APAH Content Area 4: Interwar Period

Vasily Kandinsky’s painting titled Improvisation (Second Version) clearly represents his belief in

• associating form and color with music

• representing the world using realism

• experimenting with an untraditional color palette

• painting that is done without any planning in mind

In this painting, the artist is most influenced by what specific work?

• Starry Night, Van Gogh

• Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, by Pablo Picasso

• Olympia, by Manet

• Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where are We Going?, by Paul Gauguin

Answer explanation

Lam combines Cubism (offering multiple perspectives at once) with Surrealist imagery

Wilfredo Lam sought to explore what, in his paintings The Jungle?

• color theory

• ritualistic dancing of his people

• the vegetation in local jungles

• his Afro-Cuban heritage

The composition of this artwork intentionally references

• Social Realist propaganda posters to inspire loyalty

• Byzantine iconography to associate the work with spirituality

• Lamentation iconography emphasize the suffering in the scene

• Androgynous figures to comment on gender roles

Answer explanation

Kollwitz purposefully references the Lamentation - popular in Christian Europe - to evoke empathy for the deceased.

With Two Fridas, the artist uses two figures to illustrate

• the artist's life as a teen, and that of being married

• the mixed years between the artist being healthy and sick

• her search for personal identity after divorce

• the artist and the sister that she never met

Answer explanation

Two Fridas portrays two versions of herself - one that shows European heritage and one that shows Mexican heritage -- it was painted after her divorce with Diego Rivera.

Which of the following is FASE about Memorial Sheet for Karl Liebknecht?

• It recalls an event 100 years earlier

• It uses rough lines to evoke emotion, associated with German Expressionism

• Printmaking allows her to spread social and political commentary

• It depicts a communist uprising in 1919 Berlin

Answer explanation

This artwork was created as a direct response the death of a political figure, shortly after his death.

Kirchner painted this artwork in response to

• the death of a close friend

• his inability to paint after the war

• the loss of his hand in an industrial accident

• a chronic illness that left him crippled

Answer explanation

Kirchner shows himself here symbolically without a hand -- he struggled to paint after his experiences in WWI.

Kirchner belongs to what artistic movement?

• Cubism

• Post impressionism

• Afro Cubism

• German Expressionism

Answer explanation

German Expressionism can be characterized by "primitive" imagery - empty eye sockets, faces inspired by masks, intentionally stylized figures in arbitrary colors.

This artwork was created by ________ and is a ___________

• Duchamp, Assemblage

• Muybridge, Improvisation

• Duchamp, Readymade

• Oppenheim, Decollage

Kirchner was founder of Die Brucke (the Bridge) which aimed to

• bridge the gap between the past and the modern future

• Build a bridge between the people and the government

• build a bridge from Europe to America

• bridge the disconnect between soldiers and civilians