Chapter 29 Quiz

At the turn of the 20th century, artists who were viewed as being ahead of their time and who transgressed the limits of established art forms are referred to by what term?

Avant-garde

What term was applied to Surrealist and other avant-garde art by Hitler and the Nazi regime in 1930s and 1940s Germany?

Degenerate

Which Dada artist is known as a master of photomontage?

Hannah Höch

The theme of a grieving mother holding her dead child was explored in many works by which German Expressionist artist?

Käthe Kollwitz

Which two artists were the founders of Cubism, with its rejection of pictorial illusionism?

Picasso and Braque

Which de Stijl artist sought to create a universal means of expression by using only a palette of the three primary colors, gradations of black and white, and horizontal and vertical lines?

Piet Mondrian

In Matisse's painting Red Room, the color harmony he achieves with the color red merges which two elements of the scene?

Wall and table

Picasso's radical painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon reveals his fascination with ancient Iberian sculpture as well as the artistic traditions of which continent?

Africa

After World War I, German artists who served in the war wanted to depict the brutality and immorality they had witnessed, and this artistic movement came to be called what?

New Objectivity

What did Dadaists believe led to the destruction and loss of life of World War I?

Reason and logic