Exam 14: Modernism in Europe and America

Examine the importance of abstraction for different artists or movements. Using examples, explain how abstraction fulfilled the artistic aims of numerous artists.

Examine the aims of Cubism. Please consider the different phases.

_____ was the movement that championed war as an agent to rid society of its past and traditions.

The first phase of Cubism is called _____.

Describe the method of training that Walter Gropius developed for Bauhaus artists.

The striated faces of some of the female figures in Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon were influenced by _____.

Describe the basic assumptions of the Futurist movement.

Embraced by the artist Mìro, _____ was the creation of art without conscious control.

______ photographed the rural poor who were displaced by the Great Depression in the 1930s.

Which of the following artists developed the theory of Neoplasticism, or the new pure plastic art?

The artist _____ made animals the subject of much of his art.

Which of the following is an example of Synthetic Cubism?

Berlin Dada artists created a variation on collage called _____.

What were the artistic aims of Synthetic Cubism?

Kandinsky and Marc named their Expressionist movement _____ because of their interest in the color blue and horses.

_____ artists reduced the formal elements to simple geometric shapes.

The first group of German Expressionist artists called themselves _____.

On what event did Picasso base Guernica ?

_____ is the questioning of norms and conventions in art.

Why did Franz Marc choose animals as the subject of his art?