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20th C. Paintings
YGK These 20th Century Paintings
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Basque town bombed by the Germans in April 1937, depicted in a massive anti-war mural | Guernica |
| The museum where Picasso's Guernica was housed in New York until 1981 | Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) |
| The painting that a critic referred to as “an explosion in a shingle factory” at the 1913 Armory Show | Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 |
| The Spanish Surrealist painter whose work features melting clocks and ants | Salvador Dalí |
| The most famous Surrealist painting, depicting soft watches in a landscape near Portlligat | The Persistence of Memory |
| Picasso’s revolutionary 1907 Cubist painting depicting five women in a brothel | Les Demoiselles d’Avignon |
| The influence cited for the phallic fruit arrangement and "flattening of the canvas" in Les Demoiselles d’Avignon | Paul Cézanne |
| The Dutch painter whose "De Stijl" works divide the canvas into rectangular "tile patterns" | Piet Mondrian |
| The Mondrian painting that resembles a pattern of New York streets seen from above | Broadway Boogie Woogie |
| The Pop Art artist known for mass-produced images of celebrities and everyday objects like soup cans | Andy Warhol |
| The Nighthawks* painter who used a realistic approach to convey a sense of loneliness and isolation | Edward Hopper |
| The museum where Hopper's Nighthawks is housed | Art Institute of Chicago |
| The Chagall painting from 1911 featuring dreamlike scenes, a green face, and an upside-down peasant woman | I and the Village |
| The 1948 Andrew Wyeth painting of a woman in a field, inspired by his neighbor in Cushing, Maine | Christina’s World |
| The Wyeth painting that led to the Olson house being named to the National Register of Historic Places | Christina’s World |
| The Regionalist painting inspired by a Carpenter Gothic-style house in Eldon, Iowa | American Gothic |
| The models Grant Wood used for the two figures in American Gothic | His sister Nan and his dentist, Dr. Byron McKeeby |
| The most parodied painting in all of art history | American Gothic |