Pablo Picasso painted Guernica in 1937 for
A. the Spanish Pavilion of the Paris World's Fair.
B. a rally of the Allied Forces.
C. a celebration honoring General Francisco Franco.
D. the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid.
E. None of these answers are correct.
A
Picasso, commissioned by the French government to provide a painting for the Paris World's Fair, created Guernica to illustrate his response to the brutality of war.
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a. Polyclitus's Doryphoros. b. Adam in Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam. c. Jesus in Leonardo's The Last Supper. d. Plato in Raphael's The School of Athens.
Rex Ingram's The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) was significant, in part, because:
A. it won the first Academy Award for Best Picture. B. it launched the American careers of Greta Garbo and John Gilbert. C. it was funded entirely by independent theater owners. D. it depicted war as destructive rather than glorious.
What event helped spark the Neoclassical style?
A. The American Civil War B. The invention of photography C. The excavations of ancient Pompeii and Herculaneum D. The Catholic Counter-Reformation
This composition begins with a partial?
a) canon b) point of imitation c) sacred cantus firmus in the tenor d) duet texture known as vocal pairing