Unit Six

Question 1

Joy of Life

Answer 1

• Henri Matisse
• France
• 1905
• oil, canvas
• 69.5” x 94.75”
• Fauvism

Question 2

La Guernica

Answer 2

• Pablo Picasso
• Spain
• 1937
• oil, canvas
• 11’ 5” x 25’ 6”
• Cubism

Question 3

Composition VII

Answer 3

• Wassily Kandinsky
• Russia/France
• 1913
• oil, canvas
• 78.7” x 118.1”
• Blue Rider Expressionism

Question 4

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

Answer 4

• Umberto Boccioni
• Italy
• 1913
• bronze
• 47.75” x 35” x 15.75”
• Futurism

Question 5

Yellow Green Forest

Answer 5

• Natalia Goncharova
• Russia
• 1913
• oil, canvas
• 33.6” x 40.6”
• Rayonism
• Traditional landscape
• abstract

Question 6

Mystery and Melancholy of the Street

Answer 6

• Giorgio de Chirico
• Greek/Italian
• 1914
• oil, canvas
• 27.2” x 33.47”
• Pittura Metafisica (1910)
• Chiaroscuro
• A metaphysical memory of menace?

Question 7

Fountain

Answer 7

• Marcel Duchamp
• France
• 1917
• porcelain
• 2’ x 1’ 2” x 1’ 7”
• Dada (1916)

Question 8

Suprematist Composition White on White

Answer 8

• Kasimir Malevich
• Russia
• 1918
• oil, canvas
• 31.25” x 31.25”
• Suprematism

Question 9

Composition with Red, Blue & Yellow

Answer 9

• Piet Mondrian
• Netherlands
• 1930
• oil, canvas
• 17.165” x 17.165”
• Neoplasticism (1917)
• A non-objective color study with asymmetrical balance

Question 10

Constructed Head No. 2

Answer 10

• Naum Gabo
• Russia
• 1916
• plywood
• 70” x 54”.25” x 48”
• Constructivism (1917)