Early 20th Century – Flashcards
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Throughout history, artists have regularly served political ends by using their art to make visual statements. Which of the following artists has created an overly political statement with his/her work?
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Dorothea Lange
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Which of the following artists created large-scale, kinetic sculptures?
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Alexander Calder
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Which of the following artists developed the theory of neoplasticism or the new pure plastic art?
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Mondrian
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Which of the following artists created a modern American art style combining Synthetic Cubism with jazz tempo and his perception of the fast-paced American culture?
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Stuart Davis
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What style is described as compositions of shapes and forms abstracted from the conventionally conceived world?
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Cubism
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The Champs de Mars or the Red Tower by Robert Delaunay depicts which of the following structures?
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Eiffel Tower
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Which of the following is executed in the Synthetic Cubist Style?
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Still-Life with Chair-Caning
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Which of the following describes the focus of the Ashcan School?
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it focused on the bleak and seedy aspects of city life
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What message is portrayed in Edward Hopper's Nighthawks?
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the pervasive loneliness of modern humans
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Thomas Hart Benton, a regionalist artist, focused his attention on which of the following subjects?
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the social history of Missouri
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Which of the following artists did not depict themes of war?
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Matisse
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Which of the following works demonstrated the Futurists' interest in motion?
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Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash
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Which of the following artists shared Stieglitz's concern to position photography as an art form with the same fine-art status as painting and sculpture?
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Edward Weston
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Her work is often described as autobiography because of her unflinching self-portrait portrayals. She gives the viewer a personal glimpse into herself and suffering. Which of the following artists does this describe?
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Frida Kahlo
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Which of the Blaue Reiter artists found animals superior in beauty, strength, innocence, and naturalness?
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Franz Marc
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Henry Moore's great series of reclining nudes is said to have been inspired by
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a pre-Columbian figure, the Chacmool
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Who wrote, "All my life I have sought the essence of flight. Don't look for the mysteries. I give you pure joy. Look at the sculptures until you see them. Those nearest to God have seen them."
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Brancusi
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A nonobjective work refers to work that
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has no reference to the external appearance of the physical world
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Of the following, who is the best example of a 20th century artist who believed that art should delight, inspire and enhance our lives as human beings?
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Mattisse
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Symbolism and fantasy were joined to create works filled with visionary joy and despair by which of the following artist?
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Marc Chagall
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Who said: "..we rejected imitative colors, and that with pure colors we obtained stronger reactions..?"
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Henri Matisse
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Which artist, even though he was older than the Di eBrucke artist, was invited to join them because he was pursuing similar ideas in his work?
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Emile Nolde
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The work of Ernest Kirchner shows
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subjects drawn from the industrialized urban bourgeoisie
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Who is the Surrealist?
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Salvador Dali
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A painting that was done in reaction to WWI was
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Max Beckmann's Night
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Which of the following statements about Dada is true?
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Dada had no fixed ideas
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Who photographed the rural poor displaced by the Great Depression in the 1930's?
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Dorothea Lange
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Empty piazzas depicting mysterious figures were often painted by which of the following artists?
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De Chirico
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Which of the following statements is not true?
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Surrealism ignored the ideas of psychoanalysis put forth by Jung and Freud
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The goal of Dali's "paranoiac-critical" method was to
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create images of inner reality and irrationality as concrete as the world of physical reality
