Origins of American Modernism
A movement focussed on conveying clear, direct imagery without the mediation of figurative language or artificial impositions like rhyme schemes
What is imagism?
The massive relocation of African Americans from rural South to industrial cities
What is the Great Migration
The designer of the Chrysler Building
Who is William Van Alen
Artist of Watch (1925)
Who is Gerald Murphy?
Frank Lloyd Wright invention that was molded tiles to form concrete made of crushed stone or sand taken from a building site
What are Textile Blocks?
An art form New York Dada artists were more interested in?
What is conceptual art
the illegal importation of liquor
What is bootlegging
Piece that shows a club with a woman in a red dress dancing and others watching
What is Saturday Night, Archibald Motley Jr.?
Times Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House was destroyed
What is an earthquake in 1994 and a landslide in 2005?
The style in which Watch was painted
What is Purism?
A work by Charles Demuth using geometric abstraction?
What is "I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold"
Young, liberated women who wore the latest trends and frequented jazz clubs in big cities.
What are flappers?
Teacher of Pène du Bois and has a similar piece to du Bois's, Woman on Sofa
Who is Robert Henri?
Headwear worn by the figure in Ethiopia Awkening
What is a names (a folded linen headdress)?
Two sources of influence for the poems in "God's Trombones"
What is Sermons and Spirituals?
The purpose of Imogen Cunningham’s photographs titled “Leaf Pattern”?
What is to evoke emotions to spark memories or associations in the viewer
The namesake of the New Negro Movement
What is an anthology of criticism, fiction, poetry, and art compiled by the sociologist and philosopher Alain Locke (1925).
Reasons James Van Der Zee would retouch the photos he took
What is to flatter the client or to bring out their "natural beauty" or to present clients as up-to-date and fashionable
Maria and Julian Martinez's most well-known innovation in their pottery.
What is black-on-black?
Commissioner of Ethiopia Awakening by Meta Warrick Fuller
James Weldon Johnson, an administrator for the NAACP
Technique where a photo is made by direct contact with a light-sensitive surface rather than camera
What is a photogram
Artist interested by Pene du Bois’ images of Jazz Age spaces like cafes, art galleries, restaurants, etc.
Who is Edward Hopper
Non-Western art pieces that influenced parts of Florine Stettheimer's Spring Sale at Bendel's
What is a Mughal portrait of Prince Khurram or Shah Jahan (in the painting: older woman wearing a large feathered hat and looking at himself in a mirror, posed similarly)
or
What is Nicholas Poussin's The Adoration of the Golden Calf (in the painting: woman in black lingerie arms and legs thrown out like she's dancing the Charleston)
Japanese folk tale influence on Boy Stealing Fruit by Yasuo Kuniyoshi
What is the tale of Momotaro, a boy who was born from a peach?
Frank Lloyd Wright's first unique style he developed
What is "Prairie Style"? (characterized by organic flow, large flat overhanging roofs, and open floor plans)