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Which statement best describes the technique of jazz?
B) based on improvisation and a swinging rhythm
Who fashioned a system of teaching modern dance that made it as rigorous as classical ballet?
C) Martha Graham
Which statement best describes Wassily Kandinsky's Improvisation 28?
C) its swirling lines and color have no reference to figure or story
Which of these is the best example of a surrealist work that explores the inner world of dream, emotion, and imagination?
C) Dalí's The Persistence of Memory
"I pursue the inner, hidden reality, the very essence of objects in their own intrinsic fundamental nature." The author of this statement might have illustrated it with what work of his or her own?
B) Brancusi's Bird in Space
Which of these works is associated with a twentieth-century attempt to revive the great Renaissance fresco tradition of decorating building walls with monumental paintings?
A) Rivera, Enslavement of the Indians
Which of these works shows most clearly modernism's interest in "primitivism?"
B) Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Which would provide the best illustration of Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity, first published in 1905?
D) traveling in a spaceship from the earth at nearly the speed of light
What work is associated with Die Brücke, a movement of German expressionist artists of the 1920s?
D) Kirchner's Street, Berlin
Who was closely associated with the Bauhaus school in Germany and was an important innovator in modern architecture?
A) Walter Gropius
Which pair of works could both be classified as documentary in purpose—that is, intending to record social reality directly and truthfully?
B) Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, and Riefenstahl, Triumph of the Will
Which statement best describes Duke Ellington?
A) composed his works principally for jazz ensembles
With what phenomenon of modernist culture would you associate Marcel Duchamp's ready-mades, sculptures made of ordinary objects like bicycle wheels or urinals?
A) dada's challenge to conventional definitions of art
Which work is best classified as surrealist?
D) De Chirico's The Mystery and Melancholy of a Street
Which of these statements best describes the principles of architectural modernism, as illustrated in Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye?
C) rejection of decoration in favor of a pure glass or concrete skin
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