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Art History Exam #4 29-32 Questionswith Latest Update
What term is employed to describe the early-20th-century artists and movements that
were ahead of their time and transgressed the limits of established art forms? - Answer-
Avant-garde
Which style is employed in Henri Matisse's intensely colored, shockingly bright painting
titled Woman with the Hat? - Answer-Fauvism
In his essay titled "Notes of a Painter," what did Henri Matisse describe as his primary
goal as a painter in works such as Harmony in Red? - Answer-Expression
Which avant-garde movement was cofounded by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner? - Answer-Die
Brücke (The Bridge)
Who were the founding members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter
(Blue Rider)? - Answer-Kandinsky and Marc
Which German Expressionist artist frequently employed animals in artwork, believing
them to be more pure than humans, and thus more appropriate vehicles for expressing
inner truth? - Answer-Franz Marc
Picasso completed his 1906-1907 portrait Gertrude Stein by incorporating features of
what kind of sculpture? - Answer-Iberian
Which influential French artist was active in Paris as well as a central figure in New York
Dada? - Answer-Marcel Duchamp
Which work by Pablo Picasso incorporates radically abstracted bodies and heads in the
form of African masks? - Answer-Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Vera Mukhina's Worker and Collective Farm Woman (1937) conforms to what official
Russian style of art, established in 1934? - Answer-Soviet Realism
Otto Dix, George Grosz, and Max Beckmann were all associated with which artistic
movement? - Answer-Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity)
Artists of which style used methods such as automatism to provoke reactions closely
related to subconscious experience? - Answer-Surrealists
The concrete tangibility of Meret Oppenheim's sculptural Object (Le Déjeuner en
fourrure) (Luncheon in Fur) makes it a particularly effective example of what style of art?
- Answer-Surrealism
, Who was responsible for mounting the Degenerate Art exhibition in 1937? - Answer-
Hitler and the Nazis
Who became the director of the Bauhaus in Germany in 1919? - Answer-Walter Gropius
Which architect railed against the excesses of the Art Nouveau style and wrote a 1908
polemic entitled Ornament and Crime? - Answer-Adolf Loos
With its open plan, emphasis on intersecting lines and planes, and restricted color
scheme, Gerrit Rietveld's Schröder House represents the architectural corollary to what
modern movement? - Answer-De Stijl
Though he shunned formal association with avant-garde groups, Paul Klee's interest in
the unconscious, his employment of private symbols, and his desire to penetrate "the
reality behind visible things" align him with what style? - Answer-Surrealism
According to Picasso, what does the bull that appears in his monumental 1937 painting
Guernica represent? - Answer-Brutality and darkness
Many early-20th-century sculptors such as Constantin Brancusi, Barbara Hepworth, and
Henry Moore championed what quality as the modern sculptor's proper goal? - Answer-
Abstraction
Aaron Douglas's style is a unique fusion of African art, the artist's own personal vision,
and what European style? - Answer-Synthetic Cubism
John Sloan, a self-described "incorrigible window watcher," was associated with The
Eight, a group of American painters who favored what style? - Answer-Realism
What description best characterizes the response American audiences had upon
encountering European and American modernist art at the Armory Show in 1913? -
Answer-An emotional response
In the early 20th century, the cause of modernist art in the United States was largely
carried forth by what group of supporters? - Answer-Prominent American women
patrons of the arts
Georgia O'Keeffe's skyscraper paintings in the 1920s, with their simplified planes, clean
lines, and abstract rhythms, were associated with what style? - Answer-Precisionism
Which artist painted Nighthawks, the work that captures the overwhelming loneliness
and isolation of Depression-era life in the United States? - Answer-Edward Hopper
Grant Wood was the leader of what mid-20th-century art movement? - Answer-
Regionalism
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