Exam 26: The Early Twentieth Century: Picasso, Fauvism, Expressionism, and Matisse

Which of the following characteristics was LEAST important to Kandinsky's art?

Who painted Whetting the Scythe (1904)?

Who painted The Street (1907), an exemplar of The Bridge?

Who experimented with creating a three-dimensional illusion from flat forms in works like the cutout Icarus?

Unlike the Impressionists, Picasso and Matisse were renowned for their works relatively early in their respective careers.

What is the most dominant feature of the painting Woman with the Hat (1905)?

Who captured the essence of winter in the painting Panel for Edwin R. Campbell No. 4?

Nolde's Still Life with Masks includes a yellow skull based on a shrunken head from Brazil.

Unlike many contemporary German artists, Kollwitz was not a formal member of any artistic group.

The early twentieth-century interest in the art of Africa, Oceania, and other cultures was known at the time as

Which is NOT a feature of Dance I?

What elements of nineteenth-century art did twentieth-century artists retain? What new elements did they add?

The Blue Rider movement differed from The Bridge primarily in the Blue Rider movement's greater interest in

Using examples from the text, describe ways in which European artists appropriated non-Western art. What elements of non-Western art did they find most appealing?

The most important founding artist of Die Brücke was Kirchner.

The Blue Rider movement hoped to move art beyond depictions of the mundane and in the direction of capturing spiritual truths.

Which is NOT a feature of The Bridge movement painting The Street (1907)?

In which city was the Blue Rider group established?

Prior to World War II, which city served as the twentieth-century capital of the Western art world?

Who argued in Concerning the Spiritual in Art that music and art were intimately related?