Exam 15: modern art in Europe and the Americas, 1900-1950

The avant-garde in Cuba was the most __________ of all the Modernist groups.

Color Field painters such as Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman embraced abstraction in a completely different way than did Jackson Pollack.Explain what they tried to achieve with their non-representational work.

The Mexican __________ was intended to address Mexico's need for a national and revolutionary art.

The influential critic,Clement Greenberg,believed that the best paintings had no reference to ___________.

What are the different kinds of Surrealism?

Which modern art movement professed a radical political agenda based on their love of machines,speed,and war?

Why did Social Realists and Mexican muralists retreat from the more radical innovations of Modernism?

How did Walter Gropius's design for the Bauhaus building convey the dynamism of modern life?

How did the Cubists create influential new methods of composition in painting and sculpture?

How did Russian Constructivists combine Modern styles with practical needs?

The best-known artist to emerge from the Harlem Community Art Center was __________.

Tatlin intended his _____________ to be modern replacements of Russian icons.

Explore the significance of Jackson Pollack's drip paintings.How did he make them and did they move beyond any abstract work made previously?

The Surrealists embraced unexpected __________ of disparate realities.

In what ways did artists give their art a deeper social relevance in the period between the wars?

Kandinsky believed that looking at a painting should be comparable to experiencing ____________.

The manner in which Picasso and Braque broke objects into parts initiated ____________.

The __________ developed many techniques for liberating the unconscious.

What Abstract Expressionist technique,pioneered by Helen Frankenthaler,had a significant influence on later artists?

The Prairie school designed low,horizontal __________ that echoed the flat plains of the prairie.