This composer’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun influenced a generation of composers with its sensuality and rich tone colors.

This author’s Remembrance of Things Past earned him lasting fame.

This composer’s Boléro relies on a single melody that is repeated and varied by different instruments.

The impact of Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud’s work on post-Romantic writers led them to delve deeper into the effects of the ___________.

This sculptor’s The Kiss is an example of the new, frank naturalism in representing the human body.

This American painter frequently painted mothers and children, including The Boating Party.

This German composer’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra was inspired by Nietzsche’s prose-poem.

This Russian dramatist’s plays include The Cherry Orchard, which explores the changes in Russian society at the turn of the century.

From the title of one of his paintings (Impression: Sunrise), the name for the entire Impressionist movement was derived.

This sculptor’s The Thinker is one of the most recognizable works in Western art.

This French painter was fascinated by ballet dancers, often capturing them in rehearsal or performance.

This Polish composer’s works for piano, such as Nocturnes, are filled with emotion and subtlety.

This Russian composer is best remembered for ballets such as The Nutcracker.

Expressionist artists often emphasized:

The artistic style of Constructivism began in which country?

This British writer’s Mrs. Dalloway experiments with stream of consciousness.

This artistic style emphasized geometric forms and multiple perspectives.

The work of this Austrian psychoanalyst influenced both psychology and literature.

This Dadaist artist’s Nude Descending a Staircase caused a scandal at the 1913 Armory Show.

The Dada movement originated in which city?

This Russian filmmaker used montage techniques in his film Potemkin.

This sculptor’s mobiles are examples of kinetic art.

This Picasso painting is recognized as a protest against the Spanish Civil War.

This novel, written by Franz Kafka, is an example of modernist alienation.

This Russian-born impresario founded a dance company called the Ballet Russe.

This composer’s Rite of Spring depicts a springtime ritual culminating in human sacrifice.

This composer’s Symphony No. 6 in b minor is also known as the Pathétique Symphony.

Big band jazz is characterized by intricate, lush arrangements, as well as a danceable feel called __________.

This American composer wrote Rhapsody in Blue.

This artist is most closely associated with “pop art.”

This American modernist painter often discarded the brush and palette, using sticks, mops, and sponges.

This 19th-century Danish theologian influenced existentialism.

This postwar writer best articulated existentialism both as a philosophy and a lifestyle.

The term adopted by existentialists to describe the ultimate meaninglessness of human existence.

This French artist was the leading spirit of the fauvist painters, creating works filled with bold color and optimism.

This composer, influenced by Zen philosophy, tried to reflect the random chaos of the world in his compositions.

This composer’s Don Juan tells the story of the compulsive Spanish lover.

This composer’s Alpine Symphony describes a mountain-climbing expedition, culminating in arrival at the summit.

This work by Edgar Degas, part of a series of pastels, is sometimes referred to as a “key-hole vision.”

This American art collector’s patronage was crucial to the “Americanization” of modern art.

This city replaced Paris as the center of modern art after the 1940s.

This architect sought to create an organic architecture that grows out of its location rather than being superimposed on it.

This prominent French architect saw architecture as a human achievement standing in contrast to nature.

This playwright wrote Death of a Salesman.

This playwright wrote for the existential theatre, including Waiting for Godot.

This author is among the Beat writers of the 1950s.

This author wrote The Plague.

This Czech author is best remembered for The Trial.

This composer enjoyed outstanding success with program music, which included an elaborate plot that the music describes.

This musician wrote atonal music that deliberately avoided traditional chords and harmonies.

Two writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who reflected and promoted feminist concerns in their writings are Henrik Ibsen and ___________.

This author’s concern for psychological truth led him into a profound study of his characters’ subconscious motives, as in Crime and Punishment.

Perhaps one of Van Gogh’s most iconic images, this work gives the impression of irresistible movement by careful use of line and shape.

This Kate Chopin novel was denounced as immoral when first published in 1899.

This author used irony and satire to show the passivity and emptiness of his characters, who are filled with frustrated longing for action.

This composer’s Don Juan tells the story of a compulsive Spanish lover.

This artist painted a series of pastels known as “key-hole visions,” often depicting women caught unawares in simple, natural poses.

The revolutionary quality of this artist’s work was so innovative that its influence on Western art is often compared to Giotto’s six hundred years earlier.

This composer’s Rite of Spring, based on a Russian folk tale, describes a springtime ritual culminating in the sacrifice of a human victim.

This artist’s enduring love was for women as symbols of life itself; in paintings like Two Girls at the Piano, they radiate warmth and charm.

This atonal work by Austrian composer Arnold Schönberg calls for the singer to employ a manner of “voiced speech,” known as what?

The group of artists who in 1905 exhibited paintings that broke violently with tradition in their use of color and form were described by critics as ______________.

This composer’s Symphony No. 6 in b minor is also known as the Pathétique Symphony.

This literary piece earned Marcel Proust lasting fame.

This composer’s Alpine Symphony describes a mountain-climbing expedition, culminating in arrival at the summit.

This musician is celebrated as the “grandfather of the blues.”

This is the author of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

This is the author of Desire Under the Elms.

This is the author of Invisible Man.

This is the author of Native Son.

This is the author of The Sound and the Fury.

This is the author of Death of a Salesman.

This is the author of A Room of One’s Own.

This author is among the Beat writers.

This is the author of The Waste Land.

This composer enjoyed outstanding success with program music, including elaborate plots that the music describes.

This composer’s Symphony No. 6 is known as the Pathétique Symphony.

This composer’s Don Juan tells the story of a compulsive Spanish lover.

Modern art ___ are sculptures with moving parts.

This piece is widely recognized as Picasso’s protest against humanity.

Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso were pioneers in this art movement.

This is the author of The Interpretation of Dreams.

Which artist “defaced” the Mona Lisa to create L.H.O.O.Q?

In what German city did the Dada movement originate?

This is the greatest filmmaker the Soviet Union has produced, known for influential works in cinema.

This is the author of The Trial.

This composer’s Alpine Symphony depicts a mountain-climbing expedition culminating in the summit.

Considered the greatest sculptor of late 19th-century France, this artist’s statue of Balzac shows the novelist possessed by creative inspiration.

Which of the following is not typical of Impressionist painting?

The action of Sergei Eisenstein’s Potemkin is set in which country?

This Czech author is best remembered for.

This artist is best associated with sculpture that moves (kinetic art or “mobiles”).

American modernist painter Georgia O’Keeffe’s painting ___ is important for the way its profound line and strong sense of color represents the subject as a nearly abstract rendering of feminine power.

This artist often discarded the brush and palette, instead using sticks, mops, and sponges.

This postwar writer best articulated existentialism both as a philosophy and lifestyle.

The term adopted by existentialists to describe the ultimate meaninglessness of human existence is:

This architect sought to create an organic architecture that grows out of its location rather than being superimposed on it.

This prominent French architect saw architecture as a human achievement that should stand in contrast to the world of nature.

Since the 1940s, the city that has replaced Paris as the center of modern art is:

Rauschenberg’s ________________ is an example of a combine painting, a painting that combines with any number of assembled objects in a manner rooted in the avant-garde.

This artist was the leader of abstract expressionism.

This composer, influenced by Zen philosophy, tried to reflect the random chaos of the world in his compositions.

This 19th-century Danish theologian influenced existentialism.

This playwright wrote for the existential theatre.

This composer’s Rite of Spring, based on a Russian folk tale, describes a springtime ritual culminating in the sacrifice of a human victim.

Big band jazz is characterized by intricate, lush arrangements, as well as a danceable feel called __________.

In music, a _______________ is a shift from one key area to another.

Used as a description for art that emphasizes the geometrical quality of drawing as opposed to melding, blurring, or lessening the division of descriptive spaces within an artwork.

This literary piece earned Marcel Proust lasting fame.

This composer’s Alpine Symphony describes a mountain-climbing expedition, culminating in arrival at the summit.

This musician composed Rhapsody in Blue.

This is the author of Waiting for Godot.

This is the author of The Plague.

This artist is most closely associated with “pop art.”

The patronage of this American art collector was crucial to the “Americanization” of modern art.

Frank Lloyd Wright was a disciple of this prominent architect, who built the first skyscrapers in the United States.

American modernist painter Georgia O’Keeffe’s painting ___________ is important for the way its profound line and strong sense of color represents the subject as a nearly abstract rendering of feminine power.

This artist often discarded the brush and palette, instead using sticks, mops, and sponges.

This postwar writer best articulated existentialism both as a philosophy and lifestyle.

The term adopted by existentialists to describe the ultimate meaninglessness of human existence is:

This composer’s Symphony No. 9 and The Song of the Earth, composed under the shadow of fatal heart disease, express both beauty and sorrow.

This artist’s enduring love was for women as symbols of life itself; in his paintings, they radiate immense warmth and charm, as in Two Girls at the Piano.

__________, completed by Edgar Degas, is among those paintings sometimes referred to as “key-hole visions.”

The impact of Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud’s work on post-Romantic writers led them to delve deeper into the effects of the __________.

This author used irony and satire to show the passivity and emptiness of his characters, who are filled with a frustrated longing for action.

This composer’s Don Juan tells the familiar story of the compulsive Spanish lover from a late-19th-century point of view.

From the title of one of his paintings (Impression: Sunrise), the name for the entire Impressionist movement received its name.

This Russian-born impresario founded a dance company called the Ballet Russe.

Identify the other name by which the “Great War” of 1914–1918 is known.

The artistic style _____________ added brighter colors to the muted, neutral color palette of the earlier version of this style.

In music, bending a melody’s note a half-step down is known as a __________.