Chapter 29: Modernism in Europe, 1900 to 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

Which artistic medium is represented by Cubist works such as Still Life with Chair-Caning and Bottle, Newspaper, Pipe, and Glass?

Collage

Jean Arp's Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance is an example of which style?

Dada

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

Deconstruction

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

Enlightenment ideals

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

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

Käthe Kollwitz

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

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

Picasso and Braque

Kazimir Malevich's Suprematism views what as the most important element of creative art?

Pure feeling

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

Salvador Dalí

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

Vincent van Gogh

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

Fauvism

In Woman Combing Her Hair, which element of the human body does Aleksander Archipenko represent as a void rather than a solid volume?

Head

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

Surrealism

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

Color

Which element of a painting did Matisse view as the primary conveyor of meaning?

Color