They show the ways in which the government manipulated the culture to get people to buy more consumer goods, thus boosting the economy
An action painting or gestural abstraction
1. performing a task unconsciously = <u>automatism</u>: it means that you don't think about what you are creating, you just create - like brainstorming
2. Surrealists believed that artists needed to escape the oppressive control of = <u>reason</u>: surrealists created art which was not realistic, but something surreal, as their name would suggest
3. the first truly public museum = <u>the Louvre</u>, opened in 1793
4. Joan Miro used the poetic technique of = <u>Action painting;</u><u /> it means that the images are created spontaneously, smeared or splashed onto the canvas
5. Miro’s paintings seem to have no structure; they are = <u>a free flow of images;</u><u /> it means that the artist didn't have a specific idea in mind
6. Gertrude Stein had to flee Paris because she was = <u>Jewish</u>: she was a Jew living in Nazi-occupied France
7. Perfect modern artifact in Nazi eyes = <u>the steel helmet</u>: it was the first movie about war
8. Survived the London Blitz = <u>Saint Paul's Cathedral</u>: it managed to survive unharmed for the most part
9. The purpose of the art exhibition in Munich was to show = <u>"degenerate" or inferior art</u>: this art show is actually known as Degenerate art show
10. Art approved by Third Reich (Nazi Germany) included idealized images of = <u>labor, maternity, and family life;</u> these were the ideas that Nazi Germany wanted to promote
11. Miro’s Birth of the World was a precursor to = <u>free association;</u> it is similar to action painting Miro often used
12. Like Pollock, Willem de Kooning was know for his = <u>abstract expressionism</u>: it is a movement where art is obviously abstract and expressed as something surreal
The answer is B I’m pretty sure
