ART Chapter 32

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Alfred Stieglitz was the chief proponent of European Modern art in __________.
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America
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Portrait of a German Officer is the work of the artist __________.
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Marsden Hartley
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The avant-garde in Cuba was the most __________ of all the Modernist groups.
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interdisciplinary
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The paintings of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo are ____________ than those by Diego Rivera.
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more personal
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A distinctive feature of Le Corbusier's Modern architecture is its ______________.
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all of the above
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Mary Colter found great inspiration in the architectural traditions of _____________.
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Native Americans
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The use of metal beams and girders was a main feature in the development of __________.
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skyscrapers
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The Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia promoted a __________ painting style.
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Socialist realism
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Mondrian's interest in abstraction was an attempt to distill the __________ from objects in nature.
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essential form
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What Abstract Expressionist technique, pioneered by Helen Frankenthaler, had a significant influence on later artists?
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staining unprimed canvas
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Marianne Brandt and Anni Albers both worked at the __________.
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Bauhaus
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Augusta Savage was a sculptor in the __________ Renaissance.
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Harlem
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Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore both worked in __________.
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sculpture
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Surrealist painters employed a variety of techniques, known collectively as __________.
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automatism
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The Surrealists embraced unexpected __________ of disparate realities.
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juxtapositions
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The __________ developed many techniques for liberating the unconscious.
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Surrealists
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The best-known artist to emerge from the Harlem Community Art Center was __________.
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Lawrence
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__________ architects developed a common formal language that transcended regional boundaries.
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International Style
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An outgrowth of the Russian Revolution, __________ comprised a group of artists dedicated to working collectively for the state.
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Constructivism
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A spare, geometric style of Modern architecture in Europe developed in response to __________.
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Art Nouveau
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Hartley, Dove, and O'Keeffe were all supported by __________ and shown in his gallery.
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Alfred Stieglitz
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__________ developed in reaction to the horrors of World War I.
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Dada
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__________ wanted Futurism to break Italy free from its past
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Marinetti
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In the years after World War II, Francis Bacon's paintings evoked the horrors of war and human suffering through ______________.
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expressive images of distorted figures
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Neither Picasso nor __________ wanted to break the link from reality with their Cubist abstractions.
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Braque
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Villa Savoye (Fig. 32-40) reflects Le Corbusier's ___________ ideals in its geometric design and avoidance of ornamentation.
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Purist
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Why did the U.S. Government hire Dorothea Lange and other photographers during the Great Depression?
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They hoped to build public support for Federal assistance for rural America.
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How does Synthetic Cubism reference the real world?
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The suggestion of discernible subjects.
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Apollinaire labeled the art of Robert and Sonia Delaunay as ____________.
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Orphism
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Which Dadaist idea would have a radical influence on art of the later twentieth century?
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the notion that art was not precious, but could exist as conceptual ideas and actions
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Which of the following was a significant factor in providing New York with the foundation to supersede Paris as the center of the modern art world?
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the Federal Arts Project
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A member of the Blue Rider Group, Kandinsky believed that abstraction would lead humanity to a deeper awareness of _________________.
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spirituality
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Why did Mexican muralists employ naturalism in the works they produced for public buildings?
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The government felt the public could not comprehend abstract art.
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The Harlem Renaissance artist, Aaron Douglas, developed a _________ style that owes much to African art.
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collaged silhouetted
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The __________ of Gerrit Rietveld's Schröder House created the radical asymmetry sought after in the De Stijl movement.
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the white planes and horizontal and vertical accents in primary colors
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How did Walter Gropius's design for the Bauhaus building convey the dynamism of modern life?
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The three large cubic areas had a balanced asymmetry.
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Abstract Expressionism can be interpreted as a response to the cataclysmic events of the early twentieth century in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
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It was a manifestation of the artists' radical political views.
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___________ ideas of a collective unconscious of universal archetypes shared by all humans greatly influenced the Abstract Expressionist painters.
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Carl Jung's
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Which modern art movement professed a radical political agenda based on their love of machines, speed, and war?
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Futurism
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__________ means "wild beast" and was the name of an art movement that included Henri Matisse.
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Fauvism
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The Blue Rider artist, Franz Marc, painted mainly ______________ because they were more "primitive" than humans
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animals
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__________, a term which comes from the French term "to glue" was an important aspect of Synthetic Cubism.
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Collage
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Sonia __________ not only produced paintings with her husband, but also designed fabric and clothing on her own.
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Delaunay
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The readymade was a concept of the artist __________, where he could transform any object into art simply by deciding to do so.
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Duchamp
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Berlin __________ artists especially favored collage and photomontage.
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Dada
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Grant Wood was one of the _______________ artists who explored Midwestern themes.
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Regionalist
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Joan Mitchell who created energetic and lyrical __________ paintings was part of a second generation of Abstract Expressionist painters.
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abstract
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Tatlin intended his _____________ to be modern replacements of Russian icons.
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Counter-Reliefs
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Malevich exhibited 39 works consisting of __________________ in a style he termed Suprematism.
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flat geometric shapes collaged together
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Picasso became of the first artists to appropriate _____________ art.
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African