Exam 29: Modernism in Europe, 1900 to 1945

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Delaunay's version of Cubism, referred to as Orphism, gave a crucial role to which element of painting?

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Which modern technological innovation is Delaunay referencing in his Orphic painting Homage to Blériot ?

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Which Dada artist modified mass-produced objects into "readymades" given the status of art in the eyes of viewers?

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Which two artists were the founders of Cubism, with its rejection of pictorial illusionism?

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​ ​   What term do art historians use to describe the process Joan Miró employed to paint such works as Painting ? What term do art historians use to describe the process Joan Miró employed to paint such works as Painting ?

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What element of architecture did German architect Adolf Loos theorize was unnecessary and wasteful?

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Picasso's radical painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon reveals his fascination with ancient Iberian sculpture as well as the artistic traditions of which continent?

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After World War I, German artists sought a clear-eyed and honest image of the modern world, and this artistic movement came to be called what?

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What term was applied to Surrealist and other avant-garde art by Hitler and the Nazi regime in 1930s and 1940s Germany?

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What element of André Derain's The Turning Road, L ' Estaque does he intend to reflect the energy of the landscape he was painting?

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In what country did the early-20th-century Futurist movement, with its revolutionary manifestos, arise?

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The discrepancy between the image and the caption in René Magritte's The Treachery ( or Perfidy ) of Images shows the influence of which contemporary field of study?

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Which Dada artist is known as a master of photomontage?

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What is the height of Vera Mukhina's stainless-steel sculpture Worker and Collective Farm Woman ?

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What term describes the modernist process Braque has applied to the form of the musician in his painting The Portuguese ?

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Which architect created "skin and bones" buildings on the basis of the motto "less is more"?

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Which artistic medium is represented by Cubist works such as Still Life with Chair-Caning and Bottle, Newspaper, Pipe, and Glass ?

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What did Dadaists believe led to the destruction and loss of life of World War I?

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Paul Klee thought of painting's ability to express feelings, through color, form, and line, as similar to what other type of art?

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The Villa Savoye embodies Le Corbusier's theories about which genre of architecture?

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