Modern Art in the U.S.

1. Artists such a Vito Acconci rejected traditional artist’s materials and used what as their medium or canvas?

Question 2

2. The movement called _____________ is a geometrical abstract movement based on the idea that there is nothing more than the object of the painting itself (i.e. that there is no hidden meaning)?

Question 3

3 What minimalist painter made large scale portraits of individuals using a grid format? ________________

Question 4

1. What movement asserts that the idea behind the art is more important that what the work of art actually looks like?

  A. Outside Art
  B. Funk Art
  C. Pop Art
  D. Conceptual Art

Question 5

1. Which art critic said that Feminist art was ‘neither a style nor a movement’, but rather a ‘value system’ and ‘revolutionary strategy’?

  A. Clement Greenberg
  B. Barbara Hepworth
  C. Lucy Lippard
  D. Betty Friedan

Question 6

1. Give a two paragraph (minimum) analysis and interpretation of Hannah Wilke’s S.O.S. Starification Object Series, 1974-1982 (Doss, page 185).

 

Question 7

1 _______________ founded the black feminist artists’ group as a reaction to receiving minimal attention in the Black Arts groups such as Spiral and The Studio Museum in Harlem.

Question 8

1. Review Robert Colescott’s George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page from American History, 1975. Remember that this was created around ten years after the Civil Rights Movement. Do you agree with the artist’s method of reinventing a classic historical image and incorporating racial stereotypes? Do you find this work insulting or demeaning, or successful and revolutionary? Why? Answer this essay with a minimum of two paragraphs.

Question 9

1. The first black arts group organized since the New Negro Movement in the 1920s was called _____________ ?

Question 10

1 The feminist installation piece called _____________ consisted of 17 rooms, each raising questions about the female’s cultural and societal roles.

Question 11

1 What did the newscasts of the Vietnam War have in common with body art that preyed on physical vulnerabilities?

 

AR301 Modern Art in the U.S. (Week 5

 

Quiz)

 

Question 1

 

1.

 

Artists such a Vito Acconci rejected traditional artist’s materials and used what as their medium

or canvas?

 

Question 2

 

2.

 

The movement called _____________ is a geometrical abstract movement based on t

he idea

that there is nothing more than the object of the painting itself (i.e. that there is no hidden

meaning)?

 

Question 3

 

 

3 What minimalist painter made large scale portraits of individuals using a grid format?

________________

 

Question 4

 

1.

 

W

hat movement asserts that the idea behind the art is more important that what the work of

art actually looks like?

 

 

A.

 

Outside Art

 

 

B.

 

Funk Art

 

 

C.

 

Pop Art

 

 

D.

 

Conceptual Art

 

Question 5

 

1.

 

Which art critic said that Feminist art was ‘neither a style nor a movement’, but rather a ‘value

system’ and ‘revolutionary strategy’?

 

 

A.

 

Clement Greenberg

 

 

B.

 

Barbara Hepworth

 

 

C.

 

Lucy Lippard

 

 

D.

 

Betty Friedan

 

Question 6

 

1.

 

Give a two paragraph (minimum) analysis and int

erpretation of Hannah Wilke’s

S.O.S.

Starification Object Series

, 1974

–

1982 (Doss, page 185).

 

 

AR301 Modern Art in the U.S. (Week 5 Quiz)

Question 1

1. Artists such a Vito Acconci rejected traditional artist’s materials and used what as their medium

or canvas?

Question 2

2. The movement called _____________ is a geometrical abstract movement based on the idea

that there is nothing more than the object of the painting itself (i.e. that there is no hidden

meaning)?

Question 3

3 What minimalist painter made large scale portraits of individuals using a grid format?

________________

Question 4

1. What movement asserts that the idea behind the art is more important that what the work of

art actually looks like?

 

A. Outside Art

 

B. Funk Art

 

C. Pop Art

 

D. Conceptual Art

Question 5

1. Which art critic said that Feminist art was ‘neither a style nor a movement’, but rather a ‘value

system’ and ‘revolutionary strategy’?

 

A. Clement Greenberg

 

B. Barbara Hepworth

 

C. Lucy Lippard

 

D. Betty Friedan

Question 6

1. Give a two paragraph (minimum) analysis and interpretation of Hannah Wilke’s S.O.S.

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