Chapter 30: Modernism in the United States and Mexico

Who were the two leading painters of the Harlem Renaissance?

Aaron Douglas and Jacob Lawrence

Regionalism

Grant Wood's painting American Gothic is an example of which painting style?

In what US city is José Clemente Orozco's 24-panel series Epic of American Civilization located?

Hanover, NH

What is Frida Kahlo referring to in her painting The Two Fridas?

Her ancestry

José Clemente Orozco's mural series painted shortly after the Mexican Revolution had which group as its central heroic focus?

Indigenous peoples

Which photographer sought to startle viewers with images of everyday objects with surprising elements added, such as this Cadeau (Gift)?

Man Ray

American Regionalist painters focused primarily on subjects located in which area of the United States?

Midwest

What uniquely American style combined Synthetic Cubism with a fascination with the presence of machinery in contemporary life?

Precisionism

What is the intended message of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks?

The pervasive loneliness of modern humans

How did viewers react to Dorothea Lange's photograph entitled Migrant Mother, Nipomo Valley?

They rushed to send food to hungry workers.

Diego Rivera

Which Marxist painter created a series of murals including Ancient Mexico and this detail of History of Mexico?

Synthetic Cubism

Aaron Douglas's mural From Slavery through Reconstruction combines forms and motifs from African art with what European modernist style?

Which painter believed in the importance of practicing "straight photography" rather than using techniques that add effects to a photo?

Alfred Stieglitz

Sprouting vegetation

Arthur Dove's nonobjective painting Nature Symbolized No. 2 seeks to capture the essence of what aspect of the natural world?

How did Jacob Lawrence ensure consistency among the sixty paintings of his series Migration of the Negro?

Consistent palette of colors and rhythmic arrangements of shapes

Which photographer was hired by the US Resettlement Administration to document the deplorable living conditions of the rural poor?

Dorothea Lange

Which of the following artists shared Stieglitz's goal of positioning photography as an art form with the same status as painting and sculpture?

Edward Weston

Whose highly personal work is often described as autobiographical because of her unflinching self-portrait portrayals, which give the viewer a glimpse into her suffering?

Frida Kahlo

Which leading patron and collector of modernist American art ultimately founded a museum to display her own collection?

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

What is the subject of Charles Demuth's My Egypt?

Grain elevator

Which artist painted a 60-panel series of paintings entitled The Migration of the Negro that was intended to document discrimination against African Americans?

Jacob Lawrence

The most derided work at the Armory Show, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, is by which artist?

Marcel Duchamp

Which photographer gained fame for images of Depression-era public works projects as well as serving as a US Air Force photographer during World War II?

Margaret Bourke-White

What sculptural form, developed by Alexander Calder, has its parts so carefully balanced that they move with the slightest current of air?

Mobile

What event ended the relative isolation of the American art scene and inspired the development of American modernist art?

The Armory Show