Unit 4 (Chapter 20)- The 20th Century Early Years

The 291 Gallery, run by [ ], supported the development of the abstract art in the United States by exhibiting modern European art along with American artists.

Alfred Stieglitz

Picasso and Braque co-founded [ ] in 1910.

Analytic Cubism

The theory of [ ] reached its peak in works such as The Portuguese.

Analytical Cubism

A good example of an artist who was classed with American Cubo-Realists or Precisionists in American art was [ ].

Charles Demuth

A Constructivist sculptor, [ ]'s sculptures, however abstract they appear, are rooted in the figure.

Constantin Brancusi

Picasso's [ ] showed the influence of African, Oceanic, and Iberian art.

Cubism

A color print of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was assembled and modified by the [ ] artist Duchamp.

Dada

The [ ] artists were less dependent on subject matter and more on color and form than their predecessors.

Der Blaue Reiter

Wassily Kandinsky was one of the founders of the [ ].

Der Blaue Reiter

[ ] artists showed common interests and techniques with boldly colored landscapes and cityscapes and horrific and violent portraits.

Die Brucke

Both Dada and Cubism engaged in automatic writing, in which the mind was to be purged of purposeful thought and a series of free associations were then to be expressed with the pen.

False

The author of "Concerning the Spiritual in Art" was Alexander Archipenko.

False

Henri Matisse as a [ ] used primary color as a structural element.

Fauve

Giacomo Balla manifests fully pure [ ] painting in Street Light.

Futurism

Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space illustrates the principles of [ ].

Futurism

One of Picasso's most powerful works of protest is a painting he did in 1937 to broadcast to the world the brutality of the German bombing of the Basque town of [ ].

Guernica

The Automatist Surrealists such as [ ] sought to eliminate all thought from their minds and derive shapes from the unconscious.

Jean Miro

Although [ ] is generally known as a Dadaist, Nude Descending a Staircase reflects the styles of Cubism and Futurism. In effect, the painting stimulates the passage of time by creating multiple exposures of a machine-tooled figure walking down a flight of stairs.

Marcel Duchamp

A Constructivist sculptor, [ ] created works in which intersecting planes of metal, glass, plastic, or wood defined space.

Naum Gabo

As World War II loomed on the horizon, [ ], or the New Objectivity in English, came from a faction of German Expressionism.

Neue Sachichkeit

Max Beckham, along with other artists, started calling themselves [ ] and reacted to wartime suffering with art that commented on bureaucracy, the military, and human torture.

Neue Sachlichkeit

Before the 20th century, only isolated examples of fantasy art could be found. One of the most whimsical of these artists is [ ], whose Twittering Machine is a humorous example.

Paul Klee

Influenced by Vincent van Gogh, [ ] developed his theories of painting that respected the two-dimensionality of the canvas.

Piet Mondrian

The Persistence of Memory, a Surrealism piece, was painted by [ ].

Salvador Dali

Intense interest in the reality of the dream state was shown by [ ].

Surrealism

Cubist and Futurist works of art, regardless of how abstract they might appear, always contain vestiges of representation.

True

The Futurists sometimes suggested that their subjects were less important than the portrayal of the dynamic sensation of the subjects.

True

The word Fauve, as applied to art, derived from a critic's reaction to what he saw in the 1905 Salon d'Automne.

True

Some Synthetic Cubist works, such as Picasso's Bottle of Suze are constructed entirely of [ ] objects.

found

A consciousness raising modern art exhibit in the United States in 1913 has come to be called simply [ ].

the Armory Show