AP Art History Unit 9 Test

mont sainte-victorie

Paul Cézanne, Oil on canvas, 1902-1904. Was made as a landscape painting.

les demoiselles d'avignon

Pablo Picasso, Oil on canvas, 1907. Was made to rival a Matisse painting.

the portuguese

Georges Braque, Oil on canvas, 1911. Was made as a small still life inspired by Picasso.

goldfish

Henri Matisse, Oil on canvas, 1912. Was made for viewers to indulge in art.

the kiss

Gustav Klimt, Oil and gold leaf on canvas, 1907-1908. Was made to move away from traditional academy art.

the kiss

Constantin Brancusi, Stone, 1907-1908. Was made as an inspiration of a romanian peasant tradition.

the steerage

Alfred Stieglitz, Photogravure, 1907. Was photographed to show immigrants departing america.

self portrait as soldier

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Oil on canvas, 1915. Was made to show the bad effects of world war 1.

improvisation 28

Vassily Kandinsky, Oil on canvas, 1912. Was made as a piece of synesthesia.

memorial to karl liebknecht

Käthe Kollwitz, Woodblock print, 1919-1920. Was amde to commemorate a german communist leader.

fountain

Marcel Duchamp, Porcelain urinal and paint, 1917. Was made as a dadaist rejection of an art society.

composition with red, blue, and yellow

Piet Mondrian, Oil on canvas, 1930. Was made as a simple abstraction.

results of the first five year plan

Varvara Stepanova, Photomontage, 1932. Was made as pro communist propaganda.

object

Meret Oppenheim, Fur covered saucer/spoon/cup, 1936. Made as an inside joke to Picasso.

carson, pirie, scott building

Louis Sullivan, Chicago, Illisois, 1899,1903-1904, Was made as a department store building.

villa savoye

Le Corbusier, Steel and reinforced concrete, Poissy-sur-seine, France, 1929. Was made as a naturalist home.

fallingwater

Frank Lloyd Wright, Reinforced concrete/steel/glass/sandstone, Bear Run, Pennsylvania, 1936-1939. Was made as a naturalist home.

seagram building

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, Steel frame/glass curtain wall/bronze, New York City, New York, 1954-1958. Was made as a corporate office building.

house in new castle county

Robert Venturi, John Rauch, Denise Scott Brown, Wood frame and stucco, Delaware, 1978-1983. Was made as a house.

las dos fridas

Frida Kahlo, Oil on canvas, 1939. Was made as a self portrait.

migration of the negro

Jacob Lawrence, Tempera on hardboard, 1940-1941. Was made in a series of paintings.

the jungle

Wilfredo Lam, Gouache on paper, 1943. Was made as a surrealist painting.

dream of a sunday afternon in alameda park

Diego Rivera, Fresco, 1947-1948. Was made as a mural for a hotel.

woman 1

Willem de Kooning, Oil on canvas, 1950-1952. Was made in a series of paintings.

marylin diptych

Andy Warhold, Oil/acrylic/silkscreen enamel on canvas, 1962. Was made as a critique on celebrity culture.

narcissus garden

Yayoi Kusama, Mirror balls, 1966. Was made as a critique to narcissism.

the bay

Helen Frankenthaler, Acrylic on canvas, 1963. Was made as an abstract painting.

lipstick on caterpillar tracks

Cales Oldenburg, Painted steel body/aluminum tube/fiberglass tip, 1969. Was made as a critique of the vietnam war.

spiral jetty

Robert Smithson, Earthwork/mud/rock crystals/rock, Great Salt Lake, Utah. Was made as a piece of nature.