Title: Existentialism
1. What is the attitude of Existentialists toward human existence?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Title: Artists demonstrate Existentialism
2. Name three artists whose work reflects these ideas:
a.
b.
c.
d.
Title: AE
3. Abstract Expressionism developed in the United States after the influx of refugee artists from Europe?
*a. true
b.False
Title:AE-when
26. When did the center of Westem art shift from Europe to the United States?
a. With the Armory Show of 1913
b. During World War I
*c. During World War II
d. During the 1960s
Title: AE-NYC
6. In the years following World War II, ______assumed the role of the center for artistic leadership.
a. Berlin
b. London
*c. New York
d. Paris
Title:AE-general content
27. What was the main content of the work of the PostWar New York School?
a. life on the streets
b. optical phenomena
*c. the act of painting itself
d. Post Modem appropriation of early material
*d. Abstract Expressionist
Type:
Title: AE
2. What are the immediate artistic and philosophical roots of Abstract Expressionism?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Title: AE - Action
12. Action Painting was part of ______.
a. Surrealism
b. Dada
c. Neo-Expressionism
*d. Abstract Expressionism
Title: AE- Action Painting
14. Gesturalism is synonymous with ______.
*a. Action Painting
b.Post-Painterly Abstraction
c. Pop Art
d. Surrealism
Type:
Title:AE-Artists
1. Two of the most prominent Abstract Expressionist painters were ______.
*a. Pollock and de Kooning
b. de Kooning and Picasso
c. Johns and Lichtenstein
d. Kiefer and Chia
e. Albers and Pollock
Type:
Title:AE-General Artists
34. Of the following artists, ______is NOT associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement.
a. Pollock
b. de Kooning
c. Franz Kline
*d. Andy Warhol
e. Lee Krasner
Type:
Title: AE - Action
13. The work of ______exemplifies Action Painting.
*a. Pollock
b. Duchamp
c. Dali
d. Hopper
Title: AE-genral style-Pollock
1. Autumn Rhythm by Jackson Pollock exemplifies one aspect of Abstract Expressionism, a unique style of painting that developed in New York City in the years following World War II. The two stylistic components of Abstract Expressionism are known as:
a.
b.
c.
d.
Title: AE-New York School
11. Abstract Expressionism is also known as art of the ______.
*a. New York School
b. Pop Explosion
c.
d.
Type: P
Title: AE-general-1st wave
1. Choosing at least two artists representative of the first phase of Abstract Expressionism, discuss how their works are influenced by Cubist formalism, Surrealist automatism, and Jungian thought?
Type:
Title:
2. According to critic Clement Greenberg, modern art since ______involved the progressive disappearance of both pictorial space and figuration.
a. Paul Cezanne
*b. Edouard Manet
c. Pablo Picasso
d. Marcel Duchamp
Title: AE-Pollock
32. Most of Jackson Pollock's paintings are quite small and should be studied from up close to appreciate their intimate quality.
a. True
*b. False
Title: AE-Pollock
28. The terms "gestural abstraction" and Action painting" are most appropriate for the work of
*a. JacksonPollock
b. Robert Motherwell
c. Ellsworth Kelly
d. Bamett Newman
Title: AE-Pollock
2. How does the spectator participate in Jackson Pollock's drip paintings?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Title: AE-Pollock
31. The source(s) for Pollock's Abstract Expressionist art include
a. Indiansand painting
b. Surrealist psychic automatism
c. the work of Francis Bacon
*d. both a and b
Type:P
Title: AE- Pollock
11. Discuss the role of Jackson Pollock as an artistic innovator during, the 1940's. Include in your essay a discussion of technique, materials, style, and subject matter. Did Clement Greenberg's view of art influence Pollock's innovations"
Type:P
Title: Jackson Pollock painting
78. Attribute the images on the screen to an artist and a stylistic grouping. Give the reasons for your attributions, using complete sentences and referring to specific works that you know.
a.
Type:P
Title:AE-Pollock gesture
6. Describe the way Jackson Pollock created his "gestural" Abstract Expressionist pieces.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Title:
69. An important Abstract Expressionist was
*a. Pollock
b. Dali
c. Malevich
d. Johns
e. Brancusi
Title:AE-Barnett Newman
9. Describe the function of Barnett Newman's "zips."
a.
b.
c.
d.
Title: AE-Newman-zips
30. The painter who divided his single color fields with bands he called "zips" was
*a. Bamett Newman
b. Franz Kline
c. Francis Bacon
d. Ellsworth Kelly
Title: AE-Newman-Sculpture
5. How does the abstract sculpture of Barnett Newman draw an emphathetic response from us?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Title:AE-Mark Rothko
10. What feelings did Mark Rothko hope to evoke with his large, luminous canvases?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Title:AE-Rothko
32. The abstract Expressionist artist who created mysterious clouds of color that seem to float on an ambiguous background was
a. WillemdeKooning
b. Bamett Newman
c. David Smith
*d. Mark Rothko
Title: Ae-Mark Rothko Slide id
61. Idendify the artist of this work
a. JacksonPollock
b. Franz Kline
c. Nicholas de Stael
*d. Mark Rothko
Title:AE-Rothko
29. The New York artist who was most famous for his great black shapes on a white ground was
a. JacksonPollock
*b. Franz Kline
c. Mark Rothko
d. Willemd e Kooning
Type:P
Title:AE-Frankenthaler
12. Describe Frankenthaler's soak-stain technique.? What effect did she want to achieve with it?Name one other artist who utilized the soak-stain technique:
a.
Title: AE-Frankenthaler-stain-soak
38. Who developed the "stainsoak" method of painting?
a . Pollock
b. de Kooning
*c. Frankenthaler
d. Hesse
Type:
Title:AE-Frankenthaler
31. In order to produce an effect similar to watercolors, this Helen Frankenthaler thinned her oils and applied them in ______that soaked into the raw canvas.
*a. washes
b. impasto
c. dry brush
d. encaustic
Type:
Title: AE-Frankenthaler
39. Helen Frankenthaler's work is exemplary of Color Field Painting.
*a. true
b. false
Type:
Title: AE-Frankenthaler
24. Helen Frankenthaler is often associated with dilute synthetic paints used as ______.
a. impasto
*b. stain
c. fresco
d. background
e) self-portraits
Title: Clement Greenberg
3. Who was Clement Greenberg?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Title: AE-de Kooning
3. What types of images inspired Willem de Kooning's Woman I?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Title:AE-de Kooning
5. Woman I was painted by:
*a. Willem de Kooning
b. Jackson Pollock
c. Mark Rothko
d. Arshile Gorky
Title:AE-Krasner-de Kooning
7. How did Lee Krasner and Willem de Kooning succeed in joining figurative imagery with the energy of Action Painting?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Title: AE-David Smith
8. David Smith's Tank Totem IV is an example of ______sculpture.
a. Color Field
b. Minimalist
c. Pop Art
Type:P
Title:AE-Sculpture
18. In what way did David Smith's sculpture relate to Abstract Expressionism?
a.
Type:
Title:Colorfield
11. What techniques were advanced by Color Field painters?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Title: AE-2nd phase
1. What are the different approaches to expression that emerged in the second phase of Abstract Expressionism?
a.
b.
c.
d.