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Expressionism

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Where did the Expressionism movement start?

a)

Spain

b)

France

c)

Germany

d)

Italy

2.

What is expressionism?

a)

belief of a supreme being, specifically a creator who doesn't intervene in the universe

b)

a modernist movement, to express the meaning of emotional experience

c)

the belief that life can be lived and understood, with little or no reliance on gods

d)

an elaborately ornamental late baroque style of decoration

3.

What does Die Brücke mean?

a)

The Broken

b)

The Bridge

c)

The Brake

d)

The Brook

4.

When did the Expressionism Movement begin?

a)

Back when cavemen were still a thing

b)

1905

c)

2006

d)

1800

e)

I wasn't paying attention/ I don't know

5.

What does Der Blaue Reiter mean?

a)

The Blue Rider

b)

The Blue Period

c)

The Blue Man

d)

The Blue Woman

6.

This artist worked in compositions and improvisations. Who is he?

a)

Winslow Homer

b)

Wassily Kandinsky

c)

Roy Lichtenstein

d)

Kent Bellows

7.
What type of "Synesthesia" do art historians think Kandinsky had?
a)
Touch and Sight
b)
Hearing and Sight
c)
Taste and Sight
d)
Smell and Sight
8.

Who painted The Scream?

a)

Frederick Remington

b)

Edvard Munch

c)

Grandma Moses

d)

Paul Klee

9.
What started the expressionism movement?
a)
It was a response to the widespread anxiety of a human disconnection to the world
b)
A combination of genes and stress  affected the brain chemistry and reduced the ability to maintain mood stability.
c)
a result of the movement of the Earth's tectonic plates and mantle convection
d)
the rejection of Romanticism
10.

Name the Artist and Title

a)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

b)

Wassily Kandinsky

c)

Street Dresden

d)

Improvisation III

11.

Name the Title and Artist

a)

Big Blue

b)

The Large Blue Horse

c)

Franz Marc

d)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

12.

Nature and animals were more than just pleasing to him; they were spiritual and a means of relocating what had been lost in the modern era.

a)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

b)

Franz Marc

c)

Wassily Kandisnky

d)

Pablo Picasso

13.

Expressionism emerged simultaneously in various cities across Germany as a response to a widespread anxiety about humanity's increasingly discordant relationship with the world and accompanying lost feelings of authenticity and spirituality.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

Some of the four founding members of the Die Brücke received formal education in the visual arts.

a)

False

b)

True