(LEA3) Review

Review

Can you answer the following questions?

  1. Do you have definitions for the terms introduced in this chapter?
  2. What are the characteristics and intentions of each 20th Century movements?
  3. What two important trends came about in painting during the early years of the 20th century?
  4. What elements of African art fascinated and influenced European artists?
  5. Can you identify those aspects of early modernism that were pushed at least in part by resentment towards the developments of modern industrialism?
  6. Can you categorize the works and artists talked about in this chapter into one of the two major poles of modernism: formalism and expressionism?
  7. Can you recognize new techniques in both painting and sculpture, particularly collage and construction?
  8. Can you explain the relationship between modern psychoanalysis and art--especially in the realm of Surrealism?
  9. What radical ideas and events worked to shape the arts of the early 20th century?
  10. Which aspects of modernism most clearly reflect an assault on tradition? Which reflect a new direction in the arts? 
  11. Disjunction and experimentation are two aspects of the early 20th century; how are these reflected in the arts of this era?
  12. What two important trends came about in painting during the middle and late 20th century?

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