WWU A/HI 241 Test 3 correctly answered
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Frida Kahlo - correct answer ✔✔Mexican dad artist that rejected surrealism
Armory Show - correct answer ✔✔Big event where modernist art was first shown to mass
audiences in NY and led to the founding of the museums of modern art.
The Network of Artists - correct answer ✔✔Community of artists hired by federal arts projects.
The New York School Artists - correct answer ✔✔Second name for abstract expressionists,
described the artists taught at a school founded by Hoffman.
Gorky - correct answer ✔✔Artist that borrowed from Miro by using the same color palette, free
association, and biomorphic imagery.
Willem de Kooning - correct answer ✔✔Artist known for energizing the whole canvas and using
drip as well as being influenced by matisse, mondrian, moreau, venus fertility figures, and
biomorphic images
Lee Krasner - correct answer ✔✔Married to Pollock, painted "all over paintings"
Jackson Pollock - correct answer ✔✔Famous for his drip paintings and being the first to make an
artistic statement with them, He was
Collective Unconscious - correct answer ✔✔A shared pool of memories, ideas and modes of
thought
, Barnett Newman - correct answer ✔✔An artist who was very interested in biology and
mythology, originally his work was very detailed but moved towards flat color
Mark Rothko - correct answer ✔✔Famous for his color field paintings and was heavily
influenced by Matisse's "Red Studio"
Seagram Murals Scandal - correct answer ✔✔Rothko was offered ~$35,000 as a commission but
turned the offer down and returned the money
Anti-Greenbergian - correct answer ✔✔A group of artists that rebelled against abstract
expressionism and followed the philosophies of Duchamp and Cage. They wanted to bring life
into art.
Combine Painting - correct answer ✔✔Term coined by Rauschenberg, refers to artwork made
up of various objects
"Four Minutes and Thirty-Three Seconds" - correct answer ✔✔Film consisting of silence by
Cage, plays with the ideas of soundscapes
Billy Klaver - correct answer ✔✔Formed EAT with Rauschenberg and demonstrated artistic
interest in "new media" and "multimedia"
Jasper Johns - correct answer ✔✔Dreamt he painted a flag, woke and destroyed all his earlier
work and started painting a flag. Used encaustic wax instead of fabric. Painted objects we don't
really look at and transformed how we look at the mundane.
American Pop Art - correct answer ✔✔Group of artists that were interested in the world around
them. They used images, language, and practices associated with advertising.
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Frida Kahlo - correct answer ✔✔Mexican dad artist that rejected surrealism
Armory Show - correct answer ✔✔Big event where modernist art was first shown to mass
audiences in NY and led to the founding of the museums of modern art.
The Network of Artists - correct answer ✔✔Community of artists hired by federal arts projects.
The New York School Artists - correct answer ✔✔Second name for abstract expressionists,
described the artists taught at a school founded by Hoffman.
Gorky - correct answer ✔✔Artist that borrowed from Miro by using the same color palette, free
association, and biomorphic imagery.
Willem de Kooning - correct answer ✔✔Artist known for energizing the whole canvas and using
drip as well as being influenced by matisse, mondrian, moreau, venus fertility figures, and
biomorphic images
Lee Krasner - correct answer ✔✔Married to Pollock, painted "all over paintings"
Jackson Pollock - correct answer ✔✔Famous for his drip paintings and being the first to make an
artistic statement with them, He was
Collective Unconscious - correct answer ✔✔A shared pool of memories, ideas and modes of
thought
, Barnett Newman - correct answer ✔✔An artist who was very interested in biology and
mythology, originally his work was very detailed but moved towards flat color
Mark Rothko - correct answer ✔✔Famous for his color field paintings and was heavily
influenced by Matisse's "Red Studio"
Seagram Murals Scandal - correct answer ✔✔Rothko was offered ~$35,000 as a commission but
turned the offer down and returned the money
Anti-Greenbergian - correct answer ✔✔A group of artists that rebelled against abstract
expressionism and followed the philosophies of Duchamp and Cage. They wanted to bring life
into art.
Combine Painting - correct answer ✔✔Term coined by Rauschenberg, refers to artwork made
up of various objects
"Four Minutes and Thirty-Three Seconds" - correct answer ✔✔Film consisting of silence by
Cage, plays with the ideas of soundscapes
Billy Klaver - correct answer ✔✔Formed EAT with Rauschenberg and demonstrated artistic
interest in "new media" and "multimedia"
Jasper Johns - correct answer ✔✔Dreamt he painted a flag, woke and destroyed all his earlier
work and started painting a flag. Used encaustic wax instead of fabric. Painted objects we don't
really look at and transformed how we look at the mundane.
American Pop Art - correct answer ✔✔Group of artists that were interested in the world around
them. They used images, language, and practices associated with advertising.
