Deck 14: Modernism in Europe and America,1900 to 1945

Question 1

Which of the following artists was a Berlin Dadaist?

A) Höch
B) Boccioni
C) Picasso
D) Beckmann

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which of the following is an example of Synthetic Cubism?

A) The Dance
B) Nude Descending a Staircase
C) Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
D) Still Life with Chair-Caning

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Franz Marc claimed that Fate of the Animals was like a premonition of ____.

A) World War II
B) the Great Depression
C) the Russian Revolution
D) World War I

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which artist painted unflinching autobiographical self-portraits?

A) Frida Kahlo
B) Hannah Höch
C) Dorothea Lange
D) Käthe Kollwitz

Question 5

Which one of the following statements is NOT true?

A) Titles of Surrealist works were intended to challenge the expectations of the viewer
B) The Surrealists considered dreams to be an area in which people could reengage their deeper selves that society had repressed
C) Surrealism rejected the ideas of psychoanalysis put forth by Jung and Freud
D) One of the leading proponents of Surrealism was Salvador Dalí

Question 6

Which of the following artists developed the theory of neoplasticism,or the new pure plastic art?

A) Picasso
B) De Chirico
C) Mondrian
D) Marc

Question 7

The two major schools of German Expressionism were:

A) De Stijl and Die Brücke
B) Der Blaue Reiter and De Nova
C) Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter
D) De Nova and De Stijl

Question 8

Max Beckmann's painting Night was autobiographical because he ____.

A) included himself and his family in the work
B) committed atrocities while in the military service
C) was afraid of the dark
D) represented his fantasies

Question 9

____ photographed the rural poor who were displaced by the Great Depression in the 1930s.

A) Alfred Stieglitz
B) Edward Weston
C) Dorothea Lange
D) Gertrude Kasebier

Question 10

"...I believe in the future resolution of the states of dream and reality,in appearance so contradictory,in a sort of absolute reality,or surreality." This definition of Surrealism was written by ____.

A) Guillaume Apollinaire
B) Friedrich Nietzsche
C) Salvador Dalí
D) André Breton

Question 11

The Fauve use of color is particularly apparent in the works of:

A) Henri Matisse
B) Pablo Picasso
C) Emil Nolde
D) Marcel Duchamp

Question 12

Which of the following is an example of Futurism?

A) Red Room
B) Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash
C) Still Life with Chair-Caning
D) The Steerage

Question 13

The artist ____ painted hidden reality revealed through strange juxtapositions:

A) Matisse
B) Picasso
C) De Chirico
D) Kandinsky

Question 14

Dada artists exhibited ready-made sculptures,which were mass-produced common objects,called ____.

A) lost objects
B) found objects
C) trash objects
D) objet d'art

Question 15

What was Giorgio De Chirico's relationship to Surrealism?

A) founder
B) member
C) precursor
D) follower

Question 16

Which artist's image was directly contradicted by the text painted on the canvas?

A) Salvador Dali
B) René Magritte
C) Max Ernst
D) Giorgio De Chirico

Question 17

Which Der Blaue Reiter artist found animals superior in beauty,strength,innocence,and naturalness?

A) Kandinsky
B) Kirchner
C) Beckmann
D) Marc

Question 18

What style is described as compositions of shapes and forms abstracted from the conventionally conceived world?

A) Fauvism
B) Cubism
C) Surrealism
D) Dada

Question 19

Who wrote,"What is real is not the external form but the essence of things."?

A) Picasso
B) Brancusi
C) Moore
D) Balla

Question 20

Edward Hopper's Nighthawks communicates ____.

A) the pervasive loneliness of modern humans
B) the seediness of city life
C) the energetic rhythm of city life
D) the excitement of Broadway

Question 21

A nonobjective work refers to work that ____.

A) has been abstracted from a natural object
B) has no reference to external appearances in the physical world
C) is not considered objectionable by anyone
D) has no material form but is merely conceived in the mind

Question 22

To what event does Picasso's Guernica refer?

Question 23

What was the Armory Show?

Question 24

What is organic architecture?

Question 25

How does this work aim to cultivate African-American pride?

Question 26

How does this work capture the spirit of Surrealism?

Question 27

Briefly define Synthetic Cubism.

Question 28

What event does this work describe?

Question 29

What is a "a machine for living"?

Question 30

What is a mobile and who made them?

Question 31

Which of the following artists raised photography to the level of "fine art"?

A) Alfred Stieglitz
B) Dorthea Lange
C) Käthe Kollwitz
D) Dorothea Lange

Question 32

The work of Ernst Kirchner shows ____.

A) the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites
B) the influence of Italian Renaissance frescoes
C) subjects drawn from the industrialized urban setting
D) the influence of Analytical Cubism

Question 33

What subject matter did Jacob Lawrence use in his work?

Question 34

Which piece in the 1913 Armory Show caused public outcry and calls for the show to be closed as a menace to public morality? What did one critic call the work?

Question 35

Explain Regionalism.

Question 36

Who said: "I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation."?

A) Pablo Picasso
B) Ernst Kirchner
C) Max Beckmann
D) Henri Matisse

Question 37

Which phrase best expresses the sculptural style of Boccioni?

A) nervous agitation
B) dynamic movement
C) sinuous organic curves
D) sensuous eroticism

Question 38

What was the purpose of the Bauhaus?

Question 39

Contrast these two pieces of sculpture,noting when and where each was done and what they have in common.

Question 40

How did each artist articulate a different purpose for art?

Question 41

How does this photograph participate in avant garde art?

Question 42

Discuss the impact the Armory show (1913)had on the American art scene.Use examples to support your essay.

Question 43

Who created this model,and what was its purpose? Why is an important precursor of things to come in the later twentieth century?

Question 44

Explain the significance of the idea of the "avant garde" in art and architecture created between 1900 and 1945.Use examples to support your essay.

Question 45

Discuss Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.How did this work re-shape the art of the early twentieth century? Include in your discussion the influences of Primitive art.Use examples to support your essay.

Question 46

Compare and contrast the Fauves and the German Expressionists.What influences can be seen in each movement? How did each influence the other? Use examples to support your essay.

Question 47

What is the artist's goal? What innovation did the artist introduce?

Question 48

Picasso said,"Painting is not made to decorate apartments.It is an instrument for offensive and defensive war against the enemy." Explain the relationship of art and politics between 1900 and 1945.Use examples to support your essay.

Question 49

Brancusi said,"What is real is not the external form but the essence of things." How is this statement reflected in the work of artists active between 1900 and 1945? Use examples to support your essay.

Question 50

Discuss the relationship of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye to Frank Lloyd Wright's Kaufmann House (Fallingwater).How did the architects marry the shape,volume,and space of each house to its environment? How do these structures represent each architect and his philosophy?

Question 51

Explain the principles of Surrealist art.Use examples to support your essay.

Question 52

Who created this work,and what is its theme? How does it relate to its social and historical context?

Question 53

Compare the work of Jacob Lawrence and Edward Hopper.How did each artist respond to his period? What artistic devices did each artist use to create the emotion of his work? What was the sociopolitical context each artist addressed in his work? Use examples to support your essay.

Question 54

How does Magritte's The Treachery (or Perfidy)of Images pose a bold challenge to the illusionistic purpose of art since the Renaissance.Use examples to support your essay.

Question 55

How do these works reflect the early twentieth century?

Question 56

Attribute the images on the screen to a culture and give an approximate date.Give the reasons for your attributions,using complete sentences and referring to specific works discussed in class.