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

Question 1

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

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

Answer 1

Kandinsky

Question 2

Who painted a famous portrait of his wife called Woman with the Hat (1905)?

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

Answer 2

Matisse

Question 3

Which is true of Marc's view of color?

A) It was independent of content.
B) It was of no significance.
C) It was naturalistically related to the subject matter.
D) It had no spiritual meaning.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

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

A) mechanical forms.
B) African and Oceanic art.
C) vivid color.
D) nonfigurative abstraction.

Question 5

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

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

Question 6

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

A) Rome
B) London
C) Paris
D) New York City

Question 7

Which artist was among the first to eliminate recognizable objects from his paintings?

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

Question 8

An important element of Matisse's work throughout his career is

A) flat color.
B) nonfigurative abstraction.
C) rigid lines.
D) realistic depictions of objects.

Question 9

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

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 10

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

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

Question 11

Who painted Whetting the Scythe (1904)?

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

Question 12

Which is NOT a feature of Dance I?

A) flat colors
B) black outlines
C) rhythmic, circular motions
D) flat, two-dimensional space and figures

Question 13

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

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

Question 14

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?

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

Question 15

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

A) rhythmic line
B) narrative
C) shape
D) color

Question 16

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

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

Question 17

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

A) the absence of representational forms
B) undulating forms
C) exuberant color
D) flat color areas

Question 18

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

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

Question 19

Which is NOT a feature of Whetting the Scythe?

A) rich blacks
B) a close-up view
C) a depressive theme
D) smooth textures

Question 20

In which city was the Blue Rider group established?

A) Paris
B) Munich
C) Barcelona
D) Moscow

Question 21

Who painted The Old Guitarist (1903)?

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

Question 22

Early twentieth-century artists were most heavily influenced by which form of African art?

A) cave paintings
B) architecture
C) sculpture
D) pottery

Question 23

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

Question 24

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

Question 25

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

Question 26

The most important founding artist of Die Brücke was Kirchner.

Question 27

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.

Question 28

What is the meaning of the French word "fauve" from which the name Fauvism derives?

A) "bright color"
B) "formless"
C) "wild beast"
D) "exuberant"

Question 29

The Blue Rider movement adopted its name in the belief that Moscow would be the center of the world in the twentieth century.

Question 30

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

A) primitivism.
B) savagism.
C) heathenism.
D) cosmopolitanism.

Question 31

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

A) color
B) shading
C) perspective
D) modeling

Question 32

From 1901 to 1904, what color predominated in Picasso's paintings?

A) red
B) yellow
C) orange
D) blue

Question 33

Despite its significant influence, Fauvism was actually a rather short-lived movement.

Question 34

Fauvism is associated with all the following qualities EXCEPT

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

Question 35

Generally speaking, Picasso retained a more consistent style throughout his career than did his more experimental contemporary Matisse.

Question 36

Who wrote the poem "The Man with the Blue Guitar" in response to the painting The Old Guitarist?

A) Stevens
B) Stein
C) Kirchner
D) Nolde

Question 37

The painting Old Guitarist exhibits all the following characteristics EXCEPT

A) a somber tone.
B) a human figure with long, thin limbs.
C) an emphasis on mood.
D) a widely varied chromatic scheme.

Question 38

The person who first used the term fauve to describe the style that came to be known as Fauvism was Henri Matisse.

Question 39

African art appealed to early twentieth-century artists primarily because of its

A) Classical proportions.
B) abstract qualities.
C) bright, vibrant colors.
D) organic naturalism.

Question 40

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

Question 41

Compare and contrast Expressionism with Fauvism. What qualities did they share, and how did they differ? Use examples from your text.

Question 42

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

Question 43

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?

Question 44

Discuss the concept of the avant-garde in relation to the works illustrated in this chapter.

Question 45

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

Question 46

Discuss Matisse's early twentieth-century career. How did his artwork change as he moved past Fauvism? What elements of his work remained consistent from one phase of his career to the other?

Question 47

What were the philosophies of Der Blaue Reiter and Die Brücke? How are they expressed in early twentieth-century painting?