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

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

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

Malevich exhibited 39 works consisting of __________________ in a style he termed Suprematism.

Joan Mitchell who created energetic and lyrical __________ paintings was part of a second generation of Abstract Expressionist painters.

What is an example of Modern artists looking to non-western art during this period?

Mondrian's interest in abstraction was an attempt to distill the __________ from objects in nature.

Why did the U.S. Government hire Dorothea Lange and other photographers during the Great Depression?

Why did Modern art arrive later in the Americas than it did in Europe and what was it like?

What are the different kinds of Surrealism?

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

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

What are the different kinds of Cubist painting?

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

Grant Wood was one of the _______________ artists who explored Midwestern themes.

How did the Suprematists combine Cubist picture space with complete abstraction?

Which of the following was a significant factor in providing New York with the foundation to supersede Paris as the center of the modern art world?

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

Which of the following technological innovations did NOT contribute to the development of the first skyscrapers?

Why did the Futurists embrace "the beauty of speed" in their art?

The __________ of Gerrit Rietveld's Schröder House created the radical asymmetry sought after in the De Stijl movement.