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SECTION EXAM 02: ORIGINS OF AMERICAN MODERNISM, PP. 48-64

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

As an artist, Robert Henri was MOST notable for

a)

animal painting

b)

portraiture

c)

landscapes

d)

history painting

e)

still lifes

2.

Robert Henri mentored all of the following artists EXCEPT

a)

George Wesley Bellows

b)

William Glackens

c)

John Sloan

d)

Kenyan Cox

e)

George Benjamin Luks

3.

Which of the following cities is the MOST likely subject for an Ashcan School painting?

a)

Chicago

b)

Los Angeles

c)

San Francisco

d)

Washington, D.C.

e)

New York City

4.

Why did avant-garde painters struggle to exhibit in the United States at the start of the 20th century?

a)

Censorship laws put their displays in legal peril.

b)

The public had little appetite for daring art.

c)

Artistically conservative juries blocked them.

d)

They were primarily immigrants who lacked social connections.

e)

Government patronage demanded realistic styles.

5.

Who painted Stag at Sharkey’s?

a)

Everett Shin

b)

Arthur B. Davies

c)

George Wesley Bellows

d)

Maurice Prendergast

e)

Ernest Lawson

6.

Which of the following artists had work on display at the Armory Show?

a)

Sigmar Polke

b)

Jasper Johns

c)

Andy Warhol

d)

Claude Monet

e)

Keith Haring

7.

The first major group show for The Eight took place at

a)

Othello Gallery

b)

Hamlet Gallery

c)

Lear Galley

d)

Falstaff Gallery

e)

Macbeth Gallery

8.

Which of the following cities hosted the Armory Show after its debut in New York City?

a)

Trenton

b)

Montpelier

c)

Providence

d)

Hartford

e)

Boston

9.

The Futurist movement was PRIMARILY

a)

Russian

b)

Italian

c)

German

d)

French

e)

British

10.

How did Dada take root in the United States?

a)

Robert Henri adopted the Dada aesthetic late in life.

b)

Switzerland promoted Dada as a form of soft power.

c)

The Dadaists featured prominently in the Armory Show.

d)

Prominent Dadaists fled to New York amid World War I.

e)

Charles Demuth brought Dada ideas back from France.

11.

Marcel Duchamp's In Advance of the Broken Arm consists of a commercially available

a)

wrench

b)

hammer

c)

shovel

d)

lathe

e)

pickaxe

12.

What role did Louise Arensberg play in the development of artistic Modernism?

a)

She was an organizer of the Armory Show.

b)

She was a founder of the Museum of Modern Art.

c)

She was the first person to exhibit a readymade.

d)

She was a major patron of the movement.

e)

She was a leading figure in Fauvism.

13.

The Pictorialist art movement focused on the medium of

a)

drawing

b)

photography

c)

sculpture

d)

painting

e)

printmaking

14.

How did the 291 gallery get its name?

a)

from the gallery's street address

b)

from the money Alfred Stieglitz had when founding the gallery

c)

from the gallery's opening month and year

d)

from an early camera model

e)

from the time needed to develop a gelatin silver print

15.

Who founded the art-photography journal Camera Work?

a)

Marcel Duchamp

b)

Man Ray

c)

Edward Steichen

d)

Imogen Cunningham

e)

Alfred Stieglitz

16.

Which of the following states is MOST likely to appear in a Charles Demuth landscape?

a)

New Mexico

b)

Florida

c)

California

d)

Pennsylvania

e)

Illinois

17.

The geometric abstraction of I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold reflects the influence of

a)

Art Nouveau

b)

Abstract Expressionism

c)

Cubism

d)

the pre-Raphaelites

e)

Impressionism

18.

Which of the following avant-garde art movements is MOST closely associated with the United Kingdom?

a)

Rayonism

b)

Suprematism

c)

Vorticism

d)

Constructivism

e)

Fauvism

19.

Which of the following terms BEST applies to I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold?

a)

modern vision

b)

new depiction

c)

grand evocation

d)

poster portrait

e)

conceptual likeness

20.

I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold reflects the literary movement

a)

Acmeism

b)

Symbolism

c)

Surrealism

d)

Confessionalism

e)

Imagism

21.

Charles Demuth and William Carlos Williams met as

a)

childhood friends

b)

college students

c)

practicing doctors

d)

fellow soldiers

e)

hospital patients

22.

Which of the following poems MOST directly influenced I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold?

a)

"The Great Figure"

b)

"Numbers and Other Figures"

c)

"How Do You Figure?"

d)

"Figure of Speech"

e)

"Go Figure"

23.

To paint I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold, Charles Demuth used red, gold, and

a)

violets

b)

greens

c)

yellows

d)

neutrals

e)

blues

24.

How did Charles Demuth's friendship with William Carlos Williams end?

a)

Charles Demuth died.

b)

Williams insulted Demuth's art.

c)

Both fell in love with the same woman.

d)

They fell out over money troubles.

e)

Williams renounced the faith he shared with Demuth.

25.

Which Midwestern state was the birthplace of Georgia O'Keeffe?

a)

Wisconsin

b)

Illinois

c)

Minnesota

d)

Nebraska

e)

Iowa

26.

On the Spiritual in Art is the translated title of a 1912 book by

a)

Marcel Duchamp

b)

Pablo Picasso

c)

Umberto Boccioni

d)

Vasily Kandinsky

e)

Wyndham Lewis

27.

Which of the following artists is MOST closely associated with biomorphic abstraction?

a)

Juan Gris

b)

Arthur G. Dove

c)

Natalia Gontcharova

d)

Kazimir Malevich

e)

Mary Moser

28.

Georgia O'Keeffe's MOST famous works depict

a)

children

b)

marine life

c)

herself

d)

flowers

e)

pets

29.

How did Georgia O'Keeffe influence Alfred Stieglitz's photographic career?

a)

She developed his pictures in the darkroom.

b)

She modeled for many of his photographs.

c)

She demonstrated the power of close-up images.

d)

She suggested that he photograph immigrant life.

e)

She invented a new platinum print process.

30.

Marsden Hartley's Landscape No. 3 (1920) depicts a scene in

a)

Virginia

b)

California

c)

Massachusetts

d)

New Mexico

e)

Oklahoma

31.

Which of the following art colonies is MOST closely associated with Ernest Blumenschein?

a)

Brattleboro

b)

Sedona

c)

Martha's Vineyard

d)

Taos

e)

Carmel-by-the-Sea

32.

John Sloan's The Indian Detour is an example of

a)

drawing

b)

painting

c)

sculpture

d)

mixed media

e)

printmaking

33.

Which of the following D.H. Lawrence novels was written in part beneath the Lawrence Tree?

a)

Sons and Lovers

b)

The Rainbow

c)

Lady Chatterley's Lover

d)

The Plumed Serpent

e)

Women in Love

34.

The Lawrence Tree depicts a

a)

ponderosa pine

b)

Durango juniper

c)

Douglas fir

d)

Western larch

e)

coast redwood

35.

Photography was invented in the

a)

late 1860s

b)

late 1830s

c)

late 1890s

d)

early 1880s

e)

early 1850s

36.

Arnold Genthe's MOST notable artworks are

a)

photographs

b)

performances

c)

sculptures

d)

collages

e)

paintings

37.

Which of the following subjects was Imogen Cunningham's college major?

a)

nursing

b)

literature

c)

art

d)

philosophy

e)

chemistry

38.

Edward Curtis's MOST famous photographs are

a)

landscape

b)

ethnographic

c)

abstract

d)

still life

e)

self-portraiture

39.

Why do Imogen Cunningham's early photographs frequently use a soft focus?

a)

She meant to create Pictorialist dream-like effects.

b)

Her camera equipment could not handle a hard focus.

c)

She was under the influence of Edward Weston.

d)

Darkroom techniques meant that soft focuses developed best.

e)

Cunningham's clients demanded the style for their portraits.

40.

How did the New Objectivity photographs rebel against past artistic practice?

a)

They opposed Imperial German values.

b)

They disputed the use of color in favor of black, white, and grays.

c)

They rejected the heightened emotion of German Expressionism.

d)

They denounced painting as a relic.

e)

They sought to replace printmaking as a way to reach everyday people.

41.

In the name Group f/64, the "f" stands for

a)

focus

b)

frame

c)

f-stop

d)

fidelity

e)

flash

42.

Which of the following photographers was a member of Group f/64?

a)

Howell Conant

b)

Ansel Adams

c)

Edward Steichen

d)

F. Holland Day

e)

Clarence White

43.

How did Imogen Cunningham's photographic work evolve after her time with Group f/64?

a)

She became a private photographer for a Washington family.

b)

She focused on portrait photography.

c)

She returned to a Pictorialist approach.

d)

She became a war photographer.

e)

She took full-time employment with Life magazine.

44.

Among Man Ray's closest collaborators was

a)

Marcel Duchamp

b)

Charles Demuth

c)

Ezra Pound

d)

Tristan Tzara

e)

Andy Warhol

45.

In his youth, Man Ray learned drawing from major figures of

a)

the Ashcan School

b)

Expressionism

c)

Impressionism

d)

Dada

e)

Surrealism

46.

Where did Surrealism emerge?

a)

France

b)

Russia

c)

Italy

d)

the United Kingdom

e)

Germany

47.

An automatist drawing is made

a)

over several days

b)

with closed eyes

c)

shortly after waking

d)

without a plan

e)

under hypnosis

48.

How did Man Ray introduce chance into his photographic images?

a)

tossing and leaving objects

b)

using a random timer on his camera

c)

consulting the I Ching at each step

d)

flipping coins to make choices.

e)

subjecting them to solarization

49.

Rayographs and schadographs are examples of

a)

daguerreotypes

b)

photograms

c)

ambrotypes

d)

wet plate collodion images

e)

proto-digital photography

50.

Which of the following terms BEST describes Rayograph (1922)?

a)

carte de visite

b)

calotype

c)

tintype

d)

albumen print

e)

contact print