Chapter 21: The Twentieth Century: Post-War to Post-Modern Post World Flashcards
Post World War II European artists could NOT move away from death: burning, disfigured, and decaying flesh—as seen in __________ Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef. However American artists turned inward and reflected an inner world—in other words the extension of the artist—how the artist feels—as seen in Jackson Pollock’s One (Number 31, 1950) 1950.
Francis Bacon’s
Walked across canvases dripping and splashing paint, whose nickname was “Jack the Dripper”
a. Jackson Pollock
b. Francis Bacon
c. Robert Rauschenberg
d. Andy Warhol
a. Jackson Pollock
________ painting One (Number 31, 1950) is an example of Abstract Expressionism, which is also termed action painting.
Jackson Pollock’s
__________________________ is characterized by spontaneous execution, large gestural brushstrokes, abstract imagery, and fields of intense color.
a. Spontaneous Combustion
b. Abstract Expressionism
c. Intense Colorism
b. Abstract Expressionism
Color Field Painting can be considered as depicting the ________ of color.
essence
Using Figurative Abstraction the artist ____________________ reconstructed Diego Velásquez’s portrait of Pope Innocent X, in his painting Figure with Meat (Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef).
a. Jackson Pollock
b. Francis Bacon
c. Robert Rauschenberg
d. Andy Warhol
b. Francis Bacon
Pop Art can also be coined as the art that embodies
a. Abstract Expressionism
b. Consumer culture
c. Color Field Painting
b. Consumer culture
_______________________ introduced a kind of construction referred to as combine painting in which stuffed animals, bottles, articles of clothing and furniture, and scraps of photographs are attached to the canvas.
a. Jackson Pollock
b. Francis Bacon
c. Robert Rauschenberg
d. Andy Warhol
c. Robert Rauschenberg
An excellent example of Pop Art is Andy ______ Green Coca-Cola Bottles.
Warhol_’s
Modernist art emphasizes the accord and autonomous aspect of an artist and a work of art, whereas __________________ art emphasizes the fusion of the work of art and its intricate interconnectedness to its milieu.
a. Neo-Expressionist
b. Post-Modernist
c. Post-Fusionist
b. Post-Modernist
Pluralism in the arts is the inclusion of not just a white, male master, rather exploring and embracing women artists, artists of color, non-western art, and folk art.
a. True
a. False
a. True
In the 1970s feminist artists began to speak directly to women’s experiences, or to raise materials and methods that have been employed by women for centuries to the level of fine arts. This can be seen in the installation The Dinner Party by _______________________. The intention of the work was to bring all the forgotten women back to the table: to honor and immortalize history’s notable women.
a. Mary Cassatt
b. Judy Chicago
c. Kara Walker
b. Judy Chicago
