1.What poet introduced Futurism in a 1909 manifesto?
a. Marinetti b. Dali
c. Picasso d. Lipchitz
Answer: Marinetti

2.What were the two phases of Cubism?
a. Die Brucke and Der Blaue Reiter
b. Analytic and Synthetic
c. Illusionistic and Automatist
d. Fantastic and Dada
Answer: Analytic and Synthetic

3.Who painted Les Demoiselles D’Avignon?
a. Joan Miro
b. Pablo Picasso
c. Salvador Dali
d. Piet Mondrian
Answer: Pablo Picasso

4. To which 20th Century art movement does Pablo Picasso best belong?
a. Surrealism b. Expressionism
c. Cubism d. The Fauvist Movement
Answer: Cubism

5. Which 20th Century art movement was an attempt to destroy art by creating art?
a. Futurism b. Dada
c. Fantastic art c. Surrealism
Answer: Dada

6. Andre Derain can best be described as a _________.
a. Fauve b. Futurist
c. Giant d. Surrealist
Answer: Fauve

7. Which art form is the distortion of nature rather than the imitation of nature?
a. Distortionism b. Cubism
c. Surrealism d. Expressionism
Answer: Expressionism

8.Salvador Dali’s The Persistence of Memory is classified as what type of painting?
a. Futurist b. Surrealist
c. Cubist d. Weirdest
Answer: Surrealist

9. Which is derived from the unconscious through free association?
a. Analytic Cubism b. Automatist Surrealism
c. Synthetic Cubism d. Illusionistic Surrealism
Answer: Automatist Surrealism

10.Which artist drew a mustache on Mona Lisa?
a. Leonardo Da Vinci b. Max Ernst
c. Marcel Duchamp d. Richie Rich
Answer: Marcel Duchamp

What is art?

I see art as an outward expression of inner thoughts and feeling. Capturing a moment in time with a painting, sculpture, photograph, or any other form of art so that others might feel your emotions or begin to look and think deeper about what it specifically represents. Art is Art, it can not be labeled either good, bad, adequate, or inadequate.

-Brett Creech

Diorama

Funeral protests over the last couple of years have sparked a large debate over the First Amendment. A number of states in the U.S. have enacted ordinances that make protesting at federal cemeteries a felony offense but protesters are taking the battle to the court system hiding under the umbrella of the First Amendment. The concern here is the application to ONLY federal cemeteries. What about private cemeteries where fallen soldiers are buried. Everyone has the right to free speech but shouldn't everyone have the right to bury their loved ones in a respectable manner without having rude and insulting phrases shouted at the families during the service.

-Brett Creech

Global Warming is becoming a major problem. One of the major effects of global warming is many of the worlds glaciers are melting which will eventually cause coastlines to change. By Sophia Solomon

Global Warming Diorama

I chose to illustrate an ocean/aquarium for my diorama project because global warming has caused a decline in the fish population. On the front of my diorama is a school of fish that has not yet felt the effects of global warming and on the back is a school of fish that has felt the effects of global warming. Because of global warming, many populations of fish are declining in bodies of water around the world. The rise in temperature in ocean waters causes a large amount of fish to relocate to unsafe habitats. For tips on how to prevent global warming visit http://www.wikihow.com/Reduce-Your-Greenhouse-Gas-Emissions for more information.

~Alysha Davis

Millions of children go to bed hungry, and don’t understand that they’re parents are unable to provide for them. Some beg, but some are too weak to even cry. Every minute of everyday, somewhere in the world, 21 children will die of malnutrition and preventable diseases. Constant malnutrition can lead to blindness or deformities. As shocking as it seems, it’s the truth. While some child is starving in some poverty-stricken country, an obese child is being fed fast food. One child is dying because he is hungry, while the other child is dying because he’s eating too much. We need a balance. We don’t have to accept it, but we can choose to stop it.

Cost of Living

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 1800's, balancing luxury and the consumption of natural resources has been a major problem. My diorama illustrates the problem of our wastes leaking into our natural resources: air, water, and wildlife.