Question 1

Which of the following statements about Die Brücke is LEAST accurate?

Accepted Answer

A)  It evidenced a pervasively optimistic tone. 
B)  It attempted to bridge traditional art and the avant-garde. 
C)  It employed brilliant, even garish colors. 
D)  It integrated elements of African and Oceanic art with mechanical urban forms. 
A)  It evidenced a pervasively optimistic tone. 
B)  It attempted to bridge traditional art and the avant-garde. 
C)  It employed brilliant, even garish colors. 
D)  It integrated elements of African and Oceanic art with mechanical urban forms.

Question 2

Although art historians have discovered the influence of African art in the works of many early twentieth-century artists like Picasso and Matisse, those artists themselves never acknowledged their indebtedness to African artistic traditions.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Fauvism is associated with all the following qualities EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

A)  brilliant colors. 
B)  restraint and harmony. 
C)  emotional exuberance. 
D)  nonnaturalistic colors. 
A)  brilliant colors. 
B)  restraint and harmony. 
C)  emotional exuberance. 
D)  nonnaturalistic colors.

Question 4

Who painted The Large Blue Horses and Small Yellow Horses in accordance with the belief that animals are better suited than humans for expressing cosmological ideas?

Accepted Answer

A)  Kollwitz 
B)  Kandinsky 
C)  Marc 
D)  Matisse 
A)  Kollwitz 
B)  Kandinsky 
C)  Marc 
D)  Matisse

Question 5

How did early twentieth-century art reflect and respond to political and social developments of the period in which it was created?

Accepted Answer

Early twentieth-century art reflected an

Question 6

Matisse's The Joy of Life (1905-06) exhibits all the following characteristics EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

A)  continually curving lines. 
B)  non-realistic colors. 
C)  Classical imagery. 
D)  biblical allegory. 
A)  continually curving lines. 
B)  non-realistic colors. 
C)  Classical imagery. 
D)  biblical allegory.

Question 7

Which member of The Bridge painted Still Life with Masks (1911)?

Accepted Answer

A)  Kandinsky 
B)  Nolde 
C)  Kirchner 
D)  Matisse 
A)  Kandinsky 
B)  Nolde 
C)  Kirchner 
D)  Matisse

Which of the following statements about Die Brücke is LEAST accurate?

Although art historians have discovered the influence of African art in the works of many early twentieth-century artists like Picasso and Matisse, those artists themselves never acknowledged their indebtedness to African artistic traditions.

Fauvism is associated with all the following qualities EXCEPT

Who painted The Large Blue Horses and Small Yellow Horses in accordance with the belief that animals are better suited than humans for expressing cosmological ideas?

How did early twentieth-century art reflect and respond to political and social developments of the period in which it was created?

Matisse's The Joy of Life (1905-06) exhibits all the following characteristics EXCEPT

Which member of The Bridge painted Still Life with Masks (1911)?

Why Do We Study the History of Art

The Language of Art

Prehistoric Western Europe

The Ancient Near East

Ancient Egypt

The Aegean

The Art of Ancient Greece

The Art of the Etruscans

Ancient Rome

Early Christian and Byzantine Art

The Early Middle Ages

Romanesque Art

Gothic Art

Precursors of the Renaissance

The Early Renaissance

The High Renaissance in Italy

Mannerism and the Later Sixteenth Century in Italy

Sixteenth-Century Painting and Printmaking in Northern Europe

The Baroque Style in Western Europe

Rococo, the Eighteenth Century, and Revival Styles

Neoclassicism: the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Romanticism: the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Nineteenth-Century Realism

Nineteenth-Century Impressionism

Post-Impressionism and the Late Nineteenth Century

Cubism, Futurism, and Related Twentieth-Century Styles

Dada, Surrealism, Social Realism, Regionalism, and Abstraction

Mid-Century American Abstraction

Pop Art, Op Art, Minimalism, and Conceptualism

Continuity, Innovation, and Globalization

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

Which of the following statements about Die Brücke is LEAST accurate?

Although art historians have discovered the influence of African art in the works of many early twentieth-century artists like Picasso and Matisse, those artists themselves never acknowledged their indebtedness to African artistic traditions.

Fauvism is associated with all the following qualities EXCEPT

Who painted The Large Blue Horses and Small Yellow Horses in accordance with the belief that animals are better suited than humans for expressing cosmological ideas?

How did early twentieth-century art reflect and respond to political and social developments of the period in which it was created?

Matisse's The Joy of Life (1905-06) exhibits all the following characteristics EXCEPT

Which member of The Bridge painted Still Life with Masks (1911)?

Why Do We Study the History of Art

The Language of Art

Prehistoric Western Europe

The Ancient Near East

Ancient Egypt

The Aegean

The Art of Ancient Greece

The Art of the Etruscans

Ancient Rome

Early Christian and Byzantine Art

The Early Middle Ages

Romanesque Art

Gothic Art

Precursors of the Renaissance

The Early Renaissance

The High Renaissance in Italy

Mannerism and the Later Sixteenth Century in Italy

Sixteenth-Century Painting and Printmaking in Northern Europe

The Baroque Style in Western Europe

Rococo, the Eighteenth Century, and Revival Styles

Neoclassicism: the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Romanticism: the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Nineteenth-Century Realism

Nineteenth-Century Impressionism

Post-Impressionism and the Late Nineteenth Century

Cubism, Futurism, and Related Twentieth-Century Styles

Dada, Surrealism, Social Realism, Regionalism, and Abstraction

Mid-Century American Abstraction

Pop Art, Op Art, Minimalism, and Conceptualism

Continuity, Innovation, and Globalization

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