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
With her project Tree Mountain, Agnes Denes demonstrated that art can
span vast acres and time
What event initially inspired the work Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to Their Mother?
the 1990 Kanesatake Resistance or Oka Crisis in Quebec
Which artist recorded the evaporation ponds used for contaminated that results from uranium mining?
Will Wilson
Hans Haacke proved the purity of the water processed through his artwork Rhine Water Purification Plant by
adding goldfish to the final tank
What event caused Subhankar Banerjee to transition from engineering to a career of visual art?
witnessing polar bears in northern Manitoba, Canada
Bonnie Devine temporarily installed six rolls of sod in various locations for a project called
Reclamation Project
The Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein adopted imagery from
comic books, painting on a large scale
The beginning of the Anthropocene era has been dated to either the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century or the
Great Acceleration of emissions at mid-twentieth century
Artistic tradition in India has been influenced by both Hinduism and
Buddhism
Which U.S. President put a moratorium on oil and gas extraction from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on his first day in office?
Joe Biden
Mel Chin was part of the art collaborative GALA which placed meaningful, but subtle artworks in
Melrose Place
Intaglio is a form of
printmaking
As an art movement, “institutional critique” refers to artworks that reveal the cultural or financial power behind what institutions?
art museums
In what medium did Vik Muniz refashion a famous photograph of Jackson Pollock working on a drip painting?
chocolate syrup
Mel Chin’s film The Arctic Is was filmed in Paris the same year the UN Paris Climate Change Conference
concluded with the Paris Agreement
The water around Robert Smithson’s earthwork Spiral Jetty in the Great Salt Lake changes to a red color periodically. This is due to
algae responding to the salinity of the water
Radioactive elements can be found in homes and drinking wter of Navajo people in Arizona due to
uranium mining operations
Who was the Greek Mannerist artist of the 1500s who trained in Italy and established a career in Toledo, Spain?
El Greco
The characterization of some locations as nonliving and safe to exploit has been applied to desert areas of the American West and
the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
With Shrimp Farm, Survival Piece #2, Helen and Newton Harrison explored
an enclosed environment that sustains life
LaToya Ruby Frazier has focused her photography on what theme?
centering the Black family to critique broad social issues
