Multiple Choice Quiz

Please answer all questions

1		In 1942 Peggy Guggenheim opened
			A)	the Museum of Modern Art in New York
			B)	the Paris Museum of Modern Art
			C)	the Art of This Century Gallery
			D)	the Venice Guggenheim
			E)	the Avant-Garde Gallery
2		Hitler's exhibition of "degenerate art" consisted mainly of
			A)	Classical statues
			B)	avant-garde art
			C)	photography
			D)	lithography
			E)	Surrealism
3		Which is true?
			A)	Albers taught at Black Mountain College in South Carolina
			B)	Hofmann taught at Yale
			C)	Hofmann taught at Black Mountain College in South Carolina
			D)	Albers taught at Yale
			E)	Albers taught at the Art Students' League and in North Carolina
4		Homage to the Square is
			A)	a series of paintings by Hofmann
			B)	a book by Albers
			C)	a manifesto written by Kelly
			D)	a series of paintings by Albers
			E)	a painting by Hofmann
5		Who of the following is NOT an action painter?
			A)	Albers
			B)	Gorky
			C)	Pollock
			D)	de Kooning
			E)	Frankenthaler
6		The term Abstract Expressionism was first used to define the style of
			A)	Pollock
			B)	Kandinsky
			C)	Albers
			D)	de Kooning
			E)	Frankenthaler
7		Which artist is correctly paired with the country of his birth?
			A)	de Kooning -- Germany
			B)	Stella -- Italy
			C)	Gorky -- Armenia
			D)	Rothko -- the United States
			E)	Noguchi -- China
8		The two leading art critics of Abstract Expressionism were
			A)	Bloomberg and Rosenberg
			B)	Steinberg and Bloomberg
			C)	Greenberg and Wölfflin
			D)	Worringer and Wölfflin
			E)	Greenberg and Rosenberg
9		Navajo sand painting inspired which artist?
			A)	Rothko
			B)	Ernst
			C)	Pollock
			D)	Frankenthaler
			E)	Noguchi
10		"Jack the Dripper" referred to
			A)	Frankenthaler
			B)	de Kooning
			C)	Gorky
			D)	Pollock
			E)	Hofmann
11		Which is NOT true of acrylic?
			A)	it is water-based
			B)	it can be used on paper but not canvas
			C)	it comes in bright colors
			D)	it dries quickly and does not fade
			E)	it can be poured, dripped, or splattered
12		Who of the following is NOT a Color Field painter?
			A)	Mondrian
			B)	Rothko
			C)	Kelly
			D)	Reinhardt
			E)	Stella
13		Which artist is correctly matched with his or her work?
			A)	Diebenkorn -- The Artist and his Mother
			B)	Kelly -- Ocean Park No.129
			C)	Noguchi -- Kouros
			D)	Nevelson -- the Cubi Series
			E)	Gorky -- Homage to the Square
14		Which is least true of Dubuffet?
			A)	he collected non-Western art
			B)	he was a monochromatic painter
			C)	he liked textured surfaces
			D)	he was a figurative abstractionist
			E)	he was French
15		The artist in this chapter who made furniture, playgrounds, and public sculpture gardens was
			A)	Smith
			B)	Nevelson
			C)	Kline
			D)	Noguchi
			E)	Bacon
16		Which author and work are correctly paired?
			A)	James Baldwin -- The Double Helix
			B)	Albert Camus -- Waiting for Godot
			C)	Graham Greene -- To the Finland Station
			D)	Jean-Paul Sartre -- Being and Nothingness
			E)	Ingmar Bergman -- Lolita
17		Who of the following most likely used acrylic?
			A)	Frankenthaler
			B)	Rothko
			C)	Gorky
			D)	Smith
			E)	Noguchi