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

Question 1

Picasso's Bull's Head is an example of

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

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which of the following correctly matches artist with work?

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

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Nonobjective art is

A)abstract, as drawn from nature but changed.
B)unrelated to the outward, physical world.
C)highly controversial.
D)both highly controversial and unrelated to the outward, physical world.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

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 5

The Harlem Renaissance refers to

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

Question 6

"Brancusi + Mondrian" was

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

Question 7

The author of the Futurist manifesto was

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

Question 8

An "orderly heap of broken violins" referred to

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

Question 9

Which of the following correctly matches artist with style?

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

Question 10

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 11

The Non-objective World was written by

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

Question 12

1913 is the date of

A)the Futurist manifesto.
B)the Armory Show.
C)the end of World War I.
D)the Cubist show in Paris.

Question 13

1936 to 1939 are the dates of

A)World War II.
B)the Spanish Civil War.
C)the Italian Civil War.
D)the rise of Communism.

Question 14

1911 was the year of

A)the opening of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
B)the Cubist show in Paris.
C)the first Cubist sculpture.
D)the beginning of World War I.

Question 15

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

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

"Lines to a Lady Egg" was written about

A)Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
B)Mademoiselle Pogany.
C)Gertrude Stein.
D)the girl in Girl before the Mirror.

Question 18

The title Les Demoiselles d'Avignon refers to

A)prostitutes.
B)women in the South of France.
C)Parisian dancers.
D)African women in Madrid.

Question 19

In Picasso's Guernica,the Minotaur represents

A)Spain's General Franco.
B)modern tyranny.
C)Italy's Benito Mussolini.
D)fascist political movements.
E)Germany's Adolph Hitler.

Question 20

Guernica is divided into three sections.They are

A)in keeping with a cubist theme.
B)three vertically stacked rectangles.
C)a unifying central circle and peripheral squares.
D)three horizontally aligned squares.
E)a central triangle and peripheral rectangles.

Question 21

Which of the following correctly matches structure with location?

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

Question 22

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

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

Question 23

Architectural cubism in the United States was best expressed by

A)Notre-Dame-du-Haut.
B)the Bauhaus movement.
C)the Schroeder House.
D)the Lake Shore Drive Apartment Houses.

Question 24

Sheltering overhangs,low terraces,and open internal spaces are indicative of whose architectural style?

A)van Doesburg
B)Wright
C)Reitveld
D)Groupius
E)Lewis

Question 25

The first Cubist sculpture was a bronze cast by

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

Question 26

1939-45 are the dates of

A)World War II.
B)the Spanish Civil War.
C)the Franco-Prussian War.
D)the American Civil War.
E)the Vietnam War.

Question 27

Which is NOT a feature of Fallingwater?

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