District Art Test

Question 1

In what way can the protest project Land Mark by Allora & Calzadilla be considered gentle?

Answer 1

The footprints in the sand were temporary, erased by wind and weather.

Question 2

Noah Purifoy’s Offshore Drilling is related to the sculptures of Robert Rauschenberg in the use of

Answer 2

found objects

Question 3

What compositional choice did LaToya Ruby Frazier make to MOST convey close family?

Answer 3

The individuals are tightly gathered.

Question 4

Snoopy–Early Sun Display exhibits what two formal qualities of art?

Answer 4

intense color and negative space

Question 5

Pierre Huyghe’s Untilled was an artwork that was always in flux, linking it to its site of

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compost piles in a park

Question 6

Which formal quality of art is BEST seen in Subhankar Banerjee’s Caribou Migration I?

Answer 6

aerial perspective

Question 7

What about the composition of the photograph suggests the idea of confrontation?

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a sharp division between the lower (rural) and upper (urban) half

Question 8

Why did Rebecca Belmore choose to use natural material like wood and leather in Speaking to Their Mother?

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for the best acoustics in amplifying the voice

Question 9

Photographs of the Earth taken from outer space during the Apollo 10 and Apollo 11 missions inspired which artist?

Answer 9

Alma Thomas

Question 10

Some of the elements of Pierre Huyghe’s Untilled were found and placed on site, not unlike the “Readymades” of which artist?

Answer 10

Marcel Duchamp

Question 11

Allora & Calzadilla used the art title Land Mark to describe both the activist footprints that the artists photographed and the

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impact of detonated weapons on the island of Vieques

Question 12

When Agnes Denes recreated her work Rice/Tree/Burial in Lewiston, New York, the planted rice did not grow. Why?

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because of toxins from Love Canal

Question 13

Which work might BEST be considered an early form of Land art?

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Stonehenge of the Neolithic Period

Question 14

The artwork A Meter of Jungle touches on themes of environmental degradation of the Amazon as well as

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European colonialism

Question 15

Romanticized paintings of the American West by nineteenth-century artists like Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, and Thomas Hill stirred popular interest in

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Manifest Destiny

Question 16

At the University of Iowa, Ana Mendieta was encouraged to be an interdisciplinary artist. This resulted in her replacing painting with combinations of

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performance, photography, and sculpture

Question 17

Noah Purifoy produced sculpture out of cast-off objects and metal, junk he associated with

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neglected neighborhoods like Watts, CA

Question 18

Awareness of the tropical rainforest as an environmental concern that led to the work of

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Mark Dion

Question 19

Wealthy Medici family members were notable art patrons during what artistic period?

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Renaissance

Question 20

In his painting The Fourth World, Kent Monkman references Richard Serra’s sculpture Clara-Clara which Monkman uses as a

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buffalo jump

Question 21

Ana Mendieta found a connection between Mexico and its pre-Columbian cultural sites and her native country

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Cuba

Question 22

Marat (Sebastiao) by Vik Muniz incorporates a visual quote from the painting Death of Marat by which artist?

Answer 22

Jacques-Louis David

Question 23

The works Dark Star Park and Sun Tunnels by Nancy Holt both address what idea?

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how humans understand and experience time

Question 24

Which ancient civilization pioneered the use of concrete?

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Roman

Question 25

With her project Tree Mountain, Agnes Denes demonstrated that art can

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span vast acres and time

Question 26

What event initially inspired the work Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to Their Mother?

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the 1990 Kanesatake Resistance or Oka Crisis in Quebec

Question 27

Which artist recorded the evaporation ponds used for contaminated that results from uranium mining?

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Will Wilson

Question 28

Hans Haacke proved the purity of the water processed through his artwork Rhine Water Purification Plant by

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adding goldfish to the final tank

Question 29

What event caused Subhankar Banerjee to transition from engineering to a career of visual art?

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witnessing polar bears in northern Manitoba, Canada

Question 30

Bonnie Devine temporarily installed six rolls of sod in various locations for a project called

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Reclamation Project

Question 31

The Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein adopted imagery from

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comic books, painting on a large scale

Question 32

The beginning of the Anthropocene era has been dated to either the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century or the

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Great Acceleration of emissions at mid-twentieth century

Question 33

Artistic tradition in India has been influenced by both Hinduism and

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Buddhism

Question 34

Which U.S. President put a moratorium on oil and gas extraction from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on his first day in office?

Answer 34

Joe Biden

Question 35

Mel Chin was part of the art collaborative GALA which placed meaningful, but subtle artworks in

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Melrose Place

Question 36

Intaglio is a form of

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printmaking

Question 37

As an art movement, “institutional critique” refers to artworks that reveal the cultural or financial power behind what institutions?

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art museums

Question 38

In what medium did Vik Muniz refashion a famous photograph of Jackson Pollock working on a drip painting?

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chocolate syrup

Question 39

Mel Chin’s film The Arctic Is was filmed in Paris the same year the UN Paris Climate Change Conference

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concluded with the Paris Agreement

Question 40

The water around Robert Smithson’s earthwork Spiral Jetty in the Great Salt Lake changes to a red color periodically. This is due to

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algae responding to the salinity of the water

Question 41

Radioactive elements can be found in homes and drinking wter of Navajo people in Arizona due to

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uranium mining operations

Question 42

Who was the Greek Mannerist artist of the 1500s who trained in Italy and established a career in Toledo, Spain?

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El Greco

Question 43

The characterization of some locations as nonliving and safe to exploit has been applied to desert areas of the American West and

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the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Question 44

With Shrimp Farm, Survival Piece #2, Helen and Newton Harrison explored

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an enclosed environment that sustains life

Question 45

LaToya Ruby Frazier has focused her photography on what theme?

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centering the Black family to critique broad social issues