HUM 2250-Test 1 With Complete Solution
In the 20th century, science and technology represented..? - ANSWER Progress
To be progressive is to be..? - ANSWER Modern
To acknowledge and live in the modern world is to be..? - ANSWER Progressive
3 factors of imperialist ideology: - ANSWER Capitalists/expansionists
Missionary purpose
Balance of power
Imperialism/colonialism is said to be the combination of these two elitist ideas: -
ANSWER Nationalism and racism
What was the "spirit" that permeated western culture in the first years of the 20th
century? - ANSWER Optimism
Spanish artist whose radical approach to art would inspire an equally radical approach
to poetry and music: - ANSWER Picasso
The beginning of modernism is said to have started with this painting by Manet in 1863: -
ANSWER Luncheon in the grass
Describe the "radical shift" in modern art that took place in the early 1900s and the
painting that most embodies this new aesthetic awareness: - ANSWER Cubism, Picasso,
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, (1907)
How did Picasso "make new" a traditional subject? - ANSWER Nudes, showing from
different vantage points and integrating the African mask.
Which post-impressionist would later be described as "the father of us all"? - ANSWER
Cezanne
How did the ethnographic museum at the "Palais du Trocadero" inspire modern art and
artists? - ANSWER Artifacts were brought from Africa and placed for public viewing.
The African masks were free from all traditions conventions.
Who was the leading painter of the Fauvist movement? - ANSWER Henry Matisse
Define meaning of "Fauves" and how it applies stylistically to the movement. - ANSWER
Wild beast, to break free from traditional color and form, abandonment of naturalistic
effects.
Define Cubism and the two artists who collaboration made it possible. - ANSWER
Deconstructed subjects into faceted planes, challenged with idea of illusion, noted for
, geometry of its forms it's fragmentation of the object and it's increasing abstraction.
Picasso and Georges Braque
Who is Gertrude Stein and what role did she play in the development of modern art in
Paris? - ANSWER expatriot American writer and art collector, patron of the arts, salon at
her house
Name the two most important groups of the German Expressionist movement, the
leading artist(s) of each, as well as defining stylistic characteristics.! - ANSWER Die
Bruke(The Bridge) - aggressive energy and jarring contrasts of color, jagged, linear
compositions. (Ernst Kirchner)
Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) - unified stylistically by their "obsession" with color.
Directly influenced the soul. Emotional impact of color. (Wassily Kandinsky)
Die bruke - ANSWER aggressive energy and jarring contrasts of color, jagged, linear
compositions. (Ernst Kirchner)
Der Blaue Reiter - ANSWER unified stylistically by their "obsession" with color. Directly
influenced the soul. Emotional impact of color. (Wassily Kandinsky)
Alfred Stieglitz gallery 291 was the first American gallery to show the works of both
Matisse and Picasso. Why did Stieglitz value the work of these two contemporary
European painters? - ANSWER For the attention they paid to formal composition, the
conceptual qualities as opposed to the imagery.
In addition to being married to Georgia o'keef, Stieglitz is best known for his
photograph..? - ANSWER The Steerage (1906)
Review notes from in class documentary: the Eloquent eye - ANSWER Alfred Steiglitz -
Father of modern photography
New vision for a modern world
To teach America to see
Visual revolution
Photographed what they said could not be photo'd
The New York of transition-the old passing into the new
Determined that photography would be accepted as art.
President Roosevelt compared this painting by Duchamp from the 1913 Armory Show to
a Navajo rug in his bathroom - ANSWER Nude Descending a Staircase (Marcel
Duchamp) (1912)
Duchamps "Futurist" paintings were influenced by a treatise he read entitled
"Movement" and the work of this American photographer: - ANSWER Etienne - Jules
In the 20th century, science and technology represented..? - ANSWER Progress
To be progressive is to be..? - ANSWER Modern
To acknowledge and live in the modern world is to be..? - ANSWER Progressive
3 factors of imperialist ideology: - ANSWER Capitalists/expansionists
Missionary purpose
Balance of power
Imperialism/colonialism is said to be the combination of these two elitist ideas: -
ANSWER Nationalism and racism
What was the "spirit" that permeated western culture in the first years of the 20th
century? - ANSWER Optimism
Spanish artist whose radical approach to art would inspire an equally radical approach
to poetry and music: - ANSWER Picasso
The beginning of modernism is said to have started with this painting by Manet in 1863: -
ANSWER Luncheon in the grass
Describe the "radical shift" in modern art that took place in the early 1900s and the
painting that most embodies this new aesthetic awareness: - ANSWER Cubism, Picasso,
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, (1907)
How did Picasso "make new" a traditional subject? - ANSWER Nudes, showing from
different vantage points and integrating the African mask.
Which post-impressionist would later be described as "the father of us all"? - ANSWER
Cezanne
How did the ethnographic museum at the "Palais du Trocadero" inspire modern art and
artists? - ANSWER Artifacts were brought from Africa and placed for public viewing.
The African masks were free from all traditions conventions.
Who was the leading painter of the Fauvist movement? - ANSWER Henry Matisse
Define meaning of "Fauves" and how it applies stylistically to the movement. - ANSWER
Wild beast, to break free from traditional color and form, abandonment of naturalistic
effects.
Define Cubism and the two artists who collaboration made it possible. - ANSWER
Deconstructed subjects into faceted planes, challenged with idea of illusion, noted for
, geometry of its forms it's fragmentation of the object and it's increasing abstraction.
Picasso and Georges Braque
Who is Gertrude Stein and what role did she play in the development of modern art in
Paris? - ANSWER expatriot American writer and art collector, patron of the arts, salon at
her house
Name the two most important groups of the German Expressionist movement, the
leading artist(s) of each, as well as defining stylistic characteristics.! - ANSWER Die
Bruke(The Bridge) - aggressive energy and jarring contrasts of color, jagged, linear
compositions. (Ernst Kirchner)
Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) - unified stylistically by their "obsession" with color.
Directly influenced the soul. Emotional impact of color. (Wassily Kandinsky)
Die bruke - ANSWER aggressive energy and jarring contrasts of color, jagged, linear
compositions. (Ernst Kirchner)
Der Blaue Reiter - ANSWER unified stylistically by their "obsession" with color. Directly
influenced the soul. Emotional impact of color. (Wassily Kandinsky)
Alfred Stieglitz gallery 291 was the first American gallery to show the works of both
Matisse and Picasso. Why did Stieglitz value the work of these two contemporary
European painters? - ANSWER For the attention they paid to formal composition, the
conceptual qualities as opposed to the imagery.
In addition to being married to Georgia o'keef, Stieglitz is best known for his
photograph..? - ANSWER The Steerage (1906)
Review notes from in class documentary: the Eloquent eye - ANSWER Alfred Steiglitz -
Father of modern photography
New vision for a modern world
To teach America to see
Visual revolution
Photographed what they said could not be photo'd
The New York of transition-the old passing into the new
Determined that photography would be accepted as art.
President Roosevelt compared this painting by Duchamp from the 1913 Armory Show to
a Navajo rug in his bathroom - ANSWER Nude Descending a Staircase (Marcel
Duchamp) (1912)
Duchamps "Futurist" paintings were influenced by a treatise he read entitled
"Movement" and the work of this American photographer: - ANSWER Etienne - Jules
