ap art history unit test

Question 1

From an art historical perspective, Magdalena Abakanowicz’ Androgyne III can best be interpreted as

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expressing human suffering

Question 2

(Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds)) The choice of sunflower seeds as the subject matter of the work shown was influenced by their association with

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Chairman Mao and China’s Cultural Revolution

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(Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds)) Ai Weiwei chose to use porcelain to create sunflower seeds because the material

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connects the work to China’s long tradition of porcelain production

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(Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds)) In the work shown, one reason that Ai Weiwei included over a million handmade sunflower seeds spread across a large area was to

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allude to the volume of Chinese goods in contemporary global markets

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The medium Ai Weiwei used in Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds) comments on an artistic tradition exemplified by which of the following works of art?

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David Vases

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In Androgyne III, Magdalena Abakanowicz used a headless, shell-like, hollow figure to communicate which of the following to viewers?

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The brutality of war and political trauma

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Magdalena Abakanowicz’ Androgyne III demonstrates continuity with other figural works from the late twentieth century in the artist’s use of

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provocative imagery to address issues of humanity

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Frank Gehry selected titanium instead of more traditional materials when designing the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao for which of the following reasons?

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To create a reflective effect that utilized surface and sunlight

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The temporal character of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s outdoor, site-specific installations, such as The Gates, was intended primarily to elicit which of the following responses from viewers?

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Appreciation for the ephemeral quality of their artworks

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(MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts) The structure shown can be attributed to

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Zaha Hadid because of its deconstructed geometric form

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In Old Man’s Cloth, El Anatsui creates meaning by

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using recycled metal to create a work reminiscent of traditional fabrics

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To give his work, such as Old Man’s Cloth, the appearance of a flowing tapestry, El Anatsui uses

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flattened labels from liquor bottle-caps fastened together with copper wire

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El Anatsui’s Old Man’s Cloth demonstrates the artist’s desire to maintain a connection with traditional art from Nigeria by including visual references to

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Nigerian cloth and its geometric patterns

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El Anatsui’s Old Man’s Cloth is experienced differently by viewers each time it is displayed because the work

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takes a new shape each time it is hung

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(Electronic Superhighway) Nam June Paik uses multichannel video in Electronic Superhighway to display which of the following?

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images emblematic of different states

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(Electronic Superhighway)
In addition to outlining the contour of each state, the neon tubing in Paik’s installation evokes

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neon signs associated with traveling on the interstate

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(Electronic Superhighway) With its references to mapping, Paik’s work most closely resembles the pictorial strategies seen in the work of

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Julie Mehretu

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(Electronic Superhighway) Paik’s artistic innovation in works such as Electronic Superhighway proved influential on which of the following artists?

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Bill Viola

Question 17

The repetition of form and color in Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s installation The Gates is most strongly intended to call attention to which of the following?

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the lines of the walking paths in the park

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The Gates is similar to other large-scale, twentieth-century public sculptures, such as Claes Oldenburg’s original version of Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks, in that it was

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convinced as being temporary to enhance the dramatic effect

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(Guggenheim Bilbao) The building on the right was designed by

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Frank Gehry

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(Guggenheim Bilbao)
A primary building material used in the structure on the right is

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titanium

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The design of Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao differs from Modernist architectural designs in part because Gehry wanted to

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create engaging spaces that intrigue visitors

Question 21

(Gifts for Trading Land with White People) Quick-to-See Smith chose to use collaged materials from commercial products and popular culture both to highlight contemporary racial stereotypes and to

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demonstrate that Native American artists were engaged in contemporary art practice

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(Gifts for Trading Land with White People) Quick-to-See Smith’s inclusion of cheap trinkets is intended to

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reference a history of exploitative economic transactions between Native Americans and Europeans

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(Gifts for Trading Land with White People) Jaune Quick-to-See Smith made Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People) partly in reaction to which of the following events?

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The 500 year anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the Americas

Question 24

Which of the following best describes Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome?

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A complex interior of geometric shapes and curvilinear elements

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Frank Gehry’s design for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is considered Deconstructivist because of the

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manipulation of asymmetrical, fragmented forms

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(Stadia II) This painting is by

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Julie Mehretu

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(Stadia II) The painting reflects contemporary culture primarily through the mapping of

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consumerism and national identities

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(Stadia II) The structural composition of the painting is grounded in the tradition of

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architectural drawing

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(Stadia II) The painter intentionally underscore the art-making process by

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layering drawing with painting

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Emily Kame Kngwarreye’s Earth’s Creation reflects the artist’s roots in aboriginal ceremonial sand painting as well as demonstrating continuity with the style of the Western art movement known as

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Impressionism

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Julie Mehretu’s Stadia II and Vassily Kandinsky’s Improvisation 28 (second version) share which of the following features?

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black lines that create movement

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In Lying with Wolf, Kiki Smith decided to depict a woman with a wolf to challenge traditional

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narratives of women as passive characters

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(Pure Land (lotus painting)) The artist includes the iconography of lotus blossoms in order to reference which of the following?

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Buddhist beliefs about purity

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(Pure Land (lotus painting)) Which of the following works is most similar to Pure Land in that it includes a photographic self-portrait?

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Rebellious Silence, from the Women of Allah series

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(Pure Land (lotus painting)) The imaginative reinterpretation of spiritual traditions presented in the work is most similar to

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Bill Viola’s The Crossing

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In her installation Pure Land, Mariko Mori created an immersive atmosphere by combining

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scented air, photography, and a 3-D video shown in a small room

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In her work Pure Land, Mariko Mori breaks with art tradition and reflects the evolution of what is defined as art by

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incorporating imagery from popular culture

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(Standia II) On the basis of style, the work shown can be attributed to

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Julie Mehretu

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The female subjects in Shirin Neshat’s Rebellious Silence from the Women of Allah series and Édouard Manet’s Olympia are both depicted with

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confrontational gazes

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The most significant difference in the way writing is used to convey meaning in Xu Bing’s A Book from the Sky and Shirin Neshat’s Rebellious Silence from the Women of Allah series is that

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Xu’s work employs invented characters while Neshat’s work quotes from a poem

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In Electronic Superhighway, Nam June Paik combines closed-circuit television and video screens with a neon-outlined map of the United States to address the country’s

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entry into the Information Age

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Pepon Osorio created En la Barberia no se Llora (No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop) as

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an interactive installation that resembles a functioning barbershop

Question 40

(Dancing at the Louvre (quilt-styled)) The work shown can be attributed to Faith Ringgold for which of the following reasons?

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because of the combination of paint and quilting

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Faith Ringgold references traditional folk art forms in Dancing at the Louvre by incorporating the technique of

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quilting

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In Shibboleth, Doris Salcedo created an experience of alienation by

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opening a concrete fissure in the floor to interrupt the walking space of viewers

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In addition to quilting, Faith Ringgold’s Dancing at the Louvre demonstrates a continuity with which other textile tradition?

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tie - dying

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According to Cindy Sherman, she only sourced printed images from books to create her work Untitled (#228) from the History Portraits series because she

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wanted to use imagery available to anyone in the world

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(Shibboleth (crack in floor)) The installation challenges institutional authority by means of its creation within

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an art museum

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(Shibboleth (crack in floor)) Among other reasons, the artist created a crack in the floor to allude to the

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plight of unwanted immigrants

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(Shibboleth (crack in floor)) The title of this work addresses social exclusion through its reference to

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ethnic clasification

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In The Swing (after Fragonard), Yinka Shonibare uses cloth as a

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reference to colonialism and cultural hybridity

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When creating The Swing (after Fragonard), Yinka Shonibare included cultural references by doing which of the following?

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using a modern textile in the style of nineteenth-century Dutch wax fabric

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In Stadia II, the process used by artist Julie Mehretu that overlays projections of maps and diagrams with figures, notations, and photographs creates an effect that some critics have said is like

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layered formations with characters that have been buried as if they were fossils

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In Stadia II, art historians suggest that Julie Mehretu employs pictorial elements such as movement lines and brightly colored geometric shapes to intentionally draw analogies between these elements and the

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flag-waving pageantry of propagandistic nationalism

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In The Swing (after Fragonard), Yinka Shonibare utilizes specific fabrics as a

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reference to colonialism and cultural hybridity

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(Pisupo Lua Afe (metal bull)) In creating the work shown, Michel Tuffery used

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flattened metal cans that were joined together with rivets

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(Pisupo Lua Afe (metal bull)) Michel Tuffery chose the image of a bill for his work in order to

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draw attention to the environmental impact of cattle farming in the Pacific Islands

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(Pisupo Lua Afe (metal bull)) In order to heighten the impact of his work, Tuffery

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featured versions of the sculpture in interactive public street performances

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Joseph Mallord William Turner’s Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On) and Kara Walker’s Darkytown Rebellion are similar in that both works

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address the atrocities human beings committed against others in the context of slavery

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(Vietnam Memorial) Which of the following is a feature of Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial that constitutes its primary departure from traditional war memorials?

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the nonfigurative composition made up of engraved names

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(Vietnam Memorial) One reason for Lin’s choice of black granite for the design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was to elicit

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a personal connection because the memorial’s polished surface reflects the viewer

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(Vietnam Memorial) In the design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Maya Lin drew connections between the Vietnam War and other events in United States history by

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orienting the walls so that they point to the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial

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(Vietnam Memorial) Through both its form and its symbolism, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is most similar to which of the following works?

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Shibboleth by Doris Salcedo

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(Vietnam Memorial) Which of the following statements correctly describes an audience response to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?

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critics initially claimed that the black granite suggested shame and degradation

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(Vietnam Memorial) Lin’s design called for polished black granite because

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its reflective quality contributes to the monument’s meaning

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(Vietnam Memorial) Maya Lin’s design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial draws primarily on the influence of which of the following artistic movements?

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minimalism

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The Crossing, a video installation by Bill Viola, expands the viewer’s temporal, psychological, and spiritual experience through his signature use of

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high-speed film, capturing extreme detail beyond the normal range of human perception

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(Vietnam Memorial) Both images demonstrate Lin’s intent for the monument to

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encourage interaction

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In Darkytown Rebellion, Kara Walker uses silhouettes of nineteenth-century racist images to

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provoke dialogue about how stereotypes still affect contemporary society

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Kara Walker’s installation Darkytown Rebellion has been interpreted as challenging the historical erasure of African Americans because of its

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silhouettes that were drawn from historical visuals

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In his installation A Book from the Sky, Xu Bing referenced which of the following traditional Chinese art forms in order to comment on the political and cultural context of twentieth-century Chinese society?

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hand-bound books and scrolls printed with woodblock