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| Where was the artists' center in Paris after WWI? |
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| Who were les peintres maudits? |
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Modigliani
(The Cursed Painters) |
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From what illness did Modigliani suffer? |
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| From what painter did Modigliani derive his planar treatment for the figure and the blue gray backgrounds of his portraits? |
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| Who was Leopold Zborowski? |
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| a dealer that organized Modgiliani's first show |
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What American doctor purchased half of the paintings that Soutine painted at Céret? |
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| What Dutch baroque painter inspired Soutine to paint dead animals? |
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| Who was the mother of Mauriuce Utrillo? |
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| What are the main subjects of Utrillo's "white paintings"? |
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Why was Chagall thrown in jail in St. Petersburg? |
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| because he was Jewish without a permit |
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| Where did Chagall have his first solo show in Berlin? |
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| What was the name of Chagall's wife, who appears in many of his paintings? |
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| Whose concept of simultaneity influenced Chagall? |
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Who commissioned Matisse to paint a mural for his home near Philadelphia? |
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What medium did Matisse use extensively in his works after 1941? |
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| What was the title of the book for which Icarus served as a prototype? |
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| What kind of compositions did Picasso paint after the birth of his son Paolo? |
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After his divorce, Picasso made work related to what movement? |
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| Who commissioned Picasso to paint the famous mural Guernica in 1937? |
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What event inspired Picasso's Guernica? |
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To what does the black, white, and gray color scheme of Guernica relate? |
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| Where did Julio Gonzalez learn to weld? |
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What did the sculptures of Gonzalez/ first phase look like? |
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| Whom did Gonzalez teach to weld? |
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| Why did Gonzalez only produce drawings during the last three years of his life? |
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| because he was no longer able to use his torches |
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| From what country did Brancusi come? |
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| What sculptor did Brancusi describe as "the starting point of modern sculpture"? |
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| What technique did Brancusi use to make all of his sculptures? |
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| Apart from African art, what art inspired Brancusi's sculptures in wood? |
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| When did Arp title his sculptures? |
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| How did Arp's method of making sculpture differ from that of Brancusi? |
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| he thought of his sculptures as elements in a pogress of growth |
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| What term did Arp use instead of "abstract"? |
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| What name did Arp often use to refer to his works? |
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| In what year was the November Group formed? |
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What was the name of Herwarth Walden's gallery and magazine? |
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| What does Die Neue Sachlichkeit mean? |
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What medium did Dix use for the fifty works in his series The War? |
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| For what kinds of works in the 1920s is Dix best known? |
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| What 19th-century French painter was a strong influence on Beckmann's large history paintings? |
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| What nautical disaster did Beckmann make the subject of a monumental painting in 1913? |
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| the sinking of the Titanic |
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What did Beckmann do in WWI? |
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| served in the medical corps |
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| What kind of painting influenced the religious works that Beckmann began in 1917? |
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| In 1933, when the Nazis seized power, what term did they use to describe Beckmann? |
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| What was the title of the 1933 exhibition that features art officially approved by the Nazis? |
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| Great German Art Exhibition |
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| What exhibition, displaying art officially condemned by the Nazis was organized by Professor Adolf Ziegler? |
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| Where did Beckmann and his wife go when they left Germany? |
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When WWII broke out, where in the United States did Beckmann want to go? |
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How old was Beckmann when the Nazis attempted to draft him into the military? |
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| When Beckmann finally came to the United States in 1947 at what university did he first teach? |
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| In what city did Beckmann die in 1950? |
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