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