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WorksheetsArt PT IV
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 30mins
Frank Lloyd Wright’s first unique personal style was known as the
Romantic Style
Nabi Style
Beaux-Arts Style
Prairie Style
Brutalist Style
Gerald Murphy’s work is described as “transatlantic chic” because it
was entirely inspired by American consumer culture
rejected European influences in favor of American styles
reflected a blend of American and European art and culture
was created in the U.S. but popular in Europe
focused on traditional European painting techniques
In 1941, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Yasuo Kuniyoshi:
a. fled to Japan
b. was placed under house arrest
c. entered the United States Army
d. was sent to an internment camp
e. fled to Canada
A movement that sought to connect people from all over the Black Atlantic world with their African roots was known as
the Black Power movement
the Assimilation movement
the Melting Pot movement
the Pan-African movement
the Afrikaner movement
Maria and Julian Martinez were both born in
Colorado
New Mexico
Arizona
Nevada
Mexico
Meta Warrick Fuller studied in Paris with sculptor
Rodin
Carpeaux
Houdon
Remington
Bartholdi
In Chicago, Frank Lloyd Wright worked for the firm
McKim, Meade and White
Peabody and Stearns
Adler and Sullivan
Furness and Hewitt
Moss Design
The Murphys were associated with a group known as the
Silent Generation
Lost Generation
Creative Generation
Baby Boomers
Centennials
What role did W. E. B. Du Bois play in the Pan-African movement?
He was a famous sculptor.
He was a painter who promoted African art.
He opposed global solidarity among people of African descent.
He organized Pan-African Congresses and promoted racial solidarity.
He founded the first African art museum in America.
The Martinez’s bowl’s shape resembles water jars made a thousand years ago by the
Mayan peoples
Puebloan peoples
Inuit peoples
Olmec peoples
Apache peoples
Wright’s studio and training facility in Spring Green, Wisconsin was named
Talia
Taliesin
Talisman
Taliesin West
Tabletop Center
Fuller's Ethiopia Awakening shows a Black female figure with her lower half wrapped in bandages that references the ancient Egyptian practice of:
purification
embalming
foot binding
mummification
scarification
Wright's final building was New York City's
Metropolitan Museum
Frick Museum
Whitney Museum
New Museum
Guggenheim Museum
Gerald Murphy's greatest stylistic influence was
Picasso
Matisse
Leger
Dali
Miro
Meta Warrick Fuller was born in
New York City
Philadelphia
Boston
Chicago
Los Angeles
Rather than using color to convey designs, in their mature work the Martinezes used
scale
shape
texture
line
proportion
For the 1924 “Early American Art” exhibition, Kuniyoshi loaned two pieces from his collection of
Japanese-American art
Southwest Art
Native American Art
American Folk Art
Children’s Art
What was the 1921 America's Making Exhibit?
an exhibition of art made by 33 different immigrant groups
an exhibition of art made by children in public schools
an exhibition of art created in senior citizen centers
an exhibition of craft items made by American crafts people
an exhibition of folk art made by Early American settlers
Wright called the molded tiles in the Ennis House
modular blocks
textile blocks
simple blocks
screen blocks
molded blocks
The Martinezes fired their ceramics in an oxygen-deprived environment that would turn the slip
white
clear
red
grey
black
The size of Murphy’s Watch is around
two and a half feet square
three and a half feet square
four and a half feet square
five and a half feet square
six and a half feet square
The Boy Stealing Fruit holds a/an
banana
peach
apple
pear
fig
The interior of the Ennis House is
2,000 square feet
4,000 square feet
6,000 square feet
8,000 square feet
10,000 square feet
Fuller’s Ethiopia Awakening was commissioned by the poet
Langston Hughes
James Weldon Johnson
Maya Angelou
Nikki Giovanni
Paul Laurence Dunbar
During World War II, Kuniyoshi was hired to illustrate wartime materials by the Department of
the Interior
Justice
Defense
Agriculture
Veteran Affairs
Maria and Julian Martinezes’ Bowl and Plate are examples of their best-known ceramic innovation called
brown-on-black style
black-on-white style
white-on-black style
black-on-black style
black-on brown style
Fuller’s Ethiopia Awakening is
a hand-held figurine
a table-top sculpture
a half-life-size sculpture
a life-size sculpture
a twice-life-size sculpture
The MOST common inspiration cited for Wright’s Ennis House is
Prairie Style architecture
Art Nouveau decoration
Art Deco design
Japanese architecture
Mayan architecture
The overall tonality of Kuniyoshi’s Boy Stealing Fruit is
brownish-yellow
bluish-green
reddish-orange
violet-blue
yellowish-green
The Ennis House was badly damaged in a major earthquake in 1994 and damaged again in 2005 by
another earthquake
a fire
a flood
a landslide
vandals
The Martinezzes divided the labor of making their vessels in the following way:
Maria would shape and fire the clay and Julian would paint the designs
Julian would shape and fire the clay and Maria would paint the designs
Maria would create the vessels and Julian would market them
Julian would create the vessels and Maria would market them
they each shaped and decorated their own vessels
Murphy’s Watch is outlined in the colors yellow and
red
orange
green
brown
blue
How did Maria create the contrasting matte and polished black designs on their pottery?
by using different colored paints
by firing at different temperatures
by polishing some areas and leaving others matte before firing
by carving patterns into the clay
by using metallic glazes
The person who commissioned Ethiopia Awakening was an administrator for the
Congress of Racial Equality
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Southern Poverty Law Center
American Civil Liberties Union
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The boy’s eyes in Boy Stealing Fruit are
round
crescent-shaped
almond-shaped
oval
rectangular
The Ennis House is located in the city of
San Francisco
Seattle
Los Angeles
Phoenix
San Diego
Using ancient pottery-making methods, the Bowl and Plate were hand-coiled and then smoothed using scoops made from
wood
stones
shells
gourds
copper
Tourists began buying Native wares at rail-side resort hotels after the completion of the
Federal Interstate Highway system
Amtrak rail system
Pacific Surfliner
Coast Starlight
Transcontinental Railroad
The blocks used in the Ennis House had
floral designs
geometric designs
no surface designs
figural designs
circular designs
Why did Gerald Murphy stop painting?
He lost his vision due to an accident.
He needed to run his family's company.
He became a composer instead.
He was not able to sell his art.
He began suffering from severe arthritis.
In what year did Native Americans become eligible to receive citizenship?
1904
1914
1924
1934
1944
What name did Frank Lloyd Wright give to his California style?
Fantasia
Romanza
Hispana
Azteca
Mayana
Why did Fuller give the name of Ethiopia Awakening to her sculpture?
In the 1920s, Egypt and Ethiopia were interchangeable symbols of Black power.
In the 1920s, Ethiopia was considered a more poetic name.
In the 1920s, Egypt was shunned as it was under the control of a dictatorship.
In the 1920s, Egyptians pharaohs were considered to be white and Ethiopian black.
In the 1920s, Egypt was considered too involved with tourism.
The Ethiopia Awakening illustrated in the Art Reproductions Booklet is made of
clay
marble
wax
bronze
wood
All of the following can be seen as examples of folk art EXCEPT
weathervanes
butter churns
quilts
microwaves
wooden boxes
When did a national audience first become acquainted with the Martinezes’ work?
1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis
1939 New York World’s Fair
1964 New York World’s Fair
1967 Expo in Montreal
The primary material of Wright’s Los Angeles houses was
wood
stucco
brick
concrete
steel
What does the figure in Ethiopia Awakening wear on her head?
a. a golden tiara
b. a draped shroud
c. a linen headdress
d. a pill box hat
e. a transparent veil
What adjective BEST describes the appearance of the boy’s head in Boy Stealing Fruit?
emaciated
elongated
bulbous
triangular
realistic
How many similarly designed houses did Wright design in Southern California in the 1920s?
one
two
three
four
five
About how many Americans were living in Paris in 1924?
2,000
12,000
32,000
52,000
92,000
Wright described his interiors as
a. a “machine for living”
b. a “form follows function”
c. “less is more”
d. a “total work of art”
e. an “organic technology”
Boy Stealing Fruit was included in an exhibition called “Paintings by Nineteen Living Americans” held in New York at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
New Museum
Museum of the City of New York
Museum of Modern Art
Fuller was born in Philadelphia, where her family was part of a
large group of itinerant farm laborers
famous travelling circus
small, elite group of Black overachievers
large group of industrial workers
large, affluent Black community
All of the following were American trends popular in Europe EXCEPT
Lindy Hop
Can Can
cocktails
Charleston
Hollywood movies
Ethiopia Awakening wears a headdress called a
meme
diadem
nemes
doily
durag
The material that Wright used for his textile blocks in the Ennis House was formed by crushed stone or sand from
the Midwest
a specific marble quarry in Italy
the building’s construction site
Los Angeles beaches
the Pacific Northwest
Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s style is like that of
academically trained painters
classically trained Japanese artists
avant-garde Cubist painters
early American self-taught painters
post-Impressionist painters
All of the following was an American expatriate living in Europe after the First World War EXCEPT
Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cole Porter
Frank Lloyd Wright
Man Ray
How many blocks did Wright use to build the Ennis House?
7,000
17,000
27,000
37,000
47,000
