1.Give a brief description of Clement Greenberg's critical idea of ‘formalism'?
2.Give the title, artist and date of this work.
3. Which Modern artist creates empty and lonely compositions, with a few sparse individuals in lonely and bleak city locations?
4.The widespread acclaim of Abstract Expressionism was responsible for this city becoming the center of the modern art world.
5.Native American painting was informed by modern styles: what were some of the characteristics of these paintings?
A. Bright colors
B. Flat outlines
C. Machine age technology
D. Traditional native symbols
E. B and D
6.This painting represents one of the two distinct styles of Abstraction Expressionism called _______
7.Between 1935 and 1943, the New Deal supplied emergency funding to employ American artists through what agency?
8.In this week's readings,
was the art movement with clean, sharp lines that focused on factories, buildings and American consumerist goods.
9.Diego Rivera, a Socialist Realist, often included political imagery in his work. His mural for the Rockefeller Center was destroyed when he included a depiction of this revolutionary:
10. What were some of the adjectives that Robert Motherwell used to describe Abstract Expressionist painting?
11.What three personal and social values were listed in our text as embraced by the Regionalist painters?
12. Understanding the different ideologies of these artists, describe the philosophical difference between Thomas Hart Benton's City Building (pg. 110) and Diego Rivera's Detroit Industry Mural (pg. 82)?
13.Imagine you are a docent or visitor's guide at an art museum. You are responsible for conducting an international tour of foreign visitors and students through a museum exhibit exploring American Abstract Expressionism. Write a minimum two paragraph summary of what you would say to them about the overall movement and artworks of American Expressionism.
14.Cultural primitivism enforces nostalgic ideas about returning to an untouched nature, spiritual purity, and cultural traditions. Many of the artists associated with Southwest Modernism displayed this ideal in their work. Give an example of one of these paintings and how it expresses cultural primitivism. (87-90)
15.Native American painting was informed by modern styles: what were some of the characteristics of these paintings? (select all that apply)
A. 3-Dimensional shading
B. Flat outlines
C. Machine age technology
D. Traditional native symbols
E. Abstract and geometric designs
16.he writer and philosopher coined the term ‘New Negro'.
17.Select one artwork that reflects that downturn of the Great Depression. State the name, artist and date, and then give a two paragraph analysis of the work including a personal interpretation.
18. According to our text, what was the key difference in terms of the artists who were exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art versus the Museum of Modern Art?