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Themember4

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Vasili Kandinsky became convinced that art should be free of representational subject matter when he:
 
  A. mistook an upside-down painting of his for an unfamiliar work of spectacular beauty.
  B. was no longer able to sell any of his traditional landscape paintings.
  C. had a near-death experience in which he saw music and heard color.
  D. was fasting and meditating in a monastery and had a vision of the future of painting.
  E. None of these answers is correct.

Question 2

Edouard Manet borrowed the composition of his painting Le Djeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) from:
 
  A. Renaissance works of art.
  B. his friend, the painter Berthe Morisot.
  C. Eugne Delacroix.
  D. Neoclassical works.
  E. a popular advertisement of the day.


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Laurenleakan

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Reply #1 on: Jun 23, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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Kandinsky sought to eliminate subject matter and employ a nonrepresentational style to communicate a formal language of line, form, and color.

Answer to Question 2

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Manet incorporated the iconography from Titian's Fete Champtre and Raphael's Judgment of Paris in his painting.


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Reply 2 on: Jun 23, 2018
Gracias!

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Great answer, keep it coming :)

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