2.10 Alternative Media And Processes

Artworks made using alternative media and processes ________ a. break down categories of traditional artworks b. break down the traditional boundaries between art and life c. focus our attention on objects, actions, and events we might otherwise overlook d. all of the previous answers e. none of the previous answers

An artwork that consists exclusively of drawings, designs, and plans would best be described as ________ a. performance art b. conceptual art c. an installation d. a happening e. none of the other answers

Abramavic's House with the Ocean View would best be described as ________. a. performance art b. conceptual art c. an installation d. a readymade e. none of the other answers

An artwork that consists of a re-created bedroom with videos projected onto the walls would best be described as ________. a. performance art b. conceptual art c. an installation d. a readymade e. none of the other answers

Jackson Pollock is known for: a. delivering an important speech to Congress on behalf of the art world b. hanging upside-down from the Brooklyn Bridge for two days c. splashing, pouring, and dripping paint onto a canvas as he walked around it on the floor d. his miniature paintings e. all of the other answers

Artworks made using alternative media are best accessed by ________ but often exist only in the form of ________. a. videos . . . handwritten letters b. rooftop . . . postcards c. a direct, personal experience . . . visual documentation or personal accounts d. the Internet . . . still pictures e. artworks made using alternative media can never be accessed after they are completed

In Joseph Beuys's Coyote, I Like America and America Likes Me, the artist: a. became a shaman and made a curative sand painting of a mythical coyote b. recorded himself sleeping for three days in the wilderness of the American southwest c. wrapped himself in felt and lived for five days alone in an art gallery with a coyote d. projected a video of a coyote on the outside of an art gallery e. none of the other answers

Barbara Kruger's Untitled (Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face): a. employs her background as a graphic designer in its use of text and image b. references her early career as a baker in the reproduced pastries and confections c. ignores the rules of good design in order to make an anti-feminist statement d. agrees with the idea that women artists are not as good as male artists e. all of the other answers

Yoko Ono often utilizes ________ to complete her artworks, such as Wish Tree. a. mattresses from her favorite hotels b. instructions for viewers to perform or imagine c. manifestos of historical art groups d. the garden tools she inherited from her grandmother e. none of the other answers

Mel Chin's Fundred Dollar Bill Project is designed to: a. make the artist rich b. make the viewer rich c. raise awareness about and campaign for the treatment of lead-toxic soil d. clean up the corruption in the political system by eliminating the need for taxes e. none of the other answers

Claes Oldenburg's The Store includes sculptural replicas of ________. a. cars b. food c. past presidents d. famous artworks e. plants

In Mining the Museum Fred Wilson reorganized objects from the collection of the Maryland Historical Society, essentially taking on the role of a ________ in addition to that of an artist. a. conductor b. director c. registrar d. curator e. shopkeeper

Kara Walker's installation Insurrection! (Our Tools were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On) combines: a. silhouette drawings and projections b. Civil War weapons and television sets c. vintage photographs and shadows of famous trees d. theater props and umbrellas e. none of the other answers

An artwork can fit into only one of the following categories: performance art, conceptual art, installation art. True False

The kinds of artworks made using alternative media are ______. performance art, conceptual art, installations, and environments abstract art, landscapes, portraits, and still lifes jagged lines, bold colors, smooth surfaces, and random shapes graphite, oil paint, and bronze clay, fiber, glass, and porcelain

Which of the following artists were influential for artists who employed alternative use of media and processes? Marcel Duchamp Jackson Pollock John Cage Claes Oldenburg all of these artists

The traditional, and narrow, definition of "fine art" includes ______ sound installations and live performances archival documents and personal correspondence paintings on canvas and sculptures on pedestals ideas for potential artworks that do not yet exist all of the other answers

Performance art differs from theater because ______. there are live actors there is a live audience it can include music, dance, poetry, and multi-media technology the actions take place in an art context none of the other answers

The most important aspect of a piece of conceptual art is ______. the subject that we can clearly see the idea behind the artwork the permanent product that an artist produces an object that can be marketed and sold all of the other answers

An important difference between Coyote, I Like America and America Likes Me and Following Piece is that Following Piece took place ______. in a gallery setting in the middle of the night in secret on the streets of New York on top of the Empire State Building

Barbara Kruger's Untitled (Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face) makes the viewer consider which of the following issues? stereotypes that are commonly presented in graphic design powerful institutions, such as museums the problematic ways in which some institutions treat women the fact that gazing at beauty is a form of voyeurism all of the above

What do Yoko Ono's Wish Trees and Mel Chin's Fundred Dollar Bill Project have in common? They rely on the participants for their completion. They were made in response to Hurricane Katrina. They were inspired by a Japanese practice. Both artworks are produced on a beach. All of the images and text are predetermined.

Installations are designed to ______. consider more than an individual work of art transform the traditional space of an exhibition immerse viewers in the artwork design an entire exhibition space as an artwork all of the other answers

Both Fred Wilson's Mining the Museum and Kara Walker's Insurrection! (Our Tools were Rudimentary, Yet we Pressed On) combine ______. objects from museum collections historical occurrences and contemporary viewpoints illustrations from a number of fictional stories handmade objects from daily life none of the other answers

Match the alternative medium or process with its definition: action paintings conceptual art happenings installation performance art a. artworks that track the movements and gestures the artist makes during their production b. impromptu art actions, initiated and planned by an artist, the outcome of which is not known in advance c. an art action or event that incorporates elements of music, dance, poetry, video, and multimedia technology d. artworks that transform the surrounding space in order to become environmental artworks e. a general tendency, as well as an art movement originating in the 1960s, that emphasizes the ideas behind an artwork over any material production to represent those ideas