Deck 28: Art Between the Wars

Question 1

Which American artist embraced representational art and regional imagery?

A) Grant Wood
B) Jacob Lawrence
C) Georgia O'Keeffe
D) Joseph Stella

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Diego Rivera revived the tradition of:

A) Analytic Cubism
B) Collage
C) Mural painting
D) Tempera painting

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Who experimented with mobiles as a form of art?

A) Man Ray
B) Hepworth
C) Duchamp
D) Calder

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The Bauhaus design principle that embraced the modern, manufactured appearance is known as:

A) The Machine aesthetic
B) Assembly line art
C) Sweat shop painting
D) The Factory

Question 5

Who was the first staff photographer hired by Fortune magazine and then by Life magazine?

A) Bourke-White
B) O'Keeffe
C) Man Ray
D) Kollwitz

Question 6

Diego Rivera's The Arsenal is a mural that symbolizes the importance of:

A) the arts in supporting revolution
B) festivals held in rural Mexico
C) ancient indigenous rituals
D) education for the children of his country

Question 7

Marcel Duchamp's Fountain is a work in which style?

A) Dada
B) Surrealism
C) Nabi
D) New Deal

Question 8

Dada evolved into Surrealism.

Question 9

The unconscious was the primary subject matter and concern for:

A) Cubism
B) The Fauves
C) Surrealism
D) Abstract Expressionism

Question 10

Jacob Lawrence is an artist who is most associated with the:

A) Cubist movement
B) Harlem Renaissance
C) Surrealism
D) Regionalism

Question 11

Which of the following was an important documentary photographer for the Farm Security Administration?

A) Bourke-White
B) Klee
C) Man Ray
D) Lange

Question 12

In Europe, many artists sought to undermine the nationalism and bourgeois values, particularly capitalism, that brought about World War I.

Question 13

Who officially declared Surrealism as a style in Paris in 1924?

A) André Breton
B) Filippo Marinetti
C) Salvador Dali
D) Meret Oppenheim

Question 14

Pablo Picasso made his Guernica in response to a devastating battle during which conflict?

A) World War II
B) World War I
C) The Crimean War
D) The Spanish-American War

Question 15

Who was the founder of Constructivism?

A) Arp
B) Tatlin
C) Mondrian
D) Beckmann

Question 16

Which photographer used photography to document the plight of the poor during the Great Depression?

A) Dorothea Lange
B) Margaret Bourke-White
C) Man Ray
D) Edward Steichen

Question 17

Salvador Dali made paintings using a technique he called the "paranoiac-critical" process.

Question 18

Who owned and ran "291"?

A) Man Ray
B) Adams
C) Weston
D) Stieglitz

Question 19

Dada was a movement that was substantially produced by the experience of:

A) Freud's theories
B) World War I
C) The Italian Futurists
D) The Great Depression

Question 20

Who is known for light-hearted, playful photograms?

A) Bourke-White
B) Adams
C) Man Ray
D) Lange

Question 21

Describe Marcel Duchamp's Fountain and the circumstances of its initial display at an exhibition in 1917. Discuss how the exhibition of this work challenged the notion of what constitutes a work of art?

Question 22

De Stijl artists sought to create, through abstraction, total environments so perfect that they embodied a universal harmony.

Question 23

There was a clear separation between abstract art and radical politics in the revolutionary society that developed in Russia.

Question 24

What does the art of Lange have in common with that of Goya and Courbet?

Question 25

Works of art often prove shocking and disturbing when they are first exhibited. Discuss one work of art from the interwar years, together with two other previous works of art, which challenged the public's notion of art.

Question 26

What are the similarities and differences between the Dada and Surrealist movements? Select two works of art to formulate your answer.

Question 27

How did Pablo Picasso approach the subject of war in his Guernica? Compare Picasso's approach to war in this work with other representations of war in the history of art.

Question 28

Compare and contrast Mondrian's abstract paintings with Calder's sculptures.

Question 29

How did Man Ray, Strand, Bourke-White, and Lange each emphasize different possibilities for photography?

Question 30

How did the New Deal have an impact on documentary photography?

Question 31

How are questions of identity and difference explored in the art of Jacob Lawrence and Diego Rivera?