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MODERN ART ISMS

Total questions: 29

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is this ism?

(a)  

2.

This portrait is of the chinese communist leader, Mao Zedong. What style of art is it and who created it?

(a)  

3.

Can you name the artist?

(a)  

4.

Can you name the artist?

(a)  

5.

What ism is this?

(a)  

6.

Picasso created this painting called Guernica. What was it about?

(a)  

7.

What ism is this?

(a)  

8.

What ism is this?

(a)  

9.

What ism or style of art is this?

(a)  

10.

This painting is an example of two types of art, what are they?

(a)  

11.

What ism is this?

(a)  

12.

Marcel Duchamp was the leader of this movement, whose appreciation of absurdity and anti-establishment bent resulted from backlash from World War 1?

a)

Dada

b)

Surrealism

c)

Cubism

d)

Pop Art

13.

Georges Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Isle of La Grande Jatte is arguably the most famous example of this artistic style:

a)

Dada

b)

Realism

c)

Fauvism

d)

Pointillism

14.

Salvador Dali was the major artist in which of the following movements, which often place unusual objects in bleak landscapes as a tribute to the unconscious mind?

a)

Cubism

b)

Surrealism

c)

Abstract Impressionism

d)

Pop Art

15.

Led by artists like Monet, this style is characterized by discontinuous, short brush strokes and heavy impasto.

a)

Impressionism

b)

Pop Art

c)

Op Art

d)

Cubism

16.

Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock are both artist of this style of painting in which paint it dribbled, splashed, or smeared on the canvas, closely associated with abstract expressionism.

a)

Impressionism

b)

Action Painting

c)

Abstract

d)

Baroque

17.

Andy Warhol typified this movement that uses elements of popular culture, such as magazines, movies, popular music or even bottles and cans.

a)

Pop Art

b)

Op Art

c)

Expressionism

d)

Impressionism

18.

Bright, expressive colors were the trademark of which short-lived art movement, led by Henri Matisse, whose name derives from the French for 'wild beasts".

a)

Realism

b)

Pointillism

c)

Baroque

d)

Fauvism

19.

Mary Cassatt, remembered for her portraits of women and children, was most closely associated with which of the following art movements.

a)

Impressionism

b)

Dada

c)

Surrealism

d)

Pop Art

20.

Jackson Pollock's action painting, in which he dripped and poured paint directly onton a canvas, was a hallmark of which of the following art movements.

a)

Neoclassicism

b)

Abstract Expressionism

c)

Realism

d)

Pop Art

21.

This style, led by Dutch artist Rembrandt, utilizes color and light vs. dark to capture accurate depictions of it's subject matter.

a)

Realism

b)

Dada

c)

Impressionism

d)

Expressionism

22.

The painting "Three Musicians" was created in what style?

a)

Impressionism

b)

Cubism

c)

Pointillism

d)

Realism

23.

Which of the movements below relied heavily on angles and geometric shapes.

a)

cubism

b)

impressionism

c)

realism

d)

pop art

24.

The Russian painter of Composition VII is often referred to as the "Father of Abstract Art."

a)

Wassily Kandinsky

b)

Marcel DuChamp

c)

Salvador Dali

d)

Jackson Pollock

25.

Fauvism, a technique often used by Henri Matisse, literally means

a)

wild beasts

b)

brightly colored

c)

false colors

d)

tamed creatures

26.

The Scream is a typical example of this style of painting, that favors emotion over realism by using exaggeration, distortion and vivid colors.

a)

impressionism

b)

post impressionism

c)

expressionism

d)

abstract expressionism

27.

Architectural style that features the use of the rib vault and the flying buttress, exemplified in Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral.

a)

gothic

b)

neoclassical

c)

baroque

d)

modern

28.

Architectural style that features highly intricate and theatrically decorative details in the design which occurred in the 17th and 18th centuries.

a)

gothic

b)

neoclassical

c)

baroque

d)

modern

29.

Architectural style that attempts to revive the clean, simple lines of Ancient Greek architecture.

a)

gothic

b)

neoclassical

c)

baroque

d)

modern