Deck 25: Cubism, Futurism, and Related Twentieth-Century Styles

Question 1

The Harlem Renaissance refers to

A) a 15^th century Dutch city
B) Italian 15^th-century style
C) a revival of Classics in New York City
D) a black American cultural movement
E) African American 15^th-century painting

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Which is the correct order for Picasso?

A) Blue Period, Rose Period, Surrealism, Collage, Cubism
B) Analytic Cubism, Synthetic Cubism, Collage, Rose Period
C) Analytic Cubism, Collage, Synthetic Cubism, Surrealism
D) Rose Period, Collage, Surrealism, Analytic Cubism

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Match the structure with its location

A) the Robie House -- Ohio
B) the Gate of the Kiss -- Romania
C) the Schroeder House -- Germany
D) the Bauhaus -- Holland
E) Taliesin West -- Colorado

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Match the artist with his style

A) Brancusi -- Suprematism
B) Mondrian -- De Stijl
C) Wright -- Cubism
D) Gropius -- Prairie Style

Question 5

Which is not alluded to in the iconography of Guernica?

A) the Pietà
B) the Minotaur
C) the Crucifixion
D) the Resurrection
E) the sun

Question 6

Who said "What is real is not the outer form,but the idea,the essence of things"?

A) Barlach
B) Brancusi
C) Matisse
D) Morissot

Question 7

The Autobiography of Alice B.Toklas is
A)a book about Picasso
B)a book about Alice B.Toklas
C)a book about Gertrude Stein
D)a book about Cubism

A) a book about Picasso
B) a book about Alice
B) Toklas
B) Toklas is
C) a book about Gertrude Stein

Question 8

Nonobjective art is

A) abstract, as drawn from nature but changed
B) unrelated to the outward, physical world
C) highly controversial
D) unrelated to the outward, physical world and highly controversial but not abstract, as drawn from nature but changed

Question 9

The Chrysler Building is in the __________ style.

A) Art Nouveau
B) Abstract Expressionist
C) Bauhaus
D) Art Deco

Question 10

Match the artist with his work

A) Davis -- Broadway Boogie Woogie
B) Duchamp -- Mlle. Pogany
C) Malevich -- Black Square
D) Leonardo -- Composition with the Mona Lisa
E) Brancusi -- Villa Savoye

Question 11

The Non-objective World was written by

A) Malevich
B) Kandinsky
C) Mondrian
D) Duchamp
E) Le Corbusier

Question 12

"Orderly heap of broken violins" referred to

A) Braque -- Violin and Pitcher
B) Davis -- Lucky Strike
C) Picasso -- Women of Avignon
D) Brancusi -- Endless Column
E) Duchamp -- Nude Descending a Staircase, No.2

Question 13

In Girl Before a Mirror,Picasso aims at achieving

A) formal reality
B) figurative reality
C) spiritual reality
D) psychological reality
E) historical reality

Question 14

Gertrude Stein was

A) an art collector
B) a writer
C) a salonnière
D) all of the choices are correct.
E) none of the choices are correct.

Question 15

"Lines to a Lady Egg" was written about

A) The Women of Avignon
B) Mlle. Pogany
C) Gertrude Stein
D) Marie Laurencin
E) The girl in Girl Before the Mirror

Question 16

Which was not a feature of Futurism?

A) the destruction of the museums
B) the elimination of archaeology
C) the exaltation of technology
D) the promotion of feminism

Question 17

Picasso's Bull's Head is an example of

A) collage
B) assemblage
C) découpage
D) non-figuration

Question 18

The title "Women of Avignon" refers to

A) Spanish prostitutes
B) Women in the South of France
C) Parisian prostitutes
D) African women in Madrid

Question 19

The author of the Futurist Manifesto was

A) Marinetti
B) Boccioni
C) Léger
D) Mondrian
E) Duchamp

Question 20

"Brancusi + Mondrian" was

A) a poem on the avant-garde
B) a book on art
C) an exhibition
D) a manifesto of modernism

Question 21

Which work and author do not match?

A) Pearl Buck -- The Good Earth
B) Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
C) Marcel Proust -- Zuleika Dobson
D) Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
E) Margaret Mead -- Coming of Age in Samoa

Question 22

The first Cubist sculpture was a bronze cast by

A) Braque
B) Léger
C) Boccioni
D) Picasso
E) Brancusi

Question 23

Which of the following shows no influence of African masks?

A) Picasso, The Women of Avignon
B) Brancusi, Mlle. Pogany
C) Picasso, Bull's Head
D) Picasso, Gertrude Stein
E) Malevich, Self-portrait

Question 24

Which best fulfills the description "a machine for living?"

A) Villa Savoye
B) the Bauhaus
C) Taliesin West
D) Lake Shore Drive Apartments

Question 25

Which is not a feature of Fallingwater?

A) cantilever construction
B) reinforced concrete
C) glass walls
D) skeletal construction
E) local rock