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Unit 5 Quiz Questions
- Why did Duchamp submit Fountain to The Society of Independent Artists?
- Why did Duchamp make “readymades”?
- What are some of the ways in which Picasso's Guitar is different from traditional sculptures?
- How does Metamorphosis of Narcissus demonstrate Dalí's interest in accessing both the unconscious and conscious minds simultaneously?
- What significant life event occurred the year Kahlo painted The Two Fridas, and how is it reflected in the painting?
- What are some of the themes that Kahlo addressed repeatedly in her paintings?
- Why was Kandinsky interested in associating painting with music?
- What forms of older Russian art was Jawlensky interested in, and how are these interests demonstrated in Young Girl in a Flowered Hat?
- What are some of the parts of the body that Schiele emphasizes in Seated Male Nude (Self-Portrait)? What emotions or meanings do you think they communicate?
- How is Matisse’s The Red Studio like a self-portrait, even though it doesn’t show Matisse himself? What personality traits or qualities do you think it conveys about Matisse?
- Do you agree that the “true subject” of Kirchner’s Street, Berlin is “the psychological experience of an individual in this very large, overcrowded urban metropolis”? Why or why not?
- What does Duchamp’s In Advance of the Broken Arm say about the art market?
- Why is Kirchner’s Self-Portrait as a Soldier “a masterpiece of psychological drama”?
- What are the relationships between Futurism and politics, as shown in Carrà’s Funeral of the Anarchist Galli?
- What was Balla’s attitude towards the future?
- What are some of the “rules” Boccioni broke when making Unique Forms of Continuity in Space?
- Do you agree that “as a result of [Matisse’s] experimentation with perspective [in Bonheur de Vivre], the viewer relates differently to the painting”? Why or why not?
- What details does Matisse use to covey emotion in Dance I?
- What is the relationship between Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase and photography?
- What are some of the relationships between male and female in Duchamp’s The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass)?
- How does Klee invite the viewer to think about or interact with Twittering Machine?
- What did Moholy-Nagy think art should be about?
- What were some of the differences the Nazis saw between “Degenerate” and “Aryan” art?
- How does Stepanova argue for the success of Communism in The Results of the First Five-Year Plan?
- What are some of the ways that Brancusi’s The Kiss is different than previous Academic sculpture?
- What was Kollwitz’s attitude toward Karl Liebknecht?
- What are some of the reasons why Mondrian started painting abstract works?
- What are some of the details that convey an “ocean of pain and death” in Picasso’s Guernica?
- Why do you think Gertrude Stein thought that Picasso’s Portrait of Gertrude Stein was the truest portrait?
- What clues to the meaning of Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon do we see in his preliminary sketches for the work?
- How does Picasso treat shadows in Reservoir, Horta de Ebro?
- How is Picasso playing with space in Still Life with Chair Caning?
- Why do you think that Léger left areas of the canvas blank in Contrast of Forms?
- What details in de Chirico’s The Anxious Journey tell the viewer that this is not a scene from reality?
- Why is Man Ray’s The Gift “subversive”?
- Why did Oppenheim think that Object had a negative effect on her artistic career?
- How is the representation of the pipe twofold in Magritte’s The Treachery of Images?
- What are the ways in which Giacometti made The Palace at 4am seem like a dreamscape?
- How is Dalí’s The Persistence of Memory “an attack on the rational”?
- What are some of the details that Kahlo uses to show the difference between the figures in Frida and Diego Rivera?
