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Which of the following was a significant factor in providing New York with the foundation to supersede Paris as the center of the world of Modern art?


A) the Armory Show
B) the 291 Gallery
C) the Harlem Renaissance
D) the Federal Arts Project

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What did the Fauvists do to repudiate traditional notions of pictorial representation?

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The Fauvists took color and strong brush...

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What motivated Picasso to create his large-scale painting Guernica for the Spanish Pavilion at the 1938 Paris Exposition?


A) It was a celebration of Spain's technological innovations in the early twentieth century.
B) It was a response to the German bombing of a small Basque town, sponsored by Spanish Nationalists.
C) It memorialized the huge loss of life through trench warfare in World War I.
D) It was a modern version of traditional history painting recognizing Spanish accomplishments.

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How did the Suprematists combine Cubist picture space with complete abstraction?

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Artists such as Malevich exhibited works of art that consisted of flat, assembled, geometric shapes and arranged them on a white ground.

Which artist explicitly addressed feminist concerns in her work?


A) Georgia O'Keeffe
B) Hannah Höch
C) Anni Albers
D) Helen Frankenthaler

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What did artist Franz Marc paint because they were "primitive"?


A) landscapes
B) symphonies
C) animals
D) still lifes

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What is the International Style?

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The International Style emphasized the u...

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Why did the U.S.government hire Dorothea Lange and other photographers during the Great Depression?


A) It was a part of a program that provided jobs to unemployed artists.
B) They hoped to build public support for federal assistance for rural America.
C) They wanted artwork that reflected the national American identity.
D) It was part of an effort to create an art market for underdeveloped states.

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The Abstract Expressionist painters were greatly influenced by which of the following, who described a collective unconscious of universal archetypes shared by all humans?


A) Sigmund Freud's
B) Carl Jung's
C) Clement Greenberg's
D) Vassily Kandinsky's

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A spare, geometric style of Modern architecture in Europe developed in response to


A) Pre-Raphaelite
B) Neo-Baroque
C) Bauhaus
D) Art Nouveau

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Which movement inspired Paula Modersohn-Becker's painting?


A) Cubism
B) Romanticism
C) Primitivism
D) Realism

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How did Bauhaus artists incorporate the idea of modern mass production?

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Gropius's students were not allowed to b...

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Which artist conceptualized the readymade?


A) Brancusi
B) Boccioni
C) Léger
D) Duchamp

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Who exhibited with the Surrealists but never formally joined the movement, embracing, instead, biomorphic abstraction?


A) Lawrence
B) Moore
C) Hepworth
D) Miró

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How did Mary Colter express a connection to the landscape in her architecture?

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Kandinsky believed that looking at a painting should be comparable to experiencing


A) music.
B) mathematics.
C) psychology.
D) love.

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How does Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space embrace the Futurists idea of "the beauty of speed"?

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The artist has created the figure with a...

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What term, which is based on the French word for "wild beast," was the name of an art movement that included Henri Matisse?


A) Die Brücke
B) Fauvism
C) Dada
D) Orphism

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What ideals are reflected in Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye, Poissy-Sur-Seine in its geometric design and avoidance of ornamentation?


A) Dada
B) Bauhaus
C) Purist
D) Futurist

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When compared to paintings by Diego Rivera, those of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo are considered


A) more historical.
B) more modern.
C) more personal.
D) more abstract.

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