Test #1

Question 1

Answer 1

Monet

Impression: Sunrise

oil on canvas

1872

Question 2

Answer 2

Van Gogh

Night Cafe

oil on canvas

1902

Question 3

Answer 3

Cezanne

Mont Sainte-Victoire

oil on canvas

1902

Question 4

Answer 4

Matisse

Red Room

oil on canvas

1908

Question 5

Answer 5

Picasso

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon

oil on canvas

1907

Question 6

Improvisation 28

Answer 6

Kandinsky

Improvisation 28

oil on canvas

1912

Question 7

Answer 7

Duchamp

Nude Descending a Staircase

oil on canvas

1912

Question 8

Answer 8

Brancusi

Bird in Space

Bronze

1924

Question 9

The Treachery of Images

Answer 9

Magritte

The Treachery of Images

oil on canvas

1928

Question 10

Answer 10

Le Corbusier

Villa Savoye

concrete

1929

Question 11

Answer 11

Mondrian

Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow

oil on canvas

1930

Question 12

Answer 12

Dorothea Lange

Migrant Mother

gelatin silver print

1935

Question 13

Answer 13

Frank Lloyd Wright

Falling Water

stone and concrete

1936

Question 14

Answer 14

Frida Kahlo

The Two Fridas

oil on canvas

1939

Question 15

Answer 15

Edward Hopper

Nighthawks

oil on canvas

1942

Question 16

Answer 16

Jackson Pollock

Number 1

oil, enamel, aluminum paint on canvas

1950

Question 17

Answer 17

de Kooning

Woman I

oil on canvas

1950

Question 18

Answer 18

Robert Rauschenberg

Erased de Kooning Drawing

traces of ink and crayon on paper with mat and hand-lettered label in gold-leaf frame

1953

Question 19

Answer 19

Mark Rothko

No. 14

oil on canvas

1960

Question 20

Answer 20

Helen Frankenthaler

The Bay

acrylic on canvas

1963

Question 21

Gestural Abstraction?

Answer 21

Also known as action painting. A kind of abstract painting in which the gesture, or act of painting, is seen as the subject of art. It’s most renowned proponent was Jackson Pollock.

Question 22

Avant-garde?

Answer 22

French, “advance guard” (in a platoon). Late-19th- and 20th-century artists who emphasized innovation and challenged established convention in their work.

Question 23

Action Painting?

Answer 23

Also called gestural abstraction. The kind of Abstract Expressionism practiced by Jackson Pollock, in which the emphasis was on the creation process, the artist’s gesture in making art. Pollock poured liquid paint in linear webson his canvases, which he laid out on the floor, thereby physically surrounding himself in the painting during its creation.

Question 24

Dada?

Answer 24

An early-20th-century art movement prompted by a revulsion against the horror of World War I. Dada embraced political anarchy, the irrational, and the intuitive. A disdain for convention, often enlivened by humor or whimsy, is characteristic of the art the Dadaists produced.

Question 25

Surrealism?

Answer 25

A successor to Dada, Surrealism incorporated the improvisational nature of its predecessor into its exploration of the ways to express in art the world of dreams and the unconscious. Biomorphic Surrealists, such as Joan Miro, produced largely abstract compositions. Naturalistic Surrealists, notably Salvador Dali, presented recognizable scenes transformed into a dream or nightmare image.

Question 26

Post-Impressionism?

Answer 26

The term used to describe the stylistically hererogeneous work of the group of late-19th-century painters in France, including van Gogh, Gauguin, Seurat, and Cezanne, who more systematically examined the properties and expressive qualities of line, pattern, form, and color than the Impressionists did.

Question 27

German Expressionism?

Answer 27

Although color plays an important role, the expressiveness of the German images is due as much to wrenching distortions of form, ragged outline, and agitated brush strokes. This approach resulted in savagely powerful, emotional canvases in the years leading to World War I.

Question 28

Cubism?

Answer 28

An early-20th-century art movement that rejected naturalistic depictions, preferring compositions of shapes and forms abstracted from the conventionally perceived world. The first phase of Cubism was Ananlytic Cubism, developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, in which the artists analyzed form from every possible vantage point to combine the various views into one pictorial whole. A later phase of Cubism, called Synthetic Cubism, in which paintings and drawings were constructed from objects and shapes cut from paper or other materials to represent parts of a subject, in order to engage the viewer with pictorial issues, such as figuration, realism, and abstraction.

Question 29

Hard-edge painting?

Answer 29

A variant of Post-Painterly Abstraction that rigidly excluded all refernce to gesture and incorporated smooth knife-edge geometric forms to expredd the notion that painting should be reduced to its visual components.

Question 30

Color-field Painting?

Answer 30

A variant of Post-Painterly Abstraction in which artists sought to reduce painting to its physical essence by pouring diluted paint onto unprimed canvas and letting these pigments soak into the fabric, as exemplified by the work of Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis.

Question 31

Zoopraxiscope?

Answer 31

A device invented by Eadweard Muybridge in the 19th century to project sequences of still photographic images; a predecessor of the modern motion-picture projector.

Question 32

Impressionism?

Answer 32

A late-19th-century art movement that sought to capture a fleeting moment, thereby conveying the illusiveness and impermanence of images and conditions.

Question 33

Fauvism?

Answer 33

An early-20th-century art movemtn led by Henri Matisse. For the fauves, color became the formal element most responsible for pictorial coherence and the primary conveyor of meaning.

Question 34

Neue Sachlichkeit?

Answer 34

German, “new objectivity.” An art movement that grew directly out of the World War I expericences of a group of German artists who sought to show the horrors of the war and its effects.

Question 35

Abstract Expressionism?

Answer 35

The first major American avant-garde movement, Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York City in the 1940s. The artists produced abstract paintings that expressed their state of minf and that they hoped would strike emotional chords in viewers. The movement developed along two lines; gestural abstraction and chromatic abstraction.

Question 36

Chromatic Abstraction?

Answer 36

A kind of Abstract Expressionism that focuses on the emotional resonance of color, as exemplified by the work of Barnett Newmann and Mark Rothko.

Question 37

Minimalism?

Answer 37

A predominantly sculptural American trend of the 1960s characterized by works featuring a severe reduction of form, often to single homogenous units.

Question 38

De Stijl?

Answer 38

Dutch, “the style.” An early-20th-century art movement (and magazine), founded by Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg, whose members promoted utopian ideals and developed a simplified geometric style.

Question 39

WPA?

Answer 39

Works Progress Administration, founded in 1935 to relieve widespread unemployment. Under the WPA, varied activites of the Federal Art Project paid artists, writers, and theater people a regular wage in exchange for work in the professions.

Question 40

Primitivism?

Answer 40

The incorporatioin in early -20th-century Western art of stylistic elements from the artifacts of Africa, Oceania, and the native peoples of the Americas.

Question 41

Photomontage?

Answer 41

A composition made by pasting together pictures or parts of pictures, especially photographs.

Question 42

Regionalism?

Answer 42

A 20th-century American art movement that portrayed American rural life in a clearly readable, realist style. Major Regionalists include Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton.