A. Produce works of art that were meaningless
B. Reject artistic production that was obligatorily moral in character
C. Avoid all forms of prose
D. Make art profitable above all else
Related Mcqs:
- The fine arts flourished in Elizabethan England. William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Edmund Spenser were some of the more famous playwrights and poets of the time. Drama, music, songs, and art were popular with noblemen and commoners alike. Exploring certain topics, however, was considered taboo in any art form. What was a strictly forbidden subject ?
A. Sexuality
B. Criticism of the queen
C. Murder
D. Witchcraft - According to Langston Hughes’s essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (his answer to George Schuyler’s essay “Negro Art Hokum”), what is the “mountain” that stands in the way of “any true Negro art in America” ?
A. It is the racial discrimination endemic in the white community.
B. It is the racial segregation in the South.
C. It is a widespread “urge toward whiteness” among African Americans.
D. It is a widespread “urge to incorporate and neutralize other cultures” among white Americans. - The development of cubism, with its geometric and abstract concerns, can be attributed largely to which of the following two artists ?
A. Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet
B. T.S. Eliot and Wyndham Lewis
C. Claude Monet and édouard Manet
D. George Braque and Pablo Picasso - Which of the following artists did NOT produce Surrealist photography ?
A. Maurice Tabard
B. Ansel Adams
C. Hans Bellmer
D. Man Ray - Which of the following are contemporary Indian artists who have begun to more critically examine India’s post-colonial situation ?
A. Ravinder Reddy
B. Rummana Hussain
C. Dadabhai Naoroji
D. A and B only - Which of the following artists was NOT influenced by Surrealism ?
A. Giorgio de Chirico
B. Salvador Dalí
C. Marcel Duchamp
D. Paul Gauguin - Which of the following phrases best characterizes the late-nineteenth century aesthetic movement which widened the breach between artists and the reading public, sowing the seeds of modernism ?
A. art for intellect’s sake
B. art for God’s sake
C. art for the masses
D. art for art’s sake - Which of the following phrases best characterizes the late-nineteenth century aesthetic movement which widened the breach between artists and the reading public, sowing the seeds of modernism ?
A. art for intellect’s sake
B. art for God’s sake
C. art for the masses
D. art for art’s sake - Stress is used for the sake of ______________?
A. Emphasis
B. Loudness
C. Double meaning
D. None of the above - _____________the eyes of all people are upon us; soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his preent help from us, wee shall be made a story and a by-word through the world, wee shall open the mouthes of enemies to speake evill of the ways of god and all professours for Gods sake; wee shall shame the faces of many of gods worthy servants, and cause theire prayers to be turned into Cursses upon us till we be consumed out of the good land whether wee are going ?
A. Fredrick Douglass
B. John Winthrop
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. William Apess
