Deck 12: Art From 1900 to 1949

Question 1

Alfred Stieglitz's 1907 photograph The Steerage balances the relationship between form and ____________,and thus should be understood as a work of art in itself.

Answer 1

content

Question 2

Picasso's Guernica has endured as an emblem for all those who hate the ____________ experienced by humanity during political conflicts.

Answer 2

suffering

Question 3

Gropius' design for the new Bauhaus building at Dessau was guided by his philosophy on the unity of the arts.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The cantilever projects a horizontal architectural member out into space and supports it with a vertical member at its terminating point.

Question 5

Diego Rivera's fresco murals present a stark and didactic contrast between the debauchery of the rich and the ____________ of the poor,honest peasants.

Question 6

In Hopper's Nighthawks the harsh interior light is used to:

A) reveal the personalities of the sitters.
B) encourage deep psychoanalysis.
C) expose the lack of communication.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.

Question 7

Early in the twentieth century,as a Fauve painter Matisse began to make paintings in which color was used how?

Question 8

The ritual dancers wearing painted wooden masks of the Bwa culture are participants in rites performed to ensure success in battle over tribal enemies.

Question 9

Braque's Violin and Palette presents:

A) a series of planes.
B) different points of view reassembled.
C) a highly abstract composition.
D) disengaged fragments.
E) all of these.

Question 10

The duality felt by Frida Kahlo is revealed in The Two Fridas by the:

A) two hearts.
B) contrasting costumes.
C) Catholic and Aztec implications.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.

Question 11

Henry Moore's Recumbent Figure suggests:

A) the hills and gullies of a landscape.
B) a voluptuous figure.
C) a reclining female form.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.

Question 12

In Nude Descending a Staircase,Marcel Duchamp used a sequence of fragmented planes to describe the ____________ of a figure descending a staircase.

Question 13

Hopi villages seem to grow directly out of the mesa top,the building materials and shapes suggesting continuity with the living rock; this is often called:

A) an organic mode of building.
B) a harmonic stratum.
C) a sandwich design.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.

Question 14

Assemblage usually involves combining three-dimensional objects into a coherent composition.

Question 15

Frank Lloyd Wright's style at the time of the Robie House is known as the Prairie style.

Question 16

Picasso used the African masks in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon because to him they were:

A) reminiscent of Greek vases.
B) exotic, magic things.
C) references to Goya.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.

Question 17

Even standing still,Pininfarina's Cistalia "202" GT car gives what impression?

Question 18

Inspired by the works of Mies van der Rohe,Philip Johnson's Glass House is a satisfying construction of:

A) elegant materials.
B) subtle proportional relationships.
C) pure geometric form.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.

Question 19

The artists of Die Brücke,including Kirchner,deeply probed the psychological relationship between the:

A) guild and patron.
B) artist and world.
C) shaman and patient.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.

Question 20

To create his eerie scene in The Melancholy and Mystery of a Street,Giorgio De Chirico employs:

A) a void setting.
B) an exaggerated perspective.
C) stark chiaroscuro.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.

Question 21

Brancusi's Bird in Space draws us close not to the essence of a natural form,but to what instead?

Question 22

Despite its purity and reductive beauty,why did the International Style quickly reach a dead end?

Question 23

The poetic,evocative position implied by the point of view in Georgia O'Keeffe's The Lawrence Tree emphasizes what?

Question 24

How did Duchamp enter his mass-produced objects called "ready-mades" into the realm of art?

Question 25

In his Schröder House of 1923-24,how does Gerrit Rietveld establish a series of complex relationships?