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What did Charles Peguy mean when he remarked that "the world has changed less since the time of Jesus Christ than it has in the last thirty years"? |
He was speaking of all the conditions of Western capitalist society : its idea of itself, its sense of history, its beliefs, pieties, and modes of production – and its art
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Describe the connection between Picasso's "Ladies of Avignon" and African Carvings |
They are both exotic, primitive and ritualistic. |
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Explain the significance of "Ladies of Avignon" |
It was influenced by the classic nude. Formal qualities are threatening and violent while the space is incoherent and jarring. Looks like its composed of enormous shards of glass that hover on the surface
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What movement is associated with Boccioni's "The city rises"? |
Futurism |
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What famous exhibition in the US made Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase No.2" a canonical image of modernism? |
Armory Show in New York |
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What does Dada mean? What did it stand for? What did Arp say about it? |
Dada was an artistic and literary movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland. It stood for freedom to experiment. Jean Arp said "Repelled by the slaughterhouses of world war, we turned to art"
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What is "readymade"? Who came up with it? |
The readymades of Marcel Duchamp are ordinary manufactured objects that the artist selected and modified, as an antidote to what he called "retinal art".
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What was Franz Marc trying to express in "The fate of the Animals"? |
A vision of apocalypse overwhelming innocent life.
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*Explain Vladimir Tatlin's "Monument to the third international" |
His most famous work, as well as the most important spur to the formation of the Constructivist movement. The Tower, which was never fully realized, was intended to act as a fully functional conference space and propaganda center for the Communist Third International.
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Who was Albert Speer? |
was a German architect who was, for most of World War II, Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany. Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming ministerial office. Holocaust.
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*Explain Picasso's "Guernica" |
The painting was created in response to the bombing of Guernica. It is regarded by many art critics as one of the most moving and powerful anti-war paintings in history. The large mural shows the suffering of people wrenched by violence and chaos.
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