Deck 33: The Era of Invention: Paris and the Modern World

Question 1

What shift in art does Pablo Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein represent?

A)Literal to conceptual
B)Conceptual to symbolic
C)Symbolic to abstract
D)Abstract to surreal

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which earlier artist inspired Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso in their development of Cubism?

A)Manet
B)van Gogh
C)Cézanne
D)Gauguin

Answer 2

C

Question 3

What is the dominant theme of Robert Delaunay's The Cardiff Team?

A)Sportsmanship
B)Competition
C)Motion
D)Nationalism

Answer 3

C

Question 4

What special significance does the spiral have in Cubist paintings such as Picasso's Violin?

A)The interplay between two and three dimensions
B)The opposite of the geometric figures
C)The connection between spiritual and physical
D)The continual change of the universe

Question 5

What is the chief theme of Kandinsky's Composition VII?

A)The Great Deluge
B)The biblical Apocalypse
C)The Russian Revolution
D)The passion of Christ

Question 6

For what were the Fauvists especially known?

A)Juxtaposition of light and dark
B)Geometric shapes and fragmented objects
C)Use of pasted objects on a canvas
D)Bold application of unnatural color

Question 7

With what are the German Die Brücke artists associated?

A)Disturbing color contrasts and jagged linear constructions
B)Insulting their audiences with unpopular political scenes
C)Deconstruction of the subjects' planes to basic forms
D)Juxtaposing traditional scenes with violent images

Question 8

Why in Composition VII does Kandinsky represent the social middle class with green?

A)They are the dominant living force
B)They are calm in the storm of blue
C)They are smug and immovable
D)They are fertile and vibrant

Question 9

How can Henri Matisse's Dance II be viewed as a rebuttal to Picasso's Les Demoiselles de Avignon?

A)Matisse's figures wear clown masks,Picasso's tribal
B)Matisse's work is set in the day,Picasso's at night
C)Matisse's figures are static,Picasso's active
D)Matisse's figures are angular,Picasso's rounded

Question 10

Why did Guillaume Apollinaire arrange the words of his calligramme poem "Il Pleut" in vertical columns?

A)To mimic musical notation
B)To imitate Chinese script
C)To create a verbal picture
D)To defy traditional form

Question 11

Why did Braque and Picasso begin pasting paper,fabric,rope,and other objects to their canvases?

A)To give texture to their Cubist paintings
B)To challenge the space between life and art
C)To counter their compositions' flatness
D)To make the work seem to roll toward viewers

Question 12

Why did Igor Stravinsky earn boos and hisses from the opening-night Parisian audience for Le Sacre de printemps (The Rite of Spring)?

A)Stravinsky was Russian
B)The dancers were nude
C)The play was violent and paganistic
D)The radical music was jarring

Question 13

Why did Picasso paint masks on two of the prostitutes in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon?

A)To make them seem less real
B)To mock ideas of beauty
C)To make them look primitive
D)To give his models anonymity

Question 14

What much earlier work does Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space resemble?

A)Laocoon and His Sons
B)Nike of Samothrace
C)Aphrodite of Knidos
D)Athena Parthenos

Question 15

Why did Arnold Schoenberg create his 12-tone system?

A)To abandon the home-key idea of tonality
B)To show that every tone was equal to every other
C)To give his Sprechstimme(speech-song)a wider range
D)To reflect song with more explosive force

Question 16

Which of the following was not among the technological and scientific developments of 1895-1915?

A)Internal combustion engine
B)Existence of electrons in atoms
C)Airplane travel across the English Channel
D)Broadcast of the first radio news station

Question 17

Why was the Der Blaue Reiter artist Wassily Kandinsky obsessed with color?

A)It imitated the divinity of nature
B)It provided a range of emotions
C)It directly influenced the soul
D)It enabled him to change reality

Question 18

Why did viewers find Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon disturbing?

A)The subjects are prostitutes
B)The shapes are unnatural
C)The women look androgynous
D)The blue and orange colors clash

Question 19

According to the Futurists,what was the defining characteristic of modern life?

A)Politics
B)Art
C)War
D)Speed

Question 20

Which earlier artist's work may have inspired Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon?

A)Titian
B)Manet
C)Giorgione
D)van Gogh

Question 21

Compare Georges Braque's Violin and Palette to Pablo Picasso's Violin,focusing on portrayal of the violins,other objects pictured with the violins,and meaning expressed by the two works.

Question 22

Identify and define two characteristics of the Futurists,supporting your definitions with specifics from the artists and art of that group.

Question 23

Why did The Birth of a Nation establish director D.W.Griffith as a film master?

A)His invention of intertitles
B)His manipulation of racist sympathies
C)His genius for promoting his film
D)His use of cinematic space

Question 24

Identify and explain two ways Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon shows the influence of Paul Cézanne's work (Chap.33).

Question 25

Explain the German Der Blaue Reiter's obsession with color,identifying specifically two works that depend on their "spirituality of color."

Question 26

Why did Eadweard Muybridge photograph a trotting horse in rapid succession?

A)To analyze the optimal positioning of a jockey
B)To determine if all four feet ever are off the ground
C)To study the length of the horse's stride
D)To create a series of frames for a motion picture

Question 27

Using The Birth of a Nation as the extended example,describe three film techniques that D.W.Griffith introduced to motion pictures.Next identify three current films that use one or more of these techniques.

Question 28

List and explain three reasons early motion pictures appealed to people.

Question 29

Define and compare Cubism and Fauvism,illustrating your points with specific works.

Question 30

Describe Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon,and analyze the tremendous influence this work exerted on the other art movements discussed in the chapter.

Question 31

Who developed Imagist poetry?

A)Guillaume Apollinaire
B)Gertrude Stein
C)Alice B.Toklas
D)Ezra Pound

Question 32

Which American poet did Ezra Pound grudgingly admit influenced his work?

A)Emily Dickinson
B)Edgar Allen Poe
C)Walt Whitman
D)Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 33

Identify and explain the three characteristics of Imagist poetry.

Question 34

Identify and explain three specific examples for motion being a defining characteristic of early twentieth-century art.

Question 35

Why did early silent films appeal especially to the working-class,immigrant audiences?

A)They could usually afford the $2 admission
B)The early films featured working-class actors
C)They didn't have to understand English
D)Most of the films were set in exotic locales

Question 36

Matching

Question 37

Why were Thomas Edison's early films for the Kinetoscope rather limited?

A)Only one person at a time could view them
B)Price to view them was beyond the working class
C)Lapse between slides made the films quite long
D)Only black and white images showed up on film

Question 38

As discussed in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,why can Picasso's Bottle of Suze be viewed as a political statement about the first Balkan War?

A)The map shows the Balkans
B)A gun rests beside the bottle
C)Suze is a Balkan wine
D)The newspaper describes a battle

Question 39

Compare Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring to Puccini's Madame Butterfly,describing the plots,the music,and the presentation of the two performances.