Art Quiz- Matisse, & Kirchner Flashcards

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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?

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Chapelle du Rosaire in Vence, France

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2
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What do some people believe LPWY represents?

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War or rebirth

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3
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Where and with who did Matisse begin studying art?

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At the Academie Julian

with William-Adolphe Bouguereau

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What motif did kandinsky often repeat?

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Emphasizing color and flattening the illusion of space

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4
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When did Matisse start taking art seriously?

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After recovering from appendicitus

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

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Matisse

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What was LPWY’s date & measurments?

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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?

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1917

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What did Matisse do after WWI?

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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?

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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?

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Belle Isle

John Peter Russel (focus on colors)

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Why was MAtisse not accepted for military service?

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He was too old (45, Aug1914)

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Where did Kandinsky spend his childhood?

14
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Who did Kandinsky marry?

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Nine Von Andreyeskaya

16
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In what year did Kandinsky move to the small village of Murnau?

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
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What is the title of Kandisnky’s painting?

A

Little Painting with Yellow (Improvisation)

20
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When was matisse’s first solo exhibition?

A

1904

hosted by Ambroise Vollard

Highly unsuccessful

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How did Kandinsky's landscape paintings change after Marnau?
They became more abstract
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When and of what did Matisse die?
1954 Heart Attack
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Kandinsky returned to Moscow to study what?
Law and Economics
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What was Kandisnky's radical shift toward?
COMPLETE abstraction
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Where and for what did matisse move in 1887-1889
To paris to study law, also worked as a clerk for a solicitor
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When was Kandinsky named a degenerate and by who?
in 1933, by the nazis
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Born in Russia in 1866
Kandinsky
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At what Age did kandinsky move to munich to study art?
Age 30 (1896)
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When did matisse abandon law?
in 1891
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Why did Kandisnkys work become smaller?
There was a shortage of larger canvases
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What gave Matisse a new high reputation?
His new classical looking style
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When and where did Kandisnky die?
In Paris in 1944
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Which of Matisse's works featured femail nudes on wild colors in abstract backgrounds?
*Joy of LIfe*
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Who/what was Kandinsky influenced by?
Paul Gauguin, Matisse, and Fauvism
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Where did Matisse grow up?
IN a small town in France w/ his father who was a merchant
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Why did non-western art interest Kandinsky?
It was more spiritual
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When did Kandinsky's work began to gravitate to abstract, geometric forms?
After the 1917 revolution