Chapter 28 (Art Between the Wars)
1. Who was known for his ″rayographs″?
a. Capa
b. Herzfeld
c. Man Ray
d. Dada
2. Picasso′s Guernica (28.58) ___________________.
a. relates to Synthetic Cubism’s collage construction
b. relates both to a particular event and the agony of total war
c. is a prophetic vision of doom
d. all of the above
3. The nihilistic art movement which declared that values had been rendered meaningless by
the horror of World War I was ______________.
a. Dada
b. Surrealism
c. Abstraction
d. Expressionism
4. Max Beckmann′s Departure (28.56) _______________.
a. reflects the artist’s admiration for Grünewald
b. represents life’s misery
c. proved to be prophetic of Nazi horrors
d. all of the above
5. The African-American painter Jacob Lawrence ____________________.
a. creates exemplary works in Color Field painting
b. communicates the history of his people and injustices against them in his
art
c. works on monumentally sized canvases
d. all of the above
6. Constructivism was a(n) ________ art movement.
a. French
b. Russian
c. English
d. American
7. Calder′s mobile sculptures _______________.
a. move with air currents
b. utilize biomorphic shapes
c. are analogues of organic structures
d. all of the above
8. Who was considered the greatest female sculptor of the twentieth century?
a. Meret Oppenheim
b. Barbara Hepworth
c. Mary Cassatt
d. Maya Lin
9. The harmonious design of the Schröder House (28.29) in Utrecht, Holland, was
influenced by the paintings and principles of ___________.
a. Mondrian
b. Sant′Elia
c. John Nash
d. Le Corbusier
10. The famous German art school, of which Walter Gropius was director, was called
________.
a. the Robie House
b. the Città Nuova
c. the Bauhaus
d. the Centennial Hall
11. In France, during the 1920s, the most prominent representative of the International Style
was________ whose famous Villa Savoye (28.35) resembles a low, square box resting on
reinforced concrete pillars.
a. Le Corbusier
b. Léger
c. Strand
d. Perret
12. The French architect who translates Romanesque and Gothic architectural
forms into ferroconcrete and glass ″walls″ is ______________.
a. Gaudi
b. Mendelsohn
c. Le Corbusier
d. Perret
13. Weston’s ″pure″ photographs ______________.
a. are straightforward records of life
b. were not influenced by Stieglitz
c. are landscape panoramas
d. fuse abstraction and realism
14. Margaret Bourke-White′s Fort Peck Dam, Montana _________________.
a. was on the cover of the first issue of Life magazine.
b. suggests multiple levels of meaning.
c. both A and B
d. neither A nor B
15. The artistic philosophy of ________ was to capture ″the decisive moment″ in
photography.
a. Kertesz
b. Cartier-Bresson
c. Stieglitz
d. Adams