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Multiple choice.
3. _________refers to a kind of usually avant-garde or conceptual art as early as in the 1960s, which often challenges the audience to think in new and unconventional ways.
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True or false questions.
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_F_1. The end of the two world wars brought real sense of security and stability to the West.
A. Performance art
B. B. Impressionism
C. C. Photo-realism
D. D. Futurism
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Multiple choice.
4. Which of the following artists does not belong to the school of Impressionism in painting?
A. Manet.
B. B. Monet. C. C. Cezanne.
D. D. Piccasso.
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Multiple choice.
5. Who initiated the ideals of the expressionist movement in modern music?
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Multiple choice.
(1) Impressionism got its name from ________famous painting Impression: Sunrise.
A. Pissarro’s B. C. B. Monet’s D. E. C. van Gogh’s F. G. D. Paul
Interpretation of Cultural Terms
Interpretation of Cultural Terms
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performance art 行为艺术: A term referring to a kind of usually avant-garde or conceptual art which grew out of the visual arts and began to be identified in the 1960s. Performance art is unconventional and often challenges the audience to think in new and unconventional ways.
_T_ 2. In the midst of the 1950s and 1960s, Western society was on the threshold of drastic transformation from the phase of postwar recovery to an industrial and commercial boom.
_F_ 5. In the post-war period, Protestantism has become more open and more popular to the public, while Catholicism has stuck
to conventions.
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A. Arnold Schoenberg.
B. B. Igor Stravinsky. C. D. C. Claude Debussy.
E. F. D. Paul Hindemith.
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True or false questions.
_T_ 1. Cinema has greatly changed the ways of living in the West since its invention by Thomas Edison in 1894.
_F_ 2. Hollywood consolidated and expanded its position by producing more popular films after the 1970s, which was called its “Golden Age”.
_T_ 3. Postmodernism is both an reaction against modernism and a successor to modernism.
_T_ 4. Existentialism had widespread dissemination and acclaim after WWII.
Gauguin’s
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Multiple choice. 2. __________is called “the father of the modern painting”.
A. Paul Gauguin B. Paul Cezanne C. van Gogh D. Degas