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20th Century Art History 2: quiz 2
20th Century Art History 2: quiz 2
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Art History
Undergraduate 4
02/18/2013

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When did Van Doesburg officially proclaim the existence of the De Stijl movement?

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october 1917
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What was the first principle stated in the De Stijl Manifesto?

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with rise of a new society would come a new universalism
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What was the second principle stated in the De Stijl Manifesto?
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social change would leave a pure plastic art
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What was the third principle stated in the De Stijl Manifesto?

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realization of the project as an international movement
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What did Van Doesburg call his compositions that contained diagonal lines?
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elementarism
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What did Van Doesburg think about "artistic handwriting"?
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it is not wanted
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What did Van Doesburg call the process of breaking a composition down, ultimately into short, colored line segments?
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decomposition
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Who was the most important sculptor associated with De Stijl?
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Georges Vantongerloo
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In what media where Gerrit Rietveld's most important contributions made to De Stijl?

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furniture design and architecture
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What medieval Russian art form inspired Goncharova?

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icons
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What did Goncharova consider to be "the source of all arts"?
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the East
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What popular Russian peasant art influenced Mikhail Larianov's early works?
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lubki or wood engravings
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What was "The Knave of Diamonds"?
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the first show of Bubnovyi Valet
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What was Rayonism meant to simulate?
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unseen surfaces and shifting patterns
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For what Futurist Opera did Malevich design costumes?
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victory over the sun
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According to Malevich, Suprematism is about the supremacy of what in creative art?
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feeling
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What does Suprematism abandon like "a house eaten by woodworm"?
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the earth
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What was the Suprematist element par excellence?
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the square
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With what movement is Tatlin associated?
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impressionist
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What was the name of the new school made by combining the Moscow College of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and the Stroganov School of Applied Arts?
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Vkhutemas
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What was Tatlin’s best-known work?
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1920 proposal
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In what medium did Rodchencko work exclusively after 1928?

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photography
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According to Rodchencko, what place did art have in modern life?
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none
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What did Lissitzsky call his abstract works?
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prouns
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In what Moscow studio did Popova work?
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the tower
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Where was the first Bauhaus located?
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Germany
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Who was the first director of the Bauhaus?

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Walter Gropius
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Why was the Bauhaus called the Bauhaus?
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because the emphasis on architecture
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What was a Formmeister?

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teacher for spacial relations
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What was a Technischer Meister?
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teachers for mass produced objects
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In what architectural style were the new Bauhaus facilities at Dessau designed?
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international style
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What kind of Cubism influenced Feininger?
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orphic
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What stage production by Schlemmer was staged at the Bauhaus in 1923?
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triadic ballet
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What book did Kandinsky write at the Bauhaus?
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point and line to plane
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What did Itten believe about color?
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everyone is sensitive to color and has instinctual preferences to color combinations
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What religion had a strong influence on Itten?
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Mazdaism
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What works by Moholy-Nagy were similar to Man Ray's rayographs?
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photograms
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What works by Moholy-Nagy cast shadows as mechanical components moved?
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light-space modulators
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Where did Moholy-Nagy open a design school in the late 1930s?
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Chicago
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Who was the first Technischer Meister in the ceramics workshop of the Bauhaus?

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Krehan
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Who was Gerhard Marcks?
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a former sculptor and was interested in shapes of vessels
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What Hungarian student became one of the most important furniture designers at the Bauhaus?
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Marcel Breuer
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What material did Mies van der Rohe use for the frames in his furniture designs?

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tubular steel
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With what medium was Gunta Stölzl associated at the Bauhaus?
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textiles
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Who was the first Formmeister in the Bauhaus metals workshop?
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Johannes Itten
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Who was the most important female student to study at the Bauhaus?
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Marianne Brandt
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What collaborative products were designed by Wilhelm Wagenfeld and Karl Jucker?
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lamps
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Who was Antoine Pevsner's brother?
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Naum Gabo
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From what material were Naum Gabo's first sculptures made?
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colored cardboard
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In what famous text did Gabo argue in favor of modern technology but against abolishing artistic expression?
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realistic manifesto
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What was most unsual about Gabo's sculpture subtitled Standing Wave?
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it was a "real" object
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In what city is Gabo's famous sculpture for the Bijenkorpf department store located?
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Rotterdam
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