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You Gotta Know art
brain bowl NAQT 20th century art
| Painting | Artist | Hint 1 | Hint 2 | Hint 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 | Marcel Duchamp | portrays a nude woman in a series of broken planes, reflecting a Cubist sense of division of space | echoes the work of the Futurists by capturing motion down several steps in a single image | First painted in 1912 |
| The Persistence of Memory | Salvador Dalí | probably the most famous of surrealist paintings | trompe l'oeil depiction of figures | ants, flies, clocks, and the Port Lligat landscape |
| Les Demoiselles d'Avignon | Pablo Picasso | depicts five women in a brothel | The two central figures face the viewer, while the other three have primitive masks as faces | phallic fruit arrangement in the foreground reflects the influence of Cezanne's "flattening of the canvas" |
| Broadway Boogie Woogie | Piet Mondrian | echoes the bright lights of a marquee | resembles a pattern of streets as seen from above | creates a feeling of vitality and vibrancy, not unlike the music itself |
| Campbell's Soup Can | Andy Warhol | parodies a world in which celebrities, brand names, and media images have replaced the sacred | existed in many varieties, with different types or numbers | mass production aspect |
| Nighthawks | Edward Hopper | uses a realistic approach to convey a sense of a loneliness and isolation | fluorescent light of the diner, coffee pots, Phillies cigar sign atop the diner | depicts the corner store without a door connecting to the larger world |
| I and the Village | Marc Chagall | dreamlike scene | lamb and peasant life motifs | a series of houses, some of them upside-down |
| Christina's World | Andrew Wyeth | the subtle pattern of sunlight strikes the farmhouse obliquely from the right, shines in the wheel tracks in the upper right, and casts very realistic-looking shadows on Christina's dress | Christina lays in the cornfield wearing a pink dress, facing away from the viewer, her body partly twisted and hair blowing slightly in the wind | In the far distance is a three-story farmhouse with dual chimneys and two dormers, along with two sheds to its right |
| American Gothic | Grant Wood | pitchfork and clothing represented 19th century farmers instead of contemporary farmers | among the most familiar regionalist paintings | painted after seeing a Carpenter Gothic style house with a distinctive Gothic window in its gable |
| The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even | Marcel Duchamp | |||
| Red Room | Henri Matisse | |||
| Mystery and Melancholy of a Street | Giorgio de Chirico | |||
| The Twittering Machine | Paul Klee | |||
| Man at the Crossroads | Diego Rivera | |||
| The Kiss | Gustav Klimt | |||
| Time Transfixed | Rene Magritte | |||
| Woman series | Willem de Kooning | |||
| White on White series | Kasimir Malevich | |||
| Guernica | Pablo Picasso | massive, black, white, and grey anti-war mural | used Cubist approach to add sense of destruction and chaos to figures | completed by early June 1937 |
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