Question

1. performing a task unconsciously

Answer 1

1. performing a task unconsciously = H. 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 = F. reason: surrealists created art which was not realistic, but something surreal, as their name would suggest
3. the first truly public museum = C. the Louvre, opened in 1793
4. Joan Miro used the poetic technique of = B. Action painting
5. Miro’s paintings seem to have no structure; they are = J. a free flow of images
6. Gertrude Stein had to flee Paris because she was = A. Jewish: she was a Jew living in Nazi-occupied France
7. Perfect modern artifact in Nazi eyes = I. the steel helmet: it was the first movie about war
8. Survived the London Blitz = D. 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 = G. "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 = L. labor, maternity, and family life
11. Miro’s Birth of the World was a precursor to = K. free association 
12. Like Pollock, Willem de Kooning was know for his = E. abstract expressionism: it is a movement where art is obviously abstract and expressed as something surreal