Section I
Which 1913 exhibition introduced modern European art to the United States and shocked the public?
Armory Show
A “Rayograph” is best described as
A camera-less photograph made using light-sensitive paper
What is the Art Deco skyscraper in New York City that was briefly the tallest building in the world.
The Chrysler Building
After World War I, where did many American artists travel to find inspiration?
Europe, especially cities like Paris and Berlin.
What was the goal of Henry Ford’s assembly line?
To increase speed and efficiency in production.
Which art movement, led by Picasso and Braque, broke objects into multiple geometric viewpoints?
Cubism
What type of abstraction did Charles Demuth use in I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold?
Geometric Abstraction
What is the 1920 constitutional amendment that began the Prohibition era in the United States.
The 18th Amendment
What kinds of American culture became popular in Europe during the 1920s?
Jazz, blues, ragtime music, dances like the Charleston, cocktails, and Hollywood movies.
What art style did Charles Sheeler use to show modern industry?
Precisionism.
Which element of art refers to how light or dark a color is?
Value
Which major historical event helped accelerate social and artistic change in the United States during the 1920s?
World War I
What is the massive mural series by Thomas Hart Benton created for the New School for Social Research.
America Today
What was the main idea of the Pan-African movement in art during the 1920s?
To create unity and shared identity among people of African descent using African history and symbols.
Why are there no workers shown in Sheeler’s Criss-Crossed Conveyors?
To focus on machines and efficiency, not individuals.
Which artist is most associated with dripping paint onto canvases in Abstract Expressionism?
Jackson Pollock
Which group of artists focused on gritty scenes of working-class life in New York City?
The Ashcan School
What is the early 20th-century movement describing an educated, self-determining Black urban population.
The Harlem Renaissance
How did artists like Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Maria Martinez challenge traditional ideas of American art?
They blended non-Western or Indigenous traditions with modern styles and showed that these works could be considered fine art.
What does Tina Modotti’s Hands Resting on a Tool represent?
The dignity and hardship of manual labor.
Pop Art mainly used imagery from which source?
Mass culture and consumer goods
Which photographer helped promote modern European art in the U.S. through his gallery “291”?
Alfred Stieglitz
Who is the Chicago-based artist who painted Saturday Night and focused on Black nightlife and diverse skin tones.
Archibald Motley Jr.?
What is one way American artists used global influences to shape modern art in the 1920s?
They combined ideas from European modernism, African and Asian art, Indigenous traditions, and folk art into new styles.
What story inspired Aaron Douglas’s Let My People Go?
The biblical story of Moses