CHAPTER 24
Turn of the Century: Early Picasso, Fauvism, Expressionism, and Matisse
Multiple-Choice Questions
1. 1917 marks the
a. beginning of World War I.
b. onset of the Russian Revolution.
c. first year of the Great Depression.
d. rise of National Socialism.
Answer: b
2. The term “avant-garde” refers to
a. newness.
b. advancing troops in World War I.
c. the technological changes that led to urbanization.
d. the turn-of-the-century art dealers.
Answer: a
3. Picasso’s earliest distinctive style is referred to as
a. Surrealist.
b. Rose Period.
c. Cubist.
d. Blue Period.
e. Fauve.
Answer: d
4. Which of the following is NOT a correct match?
a. Ife – Nigeria
b. Baule – Benin
c. Fang – Gabon
d. Bakota – Ivory Coast
e. Bambara – Mali
Answer: b
5. Which is not a reason that African sculptures influenced European artists in the early 20th
century?
a. They are geometric.
b. They are abstract.
c. They are naturalistic.
d. They are magical.
Answer: c
6. What was the most striking quality of Fauvism?
a. line
b. abstraction
c. light
d. color
e. jungle subject matter
Answer: d
7. Fauve artists looked to
a. Polynesian and African sculpture.
b. the colors of Gauguin and van Gogh.
c. folk textiles and ceramics.
d. All these answers are correct.
Answer: d
8. The Green Line is a painting of
a. Madame Matisse.
b. a Paris street.
c. Horses.
d. Icarus.
e. a still life.
Answer: a
9. As far as joy and spontaneity, ________’s art followed its own muses.
a. Barlach
b. Tatlin
c. Matisse
d. Picasso
Answer: c
10. Matisse worked toward ________ in his art.
a. balance
b. purity
c. serenity
d. All these answers are correct.
Answer: d
11. Die Brücke refers to
a. a German painting of a bridge.
b. a German painting of a street.
c. a German art movement.
d. a German artist.
Answer: c
12. Kirchner was influenced by
a. African sculpture.
b. medieval woodcuts.
c. the city and its crowd.
d. All these answers are correct.
Answer: d
13. Worringer is the author of
a. Abstraction and Empathy.
b. The Principles of Art History.
c. Die Brücke.
d. Der Blaue Reiter.
Answer: a
14. Nolde’s style is best described as
a. Fauve.
b. Cubist.
c. Symbolist.
d. Expressionist.
Answer: d
15. Which is true of Franz Marc’s views of color?
a. yellow was sunny and cheerful
b. blue was depressive
c. red was aggressive
d. gray was reserved for trees
Answer: c
16. Which is NOT true of Kollwitz?
a. she came from a financially comfortable family
b. she thought of herself as an Expressionist
c. she depicted the problems of the working classes
d. she sympathized with German peasants
e. her textures tend to be harsh
Answer: b
17. Matisse’s arabesques refer to
a. dancers.
b. musicians.
c. a kind of black curve.
d. bright colors.
Answer: c
18. Matisse’s Decorative Figure in an Oriental Setting is set in
a. Morocco.
b. the Far East.
c. Easter Island.
d. Oceania.
e. Tahiti.
Answer: a
19. Matisse’s Jazz imagery is an example of
a. Symbolism.
b. Fauvism.
c. découpage.
d. Cubism.
e. the Blue Rider.
Answer: c
20. The Oba was a
a. tribal magician.
b. divine king.
c. Benin shaman.
d. Fang god.
Answer: b
21. The “Punitive Expedition” sent to Benin was
a. Portuguese.
b. French.
c. Dutch.
d. British.
e. Nigerian.
Answer: d
22. Which artist is correctly matched with his or her nationality?
a. Marc – French
b. Matisse – Moroccan
c. Kandinsky – Russian
d. Nolde – Dutch
e. Picasso – French
Answer: c
23. As far as one can tell, the first completely non-figurative painter was
a. Kandinsky.
b. Marc.
c. Matisse.
d. Picasso.
e. Nolde.
Answer: a
24. ________ admired animals and celebrated them in his work in Der Blaue Reiter.
a. Ernest Barlach
b. Paul Gauguin
c. Wassily Kandinsky
d. Franz Marc
Answer: d
25. 1914–1918 are the dates of
a. World War II.
b. the American Civil War.
c. the Russian Revolution.
d. World War I.
e. the Franco-Prussian War.
Answer: d
26. Which artist is correctly matched with his work?
a. Kirchner – Large Blue Horses
b. Matisse – Jeannette V
c. Kandinsky – Notre-Dame in the Late Afternoon
d. Picasso – Still Life with Masks
e. Gauguin – Five Women in the Street
Answer: b
27. The first Fauve exhibit was held in
a. 1905.
b. 1906.
c. 1900.
d. 1910.
Answer: a
Key Works
Pablo Picasso, Old Guitarist, 1903
Henri Matisse, Notre-Dame in the Late Afternoon, 1902
Henri Matisse, Madame Matisse (The Green Line), 1905
Henri Matisse, Woman with the Hat, 1905
Henri Matisse, The Joy of Life, 1905–1906
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, The Street, 1908
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Potsdamer Platz, 1914
Emil Nolde, Still Life with Masks, 1911
Emil Nolde, drawing of an Oceanic canoe prow, 1911, for left-hand mask in Still Life with Masks
Vassily Kandinsky, Panel for Edwin R. Campbell No. 4 (formerly Painting Number 201,
Winter), 1914
Vassily Kandinsky, Several Circles, No. 323, 1926
Franz Marc, Large Blue Horses, 1911
Franz Marc, Small Yellow Horses, 1912
Käthe Kollwitz, Whetting the Scythe, 1905
Henri Matisse, Harmony in Red, 1908–1909
Henri Matisse, Dance I, 1909
Henri Matisse, Piano Lesson, 1916
Henri Matisse, Jeannette V, 1916
Seated figure, Bambara, Mali
Henri Matisse, Decorative Figure in an Ornamental Setting, 1925
Henri Matisse, Icarus, plate 8 from Jazz, Paris, E. Tériade, 1947
Key Terms
crayon
glyptic art
Window on the World
African Art and the European Avant-Garde
Key Works
Male ancestor statue, eyema-o-byeri, Gabon, northern Fang, Ndoumou substyle
Copper mask, Ife, Nigeria, 12th–13th century
Baule ancestor, Ivory Coast
Bakota figure, Gabon
Bronze Oba head, Benin, mid-19th century
Head for an altar dedicated to Benin the queen mother
Maps, Diagrams, and Projections
Map of Africa