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Early 20th C. art
YGK These Early 20th-Century Art Movements
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The art movement named by critic Louis Vauxcelles after he described a sculpture as "Donatello among wild beasts" | Fauvism |
| The leader of the Fauves whose portrait Woman with a Hat was attacked by critics before being bought by the Steins | Henri Matisse |
| The co-founder of Fauvism known for Charing Cross Bridge and Houses of Parliament at Night | André Derain |
| The 20th-century German movement that favored subjective emotional experience over physical reality | Expressionism |
| The Dresden-based Expressionist group founded by Ernst Kirchner to connect traditional and modern painting | The Bridge (Die Brücke) |
| The Munich-based movement founded by Kandinsky and Marc, named for their love of horses and a specific color | The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter) |
| The darker a shade of this color, the more it "awakens the human desire for the eternal" according to Kandinsky | Blue |
| The art movement introduced by Picasso's Les Demoiselles d’Avignon that views objects from many sides at once | Cubism |
| The three sub-movements of Cubism | Analytical, Synthetic, and Curvilinear |
| The Cubist work by Georges Braque featuring flowing, rounded lines typical of the curvilinear style | Houses at l’Estaque |
| The Italian movement that sought to represent the glory of machines, speed, and technology | Futurism |
| The author of "The Futurist Manifesto" who claimed a roaring motor car was more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace | Filippo Marinetti |
| The Futurist artist known for the sculpture Unique Forms of Continuity in Space | Umberto Boccioni |
| The Giacomo Balla painting that uses a Cubist-inspired approach to show the motion of a pet on a walk | Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash |
| The movement that used shadows, lifeless dummies, and infinite space to create dreamlike, eerie scenes | Metaphysical painting |
| The Italian artist of The Disquieting Muses and Melancholy and Mystery of a Street | Giorgio de Chirico |
| The year by which Fauvism had almost entirely died out | 1908 |
| The year in which the Metaphysical painting movement ended following a dispute between de Chirico and Carlo Carra | 1920s |
| The Russian art movement named for the "supremacy of pure feeling" and founded by Kazimir Malevich | Suprematism |
| The Kazimir Malevich manifesto that defined Suprematism as the rejection of objective reality | The Non-Objective World |
| Malevich's 1918 painting featuring a tilted square of one shade of white on a background of a different shade | White on White |
| The anti-art movement founded in Zurich that used nonsense names and "readymades" to protest WWI | Dada |
| The Marcel Duchamp readymade consisting of a porcelain urinal signed "R. Mutt" | Fountain |
| The nickname for Duchamp's The Large Glass, which incorporated accidental cracks into its design | The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even |
| The Dada artist known for Cut with the Kitchen Knife through the Beer-Belly of the Weimar Republic | Hannah Höch |
| The Dutch movement, also known as neoplasticism, that used only primary colors, black, and white | De Stijl |
| The primary practitioner of De Stijl who painted Broadway Boogie Woogie and Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow | Piet Mondrian |
| The De Stijl principle that strictly prohibited the use of these types of lines | Diagonals |
| The movement defined by André Breton as "pure psychic automatism" intended to express the functioning of thought | Surrealism |
| The Surrealist known for The Treachery of Images, which features a pipe and the text "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" | René Magritte |
| The 1929 Surrealist short film, a collaboration between Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, that Roger Ebert called the "most famous short film ever made" | Un Chien Andalou |
| The Depression-era photographer whose Migrant Mother documented the plight of the destitute | Dorothea Lange |
| The 60-panel series by Jacob Lawrence that highlights the history of African-American movement to the North | Migration series |
| The Harlem Renaissance artist known for the Aspects of Negro Life series | Aaron Douglas |
| The Grant Wood painting featuring his sister and his dentist in front of a Carpenter Gothic house | American Gothic |
| The 2026 status of the Sagrada Familia, an architectural project by Antoni Gaudí | Scheduled to be finished in 2026 |
| The Surrealist sculptor of the wire-and-metal mobile Lobster Trap and Fish Tail | Alexander Calder |
| The female Surrealist artist of Object, a fur-covered cup and saucer | Meret Oppenheim |
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