AP Art History : Renaissance to Contemporary 2D Art
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Example Question #371 : Renaissance To Contemporary 2 D Art
The Pop Art Movement was born in what city?
Paris
London
New York
Los Angeles
London
In the early 1950's, a group of artists in London called the Independent Group, began to gather to discuss the place of fine art in modern culture. These discussions gave birth to a number of the fundamental theoretical precepts underpinning the Pop Art Movement.
Example Question #441 : 2 D Art
The image of a can of Campbell's soup is the prototypical example of the ______________ style of art.
Surrealism
Neoclassical
Pop Art
Impressionism
Pop Art
This image is from one of the Pop Art Movement's most influential artists, Andy Warhol. Warhol was a leader during this movement and his series of Campbell's soup cans showed the accessibility to everyday objects that could be transformed into art.
Example Question #72 : Identifying Artists, Works, Or Schools Of Twentieth And Twenty First Century 2 D Art
What well-known Pop Artist was most known for works that resembled, or were in fact taken from, comic books?
Andy Warhol
Roy Lichtenstein
Jasper Johns
James Rosenquist
Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein's appropriation of decontextualized comic book images remains one of the most lasting elements of the Pop Art movement. Works such as Drowning Girl have sold for massive sums, and are still mass-produced as posters and prints to this day.
Example Question #73 : Identifying Artists, Works, Or Schools Of Twentieth And Twenty First Century 2 D Art
What artist was NOT a member of the Los Angeles Pop Art Movement?
Wayne Thiebaud
Jasper Johns
Ed Ruscha
Robert Dowd
Jasper Johns
Every artist but Jasper Johns was an artist in the LA Pop art scene. These artists incorporated items that were "very LA" such as motorcycles and surfing into their pop art.
Example Question #73 : Identifying Artists, Works, Or Schools Of Twentieth And Twenty First Century 2 D Art
______________ was the name for the Pop Art Movement in Germany.
Capital Realism
The Independent Movement
Avant-Garde
Art Nouveau
Capital Realism
The Pop Art Movement did gain momentum in other parts of Europe besides London. Capital Realism was the name of the movement in Germany. Capital Realism focused on subjects from pop culture and merged it with an aesthetic found in the mass media.
Example Question #371 : Renaissance To Contemporary 2 D Art
What was the difference between the Los Angeles and New York Pop Art Movements?
The Los Angeles Movement relied on reviews from critics as success; the New York Movement relied on feedback from everyday individuals
The Los Angeles Movement focused on objects found in cities: cars, buildings, people; the New York Movement focused on objects found in nature
The New York Movement was more relaxed and rejected feedback from critics; the Los Angeles Movement strictly followed the norms from the New York Movement
The New York Movement was more rigid and controlled; the Los Angeles Movement was more relaxed
The New York Movement was more rigid and controlled; the Los Angeles Movement was more relaxed
Compared to the scene in New York, the Pop Art Movement in Los Angeles was much more relaxed due to the absence of galleries and critics of the East coast. This relaxed idea was reflected in the styles of the LA artists. The NY Movement was much more rigid and controlled and relied heavily on feedback from art critics to succeed.
Example Question #445 : 2 D Art
________________ was the name for the Pop Art Movement in France.
Décollage
Capital Realists
Neo-Pop
Nouveau Réalisme
Nouveau Réalisme
The French referred to their Pop Art Movement as Nouveau Réalisme. This term means "a new way of perceiving the real." Although the movement had similarities to the American Pop Art Movement, the French focused more on objects than paintings.
Example Question #75 : Identifying Artists, Works, Or Schools Of Twentieth And Twenty First Century 2 D Art
What artist was NOT a member of the global pop art movement?
Robert Dowd
Gerhard Richter
Gustav Klimt
Yves Klein
Gustav Klimt
All artists but Klimt were members of the global Pop Art Movement. Yves Klein was a member of the French movement, Gerhard Richter of the German movement, and Robert Down of the Los Angeles movement.
Example Question #447 : 2 D Art
______________ is the Pop artist most well known for his use of repetition.
Claes Oldenburg
Andy Warhol
Jasper Johns
Robert Rauschenberg
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol is the Pop Artist best known for his use of repetition. Some of his most famous uses of repetition include prints of the Campbell's soup can and his vividly colored portraits of celebrities.
Example Question #372 : Renaissance To Contemporary 2 D Art
The image above is part of a series of paintings called Water Lilies.
The series includes over 200 oil paintings and was created by which artist?
Vincent van Gogh
Camille Pissarro
Claude Monet
Paul Cézanne
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Claude Monet
This was the work of Monet, and is one of his most well-known collections.
All the painters listed, other than Renoir, died before most of the paintings in the series were created.
Van Gogh was listed due to the similar themes of nature, and the similar brushstrokes often employed by both.
Image is in the public domain, accessed through Wikipedia Media Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Claude_Monet_-_The_Water_Lilies_-_The_Clouds_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
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