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Art Test #8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Frida Kahlo | Mexican muralist, painted husband on forehead bc she was thinking of him, third eye |
| Cubism | Picasso, geometric shapes |
| d'Avignon | Picasso's oil on canvas, began Cubist movement, not considered cubist painting |
| Guernica | Picasso's oil on canvas, bull: human irrationality, horse: Spain's torment, pain/chaos/agony, black/white/grey for message/mood |
| Nude Descending Staircase | Duchamp, controversial Cubist painting, motion |
| Diagonal Composition | Mondrain, non-objective painting, stand on one corner |
| Bird in Space | Brancusi, bronze, sculpture of flight |
| Giacometti | Man Pointing, bronze, sculptures were emaciated/elongated forms |
| Dali | Most famous Surrealist, Persistence of Memory |
| I and the Village | Chagall, cow dreaming of milkmaid, dreamlike memories |
| Klee | Happy quality (Twittering Machine) |
| Miro | Black lines, flat shapes, primary colors, white, and black with abstract people |
| Time Transfixed | Magritte, oil on canvas, Surrealism |
| Object | Oppenheim, wrapping objects in fur |
| Steerage | Sailing to Europe, people separated still affects people |
| Lange | Finest photographers, Great Depression, migrant workers |
| Adams | Emotional response in wilderness |
| O' Keeffe | Abstraction, paintings of flowers/nature, bones, landscapes |