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Chapter 13 – Art from 1950 to 1999
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Pollack’s method of painting is derived from:
a. Picasso’s synthesis.
b. Surrealist automatism.
c. Cézanne.
d. all of these.
e. none of these.
2. In the style called Abstract Expressionism, the approach emphasizing a free, gestural
expression of paint on the canvas was termed:
a. Action Painting.
b. Performance Art.
c. Spontaneism.
d. all of these.
e. none of these.
3. Robert Rauschenberg referred to works of his, such as Monogram, as:
a. “collage–sculptures.”
b. performance pieces.
c. “combines.”
d. all of these.
e. none of these.
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4. In the 1960s, the definition of the work of art as a tangible object was challenged by:
a. Happenings.
b. Performance Art.
c. Conceptual Art.
d. all of these.
e. none of these.
5. In his work titled One and Three Chairs, Joseph Kosuth presents:
a. the image.
b. the actuality.
c. the idea of a chair.
d. all of these.
e. none of these.
6. In the late 1960s, the style that presented the work of art as an object of elemental
form divorced from symbolic or personal content was:
a. Op Art.
b. Minimal Art.
c. Pop Art.
d. all of these.
e. none of these.
7. At exhibitions of the sculptural works of Duane Hanson, viewers sometimes:
a. damage the works in frustration.
b. leave the gallery in anger.
c. speak to the works.
d. all of these.
e. none of these.
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8. In a work such as Running Fence, by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the creative act
consists of:
a. raising funds.
b. acquiring legal permits.
c. finding volunteer workers.
d. administering affairs.
e. all of these.
9. Postmodernist art is defined by:
a. welcoming the artistic past into the present.
b. celebrating diversity.
c. acknowledgment of social, political, and historical issues.
d. all of these.
e. none of these.
10. Miriam Schapiro’s multimedia Wonderland exemplifies a(n):
a. femmage.
b. Happening.
c. Ready-made.
d. all of these.
e. none of these.
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Fill–in–the-Blank Questions
11. In each of the works in his series Homage to the Square, Albers sets square planes of
color within larger ____________.
12. During the 1950s, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg incorporated found objects
and representational imagery into their artistic activity, a practice sometimes referred to
as ____________.
13. Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial certainly fulfills the second competition
criterion, which states that the monument should be “reflective and ____________ in
nature.”
14. Laurie Anderson’s performance-concerts synthesize ____________ and
____________.
15. Nancy Graves’s Canoptic Legerdemain makes use of laser-cut steel produced by a
computer program, plus cast and molded resins; it is thus an exemplary use of
____________ in art.
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True-False Questions
16. In his photographic essay The Americans, Robert Frank employed his “snapshot
aesthetic” in producing many commercial glamour photos.
17. Warhol’s multiple images of Marilyn Monroe are born from the aesthetic numbness
produced by the commercial environment.
18. The subject of Wandjuk Marika’s The Birth of the Djang’kawu Children at Yalanghara is
a creation and journey myth.
19. Komar and Melamid’s America’s Most Wanted was produced based on the aesthetic
preferences of America’s 100 most famous art critics.
20. Chen Zhen’s Jue Chang invites viewers to actually beat the drums of the work.
Short Answer Questions
21. Of what is the AIDS Memorial Quilt an expression?
22. How do works in the style called Color Field Painting operate?
23. On what legend was Robert Smithson’s design for Spiral Jetty based?
24. Many artists in the 1990s explored installation art, which fashions a complex
temporary environment, but denies what?
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25. How are Bilbao’s shipbuilding and port activities reflected in Frank Gehry’s 1997
Guggenheim Museum building in that city?
Essay Questions
26. In order to understand it, Le Corbusier’s Nôtre-Dame-du-Haut forces us to do what?
How do the building’s exterior, interior, and its site aesthetically work on a viewer?
27. What is Audrey Flack’s working method? How does the manner in which she
produces her work affect the viewer?