Question 1

Which artist's Mask of Fear (1932)  was influenced by a Zuni statue of a war god?

Accepted Answer

A)   Miró
B)   Klee
C)   Dal'
D)   Man Ray

Question 2

How did Surrealism affect twentieth-century sculpture?

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Surrealism had a significant impact on t...

Question 3

Giacometti's Large Standing Woman III evidences his strong interest in the statuary of which culture?

Accepted Answer

A)   ancient Egypt
B)   the Italian Renaissance
C)   Oceania
D)   Classical Greece

Question 4

Arp's cord collage The Dancer exemplifies all the following characteristics of Dada EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

A)   its insistence on conscious control.
B)   its experiments with free association.
C)   its sense of playfulness.
D)   its interest in randomness.

Question 5

How did Duchamp create his famous work .?

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A)   by signing his name to a urinal
B)   by dropping colored rectangles onto a canvas
C)   by drawing a beard and moustache on a reproduction of the Mona Lisa
D)   by placing random objects on light-sensitive paper

Question 6

Man Ray was a pseudonym adopted by Jean Arp when he moved from Dada to Surrealism.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

As a movement, Dada flourished for less than a decade.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Discuss the use of dream mechanisms by Surrealist artists. How did they create dreamlike images?

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Surrealist artists used dream mechanisms...

Question 9

Whose First Surrealist Manifesto of 1924 bridged the gap between Dada and Surrealism?

Accepted Answer

A)   Duchamp
B)   Arp
C)   Breton
D)   Man Ray

Question 10

The works of which of the following American artists was most visibly influenced by European avant-garde movements such as Cubism and Expressionism?

Accepted Answer

A)   Hopper
B)   Lawrence
C)   Wood
D)   VanDerZee

Question 11

Rivera's Ancient Mexico retains elements of the Cubist style that he had previously practiced.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Rivera's wife, also a painter, was

Accepted Answer

A)   O'Keeffe.
B)   Pelton.
C)   Lange.
D)   Kahlo.

Question 13

Which artist's Gas (1940)  depicts a single man at a gas station with a vast empty expanse in the background?

Accepted Answer

A)   Hopper
B)   Lawrence
C)   Lange
D)   Kahlo

Question 14

Which statement best describes Stieglitz's attitude toward photography?

Accepted Answer

A)   He believed that photography should only be used in the service of Social Realism.
B)   He believed that photography should only be used in the service of avant-garde abstraction.
C)   He believed in "straight photography" rather than in the manipulation of images.
D)   He did not believe that photography was a form of art.

Question 15

Whose Cow's Skull with Calico Roses exhibits the influence of Surrealism and the Southwest landscape on the artist?

Accepted Answer

A)   O'Keeffe
B)   Kandinsky
C)   Rivera
D)   Hopper

Question 16

Moore's sculptures exhibit all of the following characteristics EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

A)   the reclining figure motif.
B)   hollowed-out spaces and openings.
C)   forms made as thin as structurally possible.
D)   massive biomorphic forms.

Question 17

Discuss the movement toward American Abstraction in the first half of the twentieth century. Could the United States be said to have produced both the most traditional and the most innovative artists of this time period?

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The movement toward American Abstraction...

Question 18

Which former Dadaist wedded Cubism and Surrealism in the 1944 sculpture The King Playing with the Queen?

Accepted Answer

A)   Magritte
B)   Arp
C)   Ernst
D)   Giacometti

Question 19

Discuss the various artistic trends in the U.S. during the interwar period. What themes and styles did American artists explore? Was there a common theme linking Regionalism, Social Realism, and American Abstraction?

Accepted Answer

During the interwar period in the United...

Question 20

The Museum of Modern Art opened in 1929 under the direction of whom?

Accepted Answer

A)   O'Keeffe
B)   Kandinsky
C)   Stieglitz
D)   Barr

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As a movement, Dada flourished for less than a decade.

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Discuss the use of dream mechanisms by Surrealist artists. How did they create dreamlike images?

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Moore's sculptures exhibit all of the following characteristics EXCEPT

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Giacometti's Large Standing Woman III evidences his strong interest in the statuary of which culture?

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Which artist's Mask of Fear (1932) was influenced by a Zuni statue of a war god?

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Which statement best describes Stieglitz's attitude toward photography?

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The works of which of the following American artists was most visibly influenced by European avant-garde movements such as Cubism and Expressionism?

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Discuss the movement toward American Abstraction in the first half of the twentieth century. Could the United States be said to have produced both the most traditional and the most innovative artists of this time period?

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Which artist's Gas (1940) depicts a single man at a gas station with a vast empty expanse in the background?

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Whose First Surrealist Manifesto of 1924 bridged the gap between Dada and Surrealism?

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How did Duchamp create his famous work .?

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Discuss the various artistic trends in the U.S. during the interwar period. What themes and styles did American artists explore? Was there a common theme linking Regionalism, Social Realism, and American Abstraction?

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