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20th Century Art History 1 - video 13
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Art History
Undergraduate 3
06/23/2012

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Why did Kandinsky travel to Vologda in 1889?
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joined an ethnological expedition
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To what did Kandinsky compare the experience of walking into a peasant home in Vologda?
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like entering a painting
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What artists' group did Kandinsky form in 1901?

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Phalanx
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What subjects were typical of Kandinsky's works between 1900 and 1907?
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German fairy tales that he heard as a child
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Where did Kandinsky, Münter, Werefkin and Jawlensky paint together?
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in the open air in Murnau
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What group did Kandinsky, Münter, Werefkin, Jawlensky, and four other artists create (initials are sufficient)?
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NKV
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What was the name of the treatise that Kandisky published in 1912?

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Concerning the Spiritual in Art
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According to Kandinsky, what color was "the typical heavenly color; the ultimate feeling it creates is one of rest"?
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blue
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Why did Kandinsky resign from the NKV in 1911?
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NKV refused to exhibit one of Kandinsky's works, under the pretext that it was too large
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Who was Gabriele Münter's drawing teacher in 1902?
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Kandinsky
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With whom did Jawlensky work in France?
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Matisse
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Why didn’t Jawlensky resign from the NKV?
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he hoped to keep the NKV intact
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What was the primary subject of all of Jawlensky late works?
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series of Heads 
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In what year did the first edition of the Blue Rider Almanac appear?
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May of 1912 
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For Franz Marc, what did the color red symbolize?

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matter, brutal and heavy
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What did Marc think was more spiritual than humanity?

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the animal kingdom 
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Why did Marc's career end in 1916?
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he was killed at Verdun
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What kind of Cubism influence were Franz Marc and August Macke?

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rigid
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To where did Macke travel in 1914?
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Tunisia
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What kind of peasant painting technique did Heinrich Campendonk study?
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hinterglas
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