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Example Question #114 : Twentieth And Twenty First Century 2 D Art
The pop artist who often use images of the American flag in his work was __________.
Jasper Johns
Roy Lichtenstein
Robert Rauschenberg
Andy Warhol
Jasper Johns
Like many other pop artists, Jasper Johns (b. 1930) used familiar symbols in odd or surprising ways to invert the expectations and conventions of high vs. low art. Instead of utilizing commercial products or elements of low culture, however, Johns preferred images of Americana, like the American flag. Johns' series of paintings on the American flag include an all-white flag, a pastiche of multiple sized flags, and flags where the colors are smudged and running into each other.
Example Question #115 : Twentieth And Twenty First Century 2 D Art
Picasso's massive painting Guernica commemorates an event in __________.
World War I
World War II
the Spanish Civil War
the Spanish-American War
the Spanish Civil War
During the Spanish Civil War, Francisco Franco's nationalist troops destroyed the Basque city of Guernica in a massive bombing campaign assisted by Nazi German and Italian Fascist troops. The painter Pablo Picasso made a massive black and white painting depicting the event in cubist and abstract imagery conveying sorrow and devastation. After Franco took over the reins of state in Spain in 1938, Picasso was not allowed in his native Spain.
Example Question #116 : Twentieth And Twenty First Century 2 D Art
The Virgin of Guadalupe is a popular folk-art image in __________.
El Salvador
Belize
Mexico
Nicaragua
Mexico
The Virgin of Guadalupe was an apparition of The Virgin Mary, which appeared to an indigenous Mexican named Juan Diego, in 1531. This was widely promulgated as the impetus for mass conversions among native Mexicans, and it became a national symbol of Mexico. The Virgin of Guadalupe, identifiable through her blue cloak, pose in prayer, and the light emanating around her, is one of the most widely used images in Mexican folk art.
Example Question #117 : Twentieth And Twenty First Century 2 D Art
The artist who had a studio called “The Factory,” which produced multiple kinds of artwork was __________.
Henri Matisse
Andy Warhol
Salvador Dali
Pablo Picasso
Andy Warhol
"The Factory" became known in the 1960s for the parties thrown there by its owner, Andy Warhol, but in all of its locations in Manhattan, Warhol used it as a working art studio. Due to Warhol's fascination with screen printing and other mechanical forms of reproduction, the name was fitting, as it featured many apprentices making various works. Warhol also gathered a variety of people there to make art in a variety of types.
Example Question #1 : Answering Other Questions About Twentieth Century 2 D Art
What is the name of the Pablo Picasso mural commemorating a bombing during the Spanish Civil War?
The Great Day of Girona
Guernica
The Falling Soldier
The Reaper
Guernica
In 1937, planes from Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe, on behalf of the Francoist forces, bombed the Basque city of Guernica, a Republican stronghold. As one of the largest-scale atrocities of the Spanish Civil War, the Guernica bombing made Pablo Picasso feel compelled to commemorate the event. The result was a gigantic wall mural in Picasso's signature cubist style, but with references to war and a black and white color palette, neither of which were common to his work. The work was simply titled Guernica.
Example Question #5 : Answering Other Questions About Twentieth Century 2 D Art
Which of the following artistic movements was heavily influenced by the freeform nature of jazz music?
Bauhaus
Futurism
Cubism
Abstract Expressionism
Impressionism
Abstract Expressionism
The eclectic, improvisational nature of jazz had a wide influence in other artistic forms. In particular, visual artists sought to take some of jazz's extemporaneous elements and apply them to painting and sculpture. This idea greatly influence Jackson Pollock's "drip method" and other aspects of Abstract Expressionist art from the 1940s and 1950s.
Example Question #2 : Answering Other Questions About Twentieth Century 2 D Art
This paintings was created in the __________.
1920s
1890s
1930s
1940s
1910s
1910s
Juan Gris' Portrait of Pablo Picasso from 1912 is an example of the artistic movement known as cubism. Cubism was developed by a variety of painters living in Paris around 1910, including the Spaniards Picasso and Gris, but also the Frenchmen Georges Braque and Fernand Léger. Cubism is defined by its deconstruction of its images to geographic shapes and mathematical forms.
Figure: Portrait of Pablo Picasso by Juan Gris (1912)
Example Question #3 : Answering Other Questions About Twentieth Century 2 D Art
The movement that produced the above work was directly influenced by the artist __________.
Jackson Pollock
Wassily Kandinsky
Gustave Courbet
Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne
In one sense, cubism seemed to appear as a radical new take on modern art, using geometric shapes to create strange and disturbing images that conformed little to what came before. An important influence, however, was the impressionist Paul Cézanne, whose still lifes and landscapes were less than direct representations of what he painted. Cézanne, like the cubists, used abstract ideas to create more emotionally realistic and biting images.
Figure: Portrait of Pablo Picasso by Juan Gris (1912)
Example Question #8 : Answering Other Questions About Twentieth Century 2 D Art
All of the following statements are true of Gustav Klimt's The Kiss except __________.
it reflects the fin-de-siecle flamboyance of the Austrian middle class, but tempers it with unsettling undertones
the shimmering, extravagant flat patterning of the couple's bodies has clear ties to Art Nouveau and the Arts and Crafts movement
The Kiss is a visual manifestation of fin-de-siecle spirit because it captures a decadence conveyed by opulent, sensuous images and also masks anxieties about an uncertain and foreboding future
it is reflective of Klimt's position as a well-established painter, accepted in the established conservative artist society in Vienna
the depiction is reminiscent of the conflict between two and three dimensionality intrinsic to the work of Degas and other modernists
it is reflective of Klimt's position as a well-established painter, accepted in the established conservative artist society in Vienna
Klimt rebelled against the established Viennese conservative artists society and formally banded with other artists to create the Vienna Secession. This group created their own exhibition program and called for greater integration between art objects and the surrounding interior environment.
Example Question #4 : Answering Other Questions About Twentieth Century 2 D Art
Which of the following statements is true of Post-Impressionism?
Post-Impressionism sought to avoid reliance on formal elements such as color and form to express emotion and instead used well-known scenes and images to elicit viewer responses.
It was a movement instigated by artists who felt the Impressionists lacked too many of the traditional elements of picture making in their attempts to capture momentary sensations of light and color on canvas.
Post-Impressionist rejected pointillism and divisionism as too analytical and not freely expressive enough to portray human emotions.
The four artists in particular who led the movement were Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Claude Monet, and Gustave Caillebotte.
The majority of Post-Impressionists rejected subjective expression in favor of objective representation.
It was a movement instigated by artists who felt the Impressionists lacked too many of the traditional elements of picture making in their attempts to capture momentary sensations of light and color on canvas.
The Post-Impressionists developed out of the movement of Impressionism, but felt it necessary to more systematically examine the properties and expressive qualities of line, pattern, form, and color. Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, and Paul Cezanne were leaders of this movement.
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