Deck 24: Turn of the Century: Early Picasso, Fauvism, Expressionism, and Matisse

Question 1

Worringer is the author of

A) Abstraction and Empathy
B) The Principles of Art History
C) Die Brücke
D) Der Blaue Reiter

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Matisse's Decorative Figure in an Oriental Setting is set in

A) Morocco
B) the Far East
C) Easter Island
D) Oceania
E) Tahiti

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Salle Pleyel refers to

A) a dance hall
B) a café
C) an artist
D) an author
E) a concert hall

Answer 3

E

Question 4

Nolde's style is best described as

A) Fauve
B) Cubist
C) Symbolist
D) Expressionist

Question 5

Die Brücke refers to

A) a German painting of a bridge
B) a German painting of a street
C) a German art movement
D) a German artist

Question 6

Picasso's earliest distinctive style is referred to as

A) Surrealist
B) Rose Period
C) Cubist
D) Blue Period
E) Fauve

Question 7

Which is true of Franz Marc's views of color?

A) yellow was sunny and cheerful
B) blue was depressive
C) red was aggressive
D) gray was reserved for trees

Question 8

_______ exhibited with the Fauves but went his own way with his own religious art.

A) Henry Matisse
B) Pablo Picasso
C) Georges Rouault
D) Ernst Barlach

Question 9

What was the most striking quality of Fauvism?

A) line
B) abstraction
C) light
D) color
E) jungle subject matter

Question 10

Which is not a reason that African sculptures influenced European artists in the early 20^th century?

A) they are geometric
B) they are abstract
C) they are naturalistic
D) they are magical

Question 11

As far as joy and spontaneity,______________'s art followed its own muses.

A) Barlach
B) Tatlin
C) Matisse
D) Picasso

Question 12

The term "avant-garde" refers to

A) newness
B) advancing troops in World War I
C) the technological changes that led to urbanization
D) the turn-of-the-century art dealers

Question 13

Which of the following do not match?

A) Ife -- Nigeria
B) Baule -- Benin
C) Fang -- Gabon
D) Bakota -- Ivory Coast
E) Bambara -- Mali

Question 14

Matisse worked toward ________ in his art.

A) balance
B) purity
C) serenity
D) all of the choices are correct.

Question 15

Kirchner was influenced by

A) African sculpture
B) medieval woodcuts
C) the city and its crowd
D) all of the choices are correct.

Question 16

Fauve artists looked to

A) Polynesian and African sculpture
B) the colors of Gauguin and van Gogh
C) folk textiles and ceramics
D) all of the choices are correct.

Question 17

The NKV refers to

A) the Bridge
B) the New Artists' Association
C) the Blue Rider
D) the Bolshevik party

Question 18

Which is not true of Kollwitz?

A) she came from a financially comfortable family
B) she thought of herself as an Expressionist
C) she depicted the problems of the working classes
D) she sympathized with German peasants
E) her textures tend to be harsh

Question 19

The Green Line is a painting of

A) Mme. Matisse
B) a Paris street
C) Horses
D) Icarus
E) a still life

Question 20

Matisse's arabesques refer to

A) dancers
B) musicians
C) a kind of black curve
D) bright colors

Question 21

The first Fauve exhibit was held in

A) 1905
B) 1906
C) 1900
D) 1910

Question 22

The "Punitive Expedition" sent to Benin was

A) Portuguese
B) French
C) Dutch
D) British
E) Nigerian

Question 23

The Oba was a

A) tribal magician
B) divine king
C) Benin shaman
D) Fang god

Question 24

Which artist is correctly matched with his work?

A) Kirchner -- The Large Blue Horses
B) Matisse -- Jeannette V
C) Kandinsky -- Notre-Dame in the Late Afternoon
D) Picasso -- Still Life with Masks
E) Gauguin -- Drawing of an Oceanic Canoe Prow

Question 25

As far as one can tell,the first completely non-figurative painter was

A) Kandinsky
B) Marc
C) Matisse
D) Picasso
E) Nolde

Question 26

Matisse's Jazz imagery is an example of

A) Symbolism
B) Fauvism
C) découpage
D) Cubism
E) the Blue Rider

Question 27

Which artist is correctly matched with his or her nationality?

A) Marc -- French
B) Matisse -- Moroccan
C) Kandinsky -- Russian
D) Nolde -- Dutch
E) Picasso -- French

Question 28

___________ admired animals and celebrated them in his work in Der Blaue Reiter.

A) Ernest Barlach
B) Paul Gauguin
C) Wassily Kandinsky
D) Franz Marc