Quiz 1

Question 1

Answer 1

Jackson Pollock, Male and Female, Abstract Expressionism

Question 2

Answer 2

Adolph Gottlieb, Romanesque Facade, Abstract Expressionism

Question 3

Answer 3

Hans Hofmann, The Golden Wall, Abstract Expressionism

Question 4

Answer 4

Arshile Gorky, Garden in Sochi, Abstract Expressionism

Question 5

Answer 5

Willem de Kooning, Woman and Bicycle, Abstract Expressionism

Question 6

Answer 6

Willem de Kooning, Excavation, Abstract Expressionism

Question 7

Answer 7

Jackson Pollock, Cathedral, Abstract Expressionism

Question 8

Answer 8

Jackson Pollock, Number 1, Abstract Expressionism

Question 9

Answer 9

Jackson Poloock, at work, Abstract Expressionism

Question 10

Answer 10

Barnett Newman, Onement I, Color Field

Question 11

Answer 11

Barnett Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimis, Color Field

Question 12

Answer 12

Barnett Newman, The Stations of the Cross, Color Field

Question 13

Answer 13

Mark Rothko, Green and Tangerine on Red, Color Field

Question 14

Answer 14

Robert Rauschenberg, Bed, Beat/Neo Dada

Question 15

Answer 15

Robert Rauschenberg, Canyon, Beat/Neo Dada

Question 16

Answer 16

Robert Rauschenberg, Odalisk, Beat/Neo Dada

Question 17

Answer 17

Jasper Johns, Target with Plaster Casts, Beat/Neo Dada

Question 18

Answer 18

Jasper Johns, Three Flags, Beat/Neo Dada

Question 19

Answer 19

Jasper Johns, Flase Start, Beat/Neo Dada

Question 20

Answer 20

Claes Oldenburg, Pie a la Mode, Pop

Question 21

Answer 21

Claes Oldenburg, Floor Cake, Pop

Question 22

Answer 22

Claes Oldenburg, Proposed Colossal Monument for Central Park North, Pop

Question 23

Answer 23

Claes Oldenburg, Clothespin, Pop

Question 24

Answer 24

Tom Wesselman, Great American Nude #57, Pop

Question 25

Answer 25

Andy Warhol, 32 Campbell’s Soup Cans, Pop

Question 26

Answer 26

Andy Warhol, Gold Marilyn Monroe, Pop

Question 27

Answer 27

Roy Lichtensteim, Blam, Pop

Question 28

Answer 28

James Rosenquist, F-111, Pop

Question 29

Answer 29

James Rosenquist, Paper Clip, Pop

Question 30

Answer 30

James Rosenquist, Through the Eye of the Needle to the Anvil, Pop

Question 31

Answer 31

Richard Hamilton, Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing?, Brit Pop

Question 32

Hoffman’s Art Theory

Answer 32

Abstract expressionist artist, Henry Hofmann, developed an artistic approach and theory called “push and pull”, which he described as interdependent relationships between form, color, and space. He was powerfully influenced by Matisse’s use of color and Cubism’s displacement of form. His later work reflected this style in the 1950s and 60s.

Question 33

Combine Paintings

Answer 33

In the late fifties, Rauschenberg coined the term “combine” for a work that joins elements of painting and sculpture. Rauschenberg sought an experience of assimilation without anyalysis of any kind. This work had a lot to do with displacement.

Question 34

Existentialism

Answer 34

Philosophical “non-movement” that was concerned with individualtiy and the uniqueness of subjective experience. Significantly influenced American art from 1945, when the works of Kafka, Sartre, and then Heidegger began to appear in English.

Question 35

Greenberg “Modernist Painting” essay

Answer 35

Clement Greenberg published this essay in 1961, and defined “Modernism” as the period (in art) roughly from the mid-1850s to his present that displayed a self-critical tendency in the arts. He believed in the purification of art as an autonomous abstraction.

Question 36

Federal Arts Project

Answer 36

The Works Progress Administration began the Federal Art Project under Holger Cahill in 1935, expanding the types of commissions to easle painting, sculpture, and other media. The Project produced hundreds of thousands of works, and by 1936 employed around 6,000 artists, half to three-quarters of them living in NY.