District Art Test Flashcards
In what way can the protest project Land Mark by Allora & Calzadilla be considered gentle?
The footprints in the sand were temporary, erased by wind and weather.
Noah Purifoy’s Offshore Drilling is related to the sculptures of Robert Rauschenberg in the use of
found objects
What compositional choice did LaToya Ruby Frazier make to MOST convey close family?
The individuals are tightly gathered.
Snoopy–Early Sun Display exhibits what two formal qualities of art?
intense color and negative space
Pierre Huyghe’s Untilled was an artwork that was always in flux, linking it to its site of
compost piles in a park
Which formal quality of art is BEST seen in Subhankar Banerjee’s Caribou Migration I?
aerial perspective
What about the composition of the photograph suggests the idea of confrontation?
a sharp division between the lower (rural) and upper (urban) half
Why did Rebecca Belmore choose to use natural material like wood and leather in Speaking to Their Mother?
for the best acoustics in amplifying the voice
Photographs of the Earth taken from outer space during the Apollo 10 and Apollo 11 missions inspired which artist?
Alma Thomas
Some of the elements of Pierre Huyghe’s Untilled were found and placed on site, not unlike the “Readymades” of which artist?
Marcel Duchamp
Allora & Calzadilla used the art title Land Mark to describe both the activist footprints that the artists photographed and the
impact of detonated weapons on the island of Vieques
When Agnes Denes recreated her work Rice/Tree/Burial in Lewiston, New York, the planted rice did not grow. Why?
because of toxins from Love Canal
Which work might BEST be considered an early form of Land art?
Stonehenge of the Neolithic Period
The artwork A Meter of Jungle touches on themes of environmental degradation of the Amazon as well as
European colonialism
Romanticized paintings of the American West by nineteenth-century artists like Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, and Thomas Hill stirred popular interest in
Manifest Destiny
At the University of Iowa, Ana Mendieta was encouraged to be an interdisciplinary artist. This resulted in her replacing painting with combinations of
performance, photography, and sculpture
Noah Purifoy produced sculpture out of cast-off objects and metal, junk he associated with
neglected neighborhoods like Watts, CA
Awareness of the tropical rainforest as an environmental concern that led to the work of
Mark Dion
Wealthy Medici family members were notable art patrons during what artistic period?
Renaissance
In his painting The Fourth World, Kent Monkman references Richard Serra’s sculpture Clara-Clara which Monkman uses as a
buffalo jump
Ana Mendieta found a connection between Mexico and its pre-Columbian cultural sites and her native country
Cuba
Marat (Sebastiao) by Vik Muniz incorporates a visual quote from the painting Death of Marat by which artist?
Jacques-Louis David
The works Dark Star Park and Sun Tunnels by Nancy Holt both address what idea?
how humans understand and experience time
Which ancient civilization pioneered the use of concrete?
Roman
