Deck 19: Modern Art in Europe and the Americas, 1900-1945

Question 1

Which art movement combined Fauvist color with Analytic Cubist form in works dedicated to the modern city and modern technology?

A)Futurism
B)Orphism
C)Suprematism
D)Dada

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Who "discovered" Georgia O'Keeffe?

A)Marsden Hartley
B)Robert Henri
C)Alfred Stieglitz
D)Kenyon Cox

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Proponents of which of the following thought that artists should leave the studio and go into factories?

A)Orphism
B)Dada
C)Constructivism
D)Futurism

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Which group would be most likely to use dream analysis,free association,automatic writing,word games,and hypnotic trances?

A)Dada
B)Futurism
C)De Stijl
D)Surrealism

Question 5

Which kind of art must communicate exclusively through formal means,such as line,shape,color,and texture?

A)realist
B)nonrepresentational
C)abstract
D)intuitive

Question 6

Which kind of work did the 291 gallery promote?

A)American Realism
B)Impressionism
C)European Modernism
D)the "Ashcan School"

Question 7

Mondrian thought that the beauty we see in nature is

A)sensual and subjective.
B)rational and universal.
C)ideal or perfect.
D)picturesque or sublime.

Question 8

Which of the following did the artists of Die Brücke hope to bridge?

A)art and science
B)happiness and sorrow
C)past and future
D)color and line

Question 9

Which of the following best describes Käthe Kollwitz's idea of what art should be or do?

A)a mental comforter,like a good armchair
B)a political tool,to reach as many people as possible
C)an escape from the drab,ordinary world
D)to evoke an emotive response,like music

Question 10

Multiple perspectivei.e. ,showing an object from more than one point of view,is an important pictorial device in which movement?s,

A)Fauvism
B)Cubism
C)expressionism
D)Suprematism

Question 11

Which artist produced the first truly nonrepresentational work of art?

A)Pablo Picasso
B)Vasily Kandinsky
C)Piet Mondrian
D)Kazimir Malevich

Question 12

Brancusi was motivated by the idea that all worldly objects are imperfect imitations of a perfect model,which exists only as an idea.From which philosopher did he borrow that idea?

A)Einstein
B)Rousseau
C)Freud
D)Plato

Question 13

Which of the following describes the design aesthetic of Gerrit Rietveld?

A)biomorphic,curving shapes
B)random,subconscious and free association
C)use of historical styles
D)rectangular planes of color

Question 14

What did Duchamp call found objects-that is,ordinary manufactured items?

A)readymades
B)collage
C)Suprematism
D)Prouns

Question 15

Merit Oppenheim's most famous work intentionally confuses which element of art?

A)line
B)color
C)texture
D)value

Question 16

What caused Modern art to be transformed from an embattled fringe movement to a component of "high culture"?

A)the two world wars
B)the advance of capitalism
C)technological changes
D)state-supported museums of modern art

Question 17

Which is true of the new Bauhaus building in Dessau that Gropius designed?

A)It makes use of beautiful veneers.
B)The surface decorations add variety and interest.
C)Materials appear simply as they are-concrete,glass,and steel.
D)It follows Beaux-Arts traditions.

Question 18

El Lissitzsky made what he called a "Project for the Affirmation of the New," otherwise known as

A)a Proun.
B)a readymade.
C)Suprematism.
D)Surrealism.

Question 19

Which art movement aimed to attack everything old,dull,"feminine," and safe and promote the "masculine," including warfare and speed?

A)Dada
B)Orphism
C)Suprematism
D)Futurism

Question 20

Which work personifies the new Italian man rushing headlong into the brave new Futurist world?

A)Electric Light
B)Torso of a Young Man
C)Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
D)Improvisation No.30 (Cannons)

Question 21

What was the primary subject of Jacob Lawrence's early work?

A)factories and skyscrapers
B)migrant farm workers
C)farms and small-town life
D)black history

Question 22

Discuss the political and iconographical significance of Diego Rivera's mural in the Palacio de Bellas Artes,Man,Controller of the Universe.

Question 23

What happening in Frida Kahlo's life as she was painting The Two Fridas?

A)her marriage to Diego Rivera
B)her divorce from Diego Rivera
C)her stormy engagement
D)Diego Rivera's death

Question 24

What took on new importance in the work of Henry Moore?

A)texture
B)holes
C)the materials
D)motion

Question 25

Whose photographs of African Americans in Harlem in the first half of the twentieth century conveyed a sense of racial pride and social empowerment?

A)Dorothea Lange
B)Timothy O'Sullivan
C)James VanDerZee
D)Aaron Douglas

Question 26

Describe the characteristics of the Les Fauves movement,using Le Bonheur de Vivre (The Joy of Life)by Henri Matisse as an example.

Question 27

Which is the term for the elements that project out from the house at Fallingwater?

A)terraces
B)load-bearing walls
C)girders
D)cladding

Question 28

Whose art influenced the federal government to include a photographic unit in the Farm Securities Administration?

A)James Van Der Zee
B)Dorothea Lange
C)Grant Wood
D)Aaron Douglas

Question 29

Describe the development and influence of Cubism.Include a comment regarding the working relationship of Picasso and Braque.

Question 30

What characterizes de Stijl and how do Composition with Yellow,Red,and Blue and Schroder House embody the movement?

Question 31

Who modeled for Grant Wood's famous painting of an Iowa farmer and his daughter?

A)an Iowa farmer and his daughter
B)Wood's dentist and sister
C)Academy models while Wood was studying in Paris
D)a New York City man and his daughter

Question 32

Who coined the name "mobile"?

A)Marcel Duchamp
B)Alexander Calder
C)Georgia O'Keeffe
D)Pablo Picasso

Question 33

In which category is the work of Frida Kahlo generally placed (even though she herself thought it was an uncomfortable fit)?

A)Mexican mural movement
B)Harlem Renaissance
C)American Scene Painting
D)Surrealism

Question 34

Which of the following is the name for the movement of African American writers,artists,and musicians who explored black experience and identity?

A)Precisionists
B)Harlem Renaissance
C)New Realists
D)Regionalists

Question 35

Recount the event that inspired the painting Guernica.Discuss the style and imagery that Picasso used to respond to that event.