Humanities Chapter 14

After rejecting Italian Futurism, what style of painting did artist Giorgio de Chirico pioneer?

"Metaphysical"

The curved shape of Constantin Brancusi's sculpture Bird in Flight evokes what feature?

A feather

Which writing techniques are associated with Imagist poetry?

Abstraction Free verse Verbal compression

What theory did Hitler set forth that provoked the genocide of millions of Jews, thousands of Roman Catholics, gypsies, homosexuals, and other minorities?

Aryan racial superiority

Critics of Fauvism responded negatively to the artists' bold and spontaneous use of what element?

Color

Match each composer to their respective works.

Dmitri Shostakovich ......... Symphony No. 5 in D minor Aaron Copland .............. Appalachian Spring Sergei Prokofiev .............. Peter and the Wolf

Expressionist painting was pioneered by which artist?

Edvard Munch

At its core, Dada as a movement was based on the notion that art in a world gone mad should do what?

Embrace the irrational

Freudian psychology influenced early twentieth-century literature, as evidenced by what major trends?

Fantasy and dreams are inextricably linked with rational thought and real-life events. The psychic life of a character or characters is a salient aspect of the narrative.

Which iconoclast founded Futurism?

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Whose innovative cantilever designs ushered in the early modern era of architecture in America?

Frank Lloyd Wright

Which describe aspects of Vaslav Nijinsky's choreography for The Rite of Spring?

Frozen Wild Animalistic

What Depression-era novel describes courageous encounters with starvation, injustice, and evil in the lives of migrant farmers in Oklahoma?

Grapes of Wrath

Which were the predominant themes in science fiction in the twentieth century?

Interplanetary travel Invasion from outer space

Which artists are considered the pioneers of Nonobjective Art?

Piet Mondrian Kasimir Malevich Wassily Kandinsky

In the opera ______, Richard Strauss revisits and modernizes the story of King Herod's niece.

Salome

Match each composer with the corresponding description of his contribution to music.

Shostakovitch .......... Used dramatic dissonance, alongside lyricism, that was derided as "bourgeois formalism" by government officials. Prokofiev ......... Tonal and melodic, rhythmically inventive, but denounced by Soviet critics as "too modern" Copland ........... Tonal compositions with the syncopated rhythms of jazz and Mexican dance

What left-wing Marxist socialist group did Lenin install to govern Russia?

The Bolsheviks

Arnold Schoenberg's "twelve-tone system" is based on which one of the following?

The chromatic scale

In what ways did Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring challenge musical convention?

The composition is innovative in experimenting with tonality.

What qualities can be found Bird in Space by Constantin Brancusi?

The essence of flight A sense of dynamic movement Birdlike grace

True or false: In his painting The Betrayal of Images, René Magritte explored the relationship between the object as experienced in the real world, with the object as depicted by the artist.

True

What architect established the Bauhaus and its core principles?

Walter Gropius

An emotive type of individual expression for lamenting one's troubles, loneliness, and despair refers to ________ music.

blues

By creating collages with photographic images cut from media, including magazines and newspapers, Berlin Dadaists invented ___________________

photomontage