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C is for…
Techniques & Materials
Who made me?
20th Century Isms
The lives of artists
100
Picasso continued to work in this style, even though the movement had formally ended
What is Cubism/Cubist
100
The process of bringing found objects together to create a sculpture
What is Assemblage
100
The painter of this work
Who is Pablo Picasso
100
This movement sought to explore the realm of the unconscious mind
What is Surrealism
100
My personality and moustache are perhaps just as famous as my works
Who is Salvador Dali
200
Cutting out images, arranging them and then gluing them to a flat surface to create a work of art
What is Collage
200
Meret Oppenheim’s Luncheon in Fur is made of fur from this animal
What is a Chinese Gazelle
200
The sculptor of this work
Who is Man Ray
200
This Canadian movement challenged the idea of a nationally unified approach to art
Who were the Automatistes
200
I the troublemaker who fundamentally challenged concept of art, playfully asking “what is art?” - I would later retire and become a chess master
Who is Marcel Duchamp
300
The arrangement of elements such as line, color and shape within a painting or drawing
What is Composition
300
These drawings were considered a surrealist game in which a group of people contributed to the work without seeing what the other players had drawn
What is the Exquisite Corpse
300
The architect of this building
Who is Walter Gropius
300
Members of this school followed the guiding principle that “form follows function”
What is the Bauhaus
300
My personal life played an integral role in my art – my son died in the First World War, my husband and grandson in the Second. I made prints, which could circulate widely, as a way to draw attention to the plight of the common man being sacrificed as soldiers by their country at war
Who is Kathe Kollwitz
400
Artists from this country attracted little international attention during the first half of the twentieth century
What is Canada
400
This material was popularized in Bauhaus furniture design because it was easily produced and durable
What is Tubular Steel
400
The painter of this work
Who is Rene Magritte
400
Mondrian painted vertical and horizontal lines and van Doesburg introduced diagonals. This lead to a major rift in this movement
What is de Stijl
400
I’m not actually a member of the Group of Seven, though everyone seems to think so. My most famous painting is Jack Pine
Who is Tom Thomson
500
In Dada, ultimately the art lies in the artists...
What is Choice
500
Technique of rubbing pencil onto paper over a textured surface
What is Frottage
500
The collage artist of this work
Who is Hannah Hoch
500
The manifestation of this movement that sharply critiqued the Weimar Republic following WWI was known as this
What is Berlin Dada
500
I am the architect and furniture designer most strongly associated with De Stijl – in my total design Schroder House, you can see the harmony between both of these aspects of my practice
Who is Gerrit Rietveld