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100
He is the cubist who is credited with creating the first fine art collage with his Still-life with Chair Caning.
Pablo Picasso
100

This is what Marcel Duchamp called his Fountain sculpture - it was a mass-produced item that he chose as a fine art object.

Readymade
100
Meaning "hobby horse" this is the first anti-art movement.
Dada
100
This artist and author coined the term Regionalism, and celebrated the styles of local, rural, American towns.
Grant Wood
100
This term can be applied to 20th century art before and after WWII, and refers to art that was forward-thinking and rejected tradition. 
Avant-Garde
200
He was the Pop artist who used comic books as inspiration, such as his painting entitled Hopeless.
Roy Lichtenstein
200
This type of AbEx painting technique was practiced by Jackson Pollock - very energetically applied paint.
Gestural Abstraction
200
This period includes subject from mass media and advertising.
Pop Art
200
This art critic celebrated the AbEx movement for art "calling attention" to the fact that all painting is merely pigments on a flat surface.
Clement Greenberg
200
This is the art exhibition that is credited for bringing modernism to the United States.
The Armory Show
300
He is the German Expressionist who created the depressing and chaotic scene of a Dresden Street in 1908.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
300
This technique involves painting one subject from many different angles.
Analytic Cubism
300
German Expressionism claims this group of artists; they formed over their mutual love of bright colors and animals as subject matter.
Der Blaue Reiter
300
Richard Hamilton said that Pop art was like Dada, but more creative than destructive, so he called it this.
Mama
300
This technique involves cutting out and pasting materials together; basically a fine art collage.
Synthetic Cubism
400
She was the American photographer who captured migrant workers in California during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl era.
Dorothea Lange
400
Helen Frankenthaler practiced this technique; by simply pouring paint she created large planes of color.
Color-field painting
400
Kazimir Malevich coined the term for this period in Russian art that sought to produce truly universal images.
Suprematism
400
The Futurists called for the complete suppression of this subject for 10 years - they found it old and tedious.
The Nude
400
According to Kazimir Malevich, the color white represented this.
Infinity
500

He is the futurist who created the bronze sculpture Unique Forms of Continuity in Space. 


Umberto Boccioni
500
The Surrealists attempted to create works of art without conscious control, a technique known as this.
Automatism
500
This period celebrated African-American culture in the early 20th Century.
Harlem Renaissance
500
What period was Max Ernst talking about when he said that it couldn't be defined until it was over.
Surrealism
500
This is the German word for the Degenerate Art show; the one put on by Hitler and the Third Reich to show the dangers of modern painting.
Entartete Kunst