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Modern Art
Question 71 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER] |
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's painting Street, Berlin (1913) depicts an urban scene in which two prostitutes approach the viewer along a narrow street. Which of the following best describes how the artist painted these subjects?
Evidently with great sorrow, as suggested by Kirchner's somber and muted color palette | |
Rendered with sharp angles and mask-like faces, and structured to resemble an architectural composition | |
As abstract forms, nearly unrecognizable as being anything representing the human figure | |
As objects of lust and desire, as evidenced by Kirchner's depiction of their nude forms |
Question 72 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER] |
Edouard Manet's painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergere (1881-82) is considered a masterpiece because:
Its unique combination of still-life, artifice and skewed perspective | |
It helped incite moral and political unrest in his native France | |
Its lewd depiction of the female form | |
Its use of broad brushstrokes, rendering the work nearly abstract in appearance |
Question 73 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER] |
Paul Gauguin's painting The Yellow Christ (1889) is a strong example of Symbolism because:
It was created after Gauguin had a vision of being visited by Christ | |
Gauguin's depiction of Christ is idealized in terms of color and form, and situated within a contemporary landscape during fall foliage | |
It is a harsh commentary on organized religion, symptomatic of the artist's contempt for Christianity | |
None of the above |
Question 74 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER] |
The Ukrainian artist Kazimir Malevich was the founder of which modern movement?
Dada | |
De Stijl | |
Suprematism | |
Surrealism |
Question 75 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER] |
Which of the following statements best describes Georges Braque's approach to Cubist painting?
As an Analytical Cubist, he was interested in showing how objects look over time and in different spaces | |
As a Synthetic Cubist, he focused mostly on abstract imagery and foreign objects | |
As a Fauvist first and foremost, Braque was largely unconcerned with Cubism but only experimented with it because his friend Picasso insisted | |
He was only concerned with applying paint that expressed his emotional state |
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