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Art of the Western World: "In Our Own Time"

1. The Abstract Expressionists were concerned with the "inner world," where the struggle with __________ became the god of painting.

A) Stiff, crusty brushes.
B) Brushwork and pigment.
C) Making figures look real.
D) Religion.

2. The leading Abstract Expressionist was __________.

A) Claude Monet.
B) Pablo Picasso.
C) Michael Jackson.
D) Jackson Pollock.

3. Raised in the American southwest, Pollock was influenced by __________.

A) Native American sand painting.
B) Rattlesnakes.
C) The hot sun.
D) The Dallas Cowboys.

4. With Pollock, we are shown that _________ has nothing to do with value in art.

A) Expensive paint.
B) A recognizable image.
C) Experience.
D) Ability.

5. Mark Rothko chose a path to pure expression by using only __________ on his canvases.

A) Crayon.
B) Live models.
C) Gradations of color.
D) Dripped and splattered paint.

6. Which American artist of the twentieth-century insisted that the surface of the canvas is not a window we look through, but rather a field onto which "junk" is piled?

A) Robert Rauschenberg.
B) Cindy Sherman.
C) Andy Warhol.
D) Fred Sanford.

7. When did Pop Art come of age?

A) 1920s.
B) 1940s.
C) 1960s.
D) 1980s.

8. In his art, Andy Warhol concentrated on the repetition of identical objects that are __________, as well as the repetition of people, especially movie stars.

A) The products of mass production.
B) Made in Taiwan.
C) Carefully hand-crafted.
D) Completely abstract.

9. Initially, Maya Lin's design for the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington, D.C., invoked protest because it was considered __________.

A) Too small.
B) Unheroic.
C) Too difficult to build.
D) Too colorful.

10. Robert Smithson's pivotal earth work is the __________ in Utah's Great Salt Lake.

A) Jetty Boat.
B) J. Paul Getty.
C) Spiral Jetty.
D) Spiral Spaghetti.

11. Where did Christo mount his work Running Fence?

A) California.
B) New York.
C) Berlin.
D) Japan.

12. __________ artists want to break through the condition of having someone else speak for them.

A) Feminist.
B) Male.
C) Tongue-tied.
D) American.

13. In a society saturated with data, the function of today's artist is not to depict events, but rather to reawaken our __________.

A) Sense of smell.
B) Perception.
C) Hatred of art.
D) Love of realism.

14. There is no such thing as __________ history of art, there are only our interpretations.

A) A chronological.
B) Janson's.
C) A subjective.
D) An objective.
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