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