Chapter 31 Homework

Answers to the following questions are due no later than Wed. April 3rd.

1. What did the Fauvists and Expressionists do to repudiate traditional notions of pictorial representation?

2. How did the Cubists create influential new methods of composition in painting and sculpture and what implications did it hold for subsequent artists?

3. Why did Dada ask radical questions about the nature of art itself? How did its artworks reflect those questions?

4. What is an example of Modern artists looking to non-western art during this period? How is this shown in in a specific example of art?

5. What kind of form did Modern architecture take during this period and which architects help innovate in this direction?

6. What did Bauhaus artists do with modern mass production and what implications did this approach have in the wider art world?

7. How did the de Stijl artists make art that attempted to purify the human mind with pure colors and simple forms?

8. What techniques did the Harlem Renaissance combine to raise awareness of African American culture?

9. How did the Surrealists liberate the unconscious mind and why did they do this in their art?

10. How did Federal patronage for American art function during the Depression?

11. Why did the Nazis suppress avant-garde art and how did they exhibit it?

12. What is the International Style and who were some of its leading architects?