Art Quiz- Matisse, & Kirchner Flashcards

1
Q

How long did kandinsky travel with Gabrielle Munter?

A

4 years (1904-1908)

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What happened to Kandinsly when WWI broke out?

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He was forced to leave germany and gabrielle.

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What was one of Matisse’s last works?

A

Chapelle du Rosaire in Vence, France

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2
Q

What do some people believe LPWY represents?

A

War or rebirth

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3
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Where and with who did Matisse begin studying art?

A

At the Academie Julian

with William-Adolphe Bouguereau

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4
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What motif did kandinsky often repeat?

A

Emphasizing color and flattening the illusion of space

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4
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When did Matisse start taking art seriously?

A

After recovering from appendicitus

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5
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Who had no obvious inclination for art as a child?

A

Matisse

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6
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What was LPWY’s date & measurments?

A

1911-1914

31 x 39 5/8 inches

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6
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When did Matisse move from Paris to Nice?

A

1917

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7
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What did Matisse do after WWI?

A

He traveled a lot

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7
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What happened to matisse in 1941?

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He suffered from an illness that prevented him from painting, turned to printmaking.

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8
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Who was matisse invited to work with in 1892?

A

Gustave Moreau

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9
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What happened to kandinsky in 1921?

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He was invited to teach at Bauhaus

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10
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In 1896-1897, where did Matisse travel and who did he meet?

A

Belle Isle

John Peter Russel (focus on colors)

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11
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Why was MAtisse not accepted for military service?

A

He was too old (45, Aug1914)

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13
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Where did Kandinsky spend his childhood?

A

Odessa

14
Q

Who did Kandinsky marry?

A

Nine Von Andreyeskaya

16
Q

In what year did Kandinsky move to the small village of Murnau?

A

1908

17
Q

Where did Kandinsky meet Gabrielle Munter?

A

Phalanaxschule

18
Q

When was Kandinsky’s Blue rider period? And what was its german name?

A

1911-1914

Der Blaue Reiter

18
Q

Matisse emerged as a leader of what group?

A

The Fauves

Andre Derain, Raoul Dufy, and Georges Braque

19
Q

What is the title of Kandisnky’s painting?

A

Little Painting with Yellow (Improvisation)

20
Q

When was matisse’s first solo exhibition?

A

1904

hosted by Ambroise Vollard

Highly unsuccessful

22
Q

How did Kandinsky’s landscape paintings change after Marnau?

A

They became more abstract

23
Q

When and of what did Matisse die?

A

1954

Heart Attack

24
Q

Kandinsky returned to Moscow to study what?

A

Law and Economics

25
Q

What was Kandisnky’s radical shift toward?

A

COMPLETE abstraction

27
Q

Where and for what did matisse move in 1887-1889

A

To paris to study law, also worked as a clerk for a solicitor

28
Q

When was Kandinsky named a degenerate and by who?

A

in 1933, by the nazis

30
Q

Born in Russia in 1866

A

Kandinsky

32
Q

At what Age did kandinsky move to munich to study art?

A

Age 30 (1896)

33
Q

When did matisse abandon law?

A

in 1891

34
Q

Why did Kandisnkys work become smaller?

A

There was a shortage of larger canvases

35
Q

What gave Matisse a new high reputation?

A

His new classical looking style

36
Q

When and where did Kandisnky die?

A

In Paris in 1944

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38
Q

Which of Matisse’s works featured femail nudes on wild colors in abstract backgrounds?

A

Joy of LIfe

39
Q

Who/what was Kandinsky influenced by?

A

Paul Gauguin, Matisse, and Fauvism

40
Q

Where did Matisse grow up?

A

IN a small town in France w/ his father who was a merchant

41
Q

Why did non-western art interest Kandinsky?

A

It was more spiritual

42
Q

When did Kandinsky’s work began to gravitate to abstract, geometric forms?

A

After the 1917 revolution