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100
This artist created Broadway Boogie Woogie which was inspired by the city and music
Who is Piet Mondrian
100
This painting used the "allover" technique of a network of lines, splatters and paint drips
What is Number 1, 1950
100
Several painters founded an informal school called the "Subject of the Artist" in this year
What is 1948
100
In "Broadway" this method shows intricate, jazzy rhythms that capture the lights and noise of the city
What is white writing
100
This painter differed from other Abstract Expressionists in virtually all of his training
Who is Clyfford Still
200
This artist had the ability to shift between representational and abstract modes
Who is Willem de Kooning
200
This piece suggests the viciously agressive skeleton of some great airborne creature of prey
What is The Royal Bird, 1947-48
200
Dorothy Dehner's, Nubian Queen was created in this year
What is 1960
200
This series of paintings was created and known for its predominantly brownish hues which the artist referred to as "colorless"
What is Umber paintings
200
The AAA stands for this
What is American Absract Artists
300
This artist was a pioneer sculptor of his generation working primarily with welded steel
Who is David Smith
300
This piece contains densely woven networks of short strokes in verticle and horizontal configurations
What is Zone, 1953-54
300
"The Dada Painters and Poets" was the most thorough introduction of Dada to American artists and was created in this year
What is 1951
300
This term failed to account for what was the balance that artists struck between control and the unexpected
What is action painting
300
These three artists published a letter in the New York Times stating "There is no such thing as a good painting about nothing"
Who is Newman, Rothko, and Gottlieb
400
These two artists used photography to confront directly the reality of war and its aftermath.
Who is Robert Capa and Lee Miller
400
This piece has a quality of nostalgia with a tattered and weathered look
What is Untitled (The Hotel Eden), 1945
400
Roy DeCarava joined forces with Langston Hughes to publish his Harlem photographs as a book in this year
What is 1955
400
This method used metaphorical, visual language to combine dynamic forms and expansive spaces
What is abstract expressionism
400
This photography was self taught and grew up in the midst of the Harlem Renaissance
Who is Roy DeCarava
500
These two sculptors used industrial tools, cutting and crushing shapes and piecing them together like an assemblage through trial and error
Who is Mark di Suvero and John Chamberlain
500
The final touch to this sculpture included an eight pound sledge hammer
What is Dolores James, 1962
500
Dorothy Dehner did not start making sculptures until this year
What is 1955
500
These types of paintings were based on classical myths and were surrealist- inspired, hybrid creatures floating in primordial waters
What is biomorphic paintings
500
Mark Tobey studied chinese brush painting in 1923 and in the 1930's he began to study this
What is Zen Buddhism in China and Japan