Deck 27: Cubism, Futurism, and Related Twentieth-Century Styles

Question 1

Who was the first director of the Bauhaus?

A) van Doesburg
B) Gropius
C) van der Rohe
D) de Stijl

Answer 1

B

Question 2

In works like Broadway Boogie Woogie, Mondrian explored

A) the possibilities of merging colors from across the spectrum.
B) the possibility of conveying vertical and horizontal motion with flat, colorful shapes.
C) the possibility of painting to create an illusionistic representation of the natural world.
D) the "universal purity" of curving lines.

Answer 2

the possibility of conveying vertical and horizontal motion with flat, colorful shapes.

Question 3

The first Cubist sculpture was the bronze Head of a Woman by

A) Braque.
B) Léger.
C) Boccioni.
D) Picasso.

Answer 3

Picasso.

Question 4

Which architect developed the Prairie Style in buildings such as the Robie House and Fallingwater in an attempt to integrate buildings with their natural landscapes?

A) Brancusi
B) Mondrian
C) Le Corbusier
D) Wright

Question 5

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret was the real name of what architect whose masterpiece was the Villa Savoye?

A) van der Rohe
B) Gropius
C) Le Corbusier
D) Mondrian

Question 6

Which artist's Lucky Strike (1921) shows the influence of Synthetic Cubism and serves as a forerunner of later Pop Art?

A) Douglas
B) Davis
C) Brancusi
D) Duchamp

Question 7

In which country did Futurism originate?

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

Question 8

Which sculptor's Mademoiselle Pogany exhibits his interest in depicting the Platonic essence of nature?

A) Picasso
B) Brancusi
C) Duchamp
D) Malevich

Question 9

The so-called "squatter," whose image represents an early example of the Cubist simultaneous view, appears in

A) Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
B) Girl before a Mirror.
C) Unique Forms of Continuity in Space.
D) Broadway Boogie Woogie.

Question 10

Collage exhibited all the following characteristics EXCEPT

A) an illusionistic sense of three-dimensionality.
B) a combination of drawing and cut-and-paste paper.
C) an interest in the disassembling and reassembling of parts of the environment.
D) elements of both Analytic and Synthetic Cubism.

Question 11

The term Surrealism literally denotes

A) the prevalence of strangeness and unfamiliarity.
B) the absence of logic or order.
C) the absence of any objective reality.
D) the existence of a higher reality.

Question 12

In works like The City, Léger adopted elements of Analytic Cubism and added what new element?

A) multiple viewpoints
B) superimposed solid geometry
C) flat space
D) colorful and recognizable shapes

Question 13

Which artist adopted elements of Synthetic Cubism to paint the four murals Aspects of Negro Life for the New York Public Library?

A) Davis
B) Malevich
C) Douglas
D) Wright

Question 14

Picasso's Guernica exhibits all the following characteristics EXCEPT

A) a combination of Analytic Cubism, Synthetic Cubism, and Surrealism.
B) a triptych-like composition.
C) the incorporation of traditional motifs.
D) a kaleidoscope of vivid colors.

Question 15

As an attempt to depict the psychological reality of its subject, Picasso's Girl before a Mirror exemplifies which style?

A) Surrealism
B) Suprematism
C) De Stijl
D) Analytic Cubism

Question 16

Futurism exhibited all the following characteristics EXCEPT

A) an attempt to appeal to a broad audience.
B) a style inspired by the machine age.
C) an effort to update, rather than abandon, old Academic traditions.
D) an interest in speed, travel, and dynamism.

Question 17

Proponents of the International Style were primarily interested in developing

A) a universal style that would satisfy human needs through mass production.
B) a form of architecture that would incorporate elements of avant-garde art into aesthetically pleasing structures.
C) structures that blended in with their natural surroundings.
D) buildings that sacrificed function to emphasize form.

Question 18

Whose Unique Forms of Continuity in Space exemplified the Futurist movement?

A) Mondrian
B) Boccioni
C) Duchamp
D) Janis

Question 19

Who explained his theory of Suprematism in The Non-objective World?

A) Malevich
B) Kandinsky
C) Mondrian
D) Duchamp

Question 20

Whose Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 was the most controversial work at the Armory Show of 1913?

A) Mondrian
B) Davis
C) Duchamp
D) Brancusi

Question 21

What distinguishes a collage from an assemblage?

A) the use of found objects versus created ones
B) whether the end product is representative or nonfigurative
C) the mass and dimensionality of the constituent parts
D) the political content of the finished piece

Question 22

The word collage derives from a French word meaning to collect or to assemble.

Question 23

Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein (1906) exhibits all the following characteristics EXCEPT

A) flattened imagery.
B) a masklike visage.
C) some organic shading and contouring.
D) the predominance of the color blue.

Question 24

After being exposed to Cubism, Mondrian insisted that painting was only good insofar as it accurately reflected nature.

Question 25

The main European impetus for Cubism came from

A) Cézanne's new spatial organization.
B) Matisse's nonnaturalistic colorism.
C) Monet's experiments with light effects.
D) Seurat's pointillist approach to color.

Question 26

Who created the assemblage Bull's Head (1943) from a bicycle seat and handlebars?

A) Braque
B) Picasso
C) Marinetti
D) Duchamp

Question 27

Synthetic Cubism differed from Analytic Cubism in that Synthetic Cubism

A) fragmented objects into abstract geometric forms.
B) restored a single vantage point.
C) moved further away from traditional depictions of space.
D) marked a return to bright colors.

Question 28

The Futurist Manifesto appeared on the front page of the French newspaper, Le Figaro, in 1909.

Question 29

Like Fauvism, Cubism developed in Germany.

Question 30

Which of the following traits is characteristic of Analytic Cubism?

A) the geometric exploration of three-dimensional space
B) an emphasis on the visual reproduction of natural space
C) edges of forms that dissolve into prominent brushstrokes
D) forms that dissolve completely into open space

Question 31

Which artist's Violin and Pitcher (1909-10) suggests how difficult it can be to distinguish his work from that of Picasso during the period known as Analytic Cubism?

A) Brancusi
B) Cézanne
C) Braque
D) Marinetti

Question 32

Picasso's Guernica was painted in response to the horrors of World War II.

Question 33

Although immensely popular before World War I, Cubism had little lasting effect on twentieth-century art.

Question 34

Analytic Cubist works such as Violin and Pitcher (1909-10) create a sense of three-dimensional form by combing shading with bold strokes of color.

Question 35

The painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon exhibits all the following characteristics EXCEPT

A) adaptations of traditional poses from Western art.
B) faces influenced by African masks.
C) the use of chiaroscuro instead of Fauvist bold strokes of color.
D) the incorporation of multiple vantage points instead of a single one.

Question 36

The general American public was first exposed to avant-garde European artistic developments through the Armory Show of 1913.

Question 37

Early collages often made use of snippets from newspapers to enhance the collages' texture.

Question 38

Picasso's Three Musicians (1921) exemplifies which style?

A) Futurism
B) Suprematism
C) Analytic Cubism
D) Synthetic Cubism

Question 39

The painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon depicts women at a brothel.

Question 40

Which of the following factors had the LEAST impact on the development of Cubism?

A) tribal art
B) Iberian art
C) Post-Impressionist art
D) American art

Question 41

What impact did the Armory Show of 1913 have on American art?

Question 42

Compare early twentieth-century developments in architecture with contemporary developments in painting and sculpture. What traits were common to these media? How did they differ?

Question 43

Discuss collage and assemblage in light of Analytic Cubism. Why are those techniques a logical development of Cubism? What do they suggest will become new media in the course of the twentieth century?

Question 44

Is the history of art in the first half of the twentieth century simply the history of Picasso? Why or why not?

Question 45

Review the styles in which Picasso worked. How did his style change over time?

Question 46

What are the formal and intellectual similarities between Futurism, collage, and assemblage? How do they differ from each other?

Question 47

Discuss the notion of "simultaneous viewpoint" in Cubism. How did it develop, and how was it used?