Complete Test Bank From Modern To Postmodern Chapter.22

Living with Art, 12e (Getlein)

Chapter 22 From Modern to Postmodern

1) What style of art is associated with the New York School?

A) Pop

B) Minimalism

C) Abstract Expressionism

D) Postmodernism

2) Walter De Maria's Lightning Field is an example of ________ art.

A) Land

B) Feminist

C) Performance

D) Minimalist

3) With what artistic medium was the term Postmodern first used?

A) Painting

B) Sculpture 

C) Photography

D) Architecture

4) In his notorious Women series, the painter ________ mutated images of beautiful women into grimacing monsters.

A) Jackson Pollock

B) Robert Rauschenberg

C) Jasper Johns

D) Willem de Kooning

5) What recent art group is known for their shocking images, as well as their skill at marketing and self-promotion?

A) New York School

B) Guerilla Girls

C) Young British Artists

D) Minimalists

6) Which Abstract Expressionist artist was NOT a painter?

A) Willem de Kooning

B) Mark Rothko

C) Jackson Pollock

D) Louise Nevelson

7) What type of work is Jasper Johns's Target with Four Faces?

A) Installation

B) Happening

C) Land art

D) Assemblage

8) How can the idea of pluralism in Postmodernism be described?

A) Art follows an obvious progression and advocates a dominant direction.

B) Art can take many directions at the same time, all of them equally valid.

C) Art should be based on the advancement of formal discoveries.

D) Art should focus on the future and leave the past behind.

9) The work of artist ________ explores historical and personal questions of blackness.

A) Kara Walker

B) Jenny Holzer

C) Olia Lialina

D) Christiane Baumgartner

10) What type of painting reveals the traces of an act, the painter's dance of creation?

A) Assemblage

B) Action

C) Neo-Dada

D) Process

11) What genre of art sought to explore the possibilities of pure form?

A) Performance

B) Assemblage

C) Pop

D) Minimalism

Match each artist to his or her associated style.

A) Performance 

B) Minimalism

C) Photorealism

D) Abstract Expressionism

E) Pop 

12) Chuck Close

13) Donald Judd

14) Marina Abramović

15) Mark Rothko

16) Roy Lichtenstein

17) The tautological conceit of Joseph Kosuth's Five Words in White Neon identify it as ________ art. 

A) Conceptual

B) Expressionist

C) Performance

D) Digital

18) In addressing political or social issues, many artists incorporated words into works, such as Protect Me From What I Want, by borrowing principles from what field?

A) Advertising

B) Architecture

C) Musical songs

D) Dance

19) What artist made art from "found" materials and images and named his new art form a "combine?"

A) John Cage

B) Robert Rauschenberg

C) Jasper Johns

D) Andy Warhol.

20) What characteristic is fundamental to a happening, exemplified in Saburo Murakami's Laceration of Paper?

A) Impermanence

B) Textual basis

C) Nonrepresentation

D) Social progress

21) What postmodern practice takes existing images and recycles them, challenging traditional ideas about authenticity? 

A) Photorealism

B) Appropriation 

C) Tautology

D) Action painting

22) What art form creates an environment for the viewer to enter and experience?

A) Minimalism

B) Process

C) Combine

D) Installation

23) Much Internet Art shares the quality of being ________.

A) humorous

B) political

C) ephemeral 

D) provocative 

24) One of the names most closely associated with Performance art is ________, who is known for the performance piece Imponderabilia.

A) Sherrie Levine

B) Mark Rothko

C) Kara Walker

D) Marina Abramović

25) On what source material did Roy Lichtenstein often base his imagery?

A) The Bible

B) Current popular products

C) Comics

D) Works of earlier artists

26) What type of art is Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle?

A) Land art

B) Pop art

C) Internet art

D) Video art

27) Discuss the concept of appropriation in postmodern art. Point to specific examples from your text in your response. Then consider content from outside your text, describing how it references past style or works.

28) Giving specific examples of works and/or artists to support your statements, discuss the impact of the feminist movement on art and artists. How have feminist artists created works that address issues of gender? What media, subjects, and themes have been and are used by feminist artists?

29) What is the role of provocation, or "shock value," in art? Discuss the work of the Young British Artists in your response, taking into account the audience's reaction to such art.

30) Making references to the works of specific artists, discuss representations and interpretations of the human body from De Kooning to the present. Analyze a selection of works with a variety of representations of the body. Explore an artist or work that you consider particularly interesting or compelling, analyzing why you feel this way.

31) How have contemporary artists explored cultural identity? Discuss works in which artists explore pluralism and identity through their use of images, actions, and materials.

32) Consider Pollock's Number 1, 1949. Identify the style of this work. Then discuss the artist's incorporation of at least three elements and principles of art in the work.

33) Consider the following works: Rothko's Orange and Yellow, De Kooning's Woman IV, and Johns' Target with Four Faces. Associate each artist or his/her work with the style it most closely represents. How do these works approach issues of representation, content, media, and abstraction?

34) Consider Judy Chicago's Dinner Party. Describe how the work is representative of feminist theory and Feminist art. 

35) Describe the relationship between the commercial media and Pop art. From where did Pop artists, such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, draw inspiration? Explain how the works of Pop artists differ from the mass-produced content that serves as their source material.

36) Discuss how Body art and Performance art often intersect. Use specific examples to illustrate your answer. Further, consider instances where the two styles do not overlap.

37) Describe the role of text and words in Conceptual art. What ideas result from the use of words that cannot be achieved without text?