Deck 19: Modern Art in Europe and the Americas, 1900-1945

Question 1

Which of the following artworks personifies the new Italian man rushing headlong into the brave new Futurist world?

A)Henri Matisse's Le Bonheur de Vivre (The Joy of Life)
B)Constantin Brancusi's Torso of a Young Man
C)Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
D)Marcel Duchamp's Fountain

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Who "discovered" Georgia O'Keeffe?

A)Marsden Hartley
B)Piet Mondrian
C)Alfred Stieglitz
D)Pablo Picasso

Answer 2

C

Question 3

In 1913,the Armory Show promoted __________.

A)American Realism
B)Constructivism
C)European Modernism
D)the "Ashcan School"

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Art that communicates exclusively through such formal means as line,shape,color,and texture is called __________.

A)Surrealist
B)nonrepresentational
C)abstract
D)Expressionist

Question 5

Which of the following artists produced the first truly nonrepresentational work of art?

A)Pablo Picasso
B)Vasily Kandinsky
C)Piet Mondrian
D)Kazimir Malevich

Question 6

Georgia O'Keeffe's City Night exemplifies the style of American Modernism in its __________.

A)exaggerated perspective
B)biomorphic forms
C)use of collage
D)dream-like imagery

Question 7

Gerrit Rietveld's design of Schröder House demonstrates the influence of __________.

A)Cubism
B)Dada
C)Surrealism
D)the De Stijl movement

Question 8

Flattened pictorial space,multiple perspectives,and fractured forms are important pictorial devices in which art movement?

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

Question 9

Which art movement promoted the "masculine," "futuristic" modern world,including energy and speed?

A)Dada
B)Cubism
C)De Stijl
D)Futurism

Question 10

Paula Modersohn-Becker's Reclining Mother and Child demonstrates the characteristics of __________.

A)Expressionism
B)De Stijl
C)Surrealism
D)Fauvism

Question 11

Henri Matisse's Le Bonheur de Vivre (The Joy of Life)demonstrates the characteristics of __________.

A)Expressionism
B)Fauvism
C)Surrealism
D)Constructivism

Question 12

The artists of Die Brücke believed that regeneration could be achieved through __________.

A)art and science
B)revolution and reconstruction
C)modernity and the primitive
D)color and line

Question 13

El Lissitzsky's Proun Space is an example of __________.

A)installation art
B)a readymade
C)De Stijl
D)Surrealism

Question 14

For Käthe Kollwitz,art was __________.

A)a manifestation of the unconscious mind
B)a political tool used to reach as many people as possible
C)an escape from the drab,ordinary world
D)a way to express emotions and spiritualities

Question 15

Hannah Höch's Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany is an example of __________.

A)installation art
B)a readymade
C)nonrepresentational art
D)a photomontage

Question 16

The De Stijl movement believed that representational elements and curves are __________.

A)subjective and sensual
B)rational and universal
C)ideal or perfect
D)picturesque or sublime

Question 17

Which of the following art movements envisioned politically engaged artists devoted to creating useful objects and promoting the aims of a collective society?

A)De Stijl
B)Dada
C)Constructivism
D)Futurism

Question 18

Modernism was transformed from an embattled fringe movement to an officially recognized aspect of "high culture" due to __________.

A)the two world wars
B)the advance of capitalism
C)technological changes
D)state-supported museums of Modern art

Question 19

Ordinary manufactured objects transformed into artworks simply through their selection by the artist are called __________.

A)readymades
B)collages
C)photomontages
D)Prouns

Question 20

How is Fernand Léger's Three Women different from Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon?

A)The figures are not arranged within a geometric grid.
B)The female figures are more radically shattered.
C)The bodies of the figures resemble machine forms.
D)The pictorial space is flattened and compressed.

Question 21

Which of the following statements best describes how the Bauhaus building in Dassau embodies the sleek,functional ideals of the Bauhaus?

A)The cantilevered terraces echo the slabs of natural rock.
B)The exterior features elaborate surface decoration.
C)The structure acknowledges the materials of which it is built.
D)The first floor is positioned on free-standing steel posts.

Question 22

Which of the following aspects of Frank Lloyd Wright's design for Fallingwater evoked the great slabs of natural rock of the surrounding cliff?

A)cantilevered terraces
B)the fireplace
C)the pool
D)the glass doors

Question 23

Who coined the name "mobile" for Alexander Calder's sculptures?

A)Salvador Dalí
B)Marcel Duchamp
C)Georgia O'Keeffe
D)Pablo Picasso

Question 24

Which of the following is an example of Surrealist art?

A)Hannah Höch's Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany
B)Georgia O'Keeffe's City Night
C)Merit Oppenheim's Object (Le Déjeuner en Fourrure/Luncheon in Fur)
D)Grant Wood's American Gothic

Question 25

Which art movement included members who sought to free the individual unconscious through techniques such as dream analysis,free association,automatic writing,word games,and hypnotic trances?

A)Dada
B)Futurism
C)De Stijl
D)Surrealism

Question 26

Which artist played a role in the formation of the Farm Securities Administration's photography program?

A)Augusta Savage
B)Dorothea Lange
C)Grant Wood
D)Aaron Douglas

Question 27

In Torso of a Young Man,Constantin Brancusi reduced his subject into purified geometric forms in order to __________.

A)convey the flux of unconscious thoughts
B)symbolize modern technology
C)depict the spiritual power of nature
D)express the essence of the subject

Question 28

Diego Rivera's Man,Controller of the Universe demonstrates the influence of Italian Renaissance art in the __________.

A)dream-like imagery
B)simple shapes and bright colors
C)socialist iconography
D)use of fresco as a medium

Question 29

The art movement that encouraged black artists and writers to seek artistic inspiration in the traditional arts of Africa,rather than assimilate within mainstream American or European artistic traditions,was called __________.

A)De Stijl
B)the Harlem Renaissance
C)Orphism
D)Regionalism

Question 30

Augusta Savage's La Citadelle: Freedom was inspired by the __________.

A)Haitian Revolution
B)Great Depression
C)Spanish Civil War
D)Communism

Question 31

In Recumbent Figure,Henry Moore explored the expressed potential of __________.

A)materials
B)holes
C)texture
D)motion

Question 32

In American Gothic,Grant Wood suggest the female figure's domestic role by __________.

A)associating her with the pitchfork
B)depicting potted plants behind her
C)emphasizing her weary face
D)portraying her with a menacing air

Question 33

What was the primary subject of Jacob Lawrence's early work?

A)factories and skyscrapers
B)migrant farm workers
C)Native American artifacts
D)black history

Question 34

Which of the following aspects of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye became a hallmark of Modern architecture?

A)Prouns
B)biomorphic forms
C)curtain walls
D)readymades

Question 35

The iconography of Frida Kahlo's The Two Fridas might have been influenced by __________.

A)the Spanish Civil War
B)Kahlo's divorce from Diego Rivera
C)Kahlo's dreams and unconscious thoughts
D)the Dada movement