Exam 21: From 1900 to the Present

The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali illustrates how he looked to his subconscious (dreams,hypnosis,psychoanalysis)for his subject matter.What artistic movement is he associated with?

Chéri Samba's Problème d'eau.Où trouver l'eau? is an ironic comment on

Cubism can best be described as:

Which artist,who painted Houses at L'Estaque,worked with Picasso to promote the style called Cubism?

Marianne Nicholson's cliffside pictograph represents a Northwest Native American tradition that had been suppressed through most of the 20^th century,called

Which of these paintings is considered an Abstract Expressionist painting?

Pablo Picasso's Guernica represents an event in the

Wassily Kandinsky believed that the greatest device to express emotion was what?

In what aspect of the twentieth century were Umberto Boccioni and other Futurist artists most interested?

"Postmodernism" has been defined,in part,as

Our perceptions of reality are dependent upon our senses.How might Surrealism,with its fantastic and sometimes disturbing dream-based imagery,be evidence of a more direct "reality"?

Showing irreverence for tradition and rationality,Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa [L.H.O.O.Q.] exemplifies which movement?

Which twentieth-century painting movement is most often associated with Henri Matisse?

Using her work to struggle with the question of identity,this photographer's images are self-portraits.

Wassily Kandinsky's Sketch I for Composition VII is an example of

Which of these is an example of Dada art?

The paintings of Giacomo Balla capture the fascination with movement characteristic of artists of which movement?

Explain the revolutionary aspects of the Cubist movement.

The artist André Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of "resolution between these two states,dream and reality." What was this movement?

Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque helped pioneer Cubist landscapes.What earlier painter of landscapes inspired them?