ART 100 Exam with Questions Solved 100%
Correct| Verified Solutions-Newest Update
2025
What are the characteristics of American Abstract Expressionism, and what made it
different from European painting? - ✔✔Worked to construct a new image of
Modernist art.
How did critics promote abstract expressionism as anti-fascist, and later, anti-
communist? - ✔✔it truly captures the essence of this new individualistic and
enterprising America
What argument did critics use to dismiss African American and Native American abstract
artists? - ✔✔That the collages were accusing or disquieting and that they saw
references to the current political unrest in the utilization of African sculpture
How were the use of junk and found objects in the work of Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper
Johns, Louise Nevelson, Marisol, John Chamberlain and others a significant change from
Abstract Expressionism? - ✔✔They used different mediums making complex art and
wanted things in the simplest form (?)
What did Rauschenberg call his multi-media works? - ✔✔combines
What were the common interests of the artists and writers of the beat generation, and
where did they get their inspiration? - ✔✔The Cold Wall and spread of communism
"Writing in stream of conciousness" Jack Keroac's "On the Road" Writer of Beat
Generation
,Robert Frank's "The Americans" - ✔✔83 photos of Americans from a 2 year trip
around America.
What types of photographs did Diane Arbus make? - ✔✔Originally a fashion
photographer, turns to document New York's underground culture. Famous for series of
transvestites and cross dressers.
What were the Watts Towers? Who built them? How tall were they? What happened
when the city Los Angeles tried to have them dismantled? - ✔✔Designed by Simon
Rodia
Completed in 1954
Built from materials found in Watts
Survived the Watts Riots
Symbol of LA's hope for revitalization after the Riots
300ft
Simon Rodia-
Outsider Art (untrained artists)
Bought a small plot of land. Built a structure single handedly rose to nearly 300 ft tall
without the use of cranes. Used tile setter tools and was covered in mosaic. Became
inspirational piece in African American Art called the Watts movement.
James Hampton - ✔✔-In his garage began to build Throne of Third Heaven of the
Nation's Millennium.
-Post death garage owner finds this and gets it put in Smithsonian Institute. Assemblage
covered with foil.
- Throne was intended as a liturgical display in his church, it was a hobby to him
, Joseph Cornell - ✔✔Early Assemblage artist: Real World vs. Dream World.
Worked independently. Made small boxes in realist tradition in realist scale explores
spatial depth.
Develops into combines.
Surrealist, practiced "assemblage." Playful artist influenced by surrealist toys.
Experimented with optical illusions. Mini boxes which portrayed dreamscapes. Small
installations & controlled.
John Chamberlain- - ✔✔-Junk Sculpture all out of auto parts.
-Welding becomes key art skill.
-Sound like titles of beat poems, crushed auto parts. 2D wall piece 3D collage.
Influenced by junk compressors, pays attention to processes that aren't apart of art but
brings into art.
Robert Louis Frank - ✔✔-Photographer who traveled around US for a year taking over
1,000 photos & creates book "The Americans"
-Period of Pop Culture- Rock & Roll & James Dean.
Edward Kienholz - ✔✔-Creates visual sculptures, installation art, putting work in
rooms & making art piece of while room. Pays homage to Rauschenberg.
-Casts different characters in diner in plaster. Paints figures in semi-grotesque fashion.
Clock as heads. Body casts taken from models.
William Edmunson - ✔✔Through divine inspiration starts making things. Uses stones
to create. First A.A. to have a solo show at MOMA in New York. Primitivist style. Did not
Correct| Verified Solutions-Newest Update
2025
What are the characteristics of American Abstract Expressionism, and what made it
different from European painting? - ✔✔Worked to construct a new image of
Modernist art.
How did critics promote abstract expressionism as anti-fascist, and later, anti-
communist? - ✔✔it truly captures the essence of this new individualistic and
enterprising America
What argument did critics use to dismiss African American and Native American abstract
artists? - ✔✔That the collages were accusing or disquieting and that they saw
references to the current political unrest in the utilization of African sculpture
How were the use of junk and found objects in the work of Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper
Johns, Louise Nevelson, Marisol, John Chamberlain and others a significant change from
Abstract Expressionism? - ✔✔They used different mediums making complex art and
wanted things in the simplest form (?)
What did Rauschenberg call his multi-media works? - ✔✔combines
What were the common interests of the artists and writers of the beat generation, and
where did they get their inspiration? - ✔✔The Cold Wall and spread of communism
"Writing in stream of conciousness" Jack Keroac's "On the Road" Writer of Beat
Generation
,Robert Frank's "The Americans" - ✔✔83 photos of Americans from a 2 year trip
around America.
What types of photographs did Diane Arbus make? - ✔✔Originally a fashion
photographer, turns to document New York's underground culture. Famous for series of
transvestites and cross dressers.
What were the Watts Towers? Who built them? How tall were they? What happened
when the city Los Angeles tried to have them dismantled? - ✔✔Designed by Simon
Rodia
Completed in 1954
Built from materials found in Watts
Survived the Watts Riots
Symbol of LA's hope for revitalization after the Riots
300ft
Simon Rodia-
Outsider Art (untrained artists)
Bought a small plot of land. Built a structure single handedly rose to nearly 300 ft tall
without the use of cranes. Used tile setter tools and was covered in mosaic. Became
inspirational piece in African American Art called the Watts movement.
James Hampton - ✔✔-In his garage began to build Throne of Third Heaven of the
Nation's Millennium.
-Post death garage owner finds this and gets it put in Smithsonian Institute. Assemblage
covered with foil.
- Throne was intended as a liturgical display in his church, it was a hobby to him
, Joseph Cornell - ✔✔Early Assemblage artist: Real World vs. Dream World.
Worked independently. Made small boxes in realist tradition in realist scale explores
spatial depth.
Develops into combines.
Surrealist, practiced "assemblage." Playful artist influenced by surrealist toys.
Experimented with optical illusions. Mini boxes which portrayed dreamscapes. Small
installations & controlled.
John Chamberlain- - ✔✔-Junk Sculpture all out of auto parts.
-Welding becomes key art skill.
-Sound like titles of beat poems, crushed auto parts. 2D wall piece 3D collage.
Influenced by junk compressors, pays attention to processes that aren't apart of art but
brings into art.
Robert Louis Frank - ✔✔-Photographer who traveled around US for a year taking over
1,000 photos & creates book "The Americans"
-Period of Pop Culture- Rock & Roll & James Dean.
Edward Kienholz - ✔✔-Creates visual sculptures, installation art, putting work in
rooms & making art piece of while room. Pays homage to Rauschenberg.
-Casts different characters in diner in plaster. Paints figures in semi-grotesque fashion.
Clock as heads. Body casts taken from models.
William Edmunson - ✔✔Through divine inspiration starts making things. Uses stones
to create. First A.A. to have a solo show at MOMA in New York. Primitivist style. Did not
