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

Whose art influenced the federal government to include a photographic unit in the Farm Securities Administration?

Which artist produced the first truly nonrepresentational work of art?

Mondrian thought that the beauty we see in nature is

Brancusi was motivated by the idea that all worldly objects are imperfect imitations of a perfect model,which exists only as an idea.From which philosopher did he borrow that idea?

Which of the following describes the design aesthetic of Gerrit Rietveld?

What did Duchamp call found objects-that is,ordinary manufactured items?

What happening in Frida Kahlo's life as she was painting The Two Fridas?

Which art movement aimed to attack everything old,dull,"feminine," and safe and promote the "masculine," including warfare and speed?

Whose photographs of African Americans in Harlem in the first half of the twentieth century conveyed a sense of racial pride and social empowerment?

Which art movement combined Fauvist color with Analytic Cubist form in works dedicated to the modern city and modern technology?

Which is true of the new Bauhaus building in Dessau that Gropius designed?

Who "discovered" Georgia O'Keeffe?

Which of the following did the artists of Die Brücke hope to bridge?

Which of the following best describes Käthe Kollwitz's idea of what art should be or do?

What caused Modern art to be transformed from an embattled fringe movement to a component of "high culture"?