Humanities 1020 ChattState Final

One of this composer's most Impressionist pieces is La Mer.

Debussy

This literary piece earned Marcel Proust lasting fame.

Remembrance of Things Past

This author used irony and satire to show the passivity and emptiness of his characters, who are filled with a frustrated longing for action.

Chekhov

What was the "war cry" of the realist movement?

The artist should be of his time

Which of the following is not typical of Impressionist painting?

bright colors and violent emotions

Along with Anton Chekhov, these two important Russian writers represented realism in their stark portrayal of death in their novels and short stories.

Tolstoy and Dostoevsky

Which of these artists sculpted The Kiss?

Rodin

This composer's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor is also known as the Pathétique Symphony.

Tchaikovsky

The revolutionary quality of this artist's work was so innovative that its influence on Western art is often compared to Giotto's six hundred years before.

Cezanne

This artist (many of whose works include spontaneous scenes from daily life, particularly situations involving mothers and children as seen below) encouraged American friends to purchase Impressionist works.

Cassatt

The group of artists, who in 1905 exhibited paintings that broke so violently with tradition in their use of color and form, were labeled as what by critics?

les fauves

Perhaps one of Van Gogh's most iconic images, this work gives the impression of irresistible movement by his careful use of line and shape.

The Starry Night

This composer enjoyed outstanding success with program music, which included an elaborate plot that the music then describes.

Strauss

This atonal work by Austrin composer Arnold Schonberg calls for the singer to employ a manner of "voiced speech," known as what?

sprechstimme

Georges Braques and Pablo Picasso were pioneers in what art movement?

Cubism

This is the greatest filmmaker the Soviet Union has produced and one of the most influential artists in the history of the cinema as well.

Eisenstein

Which of the following created a film that focuses on a mutiny that occurs on the battleship Potemkin?

Eisenstein

This musician composed Rhapsody in Blue.

Gershwin

Used as a description for art that emphasizes the geometrical quality of drawing as opposed to melding, blurring, or otherwise lessening the division of descriptive spaces within an artwork.

linearity

The action of Sergei Eisenstein's Potemkin is set in which country?

Russia

This piece is widely recognized as Picasso's protest against humanity.

Geurnica

This Russian-born impresario founded a dance company called the Ballet Russe.

Diaghilev

In which European city did Serge Diaghilev establish the dance company known as Ballet Russe?

Paris

Who is the author of A Room of One's Own?

Virginia Woolf

The poses in this artist's famous work echo Classical sculpture on the left to increasingly fragmented and distorted figures on the right.

Picasso

Which is not a primary characteristic of the "modernist temper," reflected in the works of writers like Joyce and Eliot?

optimistic view concerning the unchangeable nature of language

This is the author of these verses:"Things fall apart the centre cannot holdMere anarchy is loosed upon the world. . . .The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity."

Yeats

This is the author of The Waste Land.

T.S. Eliot

In music, bending a melody's note a half-step down is known as what?

A blue note

For many of his artistic creations, this artist often discarded the brush and palette, and instead used sticks, mops, and sponges.

Jackson Pollock

Which of these authors is among the Beat writers?

Kerouac

Who is the author of Death of a Salesman?

Miller

Since the 1940s, which city has replaced Paris as the center of modern art?

New York City

Who is the author of The Sound and the Fury?

Faulkner

The patronage of this American art collector was crucial to the "Americanization" of modern art.

Guggenheim

Who is the author of The Color Purple?

Alice Walker

Who is the most influential American architect of the early 20th century?

Frank Lloyd Wright

Many of this artist's works involve the repetition of ordinary objects or hackneyed images of celebrities.

Andy Warhol

The work of this American artist, as illustrated in one of his most iconic paintings, depicts his interest in human isolation and loneliness.

Hopper

Which term was adopted by existentialists to describe the ultimate meaninglessness of human existence?

absurdity

This composer, influenced by Zen philosophy, tried to reflect random chaos of the world in his compositions.

Cage

This postwar writer best articulated existentialism both as a philosophy and lifestyle.

Sartre

This playwright wrote for the existential theatre.

Beckett

This artist painted a series of pastels known as "key-hole visions," often depicting women caught unawares in simple, natural poses.

Degas

Which of these paintings by Edgar Degas is among those sometimes referred to as "key-hole visions"?

The Tub

This artist's enduring love was for women as symbols of life itself; in his paintings, the radiate an immense warmth and charm, as in Two Girls at the Piano.

Renoir

One of the most famous works by this artist is The Scream, from which the lonely figure's cry seems to reverberate visibly through space.

Munch

This composer's Rite of Spring, based on a Russian folk tale, describes a springtime ritual culminating in the sacrifice of a human victim.

Stravinsky

Considered the greatest sculptor of late 19th-century France, this artist's statue of Balzac shows the novelist possessed by creative inspiration.

Rodin

Many of this author's works, including The Awakening, invoke delicacy and wry humor to examine the prison that marriage so often represents.

Chopin

This composer's Don Juan tells the familiar story of the compulsive Spanish lover from a late-19th-century point of view.

Strauss

In this Richard Strauss tone poem, the title character's pranks lead him to the gallows, a scene vividly depicted by the orchestration.

Till Eulenspiegel

This composer's The Song of the Earth and Symphony No. 9, composed under the shadow of fatal heart disease and impending death, express all of the beauty of the world together with the sorrow and ultimate resignation of one has to leave it.

Mahler

This artist, who was the leading spirit of the fauvist painters, created works that are filled with bold accents and brilliant colors that express a mood of optimism and festivity at odds with the times.

Matisse

In Remembrance of Things Past, this author creates a narrator who realizes that all of his experiences lie hidden inside him, and that the tiniest circumstances can trigger a chain of memory associations.

Proust

This musical composer created Bolero, a piece which enjoys popularity today.

Ravel

Two writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who both reflect, as well as actively promote, feminist concerns in their writings, are Henrik Ibsen and who?

Chopin

This novel by Kate Chopin was condemned as immoral when it was first published in 1899.

The Awakening

Who is the author of Desire under the Elms?

O'Neill

This was the first widely successful American opera.

Porgy and Bess

Which artist "defaced" Mona Lisa to created L.H.O.O.Q?

Marcel Duchamp

Picasso's Guernica is associated with which war?

Spanish Civil War

What artistic style added brighter colors to the muted, neutral color palette of the earlier version of this style?

synthetic cubism

Which of the following is a term for modern art sculptures with moving parts?

mobiles

The Czech author Franz Kafka is best remembered for this work.

The Trial

In music, this is a shift from one key area to another.

modulation

This French artist painted subjects with scrupulous attention to realistic detail in order to question our assumptions about the reality of our world.

Magritte

Who wrote The Interpretation of Dreams?

Sigmund Freud

Salvador Dalí's Persistence of Memory is an example of this type of painting style.

Surrealist

Identify the other name by which the "Great War" of 1914-1918 is known.

World War 1

Duchamp's version of the Mona Lisa illustrates this modern movement's opposition to the past, logic, and good manners.

dadaism

Big band jazz is characterized by intricate, lush arrangements, as well as a danceable feel called what?

swing

Eisenstein's effective use of montage is found in this film.

Potemkin

This structure avoids the clean lines of Classical sculpture, and instead features and exterior with brightly colored heating ducts, elevators, escalators, and building supports.

Pompidou Center, Paris

Which painting by American modernist painter Georgia O'Keeffe's painting is important for the way its profound line and strong sense of color represents the subject as a mysterious, nearly abstract, rendering of feminine power?

An Orchid

This architect sought to create an organic architecture that grows out of its location rather than being superimposed on it.

Frank Lloyd Wright

This 19th-century Danish theologian influenced existentialism.

Kierkegaard

Which artist is best associated with sculpture that moves (kinetic art or "mobiles")?

Calder

Who is the author of Invisible Man?

Ellison

Which artist was the leader of abstract expressionism?

Pollock

This was the most important philosophy in Western Europe after World War II.

existentialism

Who was the greatest post-World War II Swedish filmmaker (of Wild Strawberries)?

Bergman

One prominent Beat writer of the 1950s, who embraced the existentialist idea of alienation, was Jack Kerouac. Who was another one?

Allan Ginsberg

Who is the author of Native Son?

Richard Wright

Who is the author of Waiting for Godot?

Beckett

Which artist is most closely associated with "pop art"?

Andy Warhol

Who wrote The Plague?

Albert Camus

This prominent French architect saw architecture as a human achievement that should stand in contrast to the world of nature.

Le Corbusier

The impact of Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud's work on post-Romantic writers led them to delve deeper into the effects of the what?

human subconscious

This musician wrote atonal music that deliberately avoided traditional chords and harmonies.

Schonberg

What's the name of the movement represented the relation between realism and science—the only tool that could guarantee the progress of society and humanity?

positivist

This author's concern for psychological truth led him into a profound study of his characters' subconscious motives, as in Crime and Punishment.

Dostoevsky

This composer's Alpine Symphony describes a mountain-climbing expedition, detailing adventures on the way, and culminating in the arrival at the summit.

Strauss

This composer's The Song of the Earth and Symphony No. 9, composed under the shadow of fatal heart disease and impending death, express all of the beauty of the world together with the sorrow and ultimate resignation of one has to leave it.

Mahler

Which of these names is the author of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man?

James Joyce

Applied to experimental art, this style refers to expressions which push the boundaries of what is considered normal and acceptable.

avant-garde

In what German city did the Dada movement originate?

Zurich

Which musician is celebrated as the "grandfather of the blues"?

W. C. Handy

Duchamp's version of the Mona Lisa illustrates this modern movement's opposition to the past, logic, and good manners.

Dadaism

This French artist painted subjects with scrupulous attention to realistic detail in order to question our assumptions about the reality of our world.

Magritte