Question 1

Whose reworked photograph Le Violon d'Ingres exhibits Surrealist imagery with Dada wordplay?

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A)   Miró
B)   Dal'
C)   Arp
D)   Man Ray

Question 2

Who is famous for mobiles such as Big Red (1959) ?

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A)   Klee
B)   Giacometti
C)   Calder
D)   Magritte

Question 3

The defining characteristic of Surrealism is its

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A)   deliberate rejection of meaning.
B)   rejection of any concept of a higher reality than the material world.
C)   interest in myths, dreams, and the subconscious.
D)   abandonment of representational imagery.

Question 4

Who took photographs of impoverished rural men and women for the Farm Security Administration?

Accepted Answer

A)   Wood
B)   Lawrence
C)   Hopper
D)   Lange

Question 5

Whose American Gothic exemplified the Regionalists' interest in provincial America?

Accepted Answer

A)   Lange
B)   Wood
C)   Lawrence
D)   Hopper

Question 6

Duchamp created a female alter ego whom he named Rose Sélavy.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

The Dada movement began during World War I among artists who gathered at the Cabaret Voltaire in what city?

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A)   London
B)   Paris
C)   Zurich
D)   Munich C

Question 8

As exemplified in his Spanish Dancer (1945) , Miró's paintings exhibit all the following characteristics EXCEPT

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A)   illusionistic imagery.
B)   sexually suggestive forms.
C)   primary colors.
D)   vigorous linear movement.

Question 9

In works like Time Transfixed (1938) , Magritte created dreamlike imagery by

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A)   distorting the forms of familiar images.
B)   juxtaposing familiar objects in inexplicable ways.
C)   suggesting images through vibrant biomorphic shapes.
D)   rendering landscapes in unusual colors with unusual forms.

Question 10

Compare the ways that Mexican artists approached social issues with how American artists did. How were their approaches similar and how did they differ?

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Question 11

As revealed in his History of Mexico murals, Rivera was

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A)   a Dadaist.
B)   a Marxist.
C)   a fascist.
D)   an anarchist.

Question 12

Duchamp signed his Fountain "I. P. Freely."

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Which of the following famous works of art is an example of a "ready-made"?

Accepted Answer

A)   Fountain
B)   Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance
C)   The Persistence of Memory
D)   Thinking about Death A

Question 14

Mobiles like Big Red (1959) were set in motion by hidden electric motors.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Who among the following was involved in the Harlem Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

A)   Lange
B)   VanDerZee
C)   Man Ray
D)   Hopper

Question 16

Both Lange and Rivera received funds from their respective governments to complete works of art.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Whose Blest (1941)  exemplifies the Transcendental style?

Accepted Answer

A)   Stieglitz
B)   Pelton
C)   Duchamp
D)   Moore

Question 18

Discuss the influence of Freud's discovery of the unconscious mind on Dada and Surrealism.

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Question 19

American Regionalism was strongly influenced by the contemporary European avant-garde.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

All the following traits characterized the Dada movement EXCEPT

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A)   a set of easily recognizable shared formal qualities.
B)   a sense of despair and a nihilist philosophy of negation.
C)   challenges to traditional assumptions about art.
D)   a taste for playfulness and experimentation. A

Exam 28: Dada, Surrealism, Social Realism, Regionalism, and Abstraction

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Who is famous for mobiles such as Big Red (1959) ?

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Who took photographs of impoverished rural men and women for the Farm Security Administration?

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Whose American Gothic exemplified the Regionalists' interest in provincial America?

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Duchamp created a female alter ego whom he named Rose Sélavy.

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The Dada movement began during World War I among artists who gathered at the Cabaret Voltaire in what city?

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In works like Time Transfixed (1938) , Magritte created dreamlike imagery by

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Mobiles like Big Red (1959) were set in motion by hidden electric motors.

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Whose Blest (1941) exemplifies the Transcendental style?

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