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1. performing a task unconsciously = automatism: 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 = reason: surrealists created art which was not realistic, but something surreal, as their name would suggest
3. the first truly public museum = the Louvre, opened in 1793
4. Joan Miro used the poetic technique of = free association; it is similar to action painting Miro often used
5. Miro’s paintings seem to have no structure; they are = a free flow of images; it means that the artist didn't have a specific idea in mind
6. Gertrude Stein had to flee Paris because she was = Jewish: she was a Jew living in Nazi-occupied France
7. Perfect modern artifact in Nazi eyes = the steel helmet: it was the first movie about war
8. Survived the London Blitz = Saint Paul's Cathedral: it managed to survive unharmed for the most part
9. The purpose of the art exhibition in Munich was to show = "degenerate" or inferior art: this art show is actually known as Degenerate art show
10. Art approved by Third Reich (Nazi Germany) included idealized images of = labor, maternity, and family life; these were the ideas that Nazi Germany wanted to promote
11. Miro’s Birth of the World was a precursor to = Action painting; it means that the images are created spontaneously, smeared or splashed onto the canvas
12. Like Pollock, Willem de Kooning was know for his = abstract expressionism: it is a movement where art is obviously abstract and expressed as something surreal
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