Deck 28: Dada, Surrealism, Social Realism, Regionalism, and Abstraction

Question 1

Who took photographs of impoverished rural men and women for the Farm Security Administration?

A) Wood
B) Lawrence
C) Hopper
D) Lange

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Rivera's wife, also a painter, was

A) O'Keeffe.
B) Pelton.
C) Lange.
D) Kahlo.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

As revealed in his History of Mexico murals, Rivera was

A) a Dadaist.
B) a Marxist.
C) a fascist.
D) an anarchist.

Answer 3

a Marxist.

Question 4

The tone of Hopper's paintings can best be described as being imbued with a sense of

A) indignation over racial inequality and social injustice.
B) playful whimsy and artistic experimentation.
C) psychological isolation and loneliness.
D) pride in the quiet dignity of rural America.

Question 5

Whose Cow's Skull with Calico Roses exhibits the influence of Surrealism and the Southwest landscape on the artist?

A) O'Keeffe
B) Kandinsky
C) Rivera
D) Hopper

Question 6

Which artist explored themes of racial inequality and social injustice in works such as Harriet Tubman Series, No. 7?

A) Lange
B) VanDerZee
C) Hopper
D) Lawrence

Question 7

What is the most famous image from The Persistence of Memory?

A) melting clocks
B) the Mona Lisa with a beard and mustache
C) violin sound holes on a naked woman's back
D) a train exiting a fireplace

Question 8

Which former Dadaist wedded Cubism and Surrealism in the 1944 sculpture The King Playing with the Queen?

A) Magritte
B) Arp
C) Ernst
D) Giacometti

Question 9

The works of which of the following American artists was most visibly influenced by European avant-garde movements such as Cubism and Expressionism?

A) Hopper
B) Lawrence
C) Wood
D) VanDerZee

Question 10

Which artist's Gas (1940) depicts a single man at a gas station with a vast empty expanse in the background?

A) Hopper
B) Lawrence
C) Lange
D) Kahlo

Question 11

Which statement best describes Stieglitz's attitude toward photography?

A) He believed that photography should only be used in the service of Social Realism.
B) He believed that photography should only be used in the service of avant-garde abstraction.
C) He believed in "straight photography" rather than in the manipulation of images.
D) He did not believe that photography was a form of art.

Question 12

Who is famous for mobiles such as Big Red (1959)?

A) Klee
B) Giacometti
C) Calder
D) Magritte

Question 13

Giacometti's Large Standing Woman III evidences his strong interest in the statuary of which culture?

A) ancient Egypt
B) the Italian Renaissance
C) Oceania
D) Classical Greece

Question 14

Who among the following was involved in the Harlem Renaissance?

A) Lange
B) VanDerZee
C) Man Ray
D) Hopper

Question 15

Whose Blest (1941) exemplifies the Transcendental style?

A) Stieglitz
B) Pelton
C) Duchamp
D) Moore

Question 16

Moore's sculptures exhibit all of the following characteristics EXCEPT

A) the reclining figure motif.
B) hollowed-out spaces and openings.
C) forms made as thin as structurally possible.
D) massive biomorphic forms.

Question 17

The Museum of Modern Art opened in 1929 under the direction of whom?

A) O'Keeffe
B) Kandinsky
C) Stieglitz
D) Barr

Question 18

A recurring theme in Kahlo's work was

A) playful exuberance.
B) social realism.
C) physical and mental suffering.
D) opposition to leftist politics.

Question 19

In works like Time Transfixed (1938), Magritte created dreamlike imagery by

A) distorting the forms of familiar images.
B) juxtaposing familiar objects in inexplicable ways.
C) suggesting images through vibrant biomorphic shapes.
D) rendering landscapes in unusual colors with unusual forms.

Question 20

Whose American Gothic exemplified the Regionalists' interest in provincial America?

A) Lange
B) Wood
C) Lawrence
D) Hopper

Question 21

As a movement, Dada flourished for less than a decade.

Question 22

Both Lange and Rivera received funds from their respective governments to complete works of art.

Question 23

How did Duchamp create his famous work .?

A) by signing his name to a urinal
B) by dropping colored rectangles onto a canvas
C) by drawing a beard and moustache on a reproduction of the Mona Lisa
D) by placing random objects on light-sensitive paper

Question 24

Man Ray was a pseudonym adopted by Jean Arp when he moved from Dada to Surrealism.

Question 25

As exemplified in his Spanish Dancer (1945), Miró's paintings exhibit all the following characteristics EXCEPT

A) illusionistic imagery.
B) sexually suggestive forms.
C) primary colors.
D) vigorous linear movement.

Question 26

All the following traits characterized the Dada movement EXCEPT

A) a set of easily recognizable shared formal qualities.
B) a sense of despair and a nihilist philosophy of negation.
C) challenges to traditional assumptions about art.
D) a taste for playfulness and experimentation.

Question 27

Duchamp signed his Fountain "I. P. Freely."

Question 28

The defining characteristic of Surrealism is its

A) deliberate rejection of meaning.
B) rejection of any concept of a higher reality than the material world.
C) interest in myths, dreams, and the subconscious.
D) abandonment of representational imagery.

Question 29

The Dada movement began during World War I among artists who gathered at the Cabaret Voltaire in what city?

A) London
B) Paris
C) Zurich
D) Munich

Question 30

Arp's cord collage The Dancer exemplifies all the following characteristics of Dada EXCEPT

A) its insistence on conscious control.
B) its experiments with free association.
C) its sense of playfulness.
D) its interest in randomness.

Question 31

Man Ray published Photography Can Be Art as well as Photography Is Not Art and Art Is Not Photography.

Question 32

American Regionalism was strongly influenced by the contemporary European avant-garde.

Question 33

Which artist's Mask of Fear (1932) was influenced by a Zuni statue of a war god?

A) Miró
B) Klee
C) Dal'
D) Man Ray

Question 34

Whose reworked photograph Le Violon d'Ingres exhibits Surrealist imagery with Dada wordplay?

A) Miró
B) Dal'
C) Arp
D) Man Ray

Question 35

Which of the following famous works of art is an example of a "ready-made"?

A) Fountain
B) Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance
C) The Persistence of Memory
D) Thinking about Death

Question 36

Duchamp created a female alter ego whom he named Rose Sélavy.

Question 37

Mobiles like Big Red (1959) were set in motion by hidden electric motors.

Question 38

Giacometti was obsessed with reproducing voluptuous, Rubenesque forms that suggested the undeniable truth of existence.

Question 39

Whose First Surrealist Manifesto of 1924 bridged the gap between Dada and Surrealism?

A) Duchamp
B) Arp
C) Breton
D) Man Ray

Question 40

Rivera's Ancient Mexico retains elements of the Cubist style that he had previously practiced.

Question 41

How did Surrealism affect twentieth-century sculpture?

Question 42

Discuss the various artistic trends in the U.S. during the interwar period. What themes and styles did American artists explore? Was there a common theme linking Regionalism, Social Realism, and American Abstraction?

Question 43

Discuss the movement toward American Abstraction in the first half of the twentieth century. Could the United States be said to have produced both the most traditional and the most innovative artists of this time period?

Question 44

Discuss the influence of Freud's discovery of the unconscious mind on Dada and Surrealism.

Question 45

Discuss the use of dream mechanisms by Surrealist artists. How did they create dreamlike images?

Question 46

Compare the ways that Mexican artists approached social issues with how American artists did. How were their approaches similar and how did they differ?

Question 47

What were the chief characteristics of Dada? Consider its philosophical underpinnings and its expression in the arts.