Modernist Music
Modernist Art
Postmodern Music
Postmodern Art
Architecture & Sculpture
100
This modernist composer who wrote the music for the ballet, "The Rite of Spring."
Who is Igor Stravinsky?
100
The famous painting "The Persistence of Memory" was created in this style/"ism."
What is Surrealism?
100
This is the term for music that is created using chance operations.
What is aleatory?
100
This is the postmodern artist best known for "plate paintings."
Who is Julian Schnabel?
100
This postmodern architect--recently deceased--is often categorized as the "Queen of curves."
Who is Zaha Hadid?
200
This is the term for the modernist technique in which a vocalist half-sings and half-speaks the music.
What is Sprechstimme?
200
This modernist art movement promoted "readymades" and nonsensical collages as art.
What is Dada?
200
This composer is considered the father of minimalism although he prefers to be called a "composer of repetitive structures."
Who is Philip Glass?
200
This is the term for the postmodern technique of combining different styles and forms for ironic effect.
What is pastiche?
200
This modernist architect is known for buildings that blend into the environment and feature a lot of open interior space.
Who is Frank Lloyd Wright?
300
This is the term for music that is created through manipulation of the recording process.
What is musique concrète?
300
This famous abstract expressionist was king of the "drip and pour" technique.
Who is Jackson Pollock?
300
This is the term for the postmodern movement in which composers use traditional forms and techniques with modern orchestration and harmony.
What is neoclassicism (or neoromanticism?
300
Audrey Flack, Richard Estes and Duane Hanson are all practicioners working in this postmodern movement ("ism").
What is neo-realism or photo-realism?
300
Frank Gehry is known for this postmodern style in which architectural elements are fractured to create a chaotic effect.
What is deconstructivism?
400
This modernist composer is known for shimmering vocal tone clusters and was made famous by the use of his music in Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey."
Who is György Ligeti?
400
This artist specialized in non-representational art with clean, straight grid pattern and primary colors.
Piet Mondrian
400
This person composed "Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima," which was famously used in two films, "The Shining" and "Children of Men."
Who is Krzysztof Penderecki?
400
This postmodern artist is known for drip painting techniques that creates representational waterfalls.
Who is Pat Steir?
400
This architect created both a modernist "glass house" and the postmodern "Crystal Cathedral."
Who is Philip Johnson?
500
This modernist film composer is best known for his scores for Alfred Hitchcock films.
Who is Bernard Herrmann?
500
This photographer is best known for documenting the difficult conditions of child labor in factories and mills.
Who is Lewis Hine?
500
This is the term used by Arvo Pärt for the "pealing bell" type of minimalism he uses in his compositions.
What are tintinnabuli?
500
This postmodern pair are known for large-scale concept art that often involves "wrapping" objects.
Who are Christo and Jeanne-Claude?
500
This sculptor created the "Cloud Gate" (referred to by locals as "The Bean") for Millennium Park in Chicago.
Who is Anish Kapoor?
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