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Review for Humanities Exam #4
Review for Humanities Exam #4
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A #humanitites quiz covering material from #industrialage, #modernism, and #contemporaryspirit
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1
With what phenomenon of modernist culture would you associate Marcel Duchamp's
readymades?
dada's challenge to conventional definitions of art
art deco's commercially appealing mix of elegance and luxury
the use of montage to create an emotion in the viewer
the documentary effort to communicate truth through art
2
Which of these works best illustrates cubism's effort to analyze subjects into planes & angles?
Brancusi, Bird in Space
Rivera, Enslavement of the Indians
Serge Einstein, Battleship Potemkin
Braque, The Portuguese
3
The documentary photographs of Dorothea Lange are associated with what historical phenomenon?
the New Deal in the US
the Bolsheviks and the Russian Revolution
the rise of fascism in Germany
the Great War in Europe
4
Which statement best describes the literary works of Franz Kafka?
central characters are caught in absurd circumstances
works are filled with allusions to art, music & religion
his novels and stories are mostly set in Dublin, Ireland
novels are thinly disguised memoirs of the author's youth
5
What work is associated with
Die Brucke
, a movement of German expressionist artists of 1920s?
Picasso's Three Musicians
Kirchner's Street, Berlin
Kafka's The Metamorphosis
Copland's Appalachian Spring
6
What pair of painters sought to develop beyond the impressionistic style toward abstraction?
Rosa Bonheur and Thomas Eakins
Paul Cezanne and George Seurat
Claude Monet and Auguste Renoir
Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas
7
The fiction of Gabriel Garcia Marquez,
One Hundred Years of Solitude
, is best described as:
existentialist
beat
organic
magic realism
8
Which work is best classified as
surrealist
?
Picasso's Three Musicians
De Chirico's The Mystery and Melancholy of a Street
Wright's "Fallingwater"
Charles Ives' Three Pieces in New England
9
Which statement best describes the architect Frank Lloyd Wright?
envisioned "radiant cities" of skyscrapers & super highways
was the inventor of architectural modernism in the US
was a central figure of the Bauhaus movement in Germany
believed a building should connect occupants & surrounding
10
Which of these works is a large-scale assemblage of discarded wooden slats & spindles?
Alexander Calder, Spring Blossoms
Louise Nevelson, Black Wall
Judy Chicago, Dinner Party
David Smith, Cubi XVIII
11
"Roped together like two mountain climbers"-what 2 artists invented methods of cubist painting?
Marcel Duchamp and Henri Matisse
Salvador Dali and Joan Miro
Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque
Paul Klee and Walter Gropius
12
Which of these works shows most clearly modernism's interest in primitivism?
Malevich's Black Square
Miro's Birth of the World
Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire
13
Which is best described with the term
earth art
, a mode of minimalism merging sculpture & land?
Henry Moore, Recumbent Figure
Le Corbusier's Notre-Dame-du-Haut
Alexander Calder, Spring Blossoms
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty
14
How is the style of Art Nouveau best described?
imitated models from the classical past
expressed intense inner feelings and states of mind
employed floral and vegetal motifs
sought to depict things as they really are
15
The literary names of Gustave Flaubert & Henrik Ibsen are closely associated with what "-ism"?
Impressionism
Symbolism
Socialism
Realism
16
What made Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace notable?
use of neoclassical motifs
iron-and-glass construction
Gothic gloominess and mystery
Art Nouveau-style decoration
17
Explaining the importance of Baron Haussmann's new Paris, what term would be most appropriate?
nationalism
Art Nouveau
modernity
realism
18
The work that develops the idea of the
Ubermensch
- a type of superhuman beyond good and evil:
Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Darwin's Origin of Species
Ibsen's A Doll House
Flaubert's Madame Bovary
19
Who fashioned a system of teaching modern dance that made it as rigorous as classical ballet?
Willa Carter
Martha Graham
Isadora Duncan
Georgia O'Keeffe
20
Which statement best describes Wassily Kandinsky's
Improvisation 28
?
used multiple rhythms to create dislocations of rhythm
used atonal harmonies to create an atmosphere of dissonance
painted on a geometric grid that dissolves object into angle
swirling lines & color have no reference to figure or story
21
The technique of impressionist/post-impressionist styles adapted from Japanese
ukiyo-e
prints:
flattened perspective and unbroken fields of bright color
sketchy brushwork lending a sense of spontaneity
repetition of circle and square to create order & regularity
precise observation of realistic detail
22
Why would artistic public of the 1860s most likely have rejected Manet's
Luncheon on the Grass
?
The work seems to call for violent uprisings of workers
the work's sketchy brush strokes seemed amateruish
the picture placed bold nude woman in a contemporary setting
the work depicted exotic tropical scenes in garish colors
23
Which statement best describes the technique of jazz?
was slow to influence modernist composers
arranged notes in an arbitrary series or row
first employed in symphonic and operatic settings
based on improvisation and a swinging rhythm
24
Which statement best describes the work of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath?
composed poetry in "confessional" vein, with graphic images
wrote self-consciously metaphysical stories about labyrinths
was strongly influenced by the Beatles & rock-&-roll groups
dealt principally with African-American characters & life
25
What pair best defines pure impressionist style of brilliant color & vibrant brushwork?
Claude Monet and Pierre-August Renoir
Gustave Courbet and Honore Daumier
Paul Cezanner and Georges Seurat
Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas
26
Which statement best describes the work of Argentinean Jorge Luis Borges?
dealt primarily with African-American characters and life
wrote metaphysical stories about labyrinth fictional worlds
strongly influenced by Beatles and rock-and-roll groups
composed poetry in a "confessional" vein, with graphic image
27
Which statement best describes the art of Robert Rauschenberg, creator of
Monogram?
experimented with "combine" paintings of several media
consciously imitated the methods of baroque masters
used a method of "automatic" painting & free association
crossed over division between traditional art & mass culture
28
Which modernist figure argued that women who wanted to write needed "a room of one's own"?
Leni Riefenstahl
T.S. Elliot
Virginia Woolf
Dorethea Lange
29
Which of these works is properly described as a
mobile
, composed of shapes suspended in air?
Calder's Spring Blossoms
Kiefer's Die Meistersinger
Rauschenberg's Monogram
Chuck Close's Phil
30
Which of these works pioneered musical
minimalism,
carrying the style to a much wider audience?
August Wilson, Fences
Philip Glass, Einstein on the Beach
Pierre Boulez, Structures I
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
31
The American impressionist painter known for paintings focused on intimacy of mother & child:
Claude Monet
Edgar Degas
Mary Cassatt
Auguste Renoir
32
Who achieved innovations in orchestra and tone that are often called "impressionism in music"?
Claude Debussy
Giuseppe Verdi
Ricahrd Wagner
Johannes Brahms
33
Which of these characteristics best describes Seurat's
Sunday Afternoon on the Island
?
use of color and symbolism to impart an emotional intensity
attempt to catch a fleeting impression of light and color
unbroken expanses of brilliant color in search of design
painstaking method of applying tiny dots of color
34
Which statement best describes Picasso's
Three Musicians?
use of soft spherical shapes create mood of mysterious calm
illustrates the painter's feelings of mistrust toward women
clearly realizes the "expressionist" mode of modern art
its bright colors & irregular shapes give it a humorous tone
35
Which of these is best example of surrealist work that explores inner world of dream & emotion?
Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye
Dali's The Persistence of Memory
Picasso's Guernica
Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
36
Which figure would most likely have applied the techniques of the twelve-tone method?
Sergei Diaghilev
Sigmund Freud
Louis Armstrong
Arnold Schoenberg
37
Which statement best describes Wagner's cycle of four operas titled
Ring of the Nibelung
?
experimented with the tonalities of exotic instruments
adapted the love stories and gay tales of traditional opera
synthesized orchestral music, song & staging in "total" art
important in the development of late 19th century ballet
38
What work is a masterpiece of the
theater of the absurd
?
Allen Ginsburg's Howl
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
Tony Kushner's Angels America
39
Who is best described as an "abstract expressionist" painter of the New York School?
Andy Warhol
Jackson Pollack
Robert Smithson
Judy Chicago
40
Which statement best describes the appeal of existentialism?
represented new American dominance of Western styles in art
vigorously applied the lessons of modern physics
helped explain the origins of the Cold War
searched for authentic freedom in an absurd world
