Chapter 29 Quiz

Which artist that we discussed in lecture was one of the leading painters of the Harlem Renaissance?

Aaron Douglas

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

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

Who is the artist of New York, Night?

Georgia O'Keeffe

Which Dada artist is known as a master of photomontage?

Hannah Hoch

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

Kathe Kollwitz

Thomas Hart Benton created a series of murals detailing the history of which US state?

Missouri

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

Mobile

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

What event ended the relative isolation of the American art scene and inspired American artists to embrace the modern, abstract style of their European counterparts?

The Armory Show

Which of the following best describes the intended message of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks?

The pervasive loneliness of war-era Americans

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

They rushed to send food to hungry workers.

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

Wall and table

Which of the following artists created large-scale, kinetic sculptures based on principles of engineering?

Alexander Calder

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

Alfred Stieglitz

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

Dorothea Lange

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

New Objectivity

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

Picasso and Braque

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

Reason and logic