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