The top of this diagram’s final version included the names of six artists and the headings “Japanese Prints,” “Synthetism,” and “Neo-Impressionism.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Identify this 1936 diagram that traces the history of modern art from 1890 to 1925. It was created by, and is typically named for, the first director of the MoMA (“MO-muh”).
ANSWER: Alfred Barr’s diagram [or Alfred Hamilton Barr Jr.’s diagram; accept the cover of the catalog for Cubism and Abstract Art]
[10m] Barr’s diagram does not include submovements of Cubism, but does mention this related movement that began in Paris in 1912. This movement included František Kupka (“FRON-tsih-sheck KOOP-kah”) and an artist who painted several red versions of the Eiffel Tower.
ANSWER: Orphism [or Orphic Cubism] (The second artist is Robert Delaunay.)
[10e] Arrows coming from Cubism in Barr’s diagram point to both Suprematism and Constructivism, two abstract art movements that originated around 1912 in this country and continued in its successor state.
ANSWER: Russia [or Rossiya; or Russian Empire or Rossiyskaya Imperiya]
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