Question 1

According to the Futurists,what was the defining characteristic of modern life?

Accepted Answer

A) Politics 
B) Art 
C) War 
D) Speed 
A) Politics 
B) Art 
C) War 
D) Speed

Question 2

Using The Birth of a Nation as the extended example,describe three film techniques that D.W.Griffith introduced to motion pictures.Next identify three current films that use one or more of these techniques.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Using The Birth of a Nation as...

Question 3

Who developed Imagist poetry?

Accepted Answer

A) Guillaume Apollinaire 
B) Gertrude Stein 
C) Alice B.Toklas 
D) Ezra Pound 
A) Guillaume Apollinaire 
B) Gertrude Stein 
C) Alice B.Toklas 
D) Ezra Pound

Question 4

Define and compare Cubism and Fauvism,illustrating your points with specific works.

Accepted Answer

Cubism and Fauvism were two influential

Question 5

Why did The Birth of a Nation establish director D.W.Griffith as a film master?

Accepted Answer

A) His invention of intertitles 
B) His manipulation of racist sympathies 
C) His genius for promoting his film 
D) His use of cinematic space 
A) His invention of intertitles 
B) His manipulation of racist sympathies 
C) His genius for promoting his film 
D) His use of cinematic space

Question 6

Which of the following was not among the technological and scientific developments of 1895-1915?

Accepted Answer

A) Internal combustion engine 
B) Existence of electrons in atoms 
C) Airplane travel across the English Channel 
D) Broadcast of the first radio news station 
A) Internal combustion engine 
B) Existence of electrons in atoms 
C) Airplane travel across the English Channel 
D) Broadcast of the first radio news station

Question 7

Compare Georges Braque's Violin and Palette to Pablo Picasso's Violin,focusing on portrayal of the violins,other objects pictured with the violins,and meaning expressed by the two works.

Accepted Answer

Georges Braque's "Violin and Palette" an

Question 8

What is the dominant theme of Robert Delaunay's The Cardiff Team?

Accepted Answer

A) Sportsmanship 
B) Competition 
C) Motion 
D) Nationalism 
A) Sportsmanship 
B) Competition 
C) Motion 
D) Nationalism

Question 9

Explain the German Der Blaue Reiter's obsession with color,identifying specifically two works that depend on their "spirituality of color."

Accepted Answer

The German Der Blaue Reiter, or The Blue

Question 10

Why did Picasso paint masks on two of the prostitutes in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon?

Accepted Answer

A) To make them seem less real 
B) To mock ideas of beauty 
C) To make them look primitive 
D) To give his models anonymity 
A) To make them seem less real 
B) To mock ideas of beauty 
C) To make them look primitive 
D) To give his models anonymity

Question 11

Why did Guillaume Apollinaire arrange the words of his calligramme poem "Il Pleut" in vertical columns?

Accepted Answer

A) To mimic musical notation 
B) To imitate Chinese script 
C) To create a verbal picture 
D) To defy traditional form 
A) To mimic musical notation 
B) To imitate Chinese script 
C) To create a verbal picture 
D) To defy traditional form

Question 12

Which earlier artist inspired Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso in their development of Cubism?

Accepted Answer

A) Manet 
B) van Gogh 
C) Cézanne 
D) Gauguin 
A) Manet 
B) van Gogh 
C) Cézanne 
D) Gauguin

Question 13

Why did viewers find Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon disturbing?

Accepted Answer

A) The subjects are prostitutes 
B) The shapes are unnatural 
C) The women look androgynous 
D) The blue and orange colors clash 
A) The subjects are prostitutes 
B) The shapes are unnatural 
C) The women look androgynous 
D) The blue and orange colors clash

Question 14

What shift in art does Pablo Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein represent?

Accepted Answer

A) Literal to conceptual 
B) Conceptual to symbolic 
C) Symbolic to abstract 
D) Abstract to surreal 
A) Literal to conceptual 
B) Conceptual to symbolic 
C) Symbolic to abstract 
D) Abstract to surreal

Question 15

Identify and explain two ways Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon shows the influence of Paul Cézanne's work (Chap.33).

Accepted Answer

One way that Pablo Picasso's Les Demoise

Question 16

Why was the Der Blaue Reiter artist Wassily Kandinsky obsessed with color?

Accepted Answer

A) It imitated the divinity of nature 
B) It provided a range of emotions 
C) It directly influenced the soul 
D) It enabled him to change reality 
A) It imitated the divinity of nature 
B) It provided a range of emotions 
C) It directly influenced the soul 
D) It enabled him to change reality

Question 17

Identify and explain three specific examples for motion being a defining characteristic of early twentieth-century art.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Identify and explain three specific examples for...

Question 18

Why did Braque and Picasso begin pasting paper,fabric,rope,and other objects to their canvases?

Accepted Answer

A) To give texture to their Cubist paintings 
B) To challenge the space between life and art 
C) To counter their compositions' flatness 
D) To make the work seem to roll toward viewers 
A) To give texture to their Cubist paintings 
B) To challenge the space between life and art 
C) To counter their compositions' flatness 
D) To make the work seem to roll toward viewers

Question 19

Why did early silent films appeal especially to the working-class,immigrant audiences?

Accepted Answer

A) They could usually afford the $2 admission 
B) The early films featured working-class actors 
C) They didn't have to understand English 
D) Most of the films were set in exotic locales 
A) They could usually afford the $2 admission 
B) The early films featured working-class actors 
C) They didn't have to understand English 
D) Most of the films were set in exotic locales

According to the Futurists,what was the defining characteristic of modern life?

Using The Birth of a Nation as the extended example,describe three film techniques that D.W.Griffith introduced to motion pictures.Next identify three current films that use one or more of these techniques.

Who developed Imagist poetry?

Define and compare Cubism and Fauvism,illustrating your points with specific works.

Why did The Birth of a Nation establish director D.W.Griffith as a film master?

Which of the following was not among the technological and scientific developments of 1895-1915?

Compare Georges Braque's Violin and Palette to Pablo Picasso's Violin,focusing on portrayal of the violins,other objects pictured with the violins,and meaning expressed by the two works.

What is the dominant theme of Robert Delaunay's The Cardiff Team?

Explain the German Der Blaue Reiter's obsession with color,identifying specifically two works that depend on their "spirituality of color."

Why did Picasso paint masks on two of the prostitutes in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon?

Why did Guillaume Apollinaire arrange the words of his calligramme poem "Il Pleut" in vertical columns?

Which earlier artist inspired Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso in their development of Cubism?

Why did viewers find Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon disturbing?

What shift in art does Pablo Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein represent?

Identify and explain two ways Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon shows the influence of Paul Cézanne's work (Chap.33).

Why was the Der Blaue Reiter artist Wassily Kandinsky obsessed with color?

Identify and explain three specific examples for motion being a defining characteristic of early twentieth-century art.

Why did Braque and Picasso begin pasting paper,fabric,rope,and other objects to their canvases?

Why did early silent films appeal especially to the working-class,immigrant audiences?

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Exam 33: The Era of Invention: Paris and the Modern World

According to the Futurists,what was the defining characteristic of modern life?

Using The Birth of a Nation as the extended example,describe three film techniques that D.W.Griffith introduced to motion pictures.Next identify three current films that use one or more of these techniques.

Who developed Imagist poetry?

Define and compare Cubism and Fauvism,illustrating your points with specific works.

Why did The Birth of a Nation establish director D.W.Griffith as a film master?

Which of the following was not among the technological and scientific developments of 1895-1915?

Compare Georges Braque's Violin and Palette to Pablo Picasso's Violin,focusing on portrayal of the violins,other objects pictured with the violins,and meaning expressed by the two works.

What is the dominant theme of Robert Delaunay's The Cardiff Team?

Explain the German Der Blaue Reiter's obsession with color,identifying specifically two works that depend on their "spirituality of color."

Why did Picasso paint masks on two of the prostitutes in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon?

Why did Guillaume Apollinaire arrange the words of his calligramme poem "Il Pleut" in vertical columns?

Which earlier artist inspired Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso in their development of Cubism?

Why did viewers find Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon disturbing?

What shift in art does Pablo Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein represent?

Identify and explain two ways Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon shows the influence of Paul Cézanne's work (Chap.33).

Why was the Der Blaue Reiter artist Wassily Kandinsky obsessed with color?

Identify and explain three specific examples for motion being a defining characteristic of early twentieth-century art.

Why did Braque and Picasso begin pasting paper,fabric,rope,and other objects to their canvases?

Why did early silent films appeal especially to the working-class,immigrant audiences?

The Baroque in Italy: The Church and Its Appeal

The Secular Baroque in the North: The Art of Observation

The Baroque Court: Absolute Power and Royal Patronage

The Rise of the Enlightenment in England: The Claims of Reason

The Rococo and the Enlightenment on the Continent: Privilege and Reason

The Rights of Man: Revolution and the Neoclassical Style

The Romantic World View: the Self in Nature and the Nature of Self

Industry and the Working Class: a New Realism

Global Confrontation and Civil War: Challenges to Cultural Identity

In Pursuit of Modernity: Paris in the 1850s and 1860s

The Promise of Renewal: Hope and Possibility in Late Nineteenth-Century Europe

The Course of Empire: Expansion and Conflict in America

The Fin De Siècle: Toward the Modern

The Great War and Its Impact: a Lost Generation and a New Imagination

New York skyscraper Culture and the Jazz Age: Making It New

The Age of Anxiety: Fascism and Depression holocaust and Bomb

After the War: Existential Doubt, artistic Triumph, and the Culture of Consumption

Multiplicity and Diversity: Cultures of Liberation and Identity in the 1960s and 1970s

Without Boundaries: Multiple Meanings in a Postmodern World

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