Deck 19: The Invisible Made Visible: Abstract and Nonrepresentational Art

Question 1

What was Mark Rothko exploring in his Color Field paintings such as Untitled (Painting), 1953-1954?

A)action painting
B)abstraction of nature
C)simultaneous contrast
D)psychological and spiritual effects of color
E)none of these are correct

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Jackson Pollock was inspired by the _____.

A)Surrealists, especially their use of automatic picturemaking
B)the rationality of the Bauhaus forms
C)Fauves, especially their use of bright colors
D)work of Vasily Kandinsky, especially his use of nonrepresentational images
E)work of Georgia O'Keeffe, especially her use of organic forms

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The young Vasily Kandinsky, upon seeing the art work of ________ that focused on color over subject matter, was inspired to explore that concept further in his own work.

A)Paul Cezanne
B)Paul Gauguin
C)Pierre Auguste Renoir
D)Claude Monet
E)Jackson Pollock

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Edward Weston made images that were _______.

A)previsualized
B)uncropped using the full frame
C)contact prints made directly from the negative
D)done using the deepest moment of perception
E)all of these are correct

Question 5

The architect who built a glass house for himself is ______.

A)Le Corbusier
B)Frank Lloyd Wright
C)Mark di Suvero
D)Philip Johnson
E)Hans Hofmann

Question 6

What were Le Corbusier's aspirations for the modern architecture?

A)It should be purely rational and scientific.
B)It should create a better world.
C)It should solve intransigent social problems.
D)It should break down old nationalistic boundaries.
E)all of these are correct.

Question 7

Jackson Pollock created _________, depicting the energy of the artist's motions.

A)Color Field Paintings
B)action paintings
C)straight paintings
D)Fauvist
E)kinetic works

Question 8

What architect had the dictum: "the complete building is the final aim of the visual arts"?

A)Walter Gropius
B)Vasily Kandinsky
C)Marc Chagall
D)Le Corbusier
E)Frank Lloyd Wright

Question 9

Who painted the black and white work that uses loose, expressive lines to describe a complicated and interlocked abstract spaces, such as Painting (1948)?

A)Jackson Pollock
B)Georgia O'Keeffe
C)Wilhelm de Kooning
D)Edward Weston
E)Mark Rothko

Question 10

Pictures in which lines, shapes, and colors no longer refer to anything in the real world are called ____.

A)naturalism
B)realism
C)semi-abstract
D)New Objectivity
E)nonrepresentational

Question 11

What was the dominant theme of Georgia O'Keeffe's work during her long career?

A)nature
B)portraiture
C)landscape
D)none of these are correct
E)all of these are correct

Question 12

Why did Frank Lloyd Wright disapprove of the International Style?

A)It was too ornamental.
B)It was too expensive.
C)It was essentially European.
D)It was not practical enough.
E)None of these are correct.

Question 13

Helen Frankenthaler created her paintings by _________.

A)dripping the paint with a stick on the surface of the canvas
B)using wide brush strokes filled with emotion
C)first using gesso to seal the surface of the canvas, then using built-up layers of thin glazes
D)using a palate knife to lay a thick application of oil paints
E)letting the colors of paint to soak and stain a raw canvas

Question 14

Helen Frankenthaler was inspired and influenced by the Abstract Expressionist painters ______.

A)Emil Nolde and Henri Matisse
B)Georgia O'Keeffe and Vasily Kandinsky
C)Jackson Pollock and Hans Hofmann
D)Willem de Kooning and Piet Mondrian
E)Mark Rothko and Vasily Kandinsky

Question 15

The glass box format of the International Style leant itself well to skyscrapers because ____.

A)it is ordered and disciplined
B)it lacks political overtones
C)it is a neutral style
D)it is cheaper to build than heavily ornamented buildings
E)all of these are correct

Question 16

The International Style is seen in ________.

A)Notre Dame du Haut
B)the Bauhaus
C)Guggenheim Museum
D)none of these are correct
E)all of these are correct

Question 17

________ was the founder and architect of the Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany.

A)Vasily Kandinsky
B)Le Corbusier
C)Frank Lloyd Wright
D)Walter Gropius
E)Louis Sullivan

Question 18

Le Corbusier's Notre Dame du Haut is a type of _________.

A)organic architecture or sculpture
B)geometric architecture
C)the International Style
D)glorification of the machine
E)all of these are correct

Question 19

Alexander Calder invented ________.

A)collage
B)the mobile
C)action painting
D)straight photography
E)the glass box

Question 20

Why did New York City replace Paris as the world capital of art?

A)The Bauhaus school closed.
B)Many artists fled to New York from Europe,
C)The advance of Hitler's armies destabilized Europe.
D)None of these are correct.
E)All of these are correct.

Question 21

What is meant by the term Color Field Painting?

Question 22

Why did Frank Lloyd Wright say that Le Corbusier was "valuable, especially as an enemy"?

Question 23

Discuss the role of the Bauhaus in modern art.Who founded it? Where was it located? What was taught? How did it affect modern art and architecture?

Question 24

Describe how Frank Lloyd Wright combined the ideas of form follows function with organic architecture.

Question 25

Explain how the International Style was different than previous forms of architecture.Cite at least one example of an International Style building in your discussion.

Question 26

Why did Jackson Pollock paint on the floor?

Question 27

Why didn't the Abstract Expressionists have a manifesto?

Question 28

In the mid-1900s, the art capital of the world shifted to New York City.Explain why this shift occurred and the effect of this shift.

Question 29

List three artists that were associated with the Abstract Expressionists.

Question 30

Compare and contrast an organic work of architecture with a geometric work of architecture.