Module 13 (Part II): 1907–1960—Age of Global Conflict

Module 13 (Part II):

1907–1960—Age of Global Conflict

by Dan Ault

Multiple Choice

Surrealism was an art movement that explored the ______________ as the locus of creativity.

• Bible

• subconscious mind

• Medieval period

• French opera

Multiple Choice

Salvador Dali's painting, "The Persistence of Memory" can be describe as ______________.

• abstract

• satire

• highly distorted

• dream-like

Multiple Choice

When Hitler came to power in Germany he declared modern art to be ____________.

• beautiful

• patriotic

• degenerate

• entirely the work of non-German artists

Multiple Choice

Grant Wood, who painted "American Gothic" was labeled as an American Regionalist, a movement that focused on ______________.

• Midwestern American values

• poverty and social inequity

• the dynamism and energy of the Italian Futurists

• what many Americans saw as the Communist threat

Multiple Choice

Georgia O'Keeffe was one of the earliest American artists to show the influence of ________________.

• Sigmund Freud

• the theory of Relativity

• cubism

• European abstraction

Multiple Choice

When a work of art is described as "non-objective" this means ________________.

• there is no recognizable subject matter

• everyone agrees that it is very beautiful

• the subject matter is shown in a highly realistic manner

• it portrays only people and no other objects

Multiple Choice

Abstract Expressionism was the first art movement in America that ______________.

• portrayed Native American culture

• connected with earlier art movements and trends in Europe

• displayed the brutality of war instead of glorifying it

• was rejected at the Paris Salon exhibitions

Multiple Choice

Jackson Pollock's painting method was known as ______________.

• the drip technique

• Rubenesque

• hard-edge painting

• the pointillist technique

Multiple Choice

Mark Rothko's style is known as _____________.

• Action painting

• Drip technique

• Color-Field painting

• Latin American Modernism

Multiple Choice

Willem de Kooning's method is a good example of _______________,

• Action painting

• hard-edge painting

• Color Field painting

• American Regionalsim