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Dada

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

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1.

This image represents

a)

the respect for the classic art creations.

b)

the social and individual roles of people

c)

nothing, it is not art

d)

the critique artists made in relation to the standards of art.

2.

The intention of the dada movement could be:

a)

inspire and play

b)

die and live

c)

insult and provoke

d)

peace and love

3.

This "readymade" piece of art was intended to...

a)

show that you can improvise and get good results.

b)

demonstrate that anything is suceptible to become art.

c)

be used in a bar.

4.

Dada rejected reason and logic, dada artists preferred...

a)

irrationality

b)

philosophy

c)

emptiness

d)

darkness

5.

Dada poetry was created by...

a)

thinking about the meaning of dreams.

b)

watching horror movies and expressing the author's feelings afterwards.

c)

cutting out single words and putting them together using the "collage" technique.

6.

The relationship between the Dada movement and the World War I can be evidenced because:

a)

Both, Dada and Art, focused on love and inspiring a new way of life for all.

b)

Both, Dada and war, were human inventions based on rationality and progress.

c)

Both, Dada and war, represented the destruction of what was created so far.

7.

A description of this image can be:

a)

It is the War Caffe, where soldiers used to go after fighting in the war.

b)

It is the Cabaret Voltaire, where dadaist artist met and experimented new posibilities in art.

c)

It is a bar in Zurich, but we don't know where it is and who the owner is.

8.

One of the origins of the word "Dada" is:

a)

there was a famous poet named Dada, and the movement was called that way after him.

b)

It means "strange art" in french.

c)

it was found in a french-german dictionary at random.

9.

The dada movement...

a)

only included music and painting.

b)

excluded painting as a type of art.

c)

succeded only in poetry

d)

included practices like visual arts, poetry and literature, among others.

10.

Syntax and semantics, in the dadaist poetry,

a)

were not relevant

b)

were very important

c)

were themes for poetry

d)

were present in most of its paintings

11.

This Dada creation by Hausmann, called "The art critic" suggests that...

a)

collage can be a very atractive technique.

b)

artists enjoy reading magazines.

c)

politics are not relevant in art.

d)

the art critics respond to capitalist interests.

12.

Going against the norms was...

a)

a constant in dadaist artists.

b)

absent in dadaist artists' creations.

c)

characteristic of nationalist politics.