Final Artworks

Question 1

The Migration of the Negro

Answer 1

Jacob Lawrence
1941
-paper cut outs
-story telling

Question 2

The Fleet’s In!

Answer 2

Cadmus
1940
-traditional composition of line
-Navy hated it
-homoerotic references

Question 3

Black Belt

Answer 3

Motley
1934
-modern, bold colors
-everything rounded
-POC very dark
-exaggerating lower class city life even though he was upper class

Question 4

Hairdresser’s Window

Answer 4

John Sloan
1906
-text in art
-clustered, anonymous, urban
-painterly

Question 5

Freedom of Speech

Answer 5

Norman Rockwell
1943
-part of The Four Freedoms series
-"I paint life as I would like it to be"
-individual standing for big idea
-illustration style with lots of detail
-worn, yet dignified
-shows how USA celebrates standing up/speaking out

Question 6

Fountain

Answer 6

Marcel Duchamp
1917
-gallery with just a fee and papers
-ready-made sculpture
-by destroying the idea of art, actually pushing boundaries

Question 7

Odol

Answer 7

Stuart Davis
1924
-text in art
-commercial industry in art

Question 8

Swing Landscape

Answer 8

Stuart Davis
1938
-antifascist
-sticks up for American freedom/creativity
-art is free, inspired by jazz and abstract
-not restricted to classical ideas

Question 9

In the City Park

Answer 9

Soyer
1934
-activist art
-lots of people, but no overwhelming crowd
-not hopeful

Question 10

American Gothic

Answer 10

Grant Wood
1930
-parodied from beginning
-pale oval shapes and parallel verticals
-stable, locked
-seen as racist and close-minded view of America

Question 11

The Ballad of the Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley

Answer 11

Benton
1934
-tells a story
-hands exaggerated
-dynamic, deep composition
-traditional music reference

Question 12

Metropolitan Crowd

Answer 12

Norman Lewis
1946
-?

Question 13

Portrait of a German Officer

Answer 13

Marsden Hartley

• some symbols suggested
• turns into just an arrangement of shapes
• in love with officer

Question 14

Mount Katahdin, Autumn

Answer 14

Marsden Hartley
1939
-biomorphic
-abstract colors

Question 15

Wainwright Building

Answer 15

Louis Sullivan
1891
St. Louis
-emphasis on verticals
-still included classical references

Question 16

Robie House

Answer 16

Frank Lloyd Wright
1906
Chicago
-prairie style
-hearth as center of home
-extended roof
-natural colors to blend with environment

Question 17

Upper Deck

Answer 17

Charles Sheeler
1929
-aesthetic of machine (precisionism)
-simplified shapes and values

Question 18

One and Three Chairs

Answer 18

Joseph Kosuth
1965
-which chair is more real?
-ideas of Duchamp

Question 19

Tradition

Answer 19

Kenyon Cox
1915
-classical ideas must be carried on
-traditional composition, symmetry
-passing on torch of tradition

Question 20

Music: Pink and Blue

Answer 20

Georgia O’Keefe
1919
-other senses in art than seeing
-biomorphic abstraction

Question 21

American Tragedy

Answer 21

Philip Evergood
1937
-compared to Guernica
-Chicago steal mill strike
-art that's supposed to make you mad
-horizontal bands of line and color

Question 22

Migrant Mother

Answer 22

Dorothea Lange
1936
-many other negatives in files, but why did she choose this one?
-candid setting with posed subject
-not dressed up, dirty, intimate, private

Question 23

Man Controlling Trade

Answer 23

Lantz
1942
-Federal Trade Commission
-hyper-masculine
-looks like Soviet propoganda

Question 24

Case Study House

Answer 24

Craig Ellwood
1953
Outside LA, CA
-prototype of house for upper middle class
-Wright and Usonian inspiration
-new idea of patio and outside
-adapted from "ranch house" idea

Question 25

Lakeshore Drive Apartments

Answer 25

``` Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe 1948 Chicago -fled from Hitler -Bauhaus movement -emphasizes steel and proportions -high rise apartments for effiency ```

Question 26

Levittown Houses

Answer 26

``` William Levitt 1949 Long Island, New York -housing crisis after war -dozens of foundations laid in a day -very efficient in supplies, space and materials -standardizing America? no divirsity or creativity -idea of perfect American family ```

Question 27

Number One

Answer 27

``` Jackson Pollock 1948 -title denies reference -doesn't start with final idea, improv art with emotions and what the painting is telling him -listens to jazz when working -too simple/easy? ```

Question 28

Australia

Answer 28

``` David Smith 1951 -does not imitate life -sculpture as a gesture -welded steel ```

Question 29

Yellow, Blue on Orange

Answer 29

Rothko 1955 -existential and idea of making your mark -not active, still

Question 30

Kouros

Answer 30

Noguchi 1945 -classical reference to Kouros (stiff, stylized, one piece, but almost looks modern) -mobility reflect early life? -portable, in parts -convey war anxieties with biomorphic abstraction -suggestion of limbs and body but out of place and proportion -gap in center

Question 31

Shang | UMMA

Answer 31

Mark di Suvero 1985 -kinetic sculpture -asian influence

Question 32

Night Shadows | UMMA

Answer 32

Edward Hopper 1921 etching

Question 33

Stag at Sharkey's | UMMA

Answer 33

George Bellows 1909 lithograph

Question 34

The Steerage | UMMA

Answer 34

Alfred Stieglitz 1907 photograph

Question 35

Birmingham Race Riot | UMMA

Answer 35

Andy Warhol 1964 screenprint

Question 36

Dwan Gallery Poster | UMMA

Answer 36

Robert Rauschenberg 1965 offset lithograph on paper -contains self portrait

Question 37

Untitled | UMMA

Answer 37

Franz Kline 1961 oil on cardboard

Question 38

One of a Pair of Casement Windows from the Darwin Martin House, Buffalo, NY UMMA

Answer 38

Frank Lloyd Wright 1904 stained glass and oak

Question 39

Boy With Right Arm Off | UMMA

Answer 39

Lewis Hine 1909 photograph

Question 40

Twighlight

Answer 40

Dwight Tyron | 1900s

Question 41

Dining Chair Material

Answer 41

Charles Eames 1946 molded plywood, dyed wood

Question 42

Pot | UMMA

Answer 42

Maria Martinez 1930s -combination of modern and traditional

Question 43

Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street

Answer 43

Paul Strand 1915 photograph -not as composed and abstract like his usual street photgraphy