Chapter 9

Question 1

Designed to complement the land around Chicago
low slung horizontal lines
“Thomas House” (1901) and “Willits House” (1901)
Influenced by Japanese architecture

Answer 1

Prairie Houses (1900-1901)

Question 2

Russian Expressionist painter

First painter without any recognizable objects in the paintings

Answer 2

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)

Question 3

Avant garde art movement started by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso
“Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” (1907) is an example
consisted of subjects seemingly shattered into fragments and reassembled on a canvas
Compared to broken glass
Juan Gris and Fernand Leger were also artists of this movement

Answer 3

CUBISM (1907-1920)

Question 4

art term that means thickly applied paint

Someone could dig into it with the stem of a brush

Answer 4

Impasto

Question 5

use of intense color for describing light and space and conveying artists emotional state
Henri Matisse, Andre Derain, and Georges Braque.
“Harmony in Red” (1908) by Henri Matisse

Answer 5

FAUVISM (1905-1910)

Question 6

French draftsman, printmaker, sculptor and painter

One of the Fauve founders

Answer 6

Henri Matisse (1869-1954)

Question 7

French artist and sculptor
Associated with the Dada movement (1916-1922)
“Fountain” which was submitted for an art exhibition in 1917

Answer 7

Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)

Question 8

Created to protest the futility of World War I
Started by refugees in Zurich
Characterized by mockery of materialistic and nationalistic attitudes
Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, and Man Ray

Answer 8

DADA (1915-1922)

Question 9

Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Gabriele M
Association of Expressionist artists
Works were characterized by the use of the intense colors, heavy outlines, and simplified shapes
Kandisnky is known as the Inventor of Abstract Art
“Reiter” (1911) by Kandinsky

Answer 9

The Blue Rider (1911-1914)

Question 10

Italian painter and sculptor

“Unique Forms of Continuity and Space” (1913)

Answer 10

Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916)

Question 11

Dutch Modernist painter
Characterized by black lines on a white canvas forming rectangles and limited use of colors
Wanted to create purely abstract pieces
Called this “The Style” or “Neo-Plasticism”
“Composition in Red, Blue, and yellow” (1920)

Answer 11

Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)

Question 12

Was the founder of the avant grade, Suprematist movement
“White on White” (1918) appears as a plain white canvas with barely discernible image of a white tile in the center of the farm.

Answer 12

Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935)

Question 13

art school in Germany
Founded on the idea of creating a comprehensive work of art in which all arts, including architecture, would eventually be combined.
Favored utility over form, box like with flat roofs and open architecture

Answer 13

Bauhaus architecture (1919-1933)

Question 14

Characterized by geometric designs of famous NY buildings like the Chrysler Building and Rockefeller Center
Characterized by trapezoidal, zigzagged and triangular shapes, chevron patterns, stepped forms, sweeping curves and sunburst motifs

Answer 14

ART DECO (1920s-1930s)

Question 15

Russian architect and painter
Founded the Constructivist movement
“The Monument for the Third International” (1920), later known as Tatlin’s Tower, was never built.

Answer 15

Vladimir Tatlin (1885-1953)

Question 16

1300 ft steel tower to be built in the center of Moscow
Was built to celebrate the Bolshevik revolution
Was never built

Answer 16

“The Monument for the Third International” (1920)

Question 17

Blossoming of African American social thought that was expressed through the visual arts, as well as dance, literature, music and theater.
Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence and Palmer Hayden, William H Johnson
William H Johnson - “Cafe” “Street Musicians”

Answer 17

Harlem Renaissance (1920s)