World War

Question 1

The Commune

Answer 1

sets up socialist-anarchist government, crushed by army

Question 2

Ashcan School

Answer 2

an artistic movement in the United States during the late 19th-early 20th century that produced works portraying scenes of daily life in New York, often in the city’s poorer neighborhoods

Question 3

Cubism

Answer 3

an early 20th-century style and movement in art, especially painting, in which perspective with a single viewpoint was abandoned and use was made of simple geometric shapes, interlocking planes, and, later, collage

Question 4

Primitivism

Answer 4

mode of aesthetic idealization that means to recreate the experience of the primitive time, place, and person, either by emulation or by re-creation.

Question 5

Spanish Civil War

Answer 5

A military conflict that took place in Spain from 1936 to 1939, in which there was a struggle between tyranny (nationalists) and freedom (republicans). The nationalists were victorious.

Question 6

Dada

Answer 6

an anti-art movement that sought to challenge social norms and shock, confuse, or outrage people. Dada artists were anti-war, anti-bourgeois, and had political ties to the radical left.

Question 7

Degenerate Art Show

Answer 7

An art show organized by Adolf Hitler to showcase 16,000 works he deemed “degenerate”. Effort by the Nazis to promote traditional art and values, such as racial purity, militarism, and obedience