QUESTION 1. Which artist explored African American subject matter through the aesthetic of urban graffiti?
Keith Haring
Andres Serrano
Carrie Mae Weems
Jean-Michel Basquiat
QUESTION 2. The following work was part of a controversy that ended up in court. Use the accompanying links to enhance your knowledge of the incident. Write a reaction essay answering the questions below.
"Dread" Scott Tyler, What is the Proper Way to Display a US Flag
https://www.thefileroom.org/documents/dyn/DisplayCase.cfm/id/199
https://dreadscott.net/whatis.html
THE FIRST AMMENDEMENT: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Should the artwork have been removed from the exhibition? What is your reaction to the viewer comments of the piece? Would you have stood on the flag to write a comment - what would that comment have been? Do you believe that Tyler was acting under his first Amendment rights? Is critique of our government and its symbols, or anti-patriotism a crime? What do you think of Judge Kenneth L. Gillis' ruling that artist's display of the flag convey ideas (popular or not) is protected under the First Amendment?
Your essay should be no less than two well developed paragraphs and should be in your own words.
QUESTION 3. Which self-promoted artist appropriated well-known objects and images as a way to challenge the distinction between fine art and consumerist goods?
David Salle
Jeff Koons
Julian Schnabel
Keith Haring
QUESTION 4. One criticism of Modernism that PostModernists express is:
Modernists are too open to new ways of thinking about the world.
Modernists use varying art forms rather than focusing on the several most popular ones.
Modernists tolerated ambiguity and incoherence.
Modernists strive toward a specific universal understanding of art.
QUESTION 5. In the 1980s, some proclaimed the ‘death' of modernism. The _____________________ movement emerged in its wake.
QUESTION 6. Jenny Holzer's installations such as Truisms are primarily concerned with what theme?
Body parts and sexuality
The transient quality of nature and art
The power of words and texts
The presence of objects and spaces "hidden" in plain view
QUESTION 7. Give three terms that you believe describe the how art reflected the 1980s cultural and political climate.
QUESTION 8. _____________________was a female dealer and gallery owner who used extensive marketingtechniques to rapidly catapult the artists she represented to celebrity status.
Mary Boone
Julian Schnabel
Ann Magnuson
Jenny Holzer
QUESTION 9. Which artist incorporated Pollock's drip and splatter painting, but used broken plates as his drips?
David Salle
Jeff Koons
Julian Schnabel
Keith Haring
QUESTION 10. A new art form known as "installation":
Gives credit to the work done by installers, people who hang other people's art.
Forces the viewer to create the art in his or her mind based on verbal description.
Has again flattened the art object to two dimensions.
Creates an environment for the viewer to enter and experience.
QUESTION 11. __________________ founded the black feminist art group as a reaction receiving minimal attention in other Black Arts groups like Spiral and The Studio Museum in Harlem.
Faith Ringgold
Judy Chicago
Betye Saar
Emma Amos
QUESTION 12. What minimalist painter made large scale portraits of individuals using a grid format?__________________
Frank Stella
Mary Lucier
Ana Mendieta
Chuck Close
QUESTION 13. A characteristic of Frank Stella's early work was the use of:
Canvases of different shapes.
indistinct and wiggling lines to delineate amorphous shapes.
Everyday objects to apply paint instead of brushes.
Merging and overlaid colors.
QUESTION 14. What type of art can be identified by geometrical abstraction and based on the idea that there is no hidden meaning behind the work?
Outside Art
Funk Art
Pop Art
Minimalist Art
QUESTION 15. As their names suggest, Op Art and Pop Art are nearly identical in style and subject matter.
True
False
QUESTION 16. Select one art work created by an artist discussed in Chapter 9. You may use a work discussed din the text, or another art work that you find on a museum website. Write the title, artist, and date that the artwork was created. Next, discuss how the artist explores cultural identity. Consider how they explore identity through images, actions and/or materials. Finally, explain if you think this work is successful in exploring American identity, and include a statement on why you selected this work. Your analysis should be no less than two well developed paragraphs.
QUESTION 17. Artists such a Vito Acconci rejected traditional artist's materials and used what as their medium or canvas?
Ready-mades
Their own body
Neon lights
‘Junk' materials
QUESTION 17. Conceptual artists reacted to the expanding art market by:
Flooding the market with bad art.
Attempting to eliminate the art object.
Emphasizing the material value of art.
Imitating the mass-produced objects of popular culture.
QUESTION 18. Which art critic said that Feminist art was ‘neither a style or a movement', but rather a ‘value system, revolutionary strategy'?
Clement Greenberg
Barbara Hepworth
Lucy Lippard
Betty Friedan