Exam 14: Modernism in Europe and America,1900 to 1945

What is organic architecture?

Franz Marc claimed that Fate of the Animals was like a premonition of ____.

Who created this work,and what is its theme? How does it relate to its social and historical context?

How do these works reflect the early twentieth century?

Which artist's image was directly contradicted by the text painted on the canvas?

Attribute the images on the screen to a culture and give an approximate date.Give the reasons for your attributions,using complete sentences and referring to specific works discussed in class.

Dada artists exhibited ready-made sculptures,which were mass-produced common objects,called ____.

Explain the significance of the idea of the "avant garde" in art and architecture created between 1900 and 1945.Use examples to support your essay.

Which artist painted unflinching autobiographical self-portraits?

Discuss the relationship of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye to Frank Lloyd Wright's Kaufmann House (Fallingwater).How did the architects marry the shape,volume,and space of each house to its environment? How do these structures represent each architect and his philosophy?

Discuss Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.How did this work re-shape the art of the early twentieth century? Include in your discussion the influences of Primitive art.Use examples to support your essay.

Which piece in the 1913 Armory Show caused public outcry and calls for the show to be closed as a menace to public morality? What did one critic call the work?

The work of Ernst Kirchner shows ____.

Max Beckmann's painting Night was autobiographical because he ____.

The two major schools of German Expressionism were:

How does Magritte's The Treachery (or Perfidy)of Images pose a bold challenge to the illusionistic purpose of art since the Renaissance.Use examples to support your essay.