Section 5.3

Which style of art did Wassily Kandinsky pioneer?

A) Cubism B) Impressionism C) Abstract D) Romanticism

Bartok was interested in developing

A) a hungarian national style B) a new style of opera C) close friendships with Italian Composers D) an atonal system

The art style developed by Pablo Picasso, that sectioned the subject into geometric shapes is called

A) cubism B) expressionism C) impressionism D) surrealism

Which Paris evemt introduced nineteenth century musicians to the music of asia, the middle east, adn africa?

A) the 1800 international exhibition B) the 1889 world exhibition C) the 1848 world revolution D) the 1900 worlds fair

Pierrot Lunaire is considered

A) ballet B) operetta C) chamber music D) concerto grosso

1) The style of art in which Wassily Kandinsky was a pioneer is C) Abstract. He was a Russian painter and art theorist that is famous for his painting which is considered as one of the first recognised purely abstract works. Abstract art employs a visual language of shape, form, color and line in order to make a composition that expresses new perspective of world's things.

2) Bartok was interested in developing A) a hungarian national style. Since 20th century Bartok hae been the most prominent Hungarian ethnomusicologist. He created a lot of musical masterpieces through permanent analytical study of folk music. Then, he become one of the founders of ethnomusicology.

3) The art style developed by Pablo Picasso, that sectioned the subject into geometric shapes is called A) cubism. Actually, all the Picasso's activity is divided into periods, and cubism as first introduced in a period called "Analytic Cubism (1909-1912) ". Such movement as cubism, which appeared in 20th century has been considered to be the most influential. It was pioneered by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso.

4) The Paris event which introduced nineteenth century musicians to the music of asia, the middle east, adn africa was B) the 1889 world exhibition. This exhibition was called Exposition Universelle of 1889, and its main purpose was to stand as a symbol of the beginning of the French Revolution.

5) Pierrot Lunaire is considered C) chamber music. The plot was created by Arnold Schoenberg and delivered in the Sprechstimme style. Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments and this melodrama is of that kind.