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1. At the beginning of the 20th century, __________ breakthroughs not only questioned our way of seeing the world, but the nature of reality itself.
2. In Vienna in 1897, a group of artists and architects seceded (or broke away) from the Academy of Fine Arts to form their own organization: the __________.
3. The painter Egon Schiele's depictions of the female nude are projections of __________.
4. Schiele's willingness to confront himself and his world directly is at the core of __________.
5. Die Brücke (The Bridge) artists were inspired by the directness and spontaneity of __________.
6. Best known among the Fauve artists was __________.
7. __________ means "wild beast." It was a critic's tag referring to the seeming "wildness" in the bright coloring and distortions of the paintings.
8. In the early years of this century, one city was viewed as the center of modernism; and one artist in this city is still for us the modern artist. Who is the artist and what is the city?
9. Pablo Picasso's __________ is repeatedly claimed to be the first modern painting of the 20th century.
10. Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon opened the way to the 20th century movement: __________.
11. In Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, multiple viewpoints and the flattening of space were to be characteristic of __________ painting.
12. The nudes in Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon are presented to us as __________.
13. Wassily Kandinsky formed a new group of artists, __________ (The Blue Horseman), which was concerned with an impending apocalypse.
14. __________ artists attacked truth, beauty, reason, and science.
15. Marcel Duchamp produced his __________, ordinary items promoted to the status of art objects simply because the artist had signed them.
16. In the early 1920s, __________ became one of the first Western artists to paint in a pure, abstract manner.
17. Established in 1919, __________ was a design school where the objective was to rethink all aspects of the environment.
18. In New York, the Rockefellers commissioned a huge mural from the famous __________ painter Diego Rivera.
19. Through his naturalistic style, __________ gives a sense of reality to images that are unreal, inspired by nightmares and visions.
20. In just a few weeks, __________ painted the huge canvas Guernica. It is a political statement against blind cruelty.
21. As Nazi persecution grew more intense, many artists fled to London and especially to __________.
22. Around the years 1939-1940, the center of creative vitality in the Western visual arts moved away from Paris to __________.
23. The art of the 40 years at the beginning of the century was an art based on __________, despite war and fascism.