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RSAD-Modern Art I- AH391- Rice
Test #1 Ch. 1 according to study guide (Anthony Rice)
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Art History
Undergraduate 3
09/19/2006

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Charles Peguy
Definition
In 1913, the French writer ______ ________ remarked that "The world has changed less since the time of Jesus Christ than it hasa in the last 30 years."
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The Eiffel Tower
Definition
For the French and for Europeans in general, the great metaphor of this sense of change- to gather all the meaning of modernity together was : _________.
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machine
Definition
The ________ meant the conquest of process, and only very exceptional sights, like a rocket launch, can give us anything resembling the emotion with which our ancestors in the 1880's contemplated heavy machinery.
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metropolis
Definition
The master-image of painting was no longer the landscape but the _____________.
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automobile
Definition
Was the most visible sign of the future: _____________.
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Nadar
Definition
The photographer ______ took his camera up in a balloon in 1856.
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Maurice Denis
Definition
Who stated: "A picture- before being a warhorse, a Nude Woman, or some sort of anecdote- is essentially a surface covered with colors arranged in a certain order."
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1888
Definition
What year was the Kodak box camera invented?
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Picasso
Braque
Leger
Gris
Definition
Name the 4 cubists who were the chief inventors and chief interpreters.
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Abstraction
Definition
____________: It is an ideal view, imagined as being seen by a one-eyed, motionless personwho is clearly detached from what he sees. It makes a god of the spectator.
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Cezanne
Definition
For _______, whole effort was directed towards the physical world.
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Cezanne
Definition
Name the artist who painted the painting "Mont Ste-Victoire", 1904-06.
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Picasso and Braque
Definition
With their appropriation of forms and motifs from African art, _________ and _______ brought to its climax a long interest which nineteenth-century France has shown in the exotic, the distant, and the primitive.
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Picasso
Definition
Name the artist who painted the painting "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"-1907.
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venerial diasease
Definition
The painting (Les Demoiselles d'Avignon) was originally meant to be an allegory of ______________.
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Braque and Picasso
Definition
_________ and ________ would be locked in a partnership of questions and response, "roped together like mountaineers."
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True
Definition
T or F: Picasso did not create the cubist construction Metal Guitar, 1912.
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Picasso
Definition
Name the artist who stated, "I pain forms as I think them, not as I see them."
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"glueing"
Definition
What does the term "collage" mean?
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Gris
Definition
Name the artist who painted the painting Still-Life (Fantomas) 1915.
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Leger
Definition
Name the cubist artist who created a didactic art for the man in the street, not a highly refined, but clear, definite, pragmatic, and rooted in everyday experience: ____________.
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The Eiffel Tower
Definition
For the artist Robert Delaunay, the master image of culture was _______________.
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Robert Delaunay
Definition
Who painted the painting "The Red Tower", 1911-12?
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Marinetti
Definition
Futurism was the invention of: _________.
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packaging
Definition
Much of the myth of modern art was created by ___________.
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Marinetti
Definition
____________ stated the enemy was the past.
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Technology
Definition
____________ had created a new kind of man, a class of machine visionaries composed of Marinetti and anyone else who wanted to join.
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Umberto Boccioni
Definition
Name the futurist artist who stated, "I want the new, the expressive, the formidable."
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Umberto Boccioni
Definition
Name the artist who painted the painting "The City Rises" ,1910-11.
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Giacomo Balla
Definition
Name the futurist artist who painted the painting "Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash" ,1912.
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Picabia
Definition
The machine, the daughter born without a mother- a modern counterpart to myth of the Virgin birth, in which Christ, the Son, was born without a father. Which artist made this statement?
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Picabia
Definition
The definitive mechano-sexual metaphor was created by ________.
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Marcel Duchamp
Definition
Name the artist who created the (large glass) "The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even" ;1915-23.
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1907-1914
Definition
Date: Cubism
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Picasso, Gris, Braque, and Leger
Definition
Who was responsible for the Cubist movement? (4 answers)
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1909-1922
Definition
Date: Futurism
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Balla, Boccioni, and Carra
Definition
What 3 artist are most associated with the Futurist movement?
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Avant-Garde
Definition
(Definition)
-First applied to artist in 19th cent. to indicate those whose work seemed to be at the forefront of new developments in art as opposed to those who conformed to academic standards.
-Linguistic fortunes paralleled modernism.
-Some argue the demise of Modernism & inception of post modernism, ___________ have disappeared.
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Collage
Definition
(Definition)
-The act of attatching materials to a surface.
-Braque & Picasso credited w/ making the first ones w/ newspaper cuttings, chair caning, and other materials which assaulted academic values.
-Further developed by Dada artists, especially Kurt Scwhitters who made 'pure' ________ of found ephemera. He called these 'merz'.
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