4.10: Identity, Race, and Gender in Art
1. What is the medium of Self-Portrait with Saskia in the Scene of the Prodigal Son in the Tavern?
a. gelatin silver print d. oil on canvas
b. etching e. marble
c. ink and colors on paper
2. Why did Rembrandt make so many self-portraits?
a. he had access to his subject whenever he wanted it
b. he could show himself in many guises and character types
c. he had the opportunity to examine different facial expressions
d. all of the other answers
e. none of the other answers
3. Who is the artist of Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe?
a. Paul Gauguin d. Larry Vincent
b. Frida Kahlo e. Vincent van Gogh
c. Rembrandt van Rijn
4. Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe conveys ________.
a. exactly what the artist saw when he looked in the mirror
b. a completely abstract interpretation of what the artist felt
c. the agitation of the artist’s internal reality through its representation of his physical appearance
d. a close friend’s view of what the artist looked like right after he left hospital
e. none of the other answers
5. What is the date of Frida Kahlo’s The Two Fridas?
a. 1839 d. 1989
b. 1889 e. 1993
c. 1939
6. Why did the artist of The Two Fridas paint two of herself?
a. because she could not decide what she wanted to wear
b. because she liked to show the mirror she painted from
c. because she was seeing double during her recuperation from surgery
d. because she wanted to depict distinct aspects of her identity
e. one of the women in the picture is her twin sister
7. Who is the artist of the Untitled Film Stills series?
a. Judy Chicago d. Dorothea Lange
b. Catherine Opie e. Spike Lee
c. Cindy Sherman
8. In the Untitled Film Stills series the artist, Cindy Sherman, wanted to explore various aspects of
her own personality.
9. What was the inspiration for Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills series?
a. old records d. old clothes
b. old photographs e. none of the other answers
c. old movies
10. What movement influenced the Untitled Film Stills series?
a. Renaissance d. Cubism
b. Civil Rights e. Feminism
c. Minimalism
11. Consider the following statement by Cindy Sherman: “I realized I had to become more specific in
details, because that’s what makes a person different from other people.” (Gateways to Art, p. 678)
What is your response to this statement? Do you agree with Sherman or disagree? Give an example
of an artwork that supports your opinion and discuss it in relation to Sherman’s statement.
12. Who is the artist of The Dinner Party?
a. Artemisia Gentileschi d. Georgia O’Keeffe
b. Judy Chicago e. Emily Dickinson
c. Barbie Winter
13. The layout of The Dinner Party alludes to:
a. an ancient sign for woman
b. a coven of witches
c. the Last Supper
d. ancient religions that worshiped a mother goddess
e. all of the other answers
14. What kind of artworks do the Guerrilla Girls make?
a. Classically inspired sculptures
b. feminist posters and pamphlets
c. instrumental musical performances
d. dynamic multimedia installations
e. documentary photographs and films
15. To what does the title of Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get into the Met. Museum? refer?
a. the practices of an exclusive swingers’ club
b. a special offer for free tickets to a home baseball game
c. bootleg copies of a French movie shown on the subways
d. the unfair treatment of women by art institutions
e. none of the other answers
16. The decapitation of Holofernes, which is the subject of an oil painting by Artemisia Gentileschi,
happened because:
a. Holofernes was cruel and violent to Judith’s people
b. Judith was jealous because he was her adulterous husband
c. Judith was vengeful because he had killed her son
d. Holofernes was a magician and Judith was his assistant for this trick
e. none of the other answers
17. What is the date of Spike Lee’s movie Do the Right Thing?
a. 1865 d. 1989
b. 1900 e. 2014
c. 1965
18. Which of the following movements influenced the filmmaker Spike Lee?
a. the Abstract Artists’ Alliance d. the LGBT movement
b. the Civil Rights movement e. the Tea Party
c. the Feminist movement
19. Which artwork did Carrie Mae Weems make?
a. Untitled Film Stills
b. “You Became a Scientific Profile”
c. Hip Hop Project
d. Sphinx of Hatshepsut
e. “Melissa & Lake, Durham, North Carolina”
20. What is true of “You Became a Scientific Profile”?
a. it challenges negative ideas of race, gender, and class
b. it is an acceptable example of a Classical nude
c. we know the identity of the person depicted
d. the subject has passed her entrance exams to graduate school
e. none of the other answers
21. What is the medium of The Hip Hop Project (25)?
a. gelatin silver print d. fresco
b. video e. Fujiflex print
c. installation
22. What was the artist of The Hip Hop Project (25) trying to do?
a. effectively become a part of a number of different communities
b. tell people that she is a famous artist in order to provoke a reaction
c. become black, white, or Hispanic
d. change her identity because she does not like being Korean
e. present snapshots that she collected from various flea markets as her own
23. Nikki S. Lee made a self-portrait that suggests that identity is always clear-cut.
24. Compare Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing (4.10.9) and Nikki S. Lee’s Hip Hop Project (25)
(4.10.12). What does each artist show about him- or herself? In what ways are these self-portraits
conventional? In what ways are they different from what you might expect? Does the medium used
affect the way you view the artworks? Give your reason why, or why not.
25. Who was Hatshepsut?
a. the wife of an Assyrian general
b. the granddaughter of a Rococo painter
c. the author of the Book of Kells
d. a well-known wedding photographer
e. an Egyptian pharaoh
26. What is the medium of the sphinx of Hatshepsut (4.10.11)?
a. mud brick d. granite
b. limestone e. fur
c. wood
27. What is the subject of Catherine Opie’s Domestic series?
a. staged depiction of radical performance artists
b. high school football games
c. a variety of landscapes the artist found interesting
d. lesbian couples in their everyday settings
e. all of the other answers
28. Which artwork did Catherine Opie make?
a. Migrant Mother
b. Do the Right Thing
c. The Dinner Party
d. Sphinx of Hatshepsut
e. “Melissa & Lake, Durham, North Carolina”