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100
Who painted the portrait of Gertrude Stein in 1906?
Who is Pablo Picasso?
100
One American critic called this work of art by Marcel Duchamp “an explosion in a shingle factory”.
What is Nude Descending a Staircase?
100
An affordable form of entertainment, it was introduced in the early 20th Century to the public at the cost of 5 cents, or about a dollar in today's money.
What was the Nickelodeon?
100
What was the first continuous-film motion-picture viewing machine?
What was the Kinetoscope?
100
The country cinema originates from.
What is France?
200
Who had established their self as the leader of a radical new group of experimental painters known as the Fauves or "Wild Beasts?"
Who is Henri Matisse?
200
In this painting Salvador Dali positioned a grasshopper under his self-portrait’s nose.
What is In The Lugubrious Game?
200
Invented by Herbert Kalmus, this invention, which debuted in 1926, brought cinema to us in color for the first time
What is Technicolor?
200
What type of film became a new tool for exploring the subconscious?
What is surrealist film?
200
Kinetic artist Theo Jansen, creator of the "Strandbeest," is based out of this country.
What is the Netherlands (Dutch)?
300
What inspired Georges Braque to paint "House at l'Estaque" in 1908?
What is Braque's trip to l'Estaque in the summer of 1908 as a form of homage to Cezanne?
300
The biblical Apocalypse was the chief theme of this work of art by Wassily Kandinsky.
What is Composition VII?
300
The first feature length Technicolor animation, over 300 animators, designers, and background, artists worked on the film for over three years.
What is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
300
What were films that had spoken language in it called?
What are talkies?
300
Marsden Hartley and Jackson Pollock were both ________ painters in the 20th century.
What is American?
400
Which two artists defined painting as the setting in which the forces of high and low, art and the real world, must engage one another?
Who are Picasso and Braque?
400
Édouard Manet’s work may have inspired this painting by Pablo Picasso.
What is Les Demoiselles d'Avignon?
400
Known in Japan as Gojira, this 1954 film by Ishiro Honda became a vehicle by which the Japanese would confront the significance of the Atomic bomb after World War II.
What is Godzilla?
400
What was the first widely successful color-film process in which two film strips were dyed and pasted together to create a single positive print containing all colors that an audience would see?
What is technicolor?
400
The artist that first created purely abstract works was from this country.
What is Russia (Wassily Kandinsky)?
500
What was the inspiration for Carlo Carra's Interventionist Demonstration?
What is a flurry of leaflets being dropped from an airplane flying over the Piazza del Duomo in Florence?
500
This early work of art by Umberto Boccioni resembles Nike of Samothrace.
What is Unique Forms of Continuity in Space?
500
Starring Douglas Fairbanks, this film required one of the largest, and most elaborate, sets ever built for a Hollywood production. It also included flying carpets, winged horses, and fearsome beasts.
What is The Thief of Bagdad?
500
What did photographer Eadweard Muybridge dub "photographs of time"?
What are chronophotographs?
500
"The Elephants" creator was from this country.
What is Spain (Salvador Dali)?