Question 1

abstraction

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In Modern art, nonrepresentational or nonobjective forms in sculpture and painting that emphasize shapes, lines, and colors independent of the natural world

Question 2

aesthete

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One who pursues and is devoted to the beautiful in art, music, and literature

Question 3

atonality

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In music, the absence of a key note or tonal center and the use of the tones of the chromatic scale impartially

Question 4

avant-garde

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\"advance guard\"; writers, artists, and intellectuals who push their works and ideas ahead of more traditional groups and movements

Question 5

blues

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A type of music that emerged around 1900 from the rural African American culture, was originally based on work songs and religious spirituals, and expressed feelings of loneliness and hopelessness.

Question 6

Cajun

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A descendant of French pioneers, chiefly in Louisiana, who in 1755 chose to leave Acadia rather than live under the British Crown.

Question 7

collage

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From the French \"coller\" to glue, a type of art, introduced by Picasso, in which bits and pieces of materials such as paper or cloth are glued to a painted surface

Question 8

Creole

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An ambiguous term, sometimes referring to descendants of French and spanish settlers of the southern United States, especially Louisiana, used by Kate Chopin in her short stories and novels in this sense. Creole can refer either to blacks born in the Western Hemisphere.

Question 9

Cubism

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A style of painting introduced by Picasso and Braque in which objects are broken up into fragments and patterns of geometric structures and depicted on the flat canvas as if from several points ov view.

Question 10

Decadence

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A late 19th century literary style concerned with morbid and artificial subjects and themes.

Question 11

Expressionism

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A late 19th century literary and artistic movement characterized by the expression of highly personal feelings rather than of objective reality.

Question 12

Fauvism

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From the French \"fauve\" wild beast; an early 20th century art movement led by Matisse and favoring exotic colors and disjointed shapes

Question 13

Impressionism

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In painting, a style introduced in the 1870s,marked by an attempt to catch spontaneous impressions, often involving the play of sunlight on ordinary events and scenes observed outdoors; in music, a style of composition designed to create a vague and dreamy mood through gliding melodies and simmering tone colors

Question 14

jazz

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A type of music, instrumental and vocal, originating in the African American community and rooted in African, African American, and Western musical forms and traditions

Question 15

local color

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In literature, the use of detail peculiar to a particular region and environment to add interest and authenticity to a narrative, including description of the locale, customs, speech, and music. Local color was an especially popular development in American literature in the late 19th century.

Question 16

Modernism

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A late 19th century and 20th century cultural, artistic, and literary movement that rejected much of the past and focused on the current, the secular, and the revolutionary in search of new forms of expression; the dominant style of the 20th century until 1970.

Question 17

Naturalism

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In literature, a late 19th century movement inspired by the methods of science and the insights of sociology, concerned with an objective depiction of the ugly side of industrial society.

Question 18

pavane

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A 16th and 17th century English court dance of Italian origin; the dance is performed by souples to stately music. Ravel based Pavane for a Dead Princess (1899) on this Baroque dance form.

Question 19

Pointillism

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Also known as Divisionism, a style of painting, perfected by Seurat, in which tiny dots of paint are applied to the canvas in such a way that when they are viewed from a distance they merge and blend to form recognizable objects with natural effects of color, lights, and shade.

Question 20

Post-Impressionism

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A late 19th century artistic movement that extended the boundaries of Impressionism in new directions to focus on structure, composition, fantasy, and subjective expression

Question 21

primitivism

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In painting, the \"primitives\" are those painters of the Netherlandish and Italian schools who flourished before 1500, thus all Netherlandish painters between the van Eycks and Durer and all Italian painters between Giotto and Raphael; the term reflects modern artists\' fascination with non-Western art forms, as in Gauguin\' Tahitian-inspired paintings. In literature, primitivism has complex meansing--refers to notion of a golden age that appeared in both ancient pagan and christian writings--modern term used to denote 2 species of cultural relativism, which either finds people isolated from civilization to be superior to those living in civilized and urban settings--

Question 22

problem play

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A type of drama that focuses on a specific social problem; the Swedish playwright Ibsen was a pioneer of this genre, as in A Doll\'s House (1879), concerning women\'s independence.

Question 23

ragtime

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A type of instrumental music, popularized by African Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with strongly syncopated rhythm and a lively melody.

Question 24

syncopation

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In music, the technique of accenting the weak beat when a strong beat is expected

Question 25

ukiyo-e

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A type of colorful Japanese print, incised on woodblocks, that is characterized by simple design, plain backgrounds, and flat areas of color. Developed in 17th century Japan; admired by late-19th century Parisian artists, who assililated it to a Western style that is most notable in the prints of Mary Cassatt

Question 26

In the late 19th century, Europeans came to American in the largest migration of human population every recorded

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True

Question 27

Claude Debussy founded the Impressionist style in music

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True

Question 28

Composer Arnold Schoenberg reverted to strictly Classical forms and melodies in his popular early 20th century music

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False

Question 29

Picasso and Braque invented the artistic style of Cubism

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True

Question 30

Henrik Ibsen\'s Naturalist play A Doll\'s House is about the make-believe world of a neglected daughter

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False

Question 31

Modernist art meant a shift from an art that reflected the natural world to one rooted in the artist\'s inner vision, from an art based on representational or naturalistic images to one devoted to nonrepresentational or nonobjective forms

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True

Question 32

Albert Einstein asserted that the only absolute in the universe is the speed of sound, which is the same for all observers

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False

Question 33

Impressionist paintings concentrated on the play of light over objects in transient moments. They frequently painted out of doors

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True

Question 34

Impressionism was named after an exhibited painting by Claude Monet that a critic particularly attacked

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True

Question 35

Many Impressionist artists were inspired by Chinese prints that were available in Europe in great numbers

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False

Question 36

August Rodin is the most well known sculptor of the early Modernist period.

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True

Question 37

Rodin is also known for having said that \"form follows function.\"

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False

Question 38

Colllage is an art form in which bits and pieces of other materials are glued onto a flat surface. Picasso is known for using this technique.

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True

Question 39

Henri Matisse and Paul Gauguin are both known for being colorists.

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True

Question 40

The Fauves were a French anarchist literary movement who published a magazine by that name

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False

Question 41

Constructivism

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A movement in nonobjective art, originating in the Soviet Union and flourishing from 1917 to 1922 and concerned with planes and volumes as expressed in modern industrial materials such as glass and plastic.

Question 42

culture

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The sum of human endeavors, including the basic political, economic, and social institutions and the values, beliefs, and arts of those who share them.

Question 43

Dada

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An early 20tth-century artistic movement, named after a nonsense word that was rooted in a love of play, encouraged deliberately irrational acts, and exhibited contempt for all traditions.

Question 44

de Stijl

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Dutch, \"the style\"; an artistic movement associated with a group of early 20th-century Dutch painters who used rectangular forms and primary colors in their works and who believed that art should have spiritual values and a social purpose.

Question 45

epic theater

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A type of theater, invented by Brecht, in which major social issues are dramatized with outlandish props and jarring dialogue and effects, all designed to alienate middle-class audiences and force them to think seriously about the problems raised in the plays.

Question 46

existentialism

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A 20th-century philosophy focusing on the precarious nature of human existence, with its uncertainty, anxiety, and ultimate death, as well as on individual freedom and responsibility and the possibilities for human creativity and authenticity.

Question 47

International style

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In 20th century architecture, a style and method of construction that capitalized on modern materials, such as ferro-concrete, glass, and steel, and that produced the popular \"glass box\" skyscrapers and variously shaped private houses.

Question 48

Logical positivism

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A school of modern philosophy that seeks truth by defining terms and clarifying statements and asserts that metaphysical theories are meaningless.

Question 49

mass

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In religion, the ritual celebrating the Eucharist (Holy Communion), mainly in the Roman Catholic Church. 2 parts--Ordinary and Proper--Ordinary remains same throughout the year--Proper changes for each date and service. Mass Ordinary composed of the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei; Mass Proper includes the Intriot, Gradual, Alleluia or Tract, Sequence, Offertory, and Communion.

Question 50

Neoclassicism

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Late 3rd century b.c. an artisitic movement in disintegrating Hellenistic world that sought inspiration in Athenian golden Age of the 5th and 4th centuries b.c.--since 1970, Neoclassicism has been highly visible submovement of Post-Modernism--particularly prominent in painting and architecture that restates principles of Classical art-balance, harmony, idealism.

Question 51

serial music

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a type of musical composition based on a 12-tone scale arranged any way the composer chooses--the absence of a tonal center in serial music leads to atonality

Question 52

Socialist Realism

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A Marxist artistic theory that calls for the use of literature, music, and the arts in the service of the ideals and goals of socialism and/ior communism, with an emphasis in painting on the realistic portrayal of objects.

Question 53

stream-of-consciousness

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A writing technique used by some modern authors in which the narration consists of a character\'s continuous interior monologue of thoughts and feelings

Question 54

Suprematism

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A variation of abstract art, originating in Russia in the early 20th century, characterized by the use of geometric shapes as the basic elements of the composition.

Question 55

Surrealism

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An early 20th century movement in art, literature, and theater, in which incongruous juxtapositions and fantastic images produce an irrational and dreamlike effect.

Question 56

12-tone scale

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In music, a fixed scale or series in which there is an arbitrary arrangement of the 12 tones (counting every half-tone) of an octave by Arnold Schoenberg.

Question 57

stream-of-consciousness

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The writing method in which the narrative consists of the unedited thoughts of one of the characters, through whose mind readers experience the story.

Question 58

Frida Kahlo

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The 20th century Mexican artist known for unsettling self-portratis taht turn private anguish and pain into art with universal resonance.

Question 59

Diego Rivera

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Name the Mexican muralist who was her husband--he was hired to create a mural for Rockefeller that was destroyed because of his insertion of a major Communist figure.

Question 60

Virginia Woolf

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Wrote A Room of One\'s Own, Mrs. Dalloway, and To the Lighthouse.

Question 61

Ulysses

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Early 20th century novel planned as a modern version of the Odyssey.

Question 62

William Faulkner

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Wrote The Sound and the Fury--won a Nobel Prize for literature and invented the fictional Yoknapatawpha County whose regional characters were transformed into universal symbols.

Question 63

William Butler Yeats

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Great poet who wrote the poem \"Sailing to Byzantium\" and used Irish history, the occult, and myths as source materials.

Question 64

T.S. Eliot

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Great poet who wrote \"The Waste Land\" that contains references to Shakespeare, Dante, foreign language phrases, the spiritual texts of India, and medieval legends.

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