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| The term for French Expressionism is |
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| What was the name of the group of anti-academic painters that broke away from the controlling, reactionary Academy of Fine Arts in conservative Vienna? |
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| Which artist was NOT a Secessionist? |
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| In the Beethoven Frieze, what did the gorilla represent? |
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| The terrors of the subconscious |
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| The expressively colorful work of which Post-Impressionist artists were a major source of inspiration to the French group known the Fauves (the Wild Beasts)? |
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| Who was one of the best known Fauve painters? |
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| What city became the center of modernism in the first half of the twentieth century? |
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| What was the first Cubist painting? |
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| Les Demoiselles D'Avignon |
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| Who was the first Cubist artist? |
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| Name two painters who worked with collage. |
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| What is the Italian art style that is sometimes referred to as "Cubism in motion"? |
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| Despising things from the past, which group said "war is the ultimate hygiene"? |
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| Between World Wars I & II, which art style questioned the values of truth, beauty, reason and science in a number of countries? |
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| Who produced "readymades"? |
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| What was Brancusi trying to do with his forms? |
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| Abstract by getting rid of everything extraneous so that he could get to the very essence |
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| What was being designed at the Bauhaus? |
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Architecture | Furniture & decorative objects | | Painting & sculpture | | Photography |
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| What were some of the architectural concerns and/or innovations of the American Frank Lloyd Wright with his residential architecture? |
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| A. | opening of space | | B. | integrating the home with the environment | | C. | "form follows function" (ex: put the dining room next to the kitchen) | | D. | introduction of sliding glass doors |
| F. | introduction of picture windows |
| H. | introduction of the attached garage |
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| What provided the subject matter for the Surrealist painters Dali, de Chirico and Magritte? |
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| Picasso painted Guernica in response to what event? |
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| The bombing of a Basque town by Hitler in cooperation with Franco |
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| Whose approach to Abstract Expressionism is sometimes called "action painting"? |
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| Which is NOT true of Pollock's approach to painting? |
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| He constructs special enormous easels to accommodate his enormous paintings. |
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| Many of Willem de Kooning's paintings are highly charged responses to what? |
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| Which is NOT true of Rothko's paintings? |
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| They are usually small in scale |
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| Which is NOT true of Lichtenstein's paintings? |
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| A. | They are simulated comics | | B. | They often have clichéd or violent themes that poke fun at pop culture | | C. | They often use an enlarged version of printer's dots. | | D. | None of the above are true of Lichtenstein's paintings | | E. | They are usually very large in scale |
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| Which is NOT true of Andy Warhol's approach to art? |
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| B. | His training as a commercial artist is evident in his color choice and subject matter. | | C. | He often will repeat the same image over and over in his art works. | | D. | None of the above are true. | | E. | He often uses imagery of pop culture (from the tabloids, from the grocery shelves...). | | F. | He is famous for his photo silkscreens and his paintings. |
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| How have artists like Christo and Smithson expanded our notion of what art is? Which is NOT true? |
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| Above all, however, oil on canvas is still supreme in importance with their work |
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| Which is NOT true of the Pompidou Center? |
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| It is built in the same style as the neighborhood that surrounds it. |
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| What architect is known for "a machine for living"? |
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| Which is NOT true of Mies van der Rohe? |
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| His buildings re-popularized decorative architectural ornament |
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| What types of buildings are associated with I. M. Pei? |
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| museums and other institutional buildings with minimal decorative ornamentation |
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| Which Post-Modern architect reintroduced color as an important element in architecture? |
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