Art History Chapter 13 Art From Jacob Lawrence His Paintings Aimed Sensitize Society S Social Conscience

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Chapter 13: ART FROM 1950 TO 1999

1. Jacob Lawrence in his paintings:

a. aimed to sensitize society’s social conscience

b. utilized the depth of illusory space

c. used flowing forms and lyrical pastel colors

d. strove to avoid interjecting personal memories

2. Jackson Pollock in his Abstract Expressionist painting:

a. insisted on the use of traditional art materials

b. strove to evolve realistic symbolic imagery

c. relied on the Surrealist concept of automatism

d. conscientiously pre-planned each stage in a painting

3. Le Corbusier’s Nôtre-Dame-du-Haut at Ronchamp is:

a. designed to be isolated from nature and site

b. like sculpture in the round

c. characteristic of the architect’s International Style period

d. patterned on the cube

4. Which one of the following is not characteristic of Pop Art?

a. popular

b. sexy

c. transient

d. idealist

5. Conceptual art:

a. shows a distrust of creativity in any form

b. emphasizes the end product over the idea

c. relies dramatically on chance and automatism

d. values concept over execution of the work

6. Goya’s The Third of May, 1808, and Picasso’s Guernica are alike in that they both:

a. are Romantic works

b. have Neo-Baroque compositions

c. stress the reality of the pictorial surface

d. are an invective against brutality

7. Action Painting was part of:

a. Surrealism

b. Dada

c. Neo-Expressionism

d. Abstract Expressionism

8. The work of __________ exemplifies Action Painting.

a. Pollock

b. Duchamp

c. Dali

d. Hopper

9. The art movement that was built on popular commercial imagery of the 1950s and 1960s is

known as:

a. Op Art

b. Photorealism

c. Neo-Expressionism

d. Pop Art

10. Ozu is:

a. the director of Tokyo Story

b. a Japanese Tea master

c. a Chinese nature philosophy

d. a Japanese god of nature

11. At what school did Hard-Edge Abstraction painter Josef Albers teach?

a. Die Brücke

b. Der Blaue Reiter

c. The Bauhaus

d. The Royal Academy

12. Color Field Painting:

a. applies bright color to landscapes

b. is characterized by gestural expression

c. has shapes that meet at clearly defined edges

d. displays limited areas of color within nonobjective compositions

13. The term “Neo–Dada” is sometimes used to refer to the work of:

a. Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg

b. Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko

c. Joseph Beuys and Joseph Kosuth

d. Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein

14. The art movement of the 1960s that explores our perception of patterns and the way we

perceive visual reality is:

a. Pop Art

b. Op Art

c. Photorealism

d. Conceptual Art

15. Duane Hanson’s lifelike figural sculptures are part of the movement known as:

a. Photorealism

b. Illusionism

c. Hyper-Realism

d. Neo-Realism

16. Which of the following is not characteristic of the art of Christo and Jeanne-Claude?

a. it is temporary

b. it underscores the significance of due process in an open society

c. it interacts with nature

d. it is permanent

17. The term that refers to developments in art that are characterized by a pluralistic approach

to style, medium, and interpretation is:

a. Modernism

b. Pattern + Decoration

c. Social Realism

d. Postmodernism

18. One of the thrusts of late twentieth-century art, as exemplified by the work of Keith Haring,

is to break down the boundaries between:

a. high and low art

b. realistic and abstract art

c. traditional and digital art

d. modern and postmodern art

19. The monumental sculptures of everyday objects by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van

Bruggen are a continuation of:

a. Op Art

b. Pop Art

c. Conceptual Art

d. Abstract Expressionism

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