Exam 32: Modern Art in Europe and the Americas, 1900-1950

How did early twentieth-century artists systematically undermine the traditional rules of Western art?

Weston believed that ____________ made a great photograph and not dark room manipulation.

The Surrealists embraced unexpected __________ of disparate realities.

__________ exhibited with the Surrealists from the beginning and embraced biomorphic abstraction.

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

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

Although flowers became her best-known subject, early in her career Georgia O'Keefe painted images of _______________.

Villa Savoye reflects Le Corbusier's ___________ ideals in its geometric design and avoidance of ornamentation.

Berlin __________ artists especially favored collage and photomontage.

__________ wanted Futurism to break Italy free from its past.

How did Marcel Duchamp's Fountain change the course of art?

Die Brücke artists favored traditional northern media such as ______________.

Why did the Nazis suppress avant-garde art and how did they exhibit it?

__________ means "wild beast" and was the name of an art movement that included Henri Matisse.

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

An outgrowth of the Russian Revolution, __________ comprised a group of artists dedicated to working collectively for the state.

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

How did the Surrealists liberate the unconscious mind and why did they do this in their art?

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

Sonia __________ not only produced paintings with her husband, but also designed fabric and clothing on her own.