Art AcDec Q's

Who painted The Stonebreakers?

Courbet

An attempt to make the inner workings of the mind visible in art is known as:

Expressionism

In the Pop Art era, if you wanted an artist to create a lifelike sculpture of you, you would most likely hire

Hanson

What would you use to attach a spout onto a clay vessel?

Slip

Sculptures may be cast in what materials

plaster, plastic, metal, & polyster

Who painted the Oath of the Horatii?

 David

Which of the following is an example of intaglio printmaking?

etching

The International Style of architecture adheres most closely to the tenets of

the Bauhaus

The Great Wall of China is:

two-thousand miles long

The process used to print most T-shirts is

screen printing

What Chinese emperor had a full army of life-size clay soldiers buried with him?

Emperor of Qin

Picasso and Braque broke down form in new ways in the style that came to be known as

cubism

Der Blaue Reiter group was led by

Kandinsky

A solvent is added to paint to change its:

consistency

What artist became known for adopting the imagery of comic books?

Lichtenstein

What would you add to ink to make it translucent?

Water

Which art period used hierarchical scale?

Ancient Egyptian

Which of the following was considered a Baroque artist creating the piece The Ecstasy of the Saint Teresa?

Bernini

Who was known for his silkscreens of Brillo boxes?

Warhol

Who painted the School of Athens?

 Raphael

The Pre-Raphaelites are MOST associated with what country?

 England

What artist placed an emphasis on the scientific rules of color?

Seurat

Who painted The Night Watch?

Rembrandt

The Persian Empire flourished in what is present-day

Iran

What artist created a painting that became the source of the name Impressionism?

Monet

Who sculpted The Dying Slave?

Michelangelo

What art period is associated with art works that were celebrations of gaiety and romance as well as pastel colors and lighthearted decorations?

Rococo

Artists who use arbitrary color might choose colors for their

Emotional Impact

The theories of Sigmund Freud most influenced the:

Surrealists

What is an assemblage?

A three-dimensional art technique that uses found objects and unconventional materials to create a sculpture

In what printing process is an image drawn with a waxy pencil or crayon directly on a plate?

lithograph

A fresco is usually painted on a:

Wall

An artwork created out of stainless steel would most likely have been created by

David Smith

With what art movement was Chuck Close associated in the 1960s?

Photorealism

Black and white are called

neutrals

French artists began to imitate aspects of Japanese prints in the

 late nineteenth century

In what city was the Crystal Palace located?

London

A printmaking technique in which the design is incised through a layer of varnish is called

etching

Who filled open boxes with a variety of objects that created symbolic statements?

Cornell

Which artist painted in Tahiti?

Gauguin

What are some common mediums used in drawing?

Pastels, Pen & Ink, Pencil, and Charcoal

Which culture is known for creating naturalistic frescoes and unfortified palaces?

Minoan

Which painting medium is characterized by the use of egg as a binder?

tempera

Tutankhamen’s tomb remained almost completely intact until when Howard Carter opened it in

1922

Which ancient historian is known for analyzing art in his work Natural History?

 Pliny the Elder

Which artist is credited with creating the first freestanding nude statue since antiquity?

Donatello

Which art form is associated with the creation of quilts?

 fiber arts

The Greek Parthenon and the outer ring of Stonehenge  is an example of construction that is based on

 posts and lintels

After 1931 until the Second World War, Man Ray lived in:

Paris

I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold represents the noisy progress down an urban street of a/an

firetruck

What art group featured the everyday lives of working-class people?

 Ashcan School

What type of art did Stieglitz create?

photographs

Who taught Man Ray to draw?

 the Ashcan artists

The unofficial leader of the Ashcan School was:

Henri

What art movement was inspired in part by the writings of Sigmund Freud?

Surrealism

In Europe, Charles Demuth became good friends with which artist?

Hartley

An intellectual gathering convened by a wealthy host is a

salon

The look of Leaf Pattern is distinctly

Modernist

Before traveling to Chicago and Boston, the Armory Show took place in

New York

Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase confounded viewers with its:

 angular, repeated forms

Who did Georgia O’Keeffe marry?

Stieglitz

Georgia O’Keeffe is BEST known for her closely cropped, colorful paintings of

Flowers

What painting was to be hung so that its subject looked like it was “standing on its head”?

 The Lawrence Tree

Surrealism was officially launched in

1924

What art movement focused on speed, technology, modern life, and dynamism?

Futurism

What artist was known for their images of animal skulls?

O’Keeffe

How old was Georgia O’Keeffe when she died?

98

Marcel Duchamp’s works like In Advance of the Broken Arm, a metal snow shovel, were known as:

 ready-mades

What American artist thought of their work in terms of color “harmonies” and “symphonies”?

Whistler

Which artwork gives the illusion of rushing speed?

 I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold

Charles Demuth’s best-known works are his

watercolors

I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold combines the visual appearance of advertising and product labels with elements taken from:

Cubism

The name of Surrealism’s founder was

 André Breton

Which of the following artists lived or studied in Philadelphia?

 Demuth and Henri

What is the Taos Pueblo?

 an Indigenous village

What artist called his works “improvisations”?

Kandinsky

Who was considered an ethnographic photographer?

Curtis

What art movement embraced strange juxtapositions and chance encounters and portraying the inner workings of the mind?

Surrealism

The Ashcan School artists were known for their depictions of what city?

New York

In what state did Georgia O’Keeffe spend the last years of her life?

 New Mexico

Dada was an antiwar art movement that began in 1915 in

Switzerland

Early photographers who used a soft focus to create dreamy narratives were known as

Pictorialists

Who is sometimes considered the father of conceptual art?

Duchamp

The Lawrence Tree was painted in

 New Mexico

Quoted as saying “photographers need the hand of the skilled mechanic, the eye of an artist, and the brains of a scientist”, in college, Imogen Cunningham majored in

chemistry

New York’s 1913 exhibition of international modern art was nicknamed the:

Armory Show

Imogen Cunningham and the Group f/64 were inspired by a German form of photography that was called

new objectivity

The Surrealists called writing or drawing without any preconceived plan ____.

automatism

Alfred Stieglitz owned the gallery called:

291

The elevator doors of the Chrysler Building feature a design inspired by

 Egyptian aesthetics

Why do we not know the identity of the subjects of Couple, Harlem?

 Van Der Zee did not record the names of his clients.

What were 1920s underground clubs that served illegal liquor called?

speakeasies

An innovative hairstyle favored by flappers was

Bobbed Hair

How much was Thomas Hart Benton paid for the America Today mural series?

0/None

One of Thomas Hart Benton’s best-known students was

 Jackson Pollock

Archibald Motley identified himself as

Créole

Guy Pene du Bois’s Woman on Sofa seems

bold

The massive relocation of African Americans from the rural south to industrial cities in the 1920s was known as the what?

Great Migration

Who compiled the anthology titled New Negro Movement?

 Alain Locke

What does Guy Pene du Bois’s Woman on Sofa have around her neck?

 a long necklace