AP Art History › Identifying artists, works, or schools of twentieth- and twenty-first-century sculpture
Which twentieth-century artist is responsible for the 1917 sculpture Fountain, which features a urinal?
Marcel Duchamp
Reginald Mutt
Pablo Picasso
Man Ray
Francis Picabia
Duchamp is responsible for this three-dimensional art piece. The piece was signed "R. Mutt," but the origin of this signature is still debated, though it is said to stand for Richard Mutt.
Where was Christo and Jeanne-Claude's installation art piece The Gates located when installed?
New York's Central Park
Los Angeles's Griffith Park
London's Hyde Park
New York's Union Square Park
Chicago's Millenium Park
Christo and Jeanne-Claude's installation art piece The Gates was set up in 2005.
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______________ is the Pop Artist best known for "Pop Sculpture."
Claes Oldenburg
James Rosenquist
Andy Warhol
Roy Lichtenstein
Claes Oldenburg is best known for Pop Art sculptures of everyday objects and more specifically his "soft sculptures". His soft sculptures consisted of creating large, everyday objects so they collapse like a deflating balloon.
Dan Flavin was well-known for his art composed of what commonplace objects?
Fluorescent light tubes
Vacuums
Urinals
Telephones
Trash
Dan Flavin's fluorescent light tube sculptures used the objects' eerie glow to give the area around them an unusual energy. Marcel Duchamp is famous for his urinal readymade "Fountain," while Jeff Koons employed vacuums in his early work. Dali created a Lobster Telephone, and trash art is a genre unto itself.
Kara Walker's 2014 "A Subtlety" was a sugar sculpture depicting a woman in the pose of what creature?
Sphinx
Unicorn
Centaur
Dragon
Mermaid
"A Subtlety" was housed in an old sugar plant and depicted a slave woman naked except for a headscarf in the pose of a Sphinx. The sculpture fused ancient art with the abuses of American slavery in a massive sculpture.
The American sculptor known for making large, stainless steel figures with a mirror finish, usually of kitsch and pop culture subjects, is named __________.
Jeff Koons
Mike Leavitt
Damien Hirst
George Segal
Jeff Koons is a controversial modern sculptor, as he has often turned his eye to pop culture subjects considered outside the realm of high art. Notably, he has a series called "Banality," and has constructed immense metallic sculptures of balloons twisted into animal shapes. While his subjects tend to be "lighter" compared to his contemporaries, like George Segal, Koons' skill with steel and his non-traditional subjects have been highly influential on younger generations of artists, including Damien Hirst and Mike Leavitt.