonymous
E)   Cubism Club

Question 3

Jackson Pollock made paintings by:

Accepted Answer

A)   flinging paint from a pinwheel onto canvases hanging in his studio
B)   spitting glitter through a straw onto a plaster wall
C)   dripping paint onto a canvas on the floor
D)   dancing on ceramic tiles with paint on the bottom of his feet
E)   spilling paint onto a dust sheet while painting his living room

Question 4

The title of Constantin Brancusi's Bird in Space is a visual description of the sculpture, which looks exactly like a bird in space.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Expressionism focuses on:

Accepted Answer

A)   what is felt rather than what is seen
B)   the subconscious mind and dream imagery
C)   dynamic movement, progress, and modern technology
D)   stripping away emotions and underlying meaning
E)   complexity, ambiguity, and external references

Question 6

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was revolutionary because:

Accepted Answer

A)   it is not a naturalistic re-creation of the way we see the world
B)   it includes simplified forms and bodies as geometric shapes
C)   the space of the background and foreground meld together
D)   it shows frontal and profile views at the same time
E)   all of the other answers

Question 7

Matisse used his cutouts ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   as preparatory sketches, never as finished artworks
B)   as finished artworks, never as preparatory sketches
C)   sometimes like preparatory sketches, sometimes as finished artworks
D)   Matisse only made cutouts
E)   Matisse never made cutouts

Question 8

James Hampton's The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly was made using ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   discarded chewing gum that the artist collected from movie theater seats
B)   artworks created by other people, on top of which the artist painted his own work
C)   fine gold and silver jewelry that the artist melted down
D)   found objects that the artist transformed
E)   none of the other answers

Question 9

Twentieth-century artists continued the explorations in representation started by the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  True

Question 10

The main message in Ana Mendieta's Imagen de Yagul is that women's bodies should only be the passive receiver of the male gaze.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Picasso was influenced by art objects from ________ in his creation of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.

Accepted Answer

A)   Africa
B)   India
C)   Australia
D)   Austria
E)   New York

Question 12

Consider the relationship between the collector and patron Gertrude Stein and the artists she knew, for example Picasso. How important a role did Stein have in the avant-garde art made in the twentieth century? Compare the patron-artist roles occupied by Stein and Picasso to those of a historical pairing, such as Philip IV of Spain and Velázquez, or Charles IV and Goya. For each pair, describe the balance of power and influence between patron and artist.

Accepted Answer

Expressionism

Question 13

The medium of Matthew Barney's Cremaster 5 is ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   silkscreen print
B)   installation
C)   collage
D)   film
E)   readymade

Question 14

The Dada performance of "Karawane" was:

Accepted Answer

A)   a serious elegy on the death and destruction of the war
B)   a harsh indictment of hatred, injustice, and oppression
C)   a lively, theatrical performance of nonsense words and sounds
D)   a lazy attempt to make an artwork by reciting poetry
E)   none of the other answers

Question 15

The technique used by Roy Lichtenstein to show gradations in color in his Girl with Mirror was ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   taught to him by Marcel Duchamp
B)   borrowed from newspaper printing and comics
C)   very subtle and hard to see
D)   not at all what he intended in the first place
E)   none of the other answers

Question 16

What is the medium of Romare Bearden's Three Folk Musicians?

Accepted Answer

A)   silkscreen
B)   assemblage
C)   collage
D)   photomontage
E)   readymade

Question 17

The artist who created the 1936 assemblage entitled Object is ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   Max Ernst
B)   Marcel Duchamp
C)   Jackson Pollock
D)   Joan Miró
E)   Joseph Cornell

Question 18

Gerrit Rietveld's Schröder House is an example of ________ architecture.

Accepted Answer

A)   Cubist
B)   Modernist
C)   Postmodernist
D)   ancient
E)   none of the other answers

Question 19

Theo van Doesburg was a founder of which movement?

Accepted Answer

A)   Cubism
B)   Suprematism
C)   De Stijl
D)   Constructivism
E)   Minimalism

Question 20

Conceptual art emphasizes ________.

Accepted Answer

A)   the way the final artwork looks and exists in the world
B)   the ideas behind the artwork over its realization
C)   how many theories an artwork can reference
D)   what is actually there over what we know to be there
E)   all of the other answers

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