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Cubism Is Life!

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

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Class
Date
1.

One primary influence that led to Cubism was the representation of _____________________ in the late works of Paul Cézanne.

a)

two-dimensional form

b)

still life

c)

landscape

d)

three-dimensional form

e)

self portraits

2.

The term Cubism is broadly used in association with a wide variety of art produced in Paris (Montmartre and Montparnasse) or near Paris (Puteaux) during the ______________________.

a)

1890s and throughout the 1900s.

b)

1900s and throughout the 1910s.

c)

1910s and throughout the 1920s.

d)

1920s and throughout the 1930s.

3.

According to english art historian Douglas Cooper, the three phases of Cubism were ___________, _____________, and ___________.

a)

Early Cubism

b)

Post Cubism

c)

Secondary Cubism

d)

High Cubism

e)

Late Cubism

4.

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907, considered to be a major step towards the founding of the Cubist movement, was painted by ________________.

a)

Braque

b)

Picasso

c)

Cézanne

d)

Renoir

e)

Rivera

5.

The first organized group exhibition by Cubists took place at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris during the spring of ______ in a room called 'Salle 41'

a)

1899

b)

1902

c)

1911

d)

1919

e)

1923

6.

John Berger identifies the essence of Cubism with the mechanical ___________. "The metaphorical model of Cubism is the ____________: The _____________ being a visible symbolic representation of invisible processes, forces, structures. A ____________ need not eschew certain aspects of appearance but these too will be treated as signs not as imitations or recreations."

a)

human form

b)

physical space

c)

surrealistic pillow

d)

diagram

e)

disposition

7.

________ Cubism was the practice of removing visible subject matter entirely from the composition.

a)

Reduced

b)

Minimal

c)

Basic

d)

Abstract

e)

Implied

8.

The _____________, also known as Groupe de Puteaux, founded by some of the most conspicuous Cubists, was a collective of painters, sculptors and critics associated with Cubism

a)

Section d'Or

b)

Joie de Vivre

c)

Peinture Folle

d)

Poulet Bizarre

e)

Arbre de Bonheur

9.

________ Cubism, representing a significant modification in the mid to late years, was characterized by the tightening of the compositions, as well as the clarity and sense of order reflected in these works.

a)

Tight

b)

Fixed

c)

Pure

d)

Crystal

e)

New

10.

Pablo Picasso, Three Musicians (1921), Museum of Modern Art. Three Musicians is a classic example of ___________ cubism.

a)

Surreal

b)

Synthetic

c)

Early

d)

New

e)

Whimsical

11.

In Du "Cubisme" Metzinger and Gleizes explicitly related the sense of time to multiple perspective, giving symbolic expression to the notion of '___________' proposed by the philosopher Henri Bergson according to which life is subjectively experienced as a continuum, with the past flowing into the present and the present merging into the future.

a)

aging

b)

duration

c)

transformation

d)

reality

e)

love

12.

Cubism and modern European art was introduced into the United States at the now legendary 1913 Armory Show in New York City, which then traveled to _____________.

a)

Washington DC and Baltimore

b)

Chicago and Pittsburgh

c)

Chicago and Boston

d)

Atlanta and Miami

e)

Philadelphia and Detroit

13.

Cubist sculpture developed in parallel to Cubist painting. During the autumn of 1909 Picasso sculpted _____________ with positive features depicted by negative space and vice versa.

a)

Head of a Woman (Fernande)

b)

Face of a Woman (Fernande)

c)

View of a Woman (Fernande)

d)

Cube of a Woman (Fernande)

e)

Impression of a Woman (Fernande)

14.

Though there are many points of intersection between Cubism and architecture, only a few direct links between them can be drawn. Most often the connections are made by reference to shared formal _______________: faceting of form, spatial ambiguity, transparency, and multiplicity

a)

critiques

b)

results

c)

short-comings

d)

characteristics

e)

instructions

15.

The influence of cubism extended to other artistic fields, outside painting and sculpture. In literature, the written works of _________________ employ repetition and repetitive phrases as building blocks in both passages and whole chapters.

a)

Edith Wharton

b)

Agatha Christie

c)

Virginia Woolf

d)

Luisa May Alcott

e)

Gertrude Stein