Exploring Modern Art: A Quiz on Key Movements and Artists Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

Pontus Hultén was an art collector and pioneering museum director who wanted modern art to be accessible to the public in a user-friendly viewing storehouse.

after witnessing first hand the carnage of the First World War, English artist David Bomberg lost his faith in modernism and Russian Ballet was his last work in a vorticist idiom.

the painter Cuno Amiet, a pioneer of modern art in Switzerland, created more than a thousand self-portraits.

Andrew Michael Dasburg's three "daringly experimental" Cubist pieces at the 1913 Armory Show introduced many Americans to modern art.

British architect Sir Colin Wilson, known for designing the new British Library near St Pancras station, donated his collection of modern art to the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester.

Swedish modernist painter Torsten Andersson sometimes destroyed hundreds of sketches leading up to his finished works.

Tom Wolfe's 1975 book The Painted Word, which criticized modern and conceptual art, was so reviled by the art establishment that multiple reviewers compared the book to watching pornography.

Paul Cézanne's The Bathers (pictured) is often considered his greatest work and one of the masterpieces of modern art.

Exploring Modern Art: A Quiz on Key Movements and Artists

1 Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, ________

2 More recent artistic production is often called ________ or Postmodern art.

3 ________, New York

4 Der Blaue Reiter - ________, Franz Marc

5 Russian avant-garde - ________, Natalia Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov

6 ________ - Stuart Davis, Arthur G. Dove, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O'Keeffe

7 Postwar European figurative painting - Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, ________

8 ________ - André Derain, Henri Matisse, Maurice de Vlaminck

9 Expressionism - Egon Schiele, ________, Chaim Soutine

10 Photorealism - Audrey Flack, ________, Duane Hanson, Richard Estes, Malcolm Morley

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