A Paris audience was outraged upon the first performance of this Stravinsky ballet.
What is the Rite of Spring?
100
Scatting is a Jazz technique in which a musician uses this to mimic the sounds of improvisational music.
What is his/her voice?
100
He is a pioneer of modern psychology and the physician from whom Surrealism adopted many of its artistic principals.
Who is Freud?
100
This artist kicked the Early Modern arts into gear with is non-traditional painting, Luncheon on the Grass.
Who is Manet?
100
It was a popular form of music in the 1950s that employed group harmonies, a simple beat, and light instrumentation.
What is Doo-Wop?
200
Strauss' Alpine Symphony is an example of this type of modern orchestral music.
What is program music or narrative program?
200
He wrote Finnegan's Wake in an attempt to create something artistically new in an age of uncertainty.
Who is James Joyce?
200
He is the Harlem Renaissance poet and playwright who attempted to express the African American experience and cultural identity in his poem "I, too, Sing America".
Who is Langston Hughes?
200
This artist was known for a style of avant-garde art called action painting.
Who is Jackson Pollack?
200
Mass production and a changing view of the American ideal lead to a rise in this after WWII.
What is consumerism or materialism?
300
An example of impressionism in music, it is the title of Debussy's work that evokes the effect of moonlight on water.
What is Claire de Lune (Moonlight)?
300
It is the title of Eisenstein's violent, anti-czarist propaganda film that foreshadowed the October Revolution in Russia.
What is Potemkin?
300
Gorges Braque and Pablo Picasso were the pioneers of this modern art movement.
What is Cubism?
300
Rauchenberg's Bed, wherein actual objects are added to the painting, is this type of contemporary art.
What is combine painting?
300
This is the name for a group of American Poets (the predecessors of 1960s hippies) who emphasized the post WWII focus on individual experience and the search for meaning.
What are the Beat Poets or the Beat Generation?
400
This philosopher believed that Christianity was a slave religion, and that instead of outdated ideals, an uninhibited "will to power" and the rise of Übermensch would forward human progress.
Who is Nietzsche?
400
As seen in Metamorphosis, it is the name for the style of literature wherein characters search for meaning as they confront ridiculous and oppressive/threatening forces.
*Hint: the term is derived from an author's name
What is Kafkaesque?
400
Dostoyevsky's protagonist is tortured by his own guilt as the author combines realism with psychological understanding in this Early Modern novel.
What is Crime and Punishment?
400
He is the post-impressionist who used pointillism (pure dots of color) to create his painting A Sunday on La Grande Jatte.
Who is Seurat?
400
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett is an example of this type of theater.
*Hint: it gets its name from a tenet of existentialism
What is "Theater of the Absurd"?
500
This Early Modern drama by Ibsen demonstrates the struggles, concerns, and sociological oppression of Early Modern women.
What is A Dolls House?
500
The name for the mood of the Modern Era in which there is a mourning of the loss of certainty, an expression of isolation, and an attempt to innovate and find new meaning.
What is the Modernist Temper?
500
He is the first abstract artist, and his expressionist paintings focused on emotion, color, and line as opposed to representational narrative.
Who is Kandinsky?
500
It is the name for the type of sculpture wherein disparate parts are gathered and unified into a single work (sometimes even a a single color as in Louise Nevelson's Sky Cathedral)
What is assemblage?
500
The philosophy wherein Sartre argues that humans are "condemned to freedom," and that man must create his own meaning, morality, and significance in an absurd world.