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quiz #4: video 10,11,12
quiz #4: video 10,11,12
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Art History
Undergraduate 4
06/23/2013

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What kind of art did Francis Bacon see at the Burlington Galleries in 1933?
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Ernst works
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What did Bacon do during the Second World War?
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air-raid warden
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What series by Bacon was partly inspired by Velázquez's portrait of Pope Innocent X?
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the screaming Pope
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What film by Sergei Eisenstein influenced Bacon's work?
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the Battleship Potemkin
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According to Bacon, if you want to understand the human condition, what should you do?
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"you need only to think about the meat on your plate
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To what did Bacon compare the sunsets of Monet?
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the Pope's mouth
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What works by Eadweard Muybridge influenced Bacon?
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photographs
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What does the word CoBrA stand for?
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Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam
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What was Jorn's nationality?
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Danish
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What artist's works influenced Appel while at the Royal Academy of Art in Amsterdam?
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Van Gogh
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If Appel had not become a painter what career would he have pursued?
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clown
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What album did Appel record in San Francisco?
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The Big Ear
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What was Corneille's nationality?
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Belgian
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From what earlier modernist did Corneille acquire his taste for line?
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Klee
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Why did Corneille travel to Mexico, South America, and Africa?
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he was interested in primative art
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How did his travels in Africa affect Corneille's painting technique?
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he would work on the floor vs the easel
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What was Naum Gabo's nationality?
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English
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In what discipline did Alexander Calder earn a degree at the Stevens Institute of Technology?
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Mechanical Engineering
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Calder's first important sculptures were part of what work that he performed in his Parisian studio in the 1920s?
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Circus
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Whose studio did Calder visit when he thought "how fine it would be if everything moved"?
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Mondrian
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Who suggested that Calder call his moving sculptures "mobiles"?
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Duchamp
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Where was Isamu Noguchi born?
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Los Angeles
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Where did Noguchi create a 72-foot cement mural?
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Mexico City
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What did Noguchi do for six months during World War II?
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relocated to Arizona
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In what medium did Noguchi primarily work when he went to Japan in 1949?
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stone
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What job did Joseph Cornell have to do after the death of his father?
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textile sample salesman
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Where did Cornell find "the profound and suggestive power...to evoke an ideal world of beauty"?
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silent film
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In 1936 Cornell was included in a major show of Surrealist work held where?
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MoMA
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Why did Louise Bourgeois come to the united States in 1938?
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married Goldwater
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To what childhood experience where many of Bourgeois' works related?
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father's affair
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What business did Bourgeois' family own?
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tapestry
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What subject did Bourgeois begin to represent in the late 1960s?
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feminine body parts
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With what movement was Giacometti associated before the Second World War?
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Surrealism
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What phrase did the phenomenologist Edmund Husserl coin?
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"To the things themselves!"
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What is "phenomenological reduction"?
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empty all from the mind that is not perception
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If Gicaometti made a sculpture of you excactly as he perceived you, what would it look like?
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very flat
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What memories of farm life did Germain Richier incorporate into her sculptures?
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insects and their metamorphoses
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From whose practice of assemblage did César derive his early style?
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Picasso
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What kind of ancient art inspired Marino Marini?
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Chinese Han Dynasty Horses
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What did the Cardinal represent for Giacomo Manzù?
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the majesty of form
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Whose book Vision and Design influence Henry Moore?
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Fry
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What did so-called primitive art represent for Moore?
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"the main world tradition of sculpture"
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To what Cubist sculptor's works could the holes in Moore and Hepworth's works be traced?
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Archipenko
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What did Moore do during the Second World War?
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war artist
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What kind of ancient art had the strongest influence on the early work of Barbara Hepworth?
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cylcadic sculpture
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Where did Hepworth live during the war?
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Cornwall
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In the 1950s to what kind of work did Hepworth largely turn?
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bronze pieces
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With what title was Hepworth honored in 1965?
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Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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