ARTH 102 - Ch 29: Modernism in Europe 1900 - 1945

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

What term do art historians use to describe the process Joan Miró employed to paint such works as Painting?

Automatism

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?

Avante-garde

Which modern technological innovation is Delaunay referencing in his Orphic painting Homage to Blériot?

Aviation

Naum Gabo's Column, which he built up piece by piece with clear materials so the viewer could experience the volume of space it occupies, is an example of what sculptural style?

Constructivist

What term describes the modernist process Braque has applied to the form of the musician in his painting The Portuguese?

Deconstruction

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

Degenerate

The expressive use of formal elements such as color and perspective in Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Street, Dresden is a reflection of the work of which earlier painter?

Edvard Munch

Nude figure studies and self-portraits showing emaciated bodies were the primary output of which artist?

Egon Schiele

Vassily Kandinsky's move to abstraction rather than representation can be attributed to the scientific theories of which individual?

Einstein

What is the name of the early-20th-century movement that painted works of simplified design but shockingly bright coloration?

Fauvism

Which artist painted The Eclipse of the Sun, meant as an indictment of militarism and capitalism?

George Grosz

The Villa Savoye embodies Le Corbusier's theories about which genre of architecture?

Houses

In what country did the early-20th-century Futurist movement, with its revolutionary manifestos, arise?

Italy

Paul Klee thought of painting's ability to express feelings, through color, form, and line, as similar to what other type of art?

Music

What was the intended function of Vladimir Tatlin's Monument to the Third International? - Monument to Communism - Church tower staircase - Armature for colossal statue - Government building

NOT "Monument to Communism"

What did Dadaists believe led to the destruction and loss of life of World War I? - The irrational - Enlightenment ideals - Political anarchy - Intuitive psychology

NOT "The irrational"

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

Picasso and Braque

Which artist painted this "image of concrete irrationality," entitled The Persistence of Memory?

Salvador Dalí

Giorgio de Chirico's The Song of Love is a precursor of which movement in painting?

Surrealism

Otto Dix's work Der Krieg is in what time-honored religious format?

Triptych

André Derain's Mountains at Collioure reflects his close study of which earlier painter?

Vincent van Gogh

Marcel Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even is a commentary on modern humans' similarity to what?

Machines

In Fate of the Animals, Franz Marc's use of colors that signify severity and brutality is a reference to which contemporary historical situation?

World War I

Delaunay's version of Cubism, referred to as Orphism, gave a crucial role to which element of painting?

Color

Which architect created "skin and bones" buildings on the basis of the motto "less is more"?

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Which of his art patrons did Picasso paint using the simplified planar forms of Iberian sculpture for the sitter's face?

Gertrude Stein

Which work by Picasso is meant as a condemnation of the Nazi bombing of the Basque capital in Spain?

Guernica

Which Dada artist is known as a master of photomontage?

Hannah Höch

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

Which Dada artist modified mass-produced objects into "readymades" given the status of art in the eyes of viewers?

Marcel Duchamp

Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space reveals the artist's concern with what?

Movement

After World War I, German artists sought a clear-eyed and honest image of the modern world, and this artistic movement came to be called what?

Neue Sachlichkeit

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

Picasso's work entitled Still Life with Chair-Caning is representative of which style?

Synthetic Cubism