Author Question: Vasili Kandinsky became convinced that art should be free of representational subject matter when ... (Read 33 times)

Themember4 · **on:** Jun 23, 2018

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.

Laurenleakan · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 23, 2018

Answer to Question 1

A
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

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