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WorksheetsSECTION EXAM 02: ORIGINS OF AMERICAN MODERNISM, PP. 48-64
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
As an artist, Robert Henri was MOST notable for
animal painting
portraiture
landscapes
history painting
still lifes
Robert Henri mentored all of the following artists EXCEPT
George Wesley Bellows
William Glackens
John Sloan
Kenyan Cox
George Benjamin Luks
Which of the following cities is the MOST likely subject for an Ashcan School painting?
Chicago
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Washington, D.C.
New York City
Why did avant-garde painters struggle to exhibit in the United States at the start of the 20th century?
Censorship laws put their displays in legal peril.
The public had little appetite for daring art.
Artistically conservative juries blocked them.
They were primarily immigrants who lacked social connections.
Government patronage demanded realistic styles.
Who painted Stag at Sharkey’s?
Everett Shin
Arthur B. Davies
George Wesley Bellows
Maurice Prendergast
Ernest Lawson
Which of the following artists had work on display at the Armory Show?
Sigmar Polke
Jasper Johns
Andy Warhol
Claude Monet
Keith Haring
The first major group show for The Eight took place at
Othello Gallery
Hamlet Gallery
Lear Galley
Falstaff Gallery
Macbeth Gallery
Which of the following cities hosted the Armory Show after its debut in New York City?
Trenton
Montpelier
Providence
Hartford
Boston
The Futurist movement was PRIMARILY
Russian
Italian
German
French
British
How did Dada take root in the United States?
Robert Henri adopted the Dada aesthetic late in life.
Switzerland promoted Dada as a form of soft power.
The Dadaists featured prominently in the Armory Show.
Prominent Dadaists fled to New York amid World War I.
Charles Demuth brought Dada ideas back from France.
Marcel Duchamp's In Advance of the Broken Arm consists of a commercially available
wrench
hammer
shovel
lathe
pickaxe
What role did Louise Arensberg play in the development of artistic Modernism?
She was an organizer of the Armory Show.
She was a founder of the Museum of Modern Art.
She was the first person to exhibit a readymade.
She was a major patron of the movement.
She was a leading figure in Fauvism.
The Pictorialist art movement focused on the medium of
drawing
photography
sculpture
painting
printmaking
How did the 291 gallery get its name?
from the gallery's street address
from the money Alfred Stieglitz had when founding the gallery
from the gallery's opening month and year
from an early camera model
from the time needed to develop a gelatin silver print
Who founded the art-photography journal Camera Work?
Marcel Duchamp
Man Ray
Edward Steichen
Imogen Cunningham
Alfred Stieglitz
Which of the following states is MOST likely to appear in a Charles Demuth landscape?
New Mexico
Florida
California
Pennsylvania
Illinois
The geometric abstraction of I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold reflects the influence of
Art Nouveau
Abstract Expressionism
Cubism
the pre-Raphaelites
Impressionism
Which of the following avant-garde art movements is MOST closely associated with the United Kingdom?
Rayonism
Suprematism
Vorticism
Constructivism
Fauvism
Which of the following terms BEST applies to I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold?
modern vision
new depiction
grand evocation
poster portrait
conceptual likeness
I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold reflects the literary movement
Acmeism
Symbolism
Surrealism
Confessionalism
Imagism
Charles Demuth and William Carlos Williams met as
childhood friends
college students
practicing doctors
fellow soldiers
hospital patients
Which of the following poems MOST directly influenced I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold?
"The Great Figure"
"Numbers and Other Figures"
"How Do You Figure?"
"Figure of Speech"
"Go Figure"
To paint I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold, Charles Demuth used red, gold, and
violets
greens
yellows
neutrals
blues
How did Charles Demuth's friendship with William Carlos Williams end?
Charles Demuth died.
Williams insulted Demuth's art.
Both fell in love with the same woman.
They fell out over money troubles.
Williams renounced the faith he shared with Demuth.
Which Midwestern state was the birthplace of Georgia O'Keeffe?
Wisconsin
Illinois
Minnesota
Nebraska
Iowa
On the Spiritual in Art is the translated title of a 1912 book by
Marcel Duchamp
Pablo Picasso
Umberto Boccioni
Vasily Kandinsky
Wyndham Lewis
Which of the following artists is MOST closely associated with biomorphic abstraction?
Juan Gris
Arthur G. Dove
Natalia Gontcharova
Kazimir Malevich
Mary Moser
Georgia O'Keeffe's MOST famous works depict
children
marine life
herself
flowers
pets
How did Georgia O'Keeffe influence Alfred Stieglitz's photographic career?
She developed his pictures in the darkroom.
She modeled for many of his photographs.
She demonstrated the power of close-up images.
She suggested that he photograph immigrant life.
She invented a new platinum print process.
Marsden Hartley's Landscape No. 3 (1920) depicts a scene in
Virginia
California
Massachusetts
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Which of the following art colonies is MOST closely associated with Ernest Blumenschein?
Brattleboro
Sedona
Martha's Vineyard
Taos
Carmel-by-the-Sea
John Sloan's The Indian Detour is an example of
drawing
painting
sculpture
mixed media
printmaking
Which of the following D.H. Lawrence novels was written in part beneath the Lawrence Tree?
Sons and Lovers
The Rainbow
Lady Chatterley's Lover
The Plumed Serpent
Women in Love
The Lawrence Tree depicts a
ponderosa pine
Durango juniper
Douglas fir
Western larch
coast redwood
Photography was invented in the
late 1860s
late 1830s
late 1890s
early 1880s
early 1850s
Arnold Genthe's MOST notable artworks are
photographs
performances
sculptures
collages
paintings
Which of the following subjects was Imogen Cunningham's college major?
nursing
literature
art
philosophy
chemistry
Edward Curtis's MOST famous photographs are
landscape
ethnographic
abstract
still life
self-portraiture
Why do Imogen Cunningham's early photographs frequently use a soft focus?
She meant to create Pictorialist dream-like effects.
Her camera equipment could not handle a hard focus.
She was under the influence of Edward Weston.
Darkroom techniques meant that soft focuses developed best.
Cunningham's clients demanded the style for their portraits.
How did the New Objectivity photographs rebel against past artistic practice?
They opposed Imperial German values.
They disputed the use of color in favor of black, white, and grays.
They rejected the heightened emotion of German Expressionism.
They denounced painting as a relic.
They sought to replace printmaking as a way to reach everyday people.
In the name Group f/64, the "f" stands for
focus
frame
f-stop
fidelity
flash
Which of the following photographers was a member of Group f/64?
Howell Conant
Ansel Adams
Edward Steichen
F. Holland Day
Clarence White
How did Imogen Cunningham's photographic work evolve after her time with Group f/64?
She became a private photographer for a Washington family.
She focused on portrait photography.
She returned to a Pictorialist approach.
She became a war photographer.
She took full-time employment with Life magazine.
Among Man Ray's closest collaborators was
Marcel Duchamp
Charles Demuth
Ezra Pound
Tristan Tzara
Andy Warhol
In his youth, Man Ray learned drawing from major figures of
the Ashcan School
Expressionism
Impressionism
Dada
Surrealism
Where did Surrealism emerge?
France
Russia
Italy
the United Kingdom
Germany
An automatist drawing is made
over several days
with closed eyes
shortly after waking
without a plan
under hypnosis
How did Man Ray introduce chance into his photographic images?
tossing and leaving objects
using a random timer on his camera
consulting the I Ching at each step
flipping coins to make choices.
subjecting them to solarization
Rayographs and schadographs are examples of
daguerreotypes
photograms
ambrotypes
wet plate collodion images
proto-digital photography
Which of the following terms BEST describes Rayograph (1922)?
carte de visite
calotype
tintype
albumen print
contact print
