Deck 29: Modernism in Europe, 1900 to 1945

Question 1

The expressive use of formal elements such as color and perspective in Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Street, Dresden is a reflection of the work of which earlier painter?

A) Paul Cézanne
B) Auguste Renoir
C) Edvard Munch
D) Mary Cassatt

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The theme of a grieving mother holding her dead child was explored in many works by which German Expressionist artist?

A) Paula Modersohn-Becker
B) Hannah Höch
C) Käthe Kollwitz
D) Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which artistic medium is represented by Cubist works such as Still Life with Chair-Caning and Bottle, Newspaper, Pipe, and Glass ?

A) Cutaway
B) Collage
C) Lithograph
D) Photomontage

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which element of a painting did Matisse view as the primary conveyor of meaning?

A) Line
B) Form
C) Color
D) Perspective

Question 5

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André Derain's Mountains at Collioure reflects his close study of which earlier painter?

A) Johannes Vermeer
B) Michelangelo
C) Vincent van Gogh
D) John Singer Sargent

Question 6

In Matisse's painting Red Room , the color harmony he achieves with the color red merges which two elements of the scene?

A) Wall and window
B) Window and table
C) Wall and floor
D) Wall and table

Question 7

In Woman Combing Her Hair , which element of the human body does Aleksander Archipenko represent as a void rather than a solid volume?

A) Lower legs
B) Head
C) Shoulders
D) Hands

Question 8

What is the name of the early-20th-century movement that painted works of simplified design but shockingly bright coloration?

A) Art Deco
B) Symbolism
C) Fauvism
D) Expressionism

Question 9

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Which early 20th-century art collector appears in this photograph by Frank Gelett Burgess?

A) Georges Braque
B) Leo Stein
C) Henri Matisse
D) Pablo Picasso

Question 10

What term describes the modernist process Braque has applied to the form of the musician in his painting The Portuguese ?

A) Dissection
B) Decoding
C) Rearrangement
D) Deconstruction

Question 11

Nude figure studies and self-portraits showing emaciated bodies were the primary output of which artist?

A) Pablo Picasso
B) Robert Delaunay
C) Umberto Boccioni
D) Egon Schiele

Question 12

At the turn of the 20th century, artists who were viewed as being ahead of their time and who transgressed the limits of established art forms are referred to by what term?

A) Innovative
B) Avant-garde
C) Art nouveau
D) Marxist

Question 13

Picasso's radical painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon reveals his fascination with ancient Iberian sculpture as well as the artistic traditions of which continent?

A) Australia
B) South America
C) Asia
D) Africa

Question 14

Which of his art patrons did Picasso paint using the simplified planar forms of Iberian sculpture for the sitter's face?

A) Georges Braque
B) Ambroise Vollard
C) Gertrude Stein
D) Henri Matisse

Question 15

Vassily Kandinsky's move to abstraction rather than representation can be attributed to the scientific theories of which individual?

A) Freud
B) Einstein
C) Edison
D) Darwin

Question 16

In Fate of the Animals , Franz Marc's use of colors that signify severity and brutality is a reference to which contemporary historical situation?

A) World War II
B) Russian Revolution
C) World War I
D) Sinking of the Lusitania

Question 17

What element of André Derain's The Turning Road, L ' Estaque does he intend to reflect the energy of the landscape he was painting?

A) Line
B) Perspective
C) Brush strokes
D) Color

Question 18

Which work by Picasso is meant as a condemnation of the Nazi bombing of the Basque capital in Spain?

A) The Weeping Woman
B) Family of Saltimbanques
C) Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
D) Guernica

Question 19

Which two artists were the founders of Cubism, with its rejection of pictorial illusionism?

A) Picasso and Matisse
B) Picasso and Vauxcelles
C) Picasso and Braque
D) Picasso and Rousseau

Question 20

Picasso's work entitled Still Life with Chair-Caning is representative of which style?

A) Deconstruction
B) Synthetic Cubism
C) Analytic Cubism
D) Anarchism

Question 21

In what country did the early-20th-century Futurist movement, with its revolutionary manifestos, arise?

A) Germany
B) Spain
C) Italy
D) England

Question 22

What term was applied to Surrealist and other avant-garde art by Hitler and the Nazi regime in 1930s and 1940s Germany?

A) Inferior
B) Anti-Aryan
C) Askew
D) Degenerate

Question 23

Which artist painted The Eclipse of the Sun , meant as an indictment of militarism and capitalism?

A) Max Beckmann
B) George Grosz
C) Otto Dix
D) Ernst Barlach

Question 24

Marcel Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even is a commentary on modern humans' similarity to what?

A) Mythological characters
B) Machines
C) Prehistoric beings
D) Metal sculptures

Question 25

Otto Dix's work Der Krieg is in what time-honored religious format?

A) Diptych
B) Prayerbook
C) Reliquary
D) Triptych

Question 26

What did Dadaists believe led to the destruction and loss of life of World War I?

A) The irrational
B) Enlightenment ideals
C) Political anarchy
D) Intuitive psychology

Question 27

The human figure that appears in Ernst Barlach's War Monument in Güstrow Cathedral is meant to symbolize what?

A) Victory
B) Dying soul
C) Bravery
D) Peace

Question 28

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Naum Gabo's Column , which he built up piece by piece with clear materials so the viewer could experience the volume of space it occupies, is an example of what sculptural style?

A) Dadaist
B) Constructivist
C) Purist
D) Futurist

Question 29

Which Dada artist modified mass-produced objects into "readymades" given the status of art in the eyes of viewers?

A) Hans Richter
B) Marcel Duchamp
C) Jean Arp
D) Hannah Höch

Question 30

Giorgio de Chirico's The Song of Love is a precursor of which movement in painting?

A) Futurism
B) Dadaism
C) Fauvism
D) Surrealism

Question 31

After World War I, German artists sought a clear-eyed and honest image of the modern world, and this artistic movement came to be called what?

A) Die Brücke
B) Neue Sachlichkeit
C) Der Blaue Reiter
D) The Bauhaus

Question 32

Delaunay's version of Cubism, referred to as Orphism, gave a crucial role to which element of painting?

A) Line
B) Brush strokes
C) Color
D) Illusionistic perspective

Question 33

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Which artist painted this "image of concrete irrationality," entitled The Persistence of Memory ?

A) René Magritte
B) Salvador Dalí
C) Joan Miró
D) Paul Klee

Question 34

Which modern technological innovation is Delaunay referencing in his Orphic painting Homage to Blériot ?

A) Radio transmission
B) Bakelite
C) Armaments
D) Aviation

Question 35

Jean Arp's Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance is an example of which style?

A) Surrealism
B) Cubism
C) Dada
D) Purism

Question 36

Which Dada artist is known as a master of photomontage?

A) Marcel Duchamp
B) Kazimir Malevich
C) Hannah Höch
D) Max Beckmann

Question 37

Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space reveals the artist's concern with what?

A) Time
B) Infinity
C) Movement
D) Science

Question 38

The discrepancy between the image and the caption in René Magritte's The Treachery ( or Perfidy ) of Images shows the influence of which contemporary field of study?

A) Pragmatics
B) Syntactics
C) Parole
D) Semiotics

Question 39

Kazimir Malevich's Suprematism views what as the most important element of creative art?

A) Color and form
B) Objective reality
C) Referential context
D) Pure feeling

Question 40

Max Ernst's Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale includes three sketchily rendered human figures in what context?

A) Landscape shown with rough texture and monochromatic color
B) Landscape rendered with traditional perspective
C) Brightly colored abstract shapes and swirls
D) Still life showing fruits and various foods

Question 41

Paul Klee thought of painting's ability to express feelings, through color, form, and line, as similar to what other type of art?

A) Poetry
B) Dance
C) Sculpture
D) Music

Question 42

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What was the intended function of Vladimir Tatlin's Monument to the Third International ?

A) Monument to Communism
B) Church tower staircase
C) Armature for colossal statue
D) Government building

Question 43

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What term do art historians use to describe the process Joan Miró employed to paint such works as Painting ?

A) Paranoic-critical
B) Subconscious control
C) Automatism
D) Mechanization

Question 44

What element does sculptor Barbara Hepworth make as important in abstract sculpture as its mass?

A) Color
B) Surface
C) Height
D) Void

Question 45

The Villa Savoye embodies Le Corbusier's theories about which genre of architecture?

A) Libraries
B) Schools
C) Houses
D) Factories

Question 46

What element of architecture did German architect Adolf Loos theorize was unnecessary and wasteful?

A) Windows
B) Ornamentation
C) Domes
D) Wooden beams

Question 47

Which architect created "skin and bones" buildings on the basis of the motto "less is more"?

A) Frank Lloyd Wright
B) Le Corbusier
C) Adolf Loos
D) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Question 48

The work of which architect is considered the embodiment of de Stijl artists, especially Piet Mondrian?

A) Adolf Loos
B) Gerrit Thomas Rietveld
C) Walter Gropius
D) Le Corbusier

Question 49

What is the height of Vera Mukhina's stainless-steel sculpture Worker and Collective Farm Woman ?

A) 78 yards
B) 78 feet
C) 30 inches
D) 30 feet

Question 50

Which de Stijl artist sought to create a universal means of expression by using only a palette of the three primary colors, gradations of black and white, and horizontal and vertical lines?

A) Paul Klee
B) Walter Gropius
C) Piet Mondrian
D) Joan Miró