From the title of one of his paintings (Impression: Sunrise), the name for the entire Impressionist movement received its name.
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A) Degas
B) Monet
C) Seurat
D) Cezanne
Definition
B) Monet
Term
This artist (many of whose works include spontaneous scenes from daily life, particularly situations involving mothers and children as seen below) encouraged American friends to purchase Impressionist works.
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A) Ingres
B) Cassatt
C) Seurat
D) Degas
Definition
B) Cassatt
Term
This composer's Symphony No. 6 in b minor is also known as the Pathétique Symphony.
A) Debussy
B) Mahler
C) Ravel
D) Tchaikovsky
Definition
D) Tchaikovsky
Term
One of this composer's most Impressionist pieces is La Mer.
A) Debussy
B) Tchaikovsky
C) Strauss
D) Ravel
Definition
A) Debussy
Term
Many of this author's works, including The Awakening, invoke delicacy and wry humor to examine the prison that marriage so often represents.
A) Ibsen
B) Chekhov
C) Dostoyevsky
D) Chopin
Definition
D) Chopin
Term
This composer's Rite of Spring, based on a Russian folk tale, describes a springtime ritual culminating in the sacrifice of a human victim.
A) Debussy
B) Stravinsky
C) Ravel
D) Schonberg
Definition
B) Stravinsky
Term
This artist painted a series of pastels known as "key-hole visions," often depicting women caught unawares in simple, natural poses.
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A) Seurat
B) Degas
C) Cassatt
D) Cezanne
Definition
B) Degas
Term
his author used irony and satire to show the passivity and emptiness of his characters, who are filled with a frustrated longing for action.
A) Dostoyevsky
B) Proust
C) Chekhov
D) Ibsen
Definition
C) Chekhov
Term
Perhaps one of Van Gogh's most iconic images, this work gives the impression of irresistible movement by his careful use of line and shape.
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A) The Kiss
B) View of Paris
C) The Starry Night
D) Mont Sainte-Victorie
Definition
C) The Starry Night
Term
In Remembrance of Things Past, this author creates a narrator who realizes that all of his experiences lie hidden inside him, and that the tiniest circumstances can trigger a chain of memory associations.
A) Dostoyevsky
B) Proust
C) Chekhov
D) Ibsen
Definition
B) Proust
Term
This composer enjoyed outstanding success with program music, which included an elaborate plot that the music then describes.
A) Debussy
B) Ravel
C) Tchaikovsky
D) Strauss
Definition
D) Strauss
Term
Which of these artists sculpted The Kiss?
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A) Rodin
B) Monet
C) Manet
D) Cassatt
Definition
A) Rodin
Term
This novel by Kate Chopin was condemned as immoral when it was first published in 1899.
A) The Awakening
B) A doll's House
C) Crime and Punishment
D) Remembrance of Things Past
Definition
A) The Awakening
Term
This literary piece earned Marcel Proust lasting fame
A) Remembrance of Things Past
B) A doll's House
C) The Lady with the Dog
D) Crime and Punishment
Definition
A) Remembrance of Things Past
Term
This musical composer created Bolero, a piece which enjoys popularity today.
A) Mahler
B) Stravinsky
C) Ravel
D) Debussy
Definition
C) Ravel
Term
Identify the other name by which the "Great War" of 1914-1918 is known.
A) The Crimean War
B) World War II
C) The Franco-Prussian War
D) World War I
Definition
D) World War I
Term
The Czech author Franz Kafka is best remembered for this work.
A) The Wasteland
B) The Catcher in the Rye
C) The Hollow Men
D) The Trial
Definition
D) The Trial
Term
Salvador Dalí's Persistence of Memory is an example of this type of painting style.
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A) Realism
B) Art Nouveau
C) Surrealist
D) Fauvism
Definition
C) Surrealist
Term
This is the author of Desire under the Elms.
A) Eugene O'Neill
B) Virginia Woolf
C) T.S. Eliot
D) James Joyce
Definition
A) Eugene O'Neill
Term
Duchamp's version of the Mona Lisa illustrates this modern movement's opposition to the past, logic, and good manners.
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A) Dadaism
B) Classicism
C) Romanticism
D) Expressionism
Definition
A) Dadaism
Term
Eisenstein's effective use of montage is found in this film.
A) Triumph of the Will
B) Wild Strawberries
C) Birth of a Nation
D) Potemkin
Definition
D) Potemkin
Term
This was the first widely successful American opera.
A) Einstein on the Beach
B) Porgy and Bess
C) Walden
D) The Three-Penny Opera
Definition
B) Porgy and Bess
Term
This is the author of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
A) James Joyce
B) T.S. Eliot
C) Virginia Woolf
D) Sigmund Freud
Definition
A) James Joyce
Term
This musician composed Rhapsody in Blue.
A) Duke Ellington
B) Igor Stravinsky
C) Benny Goodman
D) George Gershwin
Definition
D) George Gershwin
Term
This is the author of The Waste Land.
A) T.S. Eliot
B) James Joyce
C) Virginia Woolf
D) Sigmund Freud
Definition
A) T.S. Eliot
Term
This is the author of The Interpretation of Dreams.
A) Sigmund Freud
B) James Joyce
C) T.S. Eliot
D) Virginia Woolf
Definition
A) Sigmund Freud
Term
This Russian-born impresario founded a dance company called the Ballet Russe.
A) Igor Stravinsky
B) Serge Diaghilev
C) Sergei Eisenstein
D) Andre Breton
Definition
B) Serge Diaghilev
Term
The poses in this artist's famous work echo Classical sculpture on the left to increasingly fragmented and distorted figures on the right.
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A) Chagall
B) Duchamp
C) Magritte
D) Picasso
Definition
D) Picasso
Term
In which European city did Serge Diaghilev establish the dance company known as Ballet Russe?
A) London
B) Berlin
C) Moscow
D) Paris
Definition
D) Paris
Term
The action of Sergei Eisenstein's Potemkin is set in which country?
A) Great Britain
B) Russia
C) Israel
D) France
Definition
B) Russia
Term
The patronage of this American art collector was crucial to the "Americanization" of modern art.
A) O'Keefe
B) Steiglitz
C) Guggenheim
D) Hofman
Definition
C) Guggenheim
Term
This is the author of Death of a Salesman.
A) J.D. Salinger
B) William Faulkner
C) Arthur Miller
D) Samuel Beckett
Definition
C) Arthur Miller
Term
The work of this American artist, as illustrated in one of his most iconic paintings, depicts his interest in human isolation and loneliness.
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A) Edward Hopper
B) Helen Frankenthaler
C) Andy Warhol
D) Elsworth Kelly
Definition
A) Edward Hopper
Term
This is the author of Invisible Man.
A) Alice Walker
B) Ralph Ellison
C) Richard Wright
D) William Faulkner
Definition
B) Ralph Ellison
Term
This artist is best associated with sculpture that moves (kinetic art or "mobiles").
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A) Segal
B) Hanson
C) Calder
D) Oldenburg
Definition
C) Calder
Term
This is the author of Waiting for Godot.
A) Willaim Faulkner
B) Arthur Miller
C) J.D. Salinger
D) Samuel Beckett
Definition
D) Samuel Beckett
Term
The most important philosophy in Western Europe after World War II was:
A) Dadaism
B) nihilism
C) existentialism
D) fascism
Definition
C) existentialism
Term
This is the author of Native Son.
A) William Faulkner
B) Ralph Ellison
C) Richard Wright
D) Alice Walker
Definition
C) Richard Wright
Term
Since the 1940s, the city that has replaced Paris as the center of modern art is:
A) London
B) New York
C) Rome
D) San Francisco
Definition
B) New York
Term
This is the author of The Color Purple.
A) Ralph Ellison
B) Richard Wright
C) William Faulkner
D) Alice Walker
Definition
D) Alice Walker
Term
This postwar writer best articulated existentialism both as a philosophy and lifestyle.
A) Kafka
B) Sartre
C) Rilke
D) Nietzsche
Definition
B) Sartre
Term
This 19th-century Danish theologian influenced existentialism.
A) Heidegger
B) Kierkegaard
C) Hegel
D) Nietzsche
Definition
B) Kierkegaard
Term
This playwright wrote for the existential theatre.
A) George Orwell
B) Samuel Beckett
C) Toni Morrison
D) William Faulkner
Definition
B) Samuel Beckett
Term
This artist experimented with what he called "combine paintings."
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A) Robert Rauschenberg
B) Jackson Pollock
C) Edward Hopper
D) Andy Warhol
Definition
A) Robert Rauschenberg
Term
This composer, influenced by Zen philosophy, tried to reflect random chaos of the world in his compositions
A) Cage
B) Ellington
C) Shostakovich
D) Camus
Definition
A) Cage
Term
As a child, Van Gogh learned his first lessons in art from his mother, but it wasn't until he was a teen when he went to work in this prominent art gallery located in Hague, owned by his uncle, that his true passion for art was ignited.
A) The Louvre
B) Sotheby's
C) Goupil and Co.
D) Harrods
Definition
C) Goupil and Co.
Term
Van Gogh's interest in theological studies led him to later reject ordination in favor of ministering to this impoverished group of laborers in the southern region of Belgium, and would influence the artist's portrayal of the harsh realities of rural life.
Definition
C) Coal Miners
Term
At the age of 27, Vincent dedicated himself to art as his foremost calling in life. Who encouraged the artist him at this time, and who would remain his most ardent supporter throughout his tragic and turbulent career?
Definition
his brother Theo
Term
in Paris, Van Gogh experienced the visual force of color that would come to affect his own style, as illustrated in the artworks of the impressionist artistic movement.
Definition
True
Term
What originally motivated Vincent to move to the southern town of Arles, France?
Definition
He believed that the sunlight resembled that of Japan
Term
In Arles, Van Gogh dreams of developing an artist's community, where painters could live and work together. This residence came to be known as "the little yellow house."
Definition
True
Term
Van Gogh's disturbing behavior reached its most bizarre level when he cut off part of his ear. What precipitated this event?
Definition
An argument with fellow artist Paul Gaugin
Term
After leaving Arles, Vincent spends his days in an asylum in Saint-Remy to help counter the effects of his worsening psychosis. What famous iconic work did he send, along with Irises, to Brussels to be featured in a show with other leading painters of the day?
Definition
Starry Night
Term
Of his nearly 900 paintings, the only one to be sold in his lifetime was _________________.
Definition
The Red Vineyard
Term
According to the article, Generalissimo Francisco Franco, in contradiction his promises, delivered what results to the people of the Basque region?
Definition
Death and Destruction
Term
What two European leaders agreed to support Franco in return for large quantities of iron ore, copper, and other raw materials that they intended to use for their growing war machine?
Definition
Hitler and Mussolini
Term
Identify the name given to the bombers and fighters that Hitler pledged to Franco.
Definition
Condor Legion
Term
The commander of Hitler’s bombers and fighters was Lt. Colonel Wolfram von Richthofen, who was the cousin of Manfred von Richthofen. By what nickname was Manfred known?
Definition
The Red Baron
Term
On the centenary of Picasso's birth, October 25th, 1981, Spain's new Republic carries out the best commemoration possible: the return of Guernica to Picasso's native soil in a testimony of national reconciliation
Definition
True
Term
Nineteenth century capitalism and the revolution in industry created two social classes: the upper class, known as the bourgeoisie, and lower working ranks called the ______________.
Definition
Industrial Proletariat
Term
The beginnings of realism were seen in the literary and visual arts in France during what time period?
Definition
1840-1880
Term
As a reaction to the Romanticism that characterized the previous generation, writers and artists of realism created heroes and heroines out of common working class people with lives that portrayed daily struggles and seemingly insurmountable miseries.
Definition
True
Term
What was the “war cry” of the realist movement?
Definition
The artist should be of his time
Term
What French novelist was considered the “father of literary realism?”
Definition
Balzac
Term
What French writer is considered the founder of the movement called ‘naturalism,’ which combined scientific advances in methods of study with Darwinian notions of evolution and adaptability?
Definition
Zola
Term
Along with Anton Chekhov, these two important Russian writers represented realism in their stark portrayal of death in their novels and short stories.
Definition
Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
Term
Born and raised in America, in what prominent European city did Eliot make his home at the outbreak of WW I?
Definition
London
Term
In 1922 what magazine did Eliot launch, and publish for seventeen years?
Definition
Criterion
Term
One of his most complex and influential poems, 'The Wasteland' incorporates a sophisticated style built of historical and literary allusions and quotations.
Definition
True
Term
After the publishing of “The Hollow Men,” to what do critics generally credit for Eliot’s turn in poetic style to a more narrative structure and spiritual tone?
Definition
He joined the Anglican Church
Term
In what prominent American city in the 1940’s did a new form of abstract painting, known as “abstract expressionism,” emerge?
Definition
New York
Term
What term was coined to describe the process that painters like Jackson Pollock used to create their works of art?
Definition
action painting
Term
Abstract artist Mark Rothko created works known as ______________ paintings.
Definition
Color Field
Term
“Bauhaus” is a German word meaning what?
Definition
A house for building
Term
The German architect, Walter Gropius, was a leading figure in the early Bauhaus movement’s emphasis on bringing what two elements together?
Definition
Craftsmanship and industry
Term
The Bauhaus School developed concurrently with the Weimar Republic and shared the belief that “art could be used to change society.”
Definition
True
Term
An influential artist, and important teacher in the Bauhaus school, Johannes Itten rejected rationalism and aimed to make ___________ an integral part of his method.
Definition
Intuition
Term
Joining the Bauhaus school in 1922, this artist was a pivotal representative of abstract art, and held the belief that colors had determinate effects in accordance with their relationship to shapes.
Definition
Wassily Kandinski
Term
The Bauhaus School concept of 'practical work being introduced as a basis for education' has become a standard function of modern day educational models.
Definition
True
Term
The industrialization of the Bauhaus School turned the emphasis from unique craftsmanship to a more cerebral functionalism that was most clearly illustrated in the production of ______________ .
Definition
Furniture
Term
The Bauhaus influence on housing architecture was seen in flat roofs, cubic design, and an uncluttered appearance, was warmly accepted and celebrated by the mass public.
Definition
False
Term
In 1925 the Bauhaus changed its mission to the principles of “constructivism” and concentrated primarily on the large-scale production of ________________ .
