WorksheetsArt History 5.2.2 Dada and Surrealism
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 8mins
Many Dada artists called for the removal of all rules and social structures through the creation of:
Anti-art
still life
toilet bowls
Dada was a postwar art movement. Which of the following did Dada artists strive to do?
Shock the establishment
Hasten the destruction of society
Mock traditional art
follow classical ideas
French Dada artist Marcel Duchamp chose to mock traditional "high art painting" by adding a mustache to which famous painting?
The Last Supper
Girl with a Pearl Earing
The Mona Lisa
What is Significant about the "Fountain" by Marcel Duchamp of the Dada movement?
It was a readymade, or an object that already exists
It held to traditional conventions of art and artmaking
It was meant to praise, not critique, museum and gallery space
Duchamp eventually rejected visual art, choosing instead to combine art, science and technology to form what kind of art?
found art and Kinetic or moving sculptures
balloon art
stencil drawings
Poet Andre Breton, split from the Dada group and started a new movement called?
Surrealism
Freudism
Peudo-Natalie-Meyerism
Who is generally considered the most famous artist from the Surrealism genre, with his unexpected dreamlike images inspiring artists for many years
Salvador Dali
Macrcel Duchamp
Goya
Many Surrealist artists, like Salvador Dali, chose to depict what with realistic clarity?
Dreams
The Natural world
historical events
One technique Surrealists used to free their imagination was to close their eyes and let their brush or pen move about freely on paper or canvas. What was this technique called?
Automatism
alliteration
allegory
What is true about Surrealism:
Surrealist artists believed rational thought limited the powers of creativity
Surrealist artists chose to illustrate the nonsensical
Surrealism was an artist movement created by Andre Breton
Surrealism encouraged artists to explore the realm of the Subconscious
Dada emerged in Switzerland as a direct, explicit response to:
The horrors of war, addressing larger social issues like technology and mass culture
The peaceful and joyous scenes of Impressionism
The perfection of perspective found in classical works
Look at this picture, the Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali, what makes this an example of Surrealism?
The dreamlike imagery
The use of linear perspective
The largely muted colors
the lack of human subject
Marcel Duchamp and the Dada art movement pushed the boundaries of traditional art by:
making fun (ridiculing) traditional notions of "high art"
using only primary shapes and bright colors to depict familiar objects
enjoying multiple perspectives
Which pair of words best describes Surrealist art?
concrete an traditional
violent and chaotic
emotional and natural
surprising and psychological
