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Chapter 19-20 (Test Review) Flashcards

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“The Kiss” was influenced by

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Art Nouveau

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Modern artists who separated from the Academy in Vienna Austria, was the

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Vienna Secession

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What was influenced by De Stijil & Surrealism?

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Dada

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4
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What questioned art itself, not just artistic traditions?

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Dada

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Duchamp was originally a ____; but he was dissatisfied with the Direction of _____

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Painter; Dissatisfied with Cubism

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Duchamp thought that Cubism was too

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formal

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7
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Which artist’s works often had a short sentence.

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  • Duchamp
  • Surrealism (Magritte)
  • Conceptual Art
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Who was known for Dada collages?

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Schwitters

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During Surrealism, Dada artists became interested in the themes of the ____

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unconscious

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10
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Surrealism contains strange ______ &_____

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juxtapositions & Dreams

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11
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Who painted herself with facial hair?

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Frida Kahlo

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12
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Who was the Spokesperson for Surrealism?

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Andre Breton

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13
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Who did not consider themselves a Surrealist but is considered one by others.

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Frida Kahlo

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14
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Why did Frida Kahlo wear long dresses to cover up?

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She had Polio

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15
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Mexican Muralists featured_____

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non-European heroes

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Mexican Muralists typically had ____ themes and a social _____

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political & social

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17
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What did Diego Rivera Study?

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  • Renaissance Frescos

- Mural Painting

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18
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In the work, “Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park” what is shown?

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The Three Eras of Mexican History (Left to Right)

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19
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Alameda park had many different uses. What was it originally?

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An Aztec Marketplace

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“Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Park” was controversial and some people protested. Why?

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It had an inscription that read “Dios no Existe”

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21
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Why were buildings getting taller?

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  • Rising Property Values
  • Urbanization
  • Elevators
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22
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Cast-Iron technology allowed for what?

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More Windows

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23
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What was used for architecture and steam engine cylinders?

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Cast-Iron Architecture

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24
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The Chicago Fire (1871) prompted what?

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A Change in Building Materials

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25
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“Marshall Field Wholesale Store” was influenced by what?

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Romanesque architecture (NOT CLASSICAL)

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26
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“Marshall Field Wholesale Store” (now demolished) was Cast-Iron wrapped in

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Brick Masonry

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The “Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building”

The outside of the building reflects the ____

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interior

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The “Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building” contains decorative details at street level. Which means?

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It is not true modernism

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The “Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building”

What was used for decorative lines?

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Terra Cotta

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30
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What new technology made elevators possible?

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Iron Steel Construction

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31
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When was the the Birth of Modernism in Architecture?

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1920s

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32
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What is art Mass produced in natural forms?

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Art Nouveau

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33
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What was Inspired by Art Nouveau?

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Art Deco

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34
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In “Villa Savoye” what are pilotis?

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The columns holding up the building

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35
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Where was the Villa Savoye located?

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Paris

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36
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The Villa Savoye is an example of the

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International Style

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37
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What are the five points of architecture?

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  1. The Supports
  2. Roof Gardens
  3. Free designing of the ground-plan
  4. Horizontal Window
  5. Free design the of façade
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38
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Who said “Form follows function”

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Louis Sullivan

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39
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Who said “Less is a bore”

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Robert Venturi

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40
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In Bauhaus, what is not important?

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Historical Reference

41
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In Bauhaus, lack of ____ makes design accessible

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ornamentation

42
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The original purpose of Bauhaus was?

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Design school

43
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Bauhaus had an ______

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asymmetrical design (Different wings had different purposes)

44
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“American Gothic” was a commentary of what?

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Life in the Midwest

45
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The two people in “American Gothic” were who?

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Father and unmarried daughter. Based of a Dentist and sister of the artist.

46
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“The Migration of the Negro” was part of a ____

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series

47
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“The Migration of the Negro” its context was what?

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The Migration of American Americans moving to the northern US to find better jobs

48
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Why were the Detroit Industry Murals controversial?

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They included Lenin

49
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“Autumn Rhythm” consists of two types of paint…

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House + oil paint

50
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In “Woman I” the color are _____ in no definite ____

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layered in no definite order

51
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“Woman I” consists of _____ + ______

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Image and Gesture

52
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An object from popular or material culture presented without further manipulation as an artwork by the artist.

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Readymade

53
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A technique in which artists abandon the usual intellectual control over their brush or pencil. The aim is to allow the subconscious the create the work without rational interference.

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Automatism

54
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Using broad gestures to drip or pour paint onto a pictorial surface. Associated with mid-twentieth Century American Abstract Expressionists (like Pollock)

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Action Painting

55
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Type of Abstract Expressionist painting in the 50s and 60s characterized by broad abstract sweeps of solid color that emphasize the surface of the picture plane and de-emphasize gestural brushstrokes.

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Color Field Painting

56
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The dots that make up letting and images. Often machine or computer generated, the dots are very small and closely spaced to give the effect of density and richness of tone.

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Benday Dots

57
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An art form developed in the 1960s incorporating performance, theater, and visual images. A Happening was organized without a specific narrative or intent; with audience participation, the event proceeded according to chance and individual improvisation.

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Happenings

58
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An artwork based on a live, sometimes theatrical performance by the artist.

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Performance Art

59
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an adjective describing the state of having many valid contemporary styles available at the same time to artists.

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Pluralism

60
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a style of abstract painting developed by Piet Mondrian, using only vertical and horizontal lines and rectangular shapes in black, white, gray, and primary colors.

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Neoplasticism

61
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Concrete strengthened by a core or foundation skeleton of iron or steel bars, strips, etc. Floors, columns, piles, water pipes, etc., have been successfully made of it. Called also armored concrete steel, and most commonly reenforced concrete.

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Ferroconcrete

62
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a style in architecture developed in the 1920s that uses modern materials (as steel, glass, and reinforced concrete), expresses structure directly, and eliminates nonstructural ornament—– True Modernism, 1932 Moma Exhibit

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International Style

63
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Marcel Duchamp’s fountain was a ____

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readymade

64
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Duchamp submitted “Fountain” _______ to the first exhibition of the American Society of Independent Artists

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anonymously

65
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When “Fountain” was NOT considered a work of art. What did Duchamp do?

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He resigned from the Society

66
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In “Composition with Yellow, Red and Blue” Mondrian restricted the formal colors to the three _____ colors, the three _____, as well as ____ & ____ lines.

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primary; neutrals; horizontal & vertical

67
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In “Composition with Yellow, Red and Blue” the linear directions are meant to symbolize ______. Such as …

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Opposites. Like Male vs Female, Individual vs Society

68
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de Stijl developed on both ______ & ______

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architecture and painting

69
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The Villa Savoye is architectural _____

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purism

70
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What was referred to as the “Machine for Living”

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Villa Savoye

71
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Who said “Less is More”

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Mies van der rohe

72
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In The Schroder House Rietveld applied the principle of _______ to the entire house

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dynamic equilibrium

73
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“The Treachery of Images (This is Not a Pipe” is a ______ work. What is it influenced by?

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Surrealist work. Influenced by Freudian psychology

74
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“The Treachery of Images (This is Not a Pipe” is a _____. This work recalls______a field Magritte had worked in.

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paradox. Advertising

75
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Who was one of the few women invited to participate in the Surrealist movement?

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Meret Oppenheim

76
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“Object (Luncheon in Fur)” was a _______. (Similar to Duchamp’s).

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Readymade

77
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Frida Kahlo’s work shows these themes: Name Two

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  • Cultural Heritage
  • Personal Biography
  • Physical Pain
  • Emotional Suffering
  • Repression of Women
78
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“The Two Fridas” represented her identity split between what? Also her relationship with who?

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Her German & Mexican ancestry. Also, her stormy relationship with Diego Relationship

79
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“The Two Fridas” her heart is broken. Why?

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Diego had asked for a divorce.

80
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Frank Lloyd Wright wanted to integrate what with what, organically?

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Architecture with Nature

81
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In “No. 61 (Rust and Blue)” Rothko thought of his shapes as fundamental ____

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ideas

82
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“No. 61 (Rust and Blue)” is a _____

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Color Field Painting

83
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“Marilyn Diptych” is a series of _____.

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Diptychs

84
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The “Marilyn Diptych” recalls the convention of _____

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religious art. Suggesting the Marilyn was a martyr in the pantheon of departed movie stars.

85
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In “Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks” the intended purpose was for what?

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A Platform for Protests (AGAINST VIETNAM WAR)

86
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“Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks”

Where was it located?

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Outside of the President’s Office

87
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What is the earliest notorious Post-Modernist work?

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AT&T Corporate Headquarters

88
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“Untitled” was a ____ work

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Minimalist

89
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“Untitled” has no _____, only _____

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supports only shapes

90
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In “One and Three Chairs” what is Kosuth trying to tell us?

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He is trying to descirbe the impossibility of precise representation and communication of an idea.

91
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The New World Symphony Building by FRANK GEHRY is ____

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Deconstrucctivism

92
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Dada was also known as…

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anti-art

93
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Surrealism was influenced by

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Dadaism

94
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Post-Modernism goes by the Philosophy …

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“Less is a bore”

95
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Peggy Guggenheim had a gallery… what was it called?

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Art of the Century

96
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Who was the Art Critic who favored and accepted Abstract Expressionism?

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Clement Greenberg

97
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Who advocated for Formalism?

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Clement Greenberg

98
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“The Migration of the Negro” was influenced by ___

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The Harlem Renaissance

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