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Modern Art Final

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show multimedia  
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show chronology  
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show stylistic evidence  
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show connoisseur  
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show regional style  
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show provenance  
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The characteristic artistic manner or style of a person or a school at a specific time   show
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show genre  
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A word which can mean the content of a work of art, or the general study of content in art, or the study of symbols in art work.   show
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Standardized symbols by which, after long use, content can be identified, such as the lion representing St. Mark or a lily representing virginity.   show
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show personification  
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A group of artists working in the same style at the same time and place.   show
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Those who commission and pay for, or buy outright, the works of artists.   show
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A general term for the visual analysis and description of artistic form   show
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show composition  
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System of “correctness” or idealization of the perfect representatives for art at a specific period and location.   show
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show relief  
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Drawn view of a building showing an exterior and an interior wall at the same time   show
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show plan  
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The nature of an art historian’s job where he/she uses methodologies developed in other fields to identify and describe art works.   show
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The decoration of grotto interiors using small stones and shells   show
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show hotels  
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Educated and intelligent women who hosted salons for learned conversation between men and women   show
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A painting of a party or gathering often referring to amorous affairs; e.g. Cupids flying around in the painting   show
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show Poussinistes  
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A goup who believed that color and coloristic style were the most important elements in a painting.   show
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A sculpto called Clodion   show
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show Madame de Pompadour  
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show Vierzehnheiligen  
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A Rococo artist from Italy   show
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Philosophy whose basis was in empirical evidence   show
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Englishman whose ideas dealt with the natural rights of man --life, liberty, and property and freedom of conscience.   show
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French intellectuals whose composite doctrines were the doctrine of progress and the perfectibility of humankind.   show
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editor of the Encyclopedie in which he tried to gather all useful knowledge in one place   show
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He edited a specialized encyclopedia of the natural sciences called Natural History   show
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Inventor of the system of plant classification   show
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The ideological justification for colonial expansion into new terrirories   show
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The old order of French kings and state religion which Voltairs’s writings and actions helped to brush away.   show
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A world-wide phenomena of change from an agriculture subsistence society to an urban production one, starting with the invention of steam power.   show
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A French philosophe who argued that the idea of progress was what corrupted man, and that he was better off closer to his primal or primitive state.   show
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The movement built on an appreciation of ancient Greece and Rome   show
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show Johann Wickelmann  
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show Jean-Antoine Houdon  
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show Robert Adam  
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show fasces  
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show Rococo  
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The Rococo style was preeminently evident in what?   show
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What is the name of specific style of Rococo painting that depicted the outdoor amusements and entertainments of the upper classes?   show
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show color  
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show Death of Marat  
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What Roman ruins provided the inspiration for the portico of the Pantheon in Paris (Ste-Genevieve) designed by Soufflot?   show
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show the discovery and excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii  
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Neoclassicism invoked classical references of patriotism and trust in unshakable authority serving imperial agendas. Which leader embraced these aspects of Neoclassicism?   show
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Which architect was the most influential in Thomas Jefferson’s re-design of Monticello?   show
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show 17th  
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show Jean-Jacques Rousseau  
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show Chiswick House  
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The artist who best spoke for the French Revolution was who?   show
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show Palladian Classicism  
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show delicate colors and painterly brushstrokes  
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The Amalienburg Hall of Mirrors demonstrates the common Rococo features of _____?   show
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show the aristocracy  
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show profuse curvilinear decorative elements  
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show Chardin  
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show Reynolds  
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The so-called Rubenists of the Royal Academy, as opposed the the Poussinists, held that ______.   show
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show Late Baroque Style  
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It is generally agreed that the Rococo style originated in ________.   show
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The style most closely associated with democratic ideals, imperial ambitions, and virtue was _________.   show
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What is “Grand Manner” portraiture?   show
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show Napoleon’s sister  
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How does the Cornation of Napoleon represent the Neoclassical style?   show
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show scenic view; Italian  
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show The details of her hair, background. The lace around her neck and hands.  
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What typle of lighting was preferrd by Joseph Wright of Derby?   show
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Who was Johann Winklemann, and what was his importance in the history of art?   show
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show To get up and fight. You country depends on you.  
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show Antione Watteau, Jean-Honore Fragrod, Francois Boucher  
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show Claudio.  
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show Propanganda  
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show Canaletto  
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Name the English artist who was famous for his satirical scense of social criticism.   show
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show Elisabeth Louise Vigee Leburn  
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“temple of glory” for Napoleon’s imperial armies.   show
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Napoleon’s favorite sculptor.   show
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Napoleon’s sister   show
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show Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson  
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show odalisque  
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A Medieval demon believed to prey on sleeping women.   show
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show Mara  
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Awe mixed with terror   show
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show Mary Shelley  
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show Morocco  
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show picturesque  
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show John Constable  
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Painter of the Slave Ship   show
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Group of likeminded landscapists who painted in river valley of NY an elsewhere in the US.   show
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American painter of the Romantic sublime landscape who worked in the US, as well as South America, the Middle East, Newfoundland, and other exotic places.   show
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Search for knowledge based on observation and direct experience.   show
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show positivism  
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show Realism  
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First modern artist ever to stage a private exhibition of his own work.   show
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Group of painters who moved near the forest of Fontainebleau and painted the poor peasants nearyby.   show
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show lithography  
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French Republican newspaper that published political cartoons   show
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show Saint Simonianism  
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show Olympia  
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show Satyr.  
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A group of artists who used fictional, historican and fanciful subjects with convincing illusion.   show
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show John Ruskin  
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Well-known Pre-Raphaelite painter and poet.   show
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show Neo-Gothic  
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show Tudor  
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show John Nash  
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An architectural style that uused symmetry in design, but grand Baroque ornamentation.   show
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Inventor of calotype photography   show
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show Camera lucida  
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show zoopraxiscope  
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show English Late Gothic  
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show Ethereal, dreamlike images.  
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Pugin said, “All Grecian, Sir. Tudor details on a classical body.” To which building is Pugin referring?   show
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show the aftermath of a 19th century French shipwreck and was considered an attack on government ineptitude.  
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show a temple of glory for Napoleon’s armies.  
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show the people of France protecting their borders against foreign enemies of the revolution  
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show Pierre Vignon  
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show Delacroix and Ingres  
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Timothy O’Sullivan documented which of the following wars?   show
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Who among the following artists liked to paint images of the Romantic transcendental landscape?   show
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show civil unrest  
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show Cole  
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The term “sublime” was considered to inspire which of the following feelings?   show
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show inner and outer feelings.  
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show Romantic artists were more about how a painting made you feel rather than it being realistic.  
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How did Henry Fuseli evoke horror and possibly the dark terrain of the human subconscious in his artwork?   show
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show As a time to learn from and get back to. Buildings were being built with Middle Ages flair.  
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What was the Hudson River School?   show
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How did Thomas Cole respond to America’s direction as a civilization?   show
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show It wasn’t considered an art till later in the 1800s.  
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How did Timothy O’Sullivan’s A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1863 respond as a new medium and how did it impact the nation?   show
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What was the drawback to “wet-plate” processing?   show
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show Goya is representing the war. Saturn (the government) is eating (killing soldiers) his children (the innocent men fighting in the war) Also, Goya’s “black” mood of old age.  
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How does Blake’s Ancient of Days embody the Romantic spirit?   show
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show Communist Manifest  
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show Marxism  
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show Natural Selection  
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British philosopher who applied Darwin’s evolutionary principles to socioeconomic systems and gave justification to the strongest nations taking over the weakest ones.   show
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A word for the art that captured the sensibilities of the late 19th century, but also called attention to its own discipline and processes   show
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Art style that attempted to capture a fleeting moment in time and is abbreviated, speedy and spontaneous   show
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show local color.  
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show Baron Georges Haussmann  
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show plein air  
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show Folies-Bergere  
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Painter known for his art pieces depicting ballet dancers   show
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Dry sticks of powdered pigment   show
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A painting of a night scene   show
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show James Whistler  
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show Japonisme  
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show Salon des Refuses  
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show Post-Impressionists  
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Artist who was genetically deformed and appeared as a midget.   show
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Art style that uses tiny dots of color in a calculated arrangement based on scientific color theory.   show
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show La Grande Jatte  
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show Vincent van Gogh  
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Artist who spent his last years in the South Seas islands.   show
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show hue  
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Word for a color’s brightness or dullness.   show
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Word for a color’s lightness or darkness   show
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show Theo van Gogh  
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show symbolism  
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show Bas-relief  
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show Arthur Rimbaud  
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A “primitive” Parsian painter who painted exotic places and animals.   show
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Term to describe the turning from the nineteenth century to the 20th century and the decadent culture associated with it.   show
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Sculptor who studied Michaelangelo’s work and made very realistic muscular figures.   show
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show Auguste Rodin  
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show Arts and Crafts  
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Art movement based on natural forms that could be mass produced in architectural decorations to look like interior vines and sensuous florals.   show
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show Jugendistil  
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Name for Art Nouveau in Spain   show
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Name for Art Nouveau in Italy   show
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show Louis Comfort Tiffany  
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show Antonio Gaudi  
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Designed the interior armature for the Stature of Liberty, as well as his own famous tower.   show
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show Avant-garde  
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show Post-Impressionists  
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German art magazine.   show
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show Expressionism  
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A term meaning ‘wild beasts” and refers to expressionistic artist known for their shocking use of color.   show
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show Die Brucke  
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show Wilhem Lehmbruch  
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show Vassily Kandinsky  
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show Franz Marc  
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show Blue Period  
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American avant-garde writer who patronized European artists like Picasso and Matisse.   show
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show Cubism  
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show Primitivism  
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The first phase of cubism that involved analyzing the structure forms on the flat picture plane.   show
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Colored Cubism   show
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show Synthetic Cubism  
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show collage  
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show papier colle  
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Sculptor who welded many sculptors for Picasso.   show
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show Jacques Lipchitz  
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An art form that wanted to get away from the decorative aspects of Synthetic Cubism and look instead at industry and machines for inspiration.   show
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Italian art movement that advocated war as a cleansing agent and had a profound interest in the speed and dynamism of modern technology   show
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Futurist sculptor   show
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A conceptural art movement that celebrated the irrational and nonsensical as opposed to reason and logic   show
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show Sigmund Freud  
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show Jean Arp  
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show Cabaret Voltaire  
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show readymade  
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show photomontage  
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show Merz  
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show Hannah Hoch  
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The “Apostles of Ulginess.”   show
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Influential arts and teacher of The Eight   show
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show John Sloan  
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First great venue for showing Americans avant-garde European art.   show
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American Dadaist   show
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show Aaron Douglas.  
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Art movement that developed in the 1920s our of a fascination with the machine’s precision and importance in daily life.   show
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show Charles Demuth  
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show Georgia O’Keeffe  
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Alfred Steiglitz’s group of photographers that mounted traveling exhibitions and pushed photography as an art in general.   show
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A movement whose aim was to present a clear-eyed direct and honest image of WWI and its effects.   show
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show Giorgio de Chirico  
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Artsit known for depictions of mother with dead children   show
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show automatism  
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show naturalistic surrealism  
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Going beyond physical appearance.   show
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show Frottage  
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show Dali  
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show Joan Miro  
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show Meret Oppenheim  
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show Guernica  
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show Surrealism  
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Russian art collector who had an extensive collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist work.   show
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Artist who believed that the supreme reality of the world is pure feeling attached to no object.   show
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A movement that describes sculptures built piece by piece   show
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show De Stijl  
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show Neoplasticism  
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Sculptor known for holes or voids in abstract work that are as important as the mass.   show
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show Henry Moore  
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show Vera Mukhina  
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show Ben Shann  
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show Edward Hopper.  
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show Jacob Lawrence  
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show American Scene Painters  
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show Regionalism  
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Another Regionalist besides Grant Wood   show
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Mexican muralist who is also known for his printmaking   show
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show Diego Rivera  
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show Frida Kahlo  
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The main impetus for the Mexican Muralist.   show
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Russian Art movement whose goal was designing a better environment for huan beings.   show
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Soviet artist who designed an efficient stove and a set of worker’s clothing.   show
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Monument to the Third International   show
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De Stijl architect famous for the Schroder House   show
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School famous for its integration of arts and crafts and its work with industrial materials and processes.   show
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Architect who was the first head of Bauhaus   show
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s smaller and cheaper version of the prairie style   show
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Author of the famous statement “less is more.”   show
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show International Style  
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American style that is streamlined, elongated, and symmetrical, but that has ornament on it.   show
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American architect who invented the Prairie Style.   show
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show Fallingwater.  
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Sculptor known for tall thin figures who seem alienated in the space around them   show
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Jean Dubuffet’s name for coarse and untaought art.   show
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show formalism  
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show Abstract Expressionism  
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show Jackson Pollock  
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show Clement Greenberg  
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show Mark Rothko  
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Name for art that seems controlled and pure and dose not show the artist’s hand.   show
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A variant of Post-Painterly Abstraction that shows no depth and has sharply delineated shaped, such as those by Ellsworth Kelly.   show
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show color field painting  
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In the Night Café, the artist has shown us a benign scene, yet the scene has a sense of charged energy and oppressive atmosphere: How did the artist communicate this?   show
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show ornamental and reflective work.  
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In Klimt’s The Kiss, the artist has captured the flamboyance and decadence of the period. How was this painting a visual manifestation of the fin de siècle?   show
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Which of the following influenced Degas in his technique of using spatial projections and off-center empty space to create illusion and direct the viewer’s attention into the picture?   show
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William Morris helped to shape the Arts and Crafts movement through his support of high quality craftsmanship and design based on natural forms. Which of the following artists was also a member of the Arts and Crafts movement?   show
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The Burghers of Calais express emotions of despair, defiance & resignation. Rodin captured emotions in roughtly textured sufaces of figures. What device Rodin used to create pathos of this heroism?   show
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The sculptor Carpeaux illustrated the emotions of frustration and dispair in his Ugolino and His Children by making the forms intertwined and densely concentrated. Which of the following influenced Carpeaux?   show
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens used the Realist style very effectively. In his Adams Memorial, however, he deviated from the canon of the Realists. He represented a lone figure voluminously draped. How did the sculptor express this deviation from the canon?   show
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Antonio Gaudi longed to create an architectural style that was both modern and appropriate for this native country of Spain. How does Casa Mila represent his ability to conceive a building as a whole and mold it as a sculptor molds clay?   show
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Which of the following ideas did Vincent van Gogh attempt to communicate in his Starry Night?   show
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show different times of the day.  
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Cassatt’s style of work owes much to what?   show
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Which of the following architects conceived the building as a whole and molded it like clay?   show
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Extreme subjectivity and the need to see through reality to a deeper reality was most typical of which of the following styles?   show
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Which of the following artists is categorized a Symbolist?   show
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Which is the most important feature of Sullivan’s Prudential Building that distinguishes it from earlier structures?   show
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Berthe Morisot focused her world in the only area allowed her as a woman in upper class French society. Which area was that?   show
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show Cezanne.  
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show Moreau  
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show Toulouse-Lautrec  
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show His disciplined and painstaking application of the color theories of men like Delacroix, Helmholtz, and Chevreul  
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show Gertrude Kasebier  
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How does Louis Suillivan reflect truly modern architecture?   show
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show A movement similar to Art Nouveau. It focuses on the hands-on craftsmanship.  
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What is academic art?   show
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How did industrialization affect urbanization in the late 19th century?   show
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show A cast iron frame allowed one to go taller with a building.  
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Briefly describe the fin-de-siecle culture of late 19th century Austria.   show
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Why did sculpture of late 19th century remain resolutely male?   show
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show On the ground at eye level with the viewer.  
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What is the difference in Marxism and Darwinism?   show
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show They more systematically examined the properties and expressive qualities of line, pattern, form and color than the Impressionists did.  
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show Alexander Calder  
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What message did Vera Mukhina convey in her work entitled The Worker and the Collective Farm Worker?   show
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Which of the following artists developed the theory of neoplasticism or the new plastic art?   show
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Which of the following works of art was melted down for ammunition by the Nazis in 1937?   show
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Which of the following artists created a modern American art style combining Synthetic Cubism with jazz tempos and her perception of the fast-paced American culture?   show
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show Cubism  
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The Champs de Mars or The Red Tower by Robery Delanuay depicts which of the following structures?   show
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Which of the following is excuted in the Synthetic Cubist style?   show
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Which of the following describes the focus on the Ashcan School?   show
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What message is portrayed in Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks?   show
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Thomas Hart Benton, a Regionalist artst, focused his attenetion on which of the following subjects?   show
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show Matisse  
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In the artist’s eyes, the Fate of the Animals was almost a premontion of which historical event?   show
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show Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash  
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Which of the following artists was a Berlin Dadaist?   show
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Which of the following artist shared Steiglitz’s concern to position photography as an art form with same fine-art status as painting and sculpture?   show
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Who is the artist who created a work of art that can be described as “wickedly funny gift.”   show
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show Frida Kahlo  
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show Grosz  
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show Franz Marc  
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show a pre-Columbian figure, the Chacmool.  
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A nonobjective work refers to work that what?   show
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show Art Deco  
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show dynamic movement  
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show Emile Nolde  
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The work of Ernst Kirchner shows what?   show
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Who is the Surrealist?   show
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The hovering figure that served as a memorial to those who died in WWI was created by   show
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show Dada has no fixed ideas.  
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Who photographed the rural poor displaced by the Great Depression?   show
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show De Chirico  
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The goal of Dali’s “paranoiac-critical” method was what?   show
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show An art gallery that first displayed Georgia O’Keeffe’s work.  
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show The spire of the Chrysler Building.  
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show FLW designed the Robie House. It is a flat house with sleek lines. Everything about it take it’s surroundings into consideration.  
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show Chaotic and cluttered. Drab and hopeless.  
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show Segregation. It shows everyday scenes that AA had to face. It depicts their move to the north.  
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show Bars, restaurants, and such empty or the few people there were sad looking.  
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show It’s almost a dreamland. It’s not realistic. Anything goes.  
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show To produce students who knew how to do everything design related. “Total Architecture.”  
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show Synthetic Cubism is a later phase of Cubism that used parts of real objects collaged onto surfaces as parts of one subjects. Analytic Cubism is the first phase of cubism that involved analyzing the structure forms on the flat picture plane.  
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show His work, Unique Forms in Continuity of Space, appeared to be flowing in the wind. Whimsical as if its essence was blowing off of it.  
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show The lights of the cars on the street. The lit buildings at night. The clock that might symbolize the fleeing time.  
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show A moving sculpture. Alexander Calder. He started out as an engineer so he brought it into his art.  
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Briefly describe Futurism:   show
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How did society see the avant-garde artist?   show
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