HUMANITIES QUIZ 4
What phrase was the basic premise of John-Paul Sartre's existentialism?
Existence precedes essence
Which writer solidified the use of the term "Impressionist" by using it in an essay he published in 1876?
Poet Stephane Mallarmé
Who wrote the General Principles of Relativity?
Albert Einstein
What painter was greatly influenced by travels to Tahiti?
Paul Gauguin
What is the name of the musical composition consisting of four "silent" movements?
4′33
How many women worked over five years to create The Dinner Party?
25
What is militant organization of Native North Americans occupied the Mayflower II and Mount Rushmore?
American Indian Movement (AIM) is a Native American grassroots movement that was founded in the United States in July 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A.I.M. was initially formed in urban areas to address systemic issues of poverty and police brutality against Native Americans.
Who is the author of the Surrealist Manifesto?
André Breton
What artist is most closely associated with a series of paintings of Campbell's Soup cans?
Andy Warhol
Who wrote the feminist poem Her Kind?
Anne Sexton
What musician is most closely associated with Sprechstimme?
Arnold Schoenberg
Who is pictured in the lower right-hand corner of Auguste Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party?
August Renoir
Who is the author of "Child of the Americas," which reflects on the distinctive culture group inside the United States and was created by North Americans of Hispanic descent?
Aurora Levins Morales
Who said, "Language is a virus," meaning that American English threatened the extinction of indigenous languages?
Burroughs
Who was interested in color theory and painted Red Roofs, which the author describes as a "random patchwork of red and green, orange and blue [that] appears through a veil of tree branches that interrupt the viewer's vision"?
Camille Pissarro
Who painted Impression: Sunrise, which played a significant role in giving Impressionism its name?
Claude Monet
What movement focused on meaninglessness through noise concerts and anti-art?
Dada Movement Conceptual Art movement
Who is Daniel Quinn?
Daniel Clarence Quinn (October 11, 1935 - February 17, 2018) was an American author (primarily, novelist and fabulist), cultural critic, and publisher of educational texts, best known for his novel Ishmael, which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991 and was published the following year.
Who enjoyed a five-year engagement at Harlem's Cotton Club and performed It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing), introducing the term "swing" to jazz culture?
Duke Ellington
What flaneur painted Luncheon on the Grass, which was rejected by the Salon of 1864?
Edouard Manet's
What is the French phrase for painting done out of doors?
En plein air
What painter showed a disenchantment with royalist politics with Scenes from the Massacres at Chios?
Eugène Delacroix
Who collaborated with Vlado Milunić on the Rasin Building?
Frank Gehry
Which of Der Blaue Reiter artists created The Large Blue Horses?
Franz Marc
Who wrote an autobiography that provides a compelling account of life under slavery?
Frederick Douglass
Who issued a scathing indictment of industrial life in Condition of the Working Class in England?
Friedrich Engels
Filippo Marinetti, Umberto Boccioni, and Giacomo Balla were among the artists who collectively developed a new style known as _____.
Futurism
With whom did Pablo Picasso develop Cubism?
Georges Braque
Who composed Rigoletto and believed that opera should be dramatically realistic?
Giuseppe Verdi
Who painted The Stonebreakers?
Gustave Courbet
Who is most closely associated with a method that involved diluting paint "almost to the consistency of watercolor and then pouring it onto unprimed cotton canvas to achieve giant stains of color that suggest landscape," as seen in The Bay?
Helen Frankenthaler
Who is known for paintings that demonstrate his interest in the daily lives of working people, as in Rue Trasnonain?
Honoré Daumier
Who wrote Ulysses?
James Joyce
Who was instrumental in introducing graffiti to the art world?
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Who wrote Slaughterhouse-Five, narrated by a survivor of the Allied fire-bombing of Dresden?
Kurt Vonnegut
Where did The Weather Project attract over two million visitors?
London's Tate Modern.
What trumpeter formed two studio bands, The Hot Five and The Hot Seven, and recorded Hotter Than That, which features "scat"?
Louis Armstrong
What literary work is a fictionalized account of the life of Delphine Delamare, the adulterous wife of a country doctor who died of grief after deceiving and ruining him?
Madame Bovary
Lev Kuleshov, a founder of the Film School in Moscow, is given credit for developing a theory of _____.
Montage
The decimation of _____ by white settlers, hunters, and tourists signaled the end of traditional Native
Native Americans
What painting might be considered a rebuttal to Pablo Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon?
Pablo Picasso
With what thinker are the terms "id," "ego," and "superego" most closely associated?
Sigmund Freud
Who wrote the novel Invisible Man about the truth of the African-American experience?
Ralph Waldo Ellison
Who painted The Cardiff Team, a painting that represents in part the internationalization of sports?
Robert Delaunay
Who composed Tannhäuser and faced a negative reaction from members of the Jockey Club?
Richard Wagner
What artist is most closely associated with Ben Day dots, which he used to create enlarged comic strips?
Roy Lichtenstein
Who created Persistence of Memory?
Salvador Dali
Whose poems contributed to the development of hip-hop?
Scott-Heron
Who directed the Ballet Russes during the premiere of the ballet The Rite of Spring?
Sergei Diaghilev
Which of the following is most closely associated with The Battleship Potemkin, a film about a 1905 mutiny aboard a Russian naval vessel?
Sergei Eisenstein
Who combines training in miniature painting with contemporary art styles to create such works as Pleasure Pillars?
Shahzia Sikander
Who shot the photograph A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pa., considered by some as "the most famous photograph" to come out of the American Civil War?
Timothy O'Sullivan
_____ used thickly painted color, called impasto, in works such as Night Café.
Van Gog
Which of the following figures led the Bolsheviks, the most radical of Russian post-revolutionary
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Who wrote "Dulce et Decorum Est" and was killed in combat just a week before the armistice ending World War I was signed in 1918?
Wilfred Owen
Who created the series of woodblock prints known as Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, including the best- known print, The Great Wave?
apanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai
Who wrote a critique of colonialism in Heart of Darkness?
by Joseph Conrad
Where did Charlie Company slaughter men, women, and children in Viet Nam?
in the village of My Lai on March 16, 1968.
Who painted the controversial Nude Descending a Staircase and also created "ready-mades"?
marcel duchamp
What is the name for a female slave or concubine in a Turkish harem?
odalisque
What name do the Japanese use to refer to the art of woodblock printing?
pictures of the floating world, Ukiyo-e,
In which style did Georges Seurat paint A Sunday on La Grand Jatte?
pointillist technique, executed on a large canvas. Seurat's composition includes a number.Impressionism called Neo-Impressionism
What event in Birmingham, Alabama solidified moderate white support for the civil rights movement?
the bombing of a Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama
What did Napoleon III commission Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann to do?
to "modernize" Paris. In this way, Napoleon III hoped to better control the flow of traffic, encourage economic growth, and make the city "revolution-proof" by making it harder to build barricades.