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| In what three states did Pollock grow up? |
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| With what artist did Pollock attend high school? |
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| With whom did Pollock study when he went to New York? |
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| In what division of the FAP was Pollock first given work? |
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| Where did Pollock learn about new tools such as spray guns and airbrushes and the latest synthetic paints? |
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| the experimental workshop |
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| Where did Pollock see the exhibition "Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism"? |
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| Who introduced Pollock to the writings of Freud and Jung? |
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| What did Jung call the part of eth psyche that he believed stored memories of the human race? |
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| forms without content representing the possibility of a certain type of perception and action |
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| Why did Pollock undergo Jungian analysis with Dr. Joseph Henderson? |
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| because of his acute alcoholism |
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| Who commissioned Pollock's 1943 painting Mural? |
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| What were two reasons why Pollock and Krasner's move to Springs, Long Island was important? |
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-it reawakened Pollock's interest in nature
-the barn was a great work space |
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| At the end of what year did Pollock begin his drip paintings? |
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| What did Pollock do as a metaphor for the act of painting swallowing up the traditional drawing? |
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he inserted objects into his work
(ex: combs, tacks, buttons, etc.) |
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| Whose photographs of Pollock in the act of painting were published in Life magazine in 1951? |
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| What paintings did Pollock produce during the period 1950-53? |
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| he crashed into a tree while driving |
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| What two traits distinguished color-field Abstract Expressionism from action painting? |
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| high degree of contemplation and relative serenity of color-field works |
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| Where did Clyfford Still grow up? |
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| spiritual animals who represented individuals or clans |
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| What direction of movement did Still favor in his compositions? |
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| Where was Mark Rothko born? |
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| Where did Rothko grow up? |
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| At what art school did Rothko study with Max Weber? |
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| What unusual thing did Rothko do for his first solo show at the Portland Museum? |
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| showed his art alongside those of the children he taught |
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| What was the book The Golden Bough about? |
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| In what book by the philosopher Nietzsche did Rothko find eth concepts of eth Apollonian and the Dionysian? |
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| In what city is the Rothko Chapel? |
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| Who commissioned the works for eth Rothko Chapel? |
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| John and Dominique de Menil |
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| Why didn’t Newman apply for membership in the WPA? |
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| because of his source of income |
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| What did Newman do when he was dissatisfied by the candidates for mayor of New York? |
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| What was the title of a series of short essays that Newman wrote in 1945? |
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| What rationalist philosopher's ideas inspired Newman's painting Onement I? |
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| What did Newman call the vertical stripes in his paintings and how were they made? |
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| zips, by placing a piece of tape down and painting around it |
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| What series did Newman paint about "the unanswerable question of human suffering'? |
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| The Stations of the Cross |
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| In his series Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue? what artist's ideas was Newman critiquing? |
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| Who advised Gottlieb to paint directly on the canvas rather than from sketches? |
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| Whose poem "The Wasteland" inspired a painting by Gottlieb? |
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| Whose poem "The Wasteland" inspired a painting by Gottlieb? |
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| What series by Gottlieb had associations with the atomic bomb, the sun, and tides? |
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| What piece of equipment did Gottlieb use so that he could paint horizontally but above the floor? |
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| Why did Gottlieb need the help of assistants after 1971? |
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| With whom did Robert Motherwell study at Columbia University? |
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| In the summer of 1941, where did Motherwell go with the artist Matta? |
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| Why did Motherwell like collage? |
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| it allowed him to make frequent changes to his work |
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| What magazine did Motherwell edit in 1948? |
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| What did Motherwell title a painting inspired by a Federico García Lorca poem? |
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| What two philosophical traditions are juxtaposed in Motherwell's Open series? |
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| What which famous artists did Guston attend high school? |
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| Where did Guston go in the early 1930s to paint a mural? |
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| At what Midwestern University did Guston teach in the early 1940s? |
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| What Howard University Professor influenced the Harlem Renaissance and inspired Lewis to make figural paintings? |
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| Of what 1960s group was Lewis a founding member? |
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| What was Hofmann's famous theory of plastic creation? |
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| What series did Reinhardt create between 1947 and 1950? |
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| What did Reinhardt publish in the magazine It Is in 1958? |
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| the first manifestation of his dogma |
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| What did Reinhardt describe as "unsalable"? |
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