Deck 3: Seeing the Value in Art

Question 1

What specific component of the National Endowment for the Arts made works of art available to the general public?

A)the Helms amendment
B)the National Cooperative
C)the Arts in Public Places program
D)the National Gallery

Answer 1

C

Question 2

How is Maya Ying Lin's Vietnam Memorial similar to works by Edouard Manet and Marcel Duchamp?

A)similar subject matter
B)avoidance of color
C)similar types of form
D)All were initially misunderstood by the public.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

In 1863,Edouard Manet's Déjeuner sur l'herbe was rejected by the public due to its

A)depiction of a picnic.
B)representation of a woman bathing in the background.
C)modernity.
D)size.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Which sculptor eventually saw his controversial work destroyed?

A)Richard Serra
B)Carl Andre
C)Andy Warhol
D)Edouard Manet

Question 5

Etienne-Jules Marey was a pioneer in the then burgeoning art of what?

A)assemblage
B)motion pictures
C)Abstract Expressionism
D)public art

Question 6

Déjeuner sur l'herbe was rejected from the annual salon exhibition in Paris in 1863.Where was it exhibited instead?

A)at the Grande Palace
B)at the Salon des Refusés
C)at the Louvre
D)It was never exhibited.

Question 7

According to the National Endowment for the Arts what activist role should artists take?

A)They should educate the public about the value of art.
B)They should create art with a political agenda.
C)They should always break with past traditions.
D)They should incite people to vote for art in public spaces.

Question 8

In Chapter 3,Sayre discusses two ways of valuing art.What are they?

A)monetary and intrinsic
B)monetary and investment
C)intrinsic and unspoken
D)monumental and monetary

Question 9

Maya Ying Lin's Memorial in Washington,D.C.

A)was controversial at first because of its non-traditional style.
B)was created using classical architecture styles.
C)honors soldiers who died during the war in the Persian Gulf.
D)is a temporary installment.

Question 10

The artist's relation to the public often depends upon how it views

A)the amount charged for their work.
B)whether or not they make representational work.
C)the artist's background and lifestyle.
D)what the artist is trying to say.

Question 11

Considered a masterpiece of Renaissance art,Michelangelo's David came under attack upon first viewing due to its

A)political symbolism.
B)religious symbolism.
C)irregular proportions.
D)subject matter.

Question 12

What was the inspiration for Marcel Duchamp's controversial Nude Descending a Staircase?

A)a visit to a shingle factory
B)Navajo blankets
C)the chronophotographs of Etienne-Jules Marey
D)a 17^th century painting by Raphael

Question 13

Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary displays two aspects of the artist's life-his African heritage and what else?

A)his abstract art training
B)his love of medieval and Renaissance art
C)his study of American popular culture
D)his Catholic upbringing

Question 14

What motivates artists like Krzysztof Wodiczko,Guillermo Gómez-Peña,and Suzanne Lacy?

A)their love of traditional painting and sculpture
B)theoretical issues
C)socio-cultural issues
D)process

Question 15

In Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe,Manet intentionally rejects traditional painting techniques for what purpose?

A)to surpass the art of Raphael and the Renaissance
B)to call attention to his modernity and break with the past
C)to show how photography affected people's vision
D)to retain a link with other artists at the Armory Show

Question 16

What is it that motivates most collectors to buy contemporary art?

A)investment in a stable commodity
B)interest in supporting further art and artists
C)the pleasure of owning art and the prestige it confers upon them
D)its recognition as a charitable donation

Question 17

Historically,why do many people receive new and innovative work with reservation?

A)They are ill informed.
B)They have little context in which to view the work.
C)The work rarely sells to patrons.
D)They prefer representational art.

Question 18

At the center of a scandal of the famous Armory Show of 1913 was held in

A)Paris.
B)Philadelphia.
C)New York.
D)London.

Question 19

Which artwork was described as "an explosion in a shingle factory"?

A)Edouard Manet's Déjeuner sur l'herbe
B)Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase
C)Pablo Picasso's Women of Avignon
D)Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night

Question 20

Guillermo Gómez-Peña's The Temple of Confessions can be defined as what kind of art?

A)apolitical
B)academic and traditional
C)abstract
D)performance and installation

Question 21

The first exhibition that introduced most Americans to "modern" art was what?

Question 22

Guillermo Gómez-Peña uses _____________as media in his artwork,which he calls _________________.

A)painting;abstract expressionism
B)sculpture;minimalism
C)painting,sculpture,and performance;"reverse anthropology"
D)clay pottery;inverse anthropology

Question 23

Which work of art was the first to be installed as a result of the Arts in Public Places program?

Question 24

Discuss the work of Guillermo Gómez-Peña.What are the artist's aims? What does the artist call his works?

Question 25

What did Etienne-Jules Marey call his unusual motion photographs of the model in the black suit?

Question 26

What kind of art was Suzanne Lacy's Whisper,The Waves,the Wind? Discuss the political aspects of this work and the intentions of the artists involved.

Question 27

What kind of art does Krzysztof Wodiczko make?