Question 1

Merit Oppenheim's most famous work intentionally confuses which element of art?

Accepted Answer

A) line 
B) color 
C) texture 
D) value 
A) line 
B) color 
C) texture 
D) value C

Question 2

Multiple perspectivei.e. ,showing an object from more than one point of view,is an important pictorial device in which movement?s,

Accepted Answer

A) Fauvism 
B) Cubism 
C) expressionism 
D) Suprematism 
A) Fauvism 
B) Cubism 
C) expressionism 
D) Suprematism B

Question 3

Which is the term for the elements that project out from the house at Fallingwater?

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A) terraces 
B) load-bearing walls 
C) girders 
D) cladding 
A) terraces 
B) load-bearing walls 
C) girders 
D) cladding A

Question 4

Describe the development and influence of Cubism.Include a comment regarding the working relationship of Picasso and Braque.

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Question 5

Describe the characteristics of the Les Fauves movement,using Le Bonheur de Vivre (The Joy of Life)by Henri Matisse as an example.

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Question 6

Recount the event that inspired the painting Guernica.Discuss the style and imagery that Picasso used to respond to that event.

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Question 7

Which of the following is the name for the movement of African American writers,artists,and musicians who explored black experience and identity?

Accepted Answer

A) Precisionists 
B) Harlem Renaissance 
C) New Realists 
D) Regionalists 
A) Precisionists 
B) Harlem Renaissance 
C) New Realists 
D) Regionalists

Question 8

Proponents of which of the following thought that artists should leave the studio and go into factories?

Accepted Answer

A) Orphism 
B) Dada 
C) Constructivism 
D) Futurism 
A) Orphism 
B) Dada 
C) Constructivism 
D) Futurism

Question 9

Who modeled for Grant Wood's famous painting of an Iowa farmer and his daughter?

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A) an Iowa farmer and his daughter 
B) Wood's dentist and sister 
C) Academy models while Wood was studying in Paris 
D) a New York City man and his daughter 
A) an Iowa farmer and his daughter 
B) Wood's dentist and sister 
C) Academy models while Wood was studying in Paris 
D) a New York City man and his daughter

Question 10

What took on new importance in the work of Henry Moore?

Accepted Answer

A) texture 
B) holes 
C) the materials 
D) motion 
A) texture 
B) holes 
C) the materials 
D) motion

Question 11

Which kind of work did the 291 gallery promote?

Accepted Answer

A) American Realism 
B) Impressionism 
C) European Modernism 
D) the "Ashcan School" 
A) American Realism 
B) Impressionism 
C) European Modernism 
D) the "Ashcan School"

Question 12

Who coined the name "mobile"?

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A) Marcel Duchamp 
B) Alexander Calder 
C) Georgia O'Keeffe 
D) Pablo Picasso 
A) Marcel Duchamp 
B) Alexander Calder 
C) Georgia O'Keeffe 
D) Pablo Picasso

Question 13

El Lissitzsky made what he called a "Project for the Affirmation of the New," otherwise known as

Accepted Answer

A) a Proun. 
B) a readymade. 
C) Suprematism. 
D) Surrealism. 
A) a Proun. 
B) a readymade. 
C) Suprematism. 
D) Surrealism.

Question 14

Which work personifies the new Italian man rushing headlong into the brave new Futurist world?

Accepted Answer

A) Electric Light 
B) Torso of a Young Man 
C) Unique Forms of Continuity in Space 
D) Improvisation No.30 (Cannons) 
A) Electric Light 
B) Torso of a Young Man 
C) Unique Forms of Continuity in Space 
D) Improvisation No.30 (Cannons)

Question 15

Which kind of art must communicate exclusively through formal means,such as line,shape,color,and texture?

Accepted Answer

A) realist 
B) nonrepresentational 
C) abstract 
D) intuitive 
A) realist 
B) nonrepresentational 
C) abstract 
D) intuitive

Question 16

Which group would be most likely to use dream analysis,free association,automatic writing,word games,and hypnotic trances?

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A) Dada 
B) Futurism 
C) De Stijl 
D) Surrealism 
A) Dada 
B) Futurism 
C) De Stijl 
D) Surrealism

Question 17

Discuss the political and iconographical significance of Diego Rivera's mural in the Palacio de Bellas Artes,Man,Controller of the Universe.

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Question 18

What was the primary subject of Jacob Lawrence's early work?

Accepted Answer

A) factories and skyscrapers 
B) migrant farm workers 
C) farms and small-town life 
D) black history 
A) factories and skyscrapers 
B) migrant farm workers 
C) farms and small-town life 
D) black history

Question 19

In which category is the work of Frida Kahlo generally placed (even though she herself thought it was an uncomfortable fit)?

Accepted Answer

A) Mexican mural movement 
B) Harlem Renaissance 
C) American Scene Painting 
D) Surrealism 
A) Mexican mural movement 
B) Harlem Renaissance 
C) American Scene Painting 
D) Surrealism

Question 20

What characterizes de Stijl and how do Composition with Yellow,Red,and Blue and Schroder House embody the movement?

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Exam 19: Modern Art in Europe and the Americas, 1900-1945

Merit Oppenheim's most famous work intentionally confuses which element of art?

Multiple perspectivei.e. ,showing an object from more than one point of view,is an important pictorial device in which movement?s,

Which is the term for the elements that project out from the house at Fallingwater?

Describe the development and influence of Cubism.Include a comment regarding the working relationship of Picasso and Braque.

Describe the characteristics of the Les Fauves movement,using Le Bonheur de Vivre (The Joy of Life)by Henri Matisse as an example.

Recount the event that inspired the painting Guernica.Discuss the style and imagery that Picasso used to respond to that event.

Which of the following is the name for the movement of African American writers,artists,and musicians who explored black experience and identity?

Proponents of which of the following thought that artists should leave the studio and go into factories?

Who modeled for Grant Wood's famous painting of an Iowa farmer and his daughter?

What took on new importance in the work of Henry Moore?

Which kind of work did the 291 gallery promote?

Who coined the name "mobile"?

El Lissitzsky made what he called a "Project for the Affirmation of the New," otherwise known as

Which work personifies the new Italian man rushing headlong into the brave new Futurist world?

Which kind of art must communicate exclusively through formal means,such as line,shape,color,and texture?

Which group would be most likely to use dream analysis,free association,automatic writing,word games,and hypnotic trances?

Discuss the political and iconographical significance of Diego Rivera's mural in the Palacio de Bellas Artes,Man,Controller of the Universe.

What was the primary subject of Jacob Lawrence's early work?

In which category is the work of Frida Kahlo generally placed (even though she herself thought it was an uncomfortable fit)?

What characterizes de Stijl and how do Composition with Yellow,Red,and Blue and Schroder House embody the movement?

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