21. Expressionism

Question 1

In what three shapes did Cezanne say that nature reveals itself?

Answer 1

Cone, sphere, cylinder

Question 2

The Futurist Manifesto was written by _______________.

Answer 2

Marinetti

Question 3

List two factors which occurred prior to 1860 that influenced the evolution towards abstraction on modern painting:

Answer 3

• Japanese prints

- Invention of camera

Question 4

The primary objective of Cubist painting was _______________.

Answer 4

Destroy conventional single-view painting

Question 5

What three shapes did Cubists painters employ in their paintings?

Answer 5

Circle, square, triangle

Question 6

Name a Cubist painter:

Answer 6

Picasso

Question 7

__________________ is the name given to a group of radical Italian designers who were prominent just prior to the start of WWI.

Answer 7

Futurists

Question 8

The Futurist movement was centered in _________________.

Answer 8

Italy

Question 9

What was one of the compositional goals of Cubist paintings?

Answer 9

Imply movement/time within the picture plane

Question 10

“Concerning the Spiritual in Art” was written by _____________.

Answer 10

Kandinsky

Question 11

The first Expressionist glass skyscraper was designed by _______________.

Answer 11

Mies

Question 12

_______________ designed the Weimar government’s new research tower for Einstein.

Answer 12

Mendelssohn

Question 13

______________ designed the second Goetheanum.

Answer 13

Steiner

Question 14

List three buildings at the Werkbund’s 1914 Cologne exhibition that represented the three main movements in German architecture prior to the start of WWI.

Answer 14

• Glass pavilion
• Model factory
• Model theater

Question 15

What was the ‘crystal chain?’

Answer 15

Group of underground expressionist artists in Germany

Question 16

Did Mies extrude the lotlines of the site in both of his glass skyscraper proposals? Why?

Answer 16

No, crystallized floorplan to reflect light into the street

Question 17

The designer of the German Glass Industry Pavilion at the 1914 Deutscher Werkbund exhibition was _______________.

Answer 17

Taut

Question 18

Give an example of a different German Expressionist architect who designed in each of the following materials:
glass, brick,and dynamism (concrete).

Answer 18

Glass: Taut
Brick: Poelzig
Dynamism (concrete): Berg

Question 19

Why was the cathedral viewed as the ideal historic building type for the German Expressionists?

Answer 19

all arts came together (architecture, sculpture, painting)

Question 20

________________ was the major building project that focused the energies of German expressionists immediately following the end of WWI.

Answer 20

Cathedral of Socialism

Question 21

The Chilehaus in Hamburg was designed by ______________.

Answer 21

Höger

Question 22

The author of “Glass Architecture” was ________________.

Answer 22

Scheerbart

Question 23

The Cathedral of Socialism was the ultimate goal of what movement?

Answer 23

Expressionism

Question 24

The Grosses Schauspielhaus in Berlin was designed by _______________.

Answer 24

Poelzig