Chapter 20: The Twentieth Century: The Early Years Flashcards
As we enter the 20th century artists wanted “to make it new,” they believed in Innovation and a Rejection of the Past. In the arts there is the breakdown and/or rejection of traditional systems of representation and the proliferation of experimental avant-garde groups; and the emergence of socialist, feminist and anti- or post-colonial politics.
a. True
b. False
a. True
“Wild Beasts”
a. Fauves
b. Expressionism
c. Cubism
d. Futurism
a. Fauves
What set the Fauves apart from their nineteenth-century predecessors was their use of harsh, non-descriptive color, bold liner patterning, and a distorted form of perspective, as seen in __________________________’s painting Red Room.
a. Henri Matisse
b. Wassily Kandinsky
c. Pablo Picasso
a. Henri Matisse
Founded in Dresden, Germany The Bridge Group (Die Brücke)
a. Fauves
b. Expressionism
c. Cubism
d. Futurism
e. Surrealism
b. Expressionism
The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter)
a. Fauves
b. Expressionism
c. Cubism
d. Futurism
e. Surrealism
b. Expressionism
The author of “Concerning the Spiritual in Art” was Der Blaue Reiter artist ______.
Wassily Kandinsky
Strong influence of African, Oceanic, and Iberian art
a. Fauves
b. Expressionism
c. Cubism
d. Futurism
e. Surrealism
c. Cubism
______ is a group of artists that wanted to break up the image into geometric elements, and to have multiple viewpoints with no perspective, in other words to deconstruct objects.
Cubism
The fragmentation, distortion, and abstraction of form were adopted by _________________ in works such as Les Demoiselle’s d’Avignon.
a. Henri Matisse
b. Wassily Kandinsky
c. Pablo Picasso
c. Pablo Picasso
______________________ can be thought of in terms of a diverse level of creativity formed from movement, energy, destruction and mass confusion, which also used anarchist and fascist tendencies.
a. Fauves
b. Expressionism
c. Cubism
d. Futurism
e. Surrealism
d. Futurism
Wanting to capture pure plastic rhythm in his bronze Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, _______________sought to convey the elusive surging energy that blurs an image in motion.
a. Pablo Picasso
b. Umberto Boccioni
c. Constantin Brancusi
d. Salvador Dalí
b. Umberto Boccioni
The _________ Show of 1913 brought Modern Art to the American public.
Armory
In the softly curving surfaces of his elegant Bird in Space, ___________________emphasized the natural and organic. The sculptor sought to move beyond surface appearances to capture the essence or spirit of the object depicted.
a. Pablo Picasso
b. Umberto Boccioni
c. Constantin Brancusi
d. Salvador Dalí
c. Constantin Brancusi
Adopting the movement of Surrealism, ____________’s painting The Persistence of Memory conveys the world of dream, juxtaposing unrelated objects in an extraordinary situation.
a. Pablo Picasso
b. Umberto Boccioni
c. Constantin Brancusi
d. Salvador Dalí
d. Salvador Dalí
Intense interest in the reality of a dream-like state
a. Fauves
b. Expressionism
c. Cubism
d. Futurism
e. Surrealism
e. Surrealism
