Quiz 1

Question 1

Answer 1

Titian, “Venus of Urbino,” 1583

Question 2

Answer 2

Kruger, “(Untitled) Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face,” 1981

Question 3

Answer 3

Duchamp, “L.H.O.O.Q.,” 1919

Question 4

Answer 4

Lichtenstein, “M-Maybe,” 1965

Question 5

Answer 5

Jackson Pollock, “Mural,” 1943

Question 6

Answer 6

Morris Louis, “Where,” 1960

Question 7

Answer 7

Serra, “One Ton Prop (House of Cards),”1969

Question 8

Answer 8

Gustav Courbet, The Painter’s Studio: A Real Allegory of a Seven Year Phase in my Artistic (and Moral) Life, 1855

Question 9

Answer 9

Hellen Frankenthaller, Mountains and Sea , 1952

Question 10

Answer 10

Lee Krasner, Bald Eagle, 1955

Question 11

Answer 11

Kazuo Shiraga, Untitled, 1964

Question 12

Answer 12

Saburo Murakami, Work, 1957

Question 13

Answer 13

Saburo Murakami, Passage, 1956

Question 14

Answer 14

Saburo Murakami, Air, 1956

Question 15

Answer 15

Marcel Duchamp, In Advance of a Broken Arm, 1915

Question 16

Answer 16

Robert Rauschenberg, Erased De Kooning Drawing, 1953

Question 17

Answer 17

Robert Rauschenberg, Monogram, 1959

Question 18

Answer 18

Jasper Johns, Flag, 1954-55

Question 19

Avant Garde

Answer 19

derived from military discourse, a small group of courageous and daring individuals who have their eyes on new territory, opening up the avenues for their followers to fill, idea of originality, increases focused on the medium itself and the limits of the medium, how can the artist engage the desire to define those limits as a type of creative challenge

Question 20

Abstract Expressionism

Answer 20

art movement in the 1940s-50s. Characterized by large, gestural + rebellious paintings that convey emotions and personal depth.

Question 21

Minimalism

Answer 21

emerged in 1960s no attempt is made to represent an outside reality, the medium from which it is made is the “reality.”

Question 22

Dadaism

Answer 22

anti-art movement, response to modernity (machine aesthetics), WWI late 1920s, Historcal avant-garde, anti-establishment/”anti-art”, Critical response to the conditions of modernity, Critique of the philosophical underpinnings of modernity, Objet trouvé/collage/machine aesthetics, Irrationality/nonsense, Disruption of bourgeois

Question 23

Medium specificity

Answer 23

distillation of each aesthetic discipline

Question 24

Dialectic

Answer 24

philosophical argumentation (discourse/dialogue) that over time took on a form defined in terms of a thesis, antithesis and resolution (synthesis), roots in classical philosophy, comes from the idea of dialogue

Question 25

Pop art

Answer 25

art based on modern popular culture and the mass media, especially as a critical or ironic comment on traditional fine art values.