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