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The term New York School refers to a postwar art movement that |
| | A) | developed from graduates of the New York School. |
| | B) | went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world outside of New York. |
| | C) | was a convenient way to lump together the Abstract Expressionists. |
| | D) | completely rejected the ideas of Surrealism. |
| | E) | quickly moved from New York to Paris. |
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Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty is an example of |
| | A) | site work. |
| | B) | Feminist Art. |
| | C) | Neo-Expressionism. |
| | D) | Performance Art. |
| | E) | Neo-Dada art. |
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The term Postmodern was first used in reference to a certain style in |
| | A) | happenings. |
| | B) | Conceptual Art. |
| | C) | installations. |
| | D) | architecture. |
| | E) | motion pictures. |
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The "Woman" series of paintings by Willem de Kooning caused a stir in the art world. They were |
| | A) | provocative because of their high realism. |
| | B) | loved by the public but reviled by critics. |
| | C) | the result his turning away from abstract representation to nonrepresentation. |
| | D) | seen as powerless, cool, and intellectual. |
| | E) | seen as shocking and brutal. |
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The Guerrilla Girls use posters and on-site appearances to |
| | A) | draw attention to new and progressive art venues. |
| | B) | raise awareness about animal rights and environmental issues. |
| | C) | bring attention to gender inequalities in the art world. |
| | D) | offer support to great art regardless of who created it. |
| | E) | raise money mostly for male artists. |
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Painting is the primary medium used by all of the following artists EXCEPT |
| | A) | Helen Frankenthaler. |
| | B) | Alice Neel. |
| | C) | Susan Rothenberg. |
| | D) | Elizabeth Murray. |
| | E) | Louise Bourgeois. |
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Jasper Johns chose familiar images for his subject matter so that he could then concentrate on all of the following EXCEPT: |
| | A) | the relationship between image and object. |
| | B) | the ability to reproduce an image. |
| | C) | the impact of symbols. |
| | D) | the psychological use of color. |
| | E) | paradoxes. |
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One of the ideas behind Postmodernism is pluralism, which proposes that art |
| | A) | historically follows an obvious progression and advocates a dominant direction. |
| | B) | can take many directions at the same time, all of them equally valid. |
| | C) | should be based on the advancement of formal discoveries. |
| | D) | should focus on the future and leave the past behind. |
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The term action painting refers to the fact that this new type of painting |
| | A) | emphasized figures and subject matter in strong action. |
| | B) | traced the actions of the painter. |
| | C) | actually moved. |
| | D) | referred to political issues, calling people to action. |
| | E) | depicted simple diagrams of mechanical actions. |
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Minimalism, a trend that coexisted with Pop, emphasized a continuation of the exploration of nonrepresentation and the idea that a painting is primarily |
| | A) | an illusionistic space or window to look into. |
| | B) | an expression of the energy and vitality of the artist's mark. |
| | C) | a statement of the artist's psyche. |
| | D) | a physical object. |
| | E) | an expression of the sublime nature of reality. |
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The terms "Literalism" and "ABC Art" were sometimes used to refer to the movement that critics eventually named |
| | A) | Minimalism. |
| | B) | Color Field painting. |
| | C) | happenings. |
| | D) | action painting. |
| | E) | installation. |
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Early Conceptualists reacted to the burgeoning art market by |
| | A) | co-opting the system by flooding the market with bad art. |
| | B) | bringing trash bags to art receptions and taking all the food home. |
| | C) | attempting to eliminate the art object. |
| | D) | emphasizing the material value of art. |
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Starting out as a graffiti artist in the 1970s, Jean-Michel Basquait painted in a "naïve" style and tried to |
| | A) | incorporate his interest in science and languages in his video works. |
| | B) | bring about major changes in graffiti laws in his hometown of Chicago. |
| | C) | reflect the hybrid Afro-Caribbean, African-American New York culture that he belonged to. |
| | D) | present himself as a classically trained artist. |
| | E) | fool people into thinking he had no talent. |
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A Neo-Dada artist who made art from "found" materials and images and named his new art form combine paintings is |
| | A) | John Cage. |
| | B) | Robert Rauschenberg. |
| | C) | Jasper Johns. |
| | D) | Jean Tinguely. |
| | E) | Andy Warhol. |
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In Joseph Kosuth's One and Three Chairs, the viewer is presented with |
| | A) | three ways of documenting an idea. |
| | B) | a blank wall. |
| | C) | a barrel of nails and a pile of lumber. |
| | D) | three exact duplicates of a painting of a chair. |
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Anselm Kiefer was one of the most talked about of the Neo-Expressionists. His work |
| | A) | dealt directly with the trauma of Germany's past. |
| | B) | explored the role of the subconscious and dream images. |
| | C) | consisted of mass-produced replicas of works of other artists. |
| | D) | was an exploration of flatness. |
| | E) | predicted the downfall of the Soviet Union. |
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Allan Kaprow took art in a new direction with happenings. His primary claim was |
| | A) | that art should be a permanent physical record of an event. |
| | B) | that art should concentrate on its basic forms of sculpture and painting. |
| | C) | that artists had to have credentials and advanced training. |
| | D) | that American art was not meeting the desires of the general public. |
| | E) | that art was most like life itself. |
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Appropriation contends that the meaning of a work of art |
| | A) | is determined solely by the artist. |
| | B) | is of no importance. |
| | C) | has no relation to other art. |
| | D) | is unstable and communal. |
| | E) | is fixed by art critics. |
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A new art form known as installation |
| | A) | gives credit to the work done by installers, people who hang other people's art. |
| | B) | forces the viewer to create the art in his or her mind based on verbal description. |
| | C) | has again flattened the art object to two dimensions. |
| | D) | creates an environment for the viewer to enter and experience. |
| | E) | predominantly focuses on film. |
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Photorealism refers to |
| | A) | a movement in photography that explores various levels of representation. |
| | B) | a movement in sculpture that uses actual objects. |
| | C) | a movement in art that rejects the camera as a viable art tool. |
| | D) | a movement in painting that explores the way a camera "sees." |
| | E) | a movement that involves documentation in film. |
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