Art in Focus

Chapter 23: Art of the Early Twentieth Century

Online Quizzes

1.
Kandinsky believed that a painting should
A)use only dark, drab colors.
B)show small, realistic details.
C)depict important historical events.
D)duplicate an inner emotion.
2.
Eiffel was one of the first architects to realize the worth of what as a building material?
A)steel
B)stone
C)wood
D)concrete
3.
The subject matter in John Sloan's works is typical of
A)Muralists.
B)Cubists.
C)the Ashcan School.
D)Expressionists.
4.
Matisse led a group of artists who believed in simple design and bright colors, called
A)Realists.
B)Fauves.
C)Cubists.
D)Expressionists.
5.
After the Armory Show of 1913, what city became the art capital of the world?
A)New York
B)Paris
C)London
D)Madrid
6.
Cubists were known for adding texture to their paintings by
A)painstakingly studying fabrics to reproduce their look on canvas.
B)attaching materials, such as wallpaper, to their canvases.
C)building up very thick layers of paint on the canvas.
D)squirting paint directly from the tube onto the canvas.
7.
America's pioneering architect of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries was
A)Eiffel.
B)Gaudi.
C)Morgan.
D)Sullivan.
8.
What Mexican muralist used his art to protest war and was often jailed or exiled for his political beliefs?
A)Kahlo
B)Rivera
C)Siqueiros
D)Orozco
9.
Kirchner took his own life after his work was condemned by
A)Picasso.
B)Hitler.
C)Kollwitz.
D)Mussolini.
10.
As Gaudi envisioned them, the Church of the Sacred Family's façades were to depict
A)Christ's birth, death, and resurrection.
B)the life and death of the Virgin Mary.
C)the stages of Earth's creation.
D)the stages of Christ's resurrection.
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