Art History Test 5
Who is the photographer for the City of Ambition? What city is it showing? What movement was the photographer a part of?
Alfred Stieglitz New York Modernism
Artists of which movement embraced mass production and new industrial materials Arts & Crafts or Art Nouveau?
Art Nouveau
What's the name of the home Frank Lloyd Wright designed in Greenville SC?
Broad Margin
Which movement of artists labeled their work photomontages (rather than collages)?
Dada
Scholars generally agree that German Expressionism began with...?
Die Brucke (the Bridge) the leader being Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Which artist developed "assisted readymade" sculptures?
Duchamp
What photographer sought to solve the question of whether all 4 of a horse's legs leave the ground when it's running?
Eadweard Muybridge
What Art movement was Henri Matisse part of? What annual art exhibit did he help start to show the work of vanguard artists in Paris?
Fauvism Salon d'Automme
What were the first and second major modern art movement styles that developed in the 20th cent?
Fauvism and Cubism
Who were the primary Symbolist artists in France?
Gauguin, Edouard Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard, Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, Henri Rousseau
What artist developed and was especially known for his "metaphysical town square" paintings?
Giorgio DE Chirico
Who was the most important/prominent Art Nouveau artist in Paris? What public structures could his deigns be easily encountered by Parisians?
Hector Guimard Paris Metro entrances
What new modern art movement of the first decades of the 20th century concentrated on visualization of movement and energy?
Italian Futurism
What artist pioneered cut-outs for his art?
Matisse
Which artist pioneered collage in 1912 by gluing imitation chair caning onto a canvas?
Pablo Picasso
Who revolutionized sculpture with his welded steel works?
Picasso
Who are the two artist who worked closely together to develop the ideas and style of Analytic Cubism?
Picasso and Braque
Who was the key leader involved in formulating ideas for the Dada and especially Surrealist movements?
Sigmund Freud
What art movement was Edvard Munch a part of? What world event likely prompted the imagery of his famous The Scream painting?
Symbolism The Krakatoa volcano eruption
What devastating event launched the development of modern architecture in Chicago?
The Chicago Fire
What figural details of Rodin's Gates of hell became famous sculptures as individual/independent images apart from being on the Gates?
The three shades
Who was the first artist to primarily explore nonobjective art/toatal abstraction?
Vasily Kandinsky
Who was the key figure/leader of Der Blaue Reiter( the blue rider) group?
Vasily Kandinsky
What story is Rodin's The Burghers of Calais depicting?
shows six town citizens who were to be sacrificed to save the town from the siege of the British in the hundred years war.
What tropical Location did Paul Gauguin Move to which inspired some of his most influential and famous painting imagery?
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