TEST 6 CONTEMPORARY ART HISTORY

Question 1

Whose sculpture "Unique Formes of Continuity in Space" expemplified the Futurist movement?

Accepted Answer

Umberto Boccioni

Question 2

Arshile Gorky&#x27;s most characteristic shapes in his paintings are:

Accepted Answer

biomorphs

Question 3

Franz Marc mainly liked to paint:

Accepted Answer

animals

Question 4

Mexican artist Diego Rivera was known for painting:

Accepted Answer

social murals

Question 5

Duchamp created a new art form in which the artist makes makes nothing but merely labels and objects as art, called:

Accepted Answer

ready-mades

Question 6

In what art category is this artwork created?

Accepted Answer

Non-objective

Question 7

Who introduced the art of assemblage?

Accepted Answer

Picasso

Question 8

Which artist created this artwork?

Accepted Answer

Duchamp

Question 9

Which of the artists listed is a sculptor whose work is of abstract reclining figures?

Accepted Answer

Henry Moore

Question 10

What is frottage?

Accepted Answer

Rubbing over a surface to create a painted texture

Question 11

Which artist created this artwork?

Accepted Answer

Georgia O&#x27;Keeffe

Question 12

What is the title?

Accepted Answer

Falling Water

Question 13

Picasso&#x27;s "Les Demoiselles d&#x27;Avignon" shows signs of what influence?

Accepted Answer

African Art

Question 14

Which artist created this sculpture?

Accepted Answer

Hepworth

Question 15

What art style did World War I give rise to because artists protested against the destruction of war?

Accepted Answer

Dada

Question 16

Which artist painted canvases of rectangles hovering in fields of color?

Accepted Answer

Rothko

Question 17

Which of the following art movements uses such objects to provoke subconscious connections?

Accepted Answer

Surrealism

Question 18

"American Gothic" is one of the most recognizable paiintings in the world. Who painted it?

Accepted Answer

Grant Wood

Question 19

A sculpture built out of found objects is called:

Accepted Answer

an assemblage

Question 20

The guiding principle of the Walter Gropius&#x27; Bauhaus Design School was "Form follows:

Accepted Answer

Function

Question 21

What is the art movement that focuses on the subconscious, unlikely placed objects, and the interpretation of dreams?

Accepted Answer

Surrealism

Question 22

Which architect believed that a home should blend with its environment?

Accepted Answer

Wright

Question 23

What did Jacob Lawrence try to do with his artwork?

Accepted Answer

bring the African-American experience into art

Question 24

What is the title of this painting?

Accepted Answer

Persistence of Memory

Question 25

Surrealism drew heavily on the written works of:

Accepted Answer

Sigmund Freud

Question 26

Of the following choices, what kind of art is this?

Accepted Answer

Non-Objective

Question 27

What is the art style of this work?

Accepted Answer

Analytic Cubism

Question 28

What is color-field painting?

Accepted Answer

a painting with large areas of intense color evoking an emotional respose

Question 29

Modernism departs from imitating nature and communicates through formal language of color and shape. What is it called?

Accepted Answer

Abstraction

Question 30

What art style had the characteristics of speed, action and dynamism?

Accepted Answer

Futurism

Question 31

Fauvism is associate with all the following EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

restraint and harmony

Question 32

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner&#x27;s "Street, Berlin" expressed his feelings about:

Accepted Answer

urban corruption and alienation

Question 33

What was the name of the 1913 New York international art exhibit of 1200 modern artists&#x27; work from Europe?

Accepted Answer

Aarmory Show

Question 34

Which well-known work of art did Duchamp mock in his Dada work "L.H.O.O.Q.?"

Accepted Answer

Leonardo da Vnici&#x27;s "Mona Lisa"

Question 35

What are movement/style created the collage process?

Accepted Answer

Cubism

Question 36

Completed in 1945, this self-portrait was painted by:

Accepted Answer

Frida Kahlo

Question 37

Of the artists listed below, which is the Abstract Epressionist?

Accepted Answer

Krasner

Question 38

Who was the artist, James van der Zee?

Accepted Answer

the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem

Question 39

What process did Pollock use from 1947 onward to produce his most celebrated paintings?

Accepted Answer

drip technique

Question 40

Kollowitz&#x27;s main subject matter was which of the following?

Accepted Answer

war, death, mothers and children

Question 41

Who is credited with Picasso as having started Cubism?

Accepted Answer

Braque

Question 42

What art style has the characteristics of gestural brush-storkes, spontaneity and personal expression?

Accepted Answer

Abstract Expressionism

Question 43

In what type of art do you NOT see specific objects

Accepted Answer

Non-objective

Question 44

This artist&#x27;s most recognizable works incude straight black lines and blocks of primary colors. Who is he?

Accepted Answer

Piet Mondrian

Question 45

Rounded, tubular, machine-made shaped figures are associated with which artist?

Accepted Answer

Fernand Leger

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