Art 305 - Art and Mass Culture » Fall 2022 » Chapter Eight Quiz

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Question #1
Kathe Kollwitz
A.   was highly influenced by Picasso.
B.   combined subjective expressionism with specific social concern and anguish.
C.   was a writer for the Dada movement.
D.   All of these answers
Question #2
Jackson Pollock's art best represents the art movement known as
A.   Abstract Expressionism
B.   None of these answers
C.   Pop Art
D.   Photorealism
Question #3
The art movement that placed no faith in the machine or in technology in general was
A.   None of these answers
B.   Surrealism
C.   Cubism
D.   Dada
Question #4
The art form that held the philosophy that the traditional culture had to be discredited, brought down, and reduced to rubble before any new culture could be envisioned was
A.   Cubism
B.   Dada
C.   None of these answers
D.   Surrealism
Question #5
The art movement that had its philosophical roots in the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud was
A.   Dada
B.   Surrealism
C.   None of these answers
D.   Cubism
Question #6
The art movement using geometric abstraction was
A.   Cubism
B.   none of these answers
C.   Surrealism
D.   Dada
Question #7
The cultural value(s) inherent in Modernist art include:
A.   All of these answers
B.   none of these answers
C.   Painting being privileged over other media
D.   Placing the European or Euro-American man at the center of culture
E.   Celebration of innovation and originality
Question #8
Many of Rene Magritte's Surrealist paintings address
A.   The arbitrary relationship between the signifier and the signified
B.   none of these answers
C.   The political situation under Hitler
D.   The economics of the Great Depression
Question #9
Jackson Pollock’s art best represents the
A.   connection between the signifier and the signified
B.   drawing forth of his own inner myth
C.   none of these answers
D.   deepest essence of modern life as motion, mechanization and pure
Question #10
The intense colors and shocking distortions of Henri Matisse and his colleagues led critics to label them
A.   none of these answers
B.   Retrograde
C.   Fauves
D.   Flaneurs

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