Multiple Choice Quiz

Please answer all questions


1	The term "avant-garde" refers to
		A)	newness
		B)	advancing troops in World War I
		C)	the technological changes that led to urbanization
		D)	turn-of-the-century art dealers
		E)	turn-of-the-century art patrons


2	Picasso's earliest distinctive style is referred to as
		A)	Surrealist
		B)	Rose Period
		C)	Cubist
		D)	Blue Period
		E)	Fauve


3	Which one of the following does NOT match?
		A)	Ife -- Nigeria
		B)	Baule -- Benin
		C)	Fang -- Gabon
		D)	Bakota -- Ivory Coast
		E)	Bambara -- Mali


4	Which is NOT a reason that African sculptures influenced European artists in the early 20th century?
		A)	they are geometric
		B)	they are abstract
		C)	they are naturalistic
		D)	they are magical
		E)	they are non-Classical


5	What was the most striking quality of Fauvism?
		A)	line
		B)	abstraction
		C)	light
		D)	color
		E)	jungle subject matter


6	The Green Line is a painting of
		A)	Mme. Matisse
		B)	a Paris street
		C)	Horses
		D)	Icarus
		E)	a still life


7	Die Brucke refers to
		A)	a German painting of a bridge
		B)	a German painting of a street
		C)	a German art movement
		D)	a German artist
		E)	a German book


8	Nolde's style is best described as
		A)	Fauve
		B)	Cubist
		C)	Symbolist
		D)	Expressionist
		E)	Collage


9	Which is true of Franz Marc's views of color?
		A)	yellow was sunny and cheerful
		B)	blue was depressive
		C)	red was aggressive
		D)	gray was reserved for trees
		E)	white was for funerals


10	Which is NOT true of Kollwitz?
		A)	she came from a financially comfortable family
		B)	she thought of herself as an Expressionist
		C)	she depicted the problems of the working classes
		D)	she sympathized with German peasants
		E)	she used mainly shades of black


11	Matisse's "arabesques" refer to
		A)	dancers
		B)	musicians
		C)	a kind of black curve
		D)	bright colors
		E)	Arab subject matter


12	Matisse's Decorative Figure in an Oriental Setting is set in
		A)	Morocco
		B)	the Far East
		C)	Easter Island
		D)	Oceania
		E)	Tahiti


13	Matisse's Jazz imagery is an example of
		A)	Symbolism
		B)	Fauvism
		C)	decoupage
		D)	Cubism
		E)	The Blue Rider


14	The Oba was a
		A)	tribal magician
		B)	divine king
		C)	Benin shaman
		D)	Fang god
		E)	queen mother


15	Which artist is correctly matched with his or her nationality?
		A)	Marc -- French
		B)	Matisse -- Moroccan
		C)	Kandinsky -- Russian
		D)	Nolde -- Dutch
		E)	Picasso -- French


16	As far as one can tell, the first completely non-figurative painter was
		A)	Kandinsky
		B)	Marc
		C)	Matisse
		D)	Picasso
		E)	Nolde


17	1914-1918 are the dates of
		A)	World War II
		B)	the American Civil War
		C)	the Russian Revolution
		D)	World War I
		E)	the Franco-Prussian War


18	Which artist is correctly matched with his work?
		A)	Kirchner -- The Large Blue Horses
		B)	Matisse -- Jeannette V
		C)	Kandinsky -- Notre-Dame in the Late Afternoon
		D)	Picasso -- Still Life with Masks
		E)	Gauguin -- Drawing of an Oceanic Canoe Prow

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