ArtC22 & C23

One goal of the Russian artist Aleksandr Rodchenko was

using art to teach and reinforce political beliefs.

Bird in Space best represents Brancusi's interest in

abstracting a form to its essential elements

What sculptural influence appears prominently in Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon?

african

What modern invention influenced Brancusi's art?

airplanes

What feature does Henri Matisse's Harmony in Red (The Red Room) share with Analytic Cubist paintings?

ambiguous spatial relationships

What characteristic feature of Fauvism reveals the influence of Post-Impressionist painters such as Paul Gauguin?

an emotionally expressive impact

What common interest did Pablo Picasso believe he shared with Alfred Stieglitz as best demonstrated with this photograph?

an interest in the play of formal elements

The International Style refers to a movement focused on

architectural design.

What is generally meant by the term "expressionism" in art?

art that emphasizes emotions

What event does the Candombe reference in many of Pedro Figari's paintings?

black domestic servants gathering for religious holidays

Artists in which Latin American country used cannibalism as a metaphor for how they "ingested" ideas of European modernism into their art?

brazil

What was one way Cubism expressed characteristics of modern life?

by suggesting the relativity of values

What is one characteristic typical of Edward Hopper's approach to painting?

careful organization and controlled light and shadow

What technique did Picasso and Braque develop in Synthetic Cubism?

collage

Which movement viewed artistic experimentation with industrial materials, techniques, and forms as a means to improving the future of modern society?

constructivism

What artistic movement informs the intersecting planes and shallow space of Lyubov Popova's Painterly Architectonic?

cubism

Which art movement responded to the hours of World War I through social rebellion and an attempt to overturn social values?

dada

In Analytic Cubism, Braque and Picasso

depicted objects and figures in various parts and from different perspectives.

dada refelcts the works of artistts who were

disillusioned with european traditional values

The De Stijl movement was founded by a group of

dutch artists

One goal of the journal Martin Fierro was to

educate the public about modern art.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's impression of the city in Street, Berlin differs from the image of urban life in Sonia Delaunay-Terk's Le Bal Bullier in its emphasis on

emotional intensity

A key goal of the Harlem Renaissance was for African Americans to

express themselves as modern artists through recognizably African styles.

Latin American modern art frequently

featured collaborations with painters and poets.

The work of which Latin American artist is often associated with Surrealism?

frida kahlo

Which technique did Max Ernst use to generate the monster-like forms in The Horde?

frottage

Which artist was most influenced by northern Renaissance art?

grant wood

These two works were made in response to which movement?

harlem renaissance

What distinguishes Paul Cézanne's Gardanne from Georges Braque's Houses at l'Estaque?

he use of perspective to suggest depth

Frank Lloyd Wright's open floor plan continues to particularly influence the design of present-day

homes

Which Surrealist artist was influenced by the way that children made art?

Joan Miró

Barbara Hepworth was the first modern sculptor to...?

Put holes in her works.

Which characteristic did the De Stijl group reject?

Reference to living and human forms.

In the Initial Manifesto of Futurism, what does Filippo Tommaso Marinetti proclaim to be most beautiful?

a roaring motorcar

Who did Constantin Brancusi work with before striking out on his own?

rodin

which artist used nightmares as the subjects for many of his paintings

salvador dali

What best describes the way color operates in Fauvist paintings?

It creates an expressive effect.

Alfred Stieglitz showed progressive European art in his New York art gallery called

291

What is one reason that the Abstract-Creation group championed abstraction as an approach to art making?

Abstract art was associated with personal and political freedom.

Which artist was an early member of the Abstraction-Creation group?

Barbara Hepworth

What earlier works influenced Brancusi's abstractionist style?

Cycladic sculpture

Rounded, tubular, machine-made shapes are associated with which artist?

Fernand Léger

André Derain's painting technique in London Bridge most closely reveals the artistic influence of

Georges Seurat.

how did Malevich reinforce his goals for Suprematism in this work?

He focused on shape and color.

Why did American regionalists favor representational imagery in paintings?

It could clearly communicate their ideas about national identity.

Which well-known work of art did Marcel Duchamp mock in his Dada work L.H.O.O.Q

Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa

Which artist was most influenced by Stroboscopic photography, which shows movement through sequential images?

Marcel Duchamp

Which artists' collaborative investigations led to the invention of Cubism?

Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque

Guernica was commissioned by the Spanish government for the

Paris International Exposition.

The influence of which artist is best demonstrated by Paula Modersohn-Becker's depiction of herself nude and surrounded by the natural environment?

Paul Gaugin

Readily understood political works such as Monument to the Proletariat and Agriculture is typical of the twentieth-century style known as?

Socialist Realism.

What feature of Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory contributes most to its disturbing effect?

The Juxtaposition of unrelated images.

What common goal underlies most art by American Regionalists and African-American Modernists in the 1930s?

The desire to represent personal and cultural identity in art.

What elements of the International Style are present in the Villa Savoye?

The house shows its structure and uses modern materials.

How does Diego Rivera's The Liberation of the Peon demonstrate a social realist approach to art?

The work communicates readily with the public about important issues and events.

Which artist used non-objective imagery as a means of providing spiritual nourishment?

Wassily Kandinsky

Thomas Hart Benton's painting style was characterized by

a realistic style with strong curvilinear rhythms.

What was one reason Hannah Hoc was criticized for the Multi-Millionaire?

a lack of originality

Prior to the Harlem Renaissance, most African-American painting and sculpture was seen

in the Harmon Foundation traveling exhibition.

How is the Dada practice of photomontage similar to Marcel Duchamp's concept of the readymade?

its reliance on mass-produced images

What detail of Vera Mukhina's Monument to the Proletariat and Agriculture distinguishes it from traditional sculpture of the past?

its steel medium

What influenced some of Henry Moore's recumbent sculptures?

mexican art

Mexican social realism most often took the form of

murals

What influence completed the final breakaway from Renaissance techniques for western artists?

nonwestern art

surrealism drew heavily on the written works of

sigmund freud

What is one way that Joaquin Torres-Garcia referenced his Latin American heritage in Universal Constructivism?

spanish words

Futurism is distinguished from Cubism because of its focus on

speed and motion.

Flat, irregular, geometric shapes that were supposed to promote shape and color, rather than representation or narrative, were associated with which movement?

suprematism

What event is considered a milestone in introducing modern art to the American public?

the Armory Show

Dorothea Lange was one of a number of photographers commissioned by the government to document

the Depression.

Which cultural movement included authors Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston?

the Harlem Renaissance

What is a characteristic of Analytical Cubism?

the collapse of the figure and the ground in pictorial space

What characteristic of Dada seems reflected in the Surrealists's use of automatism?

the emphasis on chance and spontaneity

Sonia Delaunay-Terk was an early promoter of

the integration of modern art into everyday things.

Kandinsky wanted to make paintings that made no reference to

the material world of subject matter

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space represents a Futurist goal because

the muscular forms seem to move outward with great energy.

Georgia O'Keeffe's early work was inspired by

the prairie

What was a key concern of Kirchner and Die Brücke?

to form a new art that would link the German past with modern experience

The term "Fauves" is derived from the French phrase meaning

wild beasts