Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each movement to its core proposition.
- Cubism
- Futurism
- Dada
- Surrealism
- The war made sense absurd; art attacks itself
- Abandon the single viewpoint; admit the flat surface
- The unconscious as the picture’s true source
- Speed, machines, and the worship of the new
Hints
- Each movement makes a claim about what is real.
- One concerns speed and the machine.
Show the answer
- Cubism → Abandon the single viewpoint; admit the flat surface
- Futurism → Speed, machines, and the worship of the new
- Dada → The war made sense absurd; art attacks itself
- Surrealism → The unconscious as the picture’s true source
Why
Four propositions, one decade. None is a decorating style, each is a claim about what is real.
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