freestanding sculpture

1. Which of these artists is known for painting geometric compositions which incorporate primary colors?
A. De Stijl
B. Georgia O’Keeffe
C. Piet Mondrian
D. Gerrit Rietveldt

2. With Tim Hawkinson’s Überorgan, a football field size work of art, one can say that it’s
A. a huge sculpture that achieves the artist’s vision.
B. “sound” art.
C. installation art controlled by a computer.
D. artwork that can’t be categorized.

3. Lucas Samaras used _______ to create his work “Phantasmata.”
A. oil paint
B. malleable Polaroid film
C. everyday household objects
D. blood and kaolin clay

4. Which Earth Artist used lightning as part of his or her piece?
A. Christo
B. Walter De Maria
C. Jeanne-Claude
D. Richard Estes

5. Which of the following artists invented collage?
A. Willem de Kooning
B. Piet Mondrian
C. Jackson Pollock
D. Pablo Picasso

6. Giuseppe Penone’s Cedre de Versailles reveals
A. African-American ritual objects.
B. the original slender tree from which a great cedar had grown.
C. a landscape from the distant past.
D. shredded body parts.

7. Which of the following statements is an accurate description of Pop Art?
A. Art created by artists who believe that no kind of subject matter is more important than any other and who attempt to all but
eliminate personal involvement.
B. Painting and sculpture that is self-sufficient and has no subject mater, content, or meaning beyond its presence as an object in
space.
C. Art that combines the potent psychological content of Expressionism with an abandonment of any clear reference to the visual
world.
D. Art created by artists who are interested in rediscovering the past, not rejecting it, and who aim to speak in clearer images
and see history as a vast menu from which to select.

8. Superrealism is also known as
A. trompe l’oeil.
B. illusionism.
C. forced perspective.
D. photorealism.

9. Which of the following political leaders closed the Bauhaus?
A. Winston Churchill
B. Franklin Roosevelt
C. Adolph Hitler
D. Joseph Kennedy

10. The sculpture created by which of the following Minimalist artists is best described as controlled and
logical?
A. Alberto Giacometti
B. Claes Oldenburg
C. Pablo Picasso
D. Donald Judd

11. _______ was the artist who used a “drip technique.”
A. Jackson Pollock
B. Pablo Picasso
C. Willem de Kooning
D. Piet Mondrian

12. Of the following, who was the most famous pop artist?
A. Andy Warhol
B. Claes Oldenburg
C. Robert Rauschenberg
D. Jackson Pollock

13. Christo and Jeanne-Claude created their works as
A. photographers.
B. performance artists.
C. Earth Artists.
D. architects.

14. The organization SITE, Sculpture in the Environment, was formed in 1970 for the purpose of
A. creating an art-for-art architectural movement.
B. finding sources of content in the present.
C. promoting the acceptance of kinetic sculpture.
D. reviving the iconography of the nineteenth century.

15. The vigorous brushstrokes and emotion-laden imagery in the paintings of Anselm Kiefer are
reminiscent of the paintings of
A. Neoclassicism.
B. Expressionism.
C. Realism.
D. Superrealism.

16. Nonrepresentational, energetic Abstract Expressionist pictures first came into the artworld scene with
the works of
A. Picasso.
B. Rothko.
C. Pollock.
D. de Kooning.

17. Which of the following media is not typically associated with electronic art?
A. Electronic sign
B. Computer image
C. Video image
D. Laser collages

18. Like freestanding sculpture, such as Gianlorenzo Bernini’s Apollo and Daphne, twentieth-century
kinetic sculpture, such as Alexander Calder’s La Grande Vitesse in the Vandenberg Center, Grand Rapids,
Michigan,
A. can be appreciated aesthetically from multiple perspectives.
B. is intended to be touched by the spectator, who remains stationary.
C. is made entirely by hand, except for the pediment.
D. is usually made of marble or alabaster.

19. Which of the following artists painted using a technique similar to that used by Jackson Pollock?
A. Helen Frankenthaler
B. Georgia O’Keeffe
C. Piet Mondrian
D. Girogio di Chirico

20. Which of the following architectural components is found in Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye in Poissy,
France?
A. Palladian windows
B. Concrete columns
C. Oculus
D. Clerestory windows