What is the name of the composer who wrote the modernist ballet, "The Rite of Spring."
100
Surrealism
The famous painting "The Persistence of Memory" was created in what style/"ism"?
100
aleatory
What is the term for music that is created using chance operations?
100
Julian Schnabel
Who is the postmodern artist best known for "plate paintings"?
100
Zaha Hadid
What is the name of the postmodern architect--recently deceased--who is often categorized as the "Queen of curves."
200
Sprechstimme
What is the name of the modernist technique in which a vocalist half-sings and half-speaks the music?
200
Dada
What modernist art movement promoted "readymades" as art?
200
Philip Glass
What composer is considered the father of minimalism?
200
pastiche
What is the term for the postmodern technique of combining different styles and forms for ironic effect?
200
Frank Lloyd Wright
What modernist architect is known for buildings that blend into the environment and feature a lot of open interior space?
300
musique concrete
What is the term for music that is created through manipulation of the recording process?
300
Jackson Pollock
Who is the most famous abstract expressionist, king of the "drip and pour" technique?
300
neoclassicism
(neoromanticism is also an acceptable answer)
What is the term for the postmodern movement in which composers use traditional forms and techniques with modern orchestration and harmony?
300
neo-realism or photo-realism
Audrey Flack, Richard Estes and Duane Hanson are all practicioners working in what postmodern movement/ism?
300
deconstructivism
Frank Gehry is known for this postmodern style in which architectural elements are fractured to create a chaotic effect.
400
György Ligeti
What modernist composer is known for shimmering vocal tone clusters and was made famous by the use of his music in Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey"?
400
Piet Mondrian
Which artist specialized in non-representational art with clean, straight grid pattern and primary colors.
400
Krzysztof Penderecki
Who composed "Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima"?
400
Pat Steir
Which postmodern artists is known for drip painting techniques that creates representational waterfalls?
400
Philip Johnson
Which architect created both a modernist "glass house" and the postmodern "Crystal Cathedral"?
500
Bernard Herrmann
What modernist film composer is best known for his scores for Alfred Hitchcock films?
500
Lewis Hine
Which photographer is best known for documenting the difficult conditions of child labor in factories and mills?
500
tintinnabuli
What is the term used by Arvo Paert for the "pealing bell" type of minimalism he uses in his compositions?
500
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Which postmodern pair are known for large-scale concept art that often involves "wrapping" objects?
500
Anish Kapoor
What sculptor created the "Cloud Gate" or "The Bean" for Millenium Park in Chicago?