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| What group was formed by Georges Vantongerloo, Auguste Herbin, and Jean Hélion? |
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| Who was Ben Nicholson's wife? |
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| What did the book Circle, co-authored by Nicholson, describe? |
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| an international survery of constructive art |
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| Where did Nicholson live from 1939 on? |
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| Why did Baumeister no longer teach at the Städel School after 1933? |
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| the Nazi's dismissed him as a degenerate artist |
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| In his book Das Unbekannte in der Kunst (The Unknown in Art), to what did Baumeister trace the true sources of art? |
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| the mysterious and primitive |
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| What do Manessier's paintings often appear to mimic? |
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| fragmentation of colored light through stain glass |
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| How did Fautrier support himself in the late 1930s? |
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| he worked as a ski instructor |
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| What inspired Fautrier's series The Hostages? |
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| In what book did Sartre lay the basis for his Existentialist philosophy? |
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| What kind of "being" did Sartre call consciousness? |
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| According to Sartre, what two things make up the definition of a person? |
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| a person being defined by the facts about them |
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| What is another name for "art informel"? |
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| What term is applied to works, like those of Fautrier, where texture, created through the use of sand, sawdust, cloth, etc., is employed as an expressive device? |
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| Why was Wols placed in an interment camp in the South of France? |
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| because he avoided military service by going to Spain |
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| Why didn’t Wols ever entirely release himself to the unconscious? |
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| because it would have eliminated control through choice |
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| After his release from imprisonment by the French authorities, what famous military unit did Hartung join? |
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| the French Foreign Legion |
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| In 1955, what did Michaux do to try to open new paths to the hidden side of his psyche? |
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| Who "performed" his paintings live before crowds of spectators? |
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| What kind of architecture influenced Soulages' paintings? |
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| prehistoic monoliths and romanesque |
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| Who aided De Staël when he had difficulty selling his works? |
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| How did De Staël apply his paint? |
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| Where was the prisoner-of-war camp to which Burri was sent during World War II? |
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| With what materials did Burri make his first paintings in the prisoner-of-war camp? |
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| burlap bags and toothpaste |
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| How did Burri make his Combustione works? |
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| burned wood before attaching it to the canvas |
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| For Tàpies, what must a genuine work of art be? |
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| What did Schumacher call his paintings? |
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| To whose work do the paintings of Hundertwasser owe the greatest debt? |
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| Why did Hundertwasser call his work "transautomatic"? |
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| less than rational, more than unconcious activity |
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| How did Hundertwasser describe the organic spirals in his work? |
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| What did Hundertwasser want the inhabitants of his architecture to be able to do from their windows? |
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| scrape masonry and drawing anything outside within arms length |
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| In what country was Alan Davie born? |
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| What did Davie see in Peggy Guggenheim's collection in Vienna? |
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| New York School Abstract Expressionism |
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| by laying his canvas on the floor and working in a spontaneous manner |
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| About what Eastern system of thought had Davie read extensively? |
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| Why did Dubuffet give up painting in 1924? |
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| the "common" man seemed to have a better feeling for his place in the world than an educated specialist |
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| When Dubuffet started painting again in 1942, what was his style like? |
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| a naive vision and focus on eternal themes |
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| What book by Dr. Hans Prinzhorn (use English title) influenced Dubuffet? |
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| What schizophrenic's drawings became of great interest to artists such as Dubuffet? |
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| works presenting a spintaneous and inventive character |
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| In what famous speech did Dubuffet argue in favor of a vision of unity? |
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| Out of what did Dubuffet make his "little statues of precarious life"? |
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| What term did Dubuffet coin to describe sculptures made out of found objects? |
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| How did Dubuffet's Hourloup series begin? |
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| What philosopher admired Giacometti's paintings? |
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| What movement influenced Balthus' figural paintings? |
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| What did Suthrland seek in the elements of nature? |
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| What did Sutherland do during World War II? |
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| After the war, on what motif did Sutherland focus his work? |
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| For what building did Sutherland design a large tapestry of Christ enthroned? |
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