Deck 26: Dada, Surrealism, Fantasy, and The United States Between the Wars

Question 1

"The Wars" in the title of this chapter refer to

A) World War II and the Vietnam War
B) the Spanish Civil War and World War II
C) World War I and World War II
D) The Spanish Civil War and the Vietnam War

Answer 1

C

Question 2

L.H.O.O.Q.is an example of a

A) collage
B) Ready-made
C) graffiti poster
D) Ready-made-Aided
E) found object

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The first Ready-made was

A) a urinal
B) a shovel
C) a seashell
D) a postcard of the Mona Lisa

Answer 3

B

Question 4

"Violon d'Ingres" is a French expression

A) referring to a painting by Ingres
B) that is the title of a painting by Man Ray
C) meaning "hobby"
D) meaning "modern odalisque"

Question 5

Which is not a Surrealist element in Miró's Dog Barking at the Moon?

A) the colors of the ladder
B) the colors of the dog
C) the placement of the dog
D) the space occupied by the ladder

Question 6

Surrealists

A) used titles that were intentionally provocative
B) felt dreams were another level of reality
C) embraced Jungian symbolism
D) all of the choices are correct.

Question 7

Who of the following was not a Dadaist?

A) Arp
B) Man Ray
C) Duchamp
D) Ball
E) Pelton

Question 8

Match the artist with his country of birth

A) Klee -- Germany
B) Ernst -- Holland
C) O'Keeffe -- Ireland
D) Lawrence -- England
E) Magritte -- Belgium

Question 9

Who of the following is not Surrealist?

A) Salvador Dalí
B) Giorgio de Chirico
C) René Magritte
D) Georges Braque

Question 10

Which is least characteristic of Dada?

A) nonsense
B) nihilism
C) punning
D) Classicism
E) iconoclasm

Question 11

The so-called veristic Surrealism of Magritte means that

A) his forms are imaginary
B) his forms are clear and realistic but their combinations are surreal
C) his forms are surreal and fantastic
D) his arrangements make manifest sense but latent nonsense

Question 12

Match the author with the correct work

A) Breton -- The Guest Expulsed
B) Arp -- Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious
C) Stieglitz -- Camera Work
D) Man Ray -- Wrong Rong
E) Apollinaire -- The Interpretation of Dreams

Question 13

2."The lost generation" was a phrase coined by

A)Ernest Hemingway
B)F.Scott Fitzgerald
C)Zelda Fitzgerald
D)Gertrude Stein
E)Frank Lloyd Wright

Question 14

A Kachina is a

A) Hopi toy
B) Hopi paintings
C) Hopi spirit
D) Hopi mask

Question 15

"I believe in the future resolution of the states of dream and reality,in appearance so contradictory,in a sort of absolute reality,or surreality." Who said this?

A) André Breton
B) Gustave Caillebotte
C) Gustave Moreau
D) Gustave Courbet

Question 16

Simultaneous viewpoint is an element of

A) Cubism and Surrealism
B) Surrealism and Futurism
C) Cubism and Pointillism
D) Dada and Futurism

Question 17

Dalí's "paranoiac-critical" method

A) showed inner truth
B) showed inner irrationality as reflected in dreams
C) showed the cruel reality of the world as it was
D) showed inner truth and showed inner irrationality as reflected in dreams but not showed the cruel reality of the world as it was

Question 18

The Cabaret Voltaire was located in

A) Zurich
B) Paris
C) Avignon
D) Madrid
E) Utrecht

Question 19

Which is true of the Rayograph?

A) it is a black and white photograph made with a camera
B) it is a black and white photograph made without a camera
C) it is a black and white collage
D) it is the name of a painting by Man Ray

Question 20

The Surrealist artist who envisioned himself as a shaman was

A) Magritte
B) Klee
C) Miró
D) Ernst
E) Giacometti

Question 21

The "underground railroad" was

A) a subway line in New Orleans
B) an escape route for Civil War spies
C) an escape route for slaves
D) a tunnel planned for the English Channel

Question 22

Which is not a feature of Rivera's History of Mexico murals?

A) Cubism
B) Non-representational forms
C) Leftist politics
D) references to Mesoamerican history
E) Surrealism

Question 23

__________ photographed the rural poor during the Great Depression.

A) Alfred Stieglitz
B) Buckminster Fuller
C) Matthew Brady
D) Dorothea Lange

Question 24

Chagall did not make images

A) full of symbolism
B) filled with fantasy
C) of the cruel hardship of Russian peasant life before the Great Revolution
D) for stained glass images for the cathedral at Reims

Question 25

Which is not a feature of Grandma Moses' The Old Checkered House?

A) the influence of embroidery
B) references to industrialization
C) Romanticism
D) local imagery

Question 26

Which artist is not matched with his work?

A) Ernst -- King Playing with the Queen
B) Lange -- Two Shells
C) Giacometti -- Reclining Figure
D) Stieglitz -- Equivalent
E) Magritte -- The False Mirror

Question 27

Which work inspired the CBS logo?

A) Le Violon d'Ingres
B) The False Mirror
C) Helmet Head No.1
D) Fog Horns
E) Goin' Fishin'

Question 28

The 291 was

A) the address of the Seventh Regiment Armory
B) the address of the Museum of Modern Art
C) an avant-garde art gallery in New York
D) Gertrude Stein's apartment number in Paris
E) An issue of Camera Work

Question 29

Rivera's wife,also a painter,was

A) Georgia O'Keeffe
B) Agnes Pelton
C) Dorothea Lange
D) Frida Kahlo

Question 30

Match the author with his work

A)Kafka -- Truth and Logic
B)E.E.Cummings -- The Enormous Room
C)T.E.Lawrence -- Lady Chatterley's Lover
D)Homer -- Ulysses
E)Sean O'Casey -- A Passage to India

Question 31

Who of the following was not involved in the Harlem Renaissance?

A) Harriet Tubman
B) Jacob Lawrence
C) Marcus Garvey
D) James van der Zee

Question 32

Which most accurately describes a mobile?

A) it moves when its motor is activated
B) it hangs on a wall
C) it hangs from the ceiling
D) it moves when there is an air current
E) it hangs from the ceiling and it moves when there is an air current

Question 33

Which is not a subject of American folk art?

A) pinball machines
B) cigar-store Indians
C) carved gravestones
D) shop signs
E) weather vanes

Question 34

American Gothic is an example of

A) Gothic Revival
B) Romanticism
C) Social Realism
D) Regionalism
E) photography

Question 35

FSA stands for

A) Foreign Socialist Association
B) Farmers' Socialist Administration
C) Farm Security Administration
D) Freed Slaves of America

Question 36

Pueblos are

A) communal living quarters
B) rock-cut houses
C) Hopi temples
D) Hopi tombs

Question 37

Who of the following was most interested in "found objects?"

A) O'Keeffe
B) Van der Zee
C) de Chirico
D) Moore
E) Giacometti

Question 38

Which is not an element of Dove's Goin' Fishin'?

A) denim
B) bamboo
C) bark
D) buttons

Question 39

Frida Kahlo painted

A) her own life
B) her subjective reality as wife of a great Mexican muralist
C) symbols of her existential pain
D) all of the choices are correct.

Question 40

Which work are you most likely to see on a box of cereal?

A) Gas
B) Winnowing Grain
C) The Old Checkered House
D) American Gothic