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Example Question #464 : Clep: Humanities
The French artist Marcel Duchamp helped to create what artistic movement?
Abstract Expressionism
Pop Art
Impressionism
Dada
Cubism
Dada
Dada was an art movement that grew out of abstract and modernist movements in the early twentieth century. One of the most famous dadaist artists was Marcel Duchamp, a frenchman who began his career in a cubist vein, but then sought to make art that was less "retinal," or simply pleasing to the eye. Duchamp's art work challenged the very notion of what was "art," as in his 1917 "Fountain," a urinal Duchamp placed in the middle of a gallery space and only attributed as "R Mutt."
Example Question #81 : Twentieth And Twenty First Century 2 D Art
The painting is a portrait of __________.
Albert Einstein
Henri Matisse
Pablo Picasso
James Joyce
Pablo Picasso
The Spanish Juan Gris arrived in Paris in 1906 and helped develop the style known as Cubism with fellow young artists Georges Braque and Fernand Léger, and under the influence of Gris' fellow Spaniard, Pablo Picasso. Fittingly, one of Gris' signature cubist portraits is of Picasso himself, with a clear depiction of the painter that also features a cubist deconstruction of his clothing and surroundings.
Figure: Portrait of Pablo Picasso by Juan Gris (1912)
Example Question #82 : Twentieth And Twenty First Century 2 D Art
The style this painting uses was influential in the development of __________.
Post-impressionism
Expressionism
Impressionism
Futurism
Futurism
Cubism, the style employed by Juan Gris in the painting seen here, was part of the broader trend of modernism, which was concerned with technological innovation, new ways of thinking, and breaking with tradition. A style which took many of modernism's and cubism's precepts even further was the Italian movement known as Futurism. As much a political movement as an artistic one, Futurism embraced machine age technology, progress, and activity in a cross-artistic style heavily indebted to cubism's breakthroughs.
Figure: Portrait of Pablo Picasso by Juan Gris (1912)
Example Question #83 : Twentieth And Twenty First Century 2 D Art
Roy Lichtenstein's art can be classified as "Pop Art" because ___________.
it takes everyday, mass media visuals (like comic book images) and shows them in a new light
it shows how art changed in the nineteenth century
All of the answers are correct.
it examines three-dimensional forms from multiple viewpoints
it rejects typical or common forms of expression
it takes everyday, mass media visuals (like comic book images) and shows them in a new light
Pop Art was a twentieth-century art movement defined by the way it repurposed and engaged with everyday, common forms of art, like advertisements and comic books. The other answer describes elements of cubism (viewing three-dimensional shapes from different perspectives at once).
Example Question #51 : Identifying Artists, Works, Or Schools Of Twentieth And Twenty First Century 2 D Art
Which of the following works of art belongs to the Dada school?
Self-Portrait with Monkey, Frida Kahlo (1938)
Fountain, Marcel Duchamp (1917)
L'Absinthe, Edgar Degas (1876)
Guernica, Pablo Picasso (1937)
No. 61 (Rust and Blue), Mark Rothko (1953)
Fountain, Marcel Duchamp (1917)
The Dada school developed during the last years of World War I. Duchamp acted as a major contributor to the Dada school, and his work Fountain was one of the movement's best-known and most controversial works of art.
Example Question #421 : 2 D Art
Which famous, early-twentieth-century painter is commonly referred to as the father of Cubism?
Eugène Delacroix
Pablo Picasso
Frank Weston Benson
J. M. W. Turner
Winslow Homer
Pablo Picasso
Winslow Homer, J.M.W. Turner, and Eugène Delacroix are known as impressionist painters. Frank Weston Benson is known for realistic paintings, American impressionism, watercolors and etchings. Someone familiar with the works of Pablo Picasso and the specific style that Cubism entails should be able to deduce that Pablo Picasso, of the choices given, is known as the father of Cubism.
Example Question #422 : 2 D Art
Which twentieth-century Spanish artist was known for his dream-like paintings?
Pablo Picasso
Giorgio de Chirico
Salvador Dali
Francisco de Goya
André Breton
Salvador Dali
Dali is the only Spanish Surrealist artist in this list. Though Goya created many dream-like paintings in his Black Period, it does not fit the century specified, and Giorgio de Chirico is of Italian decent.
Example Question #423 : 2 D Art
Based on style, the work shown here was painted by _________________.
Georges Braque
Pablo Picasso
Henri Matisse
Ernest Ludwig Kirchner
Ernest Ludwig Kirchner
This work, Self-Portrait as a Soldier, features vivid colors, slightly abstract forms, and a generally dark tone, all hallmarks of the German Expressionism that flourished in 1920s Weimar Germany. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, the painter of this work, was one of the leading figures of the movement, helping shape the group known as "Die Brücke," or The Bridge, which was a significant part of Expressionism.
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Example Question #424 : 2 D Art
Based on style and composition, the work shown here was created by _________________.
Paul Cezanne
Henri Matisse
Claude Monet
Georges Braque
Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse was one of the revolutionary artists of the early twentieth century, reshaping and influencing the course of painting. Matisse was heavily influenced by Impressionism and early Abstract art, but often used abstract shapes and forms to enhance somewhat realistic depictions. In Goldfish, Matisse quite clearly presents fish in a bowl, but uses abstract shapes around it to create an unnatural and alluring perspective.
Example Question #425 : 2 D Art
The work shown here most closely aligns with the artistic style of ___________________.
Surrealism
Impressionism
Cubism
Fauvism
Fauvism
Henri Matisse was one of the leaders of Fauvism, an abstract art movement that had its fullest flowering in the first decade of the twentieth century. As compared to other abstract movements, Fauvism utilized largely representational forms, but exaggerated and heightened use of color brought more abstraction to their works. The Goldfish, shown here, shows many of the signature elements of Fauvism.