Deck 26: Dada, Surrealism, Fantasy, and the United States Between the Wars

Question 1

The so-called veristic Surrealism of Magritte means that

A)his forms are imaginary.
B)his forms are clear and realistic but their combinations are surreal.
C)his forms are surreal and fantastic.
D)his arrangements make manifest sense but latent nonsense.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

"The lost generation" was a phrase coined by A.Ernest Hemingway.
B)F.Scott Fitzgerald.
C)Zelda Fitzgerald.
D)Gertrude Stein.
E)Frank Lloyd Wright.
B)
C)Zelda Fitzgerald.
D)Gertrude Stein.
E)Frank Lloyd Wright.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

"The Wars" in the title of this chapter refer to

A)World War II and the Vietnam War.
B)the Spanish Civil War and World War II.
C)World War I and World War II.
D)the Spanish Civil War and the Vietnam War.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Who of the following is NOT a Surrealist?

A)Salvador Dal'
B)Giorgio de Chirico
C)René Magritte
D)Georges Braque

Question 5

Which is NOT a Surrealist element in Miró's Dog Barking at the Moon?

A)the colors of the ladder
B)the colors of the dog
C)the placement of the dog
D)the space occupied by the ladder

Question 6

Who defined "Surrealist" as "pure psychic automatism by which it is intended to express,either verbally or in writing,the true function of thought.Thought dictated in the absence of all control exerted by reason,and outside all aesthetic or moral preoccupations"?

A)André Breton
B)Gustave Caillebotte
C)Gustave Moreau
D)Sigmund Freud

Question 7

A Kachina is a Hopi

A)toy.
B)painting.
C)spirit.
D)mask.
E)house.

Question 8

Which of the following correctly matches artist with country of birth?

A)Klee - Germany
B)Ernst - Holland
C)O'Keeffe - Ireland
D)Lawrence - England
E)Magritte - Belgium

Question 9

Duchamp coined "Ready-Made"

A)while exhibiting a urinal.
B)after purchasing a shovel.
C)inspired by tubes of artist's paint.
D)while fighting during WWI.
E)while viewing a cracked mirror.

Question 10

Who of the following was NOT a Dadaist?

A)Arp
B)Man Ray
C)Duchamp
D)Pelton
E)Höch

Question 11

The Cabaret Voltaire was located in

A)Zurich.
B)Paris.
C)Avignon.
D)Madrid.
E)Utrecht.

Question 12

Which is true of the Rayograph?

A)It is a black and white photograph made with a camera.
B)It is a black and white photograph made without a camera.
C)It is a black and white collage.
D)It is the name of a painting by Man Ray.

Question 13

Who started the quarterly journal Camera Work?

A)Lange
B)Van Der Zee
C)Stieglitz
D)Evans
E)Pippin

Question 14

"Violon d'Ingres" is a French expression

A)referring to a painting by Ingres.
B)that is the title of a painting by Man Ray.
C)meaning "hobby."
D)meaning "modern odalisque."

Question 15

Surrealists

A)used titles that were intentionally provocative.
B)felt dreams were another level of reality.
C)embraced Jungian symbolism.
D)All these answers are correct.

Question 16

Dal''s "paranoiac-critical" method

A)showed inner truth.
B)showed inner irrationality as reflected in dreams.
C)showed the cruel reality of the world as it was.
D)showed both inner truth and inner irrationality as reflected in dreams.

Question 17

Which is LEAST characteristic of Dada?

A)nonsense
B)nihilism
C)punning
D)Classicism
E)iconoclasm

Question 18

Simultaneous viewpoint is an element of

A)Cubism and Surrealism.
B)Surrealism and Futurism.
C)Cubism and Pointillism.
D)Dada and Futurism.

Question 19

The Surrealist artist who envisioned himself as a shaman was

A)Magritte.
B)Klee.
C)Miró.
D)Ernst.
E)Giacometti.

Question 20

L.H.O.O.Q.is an example of a

A)collage.
B)Ready-Made.
C)graffiti poster.
D)Ready-Made-Aided.
E)found object.

Question 21

Which is NOT a subject of American folk art?

A)pinball machines
B)cigar-store Indians
C)carved gravestones
D)shop signs
E)weather vanes

Question 22

American Gothic is an example of

A)Gothic Revival.
B)Romanticism.
C)Social Realism.
D)Regionalism.
E)photography.

Question 23

Which most accurately describes a mobile?

A)It moves when its motor is activated.
B)It hangs on a wall.
C)It hangs from the ceiling.
D)It moves when there is an air current.
E)It hangs from the ceiling and moves when there is an air current.

Question 24

________ photographed the rural poor during the Great Depression.

A)Alfred Stieglitz
B)Buckminster Fuller
C)Matthew Brady
D)Dorothea Lange

Question 25

The 291 was

A)the address of the Seventh Regiment Armory.
B)the address of the Museum of Modern Art.
C)an avant-garde art gallery in New York.
D)Gertrude Stein's apartment number in Paris.
E)a groundbreaking issue of Camera Work.

Question 26

Pueblos are

A)communal living quarters.
B)rock-cut houses.
C)Hopi temples.
D)Hopi tombs.

Question 27

Which work inspired the CBS logo?

A)Le Violon d'Ingres
B)The False Mirror
C)Helmet Head No.1
D)Fog Horns
E)Goin' Fishin'

Question 28

Which is NOT a feature of Rivera's History of Mexico fresco murals?

A)Cubism
B)non-representational forms
C)Leftist politics
D)references to Mesoamerican history
E)Surrealism

Question 29

Rivera's wife,also a painter,was

A)Georgia O'Keeffe.
B)Agnes Pelton.
C)Dorothea Lange.
D)Frida Kahlo.

Question 30

The "underground railroad" was

A)a subway line in New Orleans.
B)an escape route for Civil War spies.
C)an escape route for slaves.
D)a tunnel planned for the English Channel.

Question 31

Who of the following was most interested in "found objects"?

A)O'Keeffe
B)Van der Zee
C)de Chirico
D)Moore
E)Giacometti

Question 32

Which is NOT an element of Dove's Goin' Fishin'?

A)denim
B)bamboo
C)bark
D)buttons

Question 33

Which is NOT a feature of Grandma Moses' The Old Checkered House?

A)the influence of embroidery
B)references to industrialization
C)Romanticism
D)local imagery

Question 34

FSA stands for

A)Foreign Socialist Association.
B)Farmers' Socialist Administration.
C)Farm Security Administration.
D)Freed Slaves of America.

Question 35

Which of the following does NOT correctly match artist with work?

A)Ernst - The King Playing with the Queen
B)Lange - Two Shells
C)Giacometti - Large Standing Woman III
D)Stieglitz - Equivalent
E)Magritte - The False Mirror

Question 36

Frida Kahlo painted

A)her own life.
B)her subjective reality as wife of a great Mexican muralist.
C)symbols of her existential pain.
D)All these answers are correct.