Question 1

Why did Modern art arrive later in the Americas than it did in Europe and what was it like?

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Question 2

What techniques did the Harlem Renaissance combine to raise awareness of African American culture?

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Question 3

What are the different kinds of Cubist painting?

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Question 4

Explore the significance of Jackson Pollack's drip paintings.How did he make them and did they move beyond any abstract work made previously?

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Why did the Nazis suppress avant-garde art and how did they exhibit it?

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What are the different kinds of Surrealism?

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Question 7

What did Bauhaus artists do with modern mass production?

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Question 8

In what ways did artists give their art a deeper social relevance in the period between the wars?

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Question 9

What are the names of the most important government-sponsored public works organizations?

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Question 10

What is the International Style?

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Question 11

How did Federal patronage for American art function during the Depression?

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Question 12

Color Field painters such as Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman embraced abstraction in a completely different way than did Jackson Pollack.Explain what they tried to achieve with their non-representational work.

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Question 13

How did Marcel Duchamp's Fountain change the course of art?

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Question 14

How did the de Stijl artists make art that would purify the human mind with pure colors and simple forms?

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Question 15

How did early twentieth-century artists systematically undermine the traditional rules of Western art?

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How did the Surrealists liberate the unconscious mind and why did they do this in their art?

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Quiz 15: modern art in Europe and the Americas, 1900-1950