Deck 32: The Modernist Assault

Question 1

Which of the following was the principle founder of the Bauhaus?

A)Le Corbusier
B)Wright
C)Sullivan
D)Gropius

Answer 1

D

Question 2

At the forefront of the modernist revolution in poetry stood the American expatriate ________,who studied the literatures of many peoples in the East and West.

A)Sanders
B)Frost
C)Tennyson
D)Pound

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Describe the imagist movement in early twentieth-century poetry.

Answer 3

The imagists were the leaders in the search for a more concentrated style of expression.A group of poets,the imagists were English-language writers who sought to carve away all extraneous matter in a process of abstraction that aimed to arrive at an intrinsic or essential form.Verbal compression,formal precision,and economy of expression were the goals of the imagists.Renouncing traditional verse forms,fixed meter,and rhythm,their style of free verse became notorious for its abrupt and discontinuous juxtaposition of images.
Ezra Pound,a leading imagist,outlined the cardinal points of the imagist doctrine:poets should use "absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation";and they should employ free verse rhythms "in sequence of the musical phrase." Ultimately,Pound summoned his contemporaries to cast aside traditional modes of Western verse-making and "make it new." The imagist search for an abstract language of expression stood at the beginning of the Modernist revolution in poetry.It also opened the door to a more concealed and elusive style of poetry,one that drew freely on the cornucopia of world literature and history.

Question 4

________ determined that light waves behave as "quanta," breaking up into discrete and separate bundles of energy.

A)Planck
B)Einstein
C)Heisenberg
D)Michelson and Morley

Question 5

Define the major styles in modern art and architecture: cubism,futurism,fauvism,nonobjective art,and the International style.

Question 6

The leaders in the search for a more concentrated style of poetic expression were a group of poets who called themselves

A)verbalists.
B)distillers.
C)imagists.
D)deconstructuralists.

Question 7

Which of the following determined that the speed of light is a universal constant,perhaps the only thing that never changes?

A)Planck
B)Einstein
C)Heisenberg
D)Michelson and Morley

Question 8

Which of the following led the group of painters who made color the principal feature of their canvases in this era?

A)Manet
B)Matisse
C)Monet
D)Cézanne

Question 9

Discuss the role of film as an early modern phenomenon.
D.W.Griffith,the leading director of his time,made major innovations in cinematic technique.He introduced the use of multiple cameras and camera angles,as well as such new techniques as close-ups,fade-outs,and flashbacks,which,when joined together in an edited sequence,greatly expanded the potential of film narrative and mirrored the developments in modern art,such as cubism.Cinematographers began to use the camera not simply as a disinterested observer,but as a medium for conveying the emotional states of the characters.By 1925 it was apparent that film was destined to become one of the major art forms of the modern erA.Film has proven itself as both a refined artistic medium as well as a vehicle for popular entertainment.Film has paralleled all major movements in art,from total abstraction,to Dada,to impressionism,to cubism,among others.The medium itself is a reflection of modern conceptions of time and space,recording a stream of individual moments that add up to a story.

Question 10

Igor Stravinsky shocked musical audiences with his famous composition for ballet called

A)The Rite of Spring.
B)The Flower Drum Song.
C)The Nutcracker.
D)The Firebird Suite.

Question 11

The Russians Kandinsky and Malevich,and the Dutchman Mondrian were all pioneers of which of the following artistic movements?

A)nonobjective art
B)abstraction
C)assemblage
D)futurism

Question 12

Picasso's bold,new style of painting was shaped by two forces: the arts of Africa,Iberia,and Oceana;and the paintings of

A)Delacroix.
B)Cézanne.
C)Capote.
D)Rockwell.

Question 13

Insisting that the house "is a machine for living," which of the following championed form over function and employed devices such as roof gardens,partitions,and large façades of glass?

A)Le Corbusier
B)Wright
C)Sullivan
D)Gropius

Question 14

Discuss antitraditional forms of expression in music and dance.

Question 15

Prairie School architecture and a clear influence from Japanese structure were the signatures of

A)Sullivan.
B)Wright.
C)Kandinsky.
D)Gropius.

Question 16

The plain-speech American poet who penned "The Road Not Taken" is which of the following?

A)Sanders
B)Frost
C)Tennyson
D)Pound

Question 17

The ________ were enthralled by the speed and dynamism of automobiles,trains,airplanes,and technology in general.

A)assembly artists
B)beaux Artists
C)futurists
D)tekkies

Question 18

Trace the impact of technology and the new physics on the arts.

Question 19

One of the central tenets of modernism,________ sought to arrive at a more concentrated emotional experience through visual art.

A)op art
B)pop art
C)mannerism
D)abstraction

Question 20

Picasso's new "language" of painting was called

A)bluism.
B)cubism.
C)paintism.
D)retractable art.