Exam 20: The Twentieth Century: The Early Years

For his Twittering Machine,Paul Klee was influenced in part by __________.

The artists who began the Die Brücke movement chose that name because __________.

Discuss the two seemingly different influences of Paul Cézanne and African ethnographic art found in Pablo Picasso's Rose Period painting known as Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.

In 1913,the groundbreaking __________ was held in New York City and dominated by avant-garde European artists who would heavily influence subsequent American art.The most scandalous work at the exhibition was Marcel Duchamp's __________,which was dismissed as a "pile of kindling wood." 

Cubism was heavily influenced by Paul Cézanne in all but one of the following ways: 

Henri Matisse consolidated all of the following influences into his Fauvist canvases except __________.​ 

In Wasily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII,all of the following elements are found except __________.

Explain the subject matter of Guernica and how Picasso used his huge mural to express the "brutality and darkness" of war.

__________ shut down the Bauhaus in 1933,forcing many of its faculty,including Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe,to flee to the United States.

__________ compositions,such as Picasso's The Bottle of Suze,use a technique known as __________ to emphasize the form of the object and its construction rather than its disintegration.

Of works such as the Red Room,Henri Matisse said it should be "a mental soother,something like a good armchair in which to rest." This is because Matisse's primary concern was to __________.

Alexander Archipenko's Walking Woman displays an important innovation in Cubist sculpture: the use of __________.

Wassily Kandinsky,a major proponent of __________,is recognized as the first painter of __________.

In Umberto Boccioni's Dynamism of a Soccer Player,we see the __________ obsession with illustrating images in perpetual motion.

The Futurists' belief that their subjects were less important than the portrayal of a "dynamic sensation" is very evident in Giacomo Balla's constantly "moving" painting known as __________.