Artists
In his most famous artwork he recited gibberish on stage while dressed like a magical bishop.
Who is Hugo Ball?
This series of Dada objects asks “what is art, and who decides?”
What are Readymades?
This movement was concerned with a critique of high art and was defined by innovation, rupture, and
sense/nonsense.
What is Dada?
This artistic movement was a catalyst for Italian fascism.
What is Futurism?
This is the essay which calls an artwork’s origins its “cult value.”
What is Benjamin’s “A Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction?”
He began in Post-Impressionism, then moved into Cubism, Dadaism, and Surrealism.
Who is Marcel Duchamp?
This Cubist work drew inspiration from futurism and obscured the body, showcasing its physical movement, rather than its sexuality.
What is Nude Descending a Staircase, (No. 2)?
This school was concerned with combining craft and art education, and eventually focused on combining industry and art.
What is Bauhaus?
This political group forced the Bauhaus School to close in 1933.
What were the Nazis?
This term represents the Freudian nature of the Viennese Secession.
What is oedipal revolt?
He took sequential, scientific photos of movement.
Who is Eadweard Muybridge?
This painting employs “the gaze” through the fetishization of a “primitive” Tahitian girl.
What is Gauguin’s The Spirit of the Dead Watching?
This movement was concerned in great part with glorifying war, emphasizing speed and power, and
throwing away the past.
What is Futurism?
This is a theory and method of analysis which views history as a class struggle between the capitalist class and the working class.
What is Marxism?
This is a Marxist term for the upper social class who owns the means of production.
What is the bourgeoisie?
This post-impressionist painted Olympia, which showcases a white prostitute making direct eye contact
with the viewer.
Who is Edouard Manet?
This artwork was submitted to an exhibition by the American Society of Independent Artists under a false name.
What is Fountain?
This movement sought universal harmony through abstract geometric forms in bold primary colours.
What is De Stijl?
During WW1 this city became a hub for artists, pacifists and political exiles seeking refuge from the war.
What is Zurich?
This German term describes an artwork that combines multiple art forms to create a single, unified, and cohesive whole.
What is gesamtkunstwerk?
He was commissioned to design murals for the University of Vienna, but the work never went on display as it was deemed too "perverted".
Who is Gustav Klimt?
This Picasso portrays five Spanish female prostitutes, subverting but ultimately furthering “the gaze.”
What is Les Demoiselles d’Avignon?
This movement was concerned with the finished art piece being dictated solely by the material itself, and
considered itself to be scientific and pure.
What is Russian Constructivism?
This political upheaval inspired the constructivists.
What was the Russian Revolution?
This nightclub was the birthplace of dadaism.
What is Cabaret Voltaire?