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What kind of art did Francis Bacon see at the Burlington Galleries in 1933? |
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What did Bacon do during the Second World War? |
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What series by Bacon was partly inspired by Velázquez's portrait of Pope Innocent X? |
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What film by Sergei Eisenstein influenced Bacon's work? |
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According to Bacon, if you want to understand the human condition, what should you do? |
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"you need only to think about the meat on your plate |
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To what did Bacon compare the sunsets of Monet? |
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What works by Eadweard Muybridge influenced Bacon? |
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What does the word CoBrA stand for? |
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Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam |
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What was Jorn's nationality? |
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What artist's works influenced Appel while at the Royal Academy of Art in Amsterdam? |
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If Appel had not become a painter what career would he have pursued? |
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What album did Appel record in San Francisco? |
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What was Corneille's nationality? |
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From what earlier modernist did Corneille acquire his taste for line? |
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Why did Corneille travel to Mexico, South America, and Africa? |
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he was interested in primative art |
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How did his travels in Africa affect Corneille's painting technique? |
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he would work on the floor vs the easel |
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What was Naum Gabo's nationality? |
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In what discipline did Alexander Calder earn a degree at the Stevens Institute of Technology? |
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Calder's first important sculptures were part of what work that he performed in his Parisian studio in the 1920s? |
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Whose studio did Calder visit when he thought "how fine it would be if everything moved"? |
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Who suggested that Calder call his moving sculptures "mobiles"? |
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Where was Isamu Noguchi born? |
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Where did Noguchi create a 72-foot cement mural? |
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What did Noguchi do for six months during World War II? |
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In what medium did Noguchi primarily work when he went to Japan in 1949? |
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What job did Joseph Cornell have to do after the death of his father? |
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Where did Cornell find "the profound and suggestive power...to evoke an ideal world of beauty"? |
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In 1936 Cornell was included in a major show of Surrealist work held where? |
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Why did Louise Bourgeois come to the united States in 1938? |
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To what childhood experience where many of Bourgeois' works related? |
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What business did Bourgeois' family own? |
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What subject did Bourgeois begin to represent in the late 1960s? |
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With what movement was Giacometti associated before the Second World War? |
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What phrase did the phenomenologist Edmund Husserl coin? |
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"To the things themselves!" |
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What is "phenomenological reduction"? |
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empty all from the mind that is not perception |
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If Gicaometti made a sculpture of you excactly as he perceived you, what would it look like? |
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What memories of farm life did Germain Richier incorporate into her sculptures? |
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insects and their metamorphoses |
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From whose practice of assemblage did César derive his early style? |
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What kind of ancient art inspired Marino Marini? |
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Chinese Han Dynasty Horses |
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What did the Cardinal represent for Giacomo Manzù? |
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Whose book Vision and Design influence Henry Moore? |
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What did so-called primitive art represent for Moore? |
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"the main world tradition of sculpture" |
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To what Cubist sculptor's works could the holes in Moore and Hepworth's works be traced? |
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What did Moore do during the Second World War? |
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What kind of ancient art had the strongest influence on the early work of Barbara Hepworth? |
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Where did Hepworth live during the war? |
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In the 1950s to what kind of work did Hepworth largely turn? |
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With what title was Hepworth honored in 1965? |
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Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire |
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