Music
Who composed “The Rite of Spring”?
Who is Igor Stravinsky?
What medium was used most by Alfred Stieglitz?
What is photography?
Avant-garde art would best be described as…
What is Experimental?
The process by which an individual's attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors are influenced by other people is called ___.
What is Conformity?
The time-period of the modern era was basically from _____ to ________.
1900-1950
During his lifetime, _________ used many musical styles—a coloristic, Russian-influenced style, primitivism, jazz, neoclassicism, bitonality (simultaneous use of two keys), atonality, and serialism.
He is known as the father of modern photography and insisted on “photographs that looked like photographs.”
Who is Alfred Stieglitz?
American Modernist known for her large scale abstractions of natural forms.
Who is Georgia O'Keeffe?
The balance of the image is uneven.
Asymmetrical.
He is most known for his action paintings or drip techniques.
His best work of the 1940s expresses distinctly American themes:
Lincoln Portrait (1942),
Ballets Billy the Kid (1938), Rodeo (1942), and Appalachian Spring (1944). He uses native themes and rhythms to capture the flavor of early American life.
Who is Aaron Copland?
Described best as a modernist photographer and avant-garde painter.
Who is Man Ray?
Who were the two artists that produced works which reflected their ties to the Spanish Civil War?
Who are Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali?
Artworks that tell stories, describe and illustrate experiences, or communicate information, art to document important or historical events.
What is a narrative?
Who married Georgia O’Keeffe?
Who was Alfred Stieglitz?
Among his best-known songs are “The Man I Love,” “I Got Rhythm,” and “Someone to Watch Over Me.”
Who is George Gershwin?
Known for her emotional photographs of the Depression Era
Who is Dorothea Lange?
Which artist was responsible for Jack-in-the-pulpit?
Who is Georgia O’Keeffe?
Simplification of an object or figure to the point it is no longer recognizable.
What is Abstraction?
In Picasso’s artwork, Guernica, what does Picasso say the Bull in the painting really represents?
What is Spain?
Porgy and Bess seen as _____________ masterpiece.
Who is George Gershwin?
What happened to Nipomo valley when the Migrant Mother was created?
What is aid?
What movement best represents the fur cup piece?
Surrealism.
This was a movement during the modern era in which artists, writers, and musicians sought to release the unbridled imagination of the subconscious.
What is Surrealism?
What Modern artist is known for highly symbolic paintings that were made from visions and dreams?
Who is Salvador Dali?