Reading 10 Test 4
Which of the following was written by Wilfred Owen, who was killed in combat just a week before the armistice ending World War I was signed in 1918?
"Dulce et Decorum Est"
The term Sprechstimme translates to __________.
"speech-song"
Who introduced his theory of relativity in the General Principles of Relativity?
Albert Einstein
What is the title of this artwork:
Aspiration
What is the name of the artist who created this painting?
Charles Demuth
Which of the following 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 is the name of the artist who created this painting?
Georges Braque
The technique of pointillism characterizes the style of which Post-Impressionist?
Georges Seurat
What is the name of the artist who created this artwork?
Georges Seurat
This artwork is an example of:
German Expressionism
What is the name of the artist who created this painting?
Jacob Lawrence
Who created the controversial Fountain and also painted Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2)?
Marcel Duchamp
What is the name of the artist who created this painting?
Pablo Picasso
With whom did Georges Braque develop Cubism?
Pablo Picasso
What is the title of this painting?
Painterly Realism: Boy with Knapsack—Color Masses in the Fourth Dimension
What is the name of the artist who created this painting?
Paul Cezanne
Alluding to his generation of artists, who did Pablo Picasso claim was "the father of us all?"
Paul Cézanne
The technique of applying paint in flat patches of color while capturing multiple viewpoints of a scene is associated with __________.
Paul Cézanne
What is the name of the artist who created this painting?
Paul Gaugin
What is the name of the artist who created this painting?
Salvador Dali
In the 1920s big band music comprised of 15 to 20 musicians was associated with which new musical style?
Swing
What is the name of the artist who created this painting?
Vincent Van Gogh
Which of the following Marxists revolutionaries led the Bolsheviks, the most radical of Russian post-revolutionary groups?
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
What shift does Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon signal?
from an optical art to an imaginative construct
Georges Braque's Houses at l'Estaque is an early work of Cubism, which is evident in the __________.
geometric simplification of the observed world, demonstrating the influence of Paul Cézanne
Having earned a degree in philosophy and the classics, T.S. Eliot sought in his poetry to __________.
save and rehabilitate tradition
What is the title of this artwork?
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
Which of the following paintings by Georges Seurat embodies the symbolic theory of color?
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
What do James Joyce's Ulysses and Marcel Proust's À la recherché du temps perdu ( In Search of Lost Time) have in common?
A subjective, stream-of-consciousness narrative
What is the name of the artist who created this painting?
Aaron Douglass
What is the title of this painting?
Composition VII
This artwork is an example of:
Cubism
This artwork is an example of:
Dadism
What is the title of this artwork?
Dance II
Which of the following paintings might be considered Henri Matisse's rebuttal to Pablo Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon?
Dance II
What is the name of this painting?
Demoiselles d'Avignon
What is the title of this artwork?
Fountain
What is the name of the artist who created this painting?
Franz Marc
This artwork is an example of:
Futurism
This sculpture is an example of:
Futurism
What was the new style that rejected the political and artistic traditions of the past and called for a new art, which was developed by Filippo Marinetti, Umberto Boccioni, and Giacomo Balla?
Futurism
Dada performance at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich was inspired by the __________.
Futurists
What is the name of the artist who created this painting?
Gabriele Munter
This painting is an example of:
German Expressionism
Whose early portrait by Pablo Picasso reveals the beginnings of his path towards Cubism?
Gertrude Stein's
What is the name of the artist who created this painting?
Giacomo Bella
What is the name of the artist who created this painting?
Henri Matisse
What is the name of this painting?
Houses at l'Estaque
Which painting by Georges Braque has been described as "spatial ambiguity and cubelike shapes"
Houses at l'Estaque
Dada's reaction against the language of nationalism was celebrated in __________.
Hugo Ball's "Gadji beri bimba"
What is the title of this painting?
In the North the Negro Had Better Educational Facilities
What is the name of the artist who created this artwork?
Kazimir Malevich
What is the title of this artwork?
Mahana no atua (Day of the God)
What is the name of the artist who created this artwork?
Marcel Duchamp
What is the name of the artist who created this painting?
Marcel Duchamp
What is the title of this painting?
Nude Descending a Staircase
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
Van Gogh's synthesized technique in this painting reflects the influence of __________.
Seurat's approach to contrasting colors
What is the name of this painting?
Speeding Automobile
With which of the following techniques is Arnold Schoenberg most closely associated?
Sprechstimme
Which of the following was painted by Vincent van Gogh?
Starry Night
What is the title of this artwork?
Still Life with Plaster Cast
This artwork is an example of:
Suprematism
This artwork is an example of:
Surrealism
What important work was written by André Breton after he was encouraged by Freud?
Surrealist Manifesto
Which place greatly influenced Paul Gauguin and his paintings?
Tahiti
What is the title of this painting?
The Blue Gable
Which painting by Robert Delaunay represents in part the internationalization of sports?
The Cardiff Team
What is the title of this painting?
The Figure 5 in Gold
What is the title of this painting?
The Large Blue Horses
Which of following was painted by Franz Marc, one of the Blaue Reiter artists?
The Large Blue Horses
What is the title of this painting?
The Persistence of Memory
Which ballet premiere by the Ballet Russes was directed by Sergei Diaghilev?
The Rite of Spring
What is the title of this artwork?
The Starry Night
What was the title of Langston Hughes' book of poems, which included "Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret"?
The Weary Blues
What artist created the Futurist piece Unique Forms of Continuity in Space?
Umberto Boccioni
What is the name of the artist who created this sculpture?
Umberto Boccioni
What is the title of this sculpture?
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
What is the name of the artist who created this painting?
Wassily Kandinsky
In their 1915 Petrograd exhibition artists like Kazimir Malevich were trying to answer which question?
What are the minimal requirements of painting?
In Lawrence's illustration, the increasing height of the girls and the numbers they write represent __________.
a musical crescendo
Along with Futurist performance, the ballets of Vaslav Nijinsky set to the music of Igor Stravinsky contributed to the characterization of modern art as __________.
an affront to public taste
According to Sigmund Freud, the subconscious can be revealed through __________.
an exploration of dreams
The paintings of the Fauves are known for __________.
bold application of arbitrary color
The term for the technique of "pasting and gluing" material onto a surface is __________.
collage
When Wassily Kandinsky wrote, "Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings," he meant that __________.
color directly influences the soul
After the Russian Revolution, filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein worked on railway trains that __________.
distributed agitational propaganda materials to peasants
James Joyce devotes the entire book of Ulysses to __________.
events that take place in a single day in Dublin
The musical genre of the blues consists primarily of __________.
lamentations of love, poverty, and injustice
Lev Kuleshov, a founder of the Film School in Moscow, is given credit for developing a theory of __________.
montage
Despite initial perceptions of Duchamp's painting by American viewers, this image can be easily interpreted through an association with __________.
motion pictures
Although he identified himself and was recognized as a Surrealist in the first decade of his career, Salvador Dalí was eventually "expelled" from that movement because __________.
of political and commercial interests
In order to create longer works without using tonality, the composer Arnold Schoenberg increasingly resorted to __________.
serial composition
The Italian artists of the Futurist movement thought that the defining characteristic of modern urban life was __________.
speed
The emphatic black outlining of shapes in this image reveals the influence of __________.
stained-glass leading
What prompted the Dada Manifesto?
the chaos and irrationality of World War I
Paul Gauguin's work reflects the primitif, which refers to __________.
the primal, essential forces of nature
An underlying theme of George Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte,emphasized by its composition, is __________.
the rigidity of Parisian leisure
What is the "superego" in Freud's theory of the psyche?
the seat of what we commonly call "conscience"
The term "impasto" refers to __________.
thickly applied paint
What instrument is most closely associated with Louis Armstrong, who formed two studio bands, The Hot Five and The Hot Seven, and recorded Hotter Than That, which features "scat"?
trumpet
The poetry of Langston Hughes is especially informed by the __________.
vernacular expression, in music and speech, of African Americans
