20th Century Art Movements Instructions: Answer the following questions and click on the submit button at the bottom to view the answers. For more information, visit the Art Facts section.

1. Which art movement was described by the French writer and theorist Guillaume Apollinaire in 1913 as: "the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not from the reality of vision, but from that of conception...the geometrical surfaces of an object must be opened out in order to give a complete representation of it"? Impressionism Cubism De Stijl

2. Who said: "Art gains power through imagination, invention and confrontation"? (HINT: This artist is known for his colorful, playful artistic style imbued with social commentary and produced during the 1980s.) Edward Hopper Georges de la Tour Keith Haring

3. Which movement is described in a 1924 lecture by Tristan Tzara: "We have had enough of the intelligent movements that have stretched beyond measure our credulity in the benefits of science What we want now is spontaneity. Our movement tries to find out what words mean before using them, from the point of view not of grammar but of representation"? Fauvism Abstract Expressionism Dada

4. Which artist from the 1950s is intrinsically linked with the Abstract Expressionist movement which conveyed the ideology that man is alienated, thrown into being and at odds with society? (HINT: He was featured on the cover of Life magazine.) Vincent Van Gogh Jackson Pollock Henri Matisse

5. Which twentieth-century photographer wished to establish a uniquely American avant-garde by creating "Straight Photography"--a style using hard edges and a clear focus which often depicted urban scenes? (HINT: He was married to Georgia O'Keefe.) Pablo Picasso Richard Avedon Alfred Stieglitz

6. Who wrote: "Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point." Pablo Picasso to Georges Braque describing Cubism. Paul Cézanne to Emile Bernard describing the underlying structure of nature which should be conveyed in painting. Michelangelo to Pope Julius II describing his philosophy of linear perspective.

7. Which artist painted large scale canvases which look like comic strips but comment subtly on American culture? (HINT: He died in 1997.) Jackson Pollock Andy Warhol Roy Lichtenstein

8. Which twentieth-century movement expressed the principles of "dynamism", the painters' emphasis on process rather than on things and upon the intuition and its power to synthesize the manifold experiences of sense and memory in a coherent "simultaneity"? Futurism Cubism Pop Art

9. Which 1960s art movement used imagery from popular culture as a means for breaking down the boundaries between "high" art (art in museums) and "low" art (art used in everyday life)? Pop Art Minimalism Symbolism

10. Which early twentieth-century art movement's essential aim was to try to liberate the creative powers of the unconscious mind by overcoming the dominance of realism? (HINT: Salvador Dali was part of this movement.) Minimalism Fauvism Surrealism

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