Deck 21: From 1900 to the Present

Question 1

"Postmodernism" has been defined,in part,as

A)the presence of diverse traditions in a single work.
B)a reassessment of our urban environment.
C)Neo-Gothic style for the 1990s.
D)the new streamlining.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

The Cubists freed painting from the necessity of representing the world in order to dwell on

A)form.
B)texture
C)content.
D)emotion.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali illustrates how he looked to his subconscious (dreams,hypnosis,psychoanalysis)for his subject matter.What artistic movement is he associated with?

A)Surrealism
B)American Regionalism
C)Pop Art
D)Abstract Expressionism
E)Impressionism

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which of these is an example of Dada art?

A)Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
B)Henri Matisse's The Green Stripe
C)Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
D)Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory

Question 5

Cubism can best be described as:

A)work based in irony and absurdity,in reaction to the horrors of World War I.
B)art that is largely based on form.
C)work that is based on the subconscious,non-rational self.
D)work that attempts to depict objects/images from multiple perspectives simultaneously.

Question 6

The artist André Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of "resolution between these two states,dream and reality." What was this movement?

A)Dada
B)Surrealism
C)Modernish
D)Suprematism

Question 7

Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes.What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?

A)Henri Matisse
B)Paul Gauguin
C)Paul Cézanne
D)Jackson Pollock

Question 8

Using her work to struggle with the question of identity,this photographer's images are self-portraits.

A)Barbara Kruger
B)Cindy Sherman
C)Anne Truitt
D)Frida Kahlo

Question 9

The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of which movement?

A)Dada
B)Futurism
C)Surrealism
D)Abstract Expressionist

Question 10

The two major art movements of the 1960s were

A)Pop Art and Fauvism.
B)Expressionism and Combine Painting.
C)Minimalism and Pop Art.
D)Futurism and Op Art.

Question 11

Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the

A)Spanish Civil War.
B)American Civil War.
C)Korean War.
D)Vietnam War.

Question 12

Chéri Samba's Problème d'eau.Où trouver l'eau? is an ironic comment on

A)the Tibetan crisis.
B)development aid.
C)the Cuban missile crisis.
D)the Vietnam war.

Question 13

Which artist,who painted Houses at L'Estaque,worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism?

A)Henri Matisse.
B)Wassily Kandinsky.
C)Georges Braque.
D)Marcel Duchamp.

Question 14

Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of

A)German Expressionism.
B)French Surrealism.
C)Fauvism.
D)Italian Futurism.

Question 15

Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality,Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies which movement?

A)Futurist
B)Surrealist
C)Dada
D)Automatic

Question 16

Which twentieth-century painting movement is most often associated with Henri Matisse?

A)Postmodernism.
B)Dada.
C)Cubism.
D)Fauvism.

Question 17

Marianne Nicholson's cliffside pictograph represents a Northwest Native American tradition that had been suppressed through most of the 20^th century,called

A)the potlatch.
B)the Ghost Dance.
C)buffalo hunts.
D)vision quests.

Question 18

In what aspect of the twentieth century were Umberto Boccioni and other Futurist artists most interested?

A)photographic innovations
B)movement and speed
C)absolute rule
D)acrylic paints

Question 19

Which of these pieces is a Cubist painting?

A)Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
B)Henri Matisse's The Green Stripe
C)Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
D)Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory

Question 20

Which of these paintings is considered an Abstract Expressionist painting?

A)Georges Braque's Violin and Palette
B)Henri Matisse's The Green Stripe
C)Marcel Duchamp's The Fountain
D)Willem de Kooning's Woman and Bicycle

Question 21

Using examples from the chapter,discuss the directions taken by artists in the 1970s and 1980s.

Question 22

Discuss the significance of Marcel Duchamp's 1917 work titled The Fountain.How has this work and others like it influenced modern art?

Question 23

Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was what?

Question 24

In 1909,an Italian poet named Filippo Marinetti published a manifesto announcing the beginning of which movement?

Question 25

What was the name of the anti-art movement founded in Zurich,Berlin,Paris,and New York during World War I?

Question 26

Explain the revolutionary aspects of the Cubist movement.

Question 27

Henri Matisse was a leader of early 20^th century artists who felt free to use color "arbitrarily" and were labeled,derogatorily,"Fauves",which translates as

A)false
B)"Wild Beasts"
C)fake
D)crazy

Question 28

Our perceptions of reality are dependent upon our senses.How might Surrealism,with its fantastic and sometimes disturbing dream-based imagery,be evidence of a more direct "reality"?