Mark Rothko

  • Create meditative rather than active

Which movement took up the call for the annihilation of art in the traditional sense of the word?

  • Dada

Artist André Breton issued a manifesto that described the point of “resolution between these two states, dream and reality.” What was this movement?

  • Surrealism

In what aspect of the twentieth century were Umberto Boccioni and other Futurist artists most interested?

  • Photographic innovations

What did Nelson A. Rockefeller object to in Diego’s Rivera’s lobby fresco Man at the Crossroads Looking with Hope and High Vision to a New and Better Vision for the RCA Building in Rockefeller Center?

  • Communist leader vladimir lennin

JR’s Giant Kikito on the US–Mexico Border is a comment on

  • Wave of immigrants especially children

How does Pablo Picasso’s Guernica differ in subject from his earlier Cubist paintings?

  • Bombing during spanish civil war

What is an element of the Cubist style?

  • multiple perspectives

What aspect of Salvador Dali’s The Persistence of Memory is a characteristic of Surrealism?

  • Subconscious

Many artists in the US who embraced realism during the Great Depression thought that art should

  • deal with the problems of daily life.

In works such as Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, realist painter Edouard Manet was denying traditional painting style and drawing attention to

  • his breaks with past techniques

In the early nineteenth century, what recurrent and significant theme began to appear in Romantic painting?

  • notion of subline

How is Rococo painting different from Baroque art?

  • It is more concerned with didactic Christian subjects.

A characteristic of eighteenth-century chinoiserie is

  • decorations on ceramics by Chinese artists with images provided by European traders

How did Jacques-Louis David, in the role of painter, take an active role in the French Revolution?

  • Murdered revolutionary

Realism as an artistic movement in the mid-nineteenth century refers to

  • everyday life

What made Rosa Bonheur the most famous female artist of her day?

  • depict animals

What is the story behind Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa?

  • medusa sank and others drifted

How does the subject matter favored by the Impressionists differ from that of their precedents, the Realists?

  • pleasure social criticism

Which formal quality does Paul Cézanne use to collapse the space between foreground and background?

  • balance