Deck 10: Early Twentieth Century

Question 1

__________ was a writer who chronicled the American South.

A) William Faulkner
B) James Joyce
C) Langston Hughes
D) Virginia Woolf
E) Ernest Hemingway

Answer 1

A

Question 2

__________ instituted the New Deal in response to the Great Depression.

A) Franklin D. Roosevelt
B) John F. Kennedy
C) Harry Truman
D) Lyndon Johnson
E) Herbert Hoover

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The "Manifesto" was the founding document of __________.

A) Cubism
B) Futurism
C) Fauvism
D) Vienna Secession
E) German Expressionism

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Picasso painted Guernica in response to the __________.

A) stock market crash of 1929
B) injustice, racism, and inadequate housing encountered by blacks as they migrated north
C) bombing of a defenseless Basque village
D) beginning of World War II
E) Louisville Flood of 1937

Question 5

Joan Miró is one of the most accomplished practitioners of __________.

A) pointillism
B) blank verse
C) action painting
D) color field painting
E) automatism

Question 6

The American artist __________ had a primary interest in natural forms and colors and subject matter such as flowers and animal bones.

A) Georgia O'Keeffe
B) Alfred Stieglitz
C) Sergei Eisenstein
D) Alexander Calder
E) Charles Demuth

Question 7

The painting, __________, is best described as depicting the impossible and irrational with absolute conviction.

A) Georgia O'Keeffe's Yellow Calla
B) Charles Demuth's Aucassin and Nicolette
C) Salvador Dalí's The Persistence of Memory
D) Edward Hopper's Nighthawks
E) Piet Mondrian's Composition in Red, Yellow, and Blue

Question 8

Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter were two separate branches of __________.

A) Realism
B) Futurism
C) Fauvism
D) German Expressionism
E) Vorticism

Question 9

Still Life with Chair Caning is an excellent example of the __________ style developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque that was to have such influence on early twentieth-century avant garde art movements.

A) Fauvist
B) Surrealist
C) Cubist
D) Regionalist
E) Futurist

Question 10

Nazi's were proponents of the policy of __________, which they claimed justified the geographic expansion of the "superior" German race into territories of other countries.

A) Gesamtkunstwerk
B) Kunstgeschichte
C) Sturm und Drang
D) Ausbuildung
E) Lebensraum

Question 11

The __________ movement, founded in 1917 in Holland, sought to integrate painting, sculpture, architecture, and industrial design, and championed a "pure" abstraction.

A) Dada
B) De Stijl
C) Abstract Expressionism
D) Surrealism
E) none of the above

Question 12

Edward Hopper is associated with __________.

A) Dadaism
B) Neo-plasticism
C) Regionalism
D) Surrealism
E) Art Brut

Question 13

Brancusi's Bird in Space evokes __________.

A) the bird itself
B) space
C) time
D) a squawking parrot
E) the flight of the bird

Question 14

In FSA photographer Walker Evan's Washroom and Dining Area of Floyd Burrough's Home, Hale County, Alabama, 1936, there are visual echoes of __________.

A) Dalí's Surrealism
B) Duchamp's "anti-art"
C) Matisse's Fauvism
D) Mondrian's pure abstractions
E) Arp's Dada

Question 15

__________ was the leading painter of the De Stijl movement.

A) Joan Miró
B) Georgia O'Keeffe
C) Piet Mondrian
D) Salvador Dalí
E) René Magritte

Question 16

Thomas Hart Benton is best known for his __________.

A) murals
B) photographs
C) lithographs
D) hanging mobiles
E) bronzes

Question 17

__________ is in a number of ways responsible for the invention of fascism.

A) Franz Kafka
B) Benito Mussolini
C) Franklin Delano Roosevelt
D) Mahatma Gandhi
E) Arnold Schoenberg

Question 18

__________ by Henri Matisse perfectly encapsulates the tenets of Fauvism in its "raw contrasts of pure color in flat planes."

A) Woman with a Hat
B) Three Forms
C) Object (Le Déjeuner en Fourrure
D) Reclining Figure
E) The Fountain

Question 19

Salvador Dalí was a(n) __________.

A) Dadaist
B) Abstract Expressionist
C) Surrealist
D) Futurist
E) Fauve

Question 20

__________ composed Porgy and Bess.

A) George Gershwin
B) Scott Joplin
C) Aaron Copland
D) Louis Armstrong
E) Dizzie Gillespie

Question 21

The goal of such Russian artists as Kasimir Malevich and El Lissitzky was to bring art to the masses; thus, these artists saw their art as a political tool.

Question 22

__________ viewed Dada as a kind of "anti-art."

A) Hans Arp
B) Tristan Tzara
C) Kurt Schwitters
D) Marcel Duchamp
E) Sophie Teuber-Arp

Question 23

Filippo Marinetti published the Manifesto of Futurism which outlines an eleven-point pledge in the French newspaper Le Figaro on February 20, 1909.

Question 24

James Joyce use a stream of consciousness technique to get readers into the character's minds.

Question 25

The stories of __________ explore ideas from Christianity that transcend the confines of Southern Regionalism.

A) William Faulkner
B) Flannery O'Connor
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) T.S. Eliot
E) Franz Kafka

Question 26

What were the root causes of the Russian Revolution?

Question 27

List the notable features of Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon .In what way is
it similar to Stravinsky's Rite of Spring?

Question 28

What does the term avant garde refer to in terms of art, music, or literature of the early twentieth-century? List three to five of the avant garde movements of the late nineteenth and early
twentieth-centuries.

Question 29

Duke Ellington is associated with __________.

A) scat singing
B) ragtime
C) swing music
D) hip-hop
E) classical arias

Question 30

Igor Stravinsky composed the ballet score to __________.

A) The Nutcracker
B) The Rite of Spring
C) Swan Lake
D) Sleeping Beauty
E) A, B, and D

Question 31

Benton and DiYanni assert that abstraction takes three forms.What are they?

Question 32

Dorothea Lange created photographs that were semi-abstract and unconcerned with the effects of
the Depression.

Question 33

What did the Fauves believe about color?

Question 34

Vassily Kandinsky founded the German Expressionist movement Die Brücke.

Question 35

Why did Marcel Duchamp use puns in many of his works?

Question 36

Martha Graham was a pioneer of American Modernist dance.

Question 37

Diego Rivera was a Mexican artist who is famous for his small, precisely rendered sculptures.

Question 38

Cubism was a movement that emphasized creating the illusion of reality by representing an object from a single vantage point.

Question 39

Two Modernist American poets influential because of the complex, multifaceted, technically innovative and densely allusive works are Ezra Pound and T.S.Eliot.

Question 40

The leader of the Fauves was Henri Matisse.

Question 41

How does De Stijl act as a counter-point to the nihilism of Dada and the psychological probing of Surrealism?

Question 42

How does Surrealism differ from Dada? Present one Surrealist and one Dada work that to support
a thesis.

Question 43

Name two regionalist works-one artistic, the other literary-and enunciate how each exhibits the major principles at work in regionalist movements of the 1930s.

Question 44

How did World War I shape the arts of Europe from 1914-1940?

Question 45

Analyze at least three works to determine how did the goals of modern abstract painters differ from those of the American Regionalist painters.?

Question 46

Discuss the influence of African and African-American culture in art, music, and literature during between 1914 and 1940.

Question 47

Examine the role of music in defining "the distinct character of America's regions [...]"
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