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True or false
1 point
True or false: In modern and contemporary art, abstraction is not necessarily meaningless simply because it reduces or eliminates recognizable representation.
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Modern and Contemporary Global Art: Materials, Media, and Meaning Online Quiz Questions
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20 questions
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Choose one
1 point
Which avant-garde movement is most directly associated with Marcel Duchamp's Fountain and its challenge to conventional artistic authority?
- A
Surrealism
- B
Dada
- C
Futurism
- D
Color-field abstraction
03
Written response
1 point
To which city was Abstract Expressionism especially associated in the 1940s and 1950s? Enter the city name.
04
Fill in the blank
1 point
Complete the statement: In contemporary art, textiles may evoke , trade, migration, domestic memory, or cultural continuity.
05
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1 point
Which description best defines installation art?
- A
A painting made only with geometric shapes
- B
An artwork that must be a permanent outdoor monument
- C
An artwork designed for a particular space and experienced through the arrangement of multiple elements
- D
A performance that cannot involve objects or architecture
06
True or false
1 point
True or false: Documentation of a performance can sometimes be more than a record because the artist may make the photograph or video an essential part of the artwork.
- A
True
- B
False
07
Written response
1 point
What art-history term describes the formation of new cultural identities through contact, conflict, and exchange between cultures? Enter the single term.
08
Choose all
1 point
Select all the factors that can help analyze how a photograph constructs meaning.
- A
Framing
- B
Point of view
- C
Lighting and focus
- D
Pose and expression
- E
Caption and sequence
- F
Circulation
- G
The subject's horoscope
- H
The museum's ticket price
09
Fill in the blank
1 point
Complete the statement: In Letícia Parente's video Marca registrada, the artist sews the words “” into the sole of her foot.
10
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1 point
Which artist is associated with monumental, flexible hanging sculptures made from discarded metal bottle caps that address consumption, trade, labor, and African-European economic histories?
- A
Ana Mendieta
- B
El Anatsui
- C
Donald Judd
- D
Mariko Mori
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1 point
Select all the dimensions that should be distinguished when analyzing a performance artwork.
- A
The live action
- B
The documentation
- C
The audience relationship
- D
The purpose
- E
The artist's birth year
- F
The gallery's ticket price
12
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1 point
An artwork consists of temporary body-shaped forms made with earth and other natural materials, with photographs or film preserving the actions. Which practice is the most plausible attribution?
- A
Marcel Duchamp's Fountain
- B
Nam June Paik's video installations
- C
Ana Mendieta's Silueta works
- D
Piet Mondrian's geometric paintings
13
True or false
1 point
True or false: Institutional critique can question how museums and galleries establish cultural authority by changing the materials, location, or social setting of art.
- A
True
- B
False
14
Open ended
1 point
Compare Ana Mendieta's Silueta works with Letícia Parente's Marca registrada. Explain one important similarity and one important difference in how each artist uses the body, materials, process, and context to produce meaning.
15
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1 point
An artist arranges precise geometric shapes and measured relationships without depicting recognizable objects. Which interpretation best connects this formal choice to the purposes of geometric abstraction?
- A
It must reproduce a recognizable scene as accurately as possible.
- B
It can use measured shapes and relationships to suggest order or harmony.
- C
It depends primarily on spontaneous bodily movement and chance.
- D
It rejects all connections between visual form and ideas.
16
Written response
1 point
What art-historical term describes a practice that uses actions, duration, the body, behavior, and audience relationships as artistic materials?
17
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1 point
An artist combines sound, projected images, found objects, and pathways that require visitors to move through a room. Which feature most strongly identifies the work as an installation?
- A
The work's meaning depends only on the craftsmanship of one isolated object.
- B
The work must always be a permanent sculpture displayed on a pedestal.
- C
The arrangement of components and the viewer's movement through space can produce meaning.
- D
The work avoids using architecture or environmental conditions as artistic elements.
18
Written response
1 point
What art-historical term refers to the movement or dispersal of a people from an ancestral homeland and the cultural identities formed across locations?
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1 point
Why is Marcel Duchamp's Fountain best understood as an institutional critique as well as a Dada work?
- A
It demonstrates that traditional craftsmanship is the only basis for artistic value.
- B
It celebrates the urinal as a beautifully crafted unique object.
- C
It questions whether artistic meaning depends on the object, maker, title, setting, or audience.
- D
It uses natural materials to connect sculpture with ecological cycles.
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1 point
El Anatsui makes monumental hanging sculptures from discarded metal bottle caps. Which interpretation best explains why the material is historically significant?
- A
The discarded metal is used only because it is cheaper than traditional sculpture materials.
- B
The material links the work to consumption, trade, labor, and African-European economic histories.
- C
The bottle caps prove that the work is a conventional permanent monument.
- D
The material removes any connection between sculpture and global commerce.