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| The Federal Art Project (FAP) was a division of what program was formed to put Americans back to work during the Great Depression? |
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| The Works Progress Administration |
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| From its establishment unril its dissolution in 1943, how many artists were employed by the FAP? |
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| What was the largest division of the FAP? |
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| What restrictions did the government place on style or content of works by FAP artists? |
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| What happened to the works produced by artists of the FAP? |
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| they were placed in government buildings |
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| How did events in Europe in the late 1930s affect the development of American modern art? |
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| with the surrealist movement |
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| What theory influenced the movement of Surrealism? |
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| Freud's psychoanalytical theory |
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| What part of the psyche did Freud claim contained the instincts? |
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| What did Freud call the conscious part of the psyche? |
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| What did Freud call the unconscious part of the psyche? |
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| According to Freud, how are pressures from the unconscious released into consciousness? |
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| What process did the Surrealists use to try to access the unconscious? |
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| producing images directly from the unconscious |
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| What Surrealist had an exhibition at the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York in 1935? |
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| What did the Surrealist Matta do to help him paint quickly? |
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| thinned his paint with turpentine and used rags to spread the pigment |
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| Where did Hofmann found an art school in 1915? |
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What did Hofmann seek to create "by means of the backward and forward animation of the whole picture surface through color, shapes and rhythm"? |
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| a new pictoral approach to modern painting |
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| Where did Hofmann found his first art school in the United States? |
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| How did Hofmann create pictorial structure? |
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| Who was the only member of the original Abstract Expressionist group who studied with Hofmann? |
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| To whom was Lee Krasner married? |
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| What artist, dealer and mystic published the book Systems and Dialectics of Art? |
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| What physical characteristic of Krasner's paintings set them apart from those of other Abstract Expressionists? |
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| What kind of composition would be important to the development of Abstract expressionism in the late 1940s and the 1950s? |
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| What critic described Abstract Expressionism as a transformation in the formal aspects of painting? |
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| Who coined the term action painting? |
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| In what country was Arshile Gorky born? |
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| What tragedy happened to Gorky's mother? |
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| What organization did Gorky join in 1936? |
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| From what artist did Gorky derive his biomorphic abstraction? |
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| Who suggested to Gorky that he should mix his paints with turpentine for grater fluidity? |
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| Where did Baziotes come in contact with the psychic automatist methods of the Surrealists? |
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| What kind of art did Baziotes make in 1941? |
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| What kind of art influenced Baziotes painting Dwarf? |
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| In what country was De Kooning born? |
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| What were De Kooning's typical themes in the early 1930s? |
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| abstractions and a series of male figures |
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| What were the "three toads" in De Kooning's garden? |
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| How long did De Kooning work on Woman I? |
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| What kind of ancient figures influenced De Kooning's Woman I? |
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| Where did Franz Kline grow up? |
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| What did Kline do for Cleon Throckmorton? |
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| Kline's drawing of what, projected upside down during a lecture, led him to conclude that he didn’t need representation in his works? |
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| On what did Kline make sketches for his paintings? |
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| newspaper or a telephone book |
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| What did Kline like to do rather than paint on stretched canvases? |
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| paint canvas tacked to the wall |
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| What made Kline's technique fundamentally different from the way in which Japanese calligraphy was painted? |
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| he intended on creating definite positive shapes with black and white |
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| What did Kline begin adding to his works in the late 1950s? |
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