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